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As economies around the world emerge from the current downturn, many executives understand that what follows probably won't be just another turn of the business cycle. This new period will see a restructuring of the economic order. Some are calling it the "new normal,"1 marked by persistent uncertainty, tighter credit, lower consumer spending, and greater government involvement in business.
For executives who run major IT organizations, the implications are clear: they will have to make the IT function dramatically more productive, use IT more effectively to meet larger company goals, and embrace disruptive technologies that will shape the new economic terrain. Drawing upon our experience with clients, recent McKinsey surveys of executives, and a range of interviews with experts, we have analyzed what the new normal means for CIOs in Europe. While some of the forces impinging on them are specific to that region, many of our findings are applicable to IT leaders elsewhere as well.
First and foremost, CIOs will have to overcome hurdles that have limited IT's performance in recent years:
They must promote a much closer alignment between IT and the business units by embracing new organizational models that call for joint decision making. IT leaders will need better business skills, not just technical know-how.
IT productivity efforts must leap beyond cost cutting at the margins. CIOs will have to make fundamental changes in the way IT operates and campaign for technological improvements that will transform cost structures and operating models throughout the enterprise.
IT leaders must join with their business counterparts to seek out and implement technology-based innovations that will give companies long-term competitive advantages in a tougher economic climate.
In the past, IT performed satisfactorily if it made marginal progress in these areas. In the new normal, it must truly excel in all of them—the performance bar is higher, and the expectation that IT should contribute to corporate success is more insistent.
Europe's challenging landscape
While recent data suggest that the economic downturn may be bottoming out, rapid, robust recovery may prove elusive. Fewer than half of European executives—similar to their counterparts in other developed markets—expect their companies to perform better in 2009 than 2008: 38 percent expect profits to increase in 2009, compared with 42 percent in North America and 44 percent in Asia-Pacific. In contrast, executives in developing markets (including China and India) are more optimistic, as 53 percent expect profits to increase in 2009.2
In this environment, overall cost pressures on companies will remain unrelenting. IT organizations will therefore have to do their part in reducing budgets through productivity savings, as well as self-funding investments in everything from new servers to improved IT architectures. In fact, Europe's IT organizations appear to face higher cost pressures than their counterparts in other regions do: in another survey, 82 percent of the respondents from European companies expected flat or falling IT budgets for operating expenses in 2009, compared with 68 percent in North America, 80 percent in the Asia–Pacific region, and 62 percent in developing markets.3
IT will also be required to help improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of business operations (such as payroll and transactions) throughout the enterprise—and dramatically. Our survey of IT and business executives found that for European and non-European IT organizations alike, making business processes more efficient is the top priority and making them more effective a close second. Banks, for example, suffer from lower leverage and thus lower revenues in the aftermath of the crisis and must reduce operating costs substantially. Some institutions are therefore using powerful new cross-border IT platforms to gain efficiencies and provide more and better banking products through IT-backed self-service.
Despite the pressures, companies can't lose sight of the opportunities for the kind of transformation that would help them establish market leadership in the new normal. Our research has shown that 47 percent of market-leading global IT companies before the 2000–03 recession didn't hold onto their leadership positions after it.4 In a positive sign, 31 percent of European executives—when asked to list their top priorities—included the development of new products and services in response to changing consumption patterns, and 22 percent included the search for new markets in response to changes resulting from the economic crisis.5
Hurdles for the CIO
While the new normal creates a novel set of challenges for CIOs, the problems that made IT less productive before the downturn haven't disappeared. In some cases, their impact has deepened as a result of aggressive cost cutting and unresolved structural issues. At many companies, the IT function and the business side fail to coordinate their activities sufficiently, which makes organizations less efficient and effective and impedes the collaborative effort needed to adopt and apply game-changing technologies.
Responding to our survey, 71 percent of European IT and business executives said that IT must be tightly integrated with business strategy, but only 27 percent thought that this actually happened at their companies. In addition, fewer CIOs in Europe than in other regions report to the CEO (Exhibit 1): only 31 percent in Europe, versus 56 percent in North America, for example.6 This finding suggests that European companies continue to think IT leaders should focus on back-office operations rather than strategy and growth efforts.
The weakest link: CIO to CEO
Many of the European IT executives surveyed believe that there is room to improve the effectiveness of traditional IT activities, such as managing the IT infrastructure (38 percent), strategic sourcing (68 percent), and IT performance (60 percent). Business executives believe that IT could support their units more effectively by forging better partnerships to reconceive and upgrade existing processes and systems (81 percent) and by innovating with new technology-supported capabilities (77 percent).
In an increasingly tough operating environment, structural factors make the tasks facing Europe's CIOs even more difficult than those of their counterparts elsewhere. European markets remain fragmented by language and culture, and their laws and regulations still differ substantially, despite EU standardization efforts. What's more, many European companies have long used M&A to enter new markets, so their operations are larded with complex legacy systems and governance issues. One major telco, for example, operates in almost 20 European countries, with separate IT platforms and data centers that prevent it from achieving economies of scale.
In pan-European companies, country-level CIOs tend to make IT decisions individually, impeding efforts to improve company-wide systems. Government regulations may impose new demands on IT, such as stringent requirements for safeguarding personally identifiable information. Labor laws, which tend to be less flexible in Europe than in some other areas, make performance-based incentives and IT projects harder to manage. Partly because IT-enabled staff reductions would have been difficult to realize, one European pharma company chose to continue operating some parts of its finance operation manually rather than invest in IT systems.
Seventy-four percent of the European IT and business executives we surveyed believe that their companies are very or extremely susceptible to disruptions stemming from IT (Exhibit 2)—a percentage higher than those in other regions—yet only 48 percent believe that their companies are very or extremely well-prepared for them. As for IT's ability to transform the competitive landscape, some companies have yet to recognize the role of technology in helping them succeed: a third of the European IT and business executives we surveyed didn't view IT as being among the top three levers for creating competitive advantage.
Succeeding in the new normal
To meet the new demands, CIOs should start with efforts to tear down the remaining walls between IT and the business in order to focus on ambitious targets such as upgrading IT operations and enabling IT to improve corporate performance. Demonstrating early successes helps CIOs earn the right to address more far-reaching goals by leading the company-wide adoption of new technologies, such as Web 2.0. A flexible and focused IT organization will be better positioned to enable top-line growth and more open to innovative technologies and the new business models they imply.
