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Saturday, August 11, 2018 - 7:30 p.m.
Paliku Theatre (Windward Community College campus, map)
Co-produced by Bamboo Ridge Press and Hawai'i Public Radio, Aloha Shorts brought some of Hawai'i's finest writers, actors, and musicians together each week for a much-loved, half-hour radio program celebrating local literature. The show went off the air six years ago, but has not been forgotten.
A new collection from Bamboo Ridge Press, The Best of Aloha Shorts, brings together over thirty poems and stories that are not only excellent in themselves, but were also outstanding in performance.
HPR presents a one-night-only, live performance of selections from the book on August 11 at the Palikū Theatre. Readings by the original actors, music from the Aloha Shorts house band Hamajang, hosted by Cedric Yamanaka, and surprise guests -- it'll be old home week!
See option to purchase book at time of ticket purchase, autographed by editors, limited quantities.
The book is also available for purchase from Bamboo Ridge online, in the Bamboo Ridge tent at the 2018 Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival, and at The Best of Aloha Shorts - Live! Book signing will follow the live performance on August 11.
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Of the class I am teaching at Scrap-n-Crop on the 4th of September. You can find the details of the class here. Even though you get a kit with this class - the ideas in it are ones to help you use your stash :-) (something I need to do more often hehee)
With the kit you can make a pile of cards like this and still have bits and pieces left over!
The kit also includes two Unity Stamps :-) Plus the cards aren't all girly ones! There's ones for the boys & blokes too :-)
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The frequent brown-outs in the city is affecting the house construction I am supervising. We are on steel works already where electric power is essential for our welding machine and Electric Cutter. The fabrication of steel trusses should be completed with-in this week but I guess we couldn't make it. The adjacent house has a power generator but the owner wouldn't allow us to tap for electricity … even though it wouldn't affect the electrical load. I have no choice but to engage a shop to do the cutting of C-purlins. Tomorrow, I will let the purchaser buy a circular saw blades for the machine shop . We are already one week behind our projected schedule. I hope the owner will understand us. Anyway, I logged all the power interruptions and weather condition, to support our request for time extension.
Talking about blades, I stumbled upon a site which provide all kinds of blades…. from Abrasive , ripping and diamond cutting blades. Getuptite.com is a site which specializes in all professional construction supplies and Fasteners. How I wish the company is in our city, my needs for construction tools and machines would be easy. Really, I have a hard time looking from one hardware to another to find the exact specification of tools needed.


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5 Things You Can Learn From Your Competitors
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer", it's good advice. If you aren't learning from your competition you are missing a great opportunity. You are always looking for ways to grow your company and stay ahead. Take the time to discover what your competitors are doing and how you can benefit from it.
Developing a competitive analysis is just the beginning. Studying your competition should be an ongoing, evolving effort, one that keeps you watching, listening, and absorbing information.
Here are 5 simple things you can learn from your competition to help grow your business.
1. Unique Selling Proposition (USP)
This is first and foremost because it is very important to determine what separates you from the rest of your competition. By looking at what your competition offers, you can assess your products/services and how to differentiate yourself.
2. Customer Service Initiatives
Learn what your competitor does to improve their customer experience. What parts of their process work and what parts don't? Take the information and improve your processes. Because, A customer is 4 times more likely to buy from a competitor if the problem is service related vs. price or product related. Customer service is very crucial to maintaining and retaining customers.
3. Marketing Ideas
Maybe one of your competitors is conducting a successful online marketing campaign or they are running a promotion that seems to be increasing their sales. Determine why they use that strategy and evaluate how you can incorporate or develop a similar idea.
4. Common Pitfalls
Reading comments and reviews from your competition's customers is a good way to learn what not to do. Say you read a negative comment about a competitor's packaging, take the opportunity to learn from their mistake and avoid the pitfall before it becomes an issue.
5. Social Media Strategies
Monitor their social media strategy before/during/after you launch your own. Look at competitors' campaigns and tactics on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. This will help you to learn from their successes and from their failures.
Healthy competition can help you keep your business performing at its highest level, but only if you're paying attention and taking the opportunity to learn. We hope you find this information useful for next time you evaluate your competition.
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At the end of 2013's Now You See Me, we saw the "Four Horsemen" arrive at a merry-go-round. They all jump on and then the credits rolled. There was no explanation to this head-scratching scene, but that seem to be the theme for the film's sequel as well. The movie begins one year later after the events of the first film and the Robin Hood-like troupe has been in hiding all this time. Where have they been hiding? It's not explained. The missing character of the female horsemen, Henley Reeves, is briefly mentioned, but for her reason for not being seen? It's not explained – at least not fully. (It was reported that Ilsa Fisher was pregnant at the time of filming for the movie so she had to bow out.) She is replaced by Lula (Lizzy Caplan), a magician known for actually pulling a hat out of a rabbit. Why is she right for the team? It's never explained And on it goes. The strange thing is, it doesn't matter.
I rather enjoyed Now You See Me 2 almost as much as I did the first one, but for all the wrong reasons. Well, actually, despite all of the wrong reasons. For a movie based on magic, the acts are pretty slim and some of the "slight of hand" is heavily covered with CGI. There is little to no character development, most of the jokes fall flat and the story is full of plot holes. Now, you would think that would warrant this flick a bad review, but this is still a very fun film, but only for those who enjoyed the first film.
For the Now You See Me sequel, the four ego-driven magicians, come together again for one final performance but something goes wrong and the group find themselves reappearing in a different location than they had intended. Some evil is afoot in the form of Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliff), a tech prodigy who challenges the quartet to pull off their most challenging heist yet.
Meanwhile, Thaddeus Bradley (Morgan Freeman) is right where we left him, in a jail cell threatening to take down for the four horsemen for putting him in there in the first place. Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo), who is the group's leader while serving as a FBI agent as a cover, has a new watchdog following him around. Her name is Deputy Director Natalie Austin (Sanaa Lathan). And that is about all I can say without revealing too much of the plot.
As for the acting, I used to think that Jesse Eisenberg was a good actor until I realized that he pretty much plays the same character over and over again and this film is no different. While not particularly funny, Lizzy Caplan does make for a good addition to the team. For some reason, Woody Harrelson not only reprises his role as the mentalist Merrit McKinney but also his evil twin brother – with hair. There really isn't any need for this identical twin, but Harrelson does an excellent job with the task anyway.
While fewer magic acts are shown than the original, the ones that do appear are fun to watch. Most notably is one scene where the four play hot potato with one playing card. It's pretty clever. There aren't many "how did they do that?" moments, but the story is still a fun ride even if it doesn't all make sense.


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Miss one of our earlier episodes? Here's an index from the very beginning!
A discussion of SLU's OneWorld Magazine, feminism, and the justice system with Paulina Menichiello
A discussion of the relationship between trash and climate change with Ted Mathys.
A discussion of the bioethics of mental illness and gene therapy with Kayla Kostelecky.
A conversation about climate change and climate change policy.
A discussion of the Syrian airstrikes, the deep web, and the definition of art.
An interview with the former deputy speech writer for Loretta Lynch: Jim Santel.
