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Surgical technique, including suture placement and tension, is believed to contribute to the outcome of bilamellar tarsal rotation surgery for trachomatous trichiasis. However, the immediate post-operative appearance that minimizes the chance of recurrence and other adverse outcomes has not been investigated.
Methodology/Principal Findings
To explore whether the degree of correction immediately after surgery is predictive of surgical outcome at the 6-week post-operative visit, photographs taken immediately after surgery were used to predict surgical outcomes, including the severity of eyelid contour abnormality and trichiasis recurrence. Both eyelid contour abnormalities and recurrence were accurately predicted from the immediate post-operative photographs by an experienced oculoplastic surgeon 85% and 70% of the time, respectively. Participants with a "slight over-correction" that resulted in no eyelid contour abnormality and no recurrence were used to identify immediate post-operative contours that lead to a successful surgical outcome.
The immediate post-operative eyelid contour is an important indicator of post-operative success of BLTR surgery. Based upon our findings, we developed a Surgery Photocard. This card illustrates some examples of immediate post-surgical appearances, which led to a successful outcome, as well as sub-optimal appearances, which led to poor surgical outcomes. The card also provides suggestions for improving the appearance by adjusting the suture placement or tension based upon standard oculoplastic principles.
Author Summary
Trichiasis is a potentially blinding consequence of trachoma. The World Health Organization has promoted the bilamellar tarsal rotation (BLTR) procedure as a treatment for trichiasis from trachoma. Even if trachoma were to be eradicated today, a great number of individuals would still develop trichiasis and lose vision unless they received surgical treatment. Unfortunately, the recurrence rate after BLTR can be quite high, and surgical factors are thought to contribute to unfavorable outcomes. In this study we evaluated the relationship between immediate post-operative contour and 6-week outcomes utilizing immediate post-operative photos of 200 trichiasis surgeries. We found good agreement between the predicted and actual outcome. The analysis allowed the identification of immediate post-operative eyelid contours that were most likely to lead to successful surgery at 6 weeks, as well as contours that resulted in adverse outcomes. The description of the target degree of rotation and how to adjust the rotating sutures to best achieve this ideal should help surgeons worldwide improve their surgical technique and outcomes.
Citation: Merbs SL, Harding JC, Cassard SD, Munoz BE, West SK, Gower EW (2012) Relationship between Immediate Post-Operative Appearance and 6-Week Operative Outcome in Trichiasis Surgery. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 6(7): e1718. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001718
Editor: Jeremiah M. Ngondi, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Received: March 9, 2012; Accepted: May 19, 2012; Published: July 10, 2012
Copyright: © 2012 Merbs et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: This project was funded by a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (SKW). Beaver-Visitec International Inc. (formerly BD Medical-Ophthalmic Systems) provided the manpower and materials to produce the TT clamp at no charge. EWG is the recipient of an Ernest and Elizabeth Althouse Special Scholars Award from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), and SKW is the recipient of a Senior Scientific Investigator award from RPB. Helen Keller International, through funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, provided manpower and funding to assist in patient identification and surgery. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Despite a World Health Organization (WHO) initiative in 1998 to eliminate trachoma by 2020, this disease continues to plague poor regions of many developing countries. Even if active trachoma were to be eradicated today, millions of individuals would be at risk of blindness due to the trichiasis and corneal scarring caused by previous repeated ocular infection with Chlamydia trachomatis. [1] For those individuals who have already developed conjunctival scarring and trichiasis, the principle option to prevent unnecessary blindness is surgery. The WHO has endorsed the Bilamelar Tarsal Rotation (BLTR) procedure for the correction of trachomatous trichaisis (TT), [2], [3] and in many countries, this surgery is performed by non-physicians, hereafter referred to as surgical technicians. Recurrence of trichiasis after surgery is a key concern. Several studies have suggested that in addition to concurrent infection and inflammation, [4] surgical technique may contribute significantly to trichiasis recurrence. [4]–[7] Additionally, other adverse outcomes, such as eyelid contour abnormalities (ECAs) and eyelid closure defects, can occur after BLTR. The exact surgical factors that contribute to recurrence and other adverse outcomes have not been fully elucidated.
The BLTR procedure can be divided into 2 parts: the full-thickness incision creating a distal eyelid fragment containing the eyelid margin and lash line and the external rotation of this distal eyelid fragment by suture placement. The TT clamp, currently under investigation in a prospective, randomized trial, was designed to modify how the incision is created and the subsequent effect on BLTR outcome. [8] However, the importance of suture placement and tension on the BLTR outcome has yet to be investigated. The current study aims to investigate how the immediate post-operative eyelid contour relates the BLTR outcome at 6 weeks. During pre-study training to test the TT clamp against standard BLTR instrumentation, and for several weeks during the prospective, randomized clinical trial, surgical technicians performing BLTR were observed placing the rotating sutures. We noted that even when the incision was made correctly, the placement and tying of the sutures had a tremendous impact on the immediate post-operative eyelid contour and correction of the trichiasis. We, therefore, worked with the surgical technicians during the training to achieve the immediate post-operative "slight over-correction," recommended in the WHO surgical manual. [3] When we observed significant over- or under-correction, we asked the surgical technicians to remove and replace the sutures. Typically, this correction resulted in a better eyelid contour and degree of eversion (Figures 1 and 2). Given these observations, we investigated whether the degree of correction immediately after BLTR was predictive of surgical outcome at the 6-week post-operative visit.
A) An immediate post-operative photograph of a participant with under-rotation of the nasal aspect of the upper eyelid margin fragment; B) the same eyelid after replacement of the rotating sutures; C) the same eyelid at the 6-week visit without recurrence (the lashes seen nasally are from the lower eyelid).
A) An immediate post-operative photograph of a participant with over-rotation of the eyelid margin fragment; B) The same eyelid after replacement of the rotating sutures; C) the same eyelid at the 6-week visit with a mild ECA.
Description of participants
The ongoing Partnership for the Rapid Elimination of Trachoma (PRET) Surgery trial is designed to compare the TT clamp against the standard BLTR instrumentation. In rural southern Tanzania, 1917 participants with trichiasis and no previous trichiasis surgery in at least one eye were randomized to BLTR with either the TT clamp or standard instrumentation. A total of 3345 eyes underwent surgery as part of the study. For each participant, photographs were taken directly before and immediately after surgery, as well as at the 2- and 6-week follow up visits. At the 6-week post-operative visit, participants were examined for trichiasis recurrence, pyogenic granuloma formation and ECAs. Using a standardized grading system, photographs of each participant were graded for ECAs defined as none, mild, moderate, or severe. [9] Table 1 summarizes the grading system. Photographs were taken with the participant looking up, in order to completely visualize the eyelid margin and contour. When recurrence was present, the field grader recorded the number of lashes touching the globe as well as the location of trichiatic lashes. The location was defined by dividing the eyelid into three equal segments and describing the location of each lash base as nasal, central, or temporal. The current analysis utilizes immediate post-operative photographs and 6-week outcomes data from this ongoing study.
Selection of immediate post-operative photographs
At the 6-week PRET study visit, 3341 eyelids were evaluated for postoperative outcomes. Using the PRET-study outcome data for recurrence and ECAs, 200 eyelids were randomly selected from those that were normal or had only one outcome. An equal distribution of normal, recurrence, or ECA (moderate or severe) was chosen. Therefore, the 6-week photograph set consisted of 50 normal eyelids, 50 with recurrence, 50 with moderate ECA, and 50 with severe ECA. In order for an eyelid to be selected, both immediate post-operative and 6-week follow up pictures of gradable quality were required. 16 of 3258 (0.5%) eyelids with gradable photographs were excluded because both recurrence and ECA were noted at 6 weeks. Approximately 4% of eyelids were excluded due to ungradable photographs (blurry quality, patient not looking up). Review of the pre-operative photos confirmed that in no case was an ECA present prior to BLTR surgery. The immediate post-operative photographs were evaluated in a masked fashion by a fellowship-trained oculoplastic surgeon (SLM), who was unaware of the distribution of outcomes. The evaluator was asked to record a predicted single 6-week outcome based on the appearance of the eyelid immediately after surgery - normal, recurrence (with location noted as nasal, central, and/or temporal), or ECA (moderate or severe). The primary aspect evaluated was the degree of rotation of the eyelid. When apparent under-rotation of the eyelid margin was observed in the photograph, recurrence was predicted. Conversely, when over-rotation of the eyelid margin was perceived, an ECA was predicted.
This study was approved by the Johns Hopkins Medicine IRB and the National Institute of Medical Research, Tanzania. Each participant provided written informed consent for participation. The study conforms to the Tenets of Helsinki.
Statistical analysis
Eyelids with true 6-week recurrence (PRET grade) were excluded from the ECA calculations; similarly, those with ECA at 6 weeks were excluded in the recurrence calculations. The evaluator was instructed to select only one adverse outcome for each eye (either recurrence or ECA). Consequentially, if she scored an eyelid as having recurrence, automatically the eye was classified as "no abnormality" for ECA. Similarly, eyelids graded as having ECA by the evaluator automatically were classified as no recurrence. Evaluator predictions were compared with the true outcome at 6 weeks; sensitivity and specificity of the predicted outcome and corresponding 95% confidence intervals are reported.
Recurrence of trichiasis
The evaluator accurately identified 35 of 50 eyelids with recurrence (Figure 3, Table 2), with a sensitivity of 70% (95% confidence interval (CI): 57%–83%) and a specificity of 90% (95% CI: 82%–98%). Among the eyelids with recurrence, 31 had nasal recurrence, 19 had central, and 14 had temporal recurrence (some eyelids had recurrence in more than one location). The comparison of predicted and actual location(s) for recurrence is shown in Table 3. Specificity was higher than sensitivity for predicting recurrence at each location, and ranged from 78% for nasal, 90% for central, and 94% for temporal. Sensitivity for predicting the location was higher for nasal and/or central recurrence (58% each) than it was for temporal recurrence (43%) (Table 3).
Immediate post-operative photographs in 6 participants used to correctly predict A–B) nasal, C–D) central, and E–F) temporal recurrence at 6-weeks post-operatively. Arrows show area of under-rotation and subsequent recurrence.
Eyelid contour abnormalities
The evaluator accurately identified 85 of 100 eyelids with ECAs (Figure 4, Table 4).The number of false positives and false negatives were similar. The sensitivity and specificity of predicting the presence of an ECA were 85% and 88%, respectively. In addition, the severity of the ECA at 6 weeks could also be predicted in more than half of the cases (58 of 100) based on immediate post-operative photographs (Table 5). The sensitivity of predicting either a moderate or severe ECA compared to a prediction of no ECA was 64%, and a similar number of eyes were classified as moderate when they were severe as were classified as severe when they were moderate.
A, C) Immediate post-operative photographs in 2 participants that were used to correctly predict ECAs in the corresponding 6-week photographs, (B) moderate ECA and (D) severe ECA.
Although previous research has looked at various aspects leading to trichiasis recurrence, our study is the first to systematically evaluate the role of immediate post-operative eyelid contour on unfavorable outcomes. We found that the degree of correction and shape of the eyelid immediately after surgery were predictive of surgical outcome at 6 weeks, suggesting a novel strategy that could be employed to lower recurrence rates and the incidence of ECAs. It should be noted that our prediction rate was higher than the expected 25% prediction rate one would expect by chance alone.
