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Siemens Digital Industries Software Senior Linux (Grid) Administrator in St. Louis, Missouri
Position Overview:
Siemens EDA's Global Technology and Infrastructure team strategically supports our engineers and corporate staff in more than 100 offices and R&D centers around the globe. The grid team within the technology and infrastructure organization supports globally distributed grids with over 100K CPU Cores. The grid software is predominantly from Altair (earlier known by the name Univa Grid Engine / Oracle Grid Engine / Sun Grid Engine). To manage grid operations, a host of tools are employed which is mostly written in Perl/Shell
This position will be based out of Wilsonville/Fremont office and will have the following requirements.
Install, Maintain and Support the grid infrastructure (Altair Grid Engine, IBM LSF, SLURM) to meet uptime, availability, and performance goals.
Monitor services and respond proactively to fix issues to continuously improve availability and performance.
Install and Configure Grid Software, upgrade and do patch maintenance. Ensure software license compliance. Liaise with Vendors to resolve problems.
Work on automating tasks that has a potential for reducing manual repetitive labour.
Provide Level2/3 assistance to user community by answering questions, troubleshooting problems, and providing informal one-on-one training when needed. Work on Support tickets to meet service level objectives.
Contribute to evolving standard operating procedures with a focus on problem avoidance
Maintain and enhance existing tools supporting Altair Grid Engine written in Perl/Shell/Python
Develop and maintain new tools for IBM's LSF infrastructure.
Support and maintain analytics dashboard with Elastic Stack
Generate usage and performance reports
Create documentation to support maintenance of tools
Actively participate in team meetings, report on project status, update monthly metrics and report quarterly on IT operations and project activities
Develop and maintain web-based solutions to address reporting and analytics needs. Enhance solutions to meet evolving requirements and develop solutions to bring in transformative change.
Job Qualifications
The successful candidate will possess the following combination of education and experience:
BS degree (or equivalent) in Information Technology or Engineering
Must have 10+ years of experience in Systems Administration supporting Linux and doing automation with Perl/Unix Shell.
Must have in-depth knowledge supporting and administering servers in a large, multi-site, enterprise-wide environment.
Must possess Perl/Shell scripting abilities along with process automation experience. Knowledge and experience automation with Python is a plus
The candidate should have excellent knowledge of Perl and be able to read code and develop understanding to be able to maintain and enhance the current set of tools.
Experience supporting distributed computing environment (Altair / LSF / SLURM) is desirable
Knowledge of database systems and experience with MySQL/MSSql is desirable
Must understand enough of Networking, Storage and Vmware Virtualization to work effectively with colleagues from the respective teams when required for troubleshooting or planning capacity or addressing performance issues
Experience supporting software development engineers and employees on the move or remote employees. Experience resolving problems in an effective and timely manner in accordance with SLA's and customer expectations.
Demonstrate Project management, time management and prioritization skills to accommodate business requirements and managing scheduled activities.
Exposure to Cloud and Big Data Technologies, Elastic Stack is a plus
The salary range for this position is $95,800 to $172,400 and this role is eligible to earn incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's work location as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: www.benefitsquickstart.com. In addition, this position is eligible for time off in accordance with Company policies, including paid sick leave, paid parental leave, PTO (for non-exempt employees) or non-accrued flexible vacation (for exempt employees).
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Siemens is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.
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A nice treat for any Dinner Party
Following on from my Orb Gift Box I put together this elegant Dinner Party gift or Wedding Favor. I promise it's not as hard as it looks, just some clever scoring and 1 piece of card. To make this you will need… 11.5/8 x 8.1/4 card stock Along 8.1/4 score at 1, 3.3/8, 4.3/8, 6.3/4…… Continue reading A nice treat for any Dinner Party

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The DRDA is the principle organ at the district level in implementing various anti-poverty Schemes of Government of India as well as of State Government. The DRDA is visualized as a specialized and professional Agency, capable of implementing the anti-poverty programmes, and in effectively carrying out the objectives to the rural masses. It helps in strengthening the rural infrastructure and bringing up the economic prospective of the villages with a key for the eradication of backwardness and poverty. The DRDA is implementing a number of schemes with an aim of enabling the rural people, in improving their standard of living and in eradication of poverty. The main thrust of the programmes implemented are being removing the economic disparity and bringing up the people below poverty line.
The DRDA established in 1980 is a registered society under the Tamil Nadu societies Act. The District Collector is the chairman of the DRDA. Governing body carries out the administration of the DRDA. The governing body governs major policy decisions including planning and functioning of DRDA and nevertheless the control and monitoring aspects are also being carried out. The meeting of the governing body of the DRDA is being conduced at least once in a quarter.
The administrative cost of DRDA is met under the head " DRDA ADMN" shared between the central and state shared between the ratio of 75:25 . A maximum of 30% of the salary cost is allocated towards contingencies inclusive of Rents, POL, office expenses, etc. Salem district comes under category D ( >15 Blocks) the allocation is 67 Lakhs per year. The ceiling will be raised every year , on a compounding basis, upto 5% to set of the increase due to inflation etc.
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|4. Ayothiapattinam
|14. Omalur
|5. Valappaddy
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|6. Yercaud
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Back in 1999, when Trump and the media had a great relationship, the future President went on NBC's Meet the Press to discuss how he would handle North Korea.
Former host Tim Russert pressed Trump on his statements saying that he'd preemptively strike North Korea if he were president. Trump corrected him and said that first, he would "negotiate like crazy."
"I'd make sure that we'd try to get the best deal possible," Trump stated, adding that, "The biggest problem this world has is nuclear proliferation…you better solve the problem now than solve it later."
Past administrations have done little to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons, making America and our allies less safe.
But Trump has not been so easy on the Hermit Kingdom and has imposed tough sanctions on the country in response to their repeated missile testing.
Now, we are on the brink of denuclearization of North Korea, with Kim Jong Un and Trump set to have an unprecedented negotiation meeting this summer.
Only a leftist could look at this as a bad thing, but Meet the Press's new host has managed to do just that: Chuck Todd recently criticized the progress the president has made, and Trump's response is about as blistering as you'd expect.
From Fox News:
"President Trump on Sunday dismissed comments by NBC News' Chuck Todd suggesting that the United States is getting steamrolled in negotiations with North Korea over the rogue nation halting its nuclear weapons program, saying, 'We haven't given up anything.'
Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Fake News NBC just stated that we have given up so much in our negotiations with North Korea, and they have given up nothing. Wow, we haven't given up anything & they have agreed to denuclearization (so great for World), site closure, & no more testing!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2018
Trump was referring to Todd, the moderator of NBC's 'Meet the Press,' saying Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has yet to make an official 'pledge' to denuclearize and has yet to release hostages, likely referring to roughly 30 foreigners detained in the country, including about a dozen Americans."
While we still have a difficult journey ahead with North Korea, the fact that we're making any headway at all is reason enough for praise.
It's a shame liberals can't see this and must continue to spread fake news.
Chuck Todd also failed to mention the fact that Trump successfully negotiated the release of American student Otto Warmbier from North Korea a mere five months after his inauguration, proving he's able to make deals with Kim Jong Un that Obama never could.
North Korea has been committing egregious human rights violations for seven decades, starving, killing and imprisoning millions of its citizens.
They should have been dealt with long ago, but thankfully we finally have a president who is up for the task, despite a deplorably leftist media.