A season opener preview with guest Niall O'Brien and Jason May.
A discussion of ignorance, knowledge, and the ideals of politics.
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Saturday, August 23, 2014 #1
Kumusta po kayo. To The Francis Family, These are some of my Kasama (companions), and some of the Elders in my district. We have such a fun time learning the language, we all laugh because its hard, but really fun to listen to people how they say it. My Elders in my room are so funny, and such good friends and brothers. Elder Roark- Perez is my Kasama he is such a good guy, he loves the mission and is very friendly. Elder Lee is from Toronto Canada he is one of the Elders in my room and Elder Hoopes is from Arizona. They are a great group of young men. We have such a good time together. Elder Macarilay, Elder Huber, Elder Hensley, Elder Miller, Elder Tanner, Elder Harmon are the Elders in my district. Brother Cohan is the Tagalog teacher, he is such a good guy, but he is so fast at speaking Tagalog. Tell Emily hi, and that i love her so much, tell her to have fun at North Cache. Tell her to have fun at soccer. I love you guys so much. I miss you guys a ton.
I would like some snacks in a box you could send to me and maybe some of my favorite drinks. Tell the Ward hi, and that I love them all, I miss them all and I pray for them all. Tell Skyler congrats on the mission call to Arkansas Little Rock, thats so cool. Tell him the MTC is such a fun time. You can feel the spirit a lot here.
Alam ko po ang Totoo sa simbahan. Alam ko po ang Totoo sa Aklat Ni Mormon. Patotoo ko nag papalakas. Naniniwala po ako si Jesucristo at Naniniwala po ako na Totoo ang aklat ni Mormon.
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I'm having a good time in the MTC. My Elders in my room are awesome. Elder Roark Perez is my companion or (Kasama). Elder Lee and Elder Hoopes are in my room too. They are a great group of guys, I love them a lot, they're really funny. The language is hard to learn but it is fun to talk. We all try to speak it but its hard but funny to listen to people say the words. I hope you got my other email with my tagalog testimony. I have learned so much like Ako po si Elder Francis, Kumusta po kayo, mabuti po ako, aklat ni mormon, papalakas, all these funny words. I love you guys so much. I miss you a ton. Tell Emily I love her, and to have fun in school.


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TORRINGTON — The reported armed robbery of a Winsted Road convenience store Friday was a hoax set up by the cashier and two accomplices, police said Wednesday.
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my girlfriends daughter put a hdd password on my laptop to be mean, well the other day my girlfriend got her daughter to give me the psassword, i know the password, just dont see an option on how to emove or disable it, help!!!
It should be in the security section of the BIOS. Just tap the F2 key when you turn on the computer and it will take you into the BIOS. Find the hard drive HDD Password section and enter the old password, the one you know and then leave the new password fields blank.


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The PSIA‐NW magazine, "NW Snowsports Instructor", is published 3 times per season and distributed to the entire membership (currently more than 3000 members) by mail with current and back issues available for download free of charge on this website. The 8.5" x 11" magazine is printed in full color and is typically 24 to 32 pages in length featuring information, articles, events, and divisional and national news, which is specific and of interest to Northwest members.
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Mike MGarcia's Games Development Blog
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Rob Swan, started his game development career in 1997 with the Net Yaroze 😄
He made some very well known games on the PS1, thanks to the Official Playstation Magazine (OPSM) Demo CD's (PAL regions).
His most famous PS1 game being Adventure game:
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Up to 2015, it was still relatively hard to get an 'indie' (bedroom/hobby coded game) onto a console.
The only exception being Android consoles (micro consoles), now just called AndroidTV boxes.
A while ago I found out about the Xbox One Dev Mode, which was launched in March 31 2016.
It basically turns any retail XBox One into a UWP device (Windows10) and you can target it via Visual Studio 2015 (community edition is free), Unity3D also has UWP support.
This feature, is still new, with UWP officially launching on XBox in 2017.
You need a DevCenter license (19USD once off) which lets you put apps on the Microsoft store.
When the XBox is in Dev Mode mode, it's limited in memory and CPU's it can use.
I'm not interested in using C# nor DirectX, but there is a Microsoft openGL wrapper called Angle which is in C++ and supports UWP.
This is pretty good of Microsoft to do this!
Sony unfortunately, doesn't have a real 'indie' friendly platform, requiring a business entity.
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So I'm working on a Net Yaroze game now (abbreviated to NY or Yaroze for short).
And as a Net Yaroze member, I have access to the old Sony newsgroups which I search when I get stuck in the hope of finding answers, which I normally do.. and sometimes it's even my past self! lol! :/ doh!
Well… today I came across something worth sharing, see newsgroup post below.
Here's a Commodore 64 intro I coded up on the Net Yaroze:
To the un-aficionados, The Net Yaroze, was the only game console, hobbyist development system, with an official retail release.
Now, If you look even closer at that list, the only other "true" 3D console in the same era/generation was the Nintendo 64! - 3D console games were still very new in the mid 90s.
Not only that, but it didn't require assembly! (programming directly to the hardware)
It was programmed in higher level languages such as C/C++, Lisp and I'm sure others.
This was very important, as it allowed for easy porting (portability) from other non-assembly platforms ie DOS/Mac/other 32bit machines because it didn't talk natively to any hardware.
It's also a lot easier to read and write code and develop for and at that time C/C++ was being taught in universities anyway (before Java).
10 Years prior, when the 8-bit computers were in homes, their manuals included an explanation on how to develop for it, most commonly in basic.
But people taught themselves assembly and coded games and released them to the public.
Wikipedia says that the Develo PC Engine development accessory predates it, but it's not a development kit.
A development kit includes a target device to run the actual target builds on, commonly a PC daughter board or a seperate unit.
So the idea wasn't completely new, except it was the first gaming console to do it and the last unfortunately (XNA/PSVita aren't retail hardware kits and the HYDRA kit isn't a console, it's a kit), .
But I still find it strange because at the time (mid 90's) the idea of the 'bedroom indie game developer' was fading fast in popularity with the 16-bit micros and PC computers.
Mostly because games required better art assets and more complex logic, which one person couldn't do as a hobby in a timely manner (a few weeks).
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Links Net Yaroze & PSXDEV related material.
General feeds
Great interviews of Net Yaroze members
Development stuff
I use code::blocks I did some videos on how I set it up here:
The Net Yaroze (which means, Let's do it in Japanese) is was an official hobbyist programmable Playstation from Sony (SCEE).
It was launch in 1997, and I remember reading about it in a Playstation magazine, it was $750 US about $1400 AUD.
At that time I just started programming part-time, and I wasn't sure I could do it.
In 1998 I started a Diploma in programming and in March 1999, I had a Net Yaroze! (I still have my acceptance letter in my CV!)
Official documentation here:
Well documented here also:
Originally posted: 29 Sep 2014
Here are my notes about learn Urho3D engine.
The C++ is complex even for a non C++ programmer, ie Template functions.
I will trace the 01_HelloWorld sample which simply prints hello world to the screen while the helper class 'Sample' does a lot more.
