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Fellow collector/ dealer Richard Thorner purchased the Holy Grail of presidential Bookplates.
I received the following message from Mr. Don Dimock and I asked him to send some biographical information.
I have been sorting through a large collection built between 1930-1950 .It has many duplicates from England , France Germany,Italy Spain , Russia Australia and California.I would be interested in trading or selling the duplicates.
The Clinton bookplate is inscribed to Worthington White, a White House usher who worked there from 1980 to 2012. He and Clinton shared a love for golf.
I received the following message from Mr. Don Dimock and I asked him to send some biographical information.
I don't know if you want home made bookplates or not. I have always made my own. I am sending you about all that I have left. I drew these in the early 1980's and printed them with a copy machine. The one I used most by far is the one with the descending dove. I have a shelf of books on Swimming so I made the swimming bookplate, I usually colored it by hand. I used the one of the book when I didn't want a figure. I almost never used the rest of them. You have my permission to do anything you wish with them or just throw them away. It is up to you. I enjoy what you post VERY much.
Dear Lew,
I don't know what to say about myself. I have had an adventurous life. I changed careers a few times.
Presently I am 86 years old. I was born in a remote part of rural Hawaii in March of 1930. I left Hawaii for the last time in 1952. After attending college in Colorado I spent the rest of my life here in Oregon.
I have always had an interest in books. My present residence is full of books on a wide variety of subjects. I also have always had an interest in art. I used to do oils. I changed to acrylics when they became available. And I have always had a profound interest in photography. In recent years I have been doing wildlife photography. And I write. I used to do free-lance photojournalism. That is no longer practical. I began writing books for a hobby years ago. I self-published some of them. Before computers I used to illustrate my books with line drawings. That is what prompted me to do my bookplates that way I still come out with a hobby book every year or two – or three. My recent ones have all been illustrated with photography. Digital photography makes that practical. For the last twenty years or so all of my books have been poetry. Yes, I write poetry. None of my books are available now.
I used to be very active in masters' sports such as running and swimming. I have a lot of books on running and a shelf full of swimming books. That is why I made the swimming bookplate.
I have not made any bookplates since the 1980's. I am still using the one with the descending dove that I sent to you. If I were to make bookplates today they would almost certainly be a mix of photography and drawing. The logo I put on the copyright page of my books began as a line drawing. The same drawing is now in color and there are parts of it that are photographs.
I have done lots of wildlife photography in recent years. If I were to make any bookplates today they would probably contain photos of birds and/or flowers.
Thank you for your interest. I hope I haven't bored you. I wish you all the best.
Don Dimock
Notes From Lew- If you have any home made bookplates and you want them added to this blog posting send a scan to
I have been sorting through a large collection built between 1930-1950 .It has many duplicates from England , France Germany,Italy Spain , Russia Australia and California.I would be interested in trading or selling the duplicates.
Here are a few examples.
This post first appeared on Confessions Of A Bookplate Junkie, please read the originial post: here


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What image does the phrase "real estate auction" bring to mind?
Up until recently, it was probably a financial transaction carried out by a seller in dire straits such as foreclosure. Real estate auctions have never achieved the desirable reputations that art and antique auctions enjoy. But that's changing.
Approximately $58.6 billion in real estate was sold at live-auction in the US in 2007. A majority of today's auctions are not the result of distress situations, but a seller simply choosing a fast and cost-effective method to sell a property.
Auction allows the seller to eliminate virtually all long-term carrying costs, passing the savings directly to the purchaser in the form of a reduced price. As a result, sellers receive immediate cash while buyers purchase properties at a fair price determined by competitive bidding.
While automotive was the largest sector of the auction market in 2008, accounting for gross sales of $83.1B, one of the fastest growing auction areas that same year was the residential real estate sector. In fact, the fastest growing auction areas from 2003-2008 were:
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- Commercial real estate (27.4% increase from $11.8B in 2003 to $15.5B in 2008).
Even in this poorly performing economy, real estate auctions have continued to grow, and with it, opportunities for REALTORS®. The REALTOR.org Auction page is full of resources, news, and industry trends that empower you to confidently navigate this swiftly growing field.
The benefits of auctions don't just fall to the buyers and sellers. Auctions promote REALTORS® by bringing in people in to look at all listings, not just the auction listing. It exposes the property to many potential purchasers, and, when successful, auctions often result in referrals and return business. Read more about the three types of auctions here. Who knows, the next thing the phrase "real estate auctions" brings to mind, may be an auction of your own.

