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UCSF study turns anorexia treatment on its head
(09-20) 08:05 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- When adolescents are hospitalized with anorexia nervosa, feeding their malnourished young bodies is of urgent importance. On the complicated path to recovery, gaining weight is a critical step.
But how hospitals approach that first step, called refeeding, has in recent years been subject to rethinking.
Now a quartet of studies to be published in the November issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health offers evidence in favor of a new approach - and suggests an emerging shift in the way hospitals approach treating the disorder.
Anorexia, an eating disorder typified by relentless pursuit of thinness, affects about 1 percent of adolescent girls in the United States, by some estimates. Weight gain is crucial in reversing medical complications of anorexia, such as confusion, sensitivity to cold and even failing organs, and in enabling the difficult psychological recovery that must accompany a physical one.
In refeeding, calories traditionally are doled out with caution, new patients starting with a low number that is then gradually increased. Pushing too much, too quickly could be dangerous, so the old wisdom goes, the sudden surge of nutrients putting a malnourished body at risk for a potentially fatal metabolic imbalance.
Post-war standard
The standard is rooted in post-World War II studies of Americans held by the Japanese as prisoners of war and reinforced in clinical guidelines from organizations like the American Psychiatric Association. It is typical for initial calorie intake to begin somewhere around 1,200 calories a day, about half of the recommended daily intake for an average healthy teenager.
Then in 2011, researchers at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital issued a challenge to that long-standing standard, suggesting instead that the "start low, go slow" method was inefficient, unnecessary and out of date. They proposed instead that most patients can start at much higher calorie levels.
"Those old guidelines are based on consensus, but they are not based on clinical evidence," said Andrea Garber, lead author of the 2011 study and an associate professor of pediatrics in UCSF's adolescent medicine division.
And, now, a new study from UCSF, published online Wednesday, took the initial findings one step further, enrolling a group of adolescents in a higher-calorie diet to compare with the first study's low-calorie diet. The new group gained weight faster and its members were released from the hospital sooner, with no cases of refeeding syndrome.
The study compared 56 adolescents, some starting at an average of about 1,800 calories while the other participants started at about 1,100.
The main difference: Those in the higher-calorie group left the hospital an average of six days sooner, were able to eat more and more each day and, therefore, gained weight at a faster clip. The old approach, the 2011 paper found, failed to produce necessary weight gains in the first days of hospitalization and resulted in lengthy hospital stays.
Another study from Stanford reached similar conclusions in an examination of electronic medical records from 310 adolescents admitted to Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
A third study examined a more aggressive refeeding program at a Canadian children's hospital and determined it was "effective, efficient and safe." Yet another, also from Canada, found retrospectively that a higher-calorie approach achieved fast, safe results when feeding patients with a feeding tube.
"I think what's really important here is before, there really hasn't been much research on how to refeed people with anorexia," said Dr. Walter Kaye, director of UC San Diego's eating disorder program, who was not associated with the studies.
Road to recovery
The new approach allowed Alexis McIsaac, to get out of the hospital and on the path to recovery sooner.
McIsaac, 17, of Petaluma was in and out hospitals, including UCSF's eating disorder program, five times between October 2011 and January 2013.
The experience was grueling. Eating again made her body reel and her emotions surge.
"It was one of the hardest things I've done," she said. "There's this voice in your head telling you not to eat."
But she did eat, the higher-calorie prescription no more a challenge than eating any amount of food would have been. Her body began to heal. She left the hospital stabilized, ready to tackle the months of work in therapy and at home that helped put her where she feels she is now, in grasp of recovery.
"UCSF didn't cure my eating disorder, but it did save my life," she said.
Moderate malnourishment
The new UCSF study only examined patients that were "moderately" malnourished. The Stanford study, though, looked at those who were severely malnourished and found that while risks of refeeding syndrome depend on the degree of malnutrition, they had nothing to do with the particular number of calories consumed.
At UCSF, the higher-calorie approach was first introduced in 2008. Since the 2011 study, increasingly other hospitals, like Lucile Packard, have begun to buck the standard.
"With this swirl of new studies," said Dr. Neville Golden, chief of adolescent medicine at Lucile Packard, "I think we will be able to change the existing recommendations out there."
Kristen V. Brown is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @kristenvbrown


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EasyGUI, in Python
EasyGUI is a simple GUI Module, Using Function Calls.
