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Avian influenza
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Avian influenza — known informally as avian flu or bird flu — refers to "influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds."[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] The version with the greatest concern is highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
"Bird flu" is a phrase similar to "swine flu," "dog flu," "horse flu," or "human flu" in that it refers to an illness caused by any of many different strains of influenza viruses that have adapted to a specific host. All known viruses that cause influenza in birds belong to the species influenza A virus. All subtypes (but not all strains of all subtypes) of influenza A virus are adapted to birds, which is why for many purposes avian flu virus is the influenza A virus. (Note, however, that the "A" does not stand for "avian").
Adaptation is not exclusive. Being adapted toward a particular species does not preclude adaptations, or partial adaptations, toward infecting different species. In this way, strains of influenza viruses are adapted to multiple species, though may be preferential toward a particular host. For example, viruses responsible for influenza pandemics are adapted to both humans and birds. Recent influenza research into the genes of the Spanish flu virus shows it to have genes adapted to both birds and humans, with more of its genes from birds than less deadly later pandemic strains.
While its most highly pathogenic strain (H5N1) had been spreading throughout Asia since 2003, avian influenza reached Europe in 2005, and the Middle East, as well as Africa, the following year.[8] On January 22, 2012, China reported its second human death due to bird flu in a month following other fatalities in Vietnam and Cambodia.[9] Companion birds in captivity and parrots are highly unlikely to contract the virus, and there has been no report of a companion bird with avian influenza since 2003. Pigeons do not contract or spread the virus.[10][11][12] 84% of affected bird populations are composed of chicken and farm birds, while the 15% is madeup of wild birds according to capture-and-release operations in the 2000s, during the SARs pandemic. The first deadly Canadian case was confirmed on January 3, 2014.[13]On December 2, 2014, two turkey farms in British Columbia, Canada, had been placed under quarantine after the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed an avian flu outbreak [14]
- HA: (hemagglutinin): Avian influenza HA viruses bind alpha 2-3 sialic acid receptors, while human influenza HA viruses bind alpha 2-6 sialic acid receptors. Swine influenza viruses have the ability to bind both types of sialic acid receptors. Hemagglutinin is the major antigen of the virus against which neutralizing antibodies are produced, and influenza virus epidemics are associated with changes in its antigenic structure. This was originally derived from pigs, and should technically be referred to as "pig flu" [15]
There are many subtypes of avian influenza viruses, but only some strains of five subtypes have been highly pathogenic in humans. These are types H5N1, H7N3, H7N7, H7N9, and H9N2.[16] At least one person, an elderly woman in Jiangxi Province, China, died of pneumonia in December 2013 from the H10N8 strain, the first human fatality confirmed to be caused by that strain.[17]
Contraction/spreading of avian influenza
Most human contractions of the avian flu are a result of either handling dead infected birds or from contact with infected fluids. While most wild birds mainly have only a mild form of the H5N1 strain, once domesticated birds such as chickens or turkeys are infected, it could become much more deadly because the birds are often within close contact of one another. There is currently a large threat of this in Asia with infected poultry due to low hygiene conditions and close quarters. Although it is easy for humans to become infected from birds, it's much more difficult to do so from human to human without close and lasting contact.
Spreading of H5N1 from Asia to Europe is much more likely caused by both legal and illegal poultry trades than dispersing through wild bird migrations, being that in recent studies, there were no secondary rises in infection in Asia when wild birds migrate south again from their breeding grounds. Instead, the infection patterns followed transportation such as railroads, roads, and country borders, suggesting poultry trade as being much more likely. While there have been strains of avian flu to exist in the United States, such as Texas in 2004, they have been extinguished and have not been known to infect humans.
Examples of avian influenza A virus strains:[18]
| HA subtype
| NA subtype
|Avian influenza A viruses
|A/tern/South Africa/300/77(H4N3)
|A/fowl plague virus/Dutch/27(H7N7)
|A/fowl plague virus/Rostock/34(H7N1)
|A/duck/Hong Kong/147/77(H9N6)
|A/duck/Hong Kong/147/77(H9N6)
Influenza pandemic
Pandemic flu viruses have some avian flu virus genes and usually some human flu virus genes. Both the H2N2 and H3N2 pandemic strains contained genes from avian influenza viruses. The new subtypes arose in pigs coinfected with avian and human viruses, and were soon transferred to humans. Swine were considered the original "intermediate host" for influenza, because they supported reassortment of divergent subtypes. However, other hosts appear capable of similar coinfection (e.g., many poultry species), and direct transmission of avian viruses to humans is possible.[19] The Spanish flu virus strain may have been transmitted directly from birds to humans.[20]
In spite of their pandemic connection, avian influenza viruses are noninfectious for most species. When they are infectious, they are usually asymptomatic, so the carrier does not have any disease from it. Thus, while infected with an avian flu virus, the animal does not have a "flu". Typically, when illness (called "flu") from an avian flu virus does occur, it is the result of an avian flu virus strain adapted to one species spreading to another species (usually from one bird species to another bird species). So far as is known, the most common result of this is an illness so minor as to be not worth noticing (and thus little studied). But with the domestication of chickens and turkeys, humans have created species subtypes (domesticated poultry) that can catch an avian flu virus adapted to waterfowl and have it rapidly mutate into a form that kills over 90% of an entire flock in days, can spread to other flocks and kill 90% of them, and can only be stopped by killing every domestic bird in the area. Until H5N1 infected humans in the 1990s, this was the only reason avian flu was considered important. Since then, avian flu viruses have been intensively studied; resulting in changes in what is believed about flu pandemics, changes in poultry farming, changes in flu vaccination research, and changes in flu pandemic planning.
Influenza A/H5N1 has evolved into a flu virus strain that infects more species than any previously known strain, is deadlier than any previously known strain, and continues to evolve, becoming both more widespread and more deadly. This caused Robert G. Webster, a leading expert on avian flu, to publish an article titled "The world is teetering on the edge of a pandemic that could kill a large fraction of the human population" in American Scientist. He called for adequate resources to fight what he sees as a major world threat to possibly billions of lives.[21]
Vaccines for poultry have been formulated against several of the avian H5N1 influenza varieties. Vaccination of poultry against the ongoing H5N1 epizootic is widespread in certain countries. Some vaccines also exist for use in humans, and others are in testing, but none have been made available to civilian populations, nor are produced in quantities sufficient to protect more than a tiny fraction of the Earth's population in the event of an H5N1 pandemic outbreak. The World Health Organization has compiled a list of known clinical trials of pandemic influenza prototype vaccines, including those against H5N1.
The highly pathogenic influenza A virus subtype H5N1 is an emerging avian influenza virus that has been causing global concern as a potential pandemic threat. It is often referred to simply as "bird flu" or "avian influenza", even though it is only one subtype of avian influenza-causing virus.
H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in a growing number of countries throughout Asia, Europe, and Africa. Health experts are concerned that the coexistence of human flu viruses and avian flu viruses (especially H5N1) will provide an opportunity for genetic material to be exchanged between species-specific viruses, possibly creating a new virulent influenza strain that is easily transmissible and lethal to humans. The mortality rate for humans with H5N1 is 60%.
