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France defender Raphael Varane has described Kylian Mbappe as "a young alien" after the Paris Saint-Germain forward helped to inspire Les Bleus to glory at the World Cup.
Mbappe won the FIFA Young Player award for his performances in Russia, where he scored four goals, including one in France's 4-2 victory over Croatia in the final.
When asked about the experience of playing alongside Mbappe, Real Madrid defender Varane – who faced the 19-year-old in the Champions League last season – joked that the prodigious attacker was from another world.
"I have known some aliens," Varane told L'Equipe. "I think this is the first time I have met a young alien.
"Normally I meet extraterrestrials when they are 25, 30 years old. At the World Cup, I met one under the age of 20.
"With him, everything goes faster. When I talk tactically with him before the matches, I do not have time to finish my sentences before he has already understood and assimilated what I'm saying."
Best Young Player of the WorldCup pic.twitter.com/CLOMJX3ro1— Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) July 16, 2018
As well as giving him the chance to marvel at Mbappe, the World Cup allowed Varane the opportunity to make his own mark on football's most famous competition.
The 25-year-old said his performances in the finals helped him to shake off criticism that has dogged him during his hugely successful career, namely suggestions he is "too nice".
"Since I was seven years old, they say 'he's nice, he's nice'. Yes, I'm nice, but that's not all I am," said the Lille-born centre-back.
"You cannot have the career I'm having, staying at Real Madrid for seven years, without character.
"Sometimes, I was asked to play like [Sergio] Ramos, to play like any other, to be more aggressive, to be more this, more that.
"I have my style of play; it has not done too badly until now. People have wanted me to change and it annoys me.
"Do we ask Ramos to be someone else? We take him as he is; take me as I am. I'm proud that, at this World Cup, I have – in quotation marks – 'accepted myself as I am'."
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Via the Jawas, CNN spreads the good word. Mastermind of Bhutto's assassination and commander of some 20,000 Taliban fighters in Waziristan, making him the biggest power player in the world's filthiest jihadi hive, he's probably the biggest score since Mullah Dadullah, the "Taliban Zarqawi," went the way of the original Zarqawi. Although, given how things have deterioriated since then in Afghanistan and Pakistan — and not just in the tribal areas, either — I wonder how much opportunity this will really give us. To see how bad it's gotten, swallow hard and click here. "My brother, my dear"?
Incidentally, doesn't Osama have renal problems, too? What is it with these turds and their kidneys?
An unnamed Islamabad-based source with connections within the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan said Mehsud died about 1 a.m. Wednesday. Military officials in the field confirmed to CNN that Mehsud had died.
Earlier reports said the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan was ill and was expected to die within a day. Mehsud is said to have succumbed to kidney failure and was believed to be about 34 years old.
Mehsud's death leaves a power vacuum within the Mehsud tribe and the Pakistani Taliban, analysts say. Since there was no second in command of the Mehsud tribe, tribal splits are expected.
Here's a quick and dirty profile from CBS in March dubbing him the next Bin Laden because of his designs on the west. He already had the infrastructure in place to churn out suicide bombers; the next step was to teach infiltration and expand his reach. Whether his successors share that ambition or whether they want to concentrate on NATO for now, I guess we'll see.
Update: Roggio delivers some industrial-strength heart-ache.
A Pakistani source contacted an official at Geo TV, who said there is "no substantiation" to the claim. The reporter who provided the information to Geo TV "had nothing to back this claim up," the source told The Long War Journal.
US intelligence believes the rumors are part of a "denial and deception tactic," which is designed to throw off the military and intelligence off of Baitullah's trail. With operations underway in Bajaur, Swat and other regions, Baitullah can stay under the radar of intelligence agencies if they believe he is dead.