Aligning IT with the business
The imperfect relationship between business managers and their IT counterparts is a long-standing problem. But the new normal brings more urgency to finding a solution—one that will demand better governance, as well a broader range of management skills among IT executives. Step number one should be establishing a joint-governance model for IT and the business to facilitate better decisions and alignment around priorities.
These governance practices should, for instance, promote joint decision making, which will give IT better insights into the needs of the business and help business managers understand IT's capabilities and potential. Here's one illustration of why this is so important: in the new economic landscape, customers will wield more power than ever before, and IT systems can provide the interfaces (such as online self-service) for reaching them. It's therefore essential for IT managers, at all levels, to understand the needs of the business's customers—not just those of IT's internal customers—and to think creatively about how to help the business meet them.
Joint participation in decision making will help IT to anticipate the evolving needs of the businesses it supports and to deploy its resources accordingly. At one utility company, for example, the trading function's IT team provides 24-hour support. As a result of this close collaboration, the team has significantly shortened the time required to develop features for new trading instruments, and trades therefore adjust more rapidly to shifting market conditions.
When a company chooses its IT leadership, it must recognize that technical skills alone are no longer sufficient. To be valuable partners for business unit leaders, their IT counterparts must not only be well-grounded in strategic planning, finance, and executive-level communication but also have deep industry knowledge and experience. Recruiting remains critical to filling talent gaps, but companies can develop capabilities across functional areas by rotating IT leaders through business roles and business leaders through IT roles.
Closing performance gaps
Since the downturn began, many CIOs have scrambled to control costs by delaying investments where possible and pushing service providers to cut prices. Some CEOs are raising cash through the sale and leaseback of assets such as data centers. But as competition intensifies, a more fundamental restructuring of IT operations will be in order.
Certain companies are rethinking their current approaches to procurement in hopes of replacing the current model of capital spending on infrastructure with a more flexible approach to operating expenditures. Cloud computing and software-as-a-service, for example, allow companies to purchase computing power and application services that scale with demand and thus to avoid large capital outlays on infrastructure capacity to meet peak loads. The cash savings from such efforts can be critical for self-funding additional IT investments: shifts in certain basic IT operations, for instance, could finance a streamlined IT architecture that will improve long-term productivity (see sidebar, "Further reading on IT management").
IT can achieve even bigger productivity gains—up to ten times bigger—by enabling major improvements in the way business units work, thus radically transforming their cost structures and service to customers. Financial institutions, for instance, can generate savings by extending high-performance IT systems and platforms across regions and borders. As much as 90 percent of the synergies from banking mergers flow from reduced operating costs, which in turn are related directly to the consolidation and standardization of IT processes. After launching a common cross-border IT platform, for example, one European bank cut its operating costs, especially those incurred running the banks it had acquired, far below those of its peers. In one acquisition, it achieved 95 percent of the expected total synergy savings in the first year, providing ample funding for further investments and new acquisitions.
Technologies for collaboration enabled by IT—including the now familiar Web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs, and social networking, as well as others that facilitate live communication and the sharing of documents—can help make knowledge workers more productive. In a recent survey, most respondents reported that they had achieved measurable business benefits from their use of collaborative technologies,7 but work remains before companies can realize their full benefit.8
Enabling transformative moves
To meet the demands of the new normal, companies must adopt technology-based innovations in products, services, processes, and business models. They'll need to develop the ability to identify transformative opportunities, along with a heightened awareness of the competition's possible disruptive maneuvers. CIOs and business executives can improve their competitive intelligence by participating actively in technology forums, networking with their partners in academia and start-ups, and assuming a perspective that takes them beyond their comfort zone in thinking about business sectors and geographical markets. They must also foster and reward experimentation by role modeling the new mind-set, clearly communicating the new objectives, investing to give executives and staffers alike higher-level skills, and creating new incentives.
Some CIOs in Europe are already navigating these disruptive currents. A major European utility revamped its business model by installing interactive "smart" meters across its entire customer base to provide a flow of detailed data on energy usage and customer behavior. The company used this information to reduce its losses from unbilled delivery, saving an estimated €600 million annually on a €2 billion investment. With a better reading of the needs of customers, the utility could also offer new pricing models (for instance, hourly or weekend rates) to attract and retain them in a deregulated energy market.
A major European fashion retailer uses real-time information to achieve a cycle time of one to two weeks from initial design to final sale of new clothing. Its designers use real-time data from retail sales to gain insights into which fabrics, cuts, and colors are in highest demand and use that information to design new clothing lines or modify existing ones. The retailer also exploits real-time information gained by testing products in representative stores to determine production quantities and reallocate slow-moving stock to locations where demand is stronger. In this way, the company limits its markdowns to half the industry average.
The traditional IT mind-set aims to capture the value of technology through top-down planning, formal structures, and clearly defined processes. In the new normal, the mind-set for success will emphasize a bottom-up search for value through experimentation with customers and partners. Winning CIOs in this new era will view uncertainty and an extremely demanding operating environment as opportunities to challenge prevailing assumptions about the role of IT.


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For the University of Louisville's Lady Cardinals, it just wasn't meant to be.
Hoping to follow the Louisville men's basketball championship with one of their own, the women played for the Division I title Tuesday night in New Orleans. But as NPR's Tom Goldman said on Morning Edition, the University of Connecticut Lady Huskies were just "so darn good."
UConn beat Louisville 93-60. Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma has taken his team to the final game eight times and won them all. He's now tied with former Tennessee coach Pat Summit for the most women's basketball championships in Division I history.
If the Louisville women had won, it would have been just the second time that the men's and women's trophies went to the same school in the same year. Connecticut's teams managed that rare double in 2004.
The key to Connecticut's win was their young star:
-- "Freshman Breanna Stewart, UConn's newest flavor sensation ... scored 23 points with nine rebounds." (The Hartford Courant)
-- "Her combined 52 points against Notre Dame and Louisville made her a layup selection for the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. She is the first freshman in 26 years (and just the fourth overall) to earn that honor. (Sports Illustrated)
-- "Off the court, she is a shrugging, eye-rolling, fidgety, lanky, goofy 18-year-old kid. On the court, she could be something we've never seen before. ... In bottom-line terms, 'Stewie,' as her teammates (and now the rest of the world will) call her, took Connecticut from a team that was looking for answers after the disappointment of the Big East tournament to a runaway, no-doubt-about-it champion." (ESPN)
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I've got the best Father's Day gift idea!
– It doesn't involve neck ties or golf shirts.
– There will be no trips to Lowe's or Home Depot (you're welcome, ladies).
– You get to enjoy it too.