While specificity was quite high for each outcome, sensitivity was somewhat lower. A re-review of the 15 eyelids with recurrence that was not predicted by the evaluator showed that in the majority of cases, nasal under-correction was obscured by either eyelid swelling or incomplete opening of the post-surgical eyelid. In 2 cases, the immediate post-operative eyelid position appeared ideal, but at 6 weeks the eyelid had central recurrence. These cases highlight the fact that surgical outcomes are multifaceted and the immediate post-operative eyelid contour is not the only predictor of a successful surgery. The sensitivity was lower for the exact location of recurrence than the presence of recurrence. One explanation for this finding is the somewhat subjective division of the eyelid into three segments, resulting in difficulty determining the exact location when the offending lashes are near the junction between 2 locations. By combining the central and nasal locations for analysis, the sensitivity increased to 72%. Similarly, combining central and temporal aspects also resulted in a higher sensitivity (75%).
BLTR is considered an effective surgical procedure for the treatment of cicatricial entropion of the upper eyelid [10] and is one of the WHO's procedures of choice for trachomatous entropion and trichiasis. [3] The procedure was first described by Wies for the treatment of spastic entropion of the lower eyelid. [11] A tendency towards over-correction with the Wies procedure led Ballen, in 1964, to propose the technique for difficult upper eyelid problems such as cicatricial entropion in the setting of trachoma. [2] In Ballen's manuscript, the tension of the rotating sutures or desired degree of rotation of the distal fragment was not addressed. Twelve years later, Baylis noted that over-correction with the Wies procedure generally resulted from excess rotation due to improperly placed incisions or sutures. [12] He noted that contraction of the orbicularis tended to turn the eyelid margin inward, and with time, over-correction tended to lessen, as did correction of the entropion. He suggested that, "A small overcorrection, therefore, is desirable with the Wies procedure." [12] The WHO manual states that the sutures "should be tied firmly enough to produce a slight overcorrection," [3] but the manual does not elaborate on exactly what represents a slight over-correction. Other manuscripts also have referred to the desired "slight over-correction" without further description, [6] and some have advocated intentional over-correction, particularly in cases of severe forms of TT. [13] However, to our knowledge, what represents a "slight over-correction" or the optimum post-operative contour has not been specifically described or evaluated in the literature. In our study, we were able to use the post-operative contour to predict the surgical outcome, predicting recurrence when apparent under-correction was observed and predicting ECA when over-rotation of the eyelid was observed. Our successful predictions suggest that a future study of how the degree of rotation affects the outcome is warranted.
In the PRET Surgical trial, although we initially provided brief training to the surgical technicians to assess the immediate post-operative contour, we still saw unfavorable outcomes at 6 weeks. One explanation is that while an experienced oculoplastic surgeon can accurately assess the immediate post-operative outcome, non-physician surgical technicians may have more difficulty with this evaluation. However, in our experience, surgical technicians improve with additional training. Another possibility is that over time, the surgical technician reverts back to pre-training practices. Therefore, based on our data, photographs, and clinical experience, we developed a Surgical Photocard to aid the BLTR surgical technician in the field (Figures 5 and 6). We tested a prototype card during a retraining session for the PRET surgical technicians prior to commencing surgery for our participants with recurrence. This card shows examples of immediate post-operative contours that lead to successful surgical outcomes (Figure 5), as well as examples of immediate post-operative contours that lead to recurrence or ECAs (Figure 6). In the cases of sub-optimal appearance, the card also describes how to adjust suture tension or placement to improve the immediate post-operative contour based upon basic oculoplastic principles and the experience of an oculoplastic surgeon (SLM). This card can be kept with the other surgical supplies so that it is consistently brought to the field during surgical campaigns, providing a ready reference for the surgical technician.
Surgical Photocard, side A showing the immediate post-operative photographs of 4 participants without recurrence and normal contours at 6 weeks. This degree of "slight over-correction" likely represents the ideal immediate post-operative appearance to minimize both recurrence and ECAs.
Surgical Photocard, side B showing (upper left) a participant with immediate post-operative over-rotation and (upper right) the resulting severe ECA at 6 weeks and instructions as to how to improve the over-rotation; and (lower left) a participant with immediate post-operative under-rotation and (lower right) the resulting nasal recurrence at 6 weeks and instructions as to how to improve the under-rotation.
Several barriers to improving surgical outcomes still exist. In countries where funds and supplies are limited and the need for surgery is great, convincing surgical technicians to use additional suture material and time to replace them may be difficult. Another barrier to improving surgical outcomes is the common practice of someone other than the operating surgical technician removing the sutures. When this happens, the surgical technician misses the opportunity for valuable feedback. Recent data suggests that absorbable sutures are beneficial to the ultimate outcome;[14] however, they also reduce the likelihood that the surgical technician will have an opportunity for post-operative feedback.
One limitation of this study is the use of photographs to evaluate the immediate post-operative eyelid position rather than in-person evaluation. While we have demonstrated a good agreement between field and photograph grades of postoperative outcomes at 6 weeks, [9] we have not studied the same types of correlation for the evaluation of immediate post-operative eyelids. At completion of surgery, the eyelid is still anesthetized, which sometimes makes it difficult for the participant to cooperate with the photographer and fully open or close the eyelid. Additionally, the eyelid can be quite swollen, obscuring the eyelid margin contour in a photograph. Thus, sub-optimal photographs can make it more difficult to evaluate the post-operative eyelid position than the evaluation would be in person.
Another limitation of the study is the relatively short follow-up. There is good evidence that the eyelid position continues to change and recurrence continues to occur after 6 weeks. It is possible that some of the false positive recurrences were actually recurrences at the 1- or 2-year follow-up visits and that ECAs may change over time. This study was designed to select patients with just one outcome (normal, recurrence, or ECA). While some participants had more than one adverse outcome at 6 weeks, these participants comprised only 0.5% of the gradable photographs. At the 6 week visit, only 4% of eyes had a missing or poor quality photograph.
In summary, we found that the degree of correction and shape of the eyelid immediately post-operatively were predictive of surgical outcome at 6 weeks. This finding suggests that a post-operative assessment combined with improved suturing technique could lead to better outcomes, including lower recurrence rates and a lower incidence of ECAs. Additionally, we identified immediate post-operative contours representing the "slight over-correction" that leads to a successful BLTR outcome, which if used in training and during practice has the potential to aid the TT surgical technician in their assessment.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SLM SKW EWG BEM. Performed the experiments: SLM JCH EWG. Analyzed the data: SDC BEM EWG. Wrote the paper: SLM JCH SDC BEM SKW EWG.
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Shanice Sebastian, who was with Holmes when he was arrested several hours later at the Days Inn in Old Saybrook, testified that he told her he had shot somebody.
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When you're first starting to look to buy, you'll quickly pick up on a few trends happening in the local market. For example, you might notice an over abundance of properties available for sale (indicating a buyer's market), or on the flip side, you might not find very much available (indicating a seller's market).
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Trans-Canada distance: n/a
Actual distance driven: 4,046 km
THEN: The original pair of "Pathfinders," Thomas Wilby and Jack Haney, who made the first coast-to-coast Canadian road trip 100 years ago, set off from Halifax Harbour in rain and drove north on muddy roads.
It can't have been much fun in the open car, and especially not since Wilby, the British snob, sat in the back and would not have cared for conversation with Haney, the American mechanic who was provided as the car's driver and caretaker.
The roads that the two would have followed were narrow and unpaved, and no maps existed to show their route. There seemed little need– fewer than 200 cars were registered in Halifax at the time. Instead, the duo were led north by a guide in one of those cars, and they stopped just five kilometres outside of town for a drink at an inn, where the locals' curiosity was eventually stirred when the guide told them of the long drive expected to Vancouver.
At that, everyone went outside to look at the car, while Wilby considered them with disdain. "Vancouver awoke only vague geographical associations," he wrote later. "It had no connection with their lives; it suggested a journey to the moon."
If there was to be a link between Atlantic and Pacific, most people didn't see cars as the way of providing it. In his book "The All-Red Route," author John Nicol quotes an editorial from the Halifax newspaper that year:
"Is it reasonable, that the mass of the people, who will never own an auto, will give up the roads they made and practically own to the devil machines? Is it reasonable to believe that the legislature will take the roads of the country people away and transfer them to the rich men who may wish to make motor tracks of them? …
"In this province, where the country is hilly and the roads narrow, if an automobile comes suddenly over a hill in the face of a horse unacquainted with them, 10 men would not keep him from going over the bank with the wagon to which it may be attached. Automobiles have not come to stay. Just wait until they kill a few people by tumbling the wagon in which people are travelling peacefully along. They haven't come to stay on country roads, and they won't stay."
NOW: I drove to Eastern Passage to dip the wheels of the Camaro into the Atlantic. I did this already in Newfoundland, as you can see on this CBC clip, but it just seemed right to do it again, as a tip of the ball cap to Wilby and Haney. You can see today's video here.
From there, I drove slowly along the old Waverley Road, which was the original road north from Halifax Bay, and dropped in to visit with Dave Munroe, to talk cars and motorcycles for a while. Munroe is a retired motorcycle dealer and former national chair of the Canadian Automobile Association.
It was a relaxed afternoon but perhaps too relaxed – I'd intended to follow the Waverley Road all the way through the countryside to Truro, but realized when I left Munroe's house that time was getting on; if I followed the old route I may not get to my destination here in the Wentworth Valley before dark.
So just a few kilometres north, I swung onto the main throughway and set the cruise control to 120 km/h. Every now and again, to my right, I could see the old road through the trees.
SOMETHING DIFFERENT … Here I am, topping up my bottle with water from the Atlantic at Eastern Passage, across the bay from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
I'm topping it up because I already had Atlantic water in there from Petty Harbour, Newfoundland, which I'd gathered on the first day of this drive, two weeks ago. You can see the considerably-less-than-graceful video of the historic event here. But I didn't have as much as I'd started out with.
After putting that quarter-bottle in the car and setting off across Newfoundland, I just left it rolling around behind the seat and forgot about it. I bought other bottles of drinking water since then. And a few days later, I was fumbling around for a bottle of water while driving and, yes, pulled up the ocean water bottle and gave it a healthy swig. Except, of course, it was a very unhealthy swig, full of salt and fish pee. I spewed my mouthful through the open window, although most of it was picked up by the slipstream and hurled back inside the car.
Anyway, today I needed to top up the bottle so that I can pour it into the Pacific. All very symbolic, though it would be more symbolic, of something, if I just spit it into the ocean at Vancouver.
The bottle of salt water is now carried safely in the trunk, and it won't be leaving the trunk until I get to the left coast.