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Taal Volcano's (14.0000N, 120.9833E) seismic network recorded five (5) volcanic earthquakes during the past 24 hours. One of these events which occurred at 4:06 P.M. yesterday was felt at Intensity I with rumbling sounds by residents of Barangay Calauit in south-eastern part of the volcano island. Field measurements conducted on 14 August 2014 at the western sector of the Main Crater Lake recorded an increase in water temperature from 32.1°C to 32.7°C; an increase in water level from 0.65 meter to 0.72 meter; and slight increase in acidity from pH 3.07 to 3.05. Ground deformation measurements through precise leveling surveys on June 4 to 11, 2014 showed no significant change compared to February 2014 result; but ground deformation measurements from GPS data for July 2014 relative to May 2014 showed an inflationary change. In general however, the edifice is still slightly inflated compared to February 2011 baseline data. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emission at the Main Crater Lake increased from 698 tonnes/day in June 2014 to 1800 tonnes/day in the July 23-25, 2014 survey.
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1. Do not feed milk products or solid foods to a child who has been vomiting.
2. Give small amounts of fluid:
If your child vomits again, wait 20-30 minutes and start over.
3. Gradually increase the amount of fluids once there's no vomiting for 3 to 4 hours.
4. After 8 hours without vomiting:
5. Resume regular diet after 24 hours without vomiting. Call the doctor if it starts again.
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My pal Dan and his wife, the beautiful Cari, were visiting from Florida the other day, and we had lunch, al fresco, at the Daily Catch, in the federal courthouse.
Which, by the way, is the most aesthetically pleasing courthouse in the country, hard by the inner harbor, which itself is gorgeous.
Like the courthouse, and my pal Cari, Boston Harbor's beauty is taken for granted. The other day there was a tall ship docked next to our table, and some city kids clambered off it, their smiling faces suggesting they just had an experience they would never forget.
There were fireboats spraying water into the air, shepherding a group of swimmers, their bright head caps bobbing, toward Rowe's Wharf.
Suddenly, this sweet summer scene was rudely interrupted by a motorcade of black SUVs, their windows darkened, sirens blaring. They hung a left at the Barking Crab then sped toward the Expressway.
"What's that?" Dan asked, raising his voice to be heard over the cacophony.
That's Whitey, I told him.
"They drive him to and from Plymouth like that every day," I added.
Maybe it is because they have an outsider's perspective, but Dan and Cari looked at each other, then looked at me and asked, "Is that really necessary?"
It's a good question.
This is not meant to be a criticism of US Marshal Jack Gibbons and his guys, because they are the best and are just following orders. The question is about the necessity of those orders. And others.
Is some Philip Seymour Hoffman-like villain from the "Mission Impossible'' movies lurking down the street at Louis, pretending to covet ridiculously priced suits while waiting to spring Whitey by firing surface-to-air missiles at the SUVs?
The only people who care about Whitey are his family, and even then only his brother Jack has bothered to turn up at the courthouse every day. Whitey turns 84 in September. Not exactly a flight risk.
Does Whitey really need to be housed in a special unit in Plymouth? Why not let him bunk with detainees from Dorchester and Roxbury and his native Southie at the closest jail on Nashua Street?
It would save a lot on gas.
It would also divest Whitey of the sneaking suspicion that he is special. Because he's not. He's a thug with a good vocabulary.
Six weeks into his trial, I'm wondering why they didn't just charge him with the 30 guns they took out of his wall in Santa Monica. That would have been a two-day trial, after which he would have been introduced to his cellmates at San Quentin.
"Mr. Bulger," the guard would say, "this is Mr. Smith from the Crips. This is Mr. Blake from the Bloods. Oh, and this is Mr. Hernandez from the Latin Kings. Enjoy your stay."
Instead, we have this multimillion-
dollar fiasco, in which taxpayers suffer the indignity of paying for the defense of a preening serial killer who has stashed millions all over the place that the government can't find.
It has been an article of faith that this epic trial was necessary for victims to have closure. But I don't see that happening. The Donahue family is no closer to learning for sure who that second man in that back seat was who murdered Michael Donahue.
Instead, they and other families have been subjected to an endless procession of thugs, murderers, and drug pushers cutting deals and walking free, as long as they point the finger at Whitey.