Since the first H5N1 outbreak occurred in 1987, there has been an increasing number of HPAI H5N1 bird-to-human transmissions, leading to clinically severe and fatal human infections. Because a significant species barrier exists between birds and humans, though, the virus does not easily cross over to humans, though some cases of infection are being researched to discern whether human to human transmission is occurring.[19] More research is necessary to understand the pathogenesis and epidemiology of the H5N1 virus in humans. Exposure routes and other disease transmission characteristics, such as genetic and immunological factors that may increase the likelihood of infection, are not clearly understood.[22]
On January 18, 2009, a 27-year-old woman from eastern China died of bird flu, Chinese authorities said, making her the second person to die from the deadly virus at that time. Two tests on the woman were positive for H5N1 avian influenza, said the ministry, which did not say how she might have contracted the virus.[23]
Although millions of birds have become infected with the virus since its discovery, 359 humans have died from the H5N1 in twelve countries according to WHO data as of August 10, 2012.[24]
The avian flu claimed at least 300 humans in Azerbaijan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Laos, Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. Epidemiologists are afraid the next time such a virus mutates, it could pass from human to human; however, the current A/H5N1 virus does not transmit easily from human to human. If this form of transmission occurs, another pandemic could result. Thus, disease-control centers around the world are making avian flu a top priority. These organizations encourage poultry-related operations to develop a preemptive plan to prevent the spread of H5N1 and its potentially pandemic strains. The recommended plans center on providing protective clothing for workers and isolating flocks to prevent the spread of the virus.[25]
The Thailand outbreak of avian flu caused massive economic losses, especially among poultry workers. Infected birds were culled and slaughtered. The public lost confidence with the poultry products, thus decreasing the consumption of chicken products. This also elicited a ban from importing countries. There were, however, factors which aggravated the spread of the virus, including bird migration, cool temperature (increases virus survival) and several festivals at that time.[26]
Influenza A virus subtype H7N9 is a novel avian influenza virus first reported to have infected humans in 2013 in China.[27] Most of the reported cases of human infection have resulted in severe respiratory illness.[28] In the month following the report of the first case, more than 100 people had been infected, an unusually high rate for a new infection; a fifth of those patients had died, a fifth had recovered, and the rest remained critically ill.[29] The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified H7N9 as "...an unusually dangerous virus for humans."[30] As of June 30, 133 cases have been reported, resulting in the deaths of 43.
Research regarding background and transmission is ongoing.[31] It has been established that many of the human cases of H7N9 appear to have a link to live bird markets.[32] As of July, there has been no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission, however a study group headed by one of the world's leading experts on avian flu reported that several instances of human-to-human infection are suspected.[33] It has been reported that H7N9 virus does not kill poultry, which will make surveillance much more difficult. Researchers have commented on the unusual prevalence of older males among H7N9-infected patients.[34] While several environmental, behavioral, and biological explanations for this pattern have been proposed,[35] as yet, the reason is unknown.[36] Currently no vaccine exists, but the use of influenza antiviral drugs known as neuraminidase inhibitors in cases of early infection may be effective.[37]
The number of cases detected after April fell abruptly. The decrease in the number of new human H7N9 cases may have resulted from containment measures taken by Chinese authorities, including closing live bird markets, or from a change in seasons, or possibly a combination of both factors. Studies indicate that avian influenza viruses have a seasonal pattern, thus it is thought that infections may pick up again when the weather turns cooler in China.[38]
In domestic animals
Several domestic species have been infected with and shown symptoms of H5N1 viral infection, including cats, dogs, ferrets, pigs, and birds.[39]
Attempts are made in the United States to minimize the presence of HPAI in poultry through routine surveillance of poultry flocks in commercial poultry operations. Detection of a HPAI virus may result in immediate culling of the flock. Less pathogenic viruses are controlled by vaccination, which is done primarily in turkey flocks (ATCvet codes: QI01AA23 for the inactivated fowl vaccine, QI01CL01 for the inactivated turkey combination vaccine).[40]
A recent strain of the virus is able to infect the lungs of seals[41]
Avian influenza in cats can show a variety of symptoms and usually lead to death. Cats are able to get infected by either consuming an infected bird or by contracting the virus from another infected cat.
Influenza prevention
People who have fewer chances to contact with birds do not belong to the high-risk group of HPAI. If people take precautions correctly and be more careful, the chance of infection will be very low, even among farmers.
In the aware of bird flu pandemic, people should have careful thought to adopt suitable Infection Control Procedures. Try to avoid flu infection in any situation will be necessary. Protecting eyes, nose, mouth and hands from virus particles will be a major priority because these are the most common passageways for a flu virus to transfer into the body.[42] Bird flu virus particles may also be transferred through clothing or even shoes. The final step is people should always have sanitized hands in order to further reduce the chances of cross-contamination. Any unprotected clothing or footwear should be disinfected. Avoid contact with poultry, and maintaining good personal hygiene is very important, too. Someone who has normal flu should be more careful in avoiding contact with fowl because the epidemic situation will become even more serious if the receptor protein of normal flu and the genes of Avian Flu combine with each other.[42]
In popular culture
An episode of Angry Birds Toons had the nickname of the disease and has the birds and pigs sick.
See also
- Global spread of H5N1
- Health crisis
- Influenza
- Influenzavirus A
- Influenza pandemic
- Influenza Genome Sequencing Project
- Influenza research
- Influenza vaccine
- International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza
- OIE/FAO Network of Expertise on Avian Influenza
- Pandemic Preparedness and Response Act
- Subtypes of Influenza A virus
- Transmission and infection of H5N1
- ^ "Avian influenza strains are those well adapted to birds"EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL.
- ^ Chapter Two : Avian Influenza by Timm C. Harder and Ortrud Werner in Influenza Report 2006
- ^ Large-scale sequencing of human influenza reveals the dynamic nature of viral genome evolution Nature magazine presents a summary of what has been discovered in the Influenza Genome Sequencing Project.
- ^ Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Infection in Humans by The Writing Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) Consultation on Human Influenza A/H5 in the September 29, 2005 New England Journal of Medicine
- ^ The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? Workshop Summary (2005) Full text of online book by INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
- ^ [1] CDC has a phylogenetic tree showing the relationship between dozens of highly pathogenic varieties of the Z genotype of avian flu virus H5N1 and ancestral strains.
- ^ Hiromoto, Y.; Yamazaki, Y.; Fukushima, T.; Saito, T.; Lindstrom, S. E.; Omoe, K.; Nerome, R.; Lim, W.; Sugita, S.; Nerome, K. (2000). "Evolutionary characterization of the six internal genes of H5N1 human influenza a virus". The Journal of general virology 81 (Pt 5): 1293–1303. PMID 10769072.
- ^ Monke, Jim. "Avian Influenza: Agricultural Issues." CRS Report for Congress. RS21747. August 29, 2006.
- ^ China reports second bird flu death in a month - Health - Cold and flu - msnbc.com[dead link]
- ^ Rudi Hendrikx, DVM. "Avian Influenza in Pigeons" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-02-06.
- ^ Panigrahy B, Senne DA, Pedersen JC, Shafer AL, Pearson JE (1996). "Susceptibility of pigeons to avian influenza". Avian Diseases 40 (3): 600–4. PMID 8883790. doi:10.2307/1592270.
- ^ Perkins LE, Swayne DE (2002). "Pathogenicity of a Hong Kong-origin H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus for emus, geese, ducks, and pigeons". Avian Diseases 46 (1): 53–63. PMID 11924603. doi:10.1637/0005-2086(2002)046[0053:poahko]2.0.co;2.
- ^ "First Human Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Infection Reported in Americas". CDC. January 8, 2014. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ^ "Thousands of birds dead from avian flu in B.C.". CTV. December 2, 2014. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
- ^ Hiromoto, Yasuaki. "Evolutionary characterization of the six internal genes of H5N1 human influenza A virus". Journal of General Virology. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
- ^ Leong HK, Goh CS, Chew ST et al. (June 2008). "Prevention and control of avian influenza in Singapore" (PDF). Ann. Acad. Med. Singap. 37 (6): 504–9. PMID 18618063. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
- ^ "China reports first human H10N8 avian flu death - CNN.com". CNN. 18 December 2013.