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Folk music in Switzerland
It is no longer possible to determine exactly where folk music starts and ends - music has become such an everyday matter of course that the boundaries of the individual areas are now largely blurred.
Swiss folk music is more of a collective imagination that includes such phenomena as alphorn music, Ländler music, and yodeling. The world of Swiss folk music also includes folk singers from Ticino, choirs from Western Switzerland and songwriters from Bern.
Ländler music as part of Swiss folk musicSwiss folk music is often equated with Ländler music, a key genre within instrumental folk music. Unlike in other Alpine countries, Ländler not only includes dances in three quarter time, but also marches, Scottish, mazurkas and foxtrot. Ländler music and the concept behind it gradually emerged with the invention and establishment, since around 1880, of the accordion, especially the Schwyzerörgeli. Up until then a colourful mix of tunes from many countries and periods had developed in Switzerland. In addition to German, Austrian and Italian melodies, opera and operetta themes were included – and sometimes even the courtly dances introduced by the Napoleonic occupation. Mercenaries and brisk trade relations have always contributed to a lively cultural exchange with new and strange ways being readily adapted and used in the local style before being further developed and made to be one's own. The music was played by mixed dance bands consisting of 5 to 7 men who accompanied the dances with such instruments as the clarinet, violin, trumpet, cornet, tuba and contrabass.
Standardisation and regulationThe concept of the Ländler band dates back to around 1880, and from 1900 it only applied in respect to the playing of the clarinet (saxophone), Schwyzerörgeli (accordion), and the plucked bass. A further standardisation took place in the 1960s – with the unifying of the instrumentation and the distinction between the regional styles. Today there are seven recognised styles. The most important are the:
Graubünden styleThe Graubünden style, which is not only limited to the canton of Graubünden, is noted for its use of the Ländler quintet (two clarinets, two Schwyzerörgeli and the double bass) as a feature. The two clarinets (in B, more often in A), produce the melody while the other instruments provide the harmonic and rhythmic accompaniment.
Central Swiss styleTypical of the Central Swiss Ländler style is the fast pace and the piano accompaniment with the melody not only being produced by the clarinet - often the somewhat garish clarinet in C, but by the chromatic accordion.
Appenzell styleAppenzell music today is still largely based on the music of the 19th century. Stringed instruments are very much in evidence in this type of folk music. The original Appenzell string music consists of two violins, dulcimer, cello and double bass, and should not really be described as Ländler music.
Since 1971, Ländler musicians have been meeting up every four years at their Swiss Ländler music festival. They are organised as the Swiss Folk Music Association. Ländler music is harmonious and is mainly simple in form, which facilitates its ad-lib nature, much like a jam session in jazz. Held in restaurants, the meetings of the musicians are known as Stubeten or Musikantenhöcks.
Additional links:
Detailed information on www.volksmusik.ch
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Charlie Puth is heating up the charts with his new single, "Attention," but fans are dying to know who he wrote the song for! Many thought the track was about his past relationship with Bella Thorne, but that's not the case!
Charlie set the record straight with Billboard, and explained how the song came to be:
"I was reading someone's Instagram, and they had poured their heart out about this girl," he dished. "And the only thing I could think about was — I think they were trying to convey some sort of message like 'I'm moved on and I'm a guy and I'm strong.' But what I got from that was, 'Wow, this girl completely played you and this girl just wanted attention.'"
Charlie began singing "you just want attention," and the rest is history!
Think you know all the words to this catchy tune? Test your lyric knowledge with our quiz!