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MCM is a style of furniture design that began after World War II and continued into the 1960's. It refers to the look that was popular in the middle of the 20th century. You might call it mod or retro, but I call it cool. My parents had an orange vinyl chair that I would give teeth to have again... I've scoured my father's house looking for it and I've asked 10 times.... "Where's that chair?". Somehow he can't remember it. Really? It was bright ORANGE? Anyway, I finally got my hands on a replica and I'm trying to decide on a fabric for the cushions. The first picture is a dead ringer!
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Walter William Ralphs
February 27, 1916 - July 6, 2010
Walter was born and raised in Los Angeles, living with his parents and older sister Elaine. Upon graduating high school and having never visited the campus, he decided to attend Stanford University. Until the end of his life he treasured these years of learning and camaraderie.
After Stanford, Walter brought his innovations and good business sense to the family business, Ralphs Grocery Company, which was sold in 1968. During World War II he used his expertise on the home front to distribute food to American troops. Later, pursuing an interest in cattle and a love of land, he founded Ralphs Ranches. Over the years, Walter learned about and implemented sustainable and humane practices, earning worldwide recognition and national awards. He loved spending time at the ranch, enjoying both the work with cattle and hay and the beautiful streams, meadows, and forests. Working with Jim and Mary Rickert, ranch managers for over thirty years, he became like family to them.
Walter was an active and passionate tennis player. He impressed all of us by continuing to play into his nineties and being nationally ranked in his age group, though he was characteristically modest about his achievements. Walter was not a quitter, as one story shows. When asked why he lost a match in his late eighties he said, "Well it was a hot day, and after playing for five hours on the court, I started to get a little tired."
Walter was loved dearly by his family and friends and our memories of him will continue to inspire and guide us. As an adolescent during the Great Depression, Walter learned from his father the importance of helping people and the equal value of every human being, regardless of his wealth or race. We will remember him for his very generous and loving nature and the way he always tried to find some way of helping others. Walter lived a full and rich life, driven by his curiosity and sense of adventure to explore the world and many fields of knowledge. He was a gifted story teller, with an endless supply of wonderful stories about his life. But he was equally interested in conversing with others and enjoyed hearing about their perspectives and experiences. He had a wide range of friends; people felt comfortable in his presence. He was also a true gentleman with a sense of dignity and kindness, and showed respect for all those around him.
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I'm going to save you some time and say that if you want a succinct description of exactly what Upper Big Silver is without a lot of story, check out the Liquidlore beta page: Here, and also refer to the linked Range Life post. There is a good video by Chris Tretwold as well covering the entirety of the Creek: Here ...for the rest of my ramblings and some decent pictures keep reading..as this is the single best thing I've ever fired up to date.
So a week after firing up Callaghan Creek in Whistler finally at a solid level I headed away from the 'sure thingness' to Big Silver Creek, which is in the middle of nowhere to a certain extent, at the moment more than usual even. Normally there is a road through to the Nahatlatch drainage, offering the option of Nahatlatch/Stein Rivers if the Big Silver (BS) level is no good, however at the moment there is a washout between Upper Big Silver put in and Nahatlatch that stops you from making that trip. Faced with the prospect of uncertain water levels, and a 2.5 hour drive one way from Chilliwack largely over dirt road and the possibility of bad water levels and the same return trip, despite the fact that there are natural hot springs in the area and amazing scenery and bush camping, it was difficult to find any takers. But I did.
We headed up Friday night and got a late start Saturday heading for the Upper after camping at Cogburn Creek, which unfortunately at this time is still gated. I got a bit of a headstart wanting to find a good place to hike out at the end, and I actually hiked in to get a look at some of the third (unrunnable) gorge, the portion I saw looked like a clean 10 footer and 2 little boulder drops with a pool in between, but knowing better kayakers than us call this unrunnable we didn't have any desire to find out today.
We got to the put in waterfall and didn't look too hard at it, deciding just to hike straight down to the put in pool from the road, in hindsight probably a bad idea as the hike was difficult, maybe hiking from above the falls is easier, and you can ponder running the falls, a nice 30 footer with a tricky lead in seive to dodge. We knew right away the level was in between at least 2 pictures of the falls I'd seen. After getting to the first rapid, it was obvious the level was low, but it turned out to be the better side of low. Most everything was padded enough and it wasn't pushy, great for our group of nobody who'd done it. I do wish we'd rallied earlier on this sunny warm day to keep the sun we had in the first canyon through the entire run...
Anyway, once you put on you immediately enter the first canyon which culminates with a good 8' double boof ledge and is somewhat short, we thought we were out of it prior to actually being out of it, but being very wary not to enter the third (unrunnable canyon) makes you be a bit more careful.
Then you enter the real star of the run, the second canyon is amazing, the single most scenic place I've laid eyes on. It contains such highlights as multiple fun sets of rapids, some really fun boofs and tight lines, a short crevasse and a longer very straight box canyon, the entire time with manageable rapids that are nearly all scoutable and portageable.
The entire run has this triangular canyon wall that seems to rise from the river, I've never seen anything like it, I imagine it would be a geologists dream in there. Straight canyons, pool drop character, many clean rapids, probably 15+ quality rapids at least with a few tighter sections with shorter pools. You can tell this is one that definitely gets tougher with more water though.
The quality of scenery and whitewater in the Upper rates it as a true classic in my books. It was so clean two of us fired up every drop besides the optional put in falls, which potentially could have been fired up if a person were so inclined. The one mistake we made was taking out at the wrong point after exiting the second canyon. There is a long stretch of flat water, and we were paranoid of coming around a corner and being gorged into the unrunnable, so we must've taken out at a bad spot, as instead of the 15 minute described exit we encountered a 45 minute scramble up then down then up again to the road with heavy brush to whack through. Best to follow advice and exit immediately after the second canyon or at the mouth of the third, not in between! All in all we spent about 4 hours on the section with heavy scouting and picture taking total I think.
The second day we fired up the lower section, which actually comprises what in Claudia Schwab's 'Whitewater of Southwest BC''s 'Upper' run and the Divided We Falls section as described in Fraservalleywhitewater.com's River Guides. It was at a good juicy level for this section which was welcome, and a beautiful 30 degree celsius+ sunny day meant I was going to bring my drytop along in the back of my boat for this one.
This section starts off at the bottom of the middle, upstream of the intended powerhouse location for the proposed run(ruin)-of-river hydro project, and you have the option of hiking up to run some quality drops to start you off.
Below here there is some flat water until you come to a rapid, this first rapid is the first and longest of 4 or 5 of a class III+/IV- section, though at this level I'd say closer to IV and might call the first one IV+. These are some fun rapids that run through micro canyons that are of the same extreme scenery experienced on the Upper, though much less impressive than those jewels, as good as they even are!
Following the rapids is a long flat water section, once you pass Clear Creek coming in on the left roadside you enter the Divided We Falls section, you shortly come to a class III rapid leading into yet another extremely scenic tight, flat water gorge then come around the corner to divided we falls! This river just keeps on giving the treats.
Divided we falls is an extremely user friendly waterfall, especially with water. There are actually 2 falls (which you can see from the road on the drive up if you stop at the right place..), divided by an island. The right side is a straight forward falls that at this level had an easily boofed flake and a soft landing. The left side is more slidey with a big tongue into a hole with undercuts on either side, so pick your poison really. Portaging is also an option. Following the falls is a large pool followed by a sloping drop into a short pool followed by a class VI sieved out drop that potentially has a line, but it would be so tight an consequential none of us were looking really, lots of the water goes under the rocks you portage over. We also portaged the drop immediately above as it just wasn't worth the risk, the eddy to get out at the sieve was a small one boater that you had to drive into some shallow rocks, which would be difficult at any higher flow to even get out, so be aware of this.
Portaging the sieve drop itself was a nightmare and required roping boats down to the lower boulders then a sketchy seal launch into the water beside the bottom of the sieve, where it was exiting from under the rocks.
After the sieve is another stretch of flat water until you come to the final drop, a 6 foot boof to chute. None of us ran it as it was higher than people had previously seen it, and lots of the water drove into the undercut right wall with a little room it looked like you could get stuck in. The seal launch portage on river left was some good fun however.
There you have it, the greatest weekend I've ever had, amazing scenery, whitewater, camping, weather, clean turquoise water. The bugs are bad though...oh are they bad! Bring bugspray! Enjoy the pics!
I will not be hesitant at all next year to head up there when I think levels are right based on gauge correlations, hopefully others will be more likely to come as well!


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…or more like how it pretty much doesn't! There's not much going on unless you're a club or party type living in a bigger city, or want to buy a bunch of cute knick knacks to decorate your house with. You really have to actively go out of your way to find something fun to do.
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Making the Big Move: Apartment Hunting (Part 2)
Have an idea of the kind of property you'd like to rent? If not, check out Part 1! If so, you're ready to start tackling some of the hurdles you might encounter when you visit a real estate agency. These places are called fudōya or fudōya-san in Japanese.
Making the Big Move: Apartment Hunting (Part 1)
As I wrote in my previous post, apartment hunting in Japan can be tricky. This first step is understanding what kind of properties in Japan are available. Unless you plan on staying here for many, many years you'll be looking for rental property, called chintai bukken. There are three main types:
- apartments, called apaato – These are generally older apartments made of wood. Due to building regulations they can't exceed two or three floors, unless under special circumstances.
- mansion-style apartments, called manshon – Don't let the name fool you, you won't be getting a real mansion! These are the most popular because they're generally newer properties and made of stronger materials like reinforced concrete. Mansion-style apartments are usually four stories or higher, and it's not uncommon to see high-rise mansion-style apartment complexes with 10 to 20 floors or more, especially in big cities.
- stand-alone properties, called ikkodate or kashiya – These are usually houses for lease but sometimes include maisonette-style rental properties.
Making the Big Move: Finding Home
Apartment hunting and moving into a new place is a pretty daunting process anywhere, especially in Japan. If you don't know what to look for in a property, you may end up with a dud. Once you get stuck with a bad property, there's not much you can do but stick it out for awhile unless you have a lot of money to throw around; moving will set you back a few hundreds of thousands of yen (a few thousand USD) each time or more. My husband and I lived in two duds before finally settling into the place we now call home. Continue reading
Making the Big Move: Let's Talk Visas
There are many ways to move to Japan, but pretty much all of them require getting your hands on a visa. With the exception of a few special countries, you'll need a visa if you plan on staying longer than 90 days or 3 months in Japan.
Requirements for applying and being granted a visa depend on what kind of agreement Japan has with the country your passport is issued from. Requirements also depend on what kind of visa you're seeking. The following sites are very useful reading:
- MOFA – Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English, Japanese)
- Immigration Bureau of Japan (English, Japanese)
- Juridique (English, Japanese, French)
During my stay I've had three different kinds of visas and all of them required jumping through different hoops to get my hands on. Continue reading
A Forward… Beginnings & Backstory
Why "Washing Rice"?
Anyone who's ever heard of or been to Japan probably knows that rice is the staple of pretty much all Japanese meals. On its own, Japanese rice looks simple and tastes plain. In reality, preparing great-tasting rice takes more effort than you'd think. The first step to cooking rice is washing it. Rice is washed, literally "polished" in Japanese, using cold water and your hands to remove the starch. You add water, gently run your hands through the rice, empty the water, and repeat until the water is clear. It takes time and patience just to achieve something as simple as a good, steaming bowl of rice. Likewise, it's taken time and patience to build up my simple life in Japan into something I'd call happy.
It also has another connotation when it comes to dating. Women who "can't wash rice", or live up to the usual domestic expectations that Japanese consider a woman's duty, are rarely accepted as suitable marriage partners by Japanese men or their families. So as you can probably guess, a foreign woman like me is usually not high up on the list of who to bring home to mom and dad or marry, and the result has at times been as harsh as it's been humorous.