- ^ Cox, N.; Kawaoka (1998). "22". In Mahy B. and Collier L. Topley and Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections. 1 Virology. Y. (9 ed.). Arnold. p. 415. ISBN 0-340-61470-6.
- ^ a b Blanchard, Ben. "China says son likely infected father with bird flu." Reuters 10 Jan 2008.
- ^ Chapter Two : Avian Influenza by Timm C. Harder and Ortrud Werner
- ^ Webster, R. G. and Walker, E. J. (2003). "The world is teetering on the edge of a pandemic that could kill a large fraction of the human population". American Scientist 91 (2): 122. doi:10.1511/2003.2.122.
- ^ World Health Organization. (2006). Avian influenza (" bird flu") – The Disease in Humans. Retrieved April 6, 2006.
- ^ "Bird Flu Claims More Lives In Shanghai". Forbes.
- ^ "Cumulative number of confirmed human cases for avian influenza A(H5N1) reported to WHO, 2003-2012" (PDF). World Health Organization. Retrieved 5 September 2012.
- ^ Kullman, Greg et al. (May 2008). "Protecting Poultry Workers from Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)". NIOSH Alert: Publication No. 2008-128. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Archived from the original on 10 January 2009. Retrieved December 18, 2008.
- ^ Tiensn, Thanawat et al. "Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Thailand, 2004.". Emerging Infectious Disease. 2005. CDC. 11 (11): 1661–1672.
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- ^ Gallagher, James (May 3, 2013). "Q&A: H7N9 bird flu". BBC News. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
- ^ Shadbolt, Peter (April 25, 2013). "WHO: H7N9 virus 'one of the most lethal so far'". CNN. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions on human infection with influenza A(H7N9) virus, China". World Health Organization. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- ^ "OIE expert mission finds live bird markets play a key role in poultry and human infections with influenza A(H7N9)". Paris: World Organisation for Animal Health. April 30, 2013. Retrieved May 2, 2013.
- ^ Study puts troubling traits of H7N9 avian flu virus on display (July 10, 2013)
- ^ Arima, Y.; Zu, R.; Murhekar, M.; Vong, S.; Shimada, T. (2013). "Human infections with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus in China: preliminary assessments of the age and sex distribution". Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal (WHO) 4 (2). doi:10.5365/wpsar.2013.4.2.005.
- ^ Skowronski, DM; Janjua, NZ; Kwindt, TL; De Serres, G (25 April 2013). "Virus-host interactions and the unusual age and sex distribution of human cases of influenza A(H7N9) in China, April 2013". Eurosurveillance (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) 18 (17). Retrieved 3 May 2013.
- ^ Experts: Past exposures may help explain H7N9 age profile, Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, University of Minnesota, April 26, 2013.
- ^ Schnirring, Lisa (April 1, 2013). "China reports three H7N9 infections, two fatal". CIDRAP News. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
- ^ Avian Influenza A H7N9 - CDC
- ^ National Wildlife Health Center, "List of Species Affected by H5N1 (Avian Influenza)," USGS 10 May 2010
- ^ Thacker E, Janke B (February 2008). "Swine influenza virus: zoonotic potential and vaccination strategies for the control of avian and swine influenzas". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 197 Suppl 1: S19–24. PMID 18269323. doi:10.1086/524988.
- ^ & Bronchioles. "Bird flu has jumped to baby seals, scientists discover". CNN. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
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Orent, Wendy. "The Science of Avian Flu, Answers to Nine Frequently Asked Questions." Discover. February 2006. 59-61.
External links
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- International
- United Nations System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza (UNSIC).
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- WHO Avian influenza resource
- The United Nation's World Health Organization's Avian Flu Facts Sheet for 2006[dead link]
- In-depth analysis of bird flu Symptoms & in-depth analysis on avian flu
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
- FAO Avian Influenza portal Information resources, animations, videos, photos
- FAO Bird Flu disease card
- World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)
- Current status of HPAI worldwide at OIE. WAHID Interface - OIE World Animal Health Information Database
- Disease card
- Avian influenza resource By Dr. Nati Elkin - Atlases, vaccines and information.
- United States
- PandemicFlu.Gov U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information
- CIDRAP Avian Flu Overview "Avian Influenza (Bird Flu): Agricultural and Wildlife Considerations"
- US Avian Influenza Response U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
- Avian influenza research and recommendations National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Influenza Research Database Database of influenza sequences and related information.
- Wildlife Disease Information Node A part of the National Biological Information Infrastructure and partner of the NWHC, this agency collects and distributes news and information about wildlife diseases such as avian influenza and coordinates collaborative information sharing efforts.
- Avian Influenza information AVMA - The American Veterinary Medical Association.
- Species Profile- Avian Influenza (Orthomyxoviridae Influenza Type A, subtype H5N1), National Invasive Species Information Center, United States National Agricultural Library. Lists general information and resources for Avian Influenza.
- Strategic Health Communication for Avian and Pandemic Influenza Prevention Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs Global Program on Avian and Pandemic Influenza.
- Avian Influenza: Critical Program Issues[dead link] Global Health Technical Brief on Avian Influenza.
- Europe
- Health-EU Portal EU response to Avian Influenza.
- Avian Influenza: Prevention and Control Proceedings of the Frontis workshop on Avian Influenza: Prevention and Control, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Avian Influenza: Questions & Answers[dead link] European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - Official website
- FluTrop: Avian Influenza Research in Tropical Countries French Agricultural Research Center for Developing Countries (CIRAD), Avian Influenza website


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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – The community said a very big thank you to the nation's armed forces with the dedication of the Freedom Courtyard at Central Park on Saturday.
Located at the northern face of the park's community and senior center, northwest of Base Line Road and Milliken Avenue, Freedom Courtyard is a monument and reflection area to honor American service members.
It was created and funded through the efforts of a number of volunteers, private donors and the city.
"So many people gave their time, treasure, hard-earned money and volunteer efforts," said Mayor Dennis Michael. "The city of Rancho Cucamonga is grateful to all who aided in making this project a reality."
Freedom Courtyard is expected to serve as a venue for Veterans Day and Memorial Day observances as well as be a place for people to honor and spend time with their loved ones who have served or are serving in the military.
Veterans and active service members now also have a place to reflect.
"It means all veterans will be remembered, past, present and future," said Jerry Doll, a Navy veteran and commander of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post 8680. "Their families will have a place to communicate centrally."
The site features a fountain surrounded by five granite pillars with the emblems of the nation's military branches. There are military flags, a flag retirement urn, and a memory box where people can write personal messages to friends and loved ones. The letters are never read.
"I think we need to have more of these because there are a lot of boys that gave their lives so we could have a good life," said 81-year-old resident Joe Guerrero, a Korean War Army veteran .
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Gold Star and Blue Star families as well as service members are honored at the courtyard by two 3-foot walls flanking the site's flags.
A highlight of Freedom Courtyard is a 6-foot bronze sculpture titled "Letters from Home" by Michigan sculptor Timothy Schmalz. It depicts a wife or mother looking out a window longingly for their on-duty loved one. On the other side of the window, a soldier in battle gear rests. The scene is framed through the wings of an eagle.
The monument and the dedication of the courtyard carries special significance for the mayor's parents, Lloyd and Marian Michael, whose wartime correspondence letters were stolen 40 years ago.
The Michaels' letters were returned to them by a Moreno Valley man shortly before they celebrated 70 years of marriage last month.