So what is it? Risotto made with fresh Maine lobsters from Sagamore Lobster.
Now that we live in Southern California instead of New England, we really miss fresh Maine lobsters. A couple of months ago, I wanted to make risotto with Maine lobster instead of with smaller spiny lobsters (which are plentiful here on the West Coast). Not only did I have trouble finding fresh Maine lobsters here, but when I did, they were prohibitively priced -- about $50/pound. Thankfully, Sagamore has made it cheaper to buy live lobsters and have them shipped 3,000 miles than to buy them in a store here.
Though lobster is often best enjoyed simply boiled, there is something sumptuous about a creamy lobster risotto. That's because chewy Arborio rice is cooked to perfection in flavorful broth, dry white wine, and savory San Marzano tomatoes. Silky butter and aromatic fresh parsley only enhance the flavor of the succulent lobster meat. Dad won't soon forget this dinner.
The only thing left to buy now is a Father's Day card. Unfortunately, I didn't see any on Sagamore's web site. Maybe they can work on that.
Lobster Risotto
Makes 2 main or 4 side servings.
1 (1 1/4 pound) live lobster
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons butter
1 finely diced large shallot
3/4 cup Arborio rice (risotto)**
4-5 cups low-sodium broth, or as much as needed
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 (14-oz) can diced tomatoes with juices, preferably San Marzano tomatoes
2-3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh Italian parsley
1 tablespoon butter, not optional
Salt and pepper, to taste
Good extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
Heat broth in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Once it's hot, lower to a simmer.
Bring a large pot (big enough to submerge the lobster completely) of salted water to a boil. To kill the lobster, hold a butcher knife over its head, about an inch behind its eyes; puncture and slice forward in one motion. Plunge the lobster head first into the boiling water for 7-8 minutes. The shell should be bright red, though the meat will finish cooking in the risotto. Remove the lobster from the pot, rinse, and allow to cool.
To remove the meat, twist off the claws; crack them open with nut crackers, and extract the meat. Bend the lobster's body back from the tail until it cracks; remove it. Then push the tail meat out. Crack the lobster body open and break off the legs; use a skewer to push the meat out of the legs.
For the risotto, saute the shallots in olive oil and butter. Add the Arborio rice; toast for 1 minute. Cook the risotto at a slow simmer, adding heated broth ½ cupful at a time. Most cookbooks will tell to stir continuously; I don't, and you don't have to either. You can stir occasionally; just make sure the risotto absorbs the liquid before adding more. It will become tender and creamy as it cooks. Season will some salt about halfway through so it blends well, and add the white wine. Add the tomatoes with their juices. 4-5 cups of broth works for this recipe, but use more or less as needed. I prefer a soupier risotto for this recipe since it makes the lobster that much more tender. Add the lobster meat to the risotto, and cook 4-5 minutes.
It takes about 20 minutes total for the risotto to become completely cooked. Taste it -- it should be wonderfully creamy and thick. It's best al dente, which means it should still retain some firmness when you chew it. Season with salt and pepper. Remove risotto from heat, and add 1 tablespoon butter for added creaminess. Add fresh parsley, and stir well.
Plate your risotto. Top it with a sprinkling of fresh parsley and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and serve immediately.
**I used 3/4 cup of Arborio instead of 1/2 cup as I would normally do since I used both tomatoes and more wine. Plus, I wanted more risotto to balance the rich lobster. If you choose to use less risotto, then just reduce the amount of liquid you use.
- Also published on Susan Russo's site FoodBlogga.


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The day the whales didn't come out to play
A miserable family outing in Clayoquot Sound, a lesson learned, and how the loss of a child is like an unfinished work of art.
"Shoot," I muttered. We were only halfway into our whale-watching excursion and I had to pee. The Zodiac carrying our tour group had just tucked into a small bay off Clayoquot Sound and we were bobbing and drifting in calmer waters. The twin 200-horsepower Mercs powering our craft had been grumbling, and I was sure that if they could speak, they would say they were thankful for this respite.
We were glad for the break. We had been taking a pounding during the past hour, riding up and down the sides of two- to three-metre waves that towered over us and whipped foam in our faces. This was more than just a slap in the face; it was a reminder of both the power within the ocean and our place in nature.
Whales had been sighted nearby en route from their winter breeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico to their summer feeding grounds in Alaska. Today was a rare sunny day in March last year, and the prospect of seeing some of the estimated 20,000 migrating grey whales that pass by the west coast of Vancouver Island had overtaken our senses. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to think about the waves and weather conditions and the suitability of our transportation.
I sheepishly asked our guide about the possibility of beaching our craft on a nearby island for a quick bathroom break. He stuck his bearded face around the windshield of the wheelhouse and firmly stated: "No way; we are heading back out to look for whales."
I turned around to face my wet family, huddled together on two exposed rows in front of the wheelhouse, staring back at me. The other 12 passengers in our group were high and dry, seated in two rows running down the middle of the boat behind the wheelhouse. Our daughter, Olivia, aged 10, smiled and asked: "Dad, isn't this fun?" She was the only one in our family still somewhat dry, and that was because she had managed to avoid the stinging sea spray by nestling into the coat of her big brother, Nigel.
Our short family vacation was a much-needed break from our routines and the events of the past eight months that had sent our family of four into a tailspin. Laura and I had been trading shifts and driving daily to and from the North Shore to B.C. Children's Hospital.
It was on July 27, 2011, that we were told that our beautiful boy, Nigel Frederick Moore, had Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. That day, like many others in Nigel's subsequent 13-month battle with cancer, was a brutal one, and when we were summoned to a meeting with a team of doctors, nurses, and administrators, we knew it was not going to be good news.
When we entered the room to receive Nigel's official diagnosis, there was an uneasy feeling in the air and a big box of Kleenex was placed strategically within our reach. We were seated and introduced to the others in attendance, exchanged a few pleasantries, and tried to put on a brave front.
The lead oncologist bluntly presented Nigel's diagnosis and his future prospects and ended by promising to do everything in her power to save his life. We had suspected his condition was serious but never expected it to be life-threatening. We desperately wanted to believe our son would get better. Later that day, when we had to relay this diagnosis to Nigel, he cried like a baby while Laura hugged and tried to console him. I sat across the room crestfallen, too numb to speak and too dumb to know what to say.
Every doctor we had seen in the previous four months, the GPs and pediatricians, could not determine what Nigel was suffering from, what was causing his pain. We thought that his discomfort was due to an injury suffered while playing rugby or sliding into second base in one of his baseball games. Like many 15-year-old boys, Nigel was not a font of information about how he felt. He seemed depressed and was lacking in energy.