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DaVita, Inc. approached Layer 10 in early 2016 to lead the design, build and implementation of all technology components for their new building in the Union Station neighborhood, scheduled to complete late 2018.
Aside from the sheer magnitude of the project scope, the greatest challenge to the success of the Casa Vida Build was timeline. With a non-negotiable lease expiration on their previous space, there was no room for schedule slips or missed deadlines. Not only did the office need to be ready for occupancy, the space had to be useable. All of the technology components needed to be operating without issue on day one, for each move group, without exception. A single lost day of work was not an acceptable outcome for us or our client.
Not surprisingly, many unexpected obstacles presented along the way including an unplanned 5-week shutdown mid-build and the sale of a significant portion of the business one month prior to the start of TI construction, requiring a complete redesign of the building occupancy plan and eliminating two floors from the TI scope, resulting in a relocation of the MDF.
267,000 ft2
1,200 employees
Over 6,000 connected devices
Data and Voice Connectivity
Wireless Networking
Cell Signal Boosting
Music and Sound Masking
Collaboration Tools and Videoconferencing
Digital Signage
Access Control and CCTV
MDF/IDF Infrastructure
By engaging Layer 10 early in the design phase, DaVita was able to incorporate technology requirements and opportunities into all design elements of the build, even furniture.
As TI construction began, Layer 10 took on the role of "Technology Owner's Rep" representing the IT requirements with the GC, MEP, architects and core and shell team. With project management boots on the ground managing the day-to-day implementation across multiple technology partners and client resources, we were positioned to respond quickly to issues and redirect resources accordingly.
At the conclusion of the build, Layer 10 developed operation support guidelines and coordinated hand-offs of all work to the client's internal staff. In a well-run project, ops support actually begins during detailed design. We ensure nothing is being built into the space that does not have a clear and reasonable operating plan.
Throughout all phases of the project, our responsibilities included executive design leadership, project management, IT vendor selection and management as well as financial management of the technology budget.
Despite the significant scope, aggressive schedule and unexpected challenges realized along the way, our client's move dates were met with 100% IT readiness, lease commitments on the previous space were upheld, and we experienced zero IT outages after each move phase. Additionally, the final cost of the technology, accounting for all change orders, came in within 5% of budget.
Most importantly, the feedback from the DaVita teammates was remarkable. Highlights included the pervasive wireless, new video conferencing technology, wayfinding digital media and showcase 4K video wall in the lobby.
Layer 10's approach to technology design incorporates User Design Thinking methodologies to ensure the needs of those occupying the space are placed before the capabilities of the available technology. We call these discussions the "Art of the Possible".


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Juergen Klinsmann trying to bring U.S. soccer teams into one system
Juergen Klinsmann doesn't have to think long or hard to remember how he felt when the U.S. was eliminated during the group stage of the Olympic qualifying tournament three years ago.
"I was furious," he said. "So now we want to learn [from] that mistake."
One thing the experience taught him is that the U.S. needs to get all its national teams playing the same style, adhering to the same expectations and pursuing the same goals. So Klinsmann persuaded U.S. Soccer to expand his duties as coach of the senior squad by making him technical director of the entire national team program as well, giving him control over everything from coaching education and youth academies to grass-roots development.
And, of course, the Olympic team.
U.S. Soccer will get a good idea how much progress those changes have made Wednesday night, when its under-23 team — the Olympic team — meets reigning gold medalist Mexico at StubHub Center.
Sure, it's just an exhibition. But it's an important one, and not just because of the opponent. The game will be the first in the U.S. under new Coach Andreas Herzog, a longtime Klinsmann confidant and former national team assistant who was officially put in charge of the U-23 team in January. Last month, Herzog completed his first training camp as coach with a pair of friendlies in Europe, beating Bosnia and Herzegovina before losing to Denmark.
Klinsmann and Herzog have been on the same page since they were teammates at Bayern Munich in the mid-1990s — which is why Klinsmann hired him as an assistant shortly after taking over the national team in 2011. And their plan to forge a unique and uniform American style of soccer is already taking root.
"Teams perform best when everybody plays the same style and understands the system that needs to be played," said former national team star Landon Donovan, who was part of the 2000 U.S. Olympic team. "What it does is it creates a template and a guideline for everyone to follow. The way it's most effective is if the senior players can either show or tell the younger players, 'This is the way things happen.'
"If you can teach kids that at a young age, I think it's very helpful."
That's why the roster Herzog called into camp last month included six players who have also trained with — and learned from — the senior national team this year, among them Stanford's Jordan Morris, 20, whose goal against Mexico last week made him the first college player to score for the senior national team in 22 years.
"It's important that we benefit from the experience and the quality and the leadership of the experienced guys," Klinsmann said.
"The quality is there to qualify for the Olympics."
But the Galaxy's Bruce Arena, the most successful coach in U.S. national team history, isn't so sure a one-size-fits-all approach will work here as well as it did in Germany, where Klinsmann reached deep into the youth teams to remake the national program and pave the way for last summer's World Cup title.
"It's a dream world if you think you're doing that," Arena said.
"It's one thing in Germany. Germany is a country that's very small. One time zone. One climate. One language. The United States is a different story."
Whether that means this story will have a different ending won't be known until October's Olympic qualifying tournament, in which the top two teams win automatic berths in next summer's Rio Games. Wednesday's game against the reigning Olympic champion could go a long way toward revealing the plot lines of that story though.
"Andy's been telling us in every training [session] that Klinsmann is watching us, and he wants us to play the system that the first team's playing," said defender Oscar Sorto, who plays for Arena with the Galaxy and will be in uniform Wednesday for Herzog's U-23 team. "I like it a lot. Because if I'm called up with the first team, I'll be used to the system and ready to go."
And that's really Klinsmann's aim. Getting to the Olympics is good and leaving with a gold medal is even better — just ask Mexico. But success at the national team level is the ultimate goal.
"What we did, I really believed it connected a lot of dots with all the youth teams," Klinsmann said. "We have to feel we're pulling in the right direction. It doesn't mean that we can guarantee results all the time. But we have the feeling that we are getting people on the same page."
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Two cops sustained serious injuries after a car crash. They were responding to a ShotSpotter alert on Vermont St. in East New York on Saturday morning, when they crashed into a livery cab around 7am.
Two officers suffered serious injuries to their legs and were rushed to Brookdale Hospital. The 49-year-old livery cab driver was not seriously injured.
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Iran coronavirus deaths rise by 65 to 6,156 as contamination slows
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran's death toll from new coronavirus increased by 65 over the previous 24 hours to reach 6,156 on Saturday, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said in a statement on state TV.
The total number of diagnosed cases in Iran, one of the Middle Eastern countries hardest hit by the pandemic, has reached 96,448, up by 802 in the past 24 hours, the lowest daily increase rate in weeks, he said, adding that 2,787 were in critical condition.
A total of 77,350, or 80% of those infected, had so far recovered, he said.
Iranian health officials have been warning of a new wave of the disease if health regulations are not strictly followed.
"If people do not observe health protocols, the disease will certainly return," said Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, director of the Health Ministry's communicable diseases department.
Only 10% of the inhabitants of the most affected cities had been infected with coronavirus, Gouya told the semi-official ISNA news agency.
"This means that 90% have not yet been infected with the virus. Therefore, we must not think it's over and leave home and make social visits as we please … There is no other option but to observe proper social distancing," he said.