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His Excellency '''Hilarion (Alfeyev), Bishop of Vienna and Austria''', is a hierarch of the [[Moscow Patriarchate]], [[]], church historian, composer. Author of several monographs on dogmatic [[theology]], [[patristics]] and church [[history]], numerous articles in various languages, musical compositions.
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His Excellency Hilarion (Alfeyev), Bishop of Vienna and Austria, is a hierarch of the Moscow Patriarchate, theologian, church historian, composer. Author of several monographs on dogmatic theology, patristics and church history, numerous articles in various languages, musical compositions.
Hilarion Alfeyev was born on 24.07.1966 in Moscow.
From 1972 to 1982 he studied violin, piano and composition at the Moscow Gnessins School and from 1983 to 1986 at the Moscow State Conservatoire.
In January 1987 he entered the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilinius, Lithuania, where he was tonsured as a monk on 19 June, ordained deacon on 21 June and ordained priest on 19 August the same year. Until 1991 he served as parish priest in Lithuania, including two years as dean of Annunciation Cathedral in Kaunas.
In 1989 he graduated by correspondence from the Moscow Theological Seminary and in 1991 from the Moscow Theological Academy, with the degree of Master of Theology.
From 1991 to 1993 he taught Homiletics, Dogmatic Theology, New Testament Studies and Byzantine Greek at the Moscow Theological Academy, St Tikhon's Theological Institute and St John the Theologian's Orthodox University.
From 1993 to 1995 he studied at Oxford University (UK) under the supervision of Bishop Kallistos Ware. In 1995 he completed his doctoral thesis on 'St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition' and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
From 1995 to 2001 Hilarion Alfeyev served as Secretary for Inter-Christian Affairs of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. He also taught part time at Smolensk and Kaluga Theological Seminaries (Russia), at St Vladimir's and St Herman's Theological Seminaries (USA) and at Cambridge University (UK).
On 27 December 2001 he was elected Bishop, and on 14 January 2002 consecrated by His Holiness Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, and 10 other hierarchs. He served as an Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Sourozh in Great Britain until his nomination, on 17 July 2002, as Head of the Representation of the Russian Orthodox Church to the European Institutions in Brussels.
On 7 May 2003 he was appointed Bishop of Vienna and Austria, administrator of the Diocese of Budapest and Hungary, in addition to his position in Brussels, which he continues to hold.
Bishop Hilarion is author of more than 500 publications, including three monographs in English: St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2000), The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian (Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, MI, 2000), The Mystery of Faith. Introduction into the Teaching and Spirituality of the Orthodox Church (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2002).
Apart from his doctoral degree in philosophy from Oxford, Bishop Hilarion also holds a doctorate in theology from St Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, which was awarded to him in 1999. In February 2005 he was elected a Privat-Dozent of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
Bishop Hilarion is a member of the Executive and Central Committees of the World Council of Churches, of the Presidium of 'Faith and Order' Commission, as well as of numerous bilateral theological dialogues. In 1998 he headed the 5-member Moscow Patriarchate's delegation to the 8th WCC Assembly in Harare, and in February 2006 head the Moscow Patriarchate's 21-member delegation to the 9th Assembly in Porto-Alegre.
Bishop Hilarion is a permanent member of the Joint International Commissions for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, between the Orthodox Church and the Anglican Church, between the Orthodox Church and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
(Books only)
In English:
1.St Symeon the New Theologian and Orthodox Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
2.The Spiritual World of Isaac the Syrian. Cistercian Studies No 175. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 2000.
3.The Mystery of Faith. Introduction to the Teaching and Spirituality of the Orthodox Church. London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2002.
4.Orthodox Witness in a Modern Age. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2006.
5.Christ the Conqueror of Hell. The Descent into Hell in Orthodox Tradition. New York: SVS Press (in preparation).
In French:
6.Le mystère de la foi. Introduction à la théologie dogmatique orthodoxe. Paris: Cerf, 2001.
7.L'univers spirituel d'Isaac le Syrien. Bellefontaine, 2001.
8.Syméon le Studite. Discours ascétique. Introduction, texte critique et notes par H. Alfeyev. Sources Chrétiennes 460. Paris: Cerf, 2001.
9.Le mystère sacré de l'Eglise. Introduction à l'histoire et à la problématique des débats onomatodoxes. Fribourg: Academic Press, 2006.
10.Le chantre de la lumière. Initiation à la spiritualité de saint Grégoire de Nazianze. Paris: Cerf, 2006.
11.Le Nom grand et glorieux. Etude sur la vénération du Nom de Dieu et la prière de Jésus dans la tradition orthodoxe. Paris: Cerf (à paraître).
In Italian:
12.La gloria del Nome. L'opera dello schimonaco Ilarion e la controversia athonita sul Nome di Dio all'inizio dell XX secolo. Edizioni Qiqajon. Bose, Magnano, 2002.
13.La forza dell'amore. L'universo spirituale di sant'Isacco il Syro. Bose: Qiqajon, 2003.
14.Cristo Vincitore degli inferi. Bose: Qiqajon, 2003.
In German:
15.Geheimnis des Glaubens. Einführung in die orthodoxe dogmatische Theologie. Aus dem Russischen übersetzt von Hermann-Josef Röhrig. Herausgegeben von Barbara Hallensleben und Guido Vergauwen. Universitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz, 2003. 2. Ausgabe — Fribourg: Academic Press, 2005.
In Greek:
16.O agios Isaak o Syros. O pneumatikos tou kosmos. Athina: Akritas, 2005.
In Serbian:
17.Тајна вере: увод у право


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Wells Theatre Festival
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Friday 13th - Saturday 14th July 2018
The first Wells Theatre Festival will take place from Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 July 2018.
Wells Theatre Festival will present classic drama by well-known artists alongside exciting, emerging theatre-makers.
The festival starts with a community production of Romeo and Juliet, performed in front of Wells Cathedral on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th July.
Performances and workshops will take place in venues around Wells including the Cathedral Green, Wells Museum, Cedars Hall, Wells Alms Houses' Chapel, the Little Theatre and The Bishops Palace.
Oscar winning actress and national treasure, Dame Judi Dench and Director, Sir Richard Eyre are patrons for the festival.
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According To Lamar Smith, Data Or Criticism From Anyone Who Doesn't Like SOPA Isn't Valid
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After we summarized much of this research, Smith objected to Sanchez as an expert, saying in an email that because Sanchez is opposed to the anti-online-piracy act, he "cannot provide an objective or unbiased analysis." He stood by his CNN.com statement, telling us: "Since the U.S. is the largest producer of (intellectual property) that is consumed around the world, one can surmise that a significant amount of that total value is taken from the U.S. economy."First of all, what? Considering that the numbers Smith used came from industry lobbyists in favor of the bill, doesn't that mean that Smith should be objecting to his own numbers? After all, the source of those numbers -- the Chamber of Commerce -- "cannot provide an objective or unbiased analysis." Or perhaps Smith thinks that only those in favor of SOPA can provide such an analysis.
Either way, that statement is insane. Smith honestly seems to be saying that any information -- no matter how factual -- cannot be trusted if it comes from SOPA opponents. Why doesn't he have that same skepticism towards the data that the MPAA and Chamber of Commerce handed him?
Furthermore, his decision to stick by his comments is doubly insane. The fact that the US is the largest producer of intellectual property that is consumed around the world... does not, in fact, mean that any counterfeiting is "the total value taken from the US economy." Is this guy serious? PolitiFact flat out points out that it's false, with data to back it up, and shows exactly how Smith is blatantly lying about the data... and Smith's response is to restate the error and insist that the thing already proven false must be true?!?