We even took him to see a child psychologist, who, after an hour spent conversing with Nigel, stated: "Your son seems to be stressed-out, but I'm not sure why." It was not until Laura got fed up with all the misinformation and his degenerating condition that she drove Nigel to the emergency room at Children's. A subsequent MRI revealed a tumour the size of a grapefruit sitting right next to his spine. He was admitted on July 22, 2011, and our ordeal was just beginning.
His cancer has a poor survival rate. We were told that if he survived a year, he'd have a 50-percent chance of living for another five years.
His disease was like a plot in an old cowboy movie. An odious bunch of bad guys (rogue cells) moves into town. These bad apples ensconce themselves in the town's saloon and drink heavily while fighting and terrorizing the townspeople (healthy cells). Eventually, the sheriff (chemotherapy), along with his deputy (radiation), would show up and drive the bad guys out of town. The bad guys would then sneak back into town and encamp at another saloon (organ), where they would continue to spread more evil (tumours). In the movies, inevitably, the good guys would prevail and drive out the bad guys. These simplistic plots are passé, though, and these days the bad cells are winning far too many of the life-and-death battles.
We did not see any whales that day in March. The only wildlife we saw was a group of sea lions perched out of the water high up on a rocky island. Taking pictures was futile, and the only shots we were able to get that day were of our feet or the sky as we lurched up and down, trying to balance in those rollers. Laura ended up getting sick over the side, and I had to take not one but two pees in my survival suit.
When we finally staggered off the Zodiac at the dock in Tofino, an annoyingly perky woman from the whale-watching company pestered us with questions about our day and spouted off about all the other excursions we would thoroughly enjoy. All we could think about was getting out of our monkey suits and getting in front of a fire. The final straw for me was when we were informed that a "research charge" of $30 had been added to our bill. I threw my urine-soaked survival suit on the pile and muttered, "Research this," and stormed out the door. Nigel was on my heels, asking what was bothering me, and when I explained to him what had happened, we started to howl with laughter at the stupidity of the day. Lesson learned: the best place to watch whales is on land.
Unfortunately, Nigel was diagnosed with pneumonia shortly after our trip. We realize now that this day did not help his condition, but neither did all the beach walks we took that week in the stormy weather. Nigel did not want to stop us from living life and taking these kinds of excursions. He loved to travel, and we had been to Egypt, England, Cambodia, and Vietnam in the previous four years.
That summer, we did have two other memorable trips, one of them to Seattle in June to take in two Mariners games with four of his closest friends and their families. The other excursion was in August, a two-week stay in a beautiful house overlooking Qualicum Beach. At that time, though, Nigel was weakened to the point of spending most of the days watching the Olympic Games on television. He did shuffle down to the beach one day for a swim in the ocean; his stark, bony white body is now etched in my memory.
On August 25, 2012, we lost our best friend. Many who knew him thought he had tremendous potential and surely would have done great things. We will not get the pleasure of seeing how Nigel would have flourished. He was a deep thinker, a sensitive sort with an encyclopedic memory. He had only scratched the surface of life. No one, unless they have gone through it, can understand the grief that the death of your child brings.
For Nigel's last two days, we moved into Canuck Place, a caring hospice with accommodations that allowed our family, including Nigel's dog, Henry, to spend our final hours together. During his last night, I awoke at 3 a.m. and went down to be with him. As I sat and held his limp hand in mine, I was distressed to see him struggling to breathe and holding on to life so bravely. I asked the nurse why and she said, "He is waiting to make sure you will be okay."
During our ordeal, the community around us rallied to our aid with much love and support. It is months later now, and I imagine that for many, their memories of Nigel have dissipated. We think of him all the time; we are a lonely family of three right now, and we miss him to the depth of our souls. Grief is hanging over us, and it can hit anytime and anywhere. It strikes when you are driving and a song he liked is played. It slams into you when you see a group of his friends walking home from school. There is not a day that goes by that we do not think of Nigel, and I know it will be that way until we meet up with him again.
I sometimes wish that it could have been me instead of Nigel, but life is not always fair. I know that I have a duty to support our family and help guide Olivia to realize her potential and make her brother, Nigel Frederick Moore, proud, wherever he may be.
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26 Comments
Ann Coombs
Feb 14, 2013 at 9:13am
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story about an extraordinary young man who lived life to the fullest while being surrounded by a magnificent loving and devoted family.
Laura Stapleton
Feb 14, 2013 at 9:40am
I think you are a truly amazing !!
Maya Beckersmith
Feb 14, 2013 at 10:16am
Beautiful and heart-wrenching words, Rex.
Barbara Gaylord
Feb 14, 2013 at 11:27am
Oh how I wish I could have more time to spend with Nigel. His short life is such an inspiration to me and a perfect combination of all the good things his family shared with him. I will forever remember how smart, handsome, funny and so compassionate towards all he brought with him. Stay strong with Love, Moore Family and friends, just as Nigel, our perfect Valentine, would wish.
Hayley, Clare, Christian and Nicholas
Feb 14, 2013 at 11:56am
How lucky Nigel was to be part of such an amazing family! In our hearts forever!!
Feb 14, 2013 at 11:58am
Our hearts are with you all and Nigel will always be in our hearts. His intelligence, compassion and kindness will live on in our memories forever. We miss Nigel deeply. We will try our best to live life fully and be greatful in Nigel's memory. Nigel never took a day forgranted. During his battle he held his head so high and never stopped his insatiable thirst for knowledge and his thoughtful interest in everyone's life. Nigel was a precious gift to us all.Love Jo, Jack, Aidan, Willem , Thomas & Walden
George Bathgate
Feb 14, 2013 at 2:49pm
Rex - Such a beautifully prepared story illuminating your loss and your love for your wonderful son Nigel - my heart goes out to all of you ....with much love - George
Steve Newton
Feb 14, 2013 at 2:56pm
Such courage to share this intimate story, you are an amazing writer Rex. I can't imagine what you and Laura and Olivia live each day but it is so great that you can share your feelings this way. I hope it helps you to know that you comfort someone by sharing this. I really try to live in each moment and love my family madly. All the best to you and yours. Love Dawn
Bruce Martinuik
Feb 14, 2013 at 4:09pm
Brilliant Rex. Touching and poignant beyond words.
Always in your corner for you, Laura and Olivia.