Deputy Health Minister Iraj Harirchi said a decision would be made on Sunday on the reopening of schools and Shi'ite holy sites.
Iran, which has been struggling to curb the spread of the disease, is concerned that measures to limit public activities could wreck an economy which has already been battered by U.S. sanctions that were reimposed in 2018. Iranian authorities blame the sanctions for hampering their efforts to combat the disease.
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Simon Billy has been chasing the all out World Record for three years, completely dedicating him to the Chabrières track. For this year, he's finally back in the WC circus again. Simon's brother Louis Billy is also planning on racing the full season. The brothers are joining World Cup winner Bastien Montes in the French Speed Ski Team, which looks to be very strong for the season!
We asked Simon about it.
What made you decide to take up the World Cup again?
What track are you looking forward most to?
What is the difference between World Record attempts and World Cup racing?
Simon is a fast racer, currently top third fastest speed ever with 252.809 km/h. Louis with a personal best of 241.125 km/h is a proven top class racer. It will be very interesting to see them challenge the top racers in the World Cup circuit. A very welcome comeback!


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California COVID-19 Medical Vulnerability Indicators
To help slow the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, UCLA Center for Neighborhood Knowledge and UCLA BRITE Center for Science, Research, and Policy developed vulnerability indicators aimed at identifying which neighborhoods in California are at most risk of becoming impacted by COVID-19 infections. The map includes four important indicators known to significantly increase a person's medical vulnerability to COVID-19 infection: 1) pre-existing health conditions, 2) barriers to accessing services, 3) built-environment risk and 4) social vulnerability.
Download the full report here: COVID-19 Medical Vulnerability Indicators: A California Data Model for Equity in Public Health State Level Decision-Making
This project is an extension of a similar effort for Los Angeles County. A full description of that initial work and a map for Los Angeles can be found at https://knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/covid-19-medical-vulnerability/


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Sharpening Stone with Plastic Base
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Rough side, 600 grit. Fine side, 2,800 grit. 6″ x 2″ stone. Anti-slip base.
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Two-sided, 6 x 2″ Sharpening Stone with Plastic Base. Great whetstone for refining and honing your knives, hooks, and more.
Designed for sharpening stainless steel knives, fish hooks, scissors, and cutting tools
Rite Angler's sharpening stone will provide your cutlery with a durable lasting edge that is easier to maintain and safer to use
- FASTER & EASIER SHARPENING: Our two-sided stone has a rough side of 600 grit and a fine side of 2,800 grit to make sharpening faster and easier
- WHETSTONE: Use this stone according to instructions and you will see why chefs and sportsman alike prefer a good whetstone above any other type of sharpening device
- DOUBLE SIDED: Use the rough side when the blade is heavily worn then finish with the fine side. Use the fine side of the stone if the blade only needs touching up
- CARBORUNDUM STONE: Commonly referred to as Silicon Carbide; a very durable abrasive
Sharpening stone with plastic base dimensions: 6 X 2″
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The Idem was very good there was a little bit of chunking on the corner but after putting it in the water it was fine. The product is functional and the package was easy to follow. Just the way I like it.
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In the world that we live in today, we often hear about how it is very vital to stock up on necessary supplies caches such as water, food, shelter, and other things that you might need in case of an emergency. In general, it is crucial to stock the supplies that are required for survival.
You must have tapped on this article because you want to know everything about building a survival cache. For those of you who don't know what we are talking about, hang in there! We will start with the basics and then proceed further.
So a survival cache is a place where you hide all your valuables that can be used to survive in case of emergencies. A survival cache keeps you prepared for an emergency. Imagine being away from home as well as your bug-out location, and being in a situation where you are eager for warmth, water, and food. That is precisely when your survival cache will come in handy to help you complete your journey.
The most interesting part is that life is uncertain. You can be put in an unpredictable situation at any time, and a survival cache lets you be prepared at all times.
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What Should Be There In Survival Caches?
Now that you have understood the meaning and the importance of a survival cache, it is time that we tell you about the necessary supplies that should be there inside of it. These are a few of the many supplies that are needed for survival.
First things first, water should top the list of supplies that need to be in your survival cache. You can add water pouches to your survival cache. You need to consider the number of pockets considering that you need it to cook food and hydrate. You should also consider the number of people that are going to use the cache. Don't take water lightly. You will thank us later!
The second important thing that comes to our mind is a shelter for survival. You need to protect yourself, and for that, you need to pack a blanket, a few pairs of socks, and anything that takes less space and will keep you warm. This ensures that you stay warm at all times and have something to keep yourself covered.
This may seem like a task as it is not easy to store food in a survival cache, but it is necessary for survival. Go for freeze-dried food or dehydrated packets so that you just need hot water to prepare them. You can also use cold water to rehydrate these food pouches, but it will take longer. It would be best if you even considered putting a metal pot and a few other utensils in the cache.
First Aid Kit
Next up, First Aid! Anybody can get hurt. You should always add a few bandages, medicines, and other items to the cache. In case you are on medication, check with your doctor and see whether your medicines can be stored in the survival cache or not.
Trust us; you will need fire! Fire will help you stay warm, and it will also allow you to heat the water to prepare the frozen food packets. We suggest you store several ways to light a fire.
Tools To The Rescue
From torches to knives, you need to stash essential tools in your survival cache as they will come in handy. You should also add in a few extra batteries to be on the safe side.
Where Should You Hide Your Survival Cache?
- The survival caches are made for worst-case scenarios like when you can't get a hold of your Bug Out Bags. Keeping that in mind, your survival cache should be hidden in places that might be around your home, your Bug Out Location, or in the middle of the two.
- Another place where you can hide your survival cache is your home itself. This is when you get robbed and don't have anything else but your survival supplies to count on!
One more thing that you need to keep in mind is that your survival cache should be hidden in a secluded place. This way you won't be spotted by anyone.
Moving ahead, let's talk about the places where you shouldn't be hiding the survival cache.
- The survival cache shouldn't be kept in any kind of abandoned buildings as those buildings might start getting used in emergency scenarios.
- Another place where you should never hide your survival cache is the flood zones, which can be dangerous for your life.
A Few Tips To Ensure That Your Cache Stays Safe Underground
- Don't get too excited and bury the cache way too deep into the ground. If you end up burying it too deeply, you might not be able to access it when in need.
- Please don't rely on landmarks as they can move. It would help if you went for GPS coordinates or maps to see where you are going to bury your cache.
- Keep checking your survival cache! Digging it up now and then will ensure that it is safely kept in its place. You should also take a look at the area so that you can move the survival cache if necessary.
Final Words…
That was it for this article! We hope that this guide helps you out in every way possible. Your end goal should be to take the help of this guide and plan everything before you go ahead with building your own survival cache. We will see you in the next survival guide!
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The city of Milwaukee wants to offer Bucks guard Sterling Brown $400,000 to settle his lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force when they used a stun gun to arrest him over a parking violation.
The Journal Sentinel reports that the city's Common Council has scheduled a June 10 vote on whether to extend the offer. City attorneys are asking officials to authorize it.
Brown filed a federal lawsuit last year that also accuses police of targeting him because he's black. There's no indication that Brown would accept such an offer.
Brown illegally parked in a disabled spot outside a Walgreens on Jan. 26, 2018, and was talking with a group of officers while waiting for his citation when the situation escalated.
Officers took him down and used a stun gun because he didn't immediately remove his hands from his pockets, as ordered.


