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After five games, it is easy to determine that nothing is going to come easy for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Not wins at home, and especially not wins on the road. After Thursday night's 26-23 loss to the Tennessee Titans, the Steelers are 0-3 on the road this season. And as I have written many times before, evaluating a team on the road always provides the most accurate evaluation.
The Steelers went to Nashville hoping to find their first win on the road. Instead, they found more problems and concerns about their team. The defense appears to be much slower and unable to control the line of scrimmage. And the offensive line continues to have problems keeping everyone healthy.
The biggest issue that jumps out when evaluating the Steelers is their lack of speed on defense. Against the Titans, they missed LaMarr Woodley coming off the edge. They also missed Troy Polamalu; more specifically, they missed the Polamalu from two years ago. Polamalu is not the same player he once was, and it is clear he cannot impact the game in the same manner.
The Steelers also badly miss defensive lineman Aaron Smith, the dominating run stopper who allowed Pittsburgh to control the line of scrimmage for years. Without him, this team cannot shut down the run, as evidenced by allowing Chris Johnson (19 carries, 91 yards) to look like his old self.
For the Steelers' defense to maximize their scheme, they must dominate the run game. Their scheme requires the run to be handled by the front seven, and then their pass rushers have to take over the game. If the Steelers have to rely on their secondary for pure coverage, they are in deep trouble. Right now, they are not explosive in their pass rush, which reveals their vulnerability in the coverage units.
Where do the Steelers go from here? Their first challenge is to get healthy. They also need improved play from some of their players, specifically left guard Willie Colon, who seems unable to block anyone without holding. On defense, they have to get a handle on stopping the run game and must apply more pressure on the quarterback via outside rushers.
Getting these problems fixed is a start, but they also need to figure out how their offense can complement their defense, slowing the game down and becoming more effective in the red zone. With Ben Roethlisberger leading the team, it is possible. But he must have an MVP-type run over the next 11 games if the Steelers are going to be viewed as a potential Super Bowl team.
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Jeremiah: Key matchups in Week 6
Daniel Jeremiah identifies six enticing battles to follow in Week 6, including Reggie Wayne vs. Antonio Cromartie. **More ...**
- I don't want to take anything away from New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie's coverage last week of Houston Texans wide receiver Andre Johnson, but Johnson does not look like the same player this season. During the preseason, I did not make Johnson a blue-chip player, downgrading him to red, but I'm not even sure he's that anymore. Johnson cannot run, burst or make sharp cuts, which has been the case since his hamstring injury.
- Speaking of Cromartie, he might have been right when he said he was the second-best wideout on the Jets. His out-of-bounds grab on the deep pass against Houston was sensational. Despite the fact it didn't count for anything, not many receivers in the league could make that catch.
- Tony Romo was being the ultimate team player when he said this week that wide receiver Dez Bryant is making progress and maturing. These remarks are amazing, considering Bryant's inability to handle audibles or adjust quickly on the fly during the game (which then limits the Cowboys' passing attack). Bryant runs most of his routes at the same depth and never has the entire passing tree at his disposal because the Cowboys' offensive staff is concerned he will make a mistake. For all of his talent, Bryant's lack of offensive comprehension makes it hard for Dallas to utilize his talents.
- Andrew Luck has been as good as advertised. The Indianapolis Colts rookie quarterback's ability to handle the nuances of Bruce Arians' offense is astonishing. Luck never seems to be hindered by the volume of offense that he has to process.
- If the Denver Broncos expect to make a deep run in the playoffs, they will need Elvis Dumervil to play much better than he did last week against the New England Patriots -- against both the run and pass.
- Last season, Oakland Raiders running back Darren McFadden was injured and missed substantial time. This season, he is healthy but does not look like the same back. He is averaging just 3.5 yards per carry and does not appear to have the same explosive skills. Oakland's offensive line is not the best, but McFadden needs to take over games if the Raiders are going to be a factor in the AFC West.
- When Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn came into last week's game after Matt Cassel's injury, there appeared to be a sense of urgency from the offense. Quinn will get the start in Week 6 and a chance to revitalize his career if he is able to revitalize a Chiefs passing game that needs some help.
Harrison: Week 6 predictions
Will the Texans and Falcons remain perfect? Can the 49ers exact revenge on the Giants? Elliot Harrison forecasts Week 6. **More ...**
- The Detroit Lions are hopeful that safety Louis Delmas will be back this week against the Philadelphia Eagles. Delmas is a huge part of the Lions' defense, and his physical play is needed to help this struggling unit. This is a huge game, with a trip to Chicago on deck; a two-week road trip that will determine Detroit's season. The Lions need Delmas and running back Mikel Leshoure to have big games this week.
- The Cleveland Browns have a good chance to get a win this week and end their 11-game losing streak dating back to last season. Pat Shurmur is 4-17 as a head coach. His teams have only reached 20 points in four games -- twice this season and twice in 2011. The battle of Ohio is always close and this will be a tough game for the Bengals to win on the road.
- The Baltimore Ravens are really hopeful that Terrell Suggs can come back this season, and all indications are that he will be able to make an appearance. How much of an impact he has remains to be seen, but Suggs will be back sooner rather than later. The Ravens really need him.


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Job Opportunity at VSO
VSO is the world's leading international development charity that works through volunteers to create a fair world for everyone. At VSO we pride ourselves on doing development differently. We fight poverty not by sending aid, but by working through volunteers and partners to create long-lasting change in some of the world's poorest regions. We bring key stakeholders together to co-ordinate collective action, from local organisations to national governments. Our programmes in Africa and Asia focus on health, education and livelihoods, with an increasing emphasis on resilience, peace building, social accountability, gender and social inclusion. We're not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on long-lasting, sustainable change that will improve the lives of generations to come.
Role overview
Working at project location – In this role, you will provide on-site support in the project location and/or VSO office, (full-time unless otherwise specified) for a set period of time.
Overall the assignment is aimed at building capacity of small producer association networks/youth networks/and food security alliances and their members to develop food security and nutrition diligence and advocacy mechanisms toward the current food systems context with a focus on impact of food system on environment, nutrition, livelihoods and food security.
The assignment is aiming at reaching 2000+ network members and their leaders and strengthen their agency and network within the current food system context.
Skills, qualifications and experience
Competencies and Behaviour
At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:
• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge
Equal Opportunities
VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.
As a VSO volunteer, you will be sharing your skills with local communities on a full time basis. VSO will cover your travel, vaccinations, accommodation, and medical insurance costs, along with a local living allowance which will be paid in local currency. This allowance meets reasonable living expenses in country, but will not be enough to send money home. You will also receive some financial support to contribute to your on-going expenses at home.
VSO works with some of the poorest communities in the world which means accommodation varies and will be basic.
Some background about VSO
Much has changed since VSO started 60 years ago. We've gone from being a UK charity to a truly global development organisation. In 2016/2017 alone, we worked with over 7,000 volunteers from all over the world and from all backgrounds to deliver services that had an impact on the lives of almost 2.6 million people in the 24 countries where we work. Our programmes focus on the areas of health, education and livelihoods, with an increasing emphasis on resilience building, social accountability, gender and social inclusion. We believe progress is only possible when we work together and that strong partnerships are crucial to delivering positive change. That's why we work with over 500 partner organisations, from local and national governments, to businesses, NGOs, funders, charities and community groups. Currently, over 30% of our people are recruited from within the country in which they work, and we continue to grow the share of community and national volunteers involved in our programmes. We also send increasing numbers of volunteers from one developing country to another. However, our vision has remained the same; to build a world without poverty.
Your application and COVID-19
- We are continually reviewing our ability to safely programme and implement projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many local restrictions are being implemented in several VSO locations, which impacts VSO's existing programme delivery.
- We will continue to follow the advice of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and national governments to protect the wellbeing and safety of all communities, employees and volunteers.
- We're continuing to build a talent pool of prospective professional volunteers so we can get back to supporting communities as soon as we're able to.
- If your application is shortlisted, a VSO hiring manager will be in touch to discuss the next steps and any changes to your placement and role.