And Whitey gets to sit there, pompous and self-important, swearing at witnesses who dare to tell the truth and swear under oath that he was a rat, an informer, a killer of women. His wildly inflated view of himself as someone special is reaffirmed every day by the screaming cavalcade that brings him to and from the courthouse named for Joe Moakley, his old neighbor from the projects in Southie.
They say justice is blind, and in this case they got it right.Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Beginning, Middle, End! Let's Chain It All Together!
Lesson 8 of 10
Objective: SWBAT describe the structure of the story and how the author uses structure to add meaning to the text.
Big Idea: Using a chain of details, students identify BME, retell the story and learn about how story structure adds meaning!
- Cowgirl Kate & Cocoa** by Erica Silverman
- BME chain worksheet (1 for each student)
- Story Structure teacher chart
- BME student worksheet (print an extra one for yourself)
- set up the whiteboard
- story elements cards set 1 and story elements cards set 2
- Lesson vocabulary words from the Reading/Writing word wall: character, setting, problem, solution, event/action, beginning, middle, end, infer
- kids need crayons, pencil and scissors
** The third time I taught this lesson, I grabbed another version of this story - Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa - Partners. It worked fine - don't feel you have to grab the original book.
I chose this book because it's a great series for beginning 2nd graders. The text is easy and the kids really enjoy the humor. There's lots of books in the series, so the kids can find one on library day!
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Underlined words below are lesson vocabulary words that are emphasized and written on sentence strips for my Reading & Writing word wall. I pull off the words off the wall for each lesson, helping students understand this key 'reading and writing' vocabulary can be generalized across texts and topics. The focus on acquiring and using these words is part of a shift in the Common Core Standards towards building students' academic vocabulary. My words are color coded 'pink' for literature/'blue' for reading strategies/'orange' for informational text/'yellow' for writing/'green' for all other words.
Gain student interest & activate background knowledge
- "I picked a literature book to read today about a cowgirl and her best friend." Show the book.
- "Any guesses who a cowgirl's friend would be?"
- (Elicit ideas about what a cowgirl is)
- "Did anyone see 'Toy Story 2' - Jesse was a cowgirl."
- "Who was her best friend? a horse right!"
- "Today we are going to do describe our story and what happens to the characters in the beginning, middle, and end. It's important to be able to describe a story to others so they can decide if they want to read it and it helps you understand it better!"
- "Part of your description today will involve a craft. You'll be cutting, coloring and gluing to make your own 'story chain'. "
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Teacher's Turn
Explain the concepts
- "All stories have structure that holds it together and gives it order. Do you have structure to your day? (math first, then gym, then art...) What the structure of meals? (breakfast lunch dinner...)
- "So what is the structure of the book? Can you think of how its put together?" (Elicit ideas.. beginning, middle, end, characters first...)
- "Suppose I told you a story... 'We had a good time there. We lost a ball. Mom and I went to the park. I found it.' What's wrong with that story?" Elicit ideas..... "the order is not right. I should start with 'Mom and I went to the park. We lost a ball. I found it. We had a good time there.' Stories usually start with a beginning, then have a middle, and then an end. I didn't have good structure with my story."
- "On my chart paper, you see 'beginning', 'middle', 'end'."
- (Pass out the story element cards as you name them) "We have talked about the story elements before - characters, setting, events or action, problem, and solution. I will go through each part of the story-beginning, middle or end-and you can take turns putting up the story elements where they go."
- Have students put the elements on the board next to the chart. "The problem can't happen at the end! I would be frustrated reading a book where the problem didn't happen until the very end!"
- "As we read stories, we can ask and answer questions to find out these story elements. The answers are in the words, illustrations, or we may have to infer the answers."
- Here's what the whiteboard with story elements looked like.
Model the skill
- "Let me read the first chapter of this book. Let's find the story elements - We'll ask and answer some questions or infer and put them on the whiteboard next to the words, 'beginning, middle, and end'."
- (Read first page, thinking out loud)... "Who are the characters? The words said the names in this beginning. I'll write 'Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa'. There's a person too, but is he/she on every page? No, they they are not main characters."
- "What is the setting? "Do the words or pictures tell us?" Write that in the top box of the worksheet.