Smith's constituents should demand better. Having an elected official who lives in a fantasy world where facts are ignored is not a good thing.


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The Shabbat Umbrella
February 21, 2014
Every week, Jody Hirsh, the JCC's Judaic Education Director, provides a Judaic message that is featured at the top of the JCC's weekly email newsletter. Below is the Shabbat message for Friday, February 21, 2014.
The Shabbat Umbrella
In the light of the odd rainy winter days we've been having, we might take a moment to consider the provocative issue of using an umbrella on Shabbat. In the orthodox world, most people feel there is no question: no one SHOULD use an umbrella on Shabbat. However... the matter has been historically a matter of some controversy. And... the arguments about umbrella usage can give us some insight into the intricacies of interpreting halachah (Jewish Torah Law).
The general consensus is that opening an umbrella is a violation of one of the basic 39 forbidden labors on the Shabbat: Namely "Boneh" building a structure. The building of the Tabernacle in the days of the Israelites in the desert was forbidden on Shabbat, therefore building anything is forbidden on Shabbat... building a house – forbidden; building the Temple – forbidden; even building a tent - forbidden. And what is an umbrella, if not a kind of tent? So... according to the consensus: no pitching of tents, and no unfurling of umbrellas on Shabbat. What if I opened the umbrella BEFORE Shabbat, you might ask, in preparation for the approaching storm? Well... not a good idea because of "ma'arit ayin" (appearances). People might see you with an open umbrella and assume you just opened it as you stepped into the rain. It would give altogether the wrong idea, because they wouldn't know that you opened up the umbrella in the rain on Shabbat.
There is another opinion, however, as you might imagine. According to the Chatam Sofer (German Rabbi, b. 1762) an umbrella on Shabbat is absolutely permitted! He ruled that the prohibition on building only applies to permanent structures, and an umbrella is, in fact, a temporary structure. Furthermore, it is not attached to the ground or nailed to a wall, and therefore should be permitted. Most orthodox Jews today, however, don't take the chance of siding with the Chatam Sofer.
My solution? A hat and coat. This solution also minimizes the risk of losing your umbrella.
Shabbat Shalom
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- It's November! Let's take a look at our monthly goals for October and set some new S.M.A.R.T. goals for November
- Have you been losing clothes at CFNE? Might be time to check the lost and found. Don't want to? Totally fine, I'll just wear every article of clothing and jump into a sauna. Actually that sounds terrible, please pick up your stuff from the lost and found.
- Looking to improve your Olympic lifts? Heck yes you are! Well you're in luck! November 9th Rick Stebbins is coming to CFNE for an Oly Workshop from 4pm-7pm. The price is $130 per person and will be capped at 10 people. The first ten people who email me at firstname.lastname@example.com will get a spot. This is a great chance to work in small group with an awesome coach. Click HERE for more information about Rick.
- The Red Sox won The World Series in case you've been living under a rock (I'm looking at you Patrick Star…little Spongebob humor).
- Did you miss Grace yesterday? Looking for something fun to do on Saturday? Head down to Reebok Crossfit One for the Pink Bra Tour!
Here's some information about Saturday at Reebok Crossfit One:
WHEN: November 2nd , 9am – 1pm (yes, we added an hour!)
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WHO: All CrossFit owners, coaches, members, kids, friends, and all loved ones!
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· Meet, greet and thank the Barbells for Boobs team as they wind up their cross country tour!
· Shop for Reebok CrossFit gear, including official Barbells for Boobs™ apparel!
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· Cheer on your kids as they compete in a "Burpee Grace" heat at 11:30am!
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"They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob,
When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job.
They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead,
Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread?"
One out of every 44 homes in the Las Vegas, NV metropolitan area is in foreclosure. [Vegas Inc] Nevada has a 13.4 unemployment rate. The Las Vegas area is still experiencing 14.2% unemployment, the Reno-Sparks area 13.2%, and the Carson City area 12.7%. [DETR] 115,745 children in the state of Nevada are living in financial strapped homes, with income below the 'poverty line.' [NCCP] 25% of those children are living in homes where there is a least one parent employed full time. 44% of the youngsters are living in homes where a parent is employed part time or part of the year. 32% are living in homes where a parent is unable to find work. [NCCP]
In 1995 the average median wage for Nevada workers who qualified for unemployment compensation under the terms of NRS 612 was $25,708, in 2010 it was $39,629. [DETR] Average median wages went up by $13,921 which would be a pleasant increase were it not for the fact that median wages were hard pressed to keep up with inflation during that period. [SSA]
Health care costs per capita for both treatment and insurance in the United States between 1970 and 2008 rose faster and higher here than in any other developed country. [KFF] Between 1982 and 2007 college tuition and fees increased by 439%, national median family income increased by 147%. [NYT]
In short, Nevadans and all other Americans, were "right on the job," trying to build their own American Dreams. So, why are 13.4% of workers in Las Vegas unemployed? Why are 115,745 children in Nevada living below the poverty line? Why is the prospect of an education — clearly linked to lower unemployment rates — becoming increasingly unattainable for American families?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;
Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Perhaps because, as the song says, we built things. We, as a country, built automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines, television sets. We manufactured tires, and carpets, and clothing, and toys. We built airplanes, and tricycles. We manufactured travel trailers and camping stoves. We built office buildings and bungalows. Why did we lose so many jobs?
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell,
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum,
Half a million boots went slogging through Hell,
And I was the kid with the drum!
What did we discover when unemployment for veterans was studied in 2010? "Young male veterans (those ages 18 to 24) who served during Gulf War era II had an unemployment rate of 21.9 percent in 2010, not statistically different from the jobless rate of young male nonveterans (19.7 percent)." [DoL] The AFL-CIO called unemployment among Iraq-Afghanistan veterans a 'quiet crisis, 'The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was 12.4 percent in July, up from 11.8 percent in July 2010. In August, the jobless rate for these veterans had dropped slightly to 9.8 percent, but it does not include veterans who are underemployed or have stopped looking for work." Why aren't there jobs for returning soldiers, sailors, airmen and women, and Marines?
Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time.
Say, don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?
What happened?
American workers didn't change. They are still capable of building railroads, office buildings, homes, and schools. They are still able to build automobiles, airplanes, and dining room tables. The workers didn't suddenly become unproductive, indeed American productivity has increased by 2.7% annually since 1987. [BillShrink]
If workers didn't change, what happened in the last three decades to alter the economic system in which we live? What happened to Free Market Capitalism that it could no longer channel savings into investments in American manufacturing, and long term American infrastructure construction and maintenance?
Tom Armistead, contributing writer for Seeking Alpha, has the answer: "Financialism is an economic system where the primary activity consists of creating and manipulating financial instruments." And the implications of this 'primary activity?'
"…financial instruments become progressively further removed from their role in supporting commerce in the real world and develop a life of their own, a weird shadow dimension, a hall of mirrors, a distorted alternate reality that intersects and reacts with the real economy in unpredictable and destructive ways. "
Ed Hess, writing for Forbes magazine, provides more specifics:
"Over the last 25 years American capitalism has become financialism, which is primarily transactional, unrestrained greed. Financialism embraces the view that the only purpose of business is to create shareholder value, measured primarily by short-term results. The dominance of short-termism is evidenced by the magnitude of institutional stock "renting" for terms of 12 months or less, the volume of high-speed, high-frequency algorithmic short-term trading, the short average tenures of chief executive officers and the dominance of executive compensation tied solely to short-term results."
Expressed more simply, when Financialism overtakes Free Market Capitalism there is less incentive for long term investment, for larger and more tangible results in construction, manufacturing, and transportation. There is more incentive for short-term trading profits, and far more propensity for volatility. IT becomes all about how much, how fast, and how profitably a person can make short term transactions.
