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The Seattle Sounders are rallying downtown to Seattle Center tomorrow. Seattle is a city of champions!
The parade starts at Westlake at 11am and the rally in Seattle Center at 12:30pm! Be there to cheer on the boys in Rave Green!!
The Seattle Sounders are rallying downtown to Seattle Center tomorrow. Seattle is a city of champions!
The parade starts at Westlake at 11am and the rally in Seattle Center at 12:30pm! Be there to cheer on the boys in Rave Green!!
Your Seattle Sounders are the 2016 MLS Cup Champions. I cannot believe I just typed that. Can't believe it.
That was a game only a mother could love. After 120 minute of mostly hideous soccer, Seattle advanced on penalties. That's right. Seattle got really lucky and frankly, it's about damn time. As Richard Farley wrote:
[The Sounders] were good enough to lose out on another perverse tiebreaker two years ago, ending in the conference finals on the wrong end of away goals. They were on the wrong end in 2012, too, when a would-be fourth-straight Open Cup went to Sporting after penalty kicks. On Saturday, one of soccer's insanities finally broke in Seattle's favor.
PKs last year against Dallas. The Red Card Wedding. The Johannson hand ball in '12. That USOC Final. Remember all the times the ball just didn't bounce our way? It finally did. Luck is on our side and we'll take it, championship #1, and run.
Take it away, fellas! #MLSCup pic.twitter.com/9hRIMqvwnc
— Major League Soccer (@MLS) December 11, 2016
The Seattle Sounders will beat Toronto FC today in the MLS Cup Final.
BOLD PREDICTION: My only real fear for this afternoon's game is being overconfident. As has been discussed, Toronto has no defense, the Eastern Conference historically stinks, and the Sounders have the grit to see them through. All of this adds up, regardless of the Jozy/Giovinco/Bradley three-headed monster and home field advantage, to a resounding Sounders win.
Will Seattle keep the Reds, and their juggernaut offense, off the scoreboard… probably not. But will the Reds put 7 past us like they did against NYCFC and Montreal, hell no. Toronto was dependent on set-piece goals to dispatch the Impact, and there is no way they get multiple headers past the twin towers of Marshall and Torres. Plus Nico Lodeiro, Jordan Morris and Joevin Jones have the speed to exploit the suspect Toronto backline and Ozzie, injury or not, can bog Giovinco down.
Lastly, looking at the matchup from earlier this year, the rudderless mid-Summer Sounders went to BMO and got a result 1-1. Have the Reds greatly improved since that game. Meh. The Sounders of course, are on a meteoric rise. Sounders in a sloppy one 3-2. Champs, baby!
The Seattle Sounders have the sparkle of fortune about them as they prepare to square off against Toronto FC in Saturday's MLS Cup. As the national spotlight shines, ever so briefly, on MLS and the Sounders, the professional sportswriters are busy crafting narratives. Seattle as a team of destiny is one narrative with a lot of gravity, but as stories go, it is mostly fiction.
The key thing taking the shine off Seattle as "destined" is that key players are nursing knocks ahead of the final. Chief among these is Ozzie Alonso. For a player nicknamed "Honey Badger" and (briefly and notoriously) "Energizer Bunny," Ozzie has had some kryptonite moments. The 2014 MLS Playoffs, the last time we entered the playoffs as destiny's darling, the most glaring. After beating L.A. in a home-and-home, winning the Supporters' Shield and bragging rights, Ozzie got hurt and couldn't save us from an embarrassing early exit at the hands of the same L.A. squad. Ozzie is still listed as Questionable, but will undoubtedly play. He may not be 100%, but playing hurt is nothing new to this Seattle squad.
The Rave Green have been black and blue all season. Much has been made of how Seattle lucked into the final. National pundits are barking about how things magically clicked for us: a missed offsides vs SKC + Mauro Diaz and Tim Howard injuries = easiest path to MLS Cup ever, right? Wrong. Seattle has battled through adversity to be here at the precipice of heady, uncharted glory. And Schmetzer deserves heaps of credit for navigating these troubled waters.
A quick survey of the ill-fortune Schmetz has had to endure: first, Aaron Kovar was a regular starter and contributor over the first 2/3s of the season, but has barely been available for selection since August. Just a few games into the post-Sigi era, and right after a brace against Portland, superstar Clint Dempsey suffers possibly career-threatening heart issues. Then Captain Brad Evans gets hurt. Then Ivanschitz, who was really coming on and doing yeoman's work out on the flank, goes down. Then Friberg joins the walking wounded and the carousel of lineups continued (Hell, Oneil Fisher had to replace Ozzie in our last game!). Though the lineup has been in flux, the formation has been a rock.
Schmetzer has solidified the 4-2-3-1 as THE Sounders identity. Luckily, with all the injuries, depth has been stellar for Seattle all season. One of the reasons the depth has been solid has been the 4-2-3-1 formation. The Sounders have been remade in President of Soccer Garth Lagerwey's image: they are no longer a player-dependent team, but a system-dependent team. The loss of Dempsey would've crippled any other Sounders squad in recent memory. Now every player knows their job, and, when called upon, they don't have to pretend to be someone else, they just have to do that job.
Take Brad Evans's injury, for example. With the return to fitness of Roman Torres in early September, we could afford one of B-Rad's customary trips to the trainers. It is easy to forget now, what with Torres stepping in and dominating, that Evan was the unquestioned started at CB for much of the season. He started 21 of our first 26 games, and mostly went the full 90. Then, boom, he gets injured and hasn't started since. This could be crippling to another team (hello, Dallas). Brad's gotten minutes in only 6 of Seattle's 13 subsequent matches (including the playoffs), but hasn't played more than 20 minutes, or centerback. He now comes on in the midfield and is yet another weapon at Schmetzer's disposal.
There are many narratives surrounding Seattle as they prepare for their date with destiny: Nico saved the season, Seattle has nothing but dumb luck, the maturation of Jordan Morris, to name a few. But the one true story Seattle has told consistently since Schmetzer took over: next man up, play hurt, do your job, win.
The Seattle Sounders travel to BMO field in Toronto for Saturday's MLS Cup. Unfortunately for us, MLS is a home team league. MLS Cup has been contested on one of the participant's home fields 7 times, and only twice has the away team won. Last year's Portland side and the 2002 Galaxy are the only two teams to win away (curious that both are Western Conference teams…).
I had the following exchange with a devoted fan on Twitter yesterday:
@SigilTempus @FOXSoccer ha. TFC earned more points in the lesser conference. But sure, tell yourself they "tried harder."
— Raving Green Blog (@ravinggreen) December 6, 2016
MLS uses points from an unbalanced schedule to determine home field advantage for the championship. That policy, though league standard since 2011, should change. A quick MLS primer: each team plays 24 intraconference and 10 interconference games. Sure, every team in the league plays each other once, but over two-thirds of a team's schedule is comprised of their conference foes. If the two conferences were of similar quality, the current policy would be fine. Since the leagues aren't equal, and home field advantage is real, this policy plain stinks.
As a West Coast chauvinist, I innately know the Western Conference is better, but I also have numbers to back that up (h/t to Golfnut). Consider:
Lastly, the Sounders infamously earned just 20 points from their first 20 games. 13 of those points were against Eastern conference teams (including one at BMO Field). Seattle, despite having to travel, should still win the championship.
The Seattle Sounders will face Toronto FC in their first crack at MLS Cup (granted, every season since their ascendance to the top flight has, arguably, been a crack at the Cup, but you can dig it).
If you've watched the Eastern Conference at all (and god knows why you'd waste your time with that brand of soccer) you *could* come away impressed by Toronto. Reviewing the regular season table reveals that the Reds posted an impressive 51 goals for and only 39 against. That +12 GD was good for the 3rd best in the league behind only NYRB and L.A. Galaxy.
Sure, the only two teams finishing with a better GD flamed out in the playoffs (because if there's any consistency to MLS, it's that the regular season means squat to the Cup), but Toronto stayed on a tear in the second season. They've scored 17 goal and only allowed 7, for a +11 GD in just 5 games. For a quick comparison, the Sounders are only 8-3 (GF/GA) in the postseason. Toronto is that team that seems to buzzsaw through everyone.
Just like New England in 2014. Remember that team? Jermaine Jones signed after the World Cup and had the Revs roaring. They whipped through the second half of the season, finishing second in their conference, before destroying the Eastern field while scoring 11 goals in 4 matches. These juggernaut Revs were then shut down in MLS Cup, losing 2-1 to the Galaxy.