Take care. See you in the "Vill"
Feb 14, 2013 at 4:21pm
What a wonderful set of words you choose to honour your son. What a lucky boy he was to have you for his father....


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Wallace asked whether this would be voluntary, and Lieberman said:
In our society we try to do it voluntarily. But I think we've come to a point where we have to say, if not, maybe there are some things we can do to tone it down.So, in other words, not voluntary! Having let his authoritarian side show, Lieberman shifts to talking about "the mental health system" and says:
I think we really have got to ask ourselves, first, off, this is like the slogan that we use in Homeland Security -- see something, say something.See something... like what?
We've got to ask parents, friends, school officials, if you see a child, a young person, that really looks like they are potentially... real troublesome, get them mental health help and we have to ask ourselves, as a society, is there enough mental health help available for these kids?Troublesome! He should have said troubled, if he meant to talk about mental illness, and he paused before he said the word. A fascinating slip. Troubling!


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Begun in 2000 and ended in 2010, the Foundation's Biosecurity program is credited with laying the foundation for and establishing a sustainable approach to the nascent field of biosecurity.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Biosecurity program is credited with laying the foundation for and establishing a sustainable approach to the nascent field of biosecurity. Established in 2000–before 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks made the threat of bioterrorism a reality to the nation–the program invested $44.1 million over the course of a decade to address national security and the threat of biological weapons. Grant-making in the Biosecurity program concluded in 2010.
The program's early focus was on preparedness, both for individuals and organizations. Among the important projects funded during this time was the development of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Ready.gov public awareness campaign, which remains the nation's leading resource for emergency preparedness guidelines. The program also funded the long-standing Ready New York campaign.
Given the global threat posed by bioterrorism, the Foundation funded the only truly international bioterrorism prevention effort: Interpol's successful awareness and training program for law-enforcement worldwide.
The Foundation also underwrote the influential Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (now renamed the UPMC Center for Health Security). The Center was established to strengthen national security by reducing the risks posed by biological attacks, epidemics, and other destabilizing events, and to improve the nation's resilience in the face of such events.
In addition to preparedness concerns, the Biosecurity program also focused on addressing issues surrounding the responsible stewardship of powerful biotechnologies and the potential misuse of scientific knowledge, methods, and materials in the life sciences. Among the important projects funded was the landmark Fink Committee report, "Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism," the U.S. National Academies' International Biosecurity Project, and the World Health Organization's program to raise global awareness, which culminated in its "Responsible Life Sciences Research for Global Health Security: A Guidance Document."
At the time of the program's inception, the U.S. government was not organized to address biosecurity. The Sloan Foundation's program was successful in bringing attention to the many issues and challenges posed by biological threats to the extent that U.S. government funding for biodefense increased by more than two-thousand percent from 2000 to 2010.
Today, leaders in the biosecurity field credit the Sloan Foundation with providing the leadership and financial support that laid the groundwork for a nation that is now better prepared for biological threats to national security and public health.
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Clayton Kershaw (2-3, 3.71) vs. Cole Hamels (9-8, 3.35).
COMMENTS: It's Young Phenom Night at Dodger Stadium! (It's also Joe Beimel Bobblehead Night!) The 20-year-old Kershaw goes against the 24-year-old Hamels for the first! time! ever! The Phillies have never faced Kershaw! The Dodgers have never faced Hamels! Who will blink first? Which team will tee off like it's batting practice? Which team will treat the opposing pitcher like the next coming of Cy Young? And who is the father of Samantha's baby? Stay tuned for tonight's episode of The Young and the Hitless!


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By JESSE J. HOLLAND and JACQUES BILLEAUD
FILE – This Aug. 5, 2008, file photo, shows the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building Phoenix. The U.S. Supreme Court will struggle this week with the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote in national elections. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will struggle this week with the validity of an Arizona law that tries to keep illegal immigrants from voting by demanding all state residents show documents proving their U.S. citizenship before registering to vote in national elections.
The high court will hear arguments Monday over the legality of Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "Motor Voter" voter registration law that doesn't require such documentation.
This case focuses on voter registration in Arizona, which has tangled frequently with the federal government over immigration issues involving the Mexican border. But it has broader implications because four other states — Alabama, Georgia, Kansas and Tennessee — have similar requirements, and 12 other states are contemplating similar legislation, officials say.
The Obama administration is supporting challengers to the law.
If Arizona can add citizenship requirements, then "each state could impose all manner of its own supplemental requirements beyond the federal form," Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. said in court papers. "Those requirements could encompass voluminous documentary or informational demands, and could extend to any eligibility criteria beyond citizenship, such as age, residency, mental competence, or felony history."
A federal appeals court threw out the part of Arizona's Proposition 200 that added extra citizenship requirements for voter registration, but only after lower federal judges had approved it.
Arizona wants the justices to reinstate its requirement.
Kathy McKee, who led the push to get the proposition on the ballot, said voter fraud, including by illegal immigrants, continues to be a problem in Arizona. "For people to conclude there is no problem is just shallow logic," McKee said.
Opponents of Arizona's law see it as an attack on vulnerable voter groups such as minorities, immigrants and the elderly. They say Arizona's law makes registering more difficult, which is an opposite result from the intention of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act.
Proposition 200 "was never intended to combat voter fraud," said Democratic state Sen. Steve Gallardo of Phoenix. "It was intended to keep minorities from voting."
With the additional state documentation requirements, Arizona will cripple the effectiveness of neighborhood and community voter registration drives, advocates say. More than 28 million Americans used the federal "Motor Voter" form to register to vote in the 2008 presidential elections, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
An Arizona victory at the high court would lead to more state voting restrictions, said Elisabeth MacNamara, the national president of the League of Women Voters.
Opponents of the Arizona provision say they've counted more than 31,000 potentially legal voters in Arizona who easily could have registered before Proposition 200 but who were blocked initially by the law in the 20 months after it passed in 2004. They say about 20 percent of those thwarted were Latino.
Arizona officials say they should be able to pass laws to stop illegal immigrants and other noncitizens from getting on their voting rolls. The Arizona voting law was part of a package that also denied some government benefits to illegal immigrants and required Arizonans to show identification before voting.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the voter identification provision. The denial of benefits was not challenged.
Opponents "argue that Arizona should not be permitted to request evidence of citizenship when someone registers to vote, but should instead rely on the person's sworn statement that he or she is a citizen," Arizona Attorney General Thomas C. Horne said in court papers.