To demonstrate EasyGUI's power and ease of use, I'll show you how to make a program that I made for my purposes a few days ago: Diary.
Diary is a basic log writer, writing user input to a user chosen file, with extra functions to dump the whole file to the screen, clear the file, or exit (can't make the close button work. Derp.). Diary for terminal (or command prompt), will be included at the end, for servers/and people who like terminal.
First, Download easygui from http://easygui.sourc...e.net/download/
Next, the file containing all the functions, named Vars.py
from easygui import * # from the module easygui import everything(*)
def Ask(): fname = enterbox(msg='Filename: ', title='Filename', default='log.txt') #define the variable fname as the result of an enterbox, which takes user input. msg is displayed above the input area, title is the window title, and default is the default text in the box. def Clear(): # create a function called Clear f = open(fname, "w"); # open the file defined in Ask, in write mode. f.write("") # write nothing to the file, this works, because write mode replaces everything (append mode writes to the end.) def Dump(): # create a function called Dump f = open(fname, "r"); # open the file defined in Ask() msgbox(f.read()) # open a window, with the text of the file. def Post(): # create a function called Post f = open(fname, "a"); # open the file defined in Ask. message = enterbox(msg='Enter Message: ', title='Post', default=''); # Define message as the result of another enterbox. f.write("\n"); # write a newline to the file. f.write(message) # write your message to the file. def Die(): # Define the function Die. sys.exit() # Quit The Program. Ask() Execute Ask, because when imported into the Main File, it runs automatically.
And finally, The Main File, Named Main.py :
from easygui import * from Vars import * # Try this one yourself. msgbox("Hi") # Make a windows displaying Hi. msgbox("Welcome To Diary") # Make a window Displaying Welcome To Diary. choices = ["Post", "Dump", "Clear", "Close"] # create an array containing the button names. def Main(): # Define a function called Main, which is the main window of the program. choice = indexbox("", "Main Menu", choices); # choose the function, Returns 0 for Post, 1 For Dump Etc. if choice == 0: # If choice equals 0, then: Post() # Run Post. Main() # Return to the main window. elif choice == 1: # If the first if returns false, then check if choice equals 1, if so then: Dump() # Run dump. Main() # Return to the main window. elif choice == 2: # If the second if returns false, then check if choice equals 2, if so then: Clear()# Run clear Main()# Return to the main window. elif choice == 3:# If the third if returns false, then check if choice equals 3, if so then: Die() # Run Die, which closes the program. Main() # Run the Main window. ^ This was all one function remember.
Now go into terminal (or command prompt), and type "python Main.py", without the quotes.
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Up next, I will be submitting another chibi figure based on one of the characters from the new Legend of Korra series on Nickelodeon. Here is "how to draw chibi Bolin", step by step. For all you Korra fans out there you should know that Bolin is Mako's younger brother. He has almost the same characteristics of Sokka because his character too has a sense of humor as well as having a light heart when it comes to things. Bolin is also a ladies man, which explains the almost perfect hairstyle. Chibi Bolin is going to be one of the funnest Earthbenders you will draw from my chibi collection because he looks so good as a chibi. I bet this is what Bolin looked like as a kid, he still had the perfect hair, the cocky or confident look on his face, and the ladies still must of adored him. Anyways, this should be a simple lesson to tackle. Drawing chibi Bolin is going to be as easy as saying 1, 2, 3. I will be back in a few, but this time I shall return with a tutorial on another character from a popular video game. Peace out folks and enjoy!
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OCEAN CITY- A Worcester County grand jury on Tuesday indicted a local man on several counts of arson for allegedly setting the March 30 fire on the south end of the Boardwalk that consumed the Dough Roller restaurant and severely damaged the adjacent Marty's Playland.
The grand jury on Tuesday formally indicted Gregory W. Wallace Kern, 48, of Ocean City, with two counts of first-degree arson for allegedly setting the fire that destroyed the apartments over the businesses and two counts of second-degree arson for the businesses themselves. Kern, who was an employee of the Dough Roller at the time, was also charged with one count of reckless endangerment.
The Ocean City Fire Marshal's Office, with assistance from the Ocean City Police Department, conducted an extensive investigation in the weeks and months after the fire. At the conclusion of the investigation, the Fire Marshal's Office developed probable cause to believe Kern had set the fire to the Dough Roller and Marty's Playland.