- You can read VSO's COVID-19 statement and frequently asked questions about volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic here.
If you're interested in applying for this role, please download the job description for more information.
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Guizhou Province, China
Tucked away in the middle of China is the province of Guizhou. It does not receive a lot of travel attention but contains some of the most interesting group of minority cultures known in the world. I would even compare it to the Chinese version of Papua New Guinea as each minority group has different customs, clothing and way of life. The focus of this visit was the annual Gulong Lusheng Festival. This festival is a gathering of the groups all wearing their unique costumes to honor the past tradition of the villages seeking spouses from other villages for marriage. I spent the time traveling from village to village to capture these groups from which several dressed accordingly. Soon this will change as the infrastructure will allow easier access and more modernization...but still time to enjoy!!Read More


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Young Cards pitchers tap into wealth of experience
Miller, Rosenthal, Kelly take initiative to glean knowledge from successful veterans
JUPITER, Fla. -- Adam Wainwright now jokes about his tactics, which he's still not sure Chris Carpenter caught on to at the time.
About how he'd trail the right-hander, one six years his elder, when Carpenter was unaware he had a shadow. Or how he'd peer over to see how Carpenter was analyzing video. Or how he would use the safe setting provided by a golf course to pry into Carpenter's bank of baseball knowledge.
Every move was intentional. Each question was pointed. For as Wainwright describes it now: "If you see something in somebody that is better than what you do, you should try to see why they're better than you… and see if it works for yourself."
This idea of young learning from old is one that Wainwright still embraces, even if his placement in the continuum of it has shifted. He's excited, too, to see young pupils that remind him of himself, willing young pitchers who realize the resources available to them in the Cardinals clubhouse. Three, in particular, have tapped in.
Through Wainwright, Shelby Miller has found guidance. From Carpenter, Trevor Rosenthal has developed new habits. Even the now-departed Kyle Lohse leaves a legacy. Joe Kelly carries it.
As the three developing right-handers compete for the same Major League rotation spot this spring, they do so having been molded through their deliberate attempts to attach themselves to someone who has already ascended to a place where they want to be.
"That's not always the case, but with this team you can see the willingness," veteran starter Jake Westbrook said. "They respect the game. They see that this game is not easy and there are a lot of things they have to learn. It's refreshing not to have to fight through egos. They get it. They have the confidence and know that they are talented players, but they also have a willingness to get better."
The only information that Wainwright could draw conclusions from was that which he could glean from box scores. It was July, and Miller, who had been struggling for months, had just been knocked around in another abbreviated start.
The numbers Wainwright read gave a partial picture, but he wasn't interested in making suppositions about the rest. He wanted Miller to tell him the why.
"Here is a guy who is supposed to be a big part of your club who is not performing like he should," Wainwright said. "I wanted to pick his brain and see where he was at. If you think you're really great at something and the results say otherwise, maybe you need to make an adjustment."
Miller was resistant, at first, to tell too much, perhaps fearful that such honesty would reveal himself as vulnerable. He had never been at such a crossroads before.
"I thought I could do it on my own," Miller said. "I thought I was the best that ever pitched. And I thought that I was going to learn from myself on how to get better."
But Wainwright persisted, sending Miller texts after each start. He'd ask the former first-round Draft pick what went right that night. He'd ask him to detail what didn't and to pinpoint why.
Miller tried the exercise. Then he found value in it.
"We finally got more rights than wrongs, and stuff started happening," Miller said. "Games started going better."
Beginning with his seven-inning start on July 30, Miller closed out the Triple-A season with a 2.84 ERA over a seven-start span. He averaged 6 1/3 innings per start. He was rewarded with an unanticipated callup to St. Louis in September, where Miller joined the bullpen.
Given the opportunity to start on the final day of the regular season, Miller tossed six shutout innings against the Reds. Then, about three months since feeling lost in the Minors, Miller made the Cardinals' postseason roster.
"It was definitely, in the Minor Leagues, the most eye-opening experience I've ever experienced," Miller said. "I've never struggled like that before. I was getting it handed to me. I was probably one of the most stubborn guys that I had ever been around. I'm sure the guys probably weren't comfortable around me in the clubhouse.
"I just wasn't a happy person. I blame myself for that because I didn't want to learn. I just thought, 'I'm doing the same thing I've always done, it's eventually going to turn around,' and it didn't."
Miller's willingness to give listening a try helped save his 2012 season, and it has him on the cusp of making his stay in the Majors more permanent. Considered the Cardinals' top pitching prospect for the last several years -- ranked by MLB.com as the club's No. 2 prospect overall -- Miller, 22, arrived to compete for a big league rotation spot with a healthy dose of humility that he no longer sees as weakness.
"I think it's just that maturity process," manager Mike Matheny said. "Part of it is you learn through mistakes, I believe. But he's been extremely receptive, going about everything the right way [this spring]. He's taken a step forward."
Rosenthal, ranked as the Cardinals' No. 5 prospect, doesn't deny that there was very much an intimidation factor in play at first. Actually, he jokes, there kind of still is. It's hard to fault the 22-year-old kid for that, given that Rosenthal had been watching Carpenter pitch since he was in elementary school.
But with Carpenter's career in flux, it could well turn out that his last significant contribution as a Cardinals pitcher came in a mostly empty Busch Stadium during the offseason. There, shortly after getting his children off to school, Carpenter would arrive to meet Rosenthal for daily workouts.
The resources available in St. Louis had prompted Rosenthal to consider staying for the winter. Plans were firmed up, then, when Westbrook agreed to let Rosenthal stay in his home. An invitation to work with Carpenter came next, and Rosenthal jumped on it.
"When you look back at the career that he's had and see how hard he's still working, if you can't respect that and have it motivate you, then you're not in the right spot," Rosenthal said. "In the weight room, he was pushing himself. He was pushing me. I feel like I couldn't have had a better workout partner in that regard. Even when I was exhausted, he was making sure that I was pushing myself to the limit."
The two would continue their work until mid-afternoon. The only day they took off each week was Sunday.
"I know at some point my stuff is going to come to an end," Carpenter said last month, before recurring nerve problems shut him down indefinitely. "But to be able to know that you've had an impact and have seen some of these kids develop into what they're going to be to continue that process to what a St. Louis Cardinal is supposed to be is exciting."
Carpenter first took notice of Rosenthal last spring, when Rosenthal was a relative unknown in big league camp. That didn't stop Carpenter from investing in the young right-hander, who still talks about the impact of seeing the veteran starter observing his side sessions.
Afterward, Carpenter would dissect what he saw. Rosenthal absorbed the information, let it simmer and then applied it as best he could. The pointers kept coming when Rosenthal jumped from Double-A to the Majors in midsummer.
"If anybody is going to tell you how to do it the right way, it's going to be coming from him," Rosenthal said. "He's done it the right way for so long."
Rosenthal's biggest takeaway in it all?
"The most influential thing that I was able to get out of him was just the mentality that he takes out there," Rosenthal said. "He's really taken a huge responsibility and taken the team on his back. That win or loss on every fifth day, that means the world to him. He's going to give it everything he has. I think as a starter, that's the best mentality that you can have."
Initially, the connection was built largely out of convenience. Called up to take Jaime Garcia's rotation spot in early June, Kelly found himself plugged into the rotation right behind Lohse. Knowing he'd be facing the same offense the following day, Kelly had incentive to watch how Lohse went about dissecting the opponent. And when Lohse wrapped up his start, he'd spill perspective.
Lohse would point out who he pitched around in certain situations. He would tell Kelly which right-handers had the toughest time handling his changeup, a pitch that Kelly likes to throw in similar spots. Lohse would encourage Kelly not to be afraid to start an at-bat off with a low fastball over the plate.
After Lohse laid out his game plan, Kelly picked the parts that fit with his strengths.
"He was the first one to start teaching me stuff, and I asked him questions because he was open about it," Kelly said. "Throughout the year, we would talk and I would try to learn everything I could about how he went about his business. We are totally two different pitchers, but I was trying to learn to pitch like him. Even with my stuff, I thought it would be a good example to follow."