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Two killed in serious accident on Sydney's M5
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- Two women now dead after horror crash
- One died at scene, other from injuries later
- Car involved in crash with two trucks
TWO women have died after their car was involved in a crash with two trucks on Sydney's M5 motorway where others were injured in Sydney's southwest
The vehicles collided near Henry Lawson Drive at Milperra, in Sydney's southwest, about 10.30am (AEDT) today, reported The Daily Telegraph .
One woman died at the scene, while the second was pronounced dead after being taken to Liverpool Hospital with critical injuries.
Police say the second woman was a passenger in the rear of the small red sedan.
Two other passengers of the car remain in a serious but stable condition at Liverpool Hospital.
Two people in one of the trucks involved were treated
for minor injuries before being taken to Bankstown Hospital in a stable condition.
Several other people caught up in the accident declined treatment at the scene.
A Careflight helicopter came to the scene and ambulance paramedics freed six patients from their vehicles.
The M5 remains closed to citybound traffic following the accident – with citybound traffic being diverted off the M5 at Heathcote Road.
"Motorists can then travel along Newbridge Road and re-join the M5 citybound at Henry Lawson Drive," a Transport Management Centre spokesman said.
"One outbound lane remains open, however significant delays are being experienced.
"Additionally, outbound lanes maybe closed intermittently closed to allow Police to investigate the cause of the accident and allow the salvage of the vehicles."
Emergency services, RMS traffic management crews and the Police Crash Investigation Unit remain onsite.
Motorists should stay away from the M5 Motorway, the spokesman said.
"Due to the seriousness of this incident, there is no forecast available as to when the M5 citybound will be reopened."
Source: www.news.com.au
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The RS:X Class Executive Committee decided at the today's meeting that due to the continual unstable situation in Israel the 2014 RS:X Youth World Championships will be moved to Clearwater, USA. The dates of the event will stay the same i.e. from 18th -25th October 2014.
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By Stan Lee, Don Heck, Dick Ayers & various (Marvel)
Win's Christmas Gift Recommendation: Immortal masterpieces to savour forever… 9/10
Whenever Jack Kirby left a title he'd co-created it took a little while to settle into a new rhythm, and none more so than the collectivised costumed crusaders called the Avengers. Although writer Stan Lee and the fabulously utilitarian Don Heck were perfectly capable of producing cracking comics entertainments, they never had The King's unceasing sense of panoramic scope and vast scale which constantly searched for bigger, bolder blasts of excitement. After Kirby, the tales starring Thor, Iron Man, Giant Man, The Wasp and scene-stealing newcomer Captain America concentrated on frail human beings in costumes, not wild modern gods bestriding and shaking the Earth…
Following another Stan Lee introduction, the wonderment herein contained (covering issues #11-20, December 1964 – September 1965 and available in Hard Cover, Trade Paperback and eBook editions) begins with 'The Mighty Avengers Meet Spider-Man!'; a clever and classy cross-fertilising tale inked by Chic Stone and featuring the return of time-bending tyrant Kang the Conqueror. Here, he attempts to destroy the team by insinuating a robotic duplicate of the outcast hero within their serried ranks. It's accompanied by a Marvel Master Work Pin-up of 'Kang!' and followed by a cracking end-of-the-world thriller with Fantastic Four guest-villains Mole Man and the Red Ghost.
This was another Marvel innovation, as – according to established funnybook rules – bad guys stuck to their own nemeses and didn't clash outside their own backyards….
'This Hostage Earth!' (inked by Dick Ayers) is a welcome return to grand adventure with lesser lights Giant-Man and the Wasp taking rare lead roles, but is trumped by a rousing gangster thriller of a sort seldom seen outside the pages of Spider-Man or Daredevil, which introduced Marvel universe Mafia analogue The Maggia and another major menace in #13's 'The Castle of Count Nefaria!'
After failing in his scheme to frame the Avengers, Nefaria was crushed, but the caper ended on a tragic cliffhanger as Janet Van Dyne is left gunshot and dying, leading to a peak in melodramatic tension in #14 (scripted by Paul Laiken & Larry Lieber over Stan's plot) as the traumatised team scour the globe for the only surgeon who can save her.
'Even Avengers Can Die!' – although of course she didn't – resolves into an epic alien invader tale with overtones of This Island Earth with Kirby stepping in to lay out the saga for Heck & Stone to illustrate, which only whets the appetite for a classic climactic confrontation as the costumed champions finally deal with the Masters of Evil and Captain America finally avenges the death of his dead partner Bucky.
'Now, by My Hand, Shall Die a Villain!' in #15 (again laid-out by Kirby, pencilled by Heck but now inked by Mike Esposito) features the final, fatal confrontation between Captain America and Baron Zemo in the heart of the Amazon jungle, whilst the other Avengers and Zemo's cohort of masked menaces clash once more on the streets of New York City…
The battle ends in concluding episode 'The Old Order Changeth!' (again visually broken down by Kirby before being finished by Ayers) which presaged a dramatic change in concept for the series; presumably because, as Lee increasingly wrote to the company's unique strengths – tight continuity and strongly individualistic characterisation – he found juggling individual stars in their own titles as well as a combined team episode every month was just incompatible if not impossible.
As Cap and teen sidekick Rick Jones fight their way back to civilisation, the Avengers set-up changes completely with big name stars retiring only to be replaced by three erstwhile villains: Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.
Eventually, led by perennial old soldier Captain America, this relatively powerless group with no outside titles to divide the attention (the Sentinel of Liberty did have a regular feature in Tales of Suspense but it was at that time recounting adventures set during the hero's WWII career), evolved into another squabbling family of flawed, self-examining neurotics, enduring extended sub-plots and constant action as valiant underdogs; a formula readers of the time could not get enough of and which still works superbly well today…
Acting on advice from the departing Iron Man, the neophytes seek to recruit the Hulk to add raw power to the team, only to be sidetracked by the malevolent Mole Man in #17's 'Four Against the Minotaur!' (Lee, Heck & Ayers), after which they then fall foul of a dastardly "commie" plot 'When the Commissar Commands!' – necessitating a quick trip to a thinly disguised Viet Nam analogue dubbed Sin-Cong and a battle against a bombastic android…
This brace of relatively run-of-the-mill tales is followed by an ever-improving run of mini-masterpieces starting with a 2-part gem providing an origin for Hawkeye and introducing a rogue-ish hero/villain to close this sturdy, full-colour compendium.
'The Coming of the Swordsman!' premiers a dissolute and disreputable swashbuckler – with just a hint of deeply-buried nobility – who attempts to force his way onto the highly respectable team. His rejection lead to him becoming an unwilling pawn of a far greater menace after being kidnapped by A-list world despot the Mandarin.
The conclusion comes in the superb 'Vengeance is Ours!' – inked by the one-&-only Wally Wood – wherein the constantly-bickering Avengers finally pull together as a supernaturally efficient, all-conquering super-team.
Augmented by original art, production-stage corrections photostats plus the usual round of Biographies, these immortal epics are tales that defined the Marvel experience and a joy no fan should deny themselves or their kids.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor was wounded by a bomb that targeted his car on Monday, judicial and medical sources said.