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Melvin Me, Myself &Thai
What the brewers say
"Our brewers from Alpine and Jackson teamed up to make Me, Myself & Thai, a delectable hazy IPA with Sabro, Citra, and Mosaic hops bursting with tropical flavors. Available exclusively in the great state of Wyoming."
What our panel thought
"Bright citrus and floral notes; freshly cut lemons. In the flavor, massive tropical-fruit salad—papaya, mango, strawberry, and mandarin orange—sweetened with orange-blossom honey; just the right amount of sweetness to offset citrus acidity. Creamy mouthfeel and fruity flavors dominate, with only a subtle bitterness to tether it in the beer world. Very drinkable."
What our editors thought
"The floral-bordering-on-Noble aroma is unexpected, but the conventional candied fruit-smoothie flavor is more in line with expectations. Lingers with a banana-Runts Candy-like synthetic-candy sweetness that manages to be endearing."


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After twenty-five years of designing, building and sometimes flipping houses, we finally found our forever house–Ellsworth, a late 1800s farmhouse. This historic home is a showhouse of our shared aesthetic and sensibility of designing for life, not formality. The rooms are warm, eclectic and rich in patina to convey a sense of our life's journey.
Having been together since the spring of 1992, we've enjoyed an authentic journey of career struggles, several houses, city life, country life, family loss and occasional success. Ellsworth, while still a work in progress with landscaping projects, a sunroom, a barn restoration and hiking trails on the docket, has become an endless source of inspiration for all of our projects, as we work through ideas and test approaches to use of color, scale of furniture and even unorthodox building techniques. Ellsworth is our way home.


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Chlorine Dioxide, PAA and Redox measuring system
for measuring range depending metering of CIO₂:
- Simple constructed measuring system
- Compact flow-through housing for sensors
- Integrated control for measuring water flow rate
- Integrated flow rate adjustment
- Integrated sample valve for check measuring
- Flow-through housing is easy to clean
- One measuring transformer for Chlorine Dioxide and Redox, optionally expansible for pH
- Background illuminated display for best indication
- mA-outputs for signal transfer
- Remote control through customers external enabling contact is possible
- Possibility of limit control for all three measuring ranges
The Chlorine Dioxide and Redox measuring system is completely pre-assembled and cabled. This measuring system is used for measuring range depending metering of Chlorine Dioxide, e.g. in cold/warm water zones of bottle washers.
Depending on the differences of the rated/actual values a diaphragm valve is activated and Chlorine Dioxide is metered.
An insensible Redox measuring system is used for the independent control measuring. If the Redox value oversteps a free-adjustable maximum limit, the Chlorine Dioxide measuring switches off and the metering interrupts until the adjusted limit value is felt short of again.
Here, the indication of the pH-value can be very useful, because Chlorine Dioxide is reactive up to a pH-value of approx. 10,5.
In case of pH-values > 10,5 Chlorine Dioxide is reduced and it is not longer possible to give a clear statement about reactive Chlorine Dioxide. Therefore, in progress of the quality control, the pH-value should be measured and documented.


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Ahead of its September 8th world premiere, Jaguar have released further details on the new XE. This time around, the company has revealed the fuel efficiency of the car (which is yet-to-be certified) expected in the EU cycle.
Jaguar claim that the XE will average over 75 mpg (more than 25 km/l), which in turn would result in emissions of less than 100 g/km of CO2. The key to the sedan's efficiency comes from its lightweight architecture, say Jaguar. Over 75 percent of the XE's body is made from aluminium. The car also uses a new type of high strength aluminium called RC 5754, which features a high level of recycled material.
Other details we already know about the XE are that it will use an F-Type inspired front suspension, an integral link rear suspension and the latest electric power steering unit (EPAS).
The XE will also debut Jaguar's new engine family called Ingenium, apart from introducing the new iQ lightweight aluminium platform.
The XE is expected to launch in India next year.
Competitors: BMW 3 Series, Mercedes C Class, Audi A4
Expected Price: INR 30-40 lakhs, ex-Showroom
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I'm a little behind on my "elsewhere" posts, but in lieu of one of those I'll mention that I've started looking at Republican Senate candidate web sites now, and wrote a couple of posts yesterday — I found that Paul Ryan only rated a mention by a single candidate (out of 16 I looked at) and that marriage showed up for about half of them. Oh, just in case you're wondering — not a single one of the candidates I looked at said anything about the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Not exactly a surprise, but we shouldn't forget how successful the roll-out of that one has been. I mean, we're talking about quite a few very conservative candidates, many of whom are running in competitive Republican primaries, and none of them think they can get any traction with gays in the military — and half don't want to speak publicly about any sexual orientation issue at all. The old language about "special" rights is fading fast, as is perhaps the whole conservative rhetoric of sexual orientation.
Anyway, the real reason for this post is to get some suggestions. I'm set up to go back through the Republicans, or I could look at the Democrats again — are there any issues that would be of interest? I've looked at marriage, public option, torture/civil liberties, and Senate reform for Democrats, plus the two above ones for Republicans. I think I asked about this before, but I find this stuff interesting (and the underlying question of what policy promises the parties are making is an important one, even though it's not clear how useful the web pages are for that). So, what would you like to know about what Senate candidates are saying?
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The lecture is part of the Institute for Cross Cultural Management's Leaders Engaging Globally series. It is co-hosed by the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute at Florida Tech.
The author with Dietrich Manzey of the award-winning book, Space Psychology and Psychiatry (2nd ed.), which was given the 2004 International Academy of Life Science Award, Kanas spent more than 15 years as a NASA-funded principal investigator doing psychological research with astronauts and cosmonauts. He continues to serve as a NASA consultant on the psychosocial aspects of human space travel and in 2015 published, Humans in Space: The Psychological Hurdles.
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Former FEMA Director Michael Brown, who faced a great deal of backlash for the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is back in the headlines. This time he's offering advice and criticism for Obama on how he should've dealt with Hurricane Sandy. On Monday, before Hurricane Sandy made landfall in New York City, Brown told the Denver Westword that Obama holding a press conference at FEMA yesterday might have been a bit premature. An excerpt from the Denver Westword's story titled ["Michael Brown, ex-FEMA head, has advice, criticism for Obama about Hurricane Sandy:"](http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2012/10/michael_brown_fema_obama_hurricane_sandy.php?page=2) > "One thing he's gonna be asked is, why did he jump on this so quickly and go back to D.C. so quickly when in…Benghazi, he went to Las Vegas?" Brown said. "Why was this so quick?… At some point, somebody's going to ask that question…. This is like the inverse of Benghazi." > Brown resigned from his position as director less than two weeks after Katrina hit. [(h/t Think Progress)](http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/30/1110901/bush-fema-director-katrina-hits-obama-sandy/)
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Eddie Kramer – Woodstock interview
Mike Hobson (Aug, 18 2004)
MH: Okay, so Dr. Kramer, how, how did you originally get the gig of recording at Woodstock.
EK: Oh, let's see now, you're really testing my memory banks, aren't you Mr. Hobson.
MH: Well, you know, these are questions people want to know. Like how did Kramer end up in that trailer?
EK: Yeah. I think he was transported there by visiting angels.
MH: Is that right? Literally, how did you get up there? Did you drive up on your own? Did you walk…?
EK: Well, that's all part of the whole story. Obviously, since Jimi Hendrix was the main star who, poor poor guy, ends up closing the show on the Monday morning – he was supposed to have gone on Sunday night.