The mentorship grew out of friendship for a pair of laid-back Californians who had gotten to know each other previously on the Florida golf courses during Spring Training. With Lohse, there was no intimidating façade. Rather, Kelly found him to be engaging and witty, cool and confident, traits that could just as easily describe Kelly.
With respect already established, Lohse became an ideal mentor for Kelly, who turned the spot start opportunity in June into a multiple-month stay in St. Louis. Kelly became so valuable for the Cardinals that they transitioned him into the bullpen, not back to the Minors, when circumstances pushed Kelly from the rotation.
Lohse was a stable sounding board through it all.
"It was really good help I got from him," Kelly said. "I didn't go out there and start opening my mouth and being loud. I was quiet and picked my spots in one-on-one situations. I tried to go about it the right way."
The relationship wasn't all one-sided either, as Kelly actually reciprocated in the one way he could. Under Kelly's guidance, Lohse's fantasy football team advanced to the league playoffs this winter. A year before, Lohse had finished last in the clubhouse competition.
Fantasy football gave the two an excuse to stay in touch over the winter. Kelly said he will find other reasons to text his former teammate in the future, too. Lohse may have departed St. Louis, but he didn't disappear.
"He's definitely going to be missed by our team and me," Kelly said. "I would like to mimic myself after him."


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The change from Gilgal to Bochim
Alas! if such was the
condition of the people, and they were satisfied with it,
chastening, as at Ai, was no longer in question. But the
angel of Jehovah (the operative power of God in the midst
of the people) quits Gilgal (that spiritual circumcision
of heart, which precedes victory, and tempers the soul
anew that we may overcome in conflict) and comes up to
Bochim, to the place of weeping, in the midst of the
people, declaring that He will no longer drive out the
enemy whom Israel had spared.
God had been then at
Gilgal! What a blessing amid those exercises and inward
conflicts of heart, in which true practical circumcision
is accomplished, in which the source and influence of sin
are felt in order to judge it before God; so that, the
flesh being judged, we may in conflict (and also in
communion) enjoy the strength of God, who cannot grant it
to the flesh and to sin.
The proper work of
Gilgal; the difference at Bochim
This inward mortification
is a work of no outward glory; it is unseen, or little
and pitiful in the eyes of man; it makes us little in our
own, but God and His grace great, and associates the
heart with Him, giving the moral consciousness of His
presence. Not as if we were strong; on the contrary there
is the sense of entire dependence (compare 2 Cor. 12),
but dependence on divine strength, which really does all
that is done, though God may do it through instruments if
He sees good, and then the responsibility of man comes in.
At Jericho God did all, to shew, being without man, who
was the doerthen at Ai, responsibility. The
strength was not shewn at Gilgal. It was shewn against
the Amorites of the mountains, at Gibeon; but it was
gathered at Gilgal. Historically it did not appear that
the strength of God was at Gilgal. To have manifested it
would have destroyed the proper work of Gilgalthe
judgment in humbleness because of God, of everything in
which flesh works. But, when forsaken, it was
discovered that the angel of Jehovah had been there. It
is exchanged for tears. But the tears are for lost
blessings. God may be worshipped in Bochim: His
relationship to the people was unaltered. He accepts
these tears. But what a difference! The strength and the
light of Jehovah's countenance are not there. But He is
always the same for faith to count on, as when the sea
fled from before His face, and Jordan was driven back.
The sorrow of the position is felt, but alleviated by the
sense that His grace cannot and will not fail (see Judges
6: 13, 14). This change from Gilgal to Bochim is the key
to the book; it is so, alas! but too often, the condition
of God's children.
The history of
Israel that of the Assembly
The Holy Ghost, having
laid these general foundations, goes on to the historical
development of Israel's position.
All the days of Joshua and
of the elders that outlived him, Israel walked before
Jehovah. It is the history of the assembly. While the
apostles were there, it was preserved; but Paul (Acts 20:
29) and Peter (2 Pet. 2) alike warned the saints that
unfaithfulness and rebellion would unhappily follow their
departure. These evil principles were already there. The
intermixture of unbelievers (the enemy's work) would
become the means through which the evil would unfold
itself and gain ground amongst them.
The Lord had spoken of
this (Matt. 13), not indeed as to the assembly, but as to
the good seed which He had sown; and Jude develops its
progress and results with solemn perspicuity and
In their
affliction, judges raised up by Jehovah
But when another
generation arises in Israel, which has not known Jehovah,
and has not seen all the great works of His hand; and
when they serve the gods of the people whom Israel had
spared, God no longer protects them. Unfaithful within,
the Israelites fall into the hands of the enemy without.
Then, as we have seen, in their affliction Jehovah, moved
with compassion, raised up judges, who, acknowledging His
name, brought back the manifestation of His power in
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Injecting botulinum toxin into the fat pads around the heart after bypass surgery might stave off postoperative atrial fibrillation, a pilot study showed.
Patients who received injections of botulinum toxin instead of a normal saline placebo had a significantly lower rate of atrial tachyarrhythmias -- including atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter/tachycardia -- in the first 30 days (30% versus 7%, P=0.024), according to Evgeny Pokushalov, MD, PhD, of the State Research Institute of Circulation Pathology in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Action Points
- Note that this study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The botulinum toxin treatment was not associated with any complications, with no cases of congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, death, and no differences between groups for other outcomes, he reported at the Heart Rhythm Society meeting here.
Pokushalov called the findings "very, very encouraging," and said that "botulinum toxin injection into the epicardial fat pads warrants further investigation as an agent to suppress postoperative atrial fibrillation."
If the results are borne out in a larger multicenter study, he said, "I strongly believe this technique can be [the] gold standard for open heart surgery."
John Day, MD, an electrophysiologist at Intermountain Heart Rhythm Specialists in Utah and program chair for this year's meeting, called the study fascinating, but said that questions remain about the long-term effects of the treatment on atrial fibrillation and about potential adverse consequences.
"This is a very fascinating study, very provocative, but we need more data from other centers looking at this, as well as long-term data," he said.
Even if the effect of botulinum toxin is short-lived, there could be an important benefit because atrial fibrillation that occurs after cardiac surgery -- though also usually short-lived -- is associated with longer stays in the ICU and hospital and increased risks of complications and death.
"This could be a very effective treatment that could be done relatively quickly by the surgeon to help decrease this perioperative atrial fibrillation," Day said.
Atrial fibrillation occurs in 30% to 50% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery, usually in the first 5 days after surgery, although there are not many options to treat it. Guidelines recommend using a beta-blocker, but "all therapeutic options have variable efficacy and some may adversely affect hemodynamic stability," Pokushalov said.
Evidence suggests that the autonomic nervous system plays a role in atrial fibrillation, and ablation of the epicardial fat pads, which contain a rich network of nerves, has been shown to suppress the arrhythmia. In animal models, botulinum toxin injections into the fat pads has temporarily suppressed atrial fibrillation.
To test the approach in humans, Pokushalov and colleagues randomized 60 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) to receive injections of incobotulinumtoxin A (Xeomin) administered at 50 U/mL into each of the four major epicardial fat pads or injections of 0.9% normal saline at 1 mL. All patients had a history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation before surgery, and none had a history of cardiac surgery or ablation procedures.
The patients were continuously monitored with ECG telemetry in the hospital and then with ECGs and 24-hour Holter recordings taken at 7, 14, 21, and 30 days.
Patients in both groups received a similar number of saphenous vein grafts and internal mammary artery grafts during the operation. There were no differences after surgery in the time to begin ventilator weaning, the time to extubation, or the time to discharge from the intensive care unit. The post-CABG length of stay was 6 days in both groups.
Similarly, CK-MB levels did not differ at 1, 8, 16, or 24 hours after the end of cardiopulmonary bypass.
The botulinum toxin injection was associated with a significantly lower rate of atrial tachyarrhythmia recurrence within 30 days, without an increase in any postoperative complications, but Pokushalov acknowledged some limitations of the study, including the small number of patients, the inclusion of patients with prior atrial fibrillation exclusively, and the uncertainty about the long-term effects of botulinum toxin on the maintenance of sinus rhythm.