- "Now I'll read more and figure out a big event. I'll ask and answer another question. What happened to the characters? By looking at the pictures and the words, I'll infer that the big event was the ......"
Guided practice
- "Let's ask a few more questions about the middle and end of the story. It really helps to think about each part of the story - beginning, middle and end - separately."
- "Help me with the next big event. How did the characters change at the end? Take ideas...the horse ....."
- "Finally, tell me about the end of the chapter. What was the solution?" Take ideas... Cocoa ...... How do you know that? It's in the words!"
Encourage students to use text and illustrations to verify answers to questions. This will be a bigger emphasis in my later lessons, but it's a critical push in the Common Core State Standards. Supporting answers with evidence from the text allows them to provide stronger text based information.
I left this part more open (with ....)because I've used 2 different stories in the past - the original Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa and Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa-Partners. Write down and discuss the kids' ideas as you chart the answers. Here's the completed whiteboard from the 'partners' version.
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Students Take a Turn
Explain the task
- "Now let me read the chapter 2 from the story. Listen for the story elements because you'll be writing them on a story chain."
- "I heard some words in the story that you may want to write on your chain." (I write some vocabulary on the board for spelling purposes, but not in order of characters, setting, events, such as 'barn' 'cowgirl' 'surprise'.)
- (Read the book, thinking out loud)... "Think about what you just hear - the characters, setting, events, problem and solution."
Here is a more detailed completed whiteboard that I used one year with students who needed more support. They gave ideas, but I found I needed to write up the ideas so they could copy. I also put the ideas on my 'sample teachers' worksheet because some of them struggled getting the words in the right row.
One of the key shifts in the ELA Common Core Standards is the students need to be able to cite evidence to ask and answer text-dependent questions. Students who can identify the story structure (beginning, middle, end) of a story (RL.2.5), asking and answering questions about these elements (RL.2.1) will able comprehend the story more fully. This activity represents a shift in the Common Core State Standards toward citing evidence (from the text) to ask and answer text-dependent questions.
Students complete the worksheet-monitor their work
- When you're done reading, pause for a few seconds and tell the kids to do some 'thinking before writing'. Ask them to pause a look over the elements in the story chain. Then give them 5 minutes to write ideas.
- "I'm passing out a worksheet for you to fill out showing these elements."
- As students work, walk around and monitor. Ask them questions to gauge understanding...
- "Did you hear the setting or have to infer that?"
- "Why did you only list those few characters - are you writing all of them or just the main characters?"
- "How did the characters change at the end of the chapter?"
- "Did the problem make the characters change?"
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Share & Create the Chain
Share ideas and discuss
- "Who is ready to share what you wrote? Let's start with the beginning and work our way to the end of the story." Take ideas asking students "Why did you pick that character" or "Is that the biggest problem?'"
- "Now turn to the neighbor on your left and take turns retelling the story. One person tells the title and author, the other tells the beginning, the first person tells the middle and the second person tells the end of the story. You have 5 minutes."
Color to show the parts
- Now that you have ideas about the story elements show the beginning, middle and end of the story, you can color the strips with crayons. (Don't use markers because then it covers the pencil.)
- "Color the beginning strips purple....
- Color the middle strips pink...
- Color the end strips blue."
- "We can make a 'beginning-middle-end chain'. Cut out the strips on the line and glue them in a circle. Then glue the other strips around the first one. Remember story structure has to be in order (beginning, middle, end) so glue your strips that way!"
- Here's an example of a BME chain that my student made.
- "You did a great job today identifying BME, and retelling a story! When you do this in reading class, it helps you understand the story better! We'll practice this more later."
Scaffolding and Special Education - You could scaffold this lesson up or down, depending on student ability.
I was able to easily teach this lesson with my students who have disabilities. Since I was reading the stories, the reading level is not a factor. If you have students who are not able to write full sentences, they can write 1-2 words per strip. OT concerns can be addressed by having a friend cut and/or glue.