"The fallacy in that is that someone who is willing to vote illegally will be willing to sign a false statement. What (opponents) are urging is that there should be nothing more than an honor system to assure that registered voters are citizens. That was not acceptable to the people of Arizona."
The Arizona proposition was enacted into law with 55 percent of the vote.
This is the second voting issue the high court is tackling this session. Last month, several justices voiced deep skepticism about whether a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a law that has helped millions of minorities exercise their right to vote, especially in areas of the Deep South, was still needed.
This case involves laws of more recent vintage.
The federal "Motor Voter" law, enacted in 1993 to expand voter registration, allows would-be voters to fill out a mail-in voter registration card and swear they are citizens under penalty of perjury, but it doesn't require them to show proof.
Under Proposition 200 approved in 2004, Arizona officials require an Arizona driver's license issued after 1996, a U.S. birth certificate, a passport or other similar document, or the state will reject the federal registration application form.
This requirement applies only to people who seek to register using the federal mail-in form. Arizona has its own form and an online system to register when renewing a driver's license. The court ruling did not affect proof of citizenship requirements using the state forms.
State officials say more than 90 percent of those Arizonans applying to vote using the federal form will be able to simply write down their driver's license number, and all naturalized citizens simply will be able to write down their naturalization number without needed additional documents.
Former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, a leading Republican proponent of Proposition 200, strongly disputed claims that Arizona doesn't have voter fraud problems. "They turn a blind eye," Pearce said of the state's election officials.
But Karen Osborne, elections director for Maricopa County, where nearly 60 percent of Arizona's voters live, said voter fraud is rare, and even rarer among illegal immigrants.
"That just does not seem to be an issue," Osborne said of the claim that illegal immigrants are voting. "They did not want to come out of the shadows. They don't want to be involved with the government."
The main legal question facing the justices is whether the federal law trumps Arizona's law. A 10-member panel of the 9th Circuit in San Francisco said it did.
The appeals court issued multiple rulings in this case, with a three-judge panel initially siding with Arizona. A second panel that included retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who from time to time sits on appeals courts, reversed course and blocked the registration requirement. The full court then did the same, and that decision will be reviewed by the justices in Washington.
The case is 12-71, Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.
Billeaud reported from Phoenix.


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The Birds Another one where the clothes are pretty basic and simple but the feel is FREAAAKAYYY. Think of that bird print dress from McQueen AW09 and how it's super creepmaster. Yeah.
Also we could not stop cracking up at this part (one minute and twelve seconds to be precise:)
Are we crazy and terrible or is that really just hilarious? Oh man, almost as good as the Windows XP screensaver used all the time in Vertigo. Alfred Hitchcock come over here and give me a hug.
Marie Antoinette With Marie Antoinette it's the clothes, setting, and aesthetic that would make for cool outfit inspiration. The hair, dresses, shoes CUSTOM MADE BY MANOLO BLAHNIK FOR THE MOVIE (goddamnit) and every other luxurious everything in every scene are incredibly detailed, very perfect and clean and pastel-y and very very amazing. Translated into my dream outfit: a shirt with some pattern that looks like fancy pastries, a couple curtains draped here and there, wallpaper print tights, a pretty lace fan, custom-made Blahniks (goddamnit, again,) and, since there is that FIERY SPIRIT of Marie Antoinette that means sneaking off to fancy balls (the scandal!) maybe something neon pink as opposed to pastel baby pink too (no Ramones tees or scuffed up Converse for this combination for me though, the irony with those mixed with tutus or tiaras isn't fun anymore/is Avril Lavigne.)
Man I would totally love to style a Marie Antoinette shoot with all the clothes from most of the AW09 shows.
ManhattanThe whole movie has a very autumn feel, even though I don't think it takes place in the fall. Maybe because Yokoo is a fall staple for me, and Yokoo reminds me so much of Woody Allen? Anyway, the whole movie is black and white, the humor is unforced and natural, and adding that to images like the one above pretty much makes for a very breeeeezy, Autumn-in-New York feel (I've never been to NY in the Fall, but shut up.) It's so...like...they're walking down the street in loose button down type things and ~cas(ual) and it's a little windy and awhiumugnonnggggggdufl. I am terrible at trying to put into words 98% of things. Decipher my whale noises?
I don't think anyone other than my soul get what I mean but basically the aesthetic of the movie (because I have no other word for overall feel and aesthetic makes me sound kewl nd smert) would translate into a cross between an Annie Hall-type outfit in its I-just-threw-this-on-ness, and a "Posh Sans Dosh" (fashion story from Love Issue 2) type outfit to cover the neoroticness and awkwardness of the character Isaac (the Love story was a little nervous-old-man-like with all of its tweed and such and I loved it.)
Evidently, I become more and more incoherent as time goes on, and should probably keep this next one short and simple: HEY BUD, LET'S PARTY!


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Aromatherapy (Essential Oils Therapy)
Topic Overview
What is aromatherapy?
Aromatherapy, or essential oils therapy, is using a plant's aroma-producing oils (essential oils) to treat disease. Essential oils are taken from a plant's flowers, leaves, stalks, bark, rind, or roots. The oils are mixed with another substance (such as oil, alcohol, or lotion) and then put on the skin, sprayed in the air, or inhaled. You can also massage the oils into the skin or pour them into bath water. Aromatherapy as used today originated in Europe and has been practiced there since the early 1900s.
Practitioners of aromatherapy believe that fragrances in the oils stimulate nerves in the nose. Those nerves send impulses to the part of the brain that controls memory and emotion. Depending on the type of oil, the result on the body may be calming or stimulating.
The oils are thought to interact with the body's hormones and enzymes to cause changes in blood pressure, pulse, and other body functions. Another theory suggests that the fragrance of certain oils may stimulate the body to produce pain-fighting substances.
What is aromatherapy used for?
Aromatherapy may promote relaxation and help relieve stress. It has also been used to help treat a wide range of physical and mental conditions, including burns, infections, depression, insomnia, and high blood pressure. But so far there is limited scientific evidence to support claims that aromatherapy effectively prevents or cures illness.
Is aromatherapy safe?
Practitioners of aromatherapy are not specially licensed in the United States. A wide range of licensed health professionals (such as massage therapists, nurses, and counselors) may have experience and training in aromatherapy. It is important to talk with your medical doctor to see whether aromatherapy may be helpful and safe for your specific health condition.
Do not swallow the oils used in aromatherapy. Many of the oils are potent and can be dangerous if taken internally (swallowed).