You can contextualize and analyze this in many ways, but the long story short is: The Eastern Conference stinks. Or, if you want nuance, the East is worse than the West.
The last team from the East in win MLS Cup was SKC in 2013, and they were a once-and-future Western Conference team. Other than that asterisk, you have to go back to the Sigi-led Columbus Crew of 2008 and the 2004 DC United side for the previous Eastern reps to win the Cup. In fact, starting from 2000, the '08 Crew, and '04 United teams are the only purely Eastern sides to win the Cup in the last 18 years. Only 2 in the last 18 years!*
The true major league of North American soccer plays West of the Mississippi. The Sounders lack the gaudy stats and will be the visiting team in MLS Cup. But they've been through the Western Conference crucible, just like 16 of the past MLS Cup Champs.
Your Seattle Sounders are Champions of the MLS Western Conference!
Last Sunday we beat Colorado 1-nil away, with a gutsy performance by Jordan Morris and the whole Sounders squad, to clinch the team's first berth in the MLS Cup Final*.
You can heap much laud at the feet of Brian Schmetzer, but a key underrated achievement of his is his steady hand. Schmeltzer's hiring initially brought stability to a club in flux. Sigi, facing the unexpected departure of Oba, and other roster complications, was forced to tinker with formations and lineups through much of his 20-game tenure in 2016. Schmetzer, aided by the additions of Lodeiro and Torres, had a deeper team to work with, and, once he found his preferred 4-2-3-1, stuck to it. Until, that is, he couldn't.
Dempsey's condition, plus the poor health of Evans, Ivanschitz and Friberg (and at times Flacco), have rocked the boat. Schmetzer is a dependable mariner as he's always fielded the best 11 despite a limited selection. Last Sunday was no different. I'm loathe to h/t to the odious San Jose Ultras, but Goonies do indeed never say die. Right before kickoff we learned that Evans and Friberg were late scratches, and that J-Mo Smooth had been vomiting for 48 hours. Once again, Schmetzer was forced to roll the dice with his selection.
Getting J-Mo to play through his illness was a tough ask. Not 'cause the hometown hero doesn't want to rep his city, but because he looked greener than his kit in Colorado. You could see the man heaving and sweating it out. But his perseverance epitomized an axiom of the 2016 Sounders: play hurt. This squad has been hurt by major departures from Oba, Sigi, and Clint and minor aches and knocks by almost the entire roster. This team has been at less than its best all year, and they continue to play, continue to win.
The 11 that took the field Sunday was probably the weakest, in terms of pure talent, than any other that Seattle has rolled out in a Western Conference Final (even in the 2012 we had Fredy, Eddie, Mauro and Zakuani). But they are, arguably, the best team Seattle's ever had (sorry 2014), and we, largely, have Schmetzer to thank for that. Banged up, bruised and heaving, this is the squad that has a chance to deliver what the Emerald City has always wanted: MLS Cup.
The Seattle Sounders lead going into the second leg of the MLS Western Conference Finals against the Colorado Rapids.
Though we have the lead, last Sunday was a little bit of a let down for the Sounders. I certainly didn't predict that we'd allow a road goal to an impotent attacking team:
Bold Prediction: #Sounders over Rapids 2-0.#SEAvCOL #MLSCupPlayoffs
— Raving Green Blog (@ravinggreen) November 23, 2016
Now the boys in Rave Green have to score on the road against the kings of the 1-nil result. BOLD PREDICTION: I'll admit, I'm nervous. A road goal has made a difference in every Sounders playoff series the last 3 years, and now Colorado has that edge. Plus we're at altitude and B-Rad and Friberg are late scratches, so.. yeah. Out depth is paper thin, with only Flacco capable of making a difference off the bench against a Rapids 18 with Pappa, Hairston and Badji. That said, the Sounders are nothing if not resilient. Forgot Zlatan, it is Nico Lodeiro who has conquered America. The Sounders have been exceeding expectations for months now, and they won't stop now.
Bold Prediction: An ugly 1-1 draw. Beautiful as it sees the #sounders through!#mlsplayoffs #colvsea
— Raving Green Blog (@ravinggreen) November 27, 2016
The Seattle Sounders are in the Western Conference Finals for the 3rd time in 5 years. We seem to enjoy some Rave Green magic in the even years, as 2012 and 2014 join 2016. Even 2010 saw some hoodoo as we fought back from an atrocious start (4-8-3, 15 pts in 15 games) to make the playoffs. If the Sounders are plotted on an upward curve, this is the year we make MLS Cup.
Honestly? First I was just stoked we made the playoffs. With 8th straight playoff appearances, the Sounders are something special. In North American professional sports, where parity always wins, establishing a streak like the Sounders have is terribly, terribly difficult.
The longest active playoffs streak in professional sports is held by the Detroit Red Wings at an insane 25 seasons. Insane. Next is the San Antonito Spurs at 19, the Pittsburgh Penguins at 10, the Atlanta Hawks at 9 (really?!), and the Chicago Blackhawks, L.A. Galaxy and Seattle Sounders at 8. Those 7 teams have 17 championships, combined, during these streaks.
The major takeaways from that list are A) the NHL seems to be less competitive than the other major leagues, B) the Spurs are incredible, C) MLB and the NFL are really parity riddled (the New England Patriots seem to be the most dominant franchise in all of sports, but their current streak is only at 7 years) and D) streaks don't mean squat if you don't win. Who would've ever guessed the Atlanta Hawks were on that list? Just showing up to the dance doesn't carve your name in history. You gotta win.
So we're #hellagreedy. I thought I'd be happy with an early exit as long as we kept our streak going. But then we clinch (on the last day of the season), and I think, "we've never not played in the semis, so we'd best beat SKC (thank you Nelson Valdez and the lazy flag of the AR)." Then you want revenge on a vulnerable FC Dallas side that sent us packing last season.
And now, this. We're playing an underwhelming Colorado side and we are THISCLOSE to our first MLS Cup. Now here's where the #hellagreedy becomes #hellagrateful. I would be stoked with a mere MLS Cup appearance.
2016 has been a wild and wacky season with another magical turnaround and the unprecedented firing of Sigi. But the postseason has, so far, been pretty par. Everything we've done in the playoffs, we've done before. Making the Western Conference Finals isn't new to this club, though facing a team that isn't the Gals is.
Up until now, 2014 was the best Sounders season ever. We won an Open Cup-Supporters' Shield Double and still only got as far as we are right now. In fact, the acme of that year was the 32nd to 53rd minute of the second leg of the Conference Finals. With goals by Brad Evans and Dempsey, we'd taken the aggregate lead on the Galaxy 2-1, and we're less than 40 minutes from MLS Cup. Of course Juninho scores the away goal and we floundered in the twilight of the match.
Now a new hope has been ignited. We are 180 minutes away from making this year the best Sounders year ever. All we have to do is keep playing the brand of soccer coach Schmetzer has established: possess and attack. We do that, we make history.
Damn it feels good to be a Seattle Sounder. Western Conference Finals, here we come!!
Exactly 363 days ago, the same teams played the same game in the same stadium to the same score line. Seattle and Dallas played the second leg of the Western Conference semis in Frisco with Dallas winning 2-1 back on November 8th, 2015. Of course, with a 2-1 Seattle win in the first leg, the series went to extra time and then PKs and Dallas advanced. What a difference a year (and a 3-nil home result) makes.
Even with pulling my best Nostradamus, I was nervous during this match. I was worried we'd be the first team to blow the 3-0 lead. And it got shaky at times in the first half. Whether by design or Dallas, Ozzie and Roldan were collapsing onto our backline repeatedly for the first 45. The Hoops were running amok around the center circle and pushing the pace.
At halftime, as he has so many times under the interim tag, fresh-minted "official" head coach Brian Schmetzer made key adjustments. Ozzie and Roldan pushed their line well into midfield and held that ground. Ozzie was an absolute DESTROYER in the second half, and as our old buddy Mauro's legs slowly remembered they're 35 years old, the game was over. Nico had room to play taffy with a Dallas side desperate and ill-shaped, and all we needed was that one moment of brilliance. #thismoment (#thisblognotoffciallyendorsedbysounderfc)
Or rather, less brilliance than grit. Tyrone Mears just outhustled Walker Zimmerman (oh him of the hated mean mug) to Friberg's overweighted pass. Though Zimmerman should've easily collected that ball, Nico, Joevin and Valdez still crashed the box. That's hustle. That's follow through. That's give a damn.