State news agency MENA said Hisham Barakat had "light injuries" as a result of the bomb, which exploded while his convoy was driving through the Cairo residential district of Heliopolis.
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The world is a large and diverse place and the people that make it up have wide and diverse opinions on just about any subject. I'm no different. I have my opinions, my hangups and an quite happy to vocalise them to anyone who wants to listen.
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Some local high school sophomores want to help local veterans get their lives back.
The seven students, all part of Youth Leadership Toledo, have organized a two-mile run, Color for Camo, to benefit Veterans Matter, a nonprofit that helps house homeless veterans. The run will be on the Fossil Park Trail in Sylvania Township.
Katie Karban, 16, a student at St. Ursula Academy, said she and six others who put together the Saturday run were inspired by hearing Ken Leslie, director of Veterans Matter, share the organization's mission.
"We thought, 'This is an awesome cause,'" she said.
Color runs have become popular in recent years. The idea is that runners wear white clothing and, as they take off along the course, are covered in colored powder; at the end of the race, they're walking rainbows. The students wanted to create such an event to benefit Veterans Matter.
Each year, the Youth Leadership Toledo participants, 50 in all, break into small groups, each of which organizes a project to benefit the community.
The cost to join the race is $20. Ms. Karban said 100 percent of the race registration fee will go to Veterans Matter.
The money will fund the group's program to pay rental-housing security deposits for veterans.
"Leadership Toledo and their Youth Leadership program has been the keystone in creating not only future leaders, but these incredible individuals who have this immense power of compassion for almost every cause in Toledo," Mr. Leslie said. "These kids are amazing; they inspire me."
Mr. Leslie, who will be walking in the colorful festivities, said funding for long-term housing for veterans is available through the federal government, but veterans are often responsible for paying security deposits.
"It's hard enough for a working person sometimes to have a security deposit, much less someone homeless on the street," Mr. Leslie said.
In Toledo, the average security deposit is $600. Nationwide the average is $750, Mr. Leslie said.
Color for Camo 2-mile run
Where: Fossil Park Trail, 5705 Centennial Rd., Sylvania
When: Race starts at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Registration: Runners and walkers are encouraged to sign up online before 10 p.m. Friday, but race-day registration is available. Online registration is available at veteransmatter.org/colorrun. Entry fee: $20.
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Up first is Germany's Goatblood, the duo behind the Rex Judaeorum side of this release. The three songs are the definition of raw, utilizing thick guitar distortions, a strong bass presence, and very distinct drums that are as crisp as the analog quality allows them to be, complete with a little compression that sounds like a worn tape instead of simple washout. The echoed mixture of rasps and gutturals compliment the sound of the instruments quite well in all three tracks. "Rex Judaeorum" introduces a mixture of furious Grindcore blasts with catchy Death Metal grooves, though the half way point throws some slower Doom Metal-esque material into the mix. That touch can be felt periodically through "Enslave Your Race" though, here, it can seem like filler among the dismal, even melodic passages. It's a large departure from the early second wave Black Metal foundation of "Southland Parasite", which comes off more a casual performance, but still highly infectious.
And then there's Nuclear Perversions' contribution, Wolves of Apocalypse. Not much is known about the two piece, but this side of the release features two tracks of equally yet, yet far more blunt brutality. The first minute of "Wolves of Apocalypse" is dedicated to building atmosphere, using air raid sirens and distorted howling that is more human than wolf, leading into a steady assault of drums and slightly sharpened guitars. While already a bit technical, just past two minutes in a subtle change to Grindcore blast beats occurs, continuing to amp up the hostility until the very end. The music itself is fairly short, but it's as impressive as the primal following track "Rituals of Menstrual Blood" and it's near-eviscerating hatred.
Of the two bands presented on this split, Goatblood do a good job and take advantage of the raw audio elements, but it's Nuclear Perversions who stand out the most despite having the least amount of time to grab the listener's attention. Rex Judaeorum / Wolves of Apocalypse isn't that bad a seven-inch split, and fans of brutal Black and Death Metal compositions will surely find something worth taking note of here. It's quite impressive, actually, that while similar in so many ways, actually end up light years away from one another with how they incorporate their brand of hostility. If you're interested in either of these bands and have some spare cash, then checking out Rex Judaeorum / Wolves of Apocalypse is worth checking out at some point.


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As goes Nasdaq, increasingly, so goes the economy. Given the stock index's recent performance, that's a troubling thought.
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Sen. John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) is facing heat for calling Sacramento's newly-appointed Mexican Consul General Alejandra Garcia Williams "hot."
"All I can say, as politely as possible, is Alejandra is hot," Moorlach said according to the Sacramento Bee. Garcia Williams shook her head and smiled.
Moorlach's Chief of Staff Tim Clark reportedly said the senator's comments were taken out of context and that he did not mean what he said in a sexist way, noting that he and Garcia Williams are old friends. Moorlach also praised Garcia Williams for her previous experience as Mexico's consul general in Orange County as well as for her unique ability to speak Dutch.
In 2013, President Barack Obama said California Attorney General Kamala Harris was "by far the best-looking attorney general in the country," for which his spokesperson later issued an apology.
The Bee also notes that in 2011, Assemblyman Charles Calderon–brother of state Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) — was blasted by women's and legal groups for what were perceived as inappropriate references to California Supreme Court Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye.
Update: Tim Clark spoke with Breitbart News and said Sen. Moorlach is not in "trouble" for his comments, adding that Moorlach has known Garcia Williams for a long time, and was extremely happy to present some background about his friend to his fellow colleagues in the State Senate.
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ITEN, Kenya, January 11 – It's a far cry from the high-tech gymnasiums athletes are used to in Europe or America, but this sleepy Kenyan farming village has become an unlikely global training hotspot for Olympic champions.
Perched on the dramatic cliff edge of the great Rift Valley at 2,400 metres (7,870 feet) above sea level, this remote village draws top athletes including world and Olympic champions for high altitude performance training.
With the London Olympics later this year, athletes are training hard to get an edge over their rivals at the games.
"Iten is a great location, due to the altitude and the environment," said Lornah Kiplagat, a Kenyan-born Dutch runner who won the world half-marathon in Udine, Italy in 2007, but who now runs a specialised hotel for athletes in Iten.
Recent athletes to have trained at Iten include the British Olympic team, led by the women's world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe and the double European 5,000m and 10,000m champion, Mo Farah.
Every dawn the village comes alive with the pounding feet of dozens of runners, as they train along the winding mud tracks through the quiet countryside, dodging the chickens and goats that share the route.
Having such top end runners "attracts other athletes from all over the world," added Kiplagat, with the small settlement of some 4,000 people seeing visitors from across Europe, the USA and Africa.
"There are hundreds of kilometres of dirt roads to train on," Kiplagat said, adding the 72-bed hotel she runs is regularly fully booked with athletes.
Two-time Linz marathon champion, Kenyan runner Elias Maindi, moved to the town four years ago to seek success — saying the altitude and clean air have all helped him achieve recent victories in several European marathon races.