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Espresso Shots
Here's a great little concoction to keep the party going - espresso shots! An icy blend of Kahlua, Cointreau, tequila and espresso will give you that extra bit of energy. Place a whole bunch of these pretty shots on a serving tray and pass them around. It will pick up your party a notch or two!
Espresso Shots
adapted from Colin Cowie
for a printable recipe, click here
makes 4 shots
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- 1/8 cup sugar
- 2 ounces tequila
- 1 ounce Kahlúa
- 1 ounce Cointreau
- 2 ounces cold espresso
Place the orange juice and the sugar in two different shallow prep bowls. Dip the shot glasses first in the orange juice and then in the sugar.
In cocktail shaker full of ice, mix the rest of the ingredients. Shake well. Pour into shot glasses.


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The G.C. Broach Company has designed and manufactured over 365 thermal fluid heaters. A thermal fluid heater manufactured by The G.C. Broach Company is generally manufactured in accordance with "API 560 Fired Heaters for General Refinery Service" specifications, and is usually ASME Section VIII Division One code stamped.
Thermal Fluid Heaters are also referred to as: heat medium heaters, Dowtherm heaters, deisel oil heaters, Naptha heaters, Therminol heaters, solvent heaters, heat transfer fluid heaters, thermal oil heaters, hot oil heaters, and glycol solution heaters, .
Current BTU's
Presently, we estimate that The G. C. Broach Company equipment is producing over 868.7 Billion BTU's of heat each day.
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It required eight flatcars to load this one mammoth refinery heater built by the G. C. Broach Co., Tulsa. Seeing it on its way are, left the right, G. C. Cole, Tulsa freight agent for M-K-T Railroad; Cliff DeLay, production superintendent for Broach; and Clayton Broach, company president. The heater, which will be 35 ft wide, 55 ft long, and 90 ft tall when erected, will have a capacity of 166,000,000 Btu, according to the maker. Read More...
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- Non-transfer elementary students living 1.5 miles or more from their school; and
- Non-transfer middle-school, junior-high or high-school students living 2 miles or more from their school.
Buses may arrive up to 15 minutes after the scheduled stop time. Students should remain at the stop up to 15 minutes after the scheduled stop time. If students wait longer than 15 minutes, call 918-833-8100.
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Buses load and unload at the circle drive in front of the building.
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Fayette village and school district votes will have a choice to make in the Nov. 6 general election.
Three candidates filed to serve as village council members, with only two positions expiring.
Incumbents Mike Maginn and Ruth Marlatt will be joined on the ballot by Eugene Rosinski.
Mayor Anita VanZile will not face a challenger in her bid for another term in office.
Four candidates are running for three positions on the Gorham Fayette Board of Education.
Kelly Bentley chose not to seek another term, but incumbents Terry Kovar and David Brinegar will appear on the ballot. Kirk Keiser and Karen Joy King are also seeking a term on the board.
Fred Stockburger needs voter approval to continue his appointed position. He was named to the board following the resignation of Kim Winzeler, whose term will expire Dec. 31, 2009. Debra Leininger will challenge Stockburger for the post.
Area races
The only other contested races across northern Fulton County are in Royalton Township and the village of Lyons.
Brad Peebles will challenge incumbent Bill Smith for a term as Royalton Township trustee. Joe Damman will seek another term as township fiscal officer.
In Lyons, incumbents John Good and Joan Klier are seeking another term on council, along with challenger Delbert Neill. Mary Vroman is unopposed in her quest for another term as mayor.
In Gorham Township, Randy Merillat (trustee) and Mike Figgins (fiscal officer) are unchallenged.
In Franklin Township, Mark Ballmer (trustee) and John Winzeler (fiscal officer) are unchallenged.
In Chesterfield Township, Jerry Bates (trustee) and Tina Jones (fiscal officer) are unchallenged.


