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Rosentanz is a 17 h 2004 Oldenburg mare by Rosenthal out of Wiesentanz (Wolkentanz). We knew she was special from day one and are now extremely proud to feature "Rose" as one of our primary broodmares. Rose was 2009 Training Level Horse of the Year with rider/trainer, Jessica Jo Tate, with a median score of 79.8% which was the highest score ever recorded. She gets 8's and 9's for gaits. She has been a winner from an early age with multiple regional breed show wins and national titles (see below). In addition to her productive show career, she is a proven producer, with winning foals, Song'n'Dance and Walberto, by embryo transfer. Rose came home last summer to begin a career as a mom. We are optimistic that her filly by Furstenball will also be a winner!
WESTEROS (2014). We have been so impressed with Walberto that we bred Rose back to Wamberto. Westeros is a dark bay/brown colt with a super disposition and amazing canter like his big brother Walbeto.
FLORABELLA (2013) is by Furstenball more info about her is available on our sale page!
WALBERTO (2009) is by the Dutch stallion Wamberto (a Rousseau son). Walberto has 3 extremely good gaits, but his canter is the highlight! Benjamin Pfabe has done a wonderful job with him. He showed for the first time this winter in Florida and won 2 of his 3 classes. He was Hore of Course high score winner at Global Dressage Festival with a 78+%. See article in Dressage Daily about Walberto and his trainer Benjamin Pfabe: http://dressagedaily.com/article/benjamin-pfabe-and-walberto-wor-win-horse-course-high-score-award-nearly-80-percent
SONG'N'DANCE (2008), aka Samba, is now owned by Jane Rude in Oregon. She is by Sinatra Song and out of Rosentanz. Jane says "She is a lovely young lady with a fantastic mind and wonderful gaits. She is, in my opinion, the most beautiful horse with the sweetest personality I've ever had the pleasure to own. She truly is my dream horse! It was love at first sight for both my trainer and I. Not only is Samba conformationally very correct with lovely gaits, she clearly exhibited a superior mind. The mare has little or no spook – I currently live in Central Oregon and my arena is surrounded by Juniper trees as well as sage and bitter brush. We are also in a deer migration overlay so have lots of critters wandering by. My best example of her mind would be the day I was cantering her and, as we approached the end of my arena that overlooks an undeveloped 40 acre piece of property, she sucked back a bit. Given that this was a "new" thing, I opted to do a 20 meter circle at that end to see what the problem was. As we came around that end again, she sucked back and was clearly looking outside the arena. When I followed her eyes, I noticed that there were 4 deer standing in the shadows of the Juniper trees right outside of my arena. We were both immediately distracted by the sight – Samba's response was to quietly stop, look at the deer for a moment and then we were straight back to work, the deer forgotten." Below is a video of Samba under saddle! Thank you, Jane, for keeping in touch! We love to hear the progress of our babies.
National Titles
2009 USDF Training Level Horse of the Year median score 79.8% (highest score ever recorded)
2009 USDF All Breeds Oldenburg Training Level Champion
2008 USDF All-Breeds Oldenburg DSHB (Dressage Sport Horse Breeding) Champion for 4 y/o & Older Maiden/Yeld mares
2008 USDF DSHB HOY, Fourth place, 4 y/o & Older Maiden/Yeld Mares
2007 USDF All-Breeds Oldenburg DSHB, Champion for 3 y/o fillies
2008 Adequan/USDF Year-End Award, Fourth place, 4 y/o & Older Maiden/Yeld Mares
2007 USDF DSHB HOY, Fourth place, 3 y/o fillies
2007 Great American/USDF Breeders Championship Final, Southern Region Grand Champion filly, 77.9%
2006 USDF DSHB HOY, Third, 2 y/o fillies with a score of 80.85%
2006 USDF All-Breeds DSHB Oldenburg, Champion for 2 y/o fillies
2006 German Oldenburg Horse Breeders Society High Score HOY with an 80.85%
Show Results
Palm Beach Dressage Derby
- Wellington Classic Dressage Challenge IIFirst Level, Test 2 68.61%
- First Level, Test 3 69.429%
- First Level, Test 1 74.333%
- First Level, Test 2 68.889%
- Training Level, Test 4 75.2%
VADA/NOVA Summer June Show
- Training Level, Test 2 80%
- Training Level, Test 4 79.6%
Dressage at Lexington
- Training Level, Test 2 82.857%
- Training Level, Test 2 75.357%
- Training Level, Test 3 80%
- Training Level, Test 4 82%
EEMI Summer Fling
- Training Level, Test 4 72%
Fall, 2008
First Annual
Oldenburg Horse Show at High Point Hanoverians in Chestertown, MD
- Mare Performance Test, Premium
- First, 4-6 y/o Mare Class
- Reserve Champion Mature Mare
Spring, 2008
Texas Dressage Classic I
- Training Level Test 4 won her class with a 74%!
- This was the high score of the day.
Texas Dressage Classic II
- Training Level Test 4, 65.6%, second
Texas Dressage Classic I Sporthorse Breeding
- First 4 y/o & older maiden & yeld mares class with a 79.3%
- Champion Mare of the show and was a USDFBC Qualifier
Proud Meadows Breed Show I
- First 4 y/o & older Maiden & yeld mares 76.75%
- Champion Mare, USDFBC qualifier
- Oldenburg Champion
- High Score horse of the day
Proud Meadows Breed Show II
- First 4 y/o & older Maiden & yeld mares 81.5%
- Champion Mare, USDFBC qualifier
- High Score horse of the day
November, 2007
Rosentanz and her trainer, Emilee Reed, participated in the Young Dressage Horse Trainers Symposium in Colorado with Scott Hassler & Michael Klimke! They were extremely impressed with her. Several times Scott commented on her fabulous mind and work ethic, and her wonderful gaits.
October, 2007
Southern Region Great American/USDF Breeders Championship Final
- Grand Champion Filly, 77.9%
Proud Meadows Fall Sporthorse Breed Show I
- First, Fillies of 2004, 77%
- Champion Filly
- Great American/USDF Breeders Championship Qualifier
- Champion German Oldenburg IBC, 77%
- High Score German Oldenburg of the show
Proud Meadows Fall Sporthorse Breed Show II
- First, Fillies of 2004, 80.7%
- Champion Filly
- Great Amarican/USDF Breeders Championship Qualifier
- "Born in the USA" Award
- High Score horse of the show
August, 2007
Hanoverian Inspection
- Rose was presented for approval for Hanoverian breeding
- Non-Hanoverian Champion with an 8.16 (out of 6 mares).
- Second highest score for the inspection tour for all mares.
June, 2007
Proud Meadows Breed Show I.
- First Fillies of 2004 class with a score 0f 78.4%
- Champion Filly
- Champion German Oldenburg Breed Restricted Class with an 80%
- High point horse of the day
- "Born in the USA" award
USDF DSHB Open HOY Final standing
- Third in the nation for 2 y/o fillies with a median score of 80.850%
USDF All Breeds HOY for the German Oldenburg Division:
- First 2 y/o old fillies with a median score of 80.85%
Highest Scoring German Oldenburg of all ages for DSHB in 2006
Dressage at Lexington (Lexington, VA)
- First 2-year old Filly Class 76.0%
- German Oldenburg Breed Restricted Class 72.2%
- Third in the filly Championship class
Too Hot to Trot Sport Horse Breed Show I at
Morven Park, VA
- First 2-Year Old Filly Class 81.3% out of 14
- Champion German Oldenburg Breed Restricted Class 81.9% out of 9
- Championship Class Participant
Too Hot to Trot Sport Horse Breed Show II at
Morven Park, VA
- Third 2-Year Old Filly Class 82.1% out of 14 in class
- Champion German Oldenburg Breed Restricted Class 82.1% out of 9
Dressage at Devon (the most prestigious breed show
in the country)
- Third 2-Year Old Filly Class 80.4% (out of 38 fillies)
- Sixth German Oldenburg Breed Restricted Class with 77.9% out of 20


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We all pay sales tax on a lot of items we buy at the store, but do you also have to pay a tax when you throw those things away?