Your Seattle Sounders are in the Western Conference Finals for the third time in 5 years. For the first time they won't have to face their bugbear, the L.A. Galaxy. And, Ohhhh!, Walker Zimmerman. I'm sure your surname's forebears will appreciate this: Danke schon für die köstlichen Schadenfreude.
I love how he impotently chases after Mears, and watches the goal before settling on a hands on head resignation. #thatmoment!!


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Their Highnesses of Cynagua, Prince Jost and Princess Isolte, invite you to the Investiture of Their Heirs Bjorn Jorsalfar of Bearhaven and Hilarie the Puppeteer. Enjoy music and merriment and the fellowship of Cynagua! Come warm yourself in the Taverne with both a hearty mid-day course and an evening meal prepared by Mistress Else Hunrvogt and her Schwarz- Schwan Taverne staff. Feasting tickets are $10 available via ACCEPS (web address omitted) or by mail (Nancy Reimers, (address omitted), Gustine, CA 95322); only 60 available while supplies last until Wednesday, January 14, 2015. Menus can be seen at (web address omitted). Individual ingredients subject to change. Please contact Mistress Else if you have dietary concerns (see contact below).
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Creating an engine is, of course, an exhaustive process, and demands on my part all the planning, assembling, refining, and (unconditional) loving it deserves. An engine is the concert put forth by an innumerable mass of moving parts, all working in tandem. It is the motor that drives a solid game.
There is an art to designing a program, and when done well, it can be beautiful. If medieval cathedrals were to have a contemporary counterpart in modern software, engine architecture would surely be it. Algorithms, design patterns, and class compositions are the vaults, arches, and buttresses of the intricate software system called an engine.
I have christened the graphics engine I am developing "Clairvoyance" – the ability to perceive matters beyond the range of ordinary perception. It is appropriate, then, because the software will be responsible for bringing to life the surreal imagination of its users.
There are several requirements I have laid out for this project, describing how this software should be developed and maintained. A high level view can generalize these specifics into a few architectural strategies; they are scalability, portability, and extensibility.
The engine is designed to accommodate a variety of user-defined requirements, and some of the components and methods involved in meeting these requirements will overlap. It is necessary to design a granular system whose parts can be used and reused in varying contexts. This system will be designed to accommodate the different proportions of its features gracefully: identifying common components and designing them to be general yet flexible enough to fit specific needs creates a modular system where scale is a nonissue. Having these reusable components makes production easier, cleaner, and more robust. Granularity is a key concept, and a thorough understanding of its uses will be imperative to designing this software optimally.
The engine will be available on multiple platforms and it is important that its source be portable at a developmental level. Designing to a specific platform will be avoided as much as possible, if not all together. Source will be able to be brought between different development environments seamlessly when needed. This is necessary for quick development that will maintain a common design throughout each OS specific application version. Accomplishing portability will be done by designing the architecture around a minimal number of external dependencies, and accommodating platform specific libraries where necessary.
Clairvoyance is built to handle future growth. It is necessary to take into consideration future extensions at all development stages since we must be willing and ready to adopt feedback. Future iterations of the software must take on modification and additions with low levels of effort to ensure quick updates are possible. Making large updates to software will not require an overhaul each time, and will instead fit alongside with already existing code.
There are some concepts specific to the production of a graphics engine that I try to keep in mind. Namely, I want to make sure that Clairvoyance is built around the latest revisions of the graphics APIs it uses. Keeping it compliant with the most recent APIs is important to ensure I can design efficient code, communicate optimally with the graphics hardware, and avoid deprecated code. Currently, Clairvoyance supports the architectural paradigms introduced in OpenGL 3.0 and 4.0, deliberately avoiding the less efficient deprecations of previous versions. Future iterations of the engine will ideally incorporate D3D.


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An estate sale for longtime Lebanon city judge Rodney V. Ahles will be held Friday and Saturday at the late judge's former home.
Richard A. Souders, 41, of Hartsville, was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison for production of child pornography, transportation of child pornography and receipt of child pornography.
Pemberton's attorney Clint Kelly argued to the jury the label on the Cavicide bottle used to clean Pemberton's wound clearly said it was not to be used on human skin. Because of this, Kelly said, the jury must find fault with both Fortich and University Medical Center.
FBI agents charged an Ashland City woman accused of stealing more than $500,000 from a previous employer.
Opening statements and testimony were given Tuesday morning in a malpractice suit in Wilson County civil court.
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A federal judge sentenced a Kansas man Monday to 50 years in prison for production of child pornography, according to Jack Smith, acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
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Kirk D. Catron, an attorney licensed to practice law in Tennessee, received a public censure Thursday from the Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
A court date for Michael Shepard, a former Wilson Central High School teacher and softball coach who is accused of statutory rape, was rescheduled this week.
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Unifrax I LLC, a Niagara Falls, N.Y.-based manufacturer of ceramic fiber insulation products, has acquired German fiber product and manufacturing technology company Lauscha Fiber International.
Terms of the transaction are confidential and will not be disclosed.
Lauscha develops, manufactures and sells glass microfibers used by customers all over the world to produce products for a variety of applications, but primarily in the filtration and battery separator markets.
The company is headquartered in Lauscha, Germany, where its largest manufacturing operation is also located. It also has manufacturing locations in Summerville, S.C.; Sudogda, Russia; and the Kingdom of Bahrain. The business has approximately 250 employees.
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
Saint Louis is the perfect city for photographing curves. And to find them all you have to do is take a trip down to the riverfront and visit THE JEFFERSON NATIONAL EXPANSION MEMORIAL.
But everyone calls it the GATEWAY ARCH!
The ARCH actually is a 630-foot tall catenary curve planted 60-feet deep in the bedrock of a natural bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Catenary means it is the shape a free-hanging chain takes when held at both ends.
Check out this gallery of curves …
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Honda Motor Co Ltd has evolved an air bag for compact scooters. The company said it is producing the air bag in collaboration with Autoliv Incorporation, a supplier of security and safety systems.
The air bag carrier protects the head of a motorbike driver when, for example, the motor cycle crashes into the part of a car. Honda should commercialize it at an early date with the aim of minimizing the number of casualties from motorcycle accidents.
The deployment mechanism of the air bag is equivalent to that of car air bag system. For the acceleration sensor inserted in the front part of a motorbike finds the impact of a crash, the air bag carrier deploys between the driver and the vehicle that the motorbike crashed into, minimizing the impact on your head. It deploys in zero 04-0. 05 seconds.
When it comes to car air bags, at the time of a collision, the steering wheel, instrument panel, door, and so on really do the supporting member of the air bag and protect the driver from the impact of the collision.
On the other hand, in the circumstance of the new air bag, the car into that the motorbike crashes functions as the supporting member of the air bag. In an experiment in which a motorcycle ridden by a dummy crashed into a car at a speed of 50-kilometer per hour, it was found that the air bag can drastically reduce the effect of the human head


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Why do so few of us live in integrity with all three of our Three Core Drives (authenticity, connection and impact)? Why don't we fully express the high side of them in a coordinated and aligned way in our day-to-day lives? How do we start falling out of integrity in the first place?
This article reveals where we first begin to move away from our integrity. You will discover that there are very good reasons we make this choice. You will be introduced to the architecture we use to cope with having to place our integrity on hold. And you will uncover the price that compromising integrity for the sake of childhood survival costs us as adults.
Why is it important to understand your relationship with integrity in your childhood, adolescence and early adulthood? Because your brilliant childhood survival patterns became automatic unconscious adulthood habits that no longer serve you. Did you know that adult fulfillment depends on outgrowing these childhood survival patterns? The more you understand what you brought from your childhood survival plan into your adult life, the more focused and effective you will be in becoming fully yourself, in getting the love you want and in making your own unique difference in the world. This is the secret to successfully living your life from the high side of your three core drives. It is the secret to living a fulfilled and integrity-based life.
There are many things that are loving to offer a child, such as food, clothing, shelter, health care, etc. But there are only three things that feel like love to a child: connection, validation and safety.
The Three Loves reinforce a child's Five Primal Energies and Three Core Drives. They also help children learn how to properly digest their life experiences.
Life is constructed so that virtually none of us experiences connection, validation and safety (the Three Loves) all of the time as children. All of us experience Disconnection at times when we need nurturance, validation or safety. Disconnection comes in four flavors:
- Violation: intrusiveness or harmfulness
- Abandonment: neglect, absence
- Indulgence: spoiling, not being held accountable
- Stealing the Attention: where an adult reacts to us by becoming even more upset than we are in moments as children when we need nurturance
The only difference from one child to the next is the amount of Disconnection we experience, especially during particularly difficult (or joyful) life experiences.