For higher level students, I would put an expectation out there more richer ideas and more vocabulary. They should be able to write sentences with details (he took a bite out of the hat or she offered him a surprise, vs he ate the hat).


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Remembrances of Dimes Past
By John Gagnon | Published
We had the pleasure of talking with alumnus Jim Cooper, visiting from Arizona, who earned a degree in metallurgy in 1939 and parlayed it to worldwide achievement. Jim spent nearly 40 years in the mining industry, much of it in Mexico, and at one time his operation was the most efficient in the world. "That," he says without a touch of swagger, "was probably, in the business sense, as outstanding as you can do."
Shakespeare described old people as "crabbed age." Jim, who is 93, is anything but; he's a genial man, soft-spoken and calm. The closest he gets to rancor is when he contemplates multi-million-dollar salaries for athletes and actors. "Ridiculous," he says. "There's something wrong with the country when entertainers get more than doctors and teachers."
This from a man who went through the Great Depression and knows about a dollar.
"Brother, can you spare me a dime?" was the refrain of the time. Jim would change that to a nickel. He says, "Once I had a spare five cents that I didn't need for something. I bought a pack of chewing gum." He adds, "I didn't have much, but nobody else did either, so we were even."
Jim was born in Hubbell, raised in Houghton, and graduated from Houghton High School. He worked his way through Michigan Tech. He painted. Minded the till in a cigar store. Worked at a hamburger joint and made a dollar a shift plus all he could eat. He was a bellhop and a bartender at the Douglass House. As a bartender, he made a buck a shift plus tips. In those days, it cost five cents for a glass of beer; 10 cents for a bottle of beer; 15 cents for a whiskey and a chase; and 35 cents for a highball. All in all, his earnings paid for Tech's tuition, which was $50 a year, in-state. He remembers Tech's 50th anniversary reunion in 1936. His hours tending bar then were from 10 a.m. to 4 a.m. He says about bartending, "You have to like people and listen to them--but make a decent drink."
While he was at Tech, he says the enrollment went from 500 to 700. A constant of his college days: dances that were called "hard-time parties," held in what is now the ROTC building. Twenty-five cents to get in, and a jukebox for music. A hundred students typically went to shimmy and shake.
Jim says the first two years at Tech were his toughest. "I'm not a genius in math. I had to work pretty hard." Sometimes there were as few as three or four students in a class.
After graduation, he hitchhiked Route 66 to Arizona and went to work for a mining company, considering himself lucky to get that all-important first job. He earned $4.19 a day, about $147 a month—"more than I knew what to do with." He was paying $9 a month for a room; $27.50 a month for two meals a day. After two years, he enlisted in the Army Air Force, was a navigator on bombers, was shot down over Germany, and spent 10 months as a prisoner of war. After recuperating with good food and Bosch beer over a few months at Twin Lakes, he returned to Arizona, worked a few years, and then spent 30 years in Mexico digging up lead, zinc, fluoride, silver, and gold.
At one point, he oversaw all surface operations of a company that employed 2,000 workers. He describes the job: "I found that most complicated problems can be broken into parts, and you solve them piece by piece"
His Tech education girded him for his responsibilities: "They taught you to think," he says. "Every industry changes over the years. You have to keep up. Think logical, is the main thing."
He says about working in a foreign country. "People have different customs but have the same objectives—raise the children and do the best for the family."
He is not given to nostalgia. "I don't live in the past," he says. "You look back on it because you do less in the present."
He's writing a memoir of his life for his children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. His advice to them and all youth—"Do our best and don't apologize for it." He worries about their future. "The world improved, at least up to recently," he says. "People in the next generation won't live as well as we do."
Meanwhile, he wants to be remembered as a man of his times. "I wouldn't want to live in any other time," he says. "Dickens said it—'the best of times and the worst of times.' That certainly fit the 20th century."
It was a life that started out with livery stables and iceboxes. "That's so long ago," he says. "There's been a lot of things happen since. The best memories are scattered all through there."