MH: So actually, he was to be the highlight of the show and as such he would have ended the show.
EK: That's right As a result of the fact that Jimi was to be the headliner and since I was working with him at the record plant, Michael Wadley who was filming Woodstock, called up the record plant and said 'well, let's get the guy who's recording Hendrix to record this thing.' And since I had a little bit of a reputation for being an engineer who liked to record live things, I got the gig.
MH: I guess it was your Fillmore East recordings.
EK: Absolutely and in fact, that's exactly where the gear came from. Hanley Sound supplied the sound for the Filmore East and they also had this 8-track Scully sitting in the basement which is where I used to record a lot of bands from underneath the stage of the Filmore East. So they figured 'oh, we'll get Kramer. We've got the gear. He does Hendrix. And we'll send him on up there.' And they called me up and said do I want to do it? And I said 'sure that sounds like fun.' Little did I know.
MH: So you ended up actually recording all of Woodstock and not just Hendrix. Correct?
EK: Yeah well, there was another engineer there who split some of the chores with me. A guy named Lee. But I did most of the work though. You know, I did most of the miking and I was up for 3 days which I've always referred to as 3 days of drugs and hell. Funny thing is I never took any drugs. They gave us vitamin B shots in the ass to keep you up. Oh god they hurt.
MH: What day did you start?
EK: I arrived there on a Friday morning. It was Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It was supposed to be three days. So I arrived at, I think six a.m. The sun was coming up. I had my camera bag with me and a change of clothes… if that.
MH: Were there already a lot of people there?
EK: I had to walk the last mile to the site because the traffic was unbelievable. It was already backed up. And I'm walking up this hill and I crest the hill and I look down at the sight and I could see the stage and I'm thinking 'wait a minute, the stage is not even finished yet and in about four or five hours we're going to be starting the show.' And this thing looked like hell. I mean it was just unbelievable chaos.
MH: People trying to set a stage up?
EK: Yeah. I mean it was under major construction still and I figured 'oh jeez this is gonna be….' I knew right away we were in for it. So at around 12:30/1:00 I walked out into the audience to see what was happening with the PA because they were having some problems. Out in the middle of the audience there was a little shed that had been constructed. It looked like something from a third world country. Inside was the actual mixing consol and some of the rack amplifiers and all I saw was this guy bending over the console. The console was flipped up in the air with a 2X4 holding it up and smoke was pouring out of it and I thought 'oh shit'. This guy was soldering and he was burning some wires and God knows what… Anyway, eventually it got going and it worked and I ran back to the truck and we were ready to roll and about an hour later..
MH: So that was the Front Of House (FOH).
EK: Yeah, out in the crowd in this little shed.
MH: And they ran the cables all the way back up to...
EK: All the way from the shed to front of the stage and then to these towers where they had lights and the PA. There were always people yelling 'get down off the towers'. We were behind the stage which eventually got kind of sort of finished with these pieces of wood hanging out at various angles and a sort of canvas tarp flapping around on top of that protecting the…well you see it in that one wonderful scene where that great big bloody storm comes over with Joe Cocker on stage and the shit just ripping open because it was never constructed properly.
MH: So where were you?
EK: I'm behind the stage in a tractor-trailer, the back end of a tractor-trailer. Not the whole tractor-trailer, just a quarter of it…
MH: With a Console and tape machines?
EK: With this consol that was I think 12 inputs and 2 little Shure mixers stacked one on top of the other. We had the one 8-track one inch machine, plus another one in a kind of like an orange crate just sort of held there by a couple of wires – quite literally hanging on by a thread. The communication with the stage broke down after the first five minutes. It was a matter of guys running back and forth, so you can imagine the amount of delay line…
MH: So were there a lot of technical problems?
EK: Here's another example of something that broke down. Someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to have a circular stage on top of the main stage. It was a platform, divided in half so that the front half would be the first band that's on and the back half would be loading up the next band. The circular platform had wheels on so that, in theory you could turn it around and then the next band would be presented to the front of the audience, right?
MH: So you wouldn't have the stage changes with drum sets and so forth.
EK: Yeah. But after the first band was on, they tried to turn the thing, and all the wheels fell off.
MH: Because it was too heavy.
EK: It just broke and just sat there for the whole time.
MH: So they did have to go back to plan B which was change…
EK: Yeah, plan B, which was, you know, improvise. There was a lot of improvising going on.
MH: Which I guess, part of what you were saying is that the delay at the beginning along with the stage collapse which, if it had worked, would have facilitated bands circling, you know, coming on and off…
EK: Yeah, it would have made it maybe a little easier.
MH: But all these problems contributed to the delay that ended up having Hendrix end the show on Monday morning rather than Sunday night.
EK: You have to add into all this, that the performers ran on and the weather was terrible at times. When you add all of those moments up you get Jimi appearing Monday morning.
MH: What time did he go on Monday? Nine or Ten in the morning?
EK: They started at nine in the morning.
MH: So, you were at least, nine to twelve hours delayed.
EK: Easy. So that, that kind of set the stage for what was going to happen.
MH: You mean in terms of the performance?
EK: I mean obviously Jimi had to pull some miracles - which he did. Jimi always came to the front when it was necessary. And it always seemed to me that the band that he had picked was never quite what it should have been. But Jimi could never say no to his friends. And even though he had Mitch and Billy there, thank God… The rest of the guys were just 'oh Jesus.'
MH: Kind of thrown together.
EK: They were just, I mean a very loose band of gypsies, which is what he called them and so apropos, I think.
MH: So what about the music.
EK: I was never really taken with what they were trying to do. It was very, very loose. Poor Mitch is trying to keep the groove going and so was Billy. At times it kind of sort of did work, but you have to focus on Jimi. Jimi is the one who is driving the whole thing. Without his ability to keep the rhythm going and keep the pulse going and keep the vibe going and generally just push things forward, it would have been… I mean it was a little messy, but Jimi is the one who comes out on top as always.
MH: anticipating playing on Sunday night, when did Jimi and the band arrive?
EK: I think he was there a day before.
MH: Okay, so they would have probably been there on Saturday.
EK: Yeah, he was digging the whole scene. He loved it. I mean he thought it was absolutely unbelievable.
MH: But of course, that also takes a lot of energy out of you.
EK: I mean, you can imagine how many bloody joints were smoked and God knows what else, and what other chemicals were inhaled in order to stay on top of it. But he looked amazingly fresh and he played beautifully, obviously. As far as Hendrix' performance it seems to me that when he was on his own, when he does his own little side things, he was just so magnificent. He didn't even need a band. It was the great historic moment, you know, the 'Star Spangled Banner.' It was absolutely stunning.
MH: What a great choice.
EK: And so appropriate for that time. You really get, it's 1969, we're in the bloody Vietnam War and he really didn't like that. And obviously it's a protest song and this is the perfect audience and the perfect time to do that as a protest.
MH: It's interesting we don't interpret it that way now.
EK: To this day, I remember, it is a magnificent rendition of that song and so appropriate.
MH: So, you were up the whole entire time recording?
EK: Pretty much. I mean, I think I slept a few hours every night on the floor of the tractor-trailer. They stopped, I think about midnight, one o'clock, maybe two a.m., something like that. It was late.
MH: And then they started up again nine or ten the next day.
EK: Oh, no, no it was eleven. Eleven or twelve, but still you're not getting much sleep.
MH: You're probably also doing maintenance on the machines.