The Four Disconnections cause children to dim or repress their Five Primal Energies and Three Core Drives. They also cause children to learn the wrong things from their life experiences because the Four Forms of Disconnection prevent children from learning how to properly digest their life experiences.
To cope with whatever amount of Disconnection Experiences you has as a child, you developed a set of strategies for trying to regain Connection and for surviving despite Disconnection. This set of strategies is called a Survival Plan.
A Survival Plan includes five ingredients that work hand-in-hand to empower us to cope as children with difficult life experiences:
- Happy Ending Fantasy
- Rules
- Pandora's Box
- Mask
- Anesthesias
Manufacturing hope through a Happy Ending Fantasy that says your life will get better if you can figure out what to do differently in order to get more of the Connection, Acceptance and/or Safety your childhood development requires.
Rules are the things you discover you need to do in order to have the best possible chance of making your Happy Ending Fantasy come true. Rules include what you need to cover up or change in yourself and the ways you need to make things easier for the adults around you. Rules are what we replace aspects of our authenticity and integrity with. They are the templates we later use to try to create relationships.
The part of you that became the holder and enforcer of your Rules is your Inner Critic: the part of you that pushes you to do more than you can do, that criticizes you when you don't follow its rules and that lashes out at others when they don't fulfill your Happy Ending Fantasy when you do follow the rules.
This is the place in you where you hide gifts and talents of yours that you believe are too much for others, aspects of yourself that you have judged awful or unacceptable, and a growing backlog of Undigested Life Experiences (traumas, etc.).
The is your mechanism for getting others to see you as the person you think they need you to be, and to hide from others the aspects of yourself you learned were unacceptable and hid in your Pandora's Box.
You need a way to numb the pain you feel because no amount of trying to figure out and follow the Rules makes your Happy Ending Fantasy come true. You need a way to numb the pain you feel because you gave up aspects of who you are (portions of your authenticity), and you sacrified portions of your integrity, for the sake of survival. You need a way to numb the pain of carrying a backlog of Undigested Life experiences. An anesthesia is anything you use to numb your pain.
Survival trumps integrity. As a result, the extent to which your Survival Plan ruled your life as a child determines the extent to which you grew up to be out of integrity with yourself, in your relationships with others, and with collective highest good.
Like any habit, in order to be effective your Survival Plan needed to become automated and unconcious when you were a child. Over time, it simply came to feel like part of who you are. This is why all of us bring our Survival Plan into our adult lives. This, in turn, is why a significant part of Adult Development is about outgrowing our Survival Plan and replacing its skill sets with the Seven WisePassions of 3D Living™.
By the time you became an adult, your Survival Plan had morphed into a Redemption Plan.
At some point, probably in adolescence or early adulthood, you gave up trying to get the Connection, Validation and/or Safety you sought from the adults you depended on. You had become old enough to handle knowing they could not provide these things to you enough of the time, or in the forms you needed.
At that point, your Childhood Survival Plan was replaced by an Adulthood Redemption Plan. Your ego's Redemption Plan has nothing to do with religious wisdom about redemption. Rather, this ego-based version of redemption uses the same five skills as your Survival Plan. The difference between the two is the focus of your Happy Ending Fantasy. It shifts to:
- Proving you deserved more of the Three Loves than you got (connection, validation and/or safety)
- Looking for ways to justify your existence even though you supposedly don't deserve more of the Three Loves than you got
The purpose of a Redemption Plan is to attempt to absolve you for having failed to get what you needed as a child. There are two basic ways to do this. Both are about proving that you really do deserve an abundance of Connection, Validation and Safety after all. The difference between the two versions is that one is driven by success and the other is driven by failure. Most of us do a combination of both in different parts of our life. Take a free Redemption Plan Symptoms quiz to find out more about your own Redemption Plan and how strong a role it plays in your life - click here.
The "I Deserve More" version uses accomplishments to prove how undamaged you are despite all that you had to survive. Different people use different types of accomplishments to try to redeem themselves, including:
- Proving you can take care of yourself through being self-reliant or through self-improvement
- Proving you can succeed financially, socially, in power positions, or through creating impressive things
- Proving someone will love you or that you can love someone right
- Proving you can save others or the world
Some of us become Self-Improvers, some become Connectors and some become Do-Gooders.Take a free Integrity Checkup quiz to find out which style is strongest in you - click here.
The problem with these "I Deserve More" versions of the Redemption Plan is that no amount of accomplishments is ever enough to prove that we are lovable, valid or safe. A Deserver's life may look great to someone observing it, but it rarely feels great to the Deserver for very long, no matter how much they accomplish. The accomplishments either never quite feel good enough or the high wears off quickly, necessitating a next quest and a next one after that. So, all four varieties of the Success version of Redemption Plan are doomed to fail.
In contrast, the Failure version is about proving how damaged you will always be because you didn't get enough of the Three Loves as a child. Life is about suffering, deprivation and believing that this is 'just how life is.' Life feels like it will never stop being this way. Those using this Redemption Plan version believe one of two things as a result of their childhood Disconnection experiences:
- I really am worthless and I therefore deserve to fail as an adult;
- I am not worthless but I need to make the world see the damage that was done to me by those who harmed me during childhood; until then I cannot allow myself to truly thrive
As you can see, both varieties of the Failure version of the Redemption Plan are forms of living death.The problem with the Failure version of the Redemption Plan is that no amount of failure ever seems to be enough to get anyone to rescue you from having been so badly 'wronged' as a child.Take a free Redemption Plan Symptoms quiz to find out more about your own Redemption Plan and how strong a role it plays in your life - click here.
Both the Success and Failure Redemption Plan variations sidestep the real issue: you are proving something rather than living your passion (life mission, calling) simply because it is your passion. Regardless of whether you are trying to prove your worth or prove how damaged you are, you are still proving a point rather than living your life. (You might be trying to prove this to yourself, your childhood caregivers, new people you meet as an adult, and/or God.)
Doing this means you are continuing to sacrifice aspects of your authenticity and/or integrity, just like you did as a child, except now you are doing it to prove your point! Redemption Plans are about wanting to be right rather than happy. No matter how you slice it, remaining more loyal to your Survival Plan, or its Redemption Plan equivalent, than to truly thriving as an adult means never feeling whole or fulfilled. It means never truly developing as an adult. It means living out of integrity with yourself, in your relationships and with collective highest good.
Living life from your Redemption Plan makes 3D Integrity™ and 3D Living™ impossible! This is how all of us have, to one degree or another, fallen out of integrity by the time we reach adulthood!
Take a free Redemption Plan Symptoms quiz to find out more about your own Redemption Plan and how strong a role it plays in your life - click here.
Adult Development is about regaining our integrity. This is accomplished through outgrowing our Survival and Redemption Plans and upgrading the Seven WisePassions that Natural Developers intuitively develop in order to live in integrity with all three of their core drives. This is the secret to living a fulfilled life that you too can master. The New IQ and its accompanying New IQ Integrity Makeover Workbook show you how.
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Trash Menagerie
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Salem, Massachusetts 01970-3783
Umbrella>Horse was commissioned by the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass for their exhibit 'Trash Menagerie' in 2009. The Peabody wanted an interactive, kinetic piece showcasing how discarded material can be transformed into a living thing. For me, living in NYC, ubiquitously discarded broken umbrellas were the material of choice. Using their 'natural' kinetic potential and a little engineering, the result is a hand-cranked projector. As visitors approach, they see a static, skeletal shadow of a horse on the wall. Once they turn the wheel, however, an interior light fades up to show the mechanics in action as the horse shadow begins its slow-motion gallop. The kinetic horse shadow-puppet is made entirely from the metal tines from cheap throw-away compact umbrellas collected from the streets of New York City after a heavy rain.


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A single TV camera on a wooden stand overlooking Columbia's Baker Field on May 17, 1939, changed more than the way we look at sports.
It revolutionized it.
The second game of the Lions' doubleheader against Princeton that day was the first live sporting event televised in the U.S., the sports moment judged the greatest in Columbia history.
NBC broadcast the game on experimental station W2XBS, though "broadcast" might be an overstatement. With fewer than 400 television sets in use, there was a narrow audience. There were no network facilities and only the one camera.
Those watching, or in attendance, saw Columbia's Hector Dowd pitch all 10 innings of Princeton's 2-1 victory. (The Tigers also won the first game, 8-6.)
They also saw one of Columbia's greatest athletes, shortstop Sid Luckman, who went on to a Hall of Fame career as quarterback for the Chicago Bears.