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The Gravestone Photographic Resource project is gradually photographing and indexing more English cemeteries and war memorials but there are still many to do.
If you live in England perhaps you could help the project by taking photographs of you local cemetery and sending them to the resource: see how to be a volunteer for more details.
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Couldn't seem to find any other posts on this,
But I came across the new illustrated edition of The Hobbit (don't know how I missed it) - artwork by a new Tolkien artist on the scene, Jemima Catlin.
Great illustrations! Very different to the masterful Alan Lee, but capture the tone of the book very well.
She explains her style and inspiration here: http://www.edinburghbookreview.co.uk/ne ... ima-catlin


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Galvin HOP, a Bistrot & Bar in SpitalfieldsCall to Book: 020 7299 0404
By Michelin-starred Chefs Chris & Jeff Galvin
London, E1 6DY Google Maps (Entrance on Bishops Sq)
+44 (0) 20 7299 0404
Bar Opening Hours
Monday - Thursday: 12.00pm - 10.30pm
Kitchen Opening
Monday - Thursday: 12pm - 9.30pm
Situated on Spital Square next door to Michelin-starred Galvin La Chapelle, Galvin HOP Bistrot & Bar is modelled on bistrots and bar a vins fashionable in Paris, New York and cool cities around the globe.
Chris and Jeff Galvin have written a short menu of carefully sourced ingredients that is market driven and champions great provenance. All produce is ethically grown and harvested by farmers, fisherman and suppliers we have known personally for many years. Our talented kitchen team produce modern classic dishes created with a wood-fired oven and open grills.
Our charcuterie counter serves artisanal cured meat with unpasteurised farmhouse cheeses and pickles for one or more to share, all perfectly matched with our wine list.
Light bites are available at the table and bar, especially popular during the aperitif hour early evening.
We serve brewery-fresh Czech Pilsner housed in copper tanks above the bar and delicious classic cocktails.
For wine lovers, HOP offers a cutting-edge wine system serving boutique and delicious wines on tap as well as a selection of wines by the bottle. La Chapelle's extensive wine list is available too for extra special occasions.
The décor is eclectic with bare brick, tiles, granite counters, and a handmade Pewter bar with an open kitchen and stylish prints.
HOP terrace and garden are the perfect place in The City to enjoy the summer months.
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- A lightweight varsity jacket in lustrous nylon, highlighted with monochrome stripes and an Equestrian knight motif.
- Jacket length: 65cm/25.6in. This is based on a size IT 50 as proportions change slightly according to size.
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Stopped by the Beer Can House here in Houston this past weekend. Funny how even after living in a city for most of your life, you still haven't seen everything there is to see. I concentrated mostly on the textures and details of the house opposed to the entire home.
A quick summary of the house from their website:
John Milkovisch, a retired upholsterer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, started his project now known as the Beer Can House in 1968 when he began inlaying thousands of marbles, rocks, and metal pieces into concrete and redwood to form unique landscaping features. When the entire front and back yard were completely covered because he "got sick of mowing the grass", he turned to the house itself and began adding aluminum siding – aluminum beer can siding, that is. Over the next 18 years the house disappeared under a cover of flattened beer cans for both practical and decorative reasons. Garlands made of cut beer cans hanging from the roof edges not only made the house sing in the wind, but also lowered the family's energy bills. Ripley's Believe It or Not estimated that over 50,000 cans adorn this monument to recycling.
John considered his work an enjoyable pastime rather than a work of art, but he did enjoy people's reaction to his creations. He once said, "It tickles me to watch people screech to a halt. They get embarrassed. Sometimes they drive around the block a couple of times. Later they come back with a car-load of friends..."
The house and landscape are adorned with many different types of beer that John, himself, drank (though his neighbors and his wife, Mary, were always glad to lend a hand!). Did he prefer one brand to the next? His favorite beer was always "Whatever's on special".


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Let us go straight to work without wasting your time.(I had wasted a lot of time when I started)
This is your first time to using any sort of version control system and you do not want to read ugly man pages (in fact most of the man pages were pieces of crap written in 1960's or 70s).
First create an account with Google Code (which you might have done that is why you are reading this guide)
Then you run following command in an empty subdirectory
hg clone https://yourproject.googlecode.com/hg/ yourproject
you will see a directory yourproject now.
Inside this you will see a .hg directory which has hgrc file.
vi testproject/.hg/hgrcis the file you might have been wondering on internet as how to use.
Now copy your code in what ever location from your laptop to this directory
bash$ cp -rv /whereever/your/code/on/laptop/ testproject/
cd testproject
hg add ./*
and then hg push this the command that you should do so that the code on your laptop can be seen on internet on Google code.
Right upto here if every thing was Ok then
hg commit -Aafter some conversation with this command you should be fine.
Here is a good link
which told me when you run
hg push then the password that you will enter is not the same as the password you use on gmail.
excerpts from the above link
"This will prompt you for a user name and password, the password IS NOT YOUR DEFAULT PASSWORD. Go to your accounts hosting page to find it." the link to find your password ishttps://code.google.com/hosting/settings
In case you enter user gmail username password you will get following error
abort: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
Now things should work well for you.
Let me know via your comments if you know any more information.
Most of the guides I read were highly time consuming and did not talked to the point things.


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Mayo study seeks to pretreat Alzheimer's disease
The day is coming when doctors will be able to diagnose and treat Alzheimer's disease before people have symptoms, and Ronald Petersen is among the doctors laying the groundwork for that future.
Petersen is director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, which is using detailed tests to monitor cognitive changes in older adults from Olmsted County, Minn., as they age.
He discussed the early results of the study recently at a talk sponsored by several programs at the University of Pennsylvania, including the Penn Memory Center.
Among some puzzling findings, the Mayo doctors have learned that a fair number of patients look cognitively impaired one year and fine the next. They're still at higher risk for dementia than people who have never shown mild cognitive impairment, a stage that often precedes Alzheimer's.
More surprising, a high percentage of people with mild cognitive impairment had evidence of structural degeneration in their brains but not of abnormal deposits of amyloid, a hallmark protein found in Alzheimer's disease.
This is important, Petersen said, because drug firms are trying to develop drugs that target amyloid. So far, they haven't proven effective. It's important, he said, that such drugs be tested in the right people.
The Mayo study, which includes 4,000 people, began in 2004 with participants above age 70 who did not have dementia. In 2011, the minimum enrollment age was dropped to 50.
Scientists believe that the "preclinical" phase of Alzheimer's – the period when errant proteins are accumulating and the brain is changing but there are no symptoms – may last 15 years.
The goal is to diagnose and treat people before their brains are irreparably damaged. Doctors can't do that yet, but researchers are studying how brain images and tests of spinal fluid correlate with changes in thinking and memory.
An earlier study of the Mayo group found that about 16 percent of those ages 70-89 had mild cognitive impairment.
Petersen said about half of patients without physical evidence of disease tested normal a year later while 8 percent progressed to dementia. Seventeen percent of patients who had signs of amyloid deposition and structural brain changes progressed to a dementia diagnosis in a year, while only 5 percent returned to normal. The patients who had apparent neurodegeneration progressed at the highest rate – 22 percent – and also returned to normal at the highest rate – 36 percent. "There's a lot of bounce here," Petersen said.
Petersen foresees a time when a dementia diagnosis will be more complicated than it is now. It will include information on which proteins have gone awry, genetics, and other medical problems. All of that will allow for more targeted treatments, and it may mean that people who are now said to have Alzheimer's disease will get a different diagnosis.
Mayo doesn't tell study participants what all of its tests are finding, although it will share tests with their doctors if patients want it. "It's research information," he said. "We don't know what it means."