The maximum penalty for each count of first-degree arson is 30 years in jail and a $50,000 fine. The maximum penalty for each count of second-degree assault is 20 years and a $30,000 fine. In addition, the maximum penalty for reckless endangerment is five years and $5,000. Kern was taken into custody by the OCPD and his being held at the Worcester County Jail. Bond was set by Judge Theodore Eschenberg at $50,000.


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Not to forget Batman & Spock
The infowars.com crew wanted some life size targets on a short notice and all the store had was Batman and Spock. So we made do with what they had. This was shot on my I phone from our editing studio in Austin TX. The new shooting show will air on Infowars nightly news in the next two weeks in two episodes. Find out more at prisonplanet.tv and GO liberty!!!


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As a consultant to the Ministry of Finance of The Bahamas, he is an adviser to the Minister of Finance and the Financial Secretary on regulatory and international affairs and is the Director of Regulatory and International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance. In this capacity, he is responsible for formulating and executing the financial sector's strategic priorities and overseeing negotiations with multilateral organizations and governments.
Stephen is a former Deputy Executive Director of The Securities Commission of The Bahamas and has held executive positions at blue chip financial institutions in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, he is a recognized thought leader on financial sector integrity, tax policy and regulatory compliance and has been a consultant on financial sector policy for governments, NGOs and institutions in Brazil, The Bahamas, Argentina, Uruguay, Bermuda and Cayman Islands.
Francesco Vanacore has been working for more than 20 years in the areas of international tax planning, family office, family governance and related regulatory issues. He focuses on the advisor of international families in relation to their comprehensive wealth planning needs. He is a STEP member with the LLM in International Tax Law at the University of Zurich.
After more than 20 years of experience and very senior management positions at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and Credit Suisse in Zurich where he was board member of Credit Suisse Trust, he joined in November 2017 Ansbacher (Bahamas) Limited where he is responsible for the Fiduciary and Wealth Planning Department. One of the major reason for his move to The Bahamas is the possibility to exploit the enormous business opportunities out of The Bahamas.
Antoine Bastian earned his B.Sc. in Accounting from Indiana University in 1989 and qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in 1993. He began his career in 1990 with Deloitte & Touche LLP. From 1993 to 1995, he was a Mutual Fund Administrator with MeesPierson Fund Service (formerly Fund Service International, Limited). Subsequently, he
managed St. Matthew Investment Fund Accounting Limited., a Bahamian fund administrator that was associated with Michael J. Liccar & Co., CPAs of Chicago, Illinois.
In 1999, he joined The Private Trust Corporation Limited as Manager of the Mutual Fund Department and was appointed to the Board of Directors in 2001. In September 2002, Mr. Bastian was appointed as Managing Director of Genesis Fund Services Limited, a licensed Investment Fund Administrator. Mr. Bastian is a Founding Member of the Bahamas Association of Investment Fund Administrators and works actively with the development and promotion of fund administration.
Aliya Allen re-joined the law firm of Graham Thompson as a partner in February 2016. She returned to the firm after four years as the CEO and Executive Director of the Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB). In that position she provided industry leadership in the development of the Investment Condominium (ICON) legislation. And similarly led the Graham Thompson team of technical advisors to the Bahamas Securities Commission in the revision of the Investment Fund Act.
Her practice areas include banking law, investment funds, securities law, trusts and estate planning and structuring, securitisation and capital markets. She began her career at Graham Thompson in 2007, leaving in 2012 to take up the leadership at the BFSB. She has worked as counsel, to the Office of the Attorney General with focus in international cooperation and civil matters. Aliya Allen has been recognised by the prominent London-based Chambers and Partners as a leader in her field, and Citywealth Leaders List as one of IFC Top 200 Powerwomen.
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Linda Beidler-D'Aguilar joined Glinton Sweeting O'Brien as a partner in July 2015. In her practice she specializes in the structuring and creation of vehicles (including investment funds) for multinational institutional clients as well as private clients; she also advises on corporate transactions, securities law (including public and private offerings) as well as general commercial matters.