The short answer: Yes. Everyone in New York State must be charged and pay sales tax on trash removal.
Viewer Mark Doran wanted to know why.
"I see a line that shows that there's a sales tax there and it kind of surprised me and I thought I would ask you that question," said Doran.
We went to Alex Sigismondi, owner of Al's Maintenance for the answer.
Taney: Why a sales tax on Garbage?
Sigismondi: Trash pick-up is a service. Anything that gets labor added on to it, sales tax gets charged on to it.
Which leads to a bigger question our viewer had.
"What kind of services can we expect to be taxed and what not?" said Doran.
Most services come with a sales tax in NYS.
For example, as we reported in a previous good question story about your grocery bill, if you pick up a bagel at the store and take it home, it's not taxed.
But if you order a bagel at a deli counter, have it sliced and toasted, it's taxed because a service was involved.
There are not too many fans of this including business owners.
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Blu-Ray Releases Today
Avengers:Age of Ultron hits shelves today. The epic Marvel superhero team assembles once again after Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr, tries to initiate a peacekeeping initiative by activating an artificial intelligent cyborg named Ultron. The team quickly finds out that Ultron has a nefarious and dark motive instead, willing to stop at nothing and it's up to the Avengers to restore order once again.
The Blu-Ray release also includes a featurette of the making of the film, in addition to some back story to the Infinity Stones which references and sets up future films in the Marvel Universe. The Blu-Ray also features a hilarious gag reel along with deleted and extended scenes. As usual with Marvel films, the audio is spectacular featured in DTS-HDMA audio.
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I had said a week ago, while it was still 80 degrees, that I really wanted it to snow this year. I did NOT mean right away. No, it hasn't snowed, but the 30 something degree weather outside at the moment feels like it could. I just wasn't ready to go to sleep warm and wake up cold. I wanted to ease into winter.
I am very excited about my busy week next week. Jaime and I go to the NKOTB concert next Thursday night, followed by trick-or-treating with Abbey on Friday, and finally ending with the Power of Pink relay Saturday morning. It's going to be busy, but very fun. However, I'll be glad when things slow down.
Finally, I've got a tadpole (it's actually from a growafrog kit) that I just got in the mail. He's so cute! I'll post more on him with a picture later......Ok, that's what's going on in my world!
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you can also buy a butterfly kit online too. did you know that? It is pretty neat, but I would wait till spring to get it :)
- October 24, 2008 at 3:12 PM
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Welcome back dear followers and readers to our 2nd post for interesting apps, sites and tips for Instagram users. In our last post I shared a few Apps, sites and tips. Today I will share more interesting things for you to become more productive and efficient when you use Instagram app. So let's start our ride!
1- Overgram and Instarabic
Sometimes when we take pictures we would like to put memorable or interesting comments on the picture, but Instagram app still doesn't provide this feature yet! So an alternative solution for this challenge is to use these two interesting apps:
A- Overgram is an app that will allow you to write in english and you can use it with different interesting fonts.
B- InstArabic This is app is for arabic users who would like to write on their photos and share it with their friends and loved ones.
2- Taking multiple pictures is one of the most advices that I like to share with others and it is very effective to take more than one picture from the same scene, because some times the first picture is blurry or someone passed…..etc. So my advice is to always take multiple pictures.
3- TagsforLikes
Want to see your picture get searched more often, want to get more likes, to know the top hashtags, and sometimes get more followers this app will help you a lot. So enjoy the likes 🙂
4- Follow professional photographers and learn from them how they take pictures and what kind of angles, lenses, apps and devices they use. So like, comment and learn. Instagram profile promote many photographers on a weekly basis and that is a good start for you.
How many pictures you took from your camera or your mobile device and sometimes we don't know where did we put the flash drive or maybe we lost the data?! Yikes! Here's the solution for you! Recollects (InstArchive) helps you recollect all your Instagram photos and save it in a zip file and have a backup in case something goes wrong. Simple as that.
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Like the pugnacious WWF personalities upon which its action figures are based, U.S. toyco Jakks Pacific is talking about dominating the world. Buoyed by a 15% jump in revenue in the first nine months of 2001 over the same period in 2000 (at press time, Jakks had yet to report its Q4 results), the Malibu-based company is aiming to strengthen its presence outside North America.
'The industry's leaders [like Mattel and Hasbro] do more than 30% of their sales internationally, so we see this area as a tremendous growth opportunity for us,' says Joel Bennett, executive VP and CFO at Jakks. He adds that the company's goal is to increase international sales from between 8% and 9% of its overall business to between 20% and 25% in the next two to three years.
Six-year-old Jakks has strong brands besides the WWF, including arts and crafts lines Flying Colors and Pentech, acquired in 1999 and 2000 respectively. With these franchises in its corner, Bennett says the time is right for Jakks to forcefully push its products globally.
To that end, in November, the company announced a multi-year agreement to let Melbourne, Australia-based toyco Funtastic handle marketing and distribution of its products in Australia and New Zealand. Though Jakks previously used sales agents to manage its products internationally, the Funtastic deal–and all future distribution agreements–will include guaranteed minimums that its distribution partner will have to meet. Bennett says this stipulation gives Jakks greater control over how its products are marketed and merchandised abroad.
On the acquisitions front, Jakks purchased British toyco Kidz Biz for an undisclosed sum last month. Kidz Biz, which was already distributing Jakks' WWF product in the U.K., posted revenues of US$20 million in 2001. And though KB had some of its own proprietary brands in the sporting goods and science kits categories, Bennett says Jakks bought the company primarily to leverage its distribution infrastructure for further expansion into Europe. 'We think there's still a lot to mine in Europe. It's the next biggest toy market outside of the U.S., so we'll focus our efforts there initially,' he says.
As for future acquisitions beyond Europe, Bennett says the company is looking at territories in which WWF programming grabs high ratings–like Japan, where it airs for free (TV Tokyo) and on pay-TV (JSKY Sports TV).
Though Jakks certainly has the financial wherewithal to make several additional toyco pick-ups, Bennett says the company will likely strive to make fewer but larger acquisitions. In addition to cash from ongoing operations which totalled US$31 million in the first three quarters of 2001, Jakks has roughly US$110 million to play with–US$60 million raised from an IPO in '99 and a US$50-million line of credit from a Bank of America-led consortium–as well as the option of raising more capital on the open market.
Jakks once primarily trolled for North American merchandising rights. But now that the company is extending its reach around the globe, Bennett says it will be able to compete more aggressively for worldwide rights to entertainment properties. 'Because we're making an investment in tooling and product development, we can leverage that investment across more markets, so we'll have a lot more opportunities when it comes to licensing.'


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Hall-fabrics, weatherprotection, tents, tarpaulins, chapels and much much more.
Everything are made in our productionplant in Timrå whick is one of Europes biggest and most modern of it´s kind concerning PVC-fabrics.
Today we also manufacture a variety of special products like pallet covers, pool liners, flood protectors and much much more.
No job is to small and no job is to big. We make small curtains but we also make hall-fabrics up to several thousand squaremeters.NHK is also a subcontractor to many of the leading companies in tents, warehouses and weathershelters.
Our assembly division has been mouting warehouses, weathershelters, tent etc etc all over the world ever since the company was founded in 1997.