From one network and 400 TVs in use there are now 44 sports networks in the U.S., including American Sports Network, with a potential audience of more than 100 million TV households. From one camera there are now 360-degree replays utilizing multiple cameras. CBS used 70 for its broadcast of Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 3.
In 1939, NBC's broadcast cost $3,000. Since 2011, NBC and six other networks have paid a combined total of more than $12 billion for rights fees to only five pro leagues — MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and Premier League soccer. CBS and Turner paid another $20 billion to televise the NCAA men's basketball tournament through 2032.
"Television got off the ground because of sports," pioneering television sports director Harry Coyle told the Museum of Broadcast Communications.
"Today, maybe, sports need television to survive, but it was just the opposite when it first started. When we (NBC) put on the World Series in 1947, heavyweight fights, the Army-Navy football game, the sales of television sets just spurted."
A spurt of broadcast firsts followed in 1939 — the first televised MLB game on Aug. 26 (Cincinnati Reds-Brooklyn Dodgers); the first televised college football game on Sept. 30 (Waynesburg-Fordham); and the first televised NFL game on Oct. 22 (Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Eagles).
The world's first live televised sporting event was American Jesse Owens winning the 100-meter final at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. But that was available only in "Public Television Offices" in Berlin and Potsdam.
Today, more than 2 billion viewers from more than 160 countries can watch the Olympics on TV.
And it all started at Columbia with a primitive telecast.
"So," wrote Columbia alum Leonard Koppett, "Columbia bears the distinction of (if not the responsibility for) launching the vehicle that would lead to the Super Bowl, March Madness, runaway Olympics, and a wrestling craze that could lift a man to the governorship of Minnesota."
Jesse Ventura, you are welcome.
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Above: NBC broadcasts the first televised sporting event in the U.S. from Columbia's baseball field on May 17, 1939. (Courtesy Columbia University Archives)
• Monday: Cincinnati and Cleveland State
• Tuesday: Coastal Carolina
• Wednesday: Colgate and Colorado College
• Thursday: Columbia and Connecticut
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The acronym CARS stands for the compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome and was coined in a 1996 paper by Bone to help describe an immunologic phenomenon that increasingly was noticed to occur in sepsis.1 Like its precursor, the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), CARS is a complex and incompletely defined pattern of immunologic responses to severe infection. The difference was that while SIRS was a proinflammatory syndrome that seemed tasked with killing infectious organisms through activation of the immune system, CARS was a systemic deactivation of the immune system tasked with restoring homeostasis from an inflammatory state. Moreover, it has become apparent that CARS is not simply the cessation of SIRS, it can exist separately from SIRS. Additionally, it has a distinct set of cytokines and cellular responses and may have a powerful influence on clinical outcomes in sepsis.
The studies that led to this concept came from two different streams of medical research, one that was new at the time of Bone's article and one quite old. The new information to which Bone referred in his paper was the large set of data that recently had emerged from numerous studies in which agents that blocked inflammation were used in human sepsis patients.2 In stark contrast to the animal data, the human studies showed poor efficacy of these agents and even suggested that harm could be done in some cases. Bone hypothesized that a powerful anti-inflammatory response already existed to balance the destructive killing of the proinflammatory response and that agents that upset the balance too far in either direction could lead to death, either through uncontrolled inflammation, or failure to defend against infectious organisms.
This concept of autoimmunosuppression was not new, however. It had existed in the medical literature for many decades, largely in the surgical and burn literature. Doctors in these fields long had observed that massive tissue injury such as that caused by burns or trauma made patients more susceptible to infections. It soon was recognized that many of these patients were anergic, indicating impaired lymphocyte function. Much research followed in the 1970s and 1980s trying to characterize the cause and nature of this impaired immunity.3–7 In the decades that have followed, much has been learned about the mechanisms of the body's anti-inflammatory response, and it is clear that the immunosuppression of sepsis described by Bone is likely another form of that previously described. The term CARS, as used today, usually reflects all autoimmunosuppression caused by a major insult such as sepsis, burns, or tissue injury. This article reviews the literature on CARS, focusing on the major lines of inquiry in human and animal, research and discusses some of the possible therapeutic benefits this research may generate in the future.
To better understand CARS, it is helpful to understand what responses characterize the proinflammatory state that precedes it. It now is known that inflammation can be triggered in two main ways, either by infections with pathogens like bacteria, or by the products of tissue destruction. The innate immune system describes a network of immune cells and their surface receptors designed to recognize and react to either dead tissue or pathogens. When elements of either of these encounter certain lymphocytes or monocytes, they bind to pre-existing receptors and cause activation (lymphocytes) or are ingested and then presented on cell surface receptors to activate other cells (monocytes). What follows is an expansion and activation of several immune cell lines such as polymorphonucleocytes (PMNs) and B lymphocytes stimulated by the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). The presence of these cytokines also leads to other clinical manifestations of infection such as fever, capillary leak, vasodilation, and the expression of heat shock proteins from the liver.8
The CARS response essentially reverses many of these processes and has been characterized over the last several decades to include:
Cutaneous anergy
Reduction of lymphocytes by means of apoptosis
Decreased cytokine response of monocytes to stimulation
Decreased numbers of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antigen-presenting receptors on monocytes
Expression of cytokines such as IL-10 that suppress TNF expression (Box 1)
Much research suggests that the clinical effect of this has a profound impact on patient outcomes. Indeed clinicians long have noted that many people who succumb from sepsis die after the initial proinflammatory insult has ceased, often from a second infection. Additionally, many patients who have sepsis, especially those who have poor pre-existing health, seem never to mount the inflammatory response that should characterize infection, instead presenting with low leukocyte counts and hypothermia (Fig. 1). This article discusses some of the major studies that led to current knowledge of CARS and what may be coming in the future.
Lymphocytes play a central role in modulating the sepsis response. This is highlighted by altered proinflammatory immune response and increased mortality, after polymicrobial septic challenge in mice lacking both T- and B-cells.9 Their importance relates to their capacity to interact with the innate and adaptive immune responses and their ability to coordinate, amplify, and attenuate the inflammatory response. Lymphocyte anergy (the inability to respond to recall antigens in vivo, [eg, tetanus toxin]) or decreased responsiveness to mitogenic stimulus long has been demonstrated in patients following major surgery, blunt trauma, and thermal injury.10–12 Further studies using both animal and human in vitro models helped better characterize these lymphocyte alterations.
In 1985, Abraham and Chang13 demonstrated reduced ability of T lymphocytes to respond to the mitogens concanavalin A and phytohemagglutinin following traumatic injury. Later, it was discovered that the period of immunoparalysis after trauma was characterized by increased expression of inhibitory coreceptors (PD-1, CD47, CTLA4) on T lymphocytes and decreased expression of coactivator receptors such as CD28 on lymphocytes.14 This altered phenotype of lymphocytes correlated with diminished proliferation response contributing to anergy. Most significantly, a relationship between the loss of cell-mediated immunity in patients following traumatic injury, and the development of sepsis and late death had been established.12,15
As investigators began to look at lymphocyte function in sepsis (as opposed to trauma), it was clear that similar, if not identical patterns of dys-function were occurring. For example, it was shown that patients who have sepsis exhibit defects in their T lymphocytes, because the cells fail to proliferate in response to mitogenic stimuli and also fail to produce IL-2 or -12.16–18 Activated CD4 T-cells can be subdivided into two functionally distinct, highly polarized subsets, termed type 1 helper T-cell (Th1) and type 2 helper T-cell (Th2), depending on their pattern of lymphokine secretion and related functional activities. They secrete either cytokines with inflammatory Th1 properties, including TNF-α, interferon-γ, and IL-2, or cytokines with more anti-inflammatory Th2 properties (eg, IL-4 and -10). Lymphocytes from patients with burns or sepsis have reduced levels of Th1 cytokines but increased levels of the Th2 cytokines IL-4 and -10, and reversal of the Th2 response improves survival among patients who have sepsis.17,18
Some newer studies, however, show a somewhat different picture. For example, global down-regulation of Th1 and Th2 responses in patients after sepsis or severe trauma also has been observed.19,20 This suggests that there may be complete down-regulation of T-cell effector response rather than a shift to an anti-inflammatory response. Similarly, Heidecke and colleagues16 examined T-cell function in patients who had peritonitis and found that they had decreased Th1 function without increased Th2 cytokine production. In this study, effective T-cell proliferation and cytokine secretion correlated with mortality.