"As financialism has come to prevail over the last 25 years or so, the economic condition of the U.S. has in many ways weakened, with middle-class income stagnation, increased income inequality, the exporting of jobs and our manufacturing capacity and increased risks of financial volatility.
I am concerned that the wise men of Wall Street have lost sight of or forgotten a fundamental point: that no economic system can survive if it doesn't produce reasonable results for most of its members. That doesn't mean income equality, but it does mean that the system has to work well enough to keep most of its citizens believing in it and playing in it." [emphasis added]
Suzanne McGee, a writer for Barron's, added her analysis in Chasing Goldman Sachs." Her version of Financialism emerges in the early 1980s:
"…beginning in the 1980s, several things happened that took Wall Street in a very different direction. One was the rise of a shadow banking system, in the form of hedge funds and private equity firms. These lightly regulated entities earned outsize returns by pursuing risky strategies that would have been unthinkable for most traditional Wall Street banks; over time, private equity firms and hedge funds became the Wall Street banks' best clients." [WaPo]
The drive for short term maximized profits defined by Armistead and explained by Hess, is further examined by McGee:
"The drive to maximize profits to shareholders, to improve the return on equity — the ultimate yardstick used when "chasing Goldman Sachs" — led Wall Street firms into all sorts of behavior that separated their best interests from society's. Whereas the earlier structure of private partnerships encouraged bankers to keep track of the overall risks their firms were undertaking, the growth and profit imperatives of shareholder companies meant one thing only: Make more deals to generate more fees." [WaPo]
In other words, when "manipulating financial instruments" becomes the primary activity, when it values short term gains above long term investment and stability, and when the drive for short term profits becomes the "ultimate yardstick," then the Free Market Capital system devolves from transferring wealth into productive investment to pouring paper into the shadows to make a quick profit.
Immediate "Shareholder Value" is better served by lowering wages than by investment in factory modernization. Immediate "Shareholder Value" is better promoted by off-shoring and outsourcing jobs than by training new employees. Immediate "Shareholder Value" is more rewarding when infrastructure expenses can be minimized.
Simon Johnson, former IMF chief economist describes this new Financial Sector:
"From 1973 to 1985, the financial sector never earned more than 16 percent of domestic corporate profits. In 1986, that figure reached 19 percent. In the 1990s, it oscillated between 21 percent and 30 percent, higher than it had ever been in the postwar period. This decade, it reached 41 percent. Pay rose just as dramatically. From 1948 to 1982, average compensation in the financial sector ranged between 99 percent and 108 percent of the average for all domestic private industries. From 1983, it shot upward, reaching 181 percent in 2007." [Atlantic]
However, the point is not that the financial sector grew — much of that can be explained by the demand for financial services in new markets overseas — but that along with the increasing share of domestic profits and copious executive compensation the financial sector has absorbed to itself an inordinate amount of political and economic clout.
"Over the past decade, the attitude took hold that what was good for Wall Street was good for the country. The banking-and-securities industry has become one of the top contributors to political campaigns, but at the peak of its influence, it did not have to buy favors the way, for example, the tobacco companies or military contractors might have to. Instead, it benefited from the fact that Washington insiders already believed that large financial institutions and free-flowing capital markets were crucial to America's position in the world." [Atlantic]
The mindset of American commercial interests evolved from "The Business of America is Business," to the Business of America is Banking. "What's good for General Motors is good for America" (Charles Wilson, Pres. GM 50 years ago) has become "What is good for Wall Street…"
Gradually becoming swamped by the Wall Street boosters of Financialism is the notion that the financial sector is only ONE part of our complete economy. It is an absolutely important sector, but so is manufacturing, and so is retail merchandising. Investment and finance has transformed from serving to channel funds into productive forms of business investment for its clients into a behemoth that primarily profits from proprietary trading for itself.
Why should the practitioners of Financialism be overly concerned with securing capital for factory expansion or modernization when there are more profits to be made in high volume trading? Why should our Financialists be concerned with small business lending when there is more profit to be derived from credit default swaps? The financial sector which once acted analogously to the heart pumping blood through the veins and arteries of American commerce, has reserved to itself the vital liquidity needed to finance American businesses.
And so, the bankers fight to secure Free Trade Agreements to facilitate the free movement of capital across borders, to repeal the modest financial market reforms in the Dodd-Frank Act, to prevent the full implementation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to prevent meaningful regulation of the derivatives markets, to allow the banks to regulate themselves and set their own standards for risk, and to reduce the effectiveness of outside oversight by the SEC, CFTC, and other regulators. What they are demanding is not Free Market Capitalism — it is unfettered unrestrained unregulated Financialism.
Free Market Capitalism invests in infrastructure. Free Market Capitalism requires a productive, healthy, educated work force. Free Market Capitalism demands maintenance, innovation, and expansion of its manufacturing base. Free Market Capitalism needs the savings of the work force. Financialism yawns and asks the adjacent trading desk, "Brother can you spare me a CDS?"
"Brother Can You Spare A Dime?" Songs of the Depression, CUNY.


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Bridging the gap at a stroke
"The patient is a 62-year-old professor of anatomy who was suddenly taken ill during a lecture-trip abroad."
'The patient' is also the author in this rather wonderful paper by Professor Alf Brodal, published in the journal Brain 40 years ago. It is called 'Self-observations and neuro-anatomical considerations after a stroke'.
"The present illness started suddenly when the patient woke up and turned in his bed on the morning of April 12, 1972. In the course of a few minutes an initial heavy, but uncharacteristic, dizziness was followed by dysarthria, double vision and a marked paresis of the left arm and leg. There was no loss of consciousness, no headache or vomiting and no stiffness of the neck. In the very beginning there were paræsthesiæ of the left side of the head, especially the scalp."
Brodal's first-hand account was cited in a more recent contribution to the scientific literature from a group of researchers including Janet Eyre, some of whose work we featured in our Focus on stroke series last year. In 'The myth of the 'unaffected' side after unilateral stroke: Is reorganisation of the non-infarcted corticospinal system to re-establish balance the price for recovery?', Eyre and her co-authors are particularly interested in Brodal's description of the effect of the stroke on his handwriting.
The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa. Brodal's stroke occurred in the right side of his brain so, being right-handed, he hadn't expected his writing to be affected: "[I]t came as a surprise to the patient that there were clear-cut changes in his handwriting after the stroke….
"There was a tendency for the lines of writing to be uneven or oblique, not horizontal, and the distance between the lines were often uneven. The shape of the individual letters tended to be more irregular than previously, they were less smooth, and the last stroke in the writing (up or down) was sometimes missed or it was incomplete or exaggerated. Furthermore, there was often dropping out of one or two letters or of a word, or a letter which should be doubled was repeated three times (lettter instead of letter). More often than before figures were interchanged, for example he wrote 46 instead of 64. These changes in his writing gradually became less marked, but they could still be noticed more than nine months after the stroke."
Brodal then spends several pages considering how damage to the right side of the brain could have an effect on the function of his right hand. A number of studies have followed over the decades, confirming the phenomenon but not fully explaining it. In December 2012, Eyre and her colleagues published evidence for at least part of the answer.
On balance
A stroke is caused by an interruption in the blood supply to the brain. It can be the result of a blood vessel becoming blocked (ischaemic stroke) or rupturing (haemorrhagic stroke). Either way, the result is that a part of the brain loses its blood supply and is rapidly damaged as a result. Often, the damaged area is entirely within one side of the brain, which leads to symptoms such as paralysis or weakness on only one side of the body.