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THOMAS YOUNG (1773-1829), English man of science, belonged to a Quaker family of Milverton, Somerset, where he was born on the 13th of June 1773, the youngest of ten children. At the age of fourteen he was acquainted with Latin, Greek, French, Italian, Hebrew, Persian' and Arabic. Beginning to study medicine in London in 1792, he removed to Edinburgh in 1794, and a year later went to Gottingen, where he obtained the degree of doctor of physic in 1796. In 1797 he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In the same year the death of his grand-uncle, Richard Brocklesby, made him financially independent, and in 1799 he established himself as a physician in Welbeck Street, London. Appointed in 18o1 professor of physics at the Royal Institution, in two years he delivered ninety-one lectures. These lectures, printed in 1807 (Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy), contain a remark-able number of anticipations of later theories. He resigned his professorship in 1803, fearing that its duties would interfereEnd of Article: THOMAS YOUNG (1773-1829)
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Today my Spotlight is on Baldylocks
For those who many not know who she is (I didn't until a few weeks ago-she inspired me to make my blog public), BaldyLocks is a cancer survivor, and a fellow Canadian at that! No, her battle was not with Thyroid Cancer. Her battle is with AML- a form of leukemia, (but we won't hold that against her!). While our types of cancers are different many of us feel the same fears, and have the same struggles and stresses in our lives. I saw her on "The Stupid Cancer Show" and much of what she says echos how I feel, proving that all cancer patients have comonalities regardless of the diagnosis. Like her I now feel I have the right to say F*ck when it suits me. I have read many of her posts and she is very "real" and very open with her feelings about her life, career, and parenting and the impact cancer has had on all three. Simply put this chick rocks.
When you are done checking out her video, you should give her some bloggy lovin' over at : The Adventures of Baldylocks
Baldylocks is now added to my Blog Roll
Friday, February 5, 2010
Blog Spotlight - The Adventures of Baldylocks
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- Tracey said...
Hi Coleen
Thank you for passing by my blog, it means a lot and its good to know it interests people too. I hope your on the road to recovery too.. I'm going to follow you if thats ok? xx Hang in there girlie xx
- February 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- l'optimiste said...
I don't believe it! Hello Tracey! :o)
Coleen - we definitely have the right to say f*ck when it suits us!! I should think we should all wear it on a t-shirt!
Yours should say "f*ck off, it's NOT a good kind!" ;o)
- February 5, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- BaldyLocks said...
Thanks for spotlighting me, how nice! I'm going to add you to my blog roll as well. I love the look you have going on here, I wish I could put that print up on my walls in my house. Beautiful!
Nice to 'meet' you!
- February 5, 2010 at 1:11 PM
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Off the ClockJul 24th, 2017 | By Editorial Staff | Category: Geri Roskopf's Blog
Tow Times magazine has been featuring articles about towers with pastimes, hobbies or passions outside of the 24/7/365 grind of towing. I think you need something in your life besides work to help you keep sane and balanced.
I find it interesting to learn what towers do outside of work. I know towers who go camping, watch NASCAR racing or get involved with local track racing, go cross country skiing, are interested in amateur radios, collect toy tow trucks or other automotive memorabilia, watch UFC fighting and other sporting events, play a good game of poker, ride their Harleys, work in the yard, travel, read, play hockey or go boating.
Towers also find time to give back to their communities and charitable events and join clubs and organizations. Many are involved in their local chambers of commerce, volunteer fire departments, Lions Club, Knights of Columbus, VFW, Rotary and church. While being a member of their state and national towing associations is related to work, a tower I know said being a member "is a good way to network, meet others in our industry, share stories, get advice and build business and personal relationships."
I think what's most important for towers is making and spending time with family and friends. I know for too many years my business has been my life. While that's not a bad thing (I do have to eat and pay the bills), for my overall well-being, I know there's more to life than work.
My advice is to find the time to do what makes you happy and don't feel guilty about it. You've heard the saying "life is too short," which is why I like what singer/songwriter Kristian Bush sings in his song "Trailer Hitch": Never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch.


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Above & Beyond – Brixton Academy Full Line-Up
Written by Michael
October 12, 2010 2:37 pm
211 Stockwell Road, London, SW9 9SL
10pm – 4am
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Above & Beyond at Brixton Academy on Saturday 30th October represents Jono, Paavo and Tony's biggest UK show yet and their final London date of 2010. Featuring a three-hour set from Above & Beyond themselves, the show also represents the biggest collection of talent from A&B's Anjunabeats roster ever to appear in the capital. Joining Above & Beyond will be Anjunadeep's Jaytech, the prodigious Mat Zo and 80s-inspired electronic house act Michael Cassette.
Above & Beyond's warm-up DJ of choice, the ever-reliable Jaytech was responsible for the first ever artist LP on Anjunadeep with 2008's 'Everything Is OK'. Having remixed BT's classic 'Flaming June' and mixed the acclaimed Anjunadeep 03 compilation alongside James Grant, the Berlin-living Australian has also spent 6 weeks at the top of Beatport's progressive chart this year with 'Milano', his collaboration with Boom Jinx. Now putting the finishing touches to his second artist album, Jaytech's groove-fuelled sound will be the perfect musical bridge to Above & Beyond's headline set on the night.
Mat Zo is one of the most exciting big room talents to break through the ranks of late, the prodigious North Londoner has been responsible for classics such as 'Synapse Dynamics', 'Lucky Strike' and recent smash 'Near The End' and is a regular in the CD wallets of the world's biggest DJs. Recently invited to remix Kylie Minogue, he is also surely the only artist to top the Beatport charts in two entirely separate genres at the same time, thanks to his storming drum & bass output for Hospital Records as MRSA.
Completing the main room line-up is Michael Cassette. A star performer on Anjunadeep, Michael Cassette is behind the classic 80s-sparkled groover 'Shadow's Movement', as well as countless other Anunadeep classics, and is now preparing to release a long awaited debut artist album in November. Flying over from Finland especially, Michael Cassette will be opening the main room with a live set of their bright, 80's inspired and Balearic-tinged electronic house – a sound which has found fans among disco blogs, electro DJs and the core Anjunabeats faithful alike.
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Ah, holiday meal leftovers….what to do, what to do? Well I say 're-purpose!' I enjoy cooking up new dishes with leftovers because half of the work is already done! What I like to do with my leftover cranberry sauce is to make a uniquely festive cranberry coffee cake. I wanted to create a coffee cake that wasn't too sweet to balance out the effects of the cranberry sauce and white chocolate chips. This coffee cake is great to serve for unexpected guests or to enjoy it as a snack. This recipe is versatile so you can swap out some of the flour for oat flour, add flax and omit the white chocolate chips if you desire.
Recently I decided to weigh ingredients for cakes, breads and tortes to ensure a consistent outcome. When I say recent, I mean I made the change a week ago. So, instead of using dry measures, I will be creating and perfecting sweet treats with scale. As a child, my mom always weighed her ingredients, which is standard in Swiss baking.
The only measuring cup my mom had was the standard 2-cup liquid measuring cup! I used that cup for a variety of recipes until my mom bought me a set of dry measures! Now, I will admit that weighing ingredients takes a little more time, but weighing ingredients is more accurate and will help bring you consistent results. There are several articles/posts on the subject!
- 125 grams or 1 cup all purpose flour
- 50 grams or ⅓ cup whole wheat flour
- 25 grams oats or ¼ cup (not quick oats)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 113grams or 1 stick of butter, melted unsalted butter or ½ cup vegetable oil
- 150 grams or ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon orange or lemon zest
- 3 tablespoons half and half cream
- 200 grams or ½ cup cranberry sauce
- 70 grams or ¼ cup white chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Lightly grease and flour a 9" loaf pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, sift or whisk together flours, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- In a stand mixer, beat together melted butter or oil, sugar and zest for 5 minutes.