Outgoing HRS president Hugh Calkins, MD, director of the cardiac arrhythmia service at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, pointed out that postoperative atrial fibrillation is an important problem because it keeps patients in the hospital longer and requires treatment with anticoagulation.
He saw promise in the results presented by Pokushalov.
"If, in fact, at the time of surgery you can squirt some [botulinum toxin] into the four fat pads, and if that is quick and safe and that cuts the amount of [atrial fibrillation] by 75%, I would think that would be a very effective strategy that will catch on widely with all patients getting bypass surgery," Calkins said.
"Obviously it's a proof of concept," he added, "but certainly the data presented speaks to the fact that they need to go to the next step, which is larger trials, more patients, more data."
Calkins said he's not sure what botulinum toxin costs, but "if it adds 5 minutes to surgery and it's safe and it adds $200 to the cost of the procedure and it will get patients out a day or 2 or 3 earlier from the hospital, then it will end up being cost-effective."
From the American Heart Association:
Pokushalov disclosed relevant relationships with Biosense Webster, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic.
Primary Source
Heart Rhythm Society
Source Reference: Pokushalov E, et al "Botulinum toxin injection in epicardial fat pads can prevent recurrences of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery: results of a randomized pilot study" HRS 2014; Abstract LB02-02.


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Find out how school lights are improving the learning environment at Hermitage Amsterdam.
Bringing well-being
to workshops
Find out how school lights are improving the learning environment at Hermitage Amsterdam.
you can always adjust the lighting to match the conditions outside, as well as the activities being carried out inside."
- Ingrid Pasmans, Teacher, Hermitage for Children
Change was on the cards for the Hermitage Amsterdam. After relocating to a stylish 17th-century building on the banks of the River Amstel, it needed a new lighting concept for the children's workshops. The rooms have large windows either side, so the new lighting needed to illuminate the center of the room, and be adaptable to different teaching requirements.
"In the summer a lot of light streams in from outside, whereas in the winter it can be pretty dark even during the day," says Hans Wolff of Hans Wolff & Partners Lighting Designers. To enable balanced lighting in the room, MASTER TL5 tubes with different color temperatures were installed in each luminaire. Their intensity can be altered to suit the ambient lighting levels, and to adapt to specific activities like video presentations.
Armitage also wanted the luminaires to complement the aesthetics of the room. Savio luminaires were chosen for their neat appearance, and for their plastic surface, which diffuses the light evenly. The luminaries are easily adjusted by a user-friendly remote control, which changes the brightness and color settings. This new setup is adaptable, easy-to-use, and offers the optimal working environment for both children and staff.
Lighting designer Hans Wolff is a big fan of our energy-efficient MASTER TL5 tubes. "Fluorescent tubes are still the most energy-efficient option available," he said. "They are also cheap to replace and easy to maintain."


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We had it.
Those are three words you never expect to say as a Patriots fan. Not during the Belichick-Brady Era, anyway. But after a truly remarkable AFC Championship Game Colts 38, Pats 34 those were the only three words I kept saying. We had it when we were driving inside the Colts' 20 with a 21-3 lead. We had it when we kicked the go-ahead field goal with five minutes left. We had it when we stopped Manning three-and-out. We had it on our own 40 with 3:30 to play, needing only a first down to finish the game.
We had it.
This isn't sour grapes, I promise. (No, really. I promise.) The Colts deserved to win one of the greatest NFL playoff games in recent memory. They made up an 18-point lead in about 20 seconds. They withstood every haymaker and kept throwing punches right back. They came through in the clutch and so did their much-maligned QB. And the Patriots did just enough to blow the game they couldn't run the ball in the second half and the defense wilted as the game went along, worn down from last week's slugfest in San Diego, the flu and a glaring lack of healthy bodies. By the time the fourth quarter rolled around, cramped pass rushers were getting their legs massaged on the bench, random special teamers were playing key defensive positions and I found myself actually saying things out loud like, "My God, Artrell Hawkins is out, what do we do now???"
Watching the game in my office and trying to determine how to stop the Colts (who had rolled off four straight scoring drives heading into the fourth quarter), I was so desperate for a momentum change that I hijacked my daughter and brought her in front of the TV for good luck. And you know what? It worked! Indy went three-and-out and Manning banged his thumb on somebody's helmet; CBS even showed a replay of Manning telling backup quarterback Jim Sorgi, "Be ready." Instantly, I remembered Wilt Chamberlain's famous knee injury in Game 7 of the '69 Finals, when Wilt took himself out in the fourth quarter and the Celtics ended up winning their 11th (and last) title of the Russell Era. This was like Wilt, The Sequel. Manning had an out, the Pats would win, and we'd spend the next two weeks making jokes about his thumb. Seemed like a perfect ending to me.
Even when Manning returned and completed a 50-yard wobbler to Dallas Clark to set up a game-tying field goal (exit: my daughter), he still didn't seem quite right. The Pats responded with a quick drive and go-ahead field goal (in my notebook, I wrote down, "Gostkowski: WATERMELON BALLS"), followed by Manning struggling through a three-and-out series and looking positively A-Rodian. Now the Colts needed the Patriots to self-combust somehow in the final four minutes, even though they owned crunch time in the past (as CBS banged home with a "Bill Belichick is 8-0 in playoff games decided by 7 points or less" graphic right before the drive started). Fortunately for the Colts, all hell has broken loose in 2007 already, Chris Kattan is engaged to a supermodel, Eddie Murphy might win an Oscar, Steve Nash is headed for a third straight MVP award and Boise State beat Oklahoma in a January 1st bowl game. So really, anything's possible at this point.
How did the most clutch team of the decade blow the game? They kicked things off with a too-many-men-in-the-huddle penalty to make it first-and-15, followed by two short passes to set up a third-and-4 near midfield with 2:30 left. Naturally, this was the time for Brady to find Troy Brown for a five-yard out for the 10 millionth time only Brown ran to the wrong spot, Bob Sanders nearly picked the pass off and Brady walked off the field yelling at Brown. (Note: I'm going to have this entire sequence digitally removed from my brain next week.) That was quickly followed by Todd Sauerbrun punting it into the end zone (so much for the Little Things, folks), then Manning jogging onto the field for a career-defining two-minute drive as Jim Nantz made one of those schmaltzy, "You get the feeling so many lives and careers could be affected in the next two minutes and 17 seconds" comments before nearly giving himself diabetes.
At this point, I was prepared for anything: An interception, a fumble, a long touchdown, an Elway-like drive, Manning's head exploding you name it. But Manning was ready. Bullet pass to Wayne for a first down. Thirty-two yard strike to Fletcher for another first down. Another pass to Wayne for a first down (which he nearly fumbled away -- a goofy play that didn't even rank among the top-10 goofiest plays in this game), punctuated by a horsecrap roughing-the-passer call that CBS was too embarrassed to even replay. In about 10 seconds, the Colts were on the New England 12 and you could tell the Pats had nothing left. (Note: You know your defense is done when you're rooting for the other team to score so you can get the ball back faster.) Running on fumes of their fumes, the Patriots' defense allowed the last 12 yards on runs and failed to touch Joseph Addai on the winning score -- with backup linebacker Eric Alexander failing to plug the hole and backup safety James Sanders whiffing on Addai completely -- a far cry from the memorable 2003 victory in the RCA Dome when Willie McGinest stoned Edge James on fourth-and-goal.
(These are the moments when you remember, "Hey, it's really, really, REALLY hard to get a dynasty going." You need to keep replenishing the talent base, you need to replace character guys with more character guys, you need your core stars to stay healthy, and you need a ton of luck in close games. For further explanation, look at the Yankees during 2001-2006. That's why Belichick said about eight words to a quivering Solomon Wilcots after last night's game. He knows. You only get back so many times.)