Before 2004, when his legs went, he was active. Now he's slow but circumspect. "As long as you're not suffering pain, things move on pretty well." He uses a cane now. "I don't need it and I still carry it," he wonders.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Michael Walsh makes what may be the most bizarre anti-Hagel argument yet:
Of course, in Hagel's case that very "historic" element — that the former grunt would be the first enlisted man to head up DOD — is the same thing that ought to have disqualified him in the first place.
There is a perfectly good argument that military service in itself doesn't prepare someone to run a large government department. Walsh doesn't make that argument. He doesn't even try. It is preposterous to say that military service–at any level–disqualifies someone from being Secretary of Defense. Walsh's argument is essentially that anyone who has had relevant experience as a soldier in a misguided, unnecessary war shouldn't be allowed as Defense Secretary because his first-hand knowledge of how horrible war is might make him averse to it.
It is certainly notable and interesting that Hagel will be the first enlisted man in this position, but it isn't why he's qualified for the job. Hagel has other relevant managerial and political experience that make him well-suited for it. Considering the recent debacle in Iraq under civilian leaders that never served in combat, one would think that it might be useful to have combat veterans in senior civilian leadership posts. The value of Hagel's military service is that his experience will presumably make him less reckless and arrogant when it comes time to decide on taking military action. Because his "view of the military was through the wrong end of the telescope" (that's how Walsh describes being in combat), Hagel would presumably advise against needless and ill-considered uses of force. It is precisely because he is less likely to endorse unnecessary and ill-considered military adventures that hard-liners can't stand him.


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Ann Surg. 2010 Dec;252(6):959-65.
Authors: Bernard SA, Nguyen V, Cameron P, Masci K, Fitzgerald M, Cooper DJ, Walker T, Std BP, Myles P, Murray L, David, Taylor, Smith K, Patrick I, Edington J, Bacon A, Rosenfeld JV, Judson R.
Abstract:OBJECTIVE: To determine whether paramedic rapid sequence intubation in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) improves neurologic outcomes at 6 months compared with intubation in the hospital. BACKGROUND: Severe TBI is associated with a high rate of mortality and long-term morbidity. Comatose patients with TBI routinely undergo endo-tracheal intubation to protect the airway, prevent hypoxia, and control ventilation. In many places, paramedics perform intubation prior to hospital arrival. However, it is unknown whether this approach improves outcomes. METHODS: In a prospective, randomized, controlled trial, we assigned adults with severe TBI in an urban setting to either prehospital rapid sequence intubation by paramedics or transport to a hospital emergency department for intubation by physicians. The primary outcome measure was the median extended Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOSe) score at 6 months. Secondary end-points were favorable versus unfavorable outcome at 6 months, length of intensive care and hospital stay, and survival to hospital discharge. RESULTS: A total of 312 patients with severe TBI were randomly assigned to paramedic rapid sequence intubation or hospital intubation. The success rate for paramedic intubation was 97%. At 6 months, the median GOSe score was 5 (interquartile range, 1-6) in patients intubated by paramedics compared with 3 (interquartile range, 1-6) in the patients intubated at hospital (P = 0.28).The proportion of patients with favorable outcome (GOSe, 5-8) was 80 of 157 patients (51%) in the paramedic intubation group compared with 56 of 142 patients (39%) in the hospital intubation group (risk ratio, 1.28; 95% confidence interval, 1.00-1.64; P = 0.046). There were no differences in intensive care or hospital length of stay, or in survival to hospital discharge. CONCLUSIONS: In adults with severe TBI, prehospital rapid sequence intubation by paramedics increases the rate of favorable neurologic outcome at 6 months compared with intubation in the hospital.
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This well designed, conducted and reported randomised controlled trial (RCT) of prehospital rapid sequence induction (RSI) of anaesthesia & intubation in traumatic brain injury is the first RCT of prehospital RSI of any reasonable quality in trauma. (See the 2009 Cochrane Review "Emergency intubation for acutely ill and injured patients"). Furthermore the researchers moved beyond mortality as the primary outcome to a more comprehensive assessment of outcome (dependency). They found no difference in hospital outcomes but a strong signal for "good neurological outcome" (normal to moderate disability) in the Prehospital RSI group.