- Add egg, beat until smooth, (about 2 minutes).
- Alternating with flour, add half and half cream, using either the paddle attachment or the whisk, until the batter comes together.
- Finally, stir in cranberry sauce and white chocolate chips just until combined and pour into prepared pan. Bake for 40 minutes in preheated oven.
- Let cool in pan for 10 minutes before removing from pan and finish cooling on wire rack.


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VO2 max, or maximal oxygen uptake, is a measurement that determine an athlete's capacity to perform sustained exercise. VO2 max is the maximum amount of oxygen that an individual can utilize during maximal exercise and is generally considered the best indicator of an athlete's cardiovascular fitness and aerobic endurance. The more oxygen you can use during high level exercise, the more energy you can produce.
Your VO2 max is expressed as a number that reflects how many milliliters of oxygen you are using in one minute per kilogram of body weight and written as ml/kg/min. If your VO2 max is high, you will likely be able to do more strenuous activity for a longer period of time. If it is low, you will quickly become winded with only minimal effort. Elite endurance athletes typically have very high VO2 max values.
VO2 Max can be tested on either a programmed treadmill or spin bike. The resistance will keep building throughout the test process. Your heart rate will be recorded each minute. Should you complete the test without having to stop, there is a point at which your heart rate should level out regardless of the increase in work. This will be your VO2 max.
What can you do with the results? Here are some heart rate zones you will be able to use as guidelines:
Recovery Zone is 60 - 70% of your VO2 Max: Active recovery training should fall into the lower end of this zone.
Aerobic Zone is 70 – 80% of your VO2 Max: Exercising in this zone will help develop your aerobic system.
Anaerobic Zone is 80 – 90% of your VO2 Max: Training in this zone will help to improve your body's ability to deal with lactic acid and may improve your lactate threshold. This type of training should be of shorter duration with recovery zone work of double duration between efforts.
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In addition to public apathy and combat fatigue among participants, the endless debates among Democratic and Republican presidential aspirants have generated quite a few dreadful proposals for curing for the federal and trade deficits.
Rep. Richard A. Gephardt's trade bill, despite a number of reasonable elements, is, as generally charged, protectionist. No sensible soul ought to ignore the near certainty that its enactment and passage over an expected veto by President Reagan--happily, an unlikely series of events--would set off a round of retaliation and counter-retaliation at least as disastrous for us as for our trading partners. The principal reason we do poorly at selling domestic goods at home and abroad is the general public perception that Japanese, West German and other foreign consumer goods are higher in quality and less subject to defect than their made-in-America rivals. The challenge to our overpaid chief executives is to shift their attention from financial maneuvering and the delights of mergers and acquisitions to factory workplaces and labor-management relations.
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The three-year budget-balancing plan of Illinois Sen. Paul Simon requires simultaneous reductions of unemployment and interest rates without recognition of inflationary consequences or the need for some sort of price and wage controls to mitigate those consequences. Just to make matters worse, the good senator, running as a self-proclaimed liberal, supports a balanced budget amendment calculated to sabotage his worthy plans to increase federal spending on health, jobs and education. Unkindly but accurately, Missourian Gephardt labeled Simon's scheme Reaganomics with a bow tie.


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Investors are constantly bombarded by triviality and meaningless data. It is therefore hard to make sense of all the noise, and then to know how to interpret the data to make good investment decisions. Take for example this article from MarketWatch entitled Weekly jobless claims fall 34,000 to 407,000.
Should long-term investors be that concerned whether the report said 407,000 or even 441,000? What should the reaction to reports such as this be? Considering that this is just one week's data set and is subject to changes, it seems that trends are more important than a single point in time. Even given the fact that weekly jobless claims are less than 450,000 in four out of the last five weeks, the four-week average of 436,000 (which is a two year low) is still too high to reduce overall unemployment rates.
So what did investors think of this new data? It seems that some took this as a clue that "employment-related companies" could benefit from this decreased level of unemployment claims. Jeffry Bartash noted that MWW, RHI and KFRC gained 7.9%, 3.3%, and 2.7% respectively. It seems to be nearly the opposite by logic for recruiters, as the fewer number of newly laid-off employees there are, the less need there is for employment assistance services.
There are, of course, important trends that investors should keep close track of. One of them is inflation, or the scarier side called deflation. This is one reason that we look so closely at the price indexes of the ISM reports. I cannot deny that there is always a possibility of rising inflation levels, but the trend in inflation is downward. The US, being an open liberal economy with a diverse resource base and a broad capital base that includes high levels of human capital, should prevent rapid changes in price stability at least over the short term. While there is a possibility of price changes in a limited basket of products, the US attributes listed above should minimize any vicious cycles of inflation.
Inflationistas and Hyperinflationistas Should Take Their Own Advice
There has been much - and I mean way too much - written about QE2 (Quantitative Easing). Many good economists from both conservative and liberal points of view have expressed their views on this topic, so I find no reason to belabor that. (Even Mish felt frustrated when Debating the Flat Earth Society about Hyperinflation.)
The question I raise here is, what do the inflationistas and hyperinflationistas advise us to do and what is their investment strategy? I distinguish between the two for those that may see some level of inflation rising but are not sure to what degree are more than likely to see any levels of inflation above zero as bad. These are called the inflationistas. The second group (hyperinflationistas) only predict that the US will end up like Zimbabwe or the Weimar Republic and see no other alternative scenarios.
One group that is always ready to declare hyperinflation is Kitco. Strangely, every article I have read ends with advice to buy gold, no matter what the state of the economy has been over the last 10 years. For example, Chris Mack wants to Quantify What QE2 Means for Future Inflation and Gold and Silver Prices. His conclusion about inflation is:
QE2 Projected to See Inflation Rise by 10-20%!A dollar on November 1st is now worth 92 cents if measured in treasuries or 91 cents if measured with the money supply. It can be seen that inflation as measured by the growth in money supply is projected to increase by 10 to 20 percent on an annualized basis.
He also implies that inflation could be as high as 100% if we assume it goes to currency solely. So what advice do hyperinflationists give, aside from buying gold and silver (Gold or Apple?) or whatever they are hawking? Although not very elaborate in explanation, trevorlewthor tells us How to Get Ready for Hyperinflation.
The first bit of advice, urging first time buyers to buy a new house, is certainly good advice, as this will avoid uncertainty about monthly housing costs. Refinancing is simply a cost-benefit analysis and is good advice no matter the level of inflation in the future. If hyperinflationistas actually believed that inflation levels will skyrocket based on QE2 or the stimulus packages or simply the dropping in the value of the dollar, then of course buying tangible assets is the best course of action now. And taking on more debt now is a way to leverage across time to maximize returns.
The simplest way to determine how to invest is to use net present value (NPV) on each set of assets to determine under which scenarios one would achieve positive returns. The sooner that hyperinflation takes hold, then the more number of asset classes will increase above a positive NPV. Take for example this graph (click to enlarge):
Once inflation starts its vicious cycle, it spins higher and higher. Thus to take advantage of it, an investor should try to get into higher levels of debt when rates are still low.
The second point of the article seems to contradict higher levels of debt. But while the first point was in regard to fixed rates of interest, the second point is mostly in regard to variable rates that will adjust (although with some lag) upward as inflation and inflation expectations increase dramatically. So yes, it is good advice to lower these debts that are variable in interest just as moving from renting to buying will reduce uncertainty about outflows of money.
In addition, consumers should not necessarily take on more debt, but planned consumption might be better now instead of later when costs have risen dramatically. If the consumer is already planning to make major purchases, like a new car or kitchen appliances, then purchasing them now and possibly using the low interest rates as mentioned above is sound advice.