That was that. After Brady got picked on a desperation drive to end the game, a slightly stunned Manning kneeled to end the game and kick off a massive celebration capped by the blood-curdling sight of Vinatieri and Manning hugging (around the year 2036, I'll recover from that one). I spent the next 20 minutes making excuses, shaking my head and passing blame around. On the phone, my father was even more distraught, bringing up the offensive pass interference call on Brown leading 21-3 and driving for another score, when they whistled Brown for the same exact pick play that New Orleans used to spring Reggie Bush for an 86-yard TD earlier in the day (you know, the same pick play that every team uses and never, ever, EVER gets called) at least 300 times during our conversation, as well as the aforementioned bogus roughing-the-passer call that moved Indy from the 27 to the 12 and apparently isn't allowed to be mentioned ever again. Eventually, we realized that we sounded like the Rams fans in Super Bowl XXXVI, or the Eagles fans in Super Bowl XXXIX, or the Chargers fans last week nobody cares if you could have won the game, just whether you did.
Besides, Sunday night was about Manning over everyone else. A lightning rod over the years for sports radio hosts, football experts, talking heads and snarky columnists like myself, Manning seemed profoundly snakebitten after last year's Steelers loss and utterly incapable of carrying his team when it mattered. He had become the A-Rod or C-Webb of his sport, a mortal lock to melt down in every big game. Hell, any football fan has probably attempted an off-the-cuff imitation of the Manning Face at some point. Even last week against the Ravens, Manning was throwing the ball up for grabs and dancing in the pocket like a contestant on "You're the One That I Want." His body language never seemed right, not even during the first half last night, after the Pats scored on a fumble recovery by their left guard and CBS showed a great replay of Manning reacting like a little kid who just had his Big Wheel taken away. Nothing about the guy inspired real confidence. He needed a borderline miracle to turn things around.
As strange as this sounds, I headed into halftime believing that the 21-6 score removed much of the pressure off him. There were eerie parallels to the Dave Roberts Game in that the Colts (A) were handicapped by their collective history (much like the Red Sox heading into that 2004 ALCS), (B) were battling their long-time nemesis who always owned them (much like the Yankees), and (C) needed to hit rock-bottom to set up the whole "miracle comeback that makes everyone forget that this team was snakebitten in the first place" thing (like the Red Sox being three outs away from a sweep). Nothing's scarier than a home team playing with house money in front of a desperate crowd dying for a reason to jump back into the game.
Still, Manning needed to come through. He had four legitimate outs last night -- after the brutal Samuel interception made it 21-3, after Wayne's pass interference got overturned right before the half, after the thumb injury, and after the three-and-out with four minutes left -- and didn't take any of them. For once, he got better when it mattered, even if there was never a moment when anyone thought, "Wow, he's cutting the Pats up with a SCALPEL right now." Unlike the famous QBs from the '80s and '90s (Marino, Elway, Montana, Favre) or even Brady right now, Manning never gives you that feeling that he stepped right off the set of a sports movie to save the day. He's exceedingly human, dorky and endearing, the kind of guy who might have a giant pimple pulsating on his forehead during a big game. Even as Brady was trying to save the game in the last minute, Manning remained sitting on his own bench, his head bowed, staring at the ground and terrified to look up. Almost like he was sitting in a hospital waiting room awaiting the results of a blood test. He certainly didn't seem like your typical football hero.
And if Brady had pulled off a miracle in those final 54 seconds, we wouldn't be discussing Manning for the next two weeks. But that's the crazy thing about sports: One moment can alter the entire history of somebody's career. Ask Tony Romo. Ask Earnest Byner. Ask Kevin Dyson. Hell, poor Dan Marino sits there on the CBS studio show bristling every time Boomer Esiason compares him to Manning, with the implication being, "If Manning's not lucky, he could end up with an unfulfilled career just like Dan the Loser over here." Sure, you need talent over everything else, but you also need timing and luck, and you need to come through when it counts. Until last night, just like Marino, Manning couldn't get all four things working at the same time.
Now he's one win away from putting that "can't win the big one" label to rest and getting to enter the John Elway Zone loosely translated to mean, "All right, here's my ring, now you guys can all shut the hell up and leave me alone." And if he ends up beating the Bears and winning a Super Bowl, 30 years from now, nobody will remember that the Patriots needed only to convert third-and-4 to win the 2006-7 AFC Championship Game. They'll remember that Peyton Manning came back from 18 down, toppled his arch-rival and prevailed in one of the greatest playoff games in NFL history.
Of course, I won't remember this. I'll just remember that we had it we had it and Manning and the Colts took it away.
(And some day, I might even believe that I just wrote that sentence.)
Bill Simmons is a columnist for Page 2 and ESPN The Magazine. His book "Now I Can Die In Peace" is available in paperback.


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NEW YORK —Dick Wagner, the skilled guitarist who worked with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Kiss and Aerosmith, and also co-wrote many of Cooper's hits, died of respiratory failure Wednesday, his personal manager and business partner said Friday. He was 71.
Susan Michelson, Wagner's partner in Desert Dreams Productions, said the performer died at Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center in Arizona. He had been there for three weeks, Michelson said.
Wagner was born on Dec. 14, 1972, and grew up in Michigan. His website said he went on tour with Reed in 1973 and joined Cooper a year later. He co-wrote the Cooper hits "Only Women Bleed," "You and Me" and "I Never Cry." He also worked as Cooper's musical director.
Wagner's website said the guitarist had many health issues, surviving two heart attacks, a stroke, a paralyzed left arm, kidney failure and diabetes.
"Dick had a huge heart, which is perhaps why it gave him so much trouble, it was simply too full of love, of music and life," Wagner's family and Desert Dreams said in a joint statement. "His creativity and passion will live on forever in the legacy he has left for us, in his music and his words. We have so much of him to celebrate."
Wagner formed the band The Bossmen in Michigan, but had his first real taste of success came with the band The Frost, whose albums placed on the Billboard charts.
He then moved to New York and formed Ursa Major, a short-lived band that included Wagner on guitar and Billy Joel on keyboard. Wagner's website said drama in "Billy's personal life intervened and he left the band."
Wagner eventually relocated to Phoenix and started Desert Dreams in 2005 with Michelson, whom he met in the late 1970s when working with Cooper.
Wagner is survived by his daughter, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, and his sons, Robert Wagner and Mark Schuknecht. A memorial in Michigan is being planned, Michelson said.
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Some parents seem to move their children on too quickly in their often well-motivated quest to help their children succeed as readers. Julie Bosman note in an excellent article on this topic in 2010 that sometimes the motives are confused. She quoted the manager of a major children's department in Washington who said:
"They're 4 years old, and their parents are getting them 'Stuart Little,'....I see children pick up picture books, and then the parents say, 'You can do better than this, you can do more than this.' It's a terrible pressure parents are feeling — that somehow, I shouldn't let my child have this picture book because she won't get into Harvard."
These are tendencies that I have also observed and motivated me to write about this in 2010. This post is a revised version of the earlier post and highlights what I see as four myths about picture books.
Where the Wild Things Are' is a single sentence that is extremely complex, with a mix of embedded clauses, direct speech, unusual verbs and rich metaphor. Good picture books often use complex metaphors to develop themes, and the limitations of the number of words used requires the author to use language with an economy and power that many chapter books simply don't attain. The subtle use of image, word, page layout, colour, and text layout variations can create sophisticated texts. Graphic novels and electronic picture books like 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore' which I've reviewed previously (here) are taking this to a completely new level.
Granpa' as a simple story about a little girl and her grandfather, but can revisit it years later and discover that it tells of the death of the little girl's Grandfather. And many adults may never see the underlying themes in children's books, like that of death in 'John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat'.
Emerging Comprehension'). Picture books present multiple sign systems in one text. The parallel use of language, image and many other devices (e.g. colour and print layout), stimulates creativity and the imagination in ways that chapter books cannot. A book like Graeme Base's 'The Sign of the Seahorse' uses language, brilliant illustrations, a play text structure and other devices (including a map and hidden clues), to offer a complex text to be explored, read, enjoyed, 'worked out' and revisited many times.