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The beauty of nature is often taken for granted and through sheer chance I stumbled upon the media of cracking medium, which allowed me to portray the natural landscape in an abstract and simplistic manner. Each tile replicates the interwoven nature of colour and pattern of the vast and ever-changing Australian environment. I chose to use a patchwork-like design to tantalise the senses, attempting to evoke a memory with each tile, associated with the physical panorama of the time, looking for the ghosts of each individual past.


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When people sit down with their retirement advisor to sign up for their 401(k) or other retirement plan, they often think it's just a matter of signing a few documents and deciding how much to have held out of their check each pay period.
Then, when the advisor shows them a plethora of investment options, they lock down. They're unsure which one is the right one and, often, they have a sense that if they choose the wrong one, they're either going to get ripped off or that they're going to have really poor investment returns.
Often, they go into lockdown. They put the papers aside for "later," then never return to it.
I've known several people who have followed this exact path (one of them is pictured below), and had hundreds of readers email me with a similar story. It's a financial mistake to not start saving for retirement immediately, but in this situation, it's a bit understandable.
Fortunately, there's a simple recipe you can follow that will help you pick at least a very good retirement option among the ones offered, if not the best one.
The first thing I'd do is look for a "target retirement" fund. These are special investments that are specifically designed for people who are aiming to retire in a specific year. For example, you might see a "Target Retirement 2040" fund, designed for people who are aiming to retire in or near 2040.
The way these funds work is that when the "target" year is far away, the funds are mostly invested in stocks. Stocks earn a very nice return over a long period of time, but can be very volatile, meaning you don't want to hold many of them if you're going to need the money soon because the price might rapidly drop in the short term.
As that target date edges closer, the people who run the fund slowly move investments out of stocks and into more stable things like bonds and cash. Your money won't earn as big of a long-term return, but it won't lose much value, either.
These plans work really well for retirement savings and, as a general rule, I recommend them to everyone as their default choice for retirement savings. If your retirement plan has one, choose this.
What do you do if they don't have target retirement funds? Much like with the target retirement funds, you don't want to have everything in stocks and, as you move towards retirement, you want things to gradually be safer. Here's how I handle my own retirement savings in my account that doesn't have "target" funds.
First, I looked at the investment options and identified the investment in stocks and the investment in bonds with the most diversity. What you're trying to do here is find investments that have fingers in lots of different industries but aren't overloaded in any one particular industry. Usually, these are called something like a "total stock market" fund or a "total bond market" fund.
Next, I figured out my retirement age and the number of years until retirement. I was 25 at the time and I wanted to retire at 65. Thus, I had 40 years until retirement.
After that, I doubled the number of years until retirement. Since I had 40 years to go, the number I wanted was 80.
That number is the percentage of my savings I put into the stock fund. I put 80% of my savings when I signed up directly into the stock fund. The rest I put into the bond fund.
Every five years after that, I rebalanced things. I re-did the calculation (at age 30, that meant I had 35 years until retirement, which meant that I wanted 70% in stocks and 30% in bonds), and then I moved my retirement savings and contributions around until it matched the percentages I wanted.
Here's an example. Let's say at age 25, I started putting $80 a week into a stock fund and $20 a week into a bond fund. At age 30, the stock fund had $27,456 in it, while the bond fund had $6,344 in it. This was due to the gains earned during the five years of investing.
The total amount I had saved for retirement, then, was $33,800. I wanted 70% of that in stocks – $23,660 – and 30% in bonds – $10,140. The reason is that I was slowly making my retirement savings more conservative and less prone to stock market risk.
So, to make this change, I simply requested that I move $3,796 (the $27,456 I had minus the $23,660 I wanted) from the stock fund to the bond fund and changed my contribution to be 70% in stocks and 30% in bonds.
At age 35, I'll do it again.
The key thing is to not be afraid to invest. Don't put off investing because you're not sure what to invest in. Instead, make a sensible choice (using the guidelines I mention here) and start saving now. If you don't like the choice, you can always change it later, but you can't get back the months and years of not saving.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book "365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere. Images courtesy of Brittany Lynne Photography, the proprietor of which is my "photography intern" for this project.