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Fewer links and more commentary today.
I definitely suggest checking out all the chats at Fangraphs. But the one from Jeff Sullivan is always the highlight of the week. He's extremely witty and makes funny responses out of standard questions. For example:
Question: "is it just me or is gio gonzalez's dad the worst at excuses"
Answer: "he's probably not the *worst*, but that's just from the probabilistic perspective"
Classic, just classic.
But there's a couple lines from the end of the chat that really stand out, as a fan of a team that has been bad for about fifteen years:
fans of bad teams still care because it's the bad that makes the good. if I were just getting into baseball, and if I had to pick a team to like, I'd pick a bad team over a good team. I want to feel like I earned the success, if and when it ever comes…also, it isn't just about winning. it's about the whole experience and the distractions and the coming and going discussion topics that carry us through month after month. baseball is just a thing that goes on and bad teams don't provide any less material than good teams
I couldn't have said it better myself. It doesn't matter if your team is bad or good, you still follow them. It can be frustrating year after year after year, but you don't give up the hope that next year could be the year it all comes together (like last year for the Orioles). I still get excited when my guys do well and sulk when they hid a bad skid. It's like we're in this secret club and those who aren't in it just don't get what's going on.
Back to the links…
I always enjoy skimming the minor league transactions at Baseball America. This time of year, there's a lot of names you'll recognize on there. Looks like Charlie Haeger's getting another shot with the Red Sox.
Why is there still Spring Training in Florida? Because of contracts and politics. Arizona makes so much more sense given the location of all the camps. This article talks about trying to possibly lure another team east, but I don't see the payoff.
I admit it, I have a thing for rookies in fantasy (football and baseball). I think most of these guys are already gone in one of my leagues where you're allowed to keep guys their whole careers.
One final thought…I love Craig Calcaterra's smack down of stupidity in most things he writes. His article on ARod and the idea that he might walk away from his big contract is no different.


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In the digital world; where meaningful customer interactions are few and far between, AJG Direct is adamant event marketing is more important than ever. However, a new study has shocked the firm and could change the way brands market to the Millennial generation.
AJG Direct is a London based sales and event marketing firm that boasts impressive and unique campaigns that they believe should directly be targeted at the millennial generation. The company believes that customer personalisation is more crucial than ever before, discovering a recent study that supports this brand ethos. In an industry that is seeing the transition by more and more companies into the automation of robotics, AJG Direct states that they wish to keep the human touch.
The recent research, which surveyed 600 shoppers of different generations, outlined that the millennial generation was the most receptive of those surveyed, valuing face to face interaction with store representatives highly. The study also found that the baby boomer generation was surprisingly more inclined to dislike interaction with members of store staff, a shocking 22% describing them as 'extremely unimportant.'
The researchers also found that the introduction of customer service automation and robots within stores could turn consumer business away. The study found that store employees were found to be highly desirable in regards to consumer queries, checkout assistance and more, a shockingly high 43% of the 600 shoppers surveyed would stop shopping at a place where robots replaced human workers
AJG Direct has found this research highly surprising, primarily because the millennial generation has grown up with a high development in technology, are often thought to be on the side of automation and digital marketing.
The firm is urging other companies to alter their marketing and sales methods to ensure that they are meeting the expectations and demands of the millennial generation. The generation is known to shape and develop varying industries, particularly a consumer-driven sector such as marketing. The firm is keen to embrace the development of digital marketing campaigns, but not at the stake of its consumers. AJG Direct will continue to listen to the needs and wants of the millennial generation.


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1. Hit up Big Sur, California, for some fantastic views from the cliffs.
You'll SURtainly not want to blink at these sights.
2. Dive into the blue lagoons of the Maldives.
The reefs clearly have no chill, and neither will you if ever make it here!
3. Take a boat tour around the island of Phuket, Thailand.
Take selfies so surreal your friends at home will think you photoshopped your faces into them.
4. Hike the hills of the rad coastal paradise that is Cinque Terre, Italy.
Walk, train, or boat between each of the five towns that make up this cluster of villages built right into the steep cliffs.
5. While you're out, why not swing by the Iguazu Falls over in Argentina?
You'll have to pick your jaw up off the ground after soaking in the sights of these colossal falls.
6. Or hit up pretty much any island in the Bahamas.
Welcome to the Bahamas: a place where dreams come true and pigs can swim.
7. The Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is straight out of a dream.
Your BFF will have to pinch you to make sure you're awake.
8. Feel the splash on your faces from the waterfalls of Maui, Hawaii.
The Hawaiian sites are so beautiful you'll want to live in them.
9. San Sebastian over in Spain doesn't seem too shabby.
Chill on the bay with bae!
10. For more mellow vibes, take in Acadia National Park, Maine, for some seriously stunning stillness.
Talk about your hopes and dreams and life and love in this serene scene.
11. Travel to the other side of the globe for the sights at Cathedral Cove Beach in New Zealand.
Because New Zealand.
12. And skip on over to Melbourne's pink lake for some rosé realness.
Rosé all day.
13. And, finally, confess your sins at the Hells of Beppu, Japan.
Who better to visit hell with than your BFF? Next to Yellowstone, Beppu is the second biggest source of thermal spring water.


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EDIT: Well, seeing as how it's no longer Jan. 14, this is dead!
For today only, women can get a coupon for a free bottle of Suave shampoo and the only thing I have to say is "what the crap?" I'm penalized for being a dude once again? First they wouldn't let me use the far nicer bathroom, then they made me sign up for the Selective Service System when I turned 18, and now I don't get this freebie? When will the injustice end?! Well I'll show them. Try and guess who Ms. Goobina Smith really is!


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Hard to believe that it was only four years ago that I started this blog… that's a lot of books read over 1,460 days!
Four years ago, I was teaching students about starting their own blogs, when one of them asked me what my own blog was called. Considering I believe in 'practicing what you preach', I decided that it was a sign, and that the time was right. I'd been thinking about starting my own blog for a while; I'd met the lovely Misbehavin' Librarian at a Kelley Armstrong signing, and she and some of the other bloggers present convinced me that I should start one up for my own reading thoughts. Who knew how many other amazing bloggers I would meet, both in person and virtually? From local author events to publisher soirees, to Book Expo America (4th year running!), I've had many amazing experiences and opportunities, and I'm grateful to all those who have made them possible. I've made wonderful friends in the blogging and publishing worlds, and consider myself incredibly fortunate to count so many fantastic authors as friends.
So how am I celebrating? Well, I'm guest posting over at Just a Lil' Lost today about the lovely and charming Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George – head over and take a look – and … since every party deserves a party favour, let's give something away, shall we?
Tell me your favourite book in the comments or follow this link, and you'll be entered to win a book off your wishlist. Contest is open to wherever Book Depository ships, and prize will be agreed upon between the winner and myself. Contest will run until May 2nd, and winners will be notified by email.
Thanks for supporting Lost in a Great Book over the past four years – I can't wait to see what the next four years will bring!