Myth 4 - 'Picture books are just for children'. Not so! While the majority of picture books are designed for readers under the age of 7 years, more and more are written for much wider readerships and the rapidly developing genre of the 'Graphic Novel' (see previous post here) because they allow the author to use word, image and other modes (including related audio, video and music) to create more complex tellings of the story the author has in mind. For example, books like 'My Place' and 'Requiem for a Beast' and 'When the Wind Blows' were never meant just for little children. In fact, Matt Ottley's book was actually meant for high school readers. The great thing about picture books is that children and adults can both enjoy them, sometimes separately, and sometimes together. The latter is an important way to grow in shared knowledge and understanding as well as a key vehicle for helping children to learn as we explore books with them.
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here), including linguistic, spatial, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinaesthetic (e.g. 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar') and even musical intelligence' if it integrates early rhyme and music (Matt Ottley integrates a complete original musical in 'Requiem for a Beast'!). David Almond's book 'Slog's Dad' which I reviewed recently (here) offers two parallel story journeys in the one book, one in words, and the other in pictures. Arguably, every form of intelligence can be potentially integrated into the picture book. This is not to suggest that chapter books only emphasize 'linguistic Intelligence' - for example, 'spatial intelligence' includes abstract, analytical abilities that go beyond simply seeing images - but their potential to do this is more limited for the young child.
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Robert Wallace of Durham is the winner of the 2010 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition for his story "As Breaks the Wave upon the Sea." Wallace will receive a prize of $250 from the North Carolina Writers Network, and his story will be published in the North Carolina Literary Review's 2011 issue. 82 stories were submitted to this year's competition.
Wallace is a recipient of an Emerging Artist grant from the Durham Arts Council and a Writer's Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council, and he has been a Blumenthal reader. He has had fiction and nonfiction published in various venues, including, among others, the Wellspring, The O. Henry Festival Stories, the Raleigh News & Observer, and the anthology Racing Home: New Short Stories by Award Winning North Carolina Writers.
NCLR Fiction Editor Liza Wieland selected Wallace's story from ten finalists, saying, "As Breaks the Wave upon the Sea" is a beautifully woven, deeply affecting story (I wept as I read it, and so did my husband). The language is simple and direct; the relationship between a returned Iraq War soldier and his wife is depicted in all its wrenching complexity, from both points of view, in short sections that sing like prose poems. The result is a pitch-perfect whole, and one of the best stories I've read in a long, long time."
Wieland also noted Wayne Johns's "Where Your Children Are" and Susan Snowden's "Revenge" for honorable mention, saying of Johns's story, "I confess a personal attachment to this story, having grown up in this part of Atlanta and written about the child murders myself. Mainly, though, I love this story for its language: 'easing into the backyard as into dark water'; 'orange-tinged moon was snared in the pines'; 'the last light shifted through the leaves like a kaleidoscope.' The story's final line evokes the threat that quivers through the entire story. I admire, too, the way the writer has made the awakening of sexual identity a part of this story that works seamlessly with the history we all know. This is clearly a writer of terrific talent." Of Snowden's "Revenge" Wieland says, "I admire this story for its sense of place and culture (the Talmadge ham versus the cooler of shrimp), and for the writer's ability to juggle such a large cast of characters. I feel every bit of Carolyn's anger and disbelief, and I very much enjoyed (and would have loved more of) the way the story calls into question our assumptions about high (portraits of venerable ancestors) and low (pastel Pekingese) art."
Also of note is that finalist Julie Ann Davis's story "Taylor's Creek" was recommended by the NCLR editors for publication in the eastern North Carolina-based, online and print magazine IBX Lifestyles, and it will appear in the spring issue.
Six other stories were finalists in the competition: Joseph Francis Cavano's "Soldiers," Carol Cooley's "Jude and Ms. Martha," Carol Roan's "The Streetwalker," Merry Elrick's "The Rhubarb," Doris Monica Iarovici's "Among The Ruins," and "The Neighbor's Dog" by Thomas Wolf, who received the Betts Prize in 2007.
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When Time Warner and Embarq (now named CenturyLink) couldn't provide affordable, high-speed broadband, the residents of Wilson, a small town in North Carolina, decided to do it themselves. In 2006, Wilson built a municipally owned fiber-to-the home network that offers television, telephone, and broadband services at relatively low cost.
In response, Time Warner cut rates and boosted speeds a bit -- but that's not all. The cable giant, along with allies AT&T and CenturyLink, poured more than $1 million into the campaign coffers of North Carolina politicians, according to a report by Common Cause and the ILSR (Institute for Local Self Reliance). In 2011, the lobbying effort paid off: The state legislature passed a bill making it nearly impossible for other communities to build their own broadband networks.
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North Carolina is hardly alone; 18 other states also have yielded to lobbying efforts by cable and telecom giants and passed similar legislation. The legislature of a 20th state, Kansas, is currently debating a law that would squelch local broadband projects there as well. And there's a bill pending in the Utah state legislature that would forbid a regional fiber consortium from expanding beyond the 16 cities it is currently authorized to serve with FTTH (fiber to the home) networks.
The United States lags far behind other developed countries in deployment of FTTH. So you'd think that the carriers would line up to provide it. After all, the economic benefits of high-speed Internet are well documented, and there's clearly a lot of demand.
But the providers have been very slow to make the necessary investments, which makes their campaign to stop cities and towns from going it alone all the more galling.
The carriers' lobbying pays off
As reported by Ars Technica, Kansas is now considering a law restraining the development of municipal broadband that would be even more draconian than most of the ones already on the books in other states.
"The language in this bill prohibits not only networks that directly offer services, but even public-private partnerships and open access approaches. This is the kind of language one would expect to see if the goal is to protect politically powerful cable and telephone company monopolies rather than just limiting local authority to deliver services," Christopher Mitchell, a co-author of the North Carolina report, wrote in a recent blog post.
The language is so vague that it could conceivably ban broadband projects like the Google Fiber efforts under way in Kansas City, Mo., and Austin, Texas.


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Outdoor Furniture with Class
Until Breezesta™ Poly Outdoor Furniture, the great outdoors wasn?t so great on outdoor furniture. Metal rusted. Wood splintered. Paint faded and chipped. Webbing tore. Aluminum frames bent. Every year thousands of HDPE milk jugs and water bottles are rescued from America's waste stream and recycled into sturdy poly lumber at our Lancaster PA plant. The result is safe, maintenance-free, stylish furniture that is affordably priced for your backyard or patio.


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Barbie's companion Ken gets new looks: Man bun, beefy bod
NEW YORK (AP) — He's been overshadowed by Barbie for decades, but now Ken is finally getting some attention.
Mattel is introducing 15 new looks for the male doll, including different skin tones, body shapes and hair styles. Barbie had a similar makeover more than a year ago, both part of the toy company's plan to make its dolls more diverse and appealing to today's kids.
Ken hadn't changed much since he was introduced 56 years ago as Barbie's blue-eyed, chiseled boyfriend. Now he'll be sold in three body shapes: "slim," ''broad" and "original."
He'll have modern hairdos, such as cornrows and man buns, and come in seven skin tones. And he'll also be sporting new fashions: think skinny ties, plaid shirts and graphic tees.
"We are redefining what a Barbie or Ken doll looks like to this generation," said Mattel's Lisa McKnight, who oversees the Barbie line.
Mattel is trying to fight falling sales of its iconic doll line at a time when many kids would rather play with an iPad. Barbie sales were down 13 percent in the first three months of the year compared with the same period a year ago. A live-action Barbie movie is in the works for next year, with hopes that the big-screen flick will spur doll sales as well.
Ken was in need of a makeover, said Jim Silver, the editor-in-chief of toy review website TTPM. He said kids who play with the revamped Barbie dolls don't want an outdated Ken.
"He's part of the storyline and he has to fit in with the picture," Silver said, "or you would lose sales."
Some of the new $10 Ken dolls were being rolled out to shops and online stores Tuesday, Mattel Inc. said, and all of them will be on store shelves by the holidays.
The El Segundo, California-based company also announced new Barbie looks Tuesday, including one with a nearly shaved head and another with an Afro. Mattel has been tinkering with other lines to be more inclusive, such as adding its first boy doll for the American Girl brand.