More recent findings have been identified a role for other regulatory T-cell populations suppressing T-cell immunity, including natural killer T-cells (NKT) and Gamma delta T-cells (γδ). Blocking the activation of NKT cells by means of an anti-CD1d antibody prevented this immune suppression.21 Using a model of burn injury on γδ T-cell deficient mice, Schwacha and colleagues22 demonstrated a reduced production of proinflammatory cytokines, suggesting that γδ T-cells played an important role in postburn survival. The exact mechanisms by which these regulatory lymphocyte subsets affect the immune response remain subjects of controversy but may represent future therapeutic targets in the management of sepsis.
Critical to the inflammatory response are the recognition and killing of invading organisms by monocytes. Equally important, monocytes present antigens by means of expression of HLA receptors and secrete proinflammatory cytokines to amplify the immune response.23 Multiple studies have demonstrated clearly that following either trauma or sepsis, monocytes have diminished capacity for both these responses. Specifically, they secrete fewer cytokines when stimulated and down-regulate expression of HLA receptors.24–30 Monocytes from septic patients who had decreased mHLA-DR produced low amounts of TNF-α and IL-1 in response to bacterial challenges.31 This down-regulation of monocyte function generally predicts increased risk of secondary infection and poor prognosis. The role of this phenomenon in critically ill human patients is discussed in more detail in a later section.
Dendritic cells (DC) function as an important mediator in immune responses. Several investigators have found that their numbers decrease following the cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) model of sepsis in rodents.32,33
In people, Guisset and colleagues34 have observed that septic patients who survived exhibited significantly higher circulating blood DC counts than those who died. In a postmortem study of spleen from 26 septic patients and 20 trauma patients, Hotchkiss and colleagues35 observed that sepsis caused a dramatic reduction in the percentage area of spleen occupied by follicular DCs. The importance of DCs in mediating the immune response is emphasized further by murine studies showing improved outcome in sepsis by replenishing the DC population.36 Also, Fujita and colleagues37 have demonstrated improved survival in septic patients using the adoptive transfer of bone marrow-derived regulatory DCs (DCregs) in mice. These approaches may represent therapeutic modalities of the future.
Just as the SIRS response is characterized by many different and sometimes redundant cytokines, the CARS response also seems to involve many cytokines. The most important however is clearly IL10. IL10 first was characterized around 1990 and was shown to regulate T-cell populations.38,39 It now has been established that IL-10 has multiple immunosuppressive roles,40 with its most important being the down-regulation of TNF. In animal models of sepsis, the administration of IL10 has been shown to have both positive41–43 and negative44,45 effects on outcome, which likely depend on the time of administration and the severity of the infection. In one carefully done animal model, Ashare and colleagues46 followed levels of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines throughout the whole course of sepsis in mice. They found that bacterial levels in tissue correlated with IL-10 levels and that if the complementary proinflammatory response was blocked by pretreatment with IL-1 receptor antagonist, bacterial levels were higher, as was mortality. Similarly, Song and colleagues47 showed that blocking IL-10 activity early had no effect on mortality; blocking it late (12 hours) after sepsis, however, improved mortality. These studies help illustrate how IL-10 helps maintain a careful balance of the immune system in inflammation; thus manipulation of it is so dangerous.
Regulation of apoptosis of immune cell populations during sepsis and other traumatic states may play a crucial role balancing the hyperactive inflammatory state with excessive injury to the host. Several studies suggest this balance is critical to outcome of experimental animals and possibly septic patients.48,49 The immunoparalysis that has been shown to be a hallmark of CARS response in sepsis may be a pathologic result of increased immune effector cell apoptosis. Additionally, it has been proposed that the clearance of increased numbers of apoptotic cells may drive immune suppression through the cells that handle them. Uptake of apoptotic cells by macrophages and DCs stimulates immune tolerance by inducing the release of anti-inflammatory cytokines, including IL-10 and transforming growth factor-β (TGF), and suppressing the release of proinflammatory cytokines.50,51
A key role of apoptosis in patients with sepsis was illustrated by Hotchkiss and colleagues49,52 in two studies that compared patients who died of sepsis with patients who died of nonseptic etiologies. Autopsies of patients who had sepsis revealed extensive apoptosis of lymphocytes and gastrointestinal (GI) epithelial cells. These findings were similar to animal studies showing comparable widespread lymphocyte and GI epithelial cell death in sepsis.53,54 Le Tulzo and colleagues55demonstrated exaggerated lymphocyte apoptosis is present in peripheral blood of patients with septic shock, contrary to those with simple sepsis or critically ill nonseptic patients. Additionally, lymphocyte apoptosis occurs rapidly, leads to a profound and persistent lymphocyte loss, and is associated with poor patient outcome. Evidence that apoptosis is a direct mediator of the immune dysfunction rather than just a marker of immune dysfunction comes from murine studies, where prevention of apoptosis improves survival in sepsis.56,57
In addition to the studies mentioned previously, there have been many efforts to study the magnitude of the CARS response in relation to patient outcomes. This has led some to see CARS bio-markers as a possible tool for prognosis and therapy.58 In an early study, Keane and colleagues59 looked at lymphocytes removed and cultured from 31 patients who had severe trauma. They found that, overall, lymphocyte response to stimulation with mitogens was reduced markedly from controls. Furthermore, responses were lower, and the duration of suppression was longer in those patients who became infected. Additionally, the suppression of response preceded the onset of infection. Extremely low responses were found in three patients who later died.
A larger number of studies, however, have focused on monocytes and their apparent down-regulation of HLA receptors as a biomarker.24,25,27,28,60–65 In 1995, Asadulla and colleagues24 studied 57 neurosurgical patients and found that HLA-DR expression was lower in 14 patients who developed infection, compared with patients who had an uncomplicated postoperative course (P < .0001). Out of 10 patients who had less than 30% HLA-DR positive monocytes, nine developed infection. They hypothesized that the mechanism of this down-regulation was high levels of endogenous cortisol, as the effect coincided with high corticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol concentrations. Additionally, similar down-regulation was seen in other patients who received high doses of exogenous corticosteroids. Subsequent studies supported the theory that the magnitude of HLADR receptor down-regulation predicted various other poor outcomes such as sepsis in liver transplant patients.28 That story, however, was confounded by exogenous steroids in some patients.27 Allen and colleagues66 found HLA levels predicted sepsis in pediatric cardiac surgery patients. In a small study of septic adults, Su and colleagues64 found that levels of HLA-DR positive monocytes less than 30% were more predictive of mortality than Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II scores.
More recent studies looking at the predicative power of HLA receptor have yielded different results. In 2003, three papers were published that yielded similar findings. Hynninen and colleagues61 evaluated the HLA-DR expression of 61 patients who had sepsis at admission and showed no predictive power of HLA expression for survival. Another study of 70 septic patients also found no correlation between HLA expression and infectious or mortality outcomes.63 Interestingly, this study showed that if patients' monocytes were stimulated with G-CSF ex-vivo, their HLA expression increased. The third study looked at 85 cardiac surgery patients. HLA expression was measured at presurgery, immediately after, and 1 day later. Their data showed that although all patients' HLA levels declined after surgery, the magnitude of the response did not correlate with sepsis/SIRS or other infectious complications.62 Reasons for the different results still are being investigated but may be the result of small sample sizes, timing, or well-described variation caused by the different laboratory techniques used. In one study, the same samples were analyzed in two different laboratories and differed by as much as 20%.62
Other studies have looked at anti-inflammatory cytokine levels as predictors of poor outcomes; most of these studies have been on human patients and have borne mixed results. These data likely reflect the varied magnitudes and time courses of both pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine expression in real patients. In 1998, Doughty and colleagues67 sampled 53 pediatric ICU patients and found that high IL-10 levels correlated with three or more organ dysfunctions and mortality. Ahlstrom and colleagues60 found no predictive value in IL-10 levels in patients who had SIRS, but Simmons and colleagues68 found that IL-10 levels did correlate with mortality in a sample of 93 critically ill patients who had acute renal failure. Perhaps the most interesting data come from two studies that looked at the ratio of IL-10 to TNF. In a large study of over 400 patients admitted to the hospital for fever, van Dissel and colleagues69 showed that a higher IL-10 to TNF ratio was predictive of mortality. A similar study by Gogos and colleagues58 in a population of patients who had mixed sepsis showed the same results.
Given the still incomplete understanding of CARS response, it is not surprising that little has been done to use this knowledge as a point of therapeutic intervention in sepsis. Nevertheless, there have been several studies that have addressed therapeutics, and they can be grouped into two main categories: hormonal and cytokine therapies.