"When you want to run a good time, you have to train the hard way," said Maindi.
Exercise at high altitude increase an athlete's oxygen-carrying capacity, encouraging a better performance later in races at lower altitude.
"You have to train at high altitude to really boost your speed and the level of the blood cells in your body, so you can really run fast when running at a lower altitude," said Maindi.
Local Kenyans travel to Iten in the hope of joining the potentially lucrative ranks of the top athletes.
Irish Brother Colm O'Connell, a Cork-born lay brother who has trained several world and Olympic champions in Iten for the past 35 years, believes it is only the high altitude that keeps his runners at the front of races.
"This is a very little, isolated village in the highlands of Kenya, away from the big city or town, so there are no distractions, people can just concentrate on their running," said the 63-year-old O'Connell.
"The fact that so many world champions, Olympic champions and world record holders come to train in the Iten area is a great role model for the younger kids growing up — the kids even join in the running," he added.
In the past decade, Iten has grown with land prices tripling in value as athletes build houses for when they use the village as a training base.
But despite the taxes the athletes who live here contribute, there are few facilities.
The only sports gymnasiums are privately run, and too expensive for many of the runners who have yet to find fame and fortune.
The town's athletic stadium is in desperate need of repair — the mud track is too slippery to use in the wet — but the local council says they don't have enough money to instal a proper track.
"We want to ask the government if they can help the council improve the stadium, because the council cannot do it by ourselves, because we do not have enough," said Mary Ruto, Iten's mayor.
Despite the lack of facilities foreign athletes continue to flock into the town, keen not only to acclimatise but learn the Kenyan way of training ahead of the Olympics.
"The most expensive thing for them is the flight to Kenya…staying in Iten is less expensive than staying in Europe," Kiplagat added.
And while other towns in the Rift valley offer similar high altitudes and rural settings, none have produced so many successful runners.
As long as athletes from the local schools make it through to the big stage, others will continue to come here, regardless of where they have to run.


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Monday, 13 July 2015
ASOS Haul
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Love the Kimono top! I am a H&M addict at the moment, they have even started sending me a monthly catalogue/magazine through the post - it is so dangerous!ReplyDelete
Oh don't get me started on H&M! I have to physically tear myself away from the shop, id be a disaster with a catalogue!Delete
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the first top is right up my street too :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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Absolutely love the last top! I've never actually bought anything from Asos before but feeling like i need to at somepoint! x http://www.coffeeatmidnight13.blogspot.co.uk/ReplyDeleteReplies
Once you start you might not be able to stop! I try and browse but always end up with something!Delete
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I love the peplum top, and you're right, it is super flattering :) I used to be such a shopaholic when it came to clothes, but like you, my taste has changed and I'm trying to minimalise my wardrobe a bit. I've become so picky, too, which can be good sometimes lol. I love your haul, though, you have great taste, and I love the simple, clean lines :) xReplyDelete
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The kimono blouse is beaut! xReplyDelete
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Love the kimono style blouse! I'm obsessed with anything monochrome and that product is especially unique! xReplyDelete
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LOVE all your picks! Especially that high neck top and the black one with the mesh inlay.ReplyDelete
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Love the white lace top! So many white tops are too sheer so I like that they've added the lace bit to cover the upper half hahaReplyDelete
I know, I don't like sheer tops at the best of times. If I'm being honest the bottom of that top is still a little bit too sheer for me, but I'll figure something out hahaDelete
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I read and appreciate each and every one :)
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With our Preschool topic in mind we thought about Super Powers today. On our walk in many children decided on what superpower they would most like to have. The children are very confident with our route to the forest base and were busy looking out for all the animal targets we had noticed last week.
We went through our forest rules today and talked about breaking one of the rules for today only. The rule says that "We only eat the food we bring into the forest". We talked about the reason for this and the meaning of the word poison. However, today was our exception as we became forest chefs and made Wild Garlic Pesto: Foraged wild garlic, Parmesan, olive oil, lemon juice, almonds/pine nuts and pepper. We tried our recipe with some crackers. Yum!
After a play including den building, rope swings and tree climbing we thought about super powers again. We decided to make some magic wands to conjure up the powers. We used Elder sticks, whittled the bark off, hollowed some pith out and put in some forest magic into the wand. Rosy's stick made her have powerful words (Please and Thankyou!), the children's wands varied in their powers from Super Bendy to Super Invisible.
Forest Homework: Next week is National Hedgehog week. Find out some hedgehog facts to share with the group. We'll be making our very own spiky friends in the forest.
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According to a news release from the office of Judge David Kimberly – a Gadsden man has been sentenced to a prison term of 20 years for sexually abusing a young girl under the age of 12.
63 year old Floyd Stephen Whiteside was convicted on October 9th, following less than one hour of deliberation by the jury. He had entered a plea of not guilty. Whiteside will be serving the 20 year term in the Hamilton Aged & Infirm Prison located in Marion County and he must pay fines of $5,000, a $150 bail bond assessment and $10,000 to the Alabama Crime Victims' Fund.


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Check out the Red Sox Twitter page. Play by play, which you can follow online, or receive each "Tweet" as a text message.
Comes courtesy of new media guru C.C. Chapman. Wouldn't you know I learned about his blog post via his Twittering.
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Check out the Red Sox Twitter page. Play by play, which you can follow online, or receive each "Tweet" as a text message.
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Blogging the Presidential Debates
As newsrooms throughout the country prepare to cover tonight's Republican Presidential debate on CNN, I thought it would be a good opportunity to look at some of the online coverage from Sunday's debate.
While most newspaper websites offered the usual crop of blogs, cnn.com also had Republican strategist Mike Murphy and Democrat columnist Arianna Huffington providing live color commentary via streaming video. If you tuned in to the coverage on CNN's Pipeline service, what you saw was a split screen with Huffington and Murphy on one side sitting and watching the debate on TV while offering commentary, as the other screen showed the debate itself. I thought it was an interesting approach since it acknowledged that some people can walk and chew gum at the same time and that for many viewers, the commentary was just as important as the debate itself.
On washingtonpost.com's The Fix, Chris Cillizza used video excerpts to increase the impact of his blog entries. So in addition to four or five paragraphs about Senator Chris Dodd getting applause, he included video of the exchange. If you look at his entire coverage of the debate, you'll see that while he didn't include video with every entry (ok, only four times), he did it often enough to enrich his reader's experience.
Meanwhile on politico.com, Ben Smith made what I thought was a valuable point at the start of his coverage.
"A brief note on the strangeness of covering these debates: Hundreds of reporters are assembled at Saint Anselm College in
It is a good point to note that for the many newsrooms that don't or can't send reporters to actual debates, there is no reason why you can't still offer live coverage. For example:
- Get a group of local political observers together to watch the debate and let a member of your staff serve as their online moderator for a live conversation via a blog about the debate.
- Create a forum and encourage readers to post their thoughts or comments about the debate as it's happening.
My only caveat is to be honest with your readers about where you are and make sure you promote the coverage both online and in-print.
What did you think of the online coverage? Were there any techniques that you thought worked? What are your plans for future debate coverage?