Linda graduated from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service with a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, and received her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. She was called to the bar of the State of Illinois in 1988. After working in a top tier Chicago firm and at Kelley Drye & Warren's Washington D.C. office, she moved to The Bahamas in 1991. Linda was employed by two major trust companies before she was recruited to serve as in-house intellectual property counsel to Bacardi & Company Limited; she returned to private practice in 2003.
Linda served as a Director of the Bahamas Financial Services Board from 2010 to 2014, and continues to be active in BFSB's regulatory, legislative and product development initiatives. She speaks regularly at BFSB events including the 2014 and 2016 IBFS conferences, the 2014 and 2015 Bahamas Landfall events in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and the 2013 Bahamas Landfall event in London, as well as other financial services industry events including the 2017 Private Wealth Latin America Forum, 2015 Private Wealth Brazil Forum and the Third Annual Caribbean Conference on the International Financial Services Sector. She's written articles for magazines including BFSB's Gateway, the IFC Review and LatAm Fund Manager, as well as informational and promotional pieces for BFSB. She was a member of BFSB's ICON Working Group that received the Development and Promotion Award in 2014; in 2016 she received BFSB's Minister's Award for services to the financial services industry.
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These oil sketches were done very quickly (approx 15 - 45 minutes a piece) on paper as skin temperature exercises...subtly shifting and exaggerating the warm and cool to create more interest and help aid me in my figure work. I did about 4 of them a day -- each one is approximately 14 x 11" and were referenced from either photos or previous pencil sketches. I have more that I will post at a later date...
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What is Gagarin's legacy?
Space is an inspirational subject and human spaceflight in particular has motivated many young people to follow careers in science and engineering. Space now affects our everyday lives and makes an important contribution to the economies of the world.
This is the legacy of the early days of spaceflight, but it is often also associated with Yuri Gagarin and the astronauts who followed him.
Yes, it is true that space now touches many aspects of our daily lives – from the vital role it plays in monitoring our planet and protecting the environment, to the technical advances that space exploration has brought to materials science, computing, engineering, communications, biomedicine and many other fields.
Satellites are now able to show us our home planet in extraordinary detail and tell us about the way that we are changing it on local and global scales. Spaceprobes have made landings on distant planets, moons and asteroids and are even now journeying to the very edge of our Solar System. Orbiting astronomical telescopes have given Earth-based scientists insights into the creation of life and of the Universe itself.
But the fact is the Space Age was already well under way in 1961. Scientists and engineers were already making discoveries and inventing new technologies for spaceflight. By the time of Gagarin's flight, the Soviet Union and the USA had made over 100 launch attempts, and both had succeeded in putting satellites in orbit and sending probes out into interplanetary space.
Since the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik in October 1957, the Soviet Union had notched up a set of 'firsts'. They placed the first living creature, the dog Laika, into space in November 1957 and sent Luna 1 to pass close to the Moon in January 1959. Luna 2 would be the first probe to impact the Moon in September 1959 and Luna 3 the first to photograph its far side in October the same year. In February 1961, Venera-1, the first truly planetary probe, was launched toward Venus – an important milestone in spacecraft design.
On the American side, progress was equally impressive. Explorer 1 was launched in January 1958, and besides being the first US satellite, it is known for discovering the Van Allen radiation belts. This success was quickly followed by other satellites, notably the first communications satellite SCORE, also launched in 1958, and Pioneer 5, the first scientific probe around the Sun, launched in March 1960. TIROS-1, the first weather satellite, and Transit, the first operational navigation satellite, were both launched a month later.
In Europe, scientists from 10 countries, the 'Groupe d'etudes europeen pour la Collaboration dans le domaine des recherches spatiales' (GEERS), had already set up a commission at which governments would decide on possibilities for European cooperation in space. By 1961, the 'Commission preparatoire europeenne de recherches spatiales' (COPERS) was defining a structure for the envisaged European Space Research Organisation.
So what, then, could be Gagarin's legacy? Until pictures of Gagarin appeared in the news, there were no real 'space heroes' for the public to identify with. The scientists and engineers working behind the scenes rarely appeared in the media. In the west, youngsters had comic book characters, science fiction and could aspire to be jet pilots. The US Mercury astronauts, although appearing in magazines such as Life since their selection in 1959, had yet to prove themselves.