The third bit of advice is good no matter what the future holds. Since high levels of inflation and especially hyperinflation alter the structural components of the economy, it is best to think about which sectors of the economy are more likely to grow and which are to shrink. For example, even though tangible assets, including buildings and land, grow in value, long-term investments are no longer feasible. If a project takes more than a short time, the costs for continuing the project become astronomical, even if cost of capital was low and/or fixed (interest rates). Costs for raw materials and, of course, labor costs increase dramatically during the final stages of any project.
One area that does well historically under hyperinflation is the entertainment business. The growth of German cinema during the 1920's certainly leads one to believe that hyperinflation does not stymie this sector, and in fact helps promote it. Although the "blockbusters" may disappear, the number of films produced increased dramatically under hyperinflation. Labor costs are relatively low and time to get film projects to the projector can be fairly short.
Point four goes along with buying tangible assets now. Stocks, of course, offer more liquidity and thus more savings should be devoted to this liquid asset under hyperinflation. Since cash or cash equivalents become nearly worthless, lowering cash balances is a good move. Margin accounts would be variable in rates but a second mortgage on a house may result in positive NPV of the investments in stocks. One way to increase assets now is to follow point five and put more in retirement vehicles now. Pre-tax dollars help to lower taxes now and provide income in retirement when hyperinflation has gone away (hopefully).
Point six is another way to increase a family's well being/wealth and to increase savings, as with point three. Increased savings then can be used under the other advice categories listed.
Our Economy Desperately Needs More Hyperinflationistas
Looking through the advice given above, I see many similarities in what is needed to get the US economy out of this recession. Technically we are out of the recession but clearly unemployment rates near 10% are too high to consider the economy as functioning well. The benefits to the economy from this advice to individuals is done through several different avenues. First, increasing levels of tangible assets in portfolios helps create a base on the prices and prevents nominal asset price declines. This is something that is definitely needed with respect to the housing markets. This changes expectations of prices in the future to a more stable outlook versus deflationary expectations.
Secondly, the advice will lead to increased "absorption" into the economy through both increased production and consumption. This process is through increased spending on education, increasing production at current jobs or taking on additional jobs, front loading spending now instead of the future, and even increasing household production. Increased levels of savings do not directly raise absorption, but this does not lead to stuffing money in a mattress; rather, it increases levels of investment, which raises absorption.
Thirdly, settling some debts and taking on others increases the absorption and number of transactions in an economy, thus increasing the velocity of money.
Should Krugman (et al.) Worry About the Inflationistas (or Hyperinflationistas)?
From the above analysis, it appears that if enough individuals in our economy take the advice of hyperinflationistas, then our economic troubles will vanish, or at least be greatly reduced. Dean Baker tells us Why printing money makes sense and how
Right now, even a counterfeiter issuing dud dollars would be better for the economy than our deficit-fixated policymakers.
Baker, like most Keynesians, talks in terms of aggregate demand. I used the term absorption to more precisely express not only consumer demand but also aggregate spending, which includes planned and unplanned investments for businesses, and of course government demand.
His idea is that if a short-term counterfeiter could produce a lot of money (cash) now and distribute it throughout the economy, then aggregate demand would increase until it is no longer needed. One problem with this idea is that it would alter the demand structure of the economy when implemented and would then make a reversal of that demand structure to the correct one. This is based on the assumption that "free money" would alter people's spending patterns from normal patterns, and more than likely result in a huge increase in luxury goods consumed in the short term. Baker describes how the counterfeiting stimulus would work in the following passage:
In the current situation, it would provide an enormous boost to GDP and create millions of jobs. After all, everyone thinks the money is real. It is no different whether the counterfeiter and his underlings spend $2tn of counterfeit money or if firms suddenly start investing their hoards of cash or households begin to spend again as though the housing bubble had never collapsed.
He did not include increased government spending in the list of sectors that could bring our economy to full employment, but that was clearly implied in the article. What he is trying to convey is an autonomous increase in absorption from the various sectors of the economy that through a Keynesian multiplier effect increases aggregate demand.
Essentially, whether counterfeiter or hyperinflationista advice works will depend on whether it changes people's expectations and thus behavior in the markets. It does not appear that the fiscal stimulus packages have worked because they never changed expectations and monetary policy instruments have run against the zero interest rates bound, which have not changed overall inflation expectations.
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Question about Windows 7 Clean OEM installation guide
I wanted to use the Windows 7 OEM clean installation guide.
I have an Acer Aspire and I saw that there are many programs that belong to Acer, and the clean OEM installation guide is going to do a clean installation without all these Acer programs. I wanted to know if it's going to be bad not to have all these specific programs for this laptop?
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Which model of Acer Aspire laptop do you have?
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If you don`t use them, then there`s no reason to have them.
Check the manufacture's website to see if the programs are there to download.
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It's very rare that Users want any of the factory bloatware back after a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7.
However sometimes software queued on the PC model's Support Downloads webpage is needed for certain function keys, lighting and other features. This is why the tutorial says to check for these during the performance shake-out period. There are also Special Notes for Owners at the end of tutorial which provide more details on this.
Another example is cam software. It's really only needed if you want to look at yourself, since the simple driver will allow the cam's use on Facebook, messenger, Skype where it is actually used. If any needed settings controls are missing you may want to reinstall the OEM cam software to see if it helps.
Which Acer program do you now rely upon?
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You have to be careful with the factory programs. If they relate to some particular piece of hardware, they may be the only option to control that hardware.
Example: I had a Sony laptop with a backlit keyboard. The settings for the backlighting could only be controlled with a program supplied by Sony and which came with the laptop.
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Wolfgang, is this Special Note sufficient for what you experienced with Sony Clean Reinstall?
Special Note for Sony Vaio Owners:
Software which enables Fkey functions and illumination must be reinstalled from the Sony Support Downloads webpage in the order as shown here: Function keys don't work after clean install - Windows 7 Forums
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Wolfgang, is this Special Note sufficient for what you experienced with Sony Clean Reinstall?
Special Note for Sony Vaio Owners:
Software which enables Fkey functions and illumination must be reinstalled from the Sony Support Downloads webpage in the order as shown here: Function keys don't work after clean install - Windows 7 Forums
I ended up returning the laptop because the BIOS did not allow to run any Linux and you also could not change the boot priority to boot from an external disk although the laptop had a USB3 and eSata port.
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It's an Acer Aspire 5732z (quite old) but I was wondering if any of the preinstalled software is requiered for the laptop to function properly
**Edit : I thought of doing clean install because I just got this laptop from someone and I scanned it with MBAM and it had many malware, so I was thinking to perform a clean reinstall. But maybe you have a way to check if the pc is really safe now without any malwares / viruses on it (maybe not all of them were removed), so I won't have to do the clean insal because I'm afraid there are still hidden malwares that can steal assowrds etc.. Is there a real way to check if the pc is completetly clean?
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If you have buttons for Email, Internet, Bluetooth, etc. then you can download LaunchManager from Acer the rest you don't need. All your other drivers can be found at
Do you have the COA sticker with the Key on it?
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Thanks Jerry, yes, I have the COA sticker.
But before I do a clean install : the reason I want to do it is because I am afraid there are some malwares that maybe MBAM and the antivirus did not find. ( I did a full scan with both ).
I remember I had the same problem with a different computer, and before I did the clean install, I remember I was told here to download some programs and post some logs from these programs and they could tell me whether I have malwares or not.. maybe it will work here as well? ( I can't remember exactly what it was ).
Or, if MBAM first detected 20 malwares, I should perform a clean reinstall just to make sure there are no hidden malwares that cannot be seen by it? (Or there is no such thing as hidden malwares and I'm just paranoid, and if MBAM finds nothing anymore, there is really nothing to worry about?)