Contact Joseph Pisani at http://twitter.com/josephpisani


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Christ's Comprehensive Love - Truth for Life - April 29, 2018
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Christ's Comprehensive Love
The Lord takes pleasure in his people. - Psalms 149:4
How comprehensive is the love of Jesus! There is no part of His people's interests that He does not consider, and there is nothing that concerns their welfare that is not important to Him. He doesn't merely think of you, believer, as an immortal being, but as a mortal being too. Do not deny it or doubt it: "Even the hairs of your head are all numbered."1 "The steps of a man are established by the LORD, when he delights in his way."2
It would be sad for us if this covering of love did not tackle all our concerns, for what mischief might be done to us in that part of our lives that did not come under our gracious Lord's protection! Believer, rest assured that the heart of Jesus cares about your smallest concerns. The breadth of His tender love is such that you may turn to Him in every case; for in all your afflictions He is afflicted, and just like a father cares for his children, so He cares for you. The smallest interests of all His saints are all borne upon the heart of the Son of God.
And what a heart He has, which does not merely understand the nature of His people but also comprehends their diverse and innumerable concerns. Do you think, Christian, that you can measure the love of Christ? Consider what His love has brought you—justification, adoption, sanctification, eternal life! The riches of His goodness are unsearchable; you will never be able to convey them or even conceive them.
Oh, the breadth of the love of Christ! Shall such a love as this have only half our hearts? Shall it have a cold love in return? Shall Jesus' marvelous loving-kindness and tender care be met with only faint response and delayed acknowledgment? My soul, tune your harp to a glad song of thanksgiving! Go to your rest rejoicing, for you are not a desolate wanderer but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by your Lord.
1) Matthew 10:30 2) Psalm 37:23
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Err, well, alright, it was an 8-week old kitten named Ramesses. The title of this post is, in fact, A Lie. I've no idea why the name Ramesses was chosen, because there's not a lot of similarities between Ramesses the Great (or even any of the other Ramesses, come to that) and a small fluffy kitten. Let's compare :
Another important difference is that the dessicated bodies of Egyptian rulers aren't known for looking adorable if you put them in a box, or a bag, or indeed anywhere else for that matter.
* At least I assume so. There's no mention of Ramesses the Great crushing the Hittites and then pooping everywhere, so this is probably a safe bet.
Finally, if you take an Egyptian ruler and stuff him in a washing basket, you'll be in big trouble when he gets out. If you take the corpse of Egypt's greatest ruler and roll it around inside a washing basket, you won't live very long. But if you put Ramesses the Kitten inside a washing basket, you'll get an evening's entertainment.
While I haven't had a kitten since I was about 8 years old, and like all right-thinking people know that cats are the higher form of life, I had mixed feelings about giving him back (fortunately, this was immediately before the Socorro trip, so I had no choice). Having an adorable fluffy kitten is one thing. Having it continuously attack everything in sight is another. Especially at 12:30am. So, the house is calm, once again. And quiet. So very quiet...


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Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
Platform: SNES
Tags: RPG, Turn-Based, Fantasy
Developer: Square
AKA: Mystic Quest Legend (EU), Final Fantasy USA: Mystic Quest (JP)
Staff Reviews
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReview date unknown
Jason Venter says: "Monsters leave behind an obscene number of experience points, so its not hard to go up three or four levels in each dungeon. Not only that, but the world map also provides additional opportunities in the form of battlefields you clear for prizes and experience. Because of this system, its actually difficult to maintain low levels unless you skip over the enemies at every opportunity."
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed August 28, 2002
Lassarina Aoibhell says: "The plot, too, is forgettable. It's the RPG standard--destroy the bad guy--but without the lovely trimmings that usually come with said standard. There's little to hold my interest, and even less to inspire me to replay the game."
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed January 13, 2004
Marc Golding says: "The reason for Mystic Quest's being is an interesting one (and a humourous one, depending on how serious you are about the genre and what side of the Pacific you're on). It seems that Squaresoft wanted to present a dumbed down taste of Japan's favourite genre to uncultured, slow-of-mind North Americans so that we could adjust to the inherent complexity of the RPG, and allow our brain cells time to grow in anticipation of the oncoming deluge of ever more mind-blasting RPG perplexity. Needless to say, the intended market found the move to be insulting and quite unnecessary. However, as I have already let on, if Mystic Quest failed to nail down a beginner RPG player niche, it accomplished something else just as meaningful. "
Reader Reviews
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed January 19, 2003
alecto says: "In its effort to be an easy game specifically geared towards young people and those not familiar with role-playing games, Mystic Quest exploits two different concepts of the word easy. The game is easy in that it lacks the complexity and number of micromanagement options that could easily overwhelm a casual gamer and tend to turn many people off of RPGs in the first place. However, Mystic Quest also easy because it lacks any serious challenge and lightly skims through all the areas of gamepl..."
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed October 02, 2016
hastypixels says: "FFMQ has light hearted everything and is a warning to unwary players that growth through sacrifice is real."
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed January 31, 2003
jerec says: "RPG for Dummies"
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed January 21, 2004
lurkeratlarge says: "The idea that Americans need an ''easy'' RPG to introduce them to the genre is already quite insulting, especially considering that games like Wizardry have been around in the US far before anyone knew what Dragon Warrior was. It's no big wonder that RPGs in the early 1990's were ill-received, anyway; not only were they often primitive, monotonous affairs, but they were usually plagued with god-awful translations laden with ridiculous censorship. "
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed July 07, 2004
overdrive says: "Final Fantasy Mystic Quest can best be described as a slap to the face of any American fan of role-playing games. Commonly referred to as an RPG for beginners, this SNES blunder seems to be less of a tutorial game and more of an insult to a players intelligence. "
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed March 22, 2006
phediuk says: "It's rare that one comes across a game whose very existence seems as unnecessary as Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. After the so-so sales of previous RPGs in North America, the developers at Square went back to the drawing board and tried to decide what it was that wasn't clicking with American gamers in the genre. "
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReviewed November 19, 2005
sayainprince says: "Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest was a game made released in the States, after II (IV) and before III (VI). SquareEnix apparently thought that the sales of Final Fantasy II were directly related to how complex the game was. Now it is true that when they released Final Fantasy III, they would completely shotgun their own theory, but they had a different approach to the problem at first. Someone had the idea of making a game with less items, less magic, and a simple storyline. They definitely nailed th..."
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest reviewReview date unknown
sgreenwell says: "Bobo The Clown's Hobo Soup Recipe Start with rusty pail of sewer water. Make sure it is relatively free of chunks, otherwise they will conflict with later ingrediants. Add one dirty shoelace, three toenail clippings (excluding the big toe), and fifteen copies of Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, well-mashed. Serve hot. Stays good for several weeks."
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Legal personality
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To have legal personality means to be capable of having legal rights and obligations[1][2] within a certain legal system, such as entering into contracts, suing, and being sued.[3] Legal personality is a prerequisite to legal capacity, the ability of any legal person to amend (enter into, transfer, etc.) rights and obligations. In international law, consequently, legal personality is a prerequisite for an international organization to be able to sign international treaties in its own name.
Legal persons (lat. persona iuris) are of two kinds: natural persons (also called physical persons) and juridical persons (also called juridic, juristic, artificial, or fictitious persons, lat. persona ficta) – groups of individuals, such as corporations, which are treated by law as if they are persons.[1][4][5] While human beings acquire legal personhood when they are born, juridical persons do so when they are incorporated in accordance with law.
Juridical persons
Artificial personality, juridical personality, or juristic personality is the characteristic of a non-living entity regarded by law to have the status of personhood.
A juridical or artificial person (Latin: persona ficta; also juristic person) has a legal name and has certain rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and liabilities in law, similar to those of a natural person. The concept of a juridical person is a fundamental legal fiction. It is pertinent to the philosophy of law, as it is essential to laws affecting a corporation (corporations law).
Juridical personality allows one or more natural persons (universitas personarum) to act as a single entity (body corporate) for legal purposes. In many jurisdictions, artificial personality allows that entity to be considered under law separately from its individual members (for example in a company limited by shares, its shareholders). They may sue and be sued, enter contracts, incur debt, and own property. Entities with legal personality may also be subjected to certain legal obligations, such as the payment of taxes. An entity with legal personality may shield its members from personal liability.