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Earlier this week, we published a recap of our favorite Android Twitter clients. Some of our team members love the unique look of Falcon Pro, others the versatility of Plume, and others the simplicity of the official Twitter client.
These were the most popular choices, but there were a lot of other less obvious picks as well, ranging from the old and still excellent Twicca to the new and promising Robird. We realize the choice of a favorite Twitter app is unique for each of us, depending on our uses and needs, so that's why we ask you: what Twitter client do you use?
Earlier this week, Amazon announced that they were expanding the availability of their Appstore to 200 more countries, which brings them to an almost worldwide audience. Earlier, if you lived in an unsupported country, you had to resort to a few tricks to install the Appstore on your device, so thankfully, this will no longer be the case.
However, having used the Appstore for a while when it was first launched — especially because of the daily free app offer — I admit that it has lost its appeal and it's been ages since I've even bothered to install it on any of my devices. The main reason is that any app purchased through it requires the Appstore to be installed on your device to even work. That verification process annoyed me enough that I simply let go of Amazon's Appstore, purchased the free apps that I had gotten through it and that I needed from Google's Play Store, and never looked back.
Apart from owning a Kindle device, I see very few reasons one would use the Appstore, but I might be wrong. What about you? Do you use the Appstore on your non-Kindle devices?
Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of chatter about Google taking a step to unify their different messaging platforms into one. The rumors started solidifying last week, with screenshots and what seems to be a codename / final name: Babel. At the same time, we've also heard news that Google might be lining up to buy the popular messaging client Whatsapp, which was later denied by a spokesperson for the company. Then of course we saw the launch of Facebook Home along with its Messenger Chat Heads.
This whole "rush" towards messaging has us wondering about the platforms that you use to communicate with your friends and family. Are you still reliant on SMS? Have you moved towards traditional IM solutions like Google Talk or Facebook Messenger, or are you using the new solutions like Whatsapp, LiveProfile, and others? Or do you rely on a mix of services to connect with different people?
Earlier today, Connor shared with you the Facebook Home launch news in This Week in Android's recap. The new launcher should be available to some Android devices on April 12th, and its still unclear whether it will include all functionality — like chat heads and the notification tweaks — or just the launcher and app drawer.
This leaves me rather perplex. On the one hand, it's interesting to see someone taking a different approach to the Android home beyond widgets and launching apps. On the other, you might not benefit from the full experience unless you have dedicated hardware like on the HTC First.
Besides, it's still Facebook, which means that the experience will be reliant on your friends. If you have awesome friends who travel, throw parties and are always doing something interesting, then you'll probably love Facebook Home. But if your "friends" are just high-school acquaintances who post duckfaces, flood you with not-so-adorable kid photos, and chronicle every meal they eat, then you probably won't enjoy Facebook Home as much as Zuckerberg wants you to.
Will you give this new launcher a try? Or are you not the least bit interested in having Facebook as your home?
March was Customization Month on Android.Appstorm. Throughout the whole month, we shared with you all of our knowledge when it comes to personalizing your Android device. We wanted you to be able to design a homescreen like these with little effort.
There were tutorials about custom ROMs, themes, launchers, fonts; example usages for MultiPicture Live Wallpaper, UCCW and DashClock; awesome HD wallpapers, beautiful icons, and more — much, much more.
When we set out to plan this Customization Month, we wanted to bring you the best tutorials and roundups, without repeating our previous posts, or interrupting our regular coverage of Android apps and reviews. Did we succeed? Did you find this series helpful?
The Samsung Galaxy S4 was officially unveiled this week, and Connor covered most of the nitty gritty details in today's This Week In Android. As a Galaxy S3 owner, I was looking forward to the event, and rather intrigued to see what my reaction would be.
Prior to the announcement, I told myself that the only "valid" reason for me to sell my still mint S3 — that I bought for almost $600 last September — and buy an S4 is the presence of a dual-SIM slot. Any other reason, I argued with myself, would be weak succumbing to new gadget lust rather than genuine improvement to my usage.
While I was rather disappointed to see that the dual-SIM S4 version seems to be a China-only variant, I was almost as equally relieved to find that my S3 is still quite relevant. It will get some of the software updates that the S4 has, it's still one of the most popular smartphones on the planet and will be even more now that its price will drop, and it looks almost the same as the S4, meaning that I won't feel silly being a phone geek yet carrying outdated hardware.
However, that's not to say that the S4 is any disappointment in its own. The amount of better hardware that Samsung has managed to cram into the same footprint is impressive, the camera is better, the battery is bigger, and the processor and RAM have been bumped. Samsung also managed to add an InfraRed blaster and temperature and humidity sensors.
On the software side, Samsung distanced themselves from Android once again, adding more proprietary features. And while we could argue about the downsides all day, it all comes crashing when you're a geek and know how to install Custom ROMs. I currently run my S3 with AOKP — a stock Android ROM — but I can also switch to the default Samsung ROM, or to a Samsung ROM that's debloated and made to look like stock — Foxhound for instance. I would venture out that you'd be able to do the same with the S4, which means that you could either dip yourself into the Samsung services, or ignore them and stick to what you already use.
And eventually, the fact of the matter remains that Samsung will sell millions of Galaxy S4s. Will you be one of the buyers? Vote in the poll, and let us know your thoughts about the new Galaxy S device in the comments.
In today's This Week In Android installment, Connor pointed out that Android 4 — including ICS, Jelly Bean 4.1 and 4.2 — is now installed on more devices than Gingerbread, the previous king of Android versions.
It was bound to happen at one point, as more and more devices get released or updated with the new Android versions, and old devices stop being used. For example, I have 4 Android units, 2 of which are on ICS and 2 on Jelly Bean. There's no more Gingerbread in my life.
But what about you? Please vote in the poll, and make sure you enter multiple selections if you have several devices.
For a couple of years now, it has been quite apparent that form factor innovation has stalled in the mobile industry. Big candybar touch devices are the norm, with no sliders, clamshells, qwertys or any of the other wackier designs in sight. But that seems to be changing — or at least there are companies that are thinking outside the box again, most of them employing "dual screens" to innovate and step away from the touch slab.
First there's Asus and their Padfone lineup with the new member being the Padfone Infinity. It allows you to dock the phone into a bigger screen, transforming it into a tablet and letting you enjoy your content on a bigger screen. Then there's the YotaPhone that keeps the candybar form factor but slaps an e-ink display on the back for lower power consumption on notifications and reading. And last, there's the NEC Medias W that puts two touchscreens next to each other in a clamshell design, which is useful to run side-by-side apps, emulate a tablet UI with different fragments on the two screen, or simply put the keyboard on the second screen.
What do you think of these dual-screened devices? Are they interesting enough that you would consider buying them now? Or would you rather wait for the more established manufacturers to embrace them?
This week saw the announcement of HTC's flagship device for 2013: the HTC One. As Connor covered in today's This Week In Android recap, the One sports a mind-boggling display density — 468ppi, which is leaps beyond the 300ppi standard that Apple introduced for "Retina" displays. But that's not the only significant feature of the One.
Aside from the now obligatory processor and RAM bumps, the One features a new UltraPixel camera with optical image stabilization that captures a lot more light than a regular mobile phone camera. It also comes with dual front speakers for a sharper and louder sound, a built-in InfraRed port that allows you to remote control your TV, and packs it all in a full metal body with glare and scratch-resistant glass.
On the software front, there's BlinkFeed on the homescreen that pulls data from your important services and sites, and Zoe that brings your Gallery to life by making any photo you capture into a 3-second video with 20 separate frames.
HTC is definitely hoping that this will be the One device to save it from the downward sales and marketshare spiral it's been in over the past year. But will all of it be enough to make the One your One phone? Alright, no more puns. Wait, One more! OK, I'm done.
When it comes to pampering yourself with nice things, I'm all up for it. Clothes, accessories, cars, electronics,… if you have the money, why not get the best? But that's the thing with luxury, most items aren't really "the best". They're the most flashy, expensive, refined, and even ridiculous, but certainly not the best. So I draw a line between luxury and value.
That's why I find the newly announced 10,000$ Vertu Ti rather ludicrous. I know this kind of device isn't made for people who care about specs, but a WVGA screen and — most importantly — Ice Cream Sandwich? This phone is already two Android versions behind and will soon be even more outdated. Plus, the only selling point other than the build materials is the concierge feature. I would expect people who have 10,000$ lying around to already have a concierge at their disposal.
As Connor pointedly remarked when covering the news in his column, you could buy 33 Nexus 4s for the price of one Vertu Ti. But as luck would have it, there are people out there who have the kind of money that allows them to purchase this Vertu, try the Concierge feature a couple of times for fun, and either only take the Ti out with them to red carpet and socialite events while they use another phone daily, or use the it daily for calls and messages only.
Personally, at the rate technology is going, I think that's a waste of Titanium — and human resources. As for the ten grand? I would consider paying that amount money for a 1cm thick phone that has a 1080p screen that works with gloves, a 40MP camera with Xenon flash, a 6000mAh battery and an octa-core processor, with the promise of instant updates to the next 10 versions of Android. That's true luxury if you ask me, but one can only dream.


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Actress Olivia Wilde has taken aim at the media for turning candid comments she made about her sex life at a New York event into headline news, insisting it was all part of a performance art piece.
The "TRON: Legacy" beauty took part in Glamour magazine's These Girls event on Tuesday and appeared to openly discuss her lack of sex towards the end of her eight-year marriage to Italian prince Tao Ruspoli, who she divorced last year.
She told attendees, "I felt like my vagina died. Turned off. Lights out… And you can lie to your relatives at Christmas dinner and tell them everything on the home front is just peachy. But you cannot lie to your vagina."
Wilde revealed she even considered embarking on a same-sex love affair to experience "a soft kind of lesbian relationship, just gentle kissing and scissoring", but she dismissed the idea as soon as she met new boyfriend Jason Sudeikis late last year .
She confessed to falling "blissfully, hopefully and wildly in love" with the "Horrible Bosses" star, who she recently moved in with, and credited the comedian with giving her a new appetite for sex, revealing, "We have sex like Kenyan marathon runners."
However, Wilde took to her Twitter blog after the event to explain that her comments were all part of a performance art piece, and shouldn't be taken at face value.
She wrote, "The 'These Girls' monologues at Joe's Pub were not meant for publication, and, in context, were a celebration of LOVE, girls, and honesty. Sneaky recorders are everywhere these days, but performance art doesn't always translate accurately to tabloid interpretation."