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A 13 member delegation of Transgender Women and MSMs representatives from 8 Civil Society Organizations led by the Help (CBO) went to meet the Women and Children's Rights Committee of the Amyotha Hluttaw to present the challenges faced by LGBT communities and made recommendations on 18 August 2017, according to a statement. The delegation was also accompanied by U Aung Myo Min, Executive Director of Equality Myanmar.
The delegation was received by the Secretary and members of Women and Children's Right Committee. The Chairperson of the Citizen's Fundamental Rights, the Democracy and Human Rights Committee was also present.
The delegation was briefed on the activities of the Women and Children's Rights Committee in terms of law reforms, complaints handling, briefing papers and increased access to justice. The Chairperson of the Citizen's Fundamental Rights, the Democracy and Human Rights Committee also explained on their activities on complaints mechanism as well as field visits to the places where there are allegations of human rights violations including the detention places and how the committee works with the ministries concerned.
The delegation presented the challenges faced by the LGBT communities especially the transgender communities in regards to social, economic, health, education and legal fronts.
The delegation reiterated that homosexuality is not a mental illness and the LGBT are emotionally challenged because of the discrimination they are facing from all around. The delegation also stated that LGBT people in the country are being denied the right to raise a family of their own and explained that the civil union which has communal understanding is not legal and that prohibits succession rights and other rights between unmarried couples and thus a citizen's rights is being compromised. The delegation stated that LGBT people did not choose to become LGBT people who face lots of challenges but they were born this way.
The delegation again stressed that the LGBT people are not asking for special rights but to be accorded with equal rights and equal protection before the law and equal opportunities without discrimination as guaranteed in the articles 347, 348 and 349 of 2008 constitution to its citizens.


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Training Camp In Austria For Itermediate Level And Above
It is great how many clubs offer training camps these days. When I was a child there were only riding holidays which is definitely not the same. So, here is another summer holiday suggestion:
The club Seefeld in Austria (around 30 km south of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany) is offering a training camp for intermediate and advanced vaulters. Participants should vault on a L (easy) level which means, they should master the mount, flag with the arm, swings forward and backward, standing and flank in canter.
The athletes will train 6 hours per day for three days. The focus is on the technique of compulsories, but there are also some side sports: jazz dance and strength training with a former international hockey player who will teach a lot about team spirit.
Extra fun will be the overnight in the gym with all the vaulters (participants have to bring their own sleeping bag and so on). The camp will be taught in German. The whole three days cost 250 Euros, included are three meals per day. Registrations can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. Full information can be found on the flyer.
Personal invitation in German
Liebe Voltigierfreunde aus Österreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz. Die Voltigiergruppe RC Seefeld veranstaltet heuer ein Trainingslager für fortgeschrittene VoltigiererInnen. Trainiert werden täglich ca. 6 Stunden. Neben dem Voltigiertraining gibt es auch noch Tanz- und Krafttraining. Wir würden uns freuen, Euch in Österreich zu drei Tagen intensivem Training begrüßen zu dürfen.
Who wants a full week training camp and speaks English can also take a look at the summer camp in the south of Norway.


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The Scientific Program Committee received more than 1,000 abstract and session proposal submissions for this year's Annual Meeting in Boston. From this year's selected submissions, the 21 highest rated abstracts will be presented during three separate Best Paper sessions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at NASS 2016.
Following are previews of 11 of this year's Best Papers (presenting author listed in bold). Read previews of the other 10 Best Paper presentations in the July e-preview edition of the NASS Daily News.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Does Sagittal Balance Influence the Surgical Outcomes of Patients with Cervical Myelopathy?
Paul W. Millhouse, MD, MBA; Kristen Nicholson , PhD; Emily Pflug, BS; Barrett Woods, MD; Gregory D. Schroeder, MD; Christie E. Stawicki; D. Greg Anderson, MD; Alan S. Hilibrand, MD; Christopher K. Kepler, MD, MBA; Mark F. Kurd, MD; Jeffrey A. Rihn, MD; Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD; Kris E. Radcliff, MD
Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a progressive disease that can result in neurological decline. Cervical sagittal balance is an important outcomes parameter for surgical reconstruction. In this study, the researchers sought to determine how baseline sagittal balance (as measured by various cervical radiographic parameters) influences improvements in a patient's health (overall physical and mental status, disability, pain and myelopathy symptoms) following surgery for CSM.
"We found no correlations between any preoperative radiographic parameters and absolute postoperative neck or arm pain scores," said. Paul W. Millhouse, MD, MBA, of the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia. "There were no significant correlations between any baseline radiographic parameter and NDI or SF-12."
Additionally, Dr. Millhouse said, no significant differences were found in baseline radiographic parameters between patients who achieved clinically significant (>MCID) changes in NDI scores and those who did not.
"Baseline sagittal plane alignment does not appear to be well correlated with postoperative health-related outcomes in patients with cervical myelopathy," he said. "Cervical sagittal balance seems to influence pain and severity of myelopathy on presentation only. Surgical treatment improved pain and myelopathy, as measured by mJOA, regardless of radiographic parameters."
The Effect of Smoking on Spinal Cord Healing following Surgical Treatment for Cervical Myelopathy
David Kusin, MD; Nicholas U. Ahn, MD
The harmful effects of smoking on healing have been well established; however, there is scant data regarding the effect of smoking on postoperative outcomes for cervical myelopathy. In this study, researchers attempted to quantify the effect using the Nurick scale. The Nurick scale grades the severity of cervical myelopathy from 0 to 5, with 5 being the most severe.
"We found that tobacco use was directly correlated with decreased postoperative improvement in Nurick score," said David Kusin, MD, of the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. "Specifically, the mean improvement in Nurick score was almost one point lower in smokers than in nonsmokers."
The researchers also found that the association was dose dependent. Dr. Kusin said that greater tobacco use was associated with a greater decrease in clinical improvement. Smoking history was not associated with a more severe preoperative condition, he said, which suggests that smoking may interfere with the intrinsic healing processes that occur in the spinal cord postoperatively, but may not be an important etiology of cervical myelopathy.
"These data suggest that patients with cervical myelopathy who smoke are likely to have less improvement in their condition postoperatively compared to those who do not smoke, and that the effect of each cigarette is additive," Dr. Kusin said. "Interestingly, our work suggests that smoking does not contribute to the severity or development of cervical myelopathy, but it may harm the healing response postoperatively. These findings reinforce the importance of counseling patients about smoking cessation prior to surgery."
Tobacco Smoking and Outcomes of Decompressive Surgery in Patients with Symptomatic Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy
Paul M. Arnold, MD; Branko Kopjar, MD, PhD; Lindsay A. Tetreault, PhD; Hiroaki Nakashima, MD; Michael G. Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Tobacco smoking has been associated with wound infections, poor healing capacity, worse surgical outcomes, and higher rates of non-union following spine surgery. It is unclear, however, whether smoking is a predictor of functional status, quality of life, and complications in patients undergoing surgical decompression for the treatment of degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM). The objective of this study was to examine the association between tobacco smoking and outcomes following surgery for the treatment of DCM.