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Public contracts: Quebec Government published the draft Voluntary Reimbursement Program
On September 23, 2015, the Government published for consultation its draft Voluntary Reimbursement Program (the "Program").[1] The Program implementation is provided for in an Act to ensure mainly the recovery of amounts improperly paid as a result of fraud or fraudulent tactics in connection with public contracts, adopted on March 24, 2015 (the "Act").[2]
Interested parties have until October 23, 2015, to submit their comments. The Program will come into force on November 1, 2015, and will expire on October 31, 2017.
The Program will target all public contracts entered into after October 1, 1996 for which "there may have been fraud or fraudulent tactics." The proposed process is similar to settlement conferences: the company or individual who wants to participate (the "Proposer") will first have to propose a settlement and disclose the method used to determine the proposal amount; the Program director may convene a conciliation session with the Proposer and the public bodies opposed to the proposal, to attempt to reach an agreement.
The objective of the Program is to allow companies that want to avoid civil proceedings to voluntarily reimburse the illicit profits that may have been charged, and obtain a discharge for contracts covered by the regulation. If this discharge is not granted, the Act provides special rules that will facilitate claims against the companies, their directors and officers at the time of the alleged overcharge. It should be noted that under these rules, the overcharge will be assumed to correspond to 20% of the contract amount and the applicable limitation period will be 20 years from the date these provisions come into force. For more information on the Act, see our previous analysis.[3]
- Administration: The Program will be administered by the Honourable François Rolland, former Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec, appointed as Director on August 24, 2015 (the "Director").
- Confidentiality: Other than with the express consent of the Minister and the Proposer, anything said or written in the context of the Program will be confidential and may not be admitted in evidence before any court. This rule will also apply in the context of civil or administrative proceedings and in response to inquiries by administrative or law enforcement agencies.
- Process held in camera: The entire process of analysing and negotiating a settlement proposal will be held in camera.
- Criminal and penal proceedings: Participation in the Program will have no impact on criminal or penal proceedings that may also be instituted with respect to the public contracts in question.
- Civil proceedings: Public bodies will have the possibility to sue for damages relating to public contracts that have not been the object of a settlement under the Program or that are not covered by the Act.
The process contemplated for the Program is as follows:
- Notice of intent: No later than November 1, 2016, the Proposer has to submit a notice of intent which must contain, inter alia, the list of the public bodies concerned by the settlement proposal, the years covered by the proposal, as well as the list of the individuals or companies who require a discharge.
- Notification to public bodies: Upon receipt of a notice of intent, the Minister will inform in writing, within 30 days, each public body concerned by the notice of intent.
- Settlement proposal: Within 30 days of filing a notice of intent, the Proposer will have to send a proposal to the Director. The proposal shall, among other things, list the covered contracts, the total amount paid by the public body for each contract, the method used to determine the proposal amount, as well as the terms of payment and guarantees proposed to secure payment. Once filed, the settlement proposal cannot be withdrawn.
- 10% fees: The Proposer must include with the proposal a cheque equal to 10% of the amount proposed, to cover the costs incurred for the implementation of the Program. This amount will be non-refundable and adjusted upward if the eventual settlement exceeds the amount of the proposal. While this amount may seem high, it should be noted that the Act provides that if a company does not obtain a discharge under the Program and is subsequently sued, it will pay an additional amount equal to 20% of the damage awarded to compensate the costs incurred for the application of the Act.
- Disclosure: The Proposer will undertake to disclose to the Director all facts and information that are relevant for to the assessment of its settlement proposal. A Proposer who omits or refuses to disclose material information or documents can be excluded from the Program.
- Assessment: The Director will assess the proposal and may request additional explanations that the Proposer will have to provide. If unable to recommend the proposal, the Director must first inform the Proposer and allow it to make the necessary changes.
- Preliminary recommendation: No later than 150 days after a notice of intent is filed, the Director shall send its preliminary recommendation to the Minister.
- Notice of refusal by public bodies: Any public body concerned by the proposal shall, within 60 days of being informed, advise the Minister in writing whether it agrees or not with the portion of the proposal that concerns it. If the proposal is refused, the public body must explain its reasons and submit a counter-proposal. In the absence of notice, the public body will be deemed to have accepted the proposal.
- Conciliation: Within 30 days of receiving one or several notices of refusal, the Director may convene the interested parties to a conciliation meeting.
- Balloting: If the Director receives a notice of refusal, all the public bodies concerned will have to vote on the proposal. Each public body will have one vote for each dollar of the amount covered by the settlement proposal. To be accepted, the proposal must be approved by public bodies holding at least 2/3 of the voting rights. If the Director cannot make a favourable recommendation on the proposal in its entirety, the Minister may submit to a vote only those parts of the proposal that have been recommended.
- Discharge: Once the proposal is accepted, the Minister will sign a discharge on behalf of all public bodies concerned. This discharge will have no effect with respect to contracts for which false statements were made or for which there was clearly incomplete disclosure in the process leading to the settlement.
McCarthy Tétrault's comments
As the Program was published for consultation purposes, it is possible that certain of its terms will be modified before it comes into force on November 1, 2015. It will be interesting to see the amendments that will be made by the Minister when the final version of the Program is made public.
Given that the deadline to participate to the Program is November 1, 2016, and that a detailed settlement proposal must then be sent no later than 30 days from that date, companies that want to participate in the Program should begin to develop the analysis in support of their settlement proposal.
[1] Draft Voluntary Reimbursement Program.
[3] See our publication: Public contracts and Bill 26: recovery of amounts improperly paid and changes to the AMF authorization regime.


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Swarm Keeper is a Dungeon Keeper inspired modification for Alien Swarm. It offers the following features: Build a dungeon for your creatures (aliens), imps which perform tasks for you (like digging blocks away, collecting gold), a portal through which creatures enter your dungeon, different room types (treasure, lair, hatchery and training), a dungeon heart, which must be protected from enemies and invading marines as enemies. This mod should be considered as an experiment to bring a Dungeon Keeper like game to the Source Engine.
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Added minimap, here shown for a 170x170 tiles random map. Brown represents normal blocks, yellow minerals/gold and black/dark normal walkable tiles.


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Five orphaned teenagers find themselves pushed into a strange room. There's nothing but stairs that lead them eventually back to the only object beside a primitive toilet and a water source: a machine that delivers their food. But what do they have to do to earn that food?
This is a short book – only 166 pages for the paperback. I'd never heard of it until my wife sent me a message on Facebook (She found it while I was asleep and didn't want to forget). As soon as I saw the premise, I ordered a copy. It's a testament to the story that my wife read this when she was perhaps ten or eleven and still remembers it forty years later.
I can see why. Last night, I had forty pages to read and even though it was getting late and I needed to be up for work the next day, I had to finish it.
If I have a complaint about the story, it was the fact that all the characters survived. The civilisation I read about that would allow this experiment would have no problems letting them starve, I suspect.
The setup is chilling in its simplicity. Take five teens, drop them in a minimalist prison of stairs and condition them to act bizarrely with the reward of food. Then condition them to fight, condition them to move without thinking on the production of lights and sound. Condition them to begin to hate each other. Feed them when they become violent.
My wife asked me last night if it's something I would have read when I was ten or eleven, its target age group. I probably would have, but I wouldn't have believed it would have been possible for human beings to become sociopathic so easily.
But since I was that age, I've found out about things like The Milgram Experiment and The Stanford Prison Experiment, and I've learned differently. I've come across the phrase "Civilisation is only nine missed meals from anarchy", and I've learned differently.
It's the most terrifying truth of all: How easy it is to strip the humanity from someone and turn them into a monster. To get on a bus with a bomb strapped to your belt, to drop the Zyklon B down a tube. To see our fellow primates as something below us. Untermensch, indeed.
The circuit in our heads that gives us our compassion is so very, very fragile. How easy it is for us to short circuit it, to trip some mental fuse. To take a human being and break them is so very easy and so utterly terrifying.
There are characters in this story that refuse to bow to the machine, who start a resistance. I wish I would be as brave as them if I were in the same situation.