The hormonal therapy came from earlier studies showing that testosterone seemed to have a negative impact on sepsis and trauma outcomes and is believed to act through augmenting post-injury immunosuppression.70 Two subsequent studies by the same investigators showed that administration of the estrogen-like drug dehydroepiandrosterone reduced the immunosuppression and improved mortality in septic mice.71,72
More research has focused on manipulation of cytokines to reverse the CARS immunosuppression. At least five studies have examined the use of gamma interferon, which has been shown in vivo to reverse monocyte deactivation.73,74 Two very similar small trials were done on human subjects who had sepsis.75,76 In both studies, subjects who had sepsis and monocyte HLA-DR expression of 30% or less were given interferon-γ. Both groups reported increases in HLA-DR expression, usually after just one dose. One of the studies also examined the monocytes ex vivo and showed that interferon improved monocyte cytokine production also.75 A third human trial was different, in that it sought study the effects of interferon-γ regionally.77 In this study, the authors selected 21 patients who had severe trauma and alveolar macrophage dysfunction as determined by a bronchoalveolar lavage sample showing macrophage HLA-DR expression of 30% or less. Interferon-γ was the administered via inhalation. They found about 50% of the subjects had an increase in their alveolar macrophage HLA-DR expression. These patients had a lower incidence of pneumonia but no other differences in outcomes. The small numbers and lack of a control population in all three of these studies limit the conclusions that can be drawn, especially because HLA-DR expression is known to increase as patients recover.
It has become clear that during sepsis or other major inflammatory stresses, there is a carefully orchestrated balance within the host organism. The proinflammatory forces rise to eliminate pathogens and dead tissue, and in doing so, often cause injury to the host. The timely arrival of anti-inflammatory responses such as the CARS response seeks to limit the damage while not interfering with the pathogen elimination. Just like its mirror image SIRS, however, the CARS response can be dangerous when its effects are unchecked or poorly timed, leaving the host too vulnerable to the next set of pathogens. Hopefully, further work in this field will allow one to manipulate this response favorably to improve outcomes in sepsis and related injuries.
Lymphocyte dysfunction (ie, reduced proliferative and/or type 1 helper T-cell [Th1] cytokine production in response-defined antigens or specific T-cell stimuli)
Lymphocyte Apoptosis
Down-regulation of monocyte HLA receptors Monocyte deactivation (ie, reduced Th1/proinflammatory cytokine production in response stimuli)
IL-10 production
Transforming growth factor-beta production Prostaglandin E2 production
Cutaneous anergy
Susceptibility to infection
Failure to clear infection
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July 1, 2015
In The Neighborhood...
I've just started walking 30 minutes first thing in the morning... and, in order to encourage myself to keep at it each day, I'm taking iPhone pics of beautiful & interesting things I see in the neighborhood while I walk.
I saw these purple coneflowers today & thought they were lovely, planted against a simple white picket fence background... Made me smile! :)
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June 16, 2015
Tell Me A Story . . . .
I like to write... and if you're a regular blog reader of mine, you'll know this is so very true! I can also be kinda, just a little bit, overly wordy (*wink-wink*).
I don't have any aspirations to write books... My hat is off to those who are called to put deep & inspiring thoughts or delightful characters who have amazing adventures down on paper for others to read. That's such a great calling!... but it's not my calling.
Lately I've become more aware that I want to add words to my illustrations. Not lots of words... just a small taste of a story or a peek at what's going on 'behind the scenes'.
Mini-Stories For Tiny Art
And so... I thought I'd show you today what I mean by posting this silly doodle of mine. The illustration style is all me, the mini-story mine too... and so is the lettering. No downloaded fonts here!... It's all done from start to finish by hand... my hand. And I kinda like that! :)
I'm sure as I play with this 'tiny pictures with mini-stories' idea that things will eventually evolve. But for now, I have no idea what will come of this... It's just another fun avenue to explore as I keep putting my pen to paper & doodling my little heart out!
May 15, 2015
Moore Doodles
One of the talented artists I enjoy 'following' is Stephanie Ackerman, whose colorful doodles & lettering style are whimsical & straight from her heart. As a Christian artist, Stephanie has been an encouragement to me to combine my faith & my love for color & illustration & journaling in a fresh new way. You can take a peek at Stephanie's Doodle Gallery here.
Just recently I decided to take one of Stephanie's online classes... 'A Whole New Doodle'. Honestly, I've had the BEST time playing with my pens, doing some 'freestyle doodling' and learning some basic lettering... and I'm just beginning!
While I was at our family's farm recently (and away from all my internet distractions!), I got out some basic supplies... a stack of plain old lined notebook paper, a pencil, an eraser, a medium sharpie pen, and a box full of Prismacolor markers... and I doodled my little heart out! :) I drew the borders 'freestyle' (no pencil sketching first), but the alphabet required a little more pencil & erasing!
Above is a little 'freestyle' border doodling...
...and some decorated capital letters below. My capitals are 'embellished' using Prismacolor markers... but you could use colored pencils or paint, really whatever you want!
I left these 'little' letters simply colorful, but they could have had some funky doodles in them too, just for fun.
The last Sunday afternoon of our farm visit, I sat at the kitchen table next to a sunny window, spread out all my art supplies, and colored a whole page of borders I'd inked up on Saturday. You would have thought I was a little kid with a brand new box of 64 Crayola crayons!... I was one happy 'colorer.' (that's a word, right?).
If you like to doodle like I do... then I totally recommend Stephanie Ackerman's 'A Whole New Doodle' online class! Before you know it, you'll be doodling your heart out too!
Just recently I decided to take one of Stephanie's online classes... 'A Whole New Doodle'. Honestly, I've had the BEST time playing with my pens, doing some 'freestyle doodling' and learning some basic lettering... and I'm just beginning!
While I was at our family's farm recently (and away from all my internet distractions!), I got out some basic supplies... a stack of plain old lined notebook paper, a pencil, an eraser, a medium sharpie pen, and a box full of Prismacolor markers... and I doodled my little heart out! :) I drew the borders 'freestyle' (no pencil sketching first), but the alphabet required a little more pencil & erasing!
Above is a little 'freestyle' border doodling...
...and some decorated capital letters below. My capitals are 'embellished' using Prismacolor markers... but you could use colored pencils or paint, really whatever you want!
I left these 'little' letters simply colorful, but they could have had some funky doodles in them too, just for fun.
The last Sunday afternoon of our farm visit, I sat at the kitchen table next to a sunny window, spread out all my art supplies, and colored a whole page of borders I'd inked up on Saturday. You would have thought I was a little kid with a brand new box of 64 Crayola crayons!... I was one happy 'colorer.' (that's a word, right?).
Color Me Happy!
If you like to doodle like I do... then I totally recommend Stephanie Ackerman's 'A Whole New Doodle' online class! Before you know it, you'll be doodling your heart out too!
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April 10, 2015
Spring Has Sprung!
It always seems to happen this way... temps are in the 40's, I'm wearing my turtlenecks, fuzzy socks & fleece... and overnight SPRING suddenly appears! It teases at first with a crocus or two in my neighbor's front yard... and then unveils itself with drama & flair.
This year the cherry trees that line the streets in our neighborhood were truly spectacular! And now the dogwood trees are beginning to blossom... and yes, the azaleas are not very far behind. So far, I've watched out my kitchen window as a mama starling built her nest... and I was entertained by a squirrel very carefully filling a notch in the big oak tree to make her cozy nest. All the baby leaves are unfolding, making the whole world green again.
NEW LIFE!!... Just when it seems that winter will never end, along comes HOPE, and the whole world sighs in relief.
Thank you so much Lord!... for the gift of beauty, for the promise of hope, for new life that springs up when we least expect it. We can see You in all You have made... The whole world is praising You!!
March 17, 2015
Find Me On Flickr
"Animal Kingdom"
For a long time now, I've wanted to create a 'gallery' of my illustrations so I could share them here on my blog. But Blogger ...which I love 'cause it's so easy!... good old Blogger just doesn't have an 'app' for that.
So... I went back to my old flickr account, which was dusty & neglected... did some major housecleaning... and set up new PholkartStudio albums to show off my art, especially art I'm creating for the Doodle-a-Day challenge (having so much fun with that!).