In some common law jurisdictions a distinction is drawn between corporation aggregate (such as a company, which has a number of members) and a corporation sole (which is where a person's public office is deemed to have a separate personality from them as an individual). Both have separate legal personality. Historically most corporations sole were ecclesiastical in nature (for example, the Archbishop of Canterbury is a corporation sole), but a number of other public offices are now formed as corporations sole.
The concept of juridical personality is not absolute. "Piercing the corporate veil" refers to looking at the individual natural persons acting as agents involved in a company action or decision; this may result in a legal decision in which the rights or duties of a corporation or public limited company are treated as the rights or liabilities of that corporation's members or directors.
The concept of a juridical person is now central to Western law in both common-law and civil-law countries, but it is also found in virtually every legal system.[6]
Some examples of juridical persons include:
- Cooperatives (co-ops), business organization owned and democratically operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit
- Corporations are bodies corporate created by statute or charter. A corporation sole is a corporation constituted by a single member, in a particular capacity, and that person's successors in the same capacity, in order to give them some legal benefit or advantage, particularly that of perpetuity, which a natural person could not have had. Examples are a religious officiant in that capacity, or The Crown in the Commonwealth realms. A corporation aggregate is a corporation constituted by more than one member.
- Municipal corporations (municipalities) are "creatures of statute." Other organizations may be created by statute as legal persons, including European economic interest groupings (EEIGs).
- Unincorporated associations, that is aggregates of two or more persons, are treated as juridical persons in some jurisdictions but not others.
- Partnerships, an aggregate of two or more persons to carry on a business in common for profit and created by agreement. Traditionally, partnerships did not have continuing legal personality, but many jurisdictions now treat them as having an independent legal personality.
- Companies, a form of business association that carries on an industrial enterprise, are often corporations, although companies may take other forms, such as trade unions, unlimited companies, trusts, and funds. Limited liability companies—be they a private company limited by guarantee, private company limited by shares, or public limited company—are entities having certain characteristics of both a corporation and a partnership. Different types have a complex variety of advantages and disadvantages.[7]
- Sovereign states are legal persons.
- In the international legal system, various organizations possess legal personality. These include intergovernmental organizations (the United Nations, the Council of Europe) and some other international organizations (including the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a religious order).
- The European Union has legal personality since the Lisbon Treaty entered into force on 1 December 2009. That the EU has legal personality is a prerequisite for the EU to join the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
- Temples, in some legal systems, have separate legal personality[8]
Not all organizations have legal personality. For example, the board of directors of a corporation, legislature, or governmental agency typically are not legal persons in that they have no ability to exercise legal rights independent of the corporation or political body which they are a part of.
Creation and history of the doctrine
The concept of legal personhood for organizations of people is at least as old as Ancient Rome: a variety of collegial institutions enjoyed the benefit under Roman law.
The doctrine has been attributed to Pope Innocent IV, who seems at least to have helped spread the idea of persona ficta as it is called in Latin. In canon law, the doctrine of persona ficta allowed monasteries to have a legal existence that was apart from the monks, simplifying the difficulty in balancing the need for such groups to have infrastructure though the monks took vows of personal poverty. Another effect of this was that as a fictional person, a monastery could not be held guilty of delict due to not having a soul, helping to protect the organization from non-contractual obligations to surrounding communities. This effectively moved such liability to individuals acting within the organization while protecting the structure itself, since individuals were considered to have a soul and therefore capable of being guilty of negligence and excommunicated.[9]
In the common law tradition, only a person could sue or be sued. This was not a problem in the era before the Industrial Revolution, when the typical business venture was either a sole proprietorship or partnership—the owners were simply liable for the debts of the business. A feature of the corporation, however, is that the owners/shareholders enjoyed limited liability—the owners were not liable for the debts of the company. Thus, when a corporation breached a contract or broke a law, there was no remedy, because limited liability protected the owners and the corporation wasn't a legal person subject to the law. There was no accountability for corporate wrongdoing.
To resolve the issue, the legal personality of a corporation was established to include five legal rights—the right to a common treasury or chest (including the right to own property), the right to a corporate seal (i.e., the right to make and sign contracts), the right to sue and be sued (to enforce contracts), the right to hire agents (employees) and the right to make by-laws (self-governance).[citation needed]
Since the 19th century, legal personhood has been further construed to make it a citizen, resident, or domiciliary of a state (usually for purposes of personal jurisdiction). In Louisville, C. & C.R. Co. v. Letson, 2 How. 497, 558, 11 L.Ed. 353 (1844), the U.S. Supreme Court held that for the purposes of the case at hand, a corporation is "capable of being treated as a citizen of [the State which created it], as much as a natural person." Ten years later, they reaffirmed the result of Letson, though on the somewhat different theory that "those who use the corporate name, and exercise the faculties conferred by it," should be presumed conclusively to be citizens of the corporation's State of incorporation. Marshall v. Baltimore & Ohio R. Co., 16 How. 314, 329, 14 L.Ed. 953 (1854). These concepts have been codified by statute, as U.S. jurisdictional statutes specifically address the domicile of corporations.
Extension of basic rights to legal persons
The term legal person ("pessoa jurídica" in Portuguese) is used in legal science for designating an entity with rights and liabilities which also has legal personality. Its regulations are largely based on Brazil's Civil Code, among other normative documents.
Article 19(3) of the German Constitution sets forth: "Fundamental rights shall also apply to domestic artificial persons insofar as the nature of such rights shall permit."[10]
In Italy trade unions have legal personality, as stated in Article 39, Paragraph 4 of the Constitution:[11]
"Registered trade unions are legal persons. They may, through a unified representation that is proportional to their membership, enter into collective labour agreements that have a mandatory effect for all persons belonging to the categories referred to in the agreement."
People's Republic of China
For a typical example of the concept of legal person in a civil law jurisdiction, under the General Principles of Civil Law of the People's Republic of China, Chapter III, Article 36., "A legal person shall be an organization that has capacity for civil rights and capacity for civil conduct and independently enjoys civil rights and assumes civil obligations in accordance with the law."[12] Note however that the term civil right means something altogether different in civil law jurisdictions than in common law jurisdictions.
United States
In part based on the principle that legal persons are simply organizations of natural persons, and in part based on the history of statutory interpretation of the word "person", the US Supreme Court has repeatedly held that certain constitutional rights protect legal persons (such as corporations and other organizations). Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad is sometimes cited for this finding because the court reporter's comments included a statement the Chief Justice made before oral arguments began, telling the attorneys during pre-trial that "the court does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. We are all of the opinion that it does."
Later opinions interpreted these pre-argument comments as part of the legal decision.[13] As a result, because of the First Amendment, Congress may not make a law restricting the free speech of a corporation, a political action group or dictating the coverage of a local newspaper,[14] and because of the Due Process Clause, a state government may not take the property of a corporation without using due process of law and providing just compensation. These protections apply to all legal entities, not just corporations.
A prominent component of relevant case law is the Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which ruled unconstitutional certain restrictions on corporate campaign spending during elections.[15]
See also
- Corporate personhood
- European Convention on the Recognition of the Legal Personality of International Non-Governmental Organizations
- Institution
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 118
- Natural person
- Netscape Communications Corp. v. Konrad for what it means for two entities to be separate
- Paul v. Virginia ("... in which the United States Supreme Court held that a corporation is not a citizen ...")
- Separate legal entity
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- ↑ The Juristic Person. I, George F. Deiser, University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, Vol. 57, No. 3, Volume 48 New Series. (Dec., 1908), pp. 131-142.
- ↑ Frisch D. (2011). Commercial Law's Complexity. George Mason Law Review.
- ↑ Williams v The Shipping Corporation of India (US District Court, Eastern District Virginia), 10 March 1980, 63 ILR 363
- ↑ John Dewey, "The Historic Background of Corporate Legal Personality," Yale Law Journal, Vol. XXXV, April 1926, pages 655-673
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