EK: We're trying to make things work and repair cables and so on.
MH: In spite of the chaotic picture you paint, the sound quality on 8 tracks of one inch is still pretty amazing at capturing the moment.
EK: It wasn't bad, but you know, when I look back on it, I remember that the console was noisy. You couldn't switch between tracks and when a band would come on and you had to try and figure out – 'what the hell. Who's singing what, where and how…?" You know, it was a bit of a nightmare to try to assign the right musician to the right track.
MH: Were there sub-mixes going on? I mean you only had 8 tracks to work with.
EK: Yeah, the board was a 12 input console probably with some direct outs and some swtichable tracks
MH: So you you'd keep the vocals separate and then bass and…
EK: I always tried to keep, well obviously the drums would be on one track. Percussion would be on another track, Jimi's guitar on another track, bass and then the vocals and you're almost done by that point. 'Cause you have to leave a track for audience and a track for the code. So in essence you're really down to about six tracks.
MH: So did you guys have a mountain of tape?
EK: There was a fair amount there.
MH: I mean, because you were using one inch on, what, 12 inch reels?
EK: a one-inch on 10 1/2 inch reels.
MH: Yeah, so at 15 IPS that was what?
EK: Half an hour.
MH: Half an hour?
EK: Yeah, every 25 minutes we would start the next reel. In other words, we had the two machines so they would cross over one another.
MH: And that worked, that worked pretty much without fail?
EK: Yeah – we got it all.
MH: Wow. Pretty amazing with all the rain and all the other crap going on.
EK: Well, we did have power.
MH: It was generator power, I guess?
EK: Ah. That's a damn good question.
MH: It must have been cause you were out in the countryside. You can't really get…
EK: We were on a farm; it's possible we could have pulled lines in.
MH: So what, what were some memorable moments for you, you know, when you pan back over that whole thing?
EK: There's actually one very funny moment for me was, I remember when we were just about to start and, about five or ten minutes before we were about to kick it off.
MH: So this would have been Friday night?
EK: Friday afternoon.
MH: Okay.
EK: And we're standing on the stage looking out over this sea of people. Must be half a million people, four hundred thousand. An awful lot of people. And Bill Graham's standing next to me and he says 'you know Eddie, if these people decide to riot, you know we're fucking dead.' And I said 'Thanks a lot, Bill.' And I went back to the truck and I skedaddled out of there.
MH: How was Bill Graham?
EK: Bill's so, um, he had a very gruff exterior. A funny guy. I liked him an awful lot. He was terrific. Very tough man.
MH: Did he stay around the whole show.
EK: He was there for quite a bit of it. I seem to remember a scene where somebody's car was stuck in the mud behind the stage and there was Bill Graham, Michael Jeffrey and a bunch of other people, pushing this car out of the mud.
MH: You should have snapped a picture of that one, Eddie.
EK: You know, I took lots of pictures and they virtually all got destroyed. There's a guy who was the main sort of stage manager and announcer, Chip Monk. He borrowed my Woodstock pictures and I think his father died and his mother threw out his photographs and mine.
MH: What a tragedy.
EK: The only photos that still survive are these two or three I have of Jimi at Woodstock. In the middle of the show, you know, Jimi was playing pretty well, there. The levels were set. And I said 'Guys, please watch the levels, I'm gonna run out to the side of the stage for about thirty seconds.' And I ran out with my camera and I snapped a few pictures of Jimi and came back. And it was just an amazing event.
MH: Besides Jimi's performance, albeit delayed, what, were there any other, you know, funny things that happened to other bands that came on?
EK: Well, I think, you know, the Grateful Dead decided that they wouldn't want the show, their part of the show, to be put out for any reason.
MH: Oh is that right?
EK: Yeah. I don't know what the reason was. Maybe they felt they didn't play well, or something. I don't know.
MH: Was it the typical case where some guys came out and really played their asses off, and others were kind of luke warm or mediocre at best?
EK: Well, I think everybody played reasonable well, I mean everybody had their moments. You're aware of who played great. I mean certainly, like Santana did. Even Sha-Na-Na had a good set. Obviously Jimi's performance was stellar. I think Woodstock's remembered for two or three things. It was the first show for Crosby Stills and pretty much. Well it wasn't their exact first show, but it was one of their very first shows in front of a large audience. That kind of made them. The same thing happened with Joe Cocker. It made him. Sha-Na-Na, believe it or not, same thing happened to them. And Jimi of course was a big star and he just ripped it all up.
MH: So any other details that you can remember that are worth sharing on this, the 35th anniversary of that now historic event.
EK: I just think the general confusion was rampant and the food was in short supply. It was chaotic and all those negative things, but then you throw into the pot , haha , no pun intended… you throw into the cauldron the fact that these artists… Joan Baez, I mean you can name every artist who was there. They all felt that there was something very very special in spite of the chaos, in spite of the mud, in spite of all this discomfort. I think it probably challenged the musicians to perform in a very superior way. I think a lot of the performances were just incredible. I mean you can't help but get a vibe and a bug from a half a million people. I mean it's palpable. Its just, you can imagine you stand on that stage and you look at that sea of people and you go 'oh my God! I'm playing for a city here. I'm in a small city.' And as overwhelmed as the facilities where I think the artists themselves delivered pretty radically great performances. And that's what I remember. I remember the chaos, but I also remember with great fondness the fact that these artists were just in awe and yet were so inspired by the moment. It was as if these half a million hippies had come together for a single purpose. And they were celebrating a particular lifestyle and political revolution and this was a very momentous occasion. It made headlines all over the world. This was one of the great events of the '60s. It closed out the '60s. In fact, Woodstock really sort of shut the door on the '60s.
MH: Do you think that people like Graham and others had an idea about how this was gonna turn out?
EK: Nobody did. Nobody. I think the promoters of the concert thought there was going be maybe a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand at most.
MH: And it turned out to be?
EK: Half a million. Four hundred thousand… It was just overwhelming. Everybody was overwhelmed and they just had to deal with it.
MH: That's a lot of…
EK: That's a lot of bodies and a lot of toilets. Can you just imagine the smell? The smell of unwashed bodies and shit
MH: Eddie, that's fantastic. Hey man, thanks a lot for sharing a few moments and recollections with us. Be well, my friend.
EK: Cheers.


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WASHINGTON - Six weeks before taking office, Oregon's senator-elect Jeff Merkley gained some notice on Capitol Hill Tuesday by forcefully expressing disappointment bordering on anger with Sen. Joe Lieberman's vocal support for John McCain during the presidential campaign.
Merkley made the comments during a closed-door meeting of all incumbent Democrats and those elected on Nov. 4 to determine what action to take against Lieberman. The Connecticut senator who is an independent who votes with Democrats abandoned his traditional allies during the campaign and strongly questioned Barack Obama's fitness to be president.
``Sen. Lieberman's choices for this last election cycle were very difficult for me personally. I felt a lot of personal pain,'' Merkley said.
`I expressed these sentiments because I felt that citizens who work in a grass-roots capacity should share their voice and my voice on this,'' he said.
Merkley stopped just short of saying Lieberman should be stripped of his committee chairmanship. But he suggested that chairmen are party of a party's leadership and should be held to higher standards.
``Folks who are priviledged to serve as a chair are part of the leadership of this team and much is expected of them,'' he said.