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Erich von Manstein wrote:Maybe someone knows more about this?
Will we get one or more of the "missing" AoT sets finally?
6147 - Soviet 120mm mortar with crew
6174 - British Staff
6182 - German anti-tank team
6194 - German snipers
6189 - RAF ground personnel
6217 - British 25-pound howitzer with crew
MicroWorld wrote:German anti-tank team and German snipers are announced. But they have new catalogue indexes: 6216 and 6217. Seems these sets willbe made only to correct disbalance in game: soviet side already has snipers and AT-team. That's why 120mm mortar is not awaited. And no britains: Zvezda's manager said long ago that they will not develop british line. As well as whole "Hot War" - neither Soviet nor American figures.
MicroWorld wrote:Three new battle sets are 3 parts of "Berlin operation":
6235 - "Crossing of Oder"
6236 - "Zeelov hills"
6237 - "Assault of Berlin"
It will be small battlesets. Idea is: to force wargamers buy 3 boxes (for 3 prices) if they want to receive one full game.
Erich von Manstein wrote:Good to hear that the 2 AoT sets are still announced at least. Couldn't find them in 2018 catalogue though?
MicroWorld wrote:Middle of page 64:
Impossible! They have some kind of irrational hatred to traditional ("large") sets of figures. On Zvezda'z forum we permanently ask them to revitalize this format. For example: to make modern russian soldiers (not exists in plastic). To be correct: "we askED them...". But in 2016 they cancelled even mini-sets (these two the last sets changing nothing) . So no hope...Erich von Manstein wrote:Now, could somebody please convince the misguided Zvezda management to return to 1/72 in grand style!
Zed1 wrote: at the late part of WW2 (which the campaigns and the tank models seem to represent, anti-tank-rifles had long be obsolete because they became insufficient against state-of-the-art tanks of that time.
Arkoudaki wrote:Hope someone can address my Pz IV Ausf H question....
Arkoudaki wrote:On the Modern Russian Army, I don't get why Zvezda hasn't done a box of these. Aside from told ESCI figs (suitable for Afghanistan), the only other modern Russians are the Orions ones for Chechyna, and they are nice.


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Ran Fa Li/Walkthrough
The following is a walkthrough for the mission Ran Fa Li in GTA San Andreas.
Drive through the red marker at the airport, and into the underground car park. Follow the blue blip on the radar, and get inside the Manana. Not surprisingly, it's an ambush and the Da Nang Boys are covering the exits.
Kill the gangster that exits the van blocking the exit. Squeeze through the gap between the van and the wall, and speed towards the main exit. A damage bar appears on-screen for the vehicle. If the car explodes, the mission is failed. As you exit the car park, turn left and another Vietnamese gangster will attack. Simply drive over him. There is another van up ahead, with two gangsters standing at each side. Drive around the van and continue heading towards the exit. As you leave the airport, more Da Nang Boys will follow, this time on a bike. Go onto the freeway, and follow the blip to reach your destination. As you drive from one end of the city to the other, more Da Nang Boys will follow, on bikes and in cars. Don't fight back just yet and focus on your destination. When you finally reach the garage in Esplanade North, stop in the red marker.


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In Search of the Novel: Ten Novels
by Mary Shelley
Rescued from the polar wastes by Robert Walton, an obsessed young English explorer, Victor Frankenstein tells him his terrible life story. As a brilliant student growing up in Switzerland, he excelled as a student of natural science. After discovering the terrible secret of creating life, the young scientist assembled the necessary parts from local butcher shops and dissecting rooms to create
a living, eight-foot-tall creature. As Victor questioned his actions, he became sick with fright at the sight of the creature and fled. Soon, news came that his brother William had been strangled. Justine, a family servant, was convicted of the crime. Victor later learned that it was the creature, whose hideousness had separated him from human friendship and kindness, who had killed William.
The creature demanded that Victor create a companion for him. Victor reluctantly agreed, but he later reneged. A second and then a third murder followedVictors friend and, later, Victors bride. Racked by guilt and grief Victor travels to the polar north, where he dies in pursuit of the creature he created.
On an evening in Switzerland in 1816, there had been a philosophical discussion about science and the beginnings of life with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. There had been a challenge: a horror-writing contest. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is the result. Written when she was only nineteen, Frankenstein has entered the language and culture as a tale of warning to the modern world and its unthinking faith in science. Dr. Frankenstein attempts to satisfy his ambitions and to broaden human knowledge, but he brings only a curse. In her 1910 essay, Clara H. Whitmore writes that the monster created by Frankenstein is closely related to our own human nature. My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, he says, and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture. There is a wonderful blending of good and evil in this demon, and, while the magnitude of his crimes makes us shudder, his wrongs and his loneliness awaken our pity.
Web Sites
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
An online "exhibit" at the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Web site.
- Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Many links related to Frankenstein and Mary Shelley.


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Project reason – The population ageing and the role of Volunteering Associations
Nowadays, governments and civic society are searching for new policies and common answers to face one of the most profound social transformations: the population ageing. Although the structure of age pyramid in the EU Member States and Candidate Countries and Potential Candidate Country varies, this shift has been deeply impacting on the social and economic spheres of every region in Adriatic area. Besides the continuously increase of average life age, what is a major achievement in the recent past, at the same time it leads to additional strain on the economy, society and sustainability of public finances. The population aging threatens process of institutional capacities of public, private profit and non - profit institutions / organizations in countries in Adriatic area.
Recognizing these common challenges, through the cooperation of 13 partners from 6 countries included in the IPA Programme area, the NET–Age project aims at strengthening the development capabilities of the Adriatic regions involved and the demographic process focusing on innovative social and health services to favour active ageing and independent living of elderly.
NET-Age project - Promote regional social development encouraging NETworking of relevant publicvolunteering stakeholders to boost innovation in the delivering social-health-care services for AGEing people - aims to improve the coordination among public - private stakeholders to overcome obstacles in the field of elderly assistance, encouraging them to work in partnership at local and Adriatic level and deliver innovative social - health services for ageing people to guarantee active, healthy and independently ageing; to increase the sustainability of social-health systems maintaining a balance among quality of services-reasonable level of expenditure-equal access; to foster the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as new approach in the definition and programming of social-health policies; to increase and favour the development of capacities, competences and skills of public institution and CSO staff; and finally to enhance the level of awareness and information on the services and policies target to elderly, the role of volunteering in each territory and at Cross Border.
In this way, NET-Age actively contributes to strength democratic process and institutional capacity building activities. In the same time, project activities reduce the territorial inequalities among countries thus promoting Adriatic Cross - border networks of stakeholders as stable framework for cooperation, exchange of experience and transfer of competencies strengthening the process of forming Adriatic Ionian Macro Region.
Total budget of Net-Age project is € 1.880.437,49 and it will be implemented until May 2015.
Welcome to the NET-Age - Promote regional social development encouraging NETworking of relevant public volunteering stakeholders to boost innovation in the delivering social-health-care services for AGEing people - website, a 32 months project co-financed by the IPA CBC Adriatic Programme.
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