Children younger than age 5 should not use aromatherapy, because they can be very sensitive to the oil. Nor should anyone use oils near the eyes or mouth, because irritation of the skin and membranes may occur.
People with certain chronic illnesses or conditions should not use aromatherapy without first consulting a doctor. These illnesses and conditions include:
- Lung conditions such as asthma, respiratory allergies, or chronic lung disease. Oils may cause airway spasms.
- Skin allergies. Some oils may cause skin irritation, especially in the membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth.
- Pregnancy. Pregnant women should not use aromatherapy. Some oils (such as juniper, rosemary, and sage) may cause uterine contractions.
Always tell your doctor if you are using an alternative therapy or if you are thinking about combining an alternative therapy with your conventional medical treatment. It may not be safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on an alternative therapy.
Other Works Consulted
- Buckel J (2009). Aromatherapy. In L Freeman, ed., Mosby's Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach, 3rd ed., pp. 389–407. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
- Harris R (2011). Aromatherapy. In M Micozzi, ed., Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 4th ed., pp. 332–342. St. Louis: Saunders.
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Here is a view from above my workspace giving a better indication of just how large my work surface is. I have also positioned my sewing machine directly in front of a large window providing much natural light and winter sun.
Spring has arrived though, and I am in the mood for a quilt project that I can immerse myself in. I have chosen a more challenging quilt pattern with each finished block having 32 different templates. I have copied, cut, pasted on to lightweight cardboard, and color coded the templates. A test block is in progress.
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Driven: Bristol Fighter
I know the late, great LJK Setright is the uncanonized patron saint of Bristoldom, and I too certainly have enjoyed a goodly share of his work, straight from way back when I should have had my nose in schoolbooks instead. But personally, I still think he has a lot to answer for. You see, I can't help thinking that if it wasn't for the brilliant and oh so erudite writings of dear old Leonard, many of us wouldn't have this subconscious image of the typical Bristol owner as a rather sombre sort who sees the cars as the One True Religion. Then again, had it not been for Setright's livelong trumpeting of the tiny, fiercely independent, and otherwise oft-overlooked brand, we might not have any image of Bristol at all, so one supposes it all washes out.
It is nevertheless something of a surprise to wind up spending our first half-hour with devoted Bristol owner Simon Draper discussing the comedy of Andy Kaufman, and to find the man has such a generous sense of humour he will laugh at my imitation of Jim Carrey's imitation of Kaufman doing Elvis. And although he has about a dozen assorted Bristols lined up in this garage, including the sole surviving Type 450 Le Mans car (yep, they did, and they were very successful there, too), he also has Aston Martins and Lancias and a tastefully tweaked-out purple 240Z, and his road transport for today is a Ruf Porsche. So much for stereotypes.
But busting stereotypes is part of what the Bristol we've come to see is all about. Named as per longstanding tradition after a notable aircraft of the founding firm, the Bristol Fighter isn't what you'd expect from a company whose vehicles of late have been closer in concept to '70s Mercedes SLC than contemporary Lambo Gallardo. That is, more in the way of luxury sporting tourers than fodder for teenage fantasies.
The Fighter, on the other hand, is a bona fide 200 mph, horsepower-drenched, fat-tired supercar. Introduced in 2004, it is the first product of Toby Silverton, financial partner in Bristol since 1997 and from 2002 to 2011, chairman and proprietor.
Which is in itself an indication of the change happening at Bristol. For years, previous boss Tony Crook maintained a decidedly adversarial relationship with the press, especially those non-Setright types who questioned Bristol's place in the cosmos and Mr. Crook's running thereof.
In a way, it was understandable; ever since their establishment in 1946 as the automotive arm of the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Bristol Cars, Limited have emphatically done things their own way, and more so following their autonomous spin-off under Crook in 1960. Having reached a design formula that filled their chosen niche—upmarket, hand built cars that emphasised functionality above either styling or outright speed—they stuck to it rather faithfully.
Unfortunately, not only was it an uncommonly focused and blatantly iconoclastic niche, the mere fact the company steadfastly remained out of step with the rest of the industry was sufficient to draw critical scrutiny from journalists of all sorts. Most were of course honest professionals genuinely looking to tell a story; some were inevitably entertainers more interested in scoring cheap shots at the expense of the deliberately different, sometimes reportedly without ever driving an example, and that didn't set well with the already sensitive Crook. As time wore on, Bristol became increasingly a closed camp, and apparently more determined than ever to damn the torpedoes and steam full speed ahead.
That Toby Silverton, himself a dedicated long-time Bristol enthusiast, appears as willing to bridge the gap between press and company as he is to improve and refine that which makes the marque special is therefore a highly significant development. Before meeting the man, though, it seemed sensible to drive the car that represents his vision of the ultimate Bristol, which is why we're pitched up on the doorstep of Simon Draper. As the company currently has no Fighters available for test drive (these days anyway, it's not because of any press embargo; they've simply sold them all), he has kindly agreed to loan us his.
First off then let's get right down to everybody's opening question: Good God yes it's fast, you bet it is, and with no excuses or qualifiers about "for a Bristol" or other such silly twattle. The factory says 0-60 in about four seconds and top speed in the neighborhood of 210 mph, and the car presents no reason to seriously doubt either figure; if it's a few ticks off one way or t'other, or a hair plus or minus the latest mega Ferrari, the argument is very much an angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin thing that makes no difference in anyone's real world. The Fighter will press your eyeballs back in their sockets as hard and as long as any road car I've ever cracked a whip over.
Like all Bristols made since the company's original BMW-designed inline six outlived its prime in 1961, the Fighter has a big, healthy American Chrysler engine up front, in this case, an alloy 8-liter V-10 derived from the Viper unit, with 525 horsepower and an equal amount of peak torque, backed by the Viper six-speed. Full-on weight with all luxo-trimmings is barely above 3300 pounds, so acceleration in the lower gears is understandably ferocious; since the engine delivers two-thirds of max torque pretty much as soon as the starter spins, however, every gear is effectively a lower gear, just pick any slot whenever you like and press the throttle.
And if the normal, ordinary 210 mph Fighter isn't adequate to your needs, there's a Fighter S with 628 horses, or the twin-turbo Fighter T with 1012 and 1036 foot-pounds of torque. The company also claims that as you approach terminal velocity (and I'm not sure if I intended that as a pun or not, really…) a ram-air supercharging effect built into the engine fresh-air ducting on both of the normally aspirated cars increases final bhp by roughly five percent. Surely there's plenty of angels dancing around somewhere in all that to please anybody.