"Tobacco smoking is strongly associated with suboptimal clinical, functional and quality of life outcomes. While both nonsmokers and smokers benefit from surgical decompression, the extent of improvement was significantly higher in nonsmokers than in smokers," said Paul M. Arnold, MD, of the University of Kansas Medical Center. "Quantitatively, smokers experience 15% to 30% less improvement than nonsmokers and have a significantly lower degree of recovery."
Among the potential explanations for suboptimal outcomes in smokers, smoking may cause a decrease in local blood flow and amplify the hypoxic conditions caused by cord compression. In addition, smoking may worsen the severity of schema repercussion injury following surgical decompression, likely through endothelial dysfunction and increased levels of free radicals.
It is unclear whether patient outcomes would improve if smoking were ceased prior to surgery or whether cigarette smoking creates chronic damage that will not reverse following cessation. Furthermore, it is unclear whether there is a minimum duration between surgery and smoking cessation that would optimize outcomes.
"Clinicians should be informed that smoking leads to substantial pathophysiological changes and that these changes may significantly impair functional recovery following surgical intervention," Dr. Arnold said. "Patients who are smokers are advised to quit smoking before surgery, even though it is still unclear whether smoking cessation improves outcomes. At the very least, their expectations of outcome should be managed accordingly."
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Further Research on the Efficacy of a New Navigable Percutaneous Disc Decompression Device (L'DISQ) in Patients with Lumbar Radicular Pain: Two-Year Follow-Up
Sung Hoon Kim; Sang-Heon Lee, MD, PhD; Nack Hwan Kim; Richard Derby MD, PhD
While the efficacy and safety of disc ablation with radiofrequency energy has been previously demonstrated, nucleoplasty using radiofrequency ablation is restricted by the difficulty associated with focal direct removal of the herniation. To overcome this liability, the investigators in this study developed a navigable decompression device, "L'DISQ," designed to allow direct access to the herniated disc material. In this paper, they report the clinical outcomes of focal-direct ablation to herniated disc materials using the L'DSIQ device after long-term follow-up.
"Most previously developed percutaneous decompression devices, which use plasma energy, are designed to decompress the center of the nucleus rather than the herniated disc directly," said Sang-Heon Lee, MD, PhD, of the Korea University School of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. "Therefore, a comparatively large amount of tissue reduction in the central disc would be required, and excessive disc tissue removal would accelerate the disc degeneration and reduce the disc height."
In contrast to most percutaneous nucleotomy devices that use a rigid and uncontrolled tip, Dr. Lee said the wand tip of the L'DSIQ device can be curved by rotating the control wheel and directed into the disc herniation.
"Our study demonstrated that decompression with L'DISQ device is relatively safe and effective in relieving pain and decreasing disability of patients with lumbar radicular pain," Dr. Lee said. "We believe L'DISQ will be another good treatment option in lumbar herniated intervertebral disc."
Trans-Sacral Epiduroscopic Laser Decompression (SELD) for the Treatment of Symptomatic Lumbar Disc Herniations (LDH): Single Center Experience of Clinical and Radiologic Results in Minimum 12-Month Follow-Up
Jung-Woo Hur, MD; Jin-Sung Kim, MD, PhD; Ji-hoon Seong, MD
Percutaneous trans-sacral procedures are frequently performed as a treatment option for lumbar disc herniation (LDH), but they are limited in that they cannot completely remove the causing pathology. With recent developments in laser and endoscopic technology, trans-sacral epiduroscopic laser decompression (SELD) has received attention as an alternative tool. The purpose of this study is to evaluate efficacy and safety of SELD by reporting preliminary clinical and radiologic results of SELD for the treatment of LDH in a single-center experience. Clinical outcomes were evaluated using visual analog scale (VAS) scores for back and leg pain, and functional status was measured with Oswestry disability index (ODI).
"More than 71% of patients showed immediate symptom relief postoperatively and over 85% of patients showed relief at final follow-up," said Jung-Woo Hur, MD, of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, the Catholic University of Korea, in Seoul, South Korea. "The average VAS scores for back and leg pain, as well as ODI, showed statistically significant improvement at final follow-up."
Immediate postoperative MRI showed subtle changes in most of the patients, Dr. Hur noted; however, final follow-up images revealed significant reduction of disc pathology in more than 80% of patients.
"Reduction in disc size may be owing to the natural course of disc herniation pathophysiology, but correlation with clinical improvement signifies the safety of procedure in 12-month follow-up," Dr. Hur said. "The results of this preliminary study suggest that SELD is an effective and safe therapeutic modality for patients with symptomatic LDH."
Greater Expectations of Pain Improvement are Associated with Less Actual Pain Improvement after Lumbar Surgery
Carol A. Mancuso, MD; Manney Reid, MD, PhD; Roland Duculan, MD; Alex Fong, BA; Manuela C. Rigaud , MA; Frank P. Cammisa, MD; Andrew A. Sama, MD; Alexander P. Hughes, MD; Darren R. Lebl, MD; Federico P. Girardi, MD
Various outcomes have been studied after lumbar surgery; however, long-term improvement in pain remains the main goal for most patients. In a prospective cohort of 422 lumbar surgery patients, the goal of this study was to measure the amount of pain improvement received two years after surgery and compare it to the amount of pain improvement expected before surgery.
"We previously developed a survey to measure patients' preoperative expectations of lumbar surgery," said Federico P. Girardi, MD, of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. "One item in the survey asks about expected improvement in pain. A postoperative version of the survey asks patients to rate the amount of improvement received from a global perspective."
Two years after surgery, 11% of patients reported no improvement in pain, 28% reported little to moderate improvement, 44% reported a lot of improvement and 17% reported complete improvement. Overall, 56% of patients received less improvement in pain than expected; most of these patients had expected complete improvement.
"Expecting greater pain improvement preop is associated with patients' rating of less pain improvement postop. Expecting complete pain improvement, in most cases, is unrealistic," Dr. Girardi said. "Given that expectations are potentially modifiable, this study supports addressing pain-related expectations with patients before surgery through discussions with surgeons and through formal patient education."
Correlating Patient-Reported Outcomes to Patient Satisfaction in Patients' with a Lumbar Disc Herniation
Gregory D. Schroeder, MD; Alan S. Hilibrand, MD; Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD; Wenyan Zhao, PhD; Jon D. Lurie, MD; Kris E. Radcliff, MD
In this study, investigators performed a retrospective subgroup analysis of prospectively collected data from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) to determine if patient satisfaction is predicted by improvement in health related quality of life (HRQOL) metrics in patients with a lumbar disc herniation.
Patients enrolled in the SPORT study were prospectively enrolled at 13 institutions; 709 patients who underwent surgery and 319 patients treated without surgery were included. For this study, patients were considered satisfied if they were either "very satisfied" or "somewhat satisfied," and they were not satisfied if they were "somewhat dissatisfied" or "very dissatisfied." HQOL metrics included: SF-36 and Oswestry Disability Index (ODI).