With Gagarin came the first human face for space exploration. The photographs of this brave, helmeted space explorer became iconic of the 20th century and defined the image of the cosmonaut, much like the picture of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in 1969. The thing that most people remember about Gagarin is his smile. The images of his smiling face would humanise space for the public, and they would also give a human quality to the Soviet society at that time.
The Soviet authorities chose their first man well. It would appear that they were also looking beyond the spaceflight, namely to make Gagarin an ambassador for the Soviet Union. Certainly the pictures of the first human space explorer transcended political differences and caught the imagination of people around the world.
Gagarin projected the image of confidence, professionalism, team spirit, modesty, bravery, leadership and concern for others, like that of his American counterparts (all had the same background as military jet pilots, so this was not surprising). These qualities became forever associated with cosmonauts and astronauts and still inspire today.
But more importantly, during the flight of Vostok 1, Gagarin was the first human being to see Earth from space. With so many images of Earth from space now available, it is hard to imagine how it felt to be the first person to view Earth from that perspective. This one aspect of his flight was so significant, transforming it from an impressive technical achievement to a milestone in human history. Could this be his legacy?
More than 500 people have travelled into space since, representing over 30 countries. Like Gagarin, most of them came back from space with a changed viewpoint and reverence for planet Earth. They describe seeing a world with no political boundaries, no borders between countries.
For a few months, Gagarin was the only person on Earth to have had such a unique view of our planet. He was struck by its beauty and fragility, and realised it was humankind's duty to protect it. For a flight that lasted only one hour and 48 minutes, one orbit of Earth, it provoked important political, social, cultural and technical changes, and forever altered our perspective of our place on Earth.


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Andrea Nouryeh
Education History:
B.A. –University of Wisconsin, Madison
MA – Columbia University
Ph.D. – New York University Current
Professional/Research Interest:
The history of the Stage Door Canteen; African American drama and performance, Anglophone African drama and performance, feminist theater and performance and doing dramaturgy for plays in production.
Recent Publications/Conferences:
"Staging the Dilemma of the Female Usband: Igbo Empoowerment of Ogbo Oppression in Tess Onwueme's The Broken Calabash," forthcoming book edited by Maureen Eke; "The American Theatre Wing's Experiment in Democracy: The Stage Door Canteen," ASTR, Fall 2009; "Defying Stereotypes: From Cliff Huxtable to Barack Obama," ATHE summer 2009; "Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphosis: Storytelling as Feminist Process," Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classical Texts, edited by Sharon Friedman, MacFarland, 2008.
Personal Interests:
attending theater, dance, and musical performances; cooking and baking; sexual assault advocacy; breast cancer advocacy; movies Professional Association Membership: American Theatre and Drama Society Association for Theatre in Higher Education American Society for Theatre Research
Classes Taught:
PCA 125 - Intro to Dramatic Scripts
PCA 255 - African American Drama
PCA 323 - South African Drama
PCA 327 - West African Drama
PCA 327 / ENG 327 - Drama By and About Women
PCA 355 - Gender Representation in Western Drama
PCA 338 / ENG 338 - 20th Century Avant Garde


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This is 2 coats without topcoat - see how nice the application is? ulta3 pastels have such great formulas, almost like OPI, at a tenth of the RRP. Love love love.
Annoyingly, it's suddenly become HTF - ulta3 are in the process of revamping their everything, and things are Not Quite Normal. I've been on bin dives recently mere days apart (bin diving for ulta3s is an Aussie polish enthusiast rite of passage, since ulta3s come tossed in massive tubs), and come up with completely different polishes. Happily though, they're now stocked in Coles and Woolworths, the two major grocery chains in Australia, making no-buys nigh on impossible... but a $2 polish really doesn't inspire much guilt!
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As promised in my January 25, 2014 post – the following is an article I wrote that was originally published in the Association of Condominium Managers of Ontario's (ACMO) CM Magazine in 2009:
I'm a litigation lawyer and practice primarily in the area of construction law. In particular, I seem to have a natural affinity for construction deficiency claims – I like them and they like me. Not only do deficiency claims usually have complex and interesting factual and legal issues, they are often meaningful for the parties involved. This makes for satisfying legal work.