But the brain is – to an extent – adaptable. After the initial 'brain attack', it can reorganise its neural circuits so as to bypass the damaged area as much as possible, rerouting connections between brain cells and restoring some of the functions that seemed to be lost or reduced just after the stroke occurred. However, such unilateral reorganisation of the brain would leave it in an 'unbalanced' state and it is possible that a lack of symmetry between the two sides of the brain hinders its ability to function. Eyre and colleagues propose that the undamaged side of the brain therefore also reorganises, to match as closely as possible the changes being made to repair the damaged side.
In their study, they report that stroke patients whose brains were more symmetrically organised (assessed at least 18 months after their stroke) tended to show better recovery. This suggests that the two sides of the brain reorganise in tandem. Even though this strategy can lead to additional impairment on the 'unaffected' side of the body – such as Brodal's unexpectedly affected handwriting – the overall effect is usually positive.
The findings suggest that stroke patients require rehabilitation programmes that consider both sides of the body, even if the stroke itself only appears to have damaged one side of the brain. Leaving out the 'unaffected' side risks allowing additional impairments to develop as the brain tries to keep its balance while fixing the stroke damage.
Know thyself
Reading Brodal's account of his own experiences of stroke, I was struck by two things: first, his sense of wonder and awe, even after a long and distinguished career as a neuroanatomist, at his own brain's complexity and capacity to heal; and second, his experience of the psychological effects of a stroke:
"In addition to the changes mentioned which can be objectively studied, the patient has found that destruction of even a minor part of the brain causes changes in a number of functions which are difficult to study objectively. They are, however, very obvious to him."
In general, such symptoms might include the loss of ability to concentrate, reduced short-term memory, fatigue, loss of motivation, depression and changes in personality. Stroke rehabilitation services are improving (thanks to research and the implementation of new tools, as I discovered last year) but it is still a significant challenge to identify and tackle these 'hidden' problems, which are often the most profound, debilitating and long-lasting effects of a stroke.
As Brodal put it:
"Even after ten months if the patient seems to be as he was, apart from his slight remaining pareses, he is painfully aware himself that this is not so."
Brodal A (1973). Self-observations and neuro-anatomical considerations after a stroke. Brain : a journal of neurology, 96 (4), 675-94 PMID: 4773860
Graziadio S, Tomasevic L, Assenza G, Tecchio F, & Eyre JA (2012). The myth of the 'unaffected' side after unilateral stroke: is reorganisation of the non-infarcted corticospinal system to re-establish balance the price for recovery? Experimental neurology, 238 (2), 168-75 PMID: 22981842
Professor Alf Brodal died in 1988, aged 78.


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We've been training, racing, and traveling much lately and took a break on Sunday in Portland to eat at Andina. The last course was this Peruvian Canoli that we shared. Moments like this we aren't concerned about what we were eating and staying in shape. Just enjoying it as a reward.
Crisp quinoa studded cannolis stuffed with passionfruit mousse, served with mango-lemongrass sorbet and caramel


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How much anime is too much?
When I first started watching anime I believe I watched 2 series back to back which took maybe a whole day? I remember I went to bed at 9-10am the following morning haha!
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I guess it all really depends on the anime. Like, some series only have about 11 episodes. I've watched an 11 episode series in a day. I think it becomes too much once it starts distracting you from things that you need to do, like get some sleep, haha.
Woah!! I'm Alive?!
when i was hooked on prince of tennis, which has 178 eps and more with ova's and the nationals....i watched 25 + eps a day...i lacked wayy too much sleep, started looking like a panda and falling asleep in my classes (surprising my grades didn't drop) and i would eat behind my pc, which i never used to do....so yeah i think that was too much anime for me
i love food O__O
I keep telling myself "Okay, now I've got enough." and then I find another... Oooops!
i accept your challenge..
Adults are just kids with money
when you stopped complaining about bad anime and you watch it for eye candy
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I only watch anime at night now. Whenever I'm tired, I stop. I probably watch about 13 episodes a day on average. Maybe less sometimes, but don't worry about how many I watch. I Love Anime! That's all there is to it. During the day, i probably watch anime like Gintama if I'm bored.
Btw: I used to spend 6 hours watching anime at night. Now i spend less xD
I watch more on weekends or a day off, but have a whole series(12 eps inone shot.It easier on CR because it rools into the next.
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I don't think there is such a thing really as to much, so long as it doesn't take over your life. Read, watch, enjoy!
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Haha I watch 12 episodes of anime every night... during the day like 24episodes......................
Never watch openings ever again! Too many spoilers in them...
You DO need to make sure it doesn't become your whole life! But, otherwise, watch away. Marathons are great because you sometimes pick up on nuances you miss from week to week. Personally, I had holiday responsibilities for 5 days, so I plan a butt numbing day to catch up. (Although I did manage to fit in the Eureka 7 episodes between baking and visiting family.)
I used to work night, so anime was a great way to stay awake. When you have to read the subtitles, it's easier to stay alert. Of course, that wouldn't apply if I was constantly active on that job. But, I worked for a call center and, some nights, it could be hours between calls. Crunchyroll made it easy to pause for a call.
No I'm not scared... I'm rationally concerned.
I used to follow up to 30 shows at a time. Now I can't even follow 10 different shows at a time anymore. I stick to just 5-6 at a time. How many episodes a day depends on the shows in question.
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As long as it's not interfering with your real life responsibilities, who cares? It's your free time spend it how you like! :)
I like that answer because i feel every has a responsibility to pull there own weight in life. when you live by yourself or with others its a rule. Like that anime Welcome to the NHK, shows you how some people end up as neet's in japan. i didn't know any thing about them in till i seen the anime and look it up online, really sad how bad some people get T-T
Like ShaneK1990 wrote: As long as it's not interfering with your real life responsibilities, who cares? On one of my days off on my old job i was going to go out for a bit when seen the 1st ep of Blue Exorcist and it suck me in. I watch all 25 eps that day till i fell asleep. Now that i drive trucks all over the U.S i don't get to watch like i use to. After i go to http://animazement.org con next year i'm looking for a local job. X3
I just watch how ever much i feel like that day.


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Vanaja is fifteen, beautiful and far too impulsive for her own good. In a seaside village in India's Andhra Pradesh state, trouble will find a girl like this and Vanaja meets trouble halfway. Ambitious to a fault, Vanaja talks her way into the household of Mrs. Rama Devi, the landlady who rules over the entire village.
Rama Devi is a past master of kuchipudi, a South Indian narrative dance usually reserved for highcaste Brahmins. Despite her social position, Vanaja is desperate to learn. She insinuates herself into the mistress's favor, but is undone when Shekhar returns to the household. He is the mistress's son, and reckless when it comes to women.
He takes advantage of Vanaja, leaving her pregnant. But Rama Devi is grooming her son for political office and will not abide a child born out of wedlock to a low-caste village girl.


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can not boot into safe mode at all.
pressing f8 get screen with all options selecting safe mode and then pc restarts normally.
tried run>msconfig>boot.ini>tick safe mode and then struck disaster
computer startted and then beause it couldnt boot in safe mode was constantly restarting.i couldnt go to last working configuration or anything so i had to reinstall the xp pro again
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Danny Gokey Gets Married
Congratulations to Danny Gokey and Leyicet Peralta, who tied the knot over the weekend. Gokey and Peralta announced their engagement just last month, and said "I do" on Jan. 29.
"We are so thankful to have found each other and now be able to spend the rest of our lives together," the couple told PEOPLE following their big day. "We pray our gratitude grows more every day because there is so much for us to do now."