Overall the study was well conducted. Subjects were block randomised by paramedic crew via sealed opaque envelopes. The study was conducted over nearly four years. There were a lot of exclusions - 1045 patients were screened but only 312 enrolled. Most exclusions were either because the patient was being transported by air, was less than 10 minutes from hospital or RSI skills were not available at scene.
As with all such studies there are many questions to answer. Despite the observed outcome differences, there was little difference in the 2 groups on hospital arrival, and in particular there was no difference in their PaO2, O2 saturations or PaCO2 measurements. What then was the benefit of prehospital RSI - does it avoid fluctuations in these variables or is it reducing spikes in intracranial pressure? The preshopital RSI patients statistically spent 12 minutes longer on scene, received approximately 500mls more crystalloid prehospitally, and were colder (by 0.6 degrees C). Is the observed effect due to the protective effects of this mild relative hypothermia (mean 35.0 degrees C).
Additionally there was overall benefit but it was not clear which subgroup had the most benefit from prehospital RSI. There was a trend to suggest that those age <60 received the most benefit. However the trial was really too small for these subgroup analyses and none of the reported subgroups showed worse outcomes with the study intervention. This study joins the list of recent studies showing that good quality clinical trials can be conducted in trauma care, even in the prehospital environment. There is really no longer any excuse for poor design, conduct or reporting of trauma trials. While a further large trial is warranted, this is strong support for prehospital RSI.
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Much like bird watching in an aviary, I watch for rare and fascinating people at the mall. I initially focused on an Asian boy and girl who had each purchased a large Starbuck's coffee. The boy was dressed in all the latest gear, head shaved, hat to the back, jewelry, chains – the works. The girl wore equally trendy clothing, pink Keds, a tribal arm tattoo and various facial piercings. I was taken by the contrast between the cool, rough-neck, hip-hop look the boy was desperately trying to preserve as he delicately sprinkled cinnamon onto his grande coffee in a venti cup with two pumps hazelnut, two pumps vanilla, two pumps caramel, two Equals and four Sweet'N Low, filled to the top with cream – extra cream on the side, double cupped with no sleeve, a stir stick and stopper in the top. I looked away with a grin and sipped my plain, black coffee. Over the rim of my cup I encountered the eyes of an Asian man intent on me. He was dressed in Western clothing, but was also wearing a barong, his black and gray hair neatly combed to one side. We each casually looked away, recovering smoothly from our accidental encounter.
The Asian man was with a young, teenage girl who I imagined was his daughter. The two sat for a moment, not talking. The man seemed to be settling in, taking in his surroundings before committing to sitting in that particular spot. The girl was a bit jumpy, anticipatory, looking from side to side and checking her phone for texts. Before long the man carefully took money from his billfold and handed it to the girl. She bolted toward Starbucks, taking her place at the back of the line. She gave two small, excited jumps, outwardly energized by some thought she was having. Her movements were quick, rapid, unlike her father who seemed to move in slow motion, as if performing tai chi, adjusting his chair and settling in contentedly. He folded his arms over his chest and crossed one leg over the other.
It wasn't long before the girl was joined by the boy and girl I had been observing earlier. The jumpy girl apparently knew the Keds girl because, when they saw one another, they initiated an animated, dance-like greeting, gripping each other around the forearms and jumping up and down. The boy stood, sipping his coffee, still focused on maintaining his emotional distance. The girl pointed in the direction of her father, and the teens waved in his direction. The man nodded back.
Not long after, the girl, followed by her friends, carried a tray of refreshments to her table. The hip-hop boy put down his coffee and approached the man. He greeted him, referring to him as Uncle, and then took the man's fingers in his hand and raised them to his forehead. The Keds girl did the same. I imagined that I must be in the presence of royalty, or at least someone who was very wealthy or possibly famous – someone who deserved this level of respect. I looked at his ring finger, expecting to see a wide, ostentatious red ruby. The man wore no jewelry. The teens stood for a few minutes and chatted, but soon left, bowing their heads once more in the man's direction.