...and here's the AP in an updated update:
Senator-elect Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., was critical of Lieberman at the caucus and said afterward in a statement that he was "very personally disappointed by his conduct during the campaign." He wouldn't say how he voted on the resolution.
"Serving as a committee chairman is a privilege, not an entitlement and I expressed those views during today's meeting," Merkley said. "Beyond that, I hope we can move forward as a caucus to do the work we were elected to do."


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Counsel for the Plaintiffs hereby certify and affirm, that . . . certain medical records and the medical care received by Mrs. Fairfield has been reviewed by a physician who is reasonably expected to qualify as an expert witness under Rule 702 of the Rules of Evidence and who is willing to testify that the medical standard of care provided by Defendants did not comply with the applicable standard of care.
Look carefully at this certification and you'll see how closely the language tracked the statutory language, with one exception: whereas the Rule refers to "all medical records . . . available to the plaintiff," the Fairfield plaintiff referred only to "certain medical records."
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Because the certification did not conform to this requirement, the court affirmed the dismissal on the basis of the Plaintiffs' failure to comply with Rule 9(j).
The Court also briefly addressed Plaintiffs' claim that the application of Rule 9(j) violated their due-process rights. Although the Court noted that Plaintiffs had abandoned this argument by failing to cite any legal authority in support of it, it also concluded that the argument failed substantively because it would require the Court to rewrite the statutory language adopted by the General Assembly, something that "is antithetical to the proper role of a court in our system of government." Noting that Rule 9(j) can result in "harsh outcomes," the Court nonetheless noted that "[a]ny modification of the pleading requirements contained therein must come from the legislative branch rather than the judicial branch."
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Progressive Neurological Deterioration in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury with Acute Intracranial Hemorrhage: A Single Center, Retrospective Observational Comparative Study
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To assess the rate of acute neurologic aggravation of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, and to compare the deterioration frequency between categorized admission characteristic groups and the mean values between deteriorated and non-deteriorated groups.
From Jan. 2014 to Aug. 2017, medical records of mild TBI patients (Glasgow Coma Scale ≥13 on arrival) were retrospectively reviewed. Admission characteristics and neurologic outcome of the first treatment week were analyzed. We compared the frequency of progressive deteriorated patients between independent variable groups and also mean value of admission characteristics between deteriorated and non-deteriorated groups.
The 193 patients were included in this study. 22 showed neurologic aggravation in the first treatment week. Subdural hematoma (SDH; n=82, 42.5%) was the most frequent CT finding as main lesion. The thickness of epidural hematoma (EDH) or SDH, midline shift and compression of basal cistern in the initial CT scan were significant factors of progressive deterioration, whereas the volume of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) showed no significance. In laboratory tests, deteriorated group had low hemoglobin (Hb) level and higher white blood cell count. However, the initial vital signs didn't significantly affect the outcome.
In this study, thickness of EDH or SDH in the initial CT scan, coagulopathy, leukocytosis, anemia showed to have effect on neurologic aggravation. Systolic blood pressure and body temperature, which have been considered important in managing severe TBI patients, showed no significance. However, because the difference is not large enough for clinical use, further studies are needed for verification.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading cause of mortality and morbidity throughout the world and it is a major socioeconomic problem29). Although the management for TBI has been evolving greatly with a long historical background, the 'heterogeneity of TBI' makes clinicians difficult to establish treatment strategy and to predict outcomes. However, studies about clinical course of acute mild TBI have been difficult to find in the literature as compared to active researches of severe TBI.
Predicting clinical course of acute mild TBI is important, in several point of view. The patient who shows progressive deterioration after good neurological status in the first examination can be neglected by medical staffs or have more chance to be exposed to monitoring failure compared to those having poor mentality from the first, which may lead to miss the adequate time of neurosurgical and critical care interventions. Because the number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and medical staff is scarce, we must decide whether these patients should be admitted to the ICU or general ward, or transfer to higher trauma center23,25). In addition, preventing unnecessary ICU admission reduces cost and prevents potential adverse effect of ICU stay such as delirium and nosocomial infections17).
The purpose of this study is to assess the rate of progressive mental deterioration of acute mild TBI patients with intracranial hemorrhage within first treatment week who had 6 points of Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) motor score on arrival at the emergency room (ER), and to compare the deterioration frequency between categorized admission variable groups and the mean values between deteriorated and non-deteriorated groups.
1. Patients
From January 2014 to August 2017, medical records of TBI patients who initially showed GCS 13 or more on arrival were collected. Among them, patients aged 15 years or more and with history of trauma within 1 week were included in the study. Patients without any traumatic intracranial hemorrhage and those having only linear skull fractures without intracranial lesions were excluded, because they rarely need hospitalization and neurosurgical interventions4,11,12,15,16,21,22). The inclusion and exclusion criteria are as follows.
Inclusion Criteria
*Patients with 15 or more age.
*History of head trauma was less than 1 week.
*Patients with acute intracranial hemorrhage in first computed tomography (CT) scan.
*Patients who showed 13 or more GCS at first neurological examination at the ER.
*Patients who showed 6 points of GCS motor score at first.
*Patients who had been observed for 1 week or more.
Exclusion Criteria
*Patients who had been discharged from the ER or been immediately transferred to another center.
*Age below 15.
*Patients with head trauma history 1 week or more.
*Patients without acute intracranial hemorrhage in the first CT scan (with or without skull fracture).
*Patients who showed GCS less than 13 at first neurological examination.
*Patients who showed 5 or less points of GCS motor score at first examination.
*Patients who had been observed less than 1 week.
*Patients who underwent neurosurgical treatment before their neurological progression.
Their age, gender, past medical history (hypertension, diabetes, hematologic disorders, chronic liver diseases, chronic kidney diseases, presence of solid cancer, antiplatelet and anti-coagulant medication), initial vital signs (systolic blood pressure [SBP], pulse rate [PR], respiratory rate[RR], body temperature [BT]), initial laboratory results (white blood cell[WBC] count, hemoglobin[Hb] level, platelet count [PC], prothrombin time [PT], activated partial thromboplastin time[aPTT]), first CT findings (type of hemorrhage, dominant hemorrhage type, dominant side, volume of hemorrhage, midline shift, presence of skull fracture, compression of basal cistern), initial GCS, injury to CT time and acute neurological outcome during the first treatment week were analyzed. Reduction of the GCS motor score was considered as symptomatic progression.
2. Statistical Analysis
Each independent variable was grouped to compare the frequency of exacerbated patients between groups. The grouping of each independent variable was made with the values shown in the Table 1. In addition, the mean values of the continuous variables of the deteriorated group and the non-deteriorated group were compared. Statistical analysis was performed with SAS/STAT® software (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA) using χ2 or Fisher's exact test in frequency comparison and Wilcoxon's or t-test in the mean comparison, according to the type of the variables.