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The order of the titles of the Wall Street Journal's articles explains the problem well. "Bombardier Nearing Joint Venture with Airbus for C-Series Jet Business, Sources Say," the team wrote last night, and then confirmed this morning. Closely following was "Airbus Secures Canadian Wingman in Dogfight With Boeing," and then "Boeing's Bombardier Fight Blows Up in Its Face." Aviation Week called the combination "industry-shaking." Granted, the rumors started early in the year, but it took Boeing's railing against Bombardier's subsidy from the Canadian federal government to induce this deal. Omitted from the all the analysis, however, is the effect on military procurement in the United States. As I view the dynamics, there's plenty for the Pentagon to like.
From a military standpoint, by my conception of the national technological and industrial base—and incidentally how US federal law enshrines that concept—Canadian production is as good as American. That said, nationalistic impulses vary. But as long as they place employment before profit, there's nothing to dislike about moving production into the United States, whether the firm doing so is from Washington State, Quebec, or the Occitanie. As the WSJ noted this morning,
Airbus will move some assembly of the C-Series to its Alabama plant, a neat workaround to Bombardier's tariff problem. More than 50 percent of the C-Series already contained U.S. origin parts, according to Bombardier. So in the confusing world of point-of-origin trade fights, the plane is coming home.
Whirlpool may complain with delayed effect to the Commerce Department about Samsung moving its production of washing machines around the Far East, in a clear effort to dodge point-of-origin problems, but Boeing may be out of options here. It's fair to wonder why Boeing thought that Bombardier's C-Series so threatened sales of 737s in the United States. Without the deep discounts on those 125 or so CS100s, would Delta have traded up to 737s, tolerating lower load factors over time on the same routes? Perhaps, but that sounds like strategizing from a fairly complicated economic model, and perhaps one rife with assumptions.
To the folks in Toulouse, that Canadian-now-Alabamian plane seems small enough that it doesn't take too many sales from the A320 line. The C may not have sold well so far, but the Journal's Scott McCartney wrote last month of how much Swiss Air loves its lower-than-expected fuel consumption and its passenger comfort. If Airbus can translate this deal for an already-developed plane into real sales, the profits will reinforce its product development efforts, and the workload will reinforce its presence in Alabama.
To bring this question back to defense, consider what happens the next time the US Air Force needs another militarized airliner. Whether the flying service wants a tanker, transport, or surveillance plane, those guys in Alabama may have a more substantive industrial presence, and possibly better absorption of overhead across more units of production. That could translate into a sharper pencil, and at worst, another round of Boeing buying the business, just to keep the franchise. If nothing else, that's a distraction and a financial risk to foist on a competitor.
Well done, Airbus.


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After taking them out of their cribs, I announced we were getting dressed up today because we had to go meet someone. Then Sarah added, "He's like Santa." And I said, "Except he might not have a beard, he'll be dressed in black and there's a chance he's a woman."
"That's right," Sarah agreed. "He's a Judge and he's a very nice man, assuming he's a man. He could be a lady too."
And so that's how this day started.
We got dressed. We ate breakfast. We piled into the car. We map blasted how to get to the courthouse in Mineola. I've only lived here my whole life and gone to Mineola a million times...I was nervous. I didn't want to be late.
We got to the courthouse and sat down in the courtroom with all the other families about to adopt children. The (male) Judge entered the room and began telling some story about the best adoption he'd ever overseen. I drifted off and snapped back to attention when he said, "...and now that you're all about to become families..." It was like he tossed a cold glass of water in my face.
I've been struggling with why this adoption process is making me so...well...sick to my stomach. If I'm just plain honest about it, it's because this process reminds me of how ashamed I was to be gay. And it reminds me that I'm not equal. And in that lack of equality, it reminds me that I should probably still be ashamed on some level.
(For those of you in need of back story, refer to the following blog posts: Civil Rights & Vitamin D (posted 11.23.10) & Social Worker Sunday (posted 02.06.11)).
The good news is, I'm not ashamed to be gay anymore. It's a bit like a scar. Sometimes the scar hurts when it rains. Like today. But I'm not ashamed.
Days like today make me think of all the kids who are still ashamed. And it makes me think of the parents of those kids who have taken their own lives because they were so ashamed. And it makes me think of my own kids who stood in front of a Judge today and were told that they were not a family until today. They had to miss their Music Together class to be told that. Their teacher is going to let them make up the class. But still.
I can't really spell this whole thing out because I haven't processed it totally. All I can tell you is that a day like today reminds me that I'm different than you are. And I just want to stop being reminded of that already.
Nothing says "celebrate" more than breakfast at the diner with a plastic fire hat:
|Me with our son, Thomas


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It could be dark when it is early in the morning
Because sunlight never always tells the truth.
Our hearts wander in the shades of our hopes
As we wonder why we have been waiting for so long.
I hear your voice from a childish memory
When we tried to reach the sky of our dreams.
I remember the first step I made
Towards those playful arms –
I remember spinning around
And falling a few times.
There was always hope
In the middle of the dark;
There was always fear
In the middle of the day –
And it was then I knew
That nothing was what it seemed to be.
I fell and crawled a thousand miles
I tried to climb the mountains that kept us apart
I tried to sail the seas of the world
I always ended up in my room
Looking at the sky of our dreams.
It was nothing more than a wish
I knew would never come to me.


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Most residents of rural Colorado and New Mexico buy electricity from electric cooperatives, and most of the electric cooperatives in each state buy electricity from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. As part of their power supply contracts with Tri-State, each of those co-ops are currently limited to providing just 5% of their electricity needs from local renewable energy projects, and must purchase the rest from Tri-State.
Tri-State's limits on local energy development are a growing problem for co-op members in both states, as more co-ops seek the cost savings and other advantages of renewable energy. Surveys of the 18 co-ops in Colorado and 11 co-ops in New Mexico that buy power from Tri-State show an increasing number of co-ops that are approaching the 5% limit. The survey results show that at least five co-ops have reached the 5% limit on local energy development, including United Power, La Plata Electric, Delta-Montrose Electric, San Miguel Power, and Mora-San Miguel Electric.
Moreover, another eight co-ops are approaching the 5% limit, including Poudre Valley Electric, Otero County Electric, Central New Mexico Electric, San Luis Valley Electric, Sangre de Cristo Electric, Highline Electric, Southeast Colorado Power, and Sierra Electric.
A look at two Colorado electric cooperatives navigating the implications of solar power's declining costs
Emily Bowie at San Juan Citizens Alliance writes about how the La Plata Electric Association (LPEA) board of directors is discussing the implications of the declining costs of solar energy. Bowie describes how the "board's touchiest topic is how the declining costs of renewable energy (and rising costs of coal) should impact LPEA's future."
Some board directors are concerned about how declining solar power costs could encourage more customers to install their own rooftop solar arrays, and what that might mean for the electric cooperative.
Other board members are more focused on the opportunity for LPEA to take advantage of falling solar power prices, by pursuing its own solar projects. As LPEA director Bob Lynch put it, "I want to be part of a plan that figures out how to use solar to help all our members."
Fraser, CO - The town of Breckenridge passed a resolution last week establishing a goal to power the community with 100% renewable electricity by 2035. Breckenridge joins other Colorado towns and cities that are pursuing 100% renewable energy, including Pueblo, Boulder, and Nederland. Aspen achieved its 100% renewable energy goal in 2015, while other towns and cities including Denver and Durango are also considering renewable energy goals.