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When we first clapped eyes on the new Ninja Master Kitchen System here at Q Towers, we have to admit we were a bit awestruck. This multi-tasker does everything from breaking down whole fruits and veggies for healthy juices to grinding coffee beans or spices, bringing that true gourmet touch to your kitchen. It's also terrific for any avid bakers out there that need a fast mixer they can rely on.
The best part is, the system is also incredibly easy to use! Even so, our in-house chef and kitchen expert, Jo-Anne, has come up with a few extra hints and tips to enhance your Ninja Master experience:
- When making cakes, cookies, or bread dough, pour in the liquid to the unit first and then add the dry ingredients to prevent any dry ingredients not being mixed in properly
- If you haven't got any ice for your smoothie or cold drinks, use frozen fruit. The fruit will add extra sweetness as well as chill your drink
- The Ninja Blades are extremely sharp, so if you're cleaning them in the dishwasher, place the corresponding jug upside down over the blades – this will remind you of the blade and help prevent any accidents when emptying the dishwasher
Jo has also put together a couple of fabulous recipes which are ideal for testing out your Ninja Master. Read on for some serious gastro inspiration!
Hot Smoked Salmon Pâté
- 2 fillets hot smoked salmon (skin removed)
- 100g crème fraiche
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1 tsp horseradish sauce
- Pinch salt
- Pinch black pepper
- Place the all the ingredients into the Ninja and blend on low until the desired consistency is reached
- Adjust the seasoning to taste and serve with your choice of accompaniment
Once made, simply pack this delicious snack into your picnic basket along with bread sticks, crudités or crusty bread, and find the perfect spot to relax and enjoy. The hardest part will be making sure you leave some for everybody else.
Bananas Foster Milkshake
- 250g sugar
- 60g butter
- 200ml double cream
- 10g butter
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 bananas
- 284ml (1/2 pint) skimmed milk
- 2 scoops of vanilla ice-cream
- Heat sugar in a saucepan over medium heat until it transforms to a thick brown, amber-coloured liquid as you continue to stir. Be careful not to burn the caramel
- Once sugar is completely melted, immediately add the cream a little at a time, whisking constantly and carefully as the caramel will bubble rapidly when the cream is added
- Once all the cream has been added, stir the butter into the caramel until it is completely melted
- Pour into a lidded container and allow to cool completely
- Melt the butter in a frying pan, add the cinnamon and bananas and cook until the bananas have softened (for about 3-5 minutes), and allow to cool slightly
- In the Ninja Pitcher, add the bananas, skimmed milk, ice cream and some of the caramel sauce
- Select the frozen drinks and smoothies button
- Serve with some more caramel sauce and enjoy!
Check out the Ninja Master page on our website for more information (and delicious recipes)!


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TYAN Exhibits NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU Powered Server Platforms for HPC and Artificial Intelligence at GTC Europe 2017
Featuring the 4U FT77D-B7109 with 8 GPU accelerators and the 1U GA88-B5631 with 4 GPU accelerators
Munich, Germany – GPU Technology Conference – Oct 10, 2017 – TYAN®, an industry-leading server platform design manufacturer and the subsidiary of MITAC Computing Technology Corporation, showcases their latest GPU-optimized platforms that target the high performance computing and artificial intelligence sectors at the GPU Technology Conference in Munich, Germany during Oct 10~12.
"TYAN's new GPU computing platforms are designed to provide efficient parallel computing for the analytics of vast amounts of data. By incorporating NVIDIA's latest Tesla V100 GPU accelerators, TYAN provides our customers with the power to accelerate both high performance and cognitive computing workloads" said Danny Hsu, Vice President of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit.
TYAN's Thunder HX FT77D-B7109 is a 4U server with two Intel®Xeon® Scalable Processors and support for up to 8 NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 GPUs and 24 DIMM slots. The FT77D-B7109 takes the advantage of the new Intel Xeon Scalable Processors to increase total expansion capability in a system and allows the 9th PCIe x16 slot to be installed next to 8 GPU cards. The design is ideal for PCI-E bifurcation card deployment or high speed networking like 100 Gigabit EDR Infiniband, 100 Gigabit Ethernet, or 100 Gigabit Intel Omni-Path fabric. The platform specializes in massively parallel workloads including scientific computing, genetic sequencing, oil & gas discovery, large scale facial recognition, and cryptography.
The Thunder GA88-B5631 is a 1U server with a single Intel Xeon Scalable Processor. With support for up to 4 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs within a 1U server, the GA88-B5631 is among the industry's highest density GPU servers available on the market. With 4 GPU cards deployed, the platform offers a Full Height / Half Length PCIe x16 card to accommodate a networking adapter speeds up to 100Gb/s such as EDR InfiniBand or 100 Gigabit Ethernet. The platform is designed to support many of today's emerging cognitive computing workloads such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
TYAN GPU Computing Platforms:
- 4U/8-GPU Thunder HX FT77D-B7109: 4U dual-socket Intel Xeon Scalable Processor-based platform with support for up to 8 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, and 14 2.5" hot-swap SATA 6Gb/s devices - 4U/5-GPU Thunder HX FT48T-B7105: 4U dual-socket Intel Xeon Scalable Processor-based platform with support for up to 5 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, 12 DDR4 DIMM slots, and 4 3.5" hot-swap SATA 6Gb/s devices
- 4U/4-GPU Thunder HX FT48B-B7100: 4U dual-socket Intel Xeon Scalable Processor-based platform with support for up to 4 NVIDIA Tesla GPUs, 12DDR4 DIMM slots, and 10 2.5" hot-swap SATA 6Gb/s devices
- 1U/4-GPU Thunder HX GA88-B5631: 1U single-socket Intel Xeon Scalable Processor-based platform with support for up to 4 NVIDIA Tesla CPUs, 12 DDR4 DIMM slots, and 2 2.5" hot-swap SATA 6Gb/s devices
** NVIDIA and Tesla are registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States and other countries.
About TYAN
TYAN, as a leading server brand of Mitac Computing Technology Corporation under the MiTAC Group (TSE:3706), designs, manufactures and markets advanced x86 and x86-64 server/workstation board technology, platforms and server solution products. Its products are sold to OEMs, VARs, System Integrators and Resellers worldwide for a wide range of applications. TYAN enables its customers to be technology leaders by providing scalable, highly-integrated, and reliable products for a wide range of applications such as server appliances and solutions for high-performance computing and server/workstation used in markets such as CAD, DCC, E&P and HPC. For more information, visit MiTAC's website at http://www.mitac.com or TYAN's website at http://www.tyan.com


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Cold fury and blazing wrath.
— In-game description
Antifreeze is a Multiplayer map built on Glacier, added to Halo 5: Guardians in the Cartographer's Gift DLC update.
- The inspirations for this map were the Halo: Combat Evolved map Sidewinder and the Halo 3 map Avalanche. This map turned out a lot different in the end, and thus they called it Antifreeze.[1]


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Forever Bride, a Twin Cities wedding planning website and blog, helps brides-to-be score exclusive deals with local businesses for wedding services. And on Sunday, April 10, the bridal resource is bringing a group of these vendors together at the Radisson Blu for the first-ever Forever Bride Market.
Ashley Hawks, vice president of Forever Bride, says she and her team wanted to create a craft-fair environment and skip the elaborate fashion shows. This, she says, will help brides feel more in charge and that they are making the most of their time.
While sampling treats and shopping local boutiques selling clothing, jewelry, gifts, and home décor, you'll be able to meet and mingle with some of the best in bridal—including Bluebird Cakery, St. Paul Photo Co., The Copper Hen, Radisson Blu, and Locks and Lashes. Even if you don't find the vendors of your dreams, you are certain to leave with some big-day inspiration.
Tickets for the event are $20 for general admission and $40 for VIP. Or, like this blog post for a chance to win two tickets to the market. For more information, visit foreverbride.com.