The two exchanged their vows in front of about 100 friends and family members who attended the low-key ceremony down in Florida. "We wanted a smaller, more intimate wedding of just friends and family," the newlyweds said, adding the wedding's theme was "romance and love."
Following the nuptials, Gokey and his new bride celebrated their new title over a three-tier wedding cake of pure "chocolaty heaven."
This is the second marriage for the former 'American Idol' contestant. His first wife, Sophia, passed away in 2008 following a routine surgery for congenital heart disease. Gokey founded Sophia's Heart, a children's charity, in her honor. The newlyweds asked all gifts for their wedding to be made in a donation form to the charity.


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Careers at the Robert Koch Institute
Germany's national public health institute, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), is the primary agency for monitoring and maintaining the health of people living in Germany. Among its main responsibilities are prevention and control of infectious diseases and analysis of trends in public health. Among the RKI's hallmarks are professional and systematic exchange of knowledge, international cooperation and establishing networks. One of the RKI's key characteristics is identifying and mastering new challenges.
We are always seeking qualified and committed personnel to join us as we pursue these aims.
We are as diverse and varied as our responsibilities.
Around 1,150 people from about 90 different professions work for the RKI. Among them are scientists from a wide range of disciplines, medical documentation and IT specialists, technical and medical assistants, animal care specialists, administrative staff and many more.
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Bi-Regional Forum highlights priorities of the Americas
Improving the integration of renewables and increasing energy efficiency measures in the energy system of Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) were amongst the key messages that emerged out of the World Energy Council's 3rd Bi-Regional Forum for the Americas. The event, which took place in Cancun, Mexico, from 6 to 7 December, gathered more […]
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Details of Bolivian energy plan revealed at WEC Bolivia conference
Senior Bolivian government figures revealed further details for the country's new energy plan at a conference organised last month (22–23 August) by the Bolivian Chamber of Hydrocarbons and Energy (Cámara Boliviana de Hidrocarburos y Energía, or CBHE), the WEC Bolivian committee. Bolivia launched its energy plans last year in a bid to improve the country's […]
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Economic growth and sustainable energy need 'strong balance'
WEC chairman Pierre Gadonneix recently called for a "strong balance" between economic recovery and energy sustainability. On 12 June, he said at the International Economic Forum of the Americas that "sustainable growth needs a sustainable energy system." He told political and business decisionmakers at the Forum that this need is particularly strong given the backdrop […]
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Interview with José Antonio Vargas Lleras, WEC's Vice Chair for Latin America at Rio+20 Summit
José Antonio Vargas Lleras will be representing the WEC at the Rio+20 Summit this month. In an interview, he talks about energy for development, and what Latin America needs. Twenty years on from the first Earth Summit in Rio, how have the world's development challenges changed? The main result of the 1992 Earth Summit was […]
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Police: Teen girl vanishes from King City High School
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A 15-year-old girl went missing after she was dropped off at King City High School in King City Tuesday.
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Hey, gang! I know it's been a while, but I haven't forgotten you, I promise. I've missed you and I've missed blogging, so I was writing a quick book review over at Goodreads and saw that I could share it here. I thought that would be a good way to say Howdy here at the Yada Feast and restart our conversation (again). I hope you've been well and I also hope you enjoy this quirky little book review.
See you soon!
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
David Lynch shares insights into the creative process, film making and how meditation, specifically Transcendental Meditation, has helped to shape his work and his life. Catching the Big Fish is a little book with tight chapters offered in a Lynch-esque stream of consciousness style. Like tiny tasty bites in a modern gourmet restaurant, he feeds his readers interesting thoughts and insights, leaving us satisfied (perhaps even dazzled) but not quite full. Highly recommended for Lynch fans for fascinating tidbits of info about his films, and also for anyone seeking a deeper path into the creative process and life. Not recommended for folks who consider meditation, etc. "airy-fairy"--the book will likely annoy you. :-) The proceeds of the book go to the DavidLynchFoundation.org for education.
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HOW TO | Keep your skin in top form this winter
WITH EACH winter I plunge into a grumpy, hopeless state over what happens to my grown-up complexion, thus gifting me with my own special version of Seasonal Affective Disorder. I'm affected by the seasons, alright, but it's because of my seasonal skin problems not the lack of sunlight. Winter plunges me into despair with rosacea in full ruddy bloom, spots that never heal, skin that's dull and papery. Creams seem to be futile weapons against the onslaught of bone-dry air in my flat. I slather on a thick, butter-like layer before falling asleep and inevitably wake up to find that not only has my skin (and, yes, maybe my pillow case) drunk the entire lot, but it's still the same dry mess it was the night before.
Over the years, I've been honing my artillery of skincare weapons and this winter I'm ready to go to war with the weather to save my skin. Here are the best tips I've gleaned from the experts and my own trial-and-error experience over recent rosacea-afflicted years.
1. Vitamin C
A notoriously useful brightener and anti-oxidant, Vitamin C can take your skin from dull to radiant in seconds. The trick is actually finding Vitamin C that's in its active form – no easy feat (read more about that here). Most of the products touting Vitamin C have so little in such a degraded state that they're just paying this wonder-vitamin lip service and not providing you with a useful amount in any sort of useful form. Vitamin C should be stored in powder form (or another un-activated form) until used (to contain its potency or it degrades with speed).
2. Exfoliate
Do this a few times a week to rid skin of dead skin and debris build-up. A scrub is fine, so is a gentle peel, mask or liquid exfoliator with gentle acids or Vitamin A derivatives. They'll help keep your skin looking fresh even before you put on your skincare or makeup, which is the best sort of canvas to start with during any season. Plus – added bonus – Vitamin A creams and peels will help diminish fine lines.
3. Massage
While you're applying your creams, serums or oils, really massage them into your skin. It's a great way to get the blood to the surface of your complexion to create a healthy glow. And it feels good, relieves tension and means your really working in those products.
4. Highlighter
Many foundations and lotions now come filled with light-reflecting and brightening particles. Use these on well-moisturised skin instead of a tinted moisturiser or matte foundation. To make your own, add one part highlighting cream to two parts foundation (a non-drying formula), mix it in your palm and then apply it, starting at the center of your face and fanning outwards.
Product suggestion: La Prarie White Caviar Illuminating Cream
FIND OUT the other 5 winter skincare tips in my column at Looking Good No Matter What. Do you have any suggestions for keeping your skin in good form during winter months? Share them here!


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International experts are increasingly warning about the impacts of wireless radiation exposure to all of us, especially children.
Stephen Clarke protested Wi-Fi in his children's school in Northern Ireland. It was a peaceful protest to raise awareness to this issue.
For doing that, he was incarcerated at a psychiatric hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is being forcibly medicated. He has been held there for over 11 weeks.


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After watching linemates Terrence Cody and Brandon Deaderick get selected in the NFL draft this weekend, Lorenzo Washington had to wait until Sunday for his turn. The 6-foot-5, 290-pound defensive lineman agreed to terms on a free agent deal with the Dallas Cowboys, according to nfldraftbible.com.
Washington recorded 21 tackles (five for losses) and two sacks for the Tide last season. He joins tight end Colin Peek (Falcons) and linebacker Eryk Anders (Browns) in agreeing to free-agent deals, while linebacker Cory Reamer has accepted a try-out with the New York Jets.
Other former Crimson Tide seniors who could still catch on with an NFL club include kicker Leigh Tiffin, running back Roy Upchurch and safety Justin Woodall. Former Alabama linebacker Ezekial Knight, who finished his college career at Stillman after having surgery to correct a heart defect, is also looking for a free agent deal.
Lorenzo Washington agrees to free agent deal with Dallas
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