One of the most wonderful things I find about today's technology is that I can locate information about nearly anything in just a few second. I typed some keywords into Google on my cell phone and learned that what I had witnessed was a Filipino greeting called mano po – mano meaning hand; po is placed at the end of a sentence when addressing elders. It appears that Filipino children and young people greet or say goodbye to their elders by taking the right hand of the elder with their right hand and touching the back the elder's hand lightly on their forehead. Mono po is a Filipino custom for showing respect to elders and receiving their blessing. This gesture of deference is not, as I had supposed, reserved for the wealthy, the famous or the politically connected. Mano po is performed as a sign of respect with all elders by Filipino youth, regardless of the status or social class of the elder.
Mano po represented a striking contrast to the people with whom I am more familiar in my own culture – people who shout orders and demands, swear, discuss intimate and private matters of national television, cough into the open air, shoot one another over a parking space, push, pull, grab and generally behave selfishly and inconsiderately. How magnificent, I thought, to live one's life long enough to be honored for enduring this short, yet chaotic journey? To be prized for one's experience and knowledge – to have achieved an even higher degree of personal value and social significance as a consequence of normal aging.
In my lifetime, older people have never been greeted with any particular degree of enthusiasm. It seems, instead, after a certain age, older people become more or less invisible, incidental, imaginary and tedious – much like the appreciation we show when cleaning the underside of a toilet bowl. We know it's there and we know it needs attention, so we take care of it now and then, just to keep up appearances. The aging person, placed under these harmful psychological pressures, can, instead of the gift of mano po, expect aging to be a frightening period, more likely to instill dread – even terror, than a sense of achievement let alone esteem.
Seconds after the two Filipino teens left, the man and the girl stood to leave. The girl was still quite excitable. I watched as the older man rose confidently, pushed his chair neatly under the table and collected the trash from the tabletop. The man handed the girl her own empty cup and she accepted it and dropped it into the bin. Once on their way, the older man placed his hand lightly on the young woman's shoulder and the bounce in her walk seemed to slow a bit. He slightly increased his own step and the two found a balanced cadence, a tempo with which they could both walk comfortably together. They disappeared into the crowd.
Do you know anyone who would benefit from a gesture of mano po?
Would you willingly offer mano po to the elders in your own life?
Are you willing to replace a handshake with a gesture of mano po?
The gesture of mano po makes certain that there will always be cooperation between elder and youth, Filipino and Filipina. It is a gesture that represents equality, possibility and hope. In its magnificent simplicity, Mano po makes experience and strength a dynamic of dreams; and, because of that, Mano po must never die.
Each new generation wants to believe it holds a unique perspective on the future – so we ignore our elders and the advantage of their insight. As a result, we have either lost our ability to build rapport with older people or we simply have never developed the skill to talk across generations. Regardless of its cause, ageism keeps us divided, ignorant, ineffective and hopeless.
We have so much more potential than that.
Related articles
- Mano Po (socyberty.com)
- More laws about 'age discrimination' won't fix our horrible treatment of elderly people (blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
- The best exotic lotus pond hotel: an age-friendly village in India (ageukblog.org.uk)
- Patronising elderly 'like racist abuse' (telegraph.co.uk)
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation challenges society to think differently about ageing (bpdt.wordpress.com)
- Hospital Staff and Care Workers Banned From Saying 'Old Dear' (femaleimagination.wordpress.com)
- Better research is needed to understand why elders are happier (medicalxpress.com)
- What's the point of the Age Action Alliance? (ageukblog.org.uk)
- Hospitals Told: Stop Using 'Old Dear' Term – Sky News (news.sky.com)
- National News: Call to ban patronising care staff (coventrytelegraph.net)
- Mano-a-Mano (adultonsetatheist.blogspot.com)
- Life without the Bean. (juliegradythomas.wordpress.com)
- Clockwise Coffee (calmdev.wordpress.com)
- Word of the Day: Mettere la mano sul fuoco (younginrome.wordpress.com)
- Mano Po Must Live (eitheory.com)


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