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Intel has added the 946 series, recognized as a follow-up to its 915-chipset family for the entry-level segment, to its Broadwater product line that originally included just the 965 series, according to sources in the Taiwan motherboard industry.
Intel is scheduled to launch the 946-chipset family in conjunction with the ICH7 southbridge in the second quarter of 2006, the same time when the 965 series bundled with the ICH8 will also hit the market, indicated the sources. The full-line of Broadwater chipsets will be built using 90nm process technology and are aimed at pushing forward migration to DDR2 memory and dual-core CPU architecture, the sources noted.
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Vineyard robot will prune like a pro
Oct. 22 - A French engineer is offering wine-growers an efficient way to prune their vines without breaking their back - a robot designed to do it for them. While Wall-Ye (pron: Wall-Yee) the robot is still a work in progress, wine growers who've seen it are drinking to its potential. Jim Drury reports.
As this year's grape harvest nears its end, this novel vineyard helper could offer overworked winemakers a less stressful future. Wall-Ye the robot can drive across vineyards, test the soil, and prune vines after the summer harvest. Its inventor Christophe Millot has put his creation to the test among the vines of Macon. SOUNDBITE (French) INVENTOR OF THE ROBOT CHRISTOPHE MILLOT SAYING: "When I designed the robot, I took measurements of myself, of the width of my shoulders and the length of my arms, to reproduce the same movements we make. The difference is that it's on wheels, whereas a human being has to bend to prune the vines or sometimes move on a trolley." With four wheels and two metal arms, Wall-Ye is fitted with six web cameras and GPS. For now the robot is mainly limited to checking temperature and counting the number of missing vines..those which have died during the season. But Millot says his robot could be programmed to prune up to 600 vines per day. Wine-maker Claire Gazeau-Montrasi says she's impressed by Wall-Ye's potential and would welcome the help of an android employee. SOUNDBITE (French) WINEMAKER AND OWNER OF THE DOMAIN OF CHATEAU DES RONTETS CLAIRE GAZEAU-MONTRASI SAYING: "It will be able to remember each wine stock, count the number of missing stocks, and eventually help analyse the maturity of vines before the harvest. It may help observe the strength of the vines depending on soil changes the previous year. It helps in a whole range of tasks that we winemakers don't have time for." Once final modifications to his prototype are complete, Millot says Wall-Ye will go into commercial production. A price tag of 25,000 euros might put off smaller firms but the engineer believes buyers will eventually find them cost effective. SOUNDBITE (French) INVENTOR OF THE ROBOT CHRISTOPHE MILLOT SAYING: "Those who look for workers are unable find to find them, or they get seasonal workforce who they have to train each year. On the contrary, the robot, once it has been trained, the following year after it will be able to prune again, etc. So winemakers can tell themselves 'at least this worker will be permanent.'" Millot hopes that by this time next year his order book will be full - a prospect to which fans of Wall-ye are happy to raise a glass.