The responses from the utilities that serve those Colorado towns and cities show that these 100% renewable energy goals are helping push the region toward a cleaner electricity grid, achieving a broader impact than sustainability goals that remain within the boundaries of a municipality. That's consistent with a new report by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which argues that cities should focus their sustainability efforts on four strategic areas for maximum impact. First among those four strategic areas is using their position as major electricity consumers to help decarbonize the electricity grid:
While cities may believe they have little influence over the grid mix, in fact, they often represent a major portion of any local electric utility's customers, potentially giving them significant leverage to shape the emissions profile of the electricity consumed within their metropolitan area. Still, capturing this opportunity will not be easy, and cities cannot do it alone. Utilities and regulators must play a central role in ensuring the overall mix of renewables is appropriately balanced at a system level and that critical components such as energy storage are in place to ensure grid reliability. Nevertheless, cities have an essential role to play by setting clear decarbonization goals, aggregating demand for renewables, promoting energy efficiency, and shifting more urban energy consumption to electricity (especially in transportation and heating).
Lowering the emissions intensity of the electricity grid is an especially impactful way that municipalities in the Rocky Mountain region can advance their sustainability goals, because the region's grid is more dependent on coal, and therefore more carbon intensive, than other parts of the US. But as these Colorado towns and cities seek to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, they face varying challenges in working with the different utilities and electric cooperatives that sell electricity in Colorado. Colorado towns and cities are served by two investor owned utilities, 29 municipal utilities, and 22 rural electric cooperatives, according to the Colorado Energy Office
Let's look at four Colorado municipalities pursuing renewable energy goals, each with a different electricity provider: Breckenridge, Pueblo, Aspen, and Durango.
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Moody's report shows Tri-State's coal plants are more expensive than new renewable energy
Tri-State's limits on local energy development are a growing problem for co-op members
Governor Hickenlooper discusses Tri-State at the Climate Leadership Conference
Bids for Xcel's Colorado Energy Plan include a proposal for the world's largest battery
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Blocked from building more solar projects, United Power shifts to community batteries
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Solar projects in the works in Grand and Jackson counties
Mountain Parks Electric grapples with solar
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The world of virtual reality and content created for it, tends to be mostly interactive by nature. The fact that your movement with VR goggles dictates what happens during a virtual reality game, virtual reality video or other VR content tends to prove this. However, the interactivity of virtual reality content doesn't always go beyond simple head movement. Recently I spoke with a developer by the name of Hayden Lee, co-owner of VR studio Convrge from Seattle Washington. We spoke about their newest Stacks […]Read More »


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Aortic root replacement (ARR) is a well-described and highly effective technique for treating aortic root pathologies with excellent long-term outcomes and reported mortality ranging between 4-10% in specialized aortic centers [1-3]. Coronary button reimplantation is arguably one of the most challenging aspects of ARR operations, requiring mobilization and reattachment of the coronaries to the root graft. Reimplantation can be complicated by damage to the coronary buttons, coronary occlusion or malperfusion, and bleeding. The potential catastrophic complications of coronary reimplantation after ARR can occur in the immediate postoperative period [4, 5] or in the weeks and months following the operation [6-9]. In the present study, we describe our experience performing ARR with an experimental polyester graft featuring prefabricated coronary branches in an effort to prevent complications.
Materials and Methods
Patient Profile
In a single-surgeon experience of 134 proximal aortic replacements performed since 2008, 55 were root replacements. Of these, 17 (30%) required a variation of technique for coronary reimplantation (hemi-Cabrol Dacron graft or saphenous vein "jump" graft) of one or both coronary ostia as compared with the classic button Bentall reconstruction [10]. From June 2010 to April 2012, eight patients underwent ARR using a custom-made Dacron graft with prefabricated coronary side branches (Figure 1). This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, and informed consent was obtained from each patient. Two of the patients (25%) were female. Median age at the time of operation was 56.5 years (range, 42-68 years). There were six modified Bentall procedures (four with mechanical and two with bioprosthetic valves) and two valve-sparing ARRs (Table 1). Seven operations were performed electively for aortic root aneurysm, and one was performed emergently for acute Type A aortic dissection. In the elective group, three patients had a root aneurysm associated with aortic valve insufficiency, and two had a root aneurysm associated with aortic valve stenosis. The remaining two patients in the elective group had undergone prior sternotomies, one for aortic valve replacement and the other for an acute Type A dissection. In the former, there was an aortic root aneurysm with a prosthetic valve mismatch (21 mm mechanical); in the latter, there was a residual aortic root dissection associated with prominent root dilation and severe aortic valve insufficiency.
Table 1.
|Age (years)
|Graft size (mm)
|Valve type
|Valve size (mm)
|Follow-up (months)
|Root aneurysm Severe AI
|Root aneurysm Moderate AI
|Root aneurysm AV endocarditis
|Root aneurysm Severe AI
|Root aneurysm Severe AS
|Acute Stanford Type A dissection
|Root aneurysm Prosthetic valve mismatch
|Root aneurysm Chronic Stanford Type A dissection
Custom Dacron Graft with Prefabricated Coronary Side Branches
The graft was custom-made by MAQUET Cardiovascular, LLC (Wayne, NJ, USA) in sizes of 28, 30, and 32 mm (Figure 1A). Two, 8-mm diameter prefabricated branches were provided for coronary button anastomosis (Figure 1B). A third prefabricated branch was included as a side port for direct graft cannulation or for de-airing after reconstruction. Prosthetic valves were sewn into the graft in the operating room after the correct graft and valve size were determined [11].
Surgical Technique
The reconstruction technique using the custom Dacron graft has previously been reported in detail [11]. Cardiopulmonary bypass was established in all cases reaching mild hypothermia, except for the case of the acute Type A dissection, for which deep hypothermic circulatory arrest was established at a core temperature of 18°C, maintaining selective cerebral perfusion through the innominate artery at a rate of 10 ml/kg/min during completion of the "open" distal anastomosis. In this case, axillary arterial cannulation was utilized as opposed to cannulation of the distal ascending aorta, which was utilized in all other cases. Venous return was achieved through cannulation of the right atrial appendage using a multi-stage MC2X venous cannula (Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA). The left ventricle was vented in all cases through the right superior pulmonary vein. Myocardial protection was obtained by intermittent delivery of anterograde and retrograde cold blood cardioplegia. The aorta was transected at the sino-tubular junction. The coronary buttons were carefully prepared leaving a small cuff of aortic tissue, and the aortic annulus was sized. The selected valve was sewn into the graft matching the size of the aorta using a double layer of continuous 4-0 Prolene suture. The newly constructed valved conduit was sewn to the aortic annulus achieving appropriate alignment of the coronary branches to reach the native coronary buttons. At this point, reattachment of the left branch of the Dacron graft to the left main coronary button was approached. The graft branch intended for the left coronary ostium was trimmed to the appropriate length and sewn into place using a 5-0 Prolene running suture. The distal anastomosis to the native aorta was completed next, followed by completion of the anastomosis of the right branch graft to the right coronary button. To establish the appropriate length of the graft branch, the heart was distended, and the graft branch was trimmed accordingly. The anastomosis was completed with a running 5-0 Prolene suture. To check for adequate hemostasis at the anastomotic sites, cardioplegia was administered through the side-port branch of the graft, and the native aorta was subsequently unclamped, applying vent suction to the side port branch for de-airing purposes.
Among the eight cases, there were no immediate or delayed postoperative complications, including myocardial infarction, respiratory insufficiency, stroke, or death. At a mean follow-up period of 25.5 months (range, 17-38 months), all patients were noted to be alive and doing well. Echocardiograms, which were performed for all patients during hospitalization and at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups, showed no significant changes in left ventricular function compared with preoperative status as well as no new evidence of new wall-motion abnormalities. Angiographic computed tomography with coronary imaging, which was performed for all patients at the first follow-up visit and 6 months after hospital discharge, showed no defect of coronary perfusion. One patient who underwent a redo operation with a valve-sparing root replacement for a chronic Type A dissection showed mild-to-moderate residual aortic valve insufficiency. At an extended mean follow up of 42 months (range, 25-56 months), this patient died due to stroke-related complications 25 months after surgery. No other patients required further surgical reintervention or showed any clinical or radiologic signs of impairment of coronary perfusion.