1. Baseline Information of the Patients
With above listed inclusion and exclusion criteria, 193 consecutive patients were included in the study. Among these patients, 22 patients (11.4%) showed neurological aggravation in the first treatment week. Baseline information of the patients are described in Table 1 and mean values of each variables are in Table 2. Mean age was 64.89±17.36 and 75 patients (38.9%) were female. The 87 patients had hypertension and 51 had diabetes. Six patients had hematologic disorders. Two patients had chronic liver disease and 13 patients had chronic kidney disease. The 7 patients were under treatment of solid cancer. Forty-nine patients were having at least one antiplatelet agents and 5 patients were under anticoagulation. Mean GCS was 14.53±0.71. Mean SBP, PR, RR, and BT on arrival were 141.30±23.37 mmHg, 81.15±15.23/min, 18.39±2.72/min, and 36.71±0.52°C. Initial WBC count, Hb, PC, PT international normalized ratio[INR]), and aPTT were 8.175±3.54 109/L, 232.54± 76.05 109/L, 1.05±0.10 and 27.86±7.73 sec. The mean time taken for CT scanning since trauma was 17.90±30.99 (0.5–164) hr. Subdural hematoma (SDH; n=82, 42.5%) was the most frequent CT finding as a main lesion followed by intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH; n=59, 30.6%), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH; n=31, 16.1%), epidural hematoma (EDH; n=21, 10.9%). Eighty-two patients had left side dominant lesion (42.5%). Forty patients showed at least 1 mm of midline shift and 57 patients had concomitant skull fractures. Compressed basal cisterns were noted in 10 patients.
2. Comparison of the Frequency of Deteriorated Patients between Independent Variable Groups
We compared the frequency of progressive deteriorated patients between independent variable groups (Table 1). Male, GCS, WBC over 10.0×109/L, Hb less than 12 g/dL, aPTT over 40 sec, presence of SDH or SAH, thicker EDH or SDH, more midline shift, compression of basal cistern were statistically related to increment of frequency of aggravated patients. Whereas, the age 65 or more, past medical history (antiplatelet agent, anticoagulation, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, chronic liver disease, solid cancer, hematologic disease), initial vital signs (SBP ≥140 mmHg, PR ≥100/min, RR ≥20/min, BT ≥37.5°C), PC (groups: below 100, 100 or below 150, 150 or more 109/L), PT INR over 1.2 caused no significant differences. In addition, the dominant lesion type (groups: SDH, SAH, ICH, EDH, intraventricular hemorrhage[IVH]), left side dominant lesion, presence of EDH or ICH or IVH, volume of ICH (groups: 0, 10 or below, over 10 cc) and skull fractures in the first CT scan were not statistically increased frequency of deterioration.
3. Mean Comparison of Admission Characteristics between Deteriorated and Non-deteriorated Groups
The comparison of mean value of continuous variables between 2 groups is described in Table 2. The neurologically non-deteriorated group showed lower age (p=0.025), higher initial GCS (p=0.001), lower WBC count (p<0.004), higher Hb level (p=0.006), lower PT INR (p<0.001), less thickness of EDH or SDH (p<0.001), less midline shift (p<0.001) compared to the mean values of deteriorated group. The SBP, PR, RR, BT, PC, aPTT, first CT time, and volume of ICH were not statistically different between 2 groups.
A mild TBI is a common injury that clinicians encounter very often in the ER1). A 6% to 12% of them shows intracranial abnormality and they are called complicated mild TBI6,24). However, according to the previous reports, only 0.13% to 0.3% of mild TBI needs neurosurgical interventions3,4,7,14,16). In a systematic review by Stippler et al.27), additional brain CT taken after the neurological deterioration (11/1594, 0.7%) led to more frequent neurosurgical intervention than routine follow up CT scanning (24/56, 42.9%). Therefore, patients' neurological status mainly affects the treatment strategy for mild TBI. In addition, even if the patient does not have lesions requiring neurosurgical interventions, the patient may need airway management or non-surgical critical care during the neurologically deteriorated period.
We observed 193 consecutive mild TBI patients with acute ICH in the initial CT scan. The 22 patients (11.4%) showed progressive neurological aggravation, defined as decline of GCS motor score in this study, in their first treatment week. According to Stippler et al.27), systematic review of 19 previous publications, only 56 of 1,630 patients (3.4%) showed neurological decline which was quite lower than the frequency of this study. This is probably due to the reason that we included patients with acute intracranial hemorrhage and excluded cases only with skull fractures or pneumocephalus without bleeding.
The risk factors, according to the literatures, for clinical deterioration after mild TBI includes low initial GCS, coagulopathy, a skull fracture crossing a major sinus or the middle meningeal artery and age over 652,5,8,9,28). According to the frequency analysis of this study, male sex, WBC over 10.0× 109/L, Hb less than 12 g/dL, aPTT over 40 sec, presence of SDH or SAH, larger thickness of EDH or SDH, more midline shift, compression of basal cistern were statistically related to increment of frequency of aggravated patients (Table 1). In the mean value comparison, the neurologically non-deteriorated group showed lower age, higher initial GCS, lower WBC count, higher Hb level, lower PT INR, less volume of EDH or SDH, less midline shift compared to the mean values of deteriorated group (Table 2).
The findings of the initial CT scan significantly affected progressive deterioration of the patient in this study. Especially, the mass effect by EDH or SDH was associated with the deterioration of the patient, whereas the volume of ICH showed no significance. These results are consistent with previous literatures on CT that predicts the prognosis of trauma patients13,18,26,30).
Among the initial laboratory findings, in addition to coagulopathy known from previous literature, hemoglobin and WBC count were also affected the neurologic prognosis for one week in the acute mild TBI patients5,8,28). Anemia has been known to be associated with the prognosis of patients with severe TBI from previous literature, and also with poor neurological outcomes in ischemic stroke and SAH patients10). In the meantime, literatures on the relationship between clinical course and hemoglobin level of mild TBI have been difficult to find, but the results of our study showed that anemia in acute mild TBI can adversely affect early neurological outcome. This suggest that oxygen delivery may be an important factor in patients with acute mild TBI, as in patients with severe TBI. WBC counts also showed statistically significant differences in both group frequency analysis and mean comparison. However, despite the statistically significant differences in mean Hb between the two groups, it is unlikely that there would be an enough difference (12.66–11.62 g/dL) to be applied to clinical practice.
The post-traumatic leukocytosis is known to be caused by increased catabolic hormones and cytokines, and eventually, increased leukocytes cause cerebral damage by occlusion and rupture of microvessels after WBC adherence to endothelium and aggregation to each other19,20). In addition, they secretes cytotoxic mediators that causes additional brain damage19). The result of this study shows that these mechanisms can be applied to patients with acute mild TBI with intracranial hemorrhage.
The initial vital signs, unlike other variables, did not show any statistically significant influence in both analysis. Managing intracranial pressure (ICP) and maintaining the adequate cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) are essential in treating brain injury and determining the optimal level of ICP and CPP is a very active research topic in severe TBI management in recent decades20). In addition, what is the proper body temperature and how to maintain it, is also an important issue for ICP control. However, SBP, PR, RR, and BT do not seem to affect the early outcome in acute mild TBI patients.
This study has several limitations. It is a retrospective analysis of single center with small number of patients and the longterm outcome is not included. In addition, only decline of GCS motor score was considered as symptomatic aggravation, whereas focal neurologic deficits such as motor weakness and speech disturbance were not investigated.
In our study, progressive mental deterioration of mild TBI patients with acute intracranial hemorrhage was not rare (11.4%). The mass effect of EDH or SDH in the initial CT scan and leukocytosis, anemia as well as coagulopathy in the laboratory tests showed to have effect on symptomatic aggravation. The vital signs such as SBP and BT, considered to be important in managing severe TBI, showed no significance on early outcome in acute mild TBI patients. However, even though there are factors showing statistically significance in this study, it is difficult to say that it has large enough differences, especially the Hb, to apply them in real clinical practice. Additional multicenter, randomized, prospective studies with larger case series are needed in the future.
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