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PowerShell Script – Change the PowerShell Window Titleby Brenton Blawat on November 23, 2015 Permalink
When I develop different scripts for organizations, I like to customize the Window title as a small a "small touch". For engineering firms, the window title may secure their intellectual property when the script is being run.
For whatever reason you want to customize the PowerShell Window Title, it's a simple one liner.
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PowerShell Script – How to Search for Installed / Pending Windows Updates Using PowerShellby Brenton Blawat on November 14, 2015 Permalink
This quick article explains how to search for installed or pending Windows Updates on a system leveraging PowerShell, and create a report of what was found.
Recently I wrote a script that was to determine the current state of infrastructure in an environment. One of the items we wanted to scan for was the current state of Windows Updates. It's often surprising and sometimes outright scary the current Windows update state of Windows Infrastructure. Read More…
PowerShell Script: How to Scan a File using PowerShellby Brenton Blawat on November 14, 2015 Permalink
This quick article quickly goes over scanning the contents of files using PowerShell. There will be a later series of blogs that will explain how to search and replace items in a file using PowerShell, how to search XML files using PowerShell, and how to search using regular expressions.
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PowerShell Script: Retrieving Distinguished name (DN) from A Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
While there are many posts that describe the code to do this function, there aren't many posts that provide variables with meaning or actually describe the syntax. This post describes the method by which you can retrieve a Distinguished Name from a Fully Qualified Domain Name.
Quick Reference:
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN): division.domain.root
Distinguished Name (DC): DC=division,DC=Domain,DC=root
Canonical Name(CN): division.domain. Read More…
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PowerShell Script: Finding A Distinguished Name of a Group/User: Function Find-DN
This article explains the the method by which one would be able to Search Active Directory for the distinguished name of a User or Group. This is helpful when trying to add an object to Active Directory or adding Users to Groups. Read More…
PowerShell Script: Distinguished Name / Fully Qualified Domain Name to string
This article is designed to be short and sweet. This article displays the method by which one would retrieve the FQDN or Distinguished Name of the Domain. This is code is very useful for any operations in Active Directory. A must know for any scripter that needs to call the domain on a system without hard coding the value in the script.
Lets take a theoretical network that consists of 'division' subdomain, 'domain' as the domain, and 'root' as the domain root. Read More…
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The encryption and decryption of strings is essential when creating an enterprise product that has clear text passwords. This function displays how to encrypt and decrypt a string using Powershell using Richard's code located at http://poshcode.org/116. While I found his code very useful, he didn't explain the syntax and is why I am reposting this with the proper information.
I also decided to make this into an endless loop for an administrator to use to encrypt multiple passwords in a row. Read More…
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Scrap Car Iron Acton, BS36, Scrap your car for free
Here at Scrap Car Iron Acton we collect vehicles free of charge throughout Iron Acton (BS36), Gloucestershire. Having a car that is a non runner can be a real problem you will still be expected to keep the vehicle taxed if it is still on the road. you are not advised to pay to have your car towed away. We can collect your vehicle free of charge in Iron Acton!
Recent News in Iron Acton (BS36), Gloucestershire
As well as offering a completely free collection, we are also currently able to offer cash for scrap cars in Iron Acton depending upon the weight of the vehicle!
If you'd like us to make you an offer just ask when calling or add 'CASH QUOTE PLEASE' in the 'Additional Info' box when submitting our online form.
- Nationwide coverage
- DVLA notification
- Completely free collection!
- Convenient collection times
- Environment agency approved recycling facilities
Complete the form to the right or just give us a call on 0800 043 5100!
Choose Scrap Car Iron Acton
We've got a large number of happy customers around Iron Acton having traded there for many years now. We know the area so well we can be out to you within 30 minutes. We set a time slot and we will not be late we have a reputation that is great for service and customer satisfaction. We offer a range of collection times to suit you and your life.
Scrap Car Iron Acton ensures that your car is recycled the right way. Unreliable car collection companies might sell your vehicle on for profit, in some cases they do not even inform the DVLA of any change of ownership. This can put you in a very awkward position as if there are any fines issued you will be liable to pay them. Scrap Car Iron Acton will always notify the DVLA that your vehicle has been scrapped, meaning you can rest assured that you are in the very safest of hands. When we dispose of an old car we always ensure that whatever can be recycled is and we often reuse a lot of parts, keeping the impact on out environment as low as possible.
Please ensure that your car is disposed of in the right way, we would like to keep the streets of Gloucestershire clean. If your area looks unsightly due to abandoned cars, we can help, call Scrap Car Iron Acton, we will help keep our streets clean and tidy. Scrap car collection, call the team!
How to scrap your car
It is so simple to scrap that old car in Iron Acton. Pick up the phone, dial our number and learn the process today. If on the other hand you are not ready to book and would like to find out more about how to scrap a car please feel free to look at our guide to scrapping your car.
The car scrappage scheme
The vehicle scrappage scheme may seem like a brilliant idea. However, you are limited in what type of new car you can buy. You can't just go out and purchase any vehicle you want A lot of people have felt let down as there are only certain cars available in the scrappage scheme.
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TKA is one of the most successful surgeries performed with excellent 1520-year survivorships routinely reported in large series by multiple surgeons.
It is widely used in the treatment of severe knee osteoarthritis, Inflammatory arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout and other general arthritic conditions.
When the medical treatments antalgic and anti-inflammatory medications, heel wedges, off-loading knee braces, weight reduction, activity modification, the use of ambulatory aids , intra-articular corticosteroid or viscosupplementation injections, physiotherapy have failed, time is coming to implant a prosthesis to relieve pain and to restore knee function.
KINEMATICS of THE PROSTHESIS
Kinematicaly, the native knee joint is much more complicated than a simple "hinge" joint. TKA attempts to recreate the complicated sagittal and rotational plane kinematic motions that occur during range of motion in the normal knee.
The mobile-bearing TKA allowes increasing implant conformity and substantially increases contact area, reduces contact stresses, and lowers polyethylene wear. This is supported by in vitro testing and the excellent long-term clinical results with minimal loosening reported in numerous studies.
It improves control of anteroposterior translation with reduced paradoxical anterior femoral translation and self- aligning behavior to maintain large, centrally located surface contact areas at the femorotibial articulation during both flexionextension and axial rotation of the knee which is much more difficult to achieve in fixed-bearing TKA designs.
The rotational freedom provided by rotating-platform TKA designs assists in maintaining self-alignment of both the patellofemoral and femorotibial articulations throughout knee flexion, lessens polyethylene surface stresses, and reduces polyethylene wear by decoupling multidirectional motions to more monodirectional motion patterns at 2 differing interfaces, thus reducing cross-shear stresses and wear.
In order to detect vital risk for anesthesiology, and to assess a potential risk of post-operative complication in a short or long term follow-up, a medical questionnaire checking list is needed to be accepted by the surgeon and his team.
Risk factors influencing complications are :
Factors increasing risk of infection
- Obesity is associated with a higher risk of infection. Individuals with a bodymass index (BMI) >35 had a 2.1 times greater risk of infection compared with those with a lower BMI
- patients with osteonecrosis and rheumatoid arthritis had a 2.2 times greater risk of infection compared with those with osteoarthritis.
- diabetis
- previous infection of the joint
- arteritis
- tooth infection : a panoramic dental X-Ray and treatment of dental problems is necessary to eliminate a potential risk of infection
Factors increasing risks for medical complications
- American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA)scores > 3 is at risk.
- Previous algo neuro dystrophy may be a recurrent risk.
- Previous deep veinous thrombosis is a predisposing factor to recurrent episode
One of the advanced technique is minimally invasive TKR : It allowes less blood loss, less pain, a shorter length of hospitalisation stay and an earlier return to function.
Once the bonecuts have been made, and the prosthetic trials have been implanted, final soft-tissue balancing must be carefully completed and trial reductions are done to ensure adequate positioning, tacking and soft-tissue tension, stability and good patella tracking. The definitive devices are then implanted generaly with cemantless components.
Wound closure is achieved with absorbable vicryl sutures and a succion drainage and skin closure with staples. A light gauze, cotton wool, and crepe dressing is applied.
During operation blood is aspirated through a blood filtration system (CELL-SAVER), this is continued during the next two post-operative hours so that to retransfuse the autologus blood (preventing any risk of blood desease transmission)
Surgical technique is an only one part of the success of TKA ; The role of superior pain management, better soft-tissue techniques, more advanced anesthetic techniques, more aggressive physiotherapy and perhaps, most importantly, improved patient education and enhanced rehabilitations are as important components in improving stability, function, component longevity, and patient satisfaction.
You will stay 7 days in the surgical department of orthopaedics and then 14 days in the rehabilitation center.
Day of operation
The patients is mobilised at approximately 4 h post-op, under physiotherapist supervision. Straight leg raising exercises are encouraged, from a flexed position of the leg put on a pillow placed under the knee of the operated leg to allow the knee to rest in a fully flexed position.
Analgesia shedule plan systems are adapted.
First postoperative day
TEnsuring that pain level is well controlled, the patients undergoes further range of motion, quadriceps, and hamstrings exercises twice a day under control of the physiotherapist. Sitting and walking are started. CPM is used twice a day.
Second , third, fourth postoperative day
The dressing was reduced to a light non-adherent dressing, and the drainage removed. Walking with a 2 sticks is started.
The patients continued to walk with the assistance of walking sticks. CPM is used twice a day. Active exercises are encouraged
Fifth and subsequent postoperative days
The patients is encouraged to climb steps, to rollskate while sitting, and to walk safely with two sticks and climb stairs independently.
Seventh day
Transfer to the rehabilitatin center where exercises of muscles reinforcement, and stability are performed.
NB : a full physiological and functional recovery usually requires more than 2 months.
Even with a carefull act performed by perfectly trained team, any complications may happen the same as in every surgical act. These are exceptionnal ; The list below is not exhaustive.
- Infection is one of the most dreaded complications of total knee replacement.
The efficacy of prophylactic measures and risk factors play an important role.
Prophylactic mesures : laminar flow, body suits, drains, surgical time (length), surgeon volume, and hospital volume the use of preoperative antibiotics.
Detection and treatment of risk factors : Obesity, diabetis, pre op treatment of dental or urinary infection.
- Skin necrosis should well controlled with adapted local healthcare. Its prevention is realised with a central skin incision. If not controled, the risk is to transmit an infection to the prosthetic joint. A reoperation is necessary.
- Stiffness Outcome variation in range of motion exists despite excellent surgical technique, refined implants, and uncomplicated postsurgical recovery. Mobilisation under anesthesy without opening the knee is sometimes necessary at the end of first week if flexion is still inferior to 90° and painfull.
- Phlebitis : preventive mesure ( early mobilisation, anti-thrombotic socks, low Weight Molecular Heparin anti-embolic prophylaxis for 6 weeks) and systematic echodoppler control at 7th day allow the risk to be minimize, in case it happens, an anticoagulation treatment is started and rehabilitation is slowered.
- Wear is not a problem with a Mobile Bearing Knee Prosthesis
- Loosening is not a short term problem : but a regular follow-up control is necessary very three years. Overweight and overuse or traumatisms are favorable factors for bone loosening ( see special form )
- Post-operative requirements :
- Do not overweight to prevent wear and loosening.
- Help with your arms o stand up from a chair, and climbing stairs to lessen the strains on the prosthesis.
- Tell your doctor or dentist that you have a prosthetic knee so that in case of infection he gives you adaquate treament with antibiotics to prevent an infection of the prosthetic knee that may occur even years after your surgery
- Do exercises at home and at least walk 30 mn a day. Sports activities are possible according to comorbidity, age, range of motion and stability, ; waiting 3 to 6 months after a TKA is the current recommended waiting time for return to sporting (see special form).
X_Rays of a Mobile bearing Total Knee Arthroplasty : front, profile and aerial views
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In a series of articles from interested parties supporting and opposed to the ban, tobacco control group Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) Scotland gives its view one year on.
Chief executive Maureen Moore says the ban has already shown tangible health benefits.
Scotland's smoke-free legislation was introduced on 26 March last year, making Scotland the first part of the UK to end smoking in most enclosed public places.
Wales, Northern Ireland and England will introduce similar legislation this year.
While we will have to wait for the full assessment of the impacts - NHS Health Scotland together with Information Services Division Scotland and the Scottish Executive are co-ordinating a comprehensive research programme into a wide range of outcomes of the legislation - there is already no doubt that it has been tremendously successful.
This legislation was introduced to remove a preventable harmful substance, second-hand smoke.
Early research demonstrates an 86% reduction in exposure to second-hand smoke (SHS) for bar workers across Scotland.
The air quality in most Scottish bars is now comparable with average outdoor air quality.
A study published in JAMA found a significant improvement in respiratory symptoms and lung function amongst 77 bar workers in Tayside between February and June 2006, and a Cancer Research UK survey published in August found that 92% of Scottish bar staff said their workplaces were healthier post legislation and 78% believed they would experience long-term health benefits.
The experience of smoke-free public places has motivated a number of smokers to come forward and seek help and advice to quit smoking.
Demand for NHS smoking cessation services rose significantly in the three months leading up to implementation, with some services reporting a doubling in client numbers.
Overall, compliance has been excellent - never less than 95% in the first nine months, despite enforcement officers targeting reported breaches.
Most people have welcomed and willingly complied with legislation and the enforcement officers worked hard to educate and support people in complying.
Only a few dissonant notes have been raised.
Some narrow sectors of the business community have raised concerns about economic impacts on their businesses.
Concerns have been raised that people may smoke more at home, increasing the exposure of children to second-hand smoke.
This last point has not been borne out in countries that have introduced smoke-free legislation ahead of us such as Ireland and New Zealand, where smokers say they have introduced more restrictions on smoking at home after legislation.
By September, we should have robust findings from Scotland's research programme that will give us a full picture of the actual impacts of implementing legislation here.
Meantime, Ash Scotland is looking to the future and to further reducing the harm caused by tobacco in Scotland.
Amongst other measures, we are calling for the purchase age of tobacco to be raised from 16 to 18, backed by effective enforcement measures, and for an end to the visibility of tobacco at retail outlets, replacing the power gantries with a simple brand and price list.
Ash Scotland will continue to campaign to prevent future generations from addiction to tobacco.
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Our day of maximum classic "Top Gear" continues with this gem culled from the extraordinary video database that is YouTube. Paul McKenna, the world famous Brit hypnotherapist, hypnotizes "Top Gear" short-man Richard Hammond and has him unable to remember how to drive a car — then he's told a pedal car is his brand-new Porsche 911. This may possibly be one of the funniest segments we've ever seen, with the best line coming from Hammond:
"yes...I know how to drive it...it's my job!"
Somehow the whole hypnotism thing just gives us the heebie-jeebies. We're not sure how much we'd like to have it done ourselves, to be honest. However, we've got a couple of gals we'd like to try it on perhaps.
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A while ago, we mentioned the collaboration between Eric Pfeiffer and Paul Frank and here is one of the pieces we are really enjoying. Is it a doll house? Is it a nightstand? Is it a side table? The answer is yes, yes and yes!
The Small Paul Julius Pad, featuring the ubiquitous Julius Monkey, is a total cutie which will definitely spend years in your child's room from nursery to tween's bedroom -- maybe even teen room, perhaps?
Made of molded plywood with birch veneer, the table measures 20"LX16"DX23"H. And if the lines of the table seem familiar, it's because Eric Pfeiffer also designed the BroSis chair.