Despite improvements in outcomes over the past decade, ARR is still associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Although many modifications in surgical technique based on the original Bentall-De Bono procedure [12] have reduced the incidence of complications, reimplantation of the coronary buttons still poses a significant challenge and may be responsible for the significant rate of associated complications. The occurrence of ventricular dysfunction, perioperative myocardial infarction, or surgical bleeding depends on the technical difficulty of coronary reimplantations [3-5, 11, 13]. Damage to the coronary buttons during mobilization and tension or kinking after completion of the anastomosis can cause coronary malperfusion [3, 4, 13-15]. These mechanisms are illustrated in detail by Elefteriades' group in their report describing "rescue coronary artery bypass grafting" to treat acute coronary insufficiency after ARR (Figure 2) [4, 16]. These challenges can be more difficult in redo operations or for porcelain aortas in which the presence of scar tissue and aortic calcification obstructs mobilization of the coronaries [13, 17, 18]. Similarly, in valve-sparing reconstructions, the presence of aortic valve leaflets re-implanted into the prosthetic graft may require more extensive coronary mobilization to find the appropriate re-attachment location on the Dacron graft. Furthermore, in cases of acute aortic dissection, mobilization and reimplantation of the coronaries involved by the dissection can result in irreparable damage to the buttons. For these reasons, different techniques have been proposed to reduce the rate of complications associated with coronary reimplantation. For instance, Westaby and colleagues propose a technique using a "pericardial hood" extension added to the right coronary anastomosis (Figure 3A) [14] to avoid kinking or tension, whereas others advocate the use of a coronary vein bypass interposed between the main aortic graft and the right coronary button [2].
The Cabrol reconstruction represents a more radical approach to the problem [19] and is meant to obviate the challenges of coronary reimplantation when mobilization of the coronaries is cumbersome [2, 13, 17-19]. Nevertheless, this technique may be associated with a higher rate of mortality and morbidity compared with modified Bentall reconstruction. In particular, both early and long-term results suggest that Cabrol reconstruction is inferior [2, 20], with a frequent incidence of Cabrol graft-conduit thrombosis and formation of anastomotic pseudoaneurysms [2, 21, 22]. This could be explained by the fact that the procedure is performed as a "bail-out" in place of the modified Bentall reconstruction in more complex cases or that normal flow-dynamics of the coronary circulation are compromised within the Cabrol graft conduit [2, 23]. In a long-term follow-up study of seven patients with Cabrol reconstruction, Knight and colleagues observed lower flow in the right side of the Cabrol graft than in the left side, which correlated with a high rate of right coronary ischemia [22]. Coronary flow hemodynamic studies show that resting coronary blood flow is approximately 5-7% of the entire cardiac output and that flow in the left and right coronary systems have different characteristics. A peak flow of 200–400 ml/min is reached in the left main coronary artery during diastole, whereas a peak flow of 40-60 ml/min is reached in the proximal right coronary artery during systole (Figure 4). The different flow-dynamics between the left and the right coronary arteries reflect differences in flow resistance in the two sides of the coronary circulation during various phases of the cardiac cycle and explain the computational fluid dynamics findings observed in the Cabrol graft. One modification of the Cabrol technique is based on the use of separated graft conduits (i.e., "legs" technique) interposed between the coronary buttons and the main body of the aortic graft. Mills and colleagues described 10 cases in which this technique was successfully used (Figure 3B) [24], but they did not conduct long-term follow-up. This reconstruction, like the Cabrol operation, allows completion of the anastomoses between the side branch grafts and the coronaries without requiring extensive mobilization of the buttons, but it has the major advantage of preserving the physiology of independent left and right coronary perfusion.
In our experience, the use of a custom-made Dacron graft with prefabricated coronary branches allows successful aortic root reconstruction by applying these same principles. In the present series, there were no early or late complications related to compromise of coronary perfusion. Only one patient died 25 months after surgery due to stroke-related complications. Serial follow-up echocardiograms obtained for each patient showed no significant changes in overall ventricular function or any new wall motion abnormalities compared with the preoperative condition. Every patient underwent computed tomography follow-up to obtain imaging assessment of coronary flow. There was no evidence of coronary flow obstruction or formation of anastomotic pseudoaneurysms (Figure 5). This latter complication is most likely related to the use of the "inclusion" technique that is traditionally adopted with the Cabrol reconstruction [13, 19], but it may also be related to the fact that these patients have been subject to postoperative anticoagulation to lower the risk of Cabrol graft thrombosis. By virtue of preserving the physiology of coronary circulation, which prevents the unbalanced coronary flow distribution within the Cabrol graft, none of our patients required any perioperative anticoagulation treatment, and only long-term aspirin therapy was administered.
The use of this graft simplifies coronary reattachment, minimizing the need for coronary mobilization, and also facilitates the anastomotic technique. This is in accordance with our experience with total arch and thoracoabdominal aortic replacement, in which the routine use of multibranched prosthetic grafts allows direct anastomosis to the native branch vessels as compared to completing button and island patch anastomoses. Our series, although limited in number, included five patients with large aneurysms, and one acute Type A dissection complicated by damage of both coronary ostia. In a recent report of their midterm experience with a modified Cabrol procedure, Elefteriades and colleagues report the use of a variation of the Cabrol reconstruction in a non-negligible 11.5% of their root replacements, indicating that the challenge of coronary button preparation and reimplantation can be significant [13]. Accordingly, previous reports in the literature of numerous modifications of the coronary reimplantation technique aimed at preventing complications with coronary perfusion reiterate the significance of this problem. The use of an aortic root graft with prefabricated coronary branches eliminates the need for proximal anastomoses to the main body graft, as in the "legs" technique, and allows easier access to the coronary anastomoses, providing better exposure for repair in case of bleeding at an anastomotic site as compared to Cabrol and modified Bentall reconstructions [13]. The side-port branch gives options for direct graft cannulation or vent suction after reconstruction is completed. The graft does not include Valsalva's sinuses, which would have the conceptual advantage, especially in valve-sparing procedures, of reproducing more physiologic blood flow within the aortic root. Although this aspect could have an impact on valve durability by reducing hemodynamic stress on the valve leaflets, in our experience it may represent a challenge for the correct reimplantation of the leaflets within the prosthetic graft by having a predetermined height of reattachment of the commissures to the sinotubular junction, which could ultimately impair leaflet coaptation [11]. Also, features of the Valsalva's prosthesis in facilitating implantation of the coronaries, as in redo operation or in cases of porcelain aorta, are obviated by the presence of coronary side branches reaching to the coronary ostia without a need for extensive dissection and mobilization.
The main limitation of the present study is the small number of cases. Although we are not necessarily advocating for the use of this graft in all cases of ARR, we consider its use beneficial in cases where mobilization and reimplantation of the coronary buttons is anticipated to be challenging, such as for redo cases, calcified aortic roots, large aneurysms, and aortic dissections. We find that avoiding the need for coronary button mobilization and facilitating the anastomotic technique are favorable features of this novel graft that may ultimately result in more widespread utilization for routine ARR. Long-term follow-up with computed tomography and computational fluid dynamics is required to further assess the durability of this reconstruction.
The Cabrol procedure has been the operation of choice as an alternative to modified Bentall reconstruction for complex ARR. However, the occurrence of complications with the Cabrol interposition graft has favored the rise of various modifications of coronary reimplantation. Our experience with the use of a prosthetic aortic root graft with prefabricated coronary branches has shown good early and midterm results, suggesting its possible utilization on a larger scale.


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