None of the above, oddly enough, being information that features prominently in the discussion when Simon Draper first leads me out to introduce the car. If memory serves, in fact, his initial comment is "you'd never believe it's smaller than the Porsche if you hadn't seen them together, would you", and from there he goes on to praise the luggage space, the ground clearance, the interior room, and how you can use the car for practical, everyday transport as opposed to so many others with similar performance.
Indeed, the aviation technology still influential in Bristol design is obvious even on a walk-around, but it's av-tech in the sense of logical, simple stuff that absolutely must work properly or tubes full of people fall from the sky, and not in the flash and dazzle sense perpetuated by jet-jockey video games (and some Fighter competitors). The Fighter is exceptionally clean externally, for instance, with low drag prioritized over downforce, because Bristol believe road cars can change pitch angle too easily over irregular tarmac and lose that downforce; Bristol also consider how drag and stability changes as the car yaws left or right into the airstream, as in high speed lane changes or when attacking semi-crosswinds.
Eschewing downforce also means no chin spoiler to collect speed-bump damage (and the Ruf is showing a new whack as we speak); add in short overhangs, that amazing ground clearance, and only 5-foot-10 of overall width and the thing could tackle an Andean mountain goat-path. I find it extremely handsome, too, and I'm sorry, but being something of an Italian car guy, I wouldn't necessarily say that of every Bristol, and naturally it is very, very discrete—no badges on the bodywork anywhere. I'm still not completely sold on gullwing doors, though; they all seem determined to smack my head at some point of the ingress/egress cycle.
But gullwings do definitely offer benefits, and beyond their suitability for British-sized garages and parking spaces: they allow fat modern crash-proof A-pillars to be moved more safely off the driver's line of sight. Good visibility was actually another Fighter design priority, and it's impressive all around; the corners are also mercifully easy for the driver to locate and the driving position is comfortable with ample adjustments for everything. The interior does not, however, try to mimic an airplane cockpit, with the possible exception of an engine hour gauge in the overhead panel (standard aircraft practice for scheduling maintenance, and seems reasonable to me).
Nor does the engine explode to life with a proverbial throaty roar; it doesn't really roar any time, putting a considerable cramp on my usually breathless descriptive prose, I'm afraid, it merely makes an urbanely subdued organic rumble as the revs rise. A bit disappointing at first, to be honest, until I remember a particular two-day trip sealed in a race-rep GT with only paint for sound insulation, and suddenly the possibility of hearing the radio at a respectable motorway clip seems delightful. Chassis and body rigidity is noteworthy, with no jiggle or panel boom over the worst frost heaves or potholes, and there's no sensation of frenzy in the car regardless of circumstances or speed.
Bristol have slicked-up the Viper gearbox as well, greatly reducing shift effort, and although Simon has stiffened the suspension on this one somewhat to suit his own preferences in track-day handling balance, the ride is supple but the grip level prodigious. The steering is unusually light for a car of this class, almost too light for my taste, but the turning circle is fabulous, tight as a London taxi, quite literally: London taxi was the target spec. It is, despite the staggering power and speed potential, a tremendously easy car to drive, and if you cranked the traction control to full gain and stuck on L-plates, most any decent novice could probably pass their driving test with it.
And if by now a pattern should be emerging, it's no coincidence; Simon mentioned as much while we stood beside the row of Bristols talking about innovational comedians and nonconformist motorcars. One thing I like about Bristols, he said, is the consistent theme throughout their entire history, and after a few hours with the Fighter I think I understand what that is. No matter how fast it goes, no Bristol is ever likely to adorn the bedroom walls of a fifteen-year-old; that's not their place in the cosmos. Bristols have always been cars for adults, and intelligent, rational adults who are more concerned with how they themselves feel about their choices than how other people feel about their choices.
The Fighters just happens to be the fastest, best looking application of the Bristol philosophy yet produced, and I do believe I'm quite taken with it. I might even get used to those gullwing doors, too.
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Posterior Dislocation
Dislocations in which the arm moves backward out of the socket (called a posterior dislocation) are uncommon (4%). Posterior subluxation is being recognized more frequently in athletes involved in sports such as tennis and baseball.
As mentioned above, sudden dislocation is an emergency. The patient should be taken to the emergency room immediately to make sure there is no damage to the blood vessels or nerve that go to the shoulder, arm, and hand. Usually, the emergency room physician can move the arm in such a way that the dislocated shoulder reduces back into its proper place. Rarely is surgery indicated. Pain and muscle relaxant medication is often prescribed. Ice can also help reduce the pain. Physical therapy is usually started 2-3 weeks after a dislocation to strengthen the muscles that support the shoulder joint.
Possible Treatments
- Active Assistive Range of Motion
- Aerobic/Endurance Exercise
- Core Strengthening
- Cryotherapy or Cold Therapy
- Electrotherapeutic Modalities
- Isometric Exercise
- Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)
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- Physical Agents
- Shoulder Active Range of Motion
- Shoulder Joint Mobilization
- Shoulder Passive Range of Motion
- Shoulder Resistive Range of Motion
Possible Treatment Goals
- Decrease Risk of Reoccurrence
- Improve Fitness
- Improve Function
- Optimize Joint Alignment
- Improve Muscle Strength and Power
- Increase Oxygen to Tissues
- Improve Proprioception
- Improve Tolerance for Prolonged Activities
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OpenType® is a cross-platform font file format developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft. Adobe has converted the entire Adobe Type Library into this format and now offers thousands of OpenType fonts.
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The OpenType format is an extension of the TrueType SFNT format that also can support Adobe® PostScript® font data and new typographic features. OpenType fonts containing PostScript data, such as those in the Adobe Type Library, have an .otf suffix in the font file name, while TrueType-based OpenType fonts have a .ttf file name suffix.
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Advanced typography
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Historically, some of the highest quality typefaces have included different designs for different print sizes. Several of Adobe's OpenType fonts include four optical size variations: caption, regular, subhead and display. Called "Opticals," these variations have been optimized for use at specific point sizes. Although the exact intended sizes vary by family, the general size ranges include: caption (6-8 point), regular (9-13 point), subhead (14-24 point) and display (25-72 point).
Because of the limitations of previous font technologies, support for expert character sets and multiple languages required separate font files. OpenType fonts provide far more typographic capabilities by combining base character sets, expert sets, and extensive additional glyphs into one file.
OpenType feature support
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The lowercase "a" character can be represented by multiple glyphs in an OpenType font.
OpenType and Adobe applications
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