Right now, I have some "Oldies But Goodies" illustrations there from my first blog (circa 2006!), along with a bunch of ACEO's (Artist Trading Cards) I created to sell in my Etsy shop, PholkartStudio (currently on an extended vacation to some undisclosed tropical paradise or other exotic location... haha!). No doubt this little 'gallery' will evolve over time. But for now, I'm just happy to have a little 'home' where my art can stay... and you can visit. And I really do hope you will! :)
February 26, 2015
Apples vs. Oranges
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From time to time I can really get myself into a creative 'funk'!... and unfortunately, February has ended up being a very 'funky' month for me. As much as I love having access to so much arty inspiration & creative community online... if I'm not very very careful, I start comparing my abilities with other artists & end up feeling blechh about me! (...and yes, I'm sure that blechh must be a real word and not just something I'm making up!).
So... it was interesting that I stumbled on this quote yesterday:
"Comparison is the thief of joy."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Hmmmmm... Well, thank you Theodore... I really needed to hear that! In my mind, I know that this is true... but my heart forgets from time to time.
When it comes right down to it, I have a choice to make every time I enter my creative online community. I can hold my arty talents up against the talents of others and evaluate how I measure up... or I can choose to embrace joy by refusing to compare. Instead, I can appreciate how uniquely the Lord has made me while also appreciating & encouraging the giftedness of others.
Thank you Lord for reminding me once again to trust my thoughts, my talents & my heart to you.
photo credit: Apples & Oranges - They Don't Compare via photopin (license)
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February 18, 2015
Snowbound in North Carolina
Here in the Piedmont of North Carolina, we don't get snow very often... but when we do, the whole city comes to a standstill. This week, I've been snowbound in our little house on the hill with two inches of snow on the ground, all covered by a thick coating of ice. I've decided that walking our dog Winnie is hazardous to my health, since I've fallen & bonked myself twice so far. So as much as I love the IDEA of snow, with all it's beauty & quietness... this girl is choosing to enjoy the snow through the windows of my cozy warm house while sipping hot coffee & tea! Afterall... snow days make perfect art days!
February 12, 2015
I'm not usually a 'joiner' but...
Now obviously (what with life & all!)... I'm not going to be able to create a finished doodle each day of the month! But I decided to pick a few words from the list that jump out at me, doodle my little heart out, & post the finished doodle on my PholkartStudio facebook page. Knowing me, I probably won't be able to resist making these more than doodles. It's sort of like reading a good book... I want to know how it's going to come out in the end!
So, here's February's list if you'd like to play along too!...
My very first doodle was for Feb. 8th... ROBOT. I decided to stick with the size & the border I've been using for my own challenge... and this is what I came up with. Kinda reminds me of when I made a robot Halloween costume for my son... except his involved a whole lot of aluminum foil!
This little cutie was doodled on smooth #300 Bristol paper & inked with a Micron pen, Copics, Prismacolor markers & Prisma colored pencils.
February 4, 2015
Welcome Home Winnie!
My husband Joe & I don't know much about Winnie's story... If only she could tell us! She came to us through the Lab Rescue of North Carolina, found by a caring stranger somewhere near a beach in eastern Carolina. She had recently had a litter of puppies, though we have no idea what happened to them. All we know is that Winnie was very sick with heartworm disease when she was found and she needed lots of love & care.
The kind folks at the Lab Rescue named her Winnie... and my husband decided she'd been through enough... she shouldn't have to get used to a brand new name too. So 'Winnie' it was.
When we first adopted Winnie, the lab rescue guessed she was somewhere between two and three years old. But after our family vet needed to x-ray her, we discovered that our young dog was actually a whole lot older (which helped explain her very laid back personality).
Winnie's the first dog we've adopted since my sons have grown up... and she's been the perfect companion for me. Nothing makes her happier than a walk around the neighborhood, her chewy 'Kong' & her favorite toy duck (now looking a lot worse for wear!). She follows the sun around our house & is content just to 'be' with me... my super sweet studio buddy! :) Without a doubt, Winnie helps make our house a home!
The doodle above was drawn on a 4x6 index card, just for fun, using a black Micron pen, Copic markers, Prismacolor markers & Prismacolor pencils. :)
January 26, 2015
Time for a Blog Makeover
I really don't know how this happened... but somehow, long ago, this chubby mermaid became the star of my blog header...
She's a character from one of the first art cards I made years ago... Yes, she looks gigantic here, but she really only measures a teeny-tiny 2.5" x 3.5". Still, she's very sensitive about her weight (*wink*).
I think I just related to her, with her flowing auburn hair (the color my hair used to be). She's all dressed in a cheerful shade of purple & swimming happily in the sea. Cute little mermaid... she's perfectly imperfect, and I liked that about her. Somewhere along the way, we became fast friends, and she's followed me all over the web.
Fast forward a bunch of years and many colored pencils & markers later... this sweet silly doodle showed up in my sketchbook. And once again, I just knew I could relate to her. She's growing older, but she continues to smile at the future. She's comfy 'just being herself'. She loves God and is blessed to encourage others along the way. She still believes in the magic of art & creativity, and it brings her so much joy! She's a little bit 'creakier' these days... and you can see the laugh lines around her eyes.
I'm not sure yet what her name will be... maybe something old fashioned, like Clara or Felicity or Grace. But I am sure that she's the perfect companion for me as I continue on my arty journey!
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January 23, 2015
Still Doodling...
I'm still doodling over here... and thought I'd share a few of my favorites from my January 'Draw Everyday' Challenge (which has turned out to be the 'Draw As Often As You Can & Have Fun Doing It' Challenge!). I abandoned the idea of numbering each card I drew... but I've kept the same freehand border & stay in it only when I want to. That's what happens when you make up the rules as you go along!
'Love One Another'
'Whimsical Flowers'
'Rainy Day'
(Hmmm!... I think I'm noticing a weather theme here.)
...and because I love drawing children, a couple more 'kid-themed' designs doodled their way out of my pencil too.
'Future Engineer'
'Amanda Loves Books'
I have to say, I really have enjoyed doodling these little challenge cards... they've been just the jump-start my creativity has needed.
So, maybe I'll keep on doodling some more...
January 12, 2015
Rainy Days and Mondays...
So... It's been one of 'those' days. Foggy, drizzly & cold outside... and I've been at home trying to find my cleaning enthusiasm while conquering our mountain of dirty laundry. (Really!... where does all that dirty laundry come from anyway??). Folding the (now) clean mountain of laundry, then walking the dog in my yellow raincoat... I wonder what we're having for dinner tonight. Aside from the yucky weather, it's been a pretty normal Monday at our house.
Most Mondays I eventually get my 'engine' revved up. I make a big pot of coffee, treat myself to a piece of dark chocolate, & turn some 'coffee house' music on Pandora... or maybe some Amy Grant or James Taylor. Happy music... Comfort music... 'Music to get things done by'. But today, the 'blahs' have followed me around the house all the day long... 'Blah, blah, blah blah blah!'
And then it hits me!... What better way to chase away my 'meh' feeling than to give it a face... and maybe a cozy pair of pink bunny slippers & a nice cup of hot coffee in an 'I Love You' mug.
And so I did! :)
This is #5 in my Doodle mini-challenge... just something quick & fun I'm doing to help me get my drawing 'mojo' back. I think it just might be working. :)
January 7, 2015
The 'Draw Everyday' Mini-Challenge
During the month of January, some of us are doing a mini-challenge to encourage us to draw or be creative every day. Sounds simple, right?... Well, that's what I thought too!
So, I decided to doodle a tiny card each day... sorta my version of the illustrated calendars I've admired online. I wanted the whole process to be straightforward, portable & simple... so I cut some 4x6" cards in half & decided each card would have the numbered date & be done in my favorite Prismacolor markers & colored pencils. I envisioned each doodle taking less than 10 minutes (ha!).
The little 'Man In The Moon' above was the first to doodle its' way off my pencil. Believe me, he took LOTS more time to create than I'd thought he would! (...This is supposed to be quick & easy, right?).
Day Two found me out of town & staring at the blank card from my ziplock 'travel bag' without a clue about what to draw. Thinking "winter", after a long while I finally came up with this chilly penguin. Two down, 29 itty-bitty cards to go...
By the time Day Three was over & not one pencil scribble to show for it, I knew it was time to switch over to 'Plan B'... 'Draw as often as you can & don't worry about it. Just Keep Drawing!!' ...So that's my game plan & I'm sticking with it!
The opinionated perfectionist who lives in my head has already been ranting about the 'cuteness' & originality of my little cards. Not only that, but she's completely outraged by the scan quality of these little pieces of art. No worries though... I have banished her from my studio for the duration of this challenge. I can still hear her knocking... but I'm not letting her back in!
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