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The developers of the proposed supertall condominium at 45 Broad Street are projecting a sellout of $624.4 million, according to an offering memorandum for construction financing obtained by The Real Deal.
Robert Gladstone's Madison Equities is partnering with Gemdale Properties and Investment, Impresa Pizzarotti & CSpA and AMS Acquisitions on the Financial District project. The developers are looking to break ground in September on the 84-story, 1,127-foot-tall residential-and-office condominium tower.
The firms are in the market for a $287 million construction loan, about 65 percent of the projected total cost of $442 million. The desired financing is a five-year, interest-only loan that would be secured by September.
The memo also sheds light on apartment pricing and new details about the tower. The 206 apartments will ask, on average, $2.7 million apiece. Apartments will range from studios to four-bedrooms — from 601 to 3,066 square feet in size.
The gross residential sellout would come to $560.6 million, while the six-floor, 57,800-square-foot office component's sellout would be $55 million. The partners are projecting a total profit of $137.2 million, the memo shows.
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Women from all over Derry attended a special breast awareness event hosted by the COSY Club recently.
The event, which was called 'Beauty and the Breast', took place in Donal Casey Court and the Mayor of Derry, Brenda Stevenson was in attendance.
'Beauty and the Breast' was facilitated by local health facilitator, Margaret Cunningham.
"It was a fantastic event because not only was I able to inform the women about breast awareness we were also able to offer complimentary therapies.
"It was great to see the Mayor of Derry at the event too.
"There was a great turnout at the event and the women who came along said they really enjoyed the therapies and added that they learned a lot too.
"It's important we talk about breast cancer - it really is that important."


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The pink water bottle Emmy Adams, a junior at Golden High School, carries around isn't just a way to stay hydrated. It's a chance for change.
|Emmy Adams, president and founder
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Club fills her water bottle at one of the
school's new filling stations.
"I think that by having refillable drink stations, it helps people drink more water so much more because it is so much more accessible and easier to make the right choice in what you're drinking," said Adams, president and founder of the school's environmental club. The club was instrumental in highlighting the need for water filling stations at Golden High School.
Water filling stations are just one way to encourage children and teens to drink more water and less of other drinks, like sugary beverages. Healthy Jeffco and its community coalitions, specifically the School Wellness Coalition and the Jeffco Sips Smart Coalition, are working to increase healthy beverage consumption through education and collaboration. Key partners in this effort include, Centura Health's St. Anthony Hospital, Jeffco Public Schools and Jefferson County Public Health.
It is estimated that more than half of children in the U.S. don't drink enough water. A national study published in June 2015 in the American Journal of Public Health found that more than half of American children are dehydrated at any time.
Thanks to the generous contribution from St. Anthony Hospital, eight Jefferson County public schools now have water bottle refill stations to help keep youth and staff hydrated. In addition, posters encouraging healthy beverage consumption were distributed throughout the schools.
"Centura Health believes that high quality health happens in our clinics and in the community," said Dr. Kimberly Bentrott, a Primary Care Physician with Centura Health Physicians Group. "This project is a great example of health happening in schools, and we are proud to be a partner of this work."
Golden High School currently has two water filling stations, and thanks to donations from other community partners and the hard work of the environment club, four more are on the way.
"People definitely use it," said Mike Mendoza, a teacher at Golden High School and the sponsor for the environmental club. "It's just becoming the new norm."
Drinking water has become a game for the students at Golden High School. Many of them carry around plastic water bottles and throw them in complicated flips to land on the water filling station sensor pad.
|Shamik Bhat, a senior at Golden High School,
fills his water bottle in one of the two
new water filling stations at the school.
Some of them, like Emmy, even regularly check the LED display on the filling station to see how many plastic bottles have been saved. The first week after the stations were installed, Emmy said she checked each hour.
Not only do the water filling stations fulfill the Healthy Jeffco mission to ensure better access and education about healthy beverages, but they also support the Jefferson County Public Health Environmental Health Services goal of maintaining healthy environments. Water filling stations reduce plastic waste from water bottles and other drink containers.
"This planet is such an amazing place that we live in, and there's just so much to explore and do, and it just makes me realize that you can't do anything if you don't have clean air to drink and clean air to breathe," Adams said, smiling as she explained that her passion for the environment is what makes her want to advocate for sustainable changes, like the refillable drink stations. "My generation are the ones that are really going to have to take action."


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Too much time without posting any news, sorry!
The work is going really well on schedule, and 15 pages are already finished.
I´m working also on a site ( I hope it will be up the first days of October) where you could see some extense previews of the work done, and also with a section of PREORDERS for those of you interested on make your purchase in advance.
Thanks for your patience and stay tuned for the big news!
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March 26 - 29, 1998
UC James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
The third year was at the UC James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, yet another unit of the UC Natural Reserve System. It has a lab/dorm complex and has immediate access to an incredible variety of habitats ranging from low desert with palm oases through chaparral to oak/pine woodlands and mixed conifers, along one spectacular road, the Palms to Pines Highway (Hwy. 74) from Palm Desert to Idyllwild. We collected specimens aimed towards generating a list of bryophytes for the Reserve itself, as well as an interesting new satellite reserve, the Oasis de los Osos, nearby at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains, north of Palm Springs. No comet, but after the El Niño-caused rains this year, the wildflower displays were spectacular, and the coldest cold front of the season covered the mountain with snow down to 2000 ft. on our last day there.
Our Fearless Leader, Brent Mishler, is temporarily possessed by the benevolent spirit of the Marah.
The abundant rainfall this year made for many interesting wet places.
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Reported: 11/21/2012 12:18:43 PM 12:18
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Location: Freeburg, IL
Shape: Cone
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|Bright orange fireball in the night sky
I saw a bright orange glowing object in the sky at approximately 6:45 p.m.CST, traveling from north to south. It did not make any sound and did not have any blinking lights that I could see.
I called for my husband to come outside and he confirmed exactly what I saw.
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Major Taylor Cycling Club of Dayton is based in the city of Dayton Ohio, and can trace its roots back to 2007. It is one of many Major Taylor independent cycling clubs and is run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, catering for all cycling disciplines.