In the surgical cohort, ROC analysis demonstrated that SF-36 PCS improvement had moderate accuracy at predicting satisfaction at three months, and excellent accuracy at predicting satisfaction at two years and four years. Absolute PCS score had excellent accuracy at three months, two years and four years. Similarly, improvement in the ODI had a moderate accuracy of predicting satisfaction at three months, two years and four years, and the absolute ODI score had excellent accuracy at three months, two years and four years.
Separate logistic regression models were required to determine the individual impact of SF-36 PCS improvement, SF-36PCS score, ODI improvement and ODI score on patient satisfaction. SF-36PCS improvement, ODI improvement and ODI score were found to be independent predictors of patient satisfaction at all time points, but the SF-36 PCS score was only a significant predictor at three months and two years.
Based on their findings, the researchers conclude that patient satisfaction is an accurate proxy for HRQOL metrics three months, two years and four years after a lumbar disc herniation.
Friday, October 28, 2016
Surgical versus Nonsurgical Treatment for Cervical Radiculopathy: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Jeffrey A. Rihn, MD; Suneel Bhat, MD; James S. Harrop, MD; Zoher Ghogawala, MD, FACS; Jonathan N. Grauer, MD; Alan S. Hilibrand, MD
The majority of cases of acute cervical radiculopathy respond well to conservative management within six weeks. In cases that persist, the literature remains unclear on whether continued nonsurgical management with epidural injections or anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is more clinically and economically effective. In this study, researchers attempted to compare the cost-effectiveness and outcomes of the two approaches to treating cervical radiculopathy that persists beyond six weeks.
"We found that ACDF in patients who have failed six weeks of noninvasive conservative management is the dominant cost-effective strategy when compared to epidural injections and continued physical therapy," said Jeffrey A. Rihn, MD, of the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia. "The study is a decision model analysis with limitations. The literature, particularly on outcome following injections and/or physical therapy, is somewhat limited."
This finding, Dr. Rihn noted, suggests that policies requiring a trial of epidural injections prior to operative management may, in fact, delay improvement in cases of MRI-confirmed disc disease with radicular symptoms and result in greater direct and indirect costs.
"This study represents the first cost-effectiveness model of management of cervical radiculopathy, and can help manage clinical decision-making and policy to optimize efficient outcomes for patients suffering from the condition," Dr. Rihn said.
Missing Data May Invalidate Spine Surgery Database Studies
Bryce Basques, MD, MHS; Adam M. Lukasiewicz, MSc; Andre Samuel, BA; Matthew Webb; Daniel D. Bohl, MD, MPH; Junyoung Ahn; Kern Singh, MD; Jonathan N. Grauer, MD
National databases are increasingly used for research in spine surgery; however, the prevalence of missing data is one limitation that has received sparse mention in the literature. The purpose of this study aimed to shed light on the extent of missing data in national database studies and to illustrate how different treatments of missing data can significantly skew the results of spine surgery database studies.
"Studies using these databases often do not emphasize the percentage of missing data for each variable used, and do not make note of how patients with missing data are incorporated into analyses," said Bryce Basques, MD, MHS, of the Rush University Medical Center Department of Orthopedic Surgery in Chicago, IL.
Looking at the American College of Surgeons National Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database, Dr. Basques said that missing data was common for spine surgery patients, with 20 comorbidity variables having 65.54% missing data, as they are now only collected at certain ACS-NSQIP participating sites.
"There are multiple studies in the literature that have used this cohort of spine patients, and the majority of these studies fail to comment on the amount of missing data or how it was treated in analyses," he said. "This investigation raises significant questions about the validity of these studies. It is important for researchers to be aware of the significant limitations to database research, particularly missing data, when designing, performing and evaluating these studies."
Neurologic Outcome following Intraoperative Neurophysiological Signal Change in Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar and Multiregional Spine Surgery
Anthony K. Sestokas, PhD; Eric A. Tesdahl, PhD; Andrew F. Cannestra, MD, PhD; Sarah E. Baran, PhD, CNIM; Jeffrey Cohen, MD, PhD; Samuel Weinstein, MD, MBA
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) provides real-time feedback on evolving injury during spine surgery, affording opportunity for the surgeon to intervene and potentially avoid or mitigate postoperative neurologic deficit. Little is known about the relationship between intraoperative reversal of identified neurophysiologic change during surgery and neurologic outcome following surgery in different regions of the spine. The purpose of this study is to quantify the relationship between intraoperative reversal of identified neurophysiologic change during surgery and neurologic outcome following cervical, thoracic, lumbar and multiregional spine surgery.
"Our research looks at the incidence and reversibility of adverse neurophysiologic changes during extradural spine surgery in adult patients," said Anthony K. Sestokas, PhD, of SpecialtyCare in Nashville, TN. "Specifically, the research compares postoperative neurologic outcomes immediately following spine surgery in which adverse intraoperative neurophysiologic changes were identified as fully resolved, partially resolved or unresolved by the end of the procedure."
Their findings suggest that the degree of resolution of adverse neurophysiologic change during extradural spine surgery is quantitatively predictive of postoperative neurologic outcome, Dr. Sestokas said, noting that there is an elevated degree of predicted neurologic risk for surgical procedures that address the thoracic spine.
"The majority of neurophysiologic changes detected by neuromonitoring in the present series of procedures were reversed successfully and were associated with positive outcomes," he said. "Intraoperative neuromonitoring with proper vigilance and prompt intervention during spine surgery will support reducing postoperative neurologic injury."
The Total Cost to the Health Care System for the Treatment of Cervical Myelopathy
Gregory D. Schroeder, MD; Christopher K. Kepler, MD, MBA; Mark F. Kurd, MD; Alan S. Hilibrand, MD; D. Greg Anderson, MD; Kris E. Radcliff, MD; Barrett Woods, MD; Tyler Kreitz, MD; David Casper, MD; Jason W. Savage, MD; Jeffrey A. Rihn, MD; Alexander R. Vaccaro, MD, PhD
Cervical myelopathy is a common reason patients over 65 years of age undergo cervical spine surgery and, in recent years, there has been increased awareness of the need to deliver not only high quality, but also cost-effective treatment. This study sought to compare the total health care costs for patients treated with and without surgery for cervical myelopathy.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Carrier File for the years 2005–2012 was reviewed using the PearlDiver Technologies database to identify all patients with a new diagnosis of myelopathy by ICD-9 code. All patients were required to have had 12 months without the diagnosis prior to index diagnosis, and the diagnosis must have been reported twice within the 12 months after initial diagnosis.
Among their findings, the researchers report that surgical treatment resulted in a significant increase in total health care costs of for patients diagnosed with myelopathy in 2009 and 2011; however, as the length of follow-up increased, the total health care costs converged, such that there was a nonsignificant increase in health care costs for patients treated with surgery in 2007 and a nonsignificant decrease in total health care costs for patients treated with surgery who were diagnosed with myelopathy in 2008.
While the researchers acknowledge the probability of some selection bias in the study, they believe their findings highlight the fact that, when evaluating the cost-effectiveness of surgery for myelopathy, it is critical to look beyond the cost of the surgery itself, as failing to address this progressive disease may lead to a substantial increase in total health care expenditures.


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