I grew up in Kitchener, Ontario but packed up in 1993 and headed out west to go to school in Vancouver. I eventually ended up going to law school and practicing law at a large Vancouver law firm where I joined that firm's Construction Law Practice Group in early 2002 to help with the incredible workload that the "leaky condo crisis" had generated. Until returning to Ontario in 2008, I worked on numerous files arising from leaky buildings, representing primarily condominium owners, but also single-family home owners, a large building product manufacturer, and residential developers.
Most people, certainly in condominium management circles, have some degree of awareness and understanding about British Columbia's "leaky condos". It was a real phenomenon and socio-economic crisis that had a profound and lasting impact on the lives of tens of thousands of homeowners and the practices of builders, developers, architects, and municipal inspectors. To get a sense of the magnitude of the effect and fall-out, one only need consider that it resulted in the financial collapse of B.C.'s provincial new home warranty provider of the day, a significant re-writing of parts of the B.C. Building Code, and an international renaissance in building envelope science.
I should say at the outset that I don't think for a minute that Ontario is likely to experience a leaky condo experience anything akin in magnitude to that in B.C. – the climate is different, there's less moisture here and warmer drying periods, and the architecture is somewhat different. That said, buildings that suffer water ingress are not by any means a uniquely coastal phenomenon and Ontario's heavy seasonal (and often wind-driven) rains, the rapid rise in multi-unit residential construction in Ontario and late-coming changes to the Ontario Building Code (approximately eight years behind those in the B.C. Building Code), certainly create the possibility.
While not everyone will be genuinely interested in the "leaky condo" story, what is, in my view, of utmost importance is that people – homeowners, property managers, builders, and designers – heed the lessons that were learned in B.C. as a result of the experience. For homeowners, property managers, and condominium boards, the most important of these lessons is recognizing the early signs of a problem and acting on them. This article is not intended to provide legal advice and neither is it intended to be a comprehensive playbook or checklist – what it is intended to do is to offer a few of the suggestions that I wished over the years I had been able to provide to owner/manager clients who, unfortunately, didn't seek advice (legal, engineering, etc.) until long after the problem had been discovered.
Most often, the early signs of a "leaky condo" are first evident to the owners of individual units in the building. These owners will report wet carpets, water on window sills, drywall or ceiling staining, or similar problems to the condominium board or the management company. Sometimes these reports will begin very shortly after a new building is occupied and other times the reports won't start until years after a building was constructed. From a legal point of view, it is critical that those involved in the management of the building take these reports seriously and act on them quickly.
Property managers are almost always heavily involved in both the investigation of construction deficiencies and the management of the remediation work. Similarly, if the condominium corporation votes to raise funds and pursue cost recovery litigation, the property manager will almost always serve as the primary liaison between legal counsel and the condominium's board of directors. Given these realities, there are a few things that every property manager should consider and keep in the back of his or her head to be well positioned to both identify issues and to respond effectively and appropriately in the face of the discovery of a design or construction deficiency.
- Even without signs of leaks, for new buildings, one of the best things a condominium's management can do is to retain a building science professional (generally an architect or an engineer) to conduct an investigative building envelope assessment of the subject building within the first year of the Tarion warranty coverage. If the investigating expert discovers Building Code violations, substandard workmanship in the building envelope construction, or significant deviations from building manufacturer's details, specifications, and installation instructions, these should be reported to Tarion right away so that Tarion can assess whether warranty coverage applies. While incurring the cost of a building envelope assessment on a new building can be a hard sell to the owners, taking this pro-active and preventative measure will be some of the best money the condominium corporation ever spends if a serious problem is discovered.
- Even if a building is not new and there's no warranty coverage, bringing in an expert to assess the construction and condition of the building envelope can be a good investment. If a major problem is discovered, the condominium corporation can start budgeting to carry out repair work and consult with a lawyer to see whether legal action is warranted. If no major problems are discovered, the consultant will be able to provide advice with respect to required maintenance and identify any areas that should be monitored.
- Regardless of whether it is a newer or an older building being assessed, encourage the condominium board to hire a premier building science firm to carry out the investigation. First, the old adage that "you get what you pay for" often holds true in this case. Second, the preliminary assessment may be one of the most important pieces of evidence if litigation later follows and premier building envelope consultants will generally be better expert witnesses than consultants with less experience or weaker qualifications.
- Educate owners within the building about what to look for and set up a protocol for reporting problems. This suggestion may sound a little pedestrian but you'd be surprised how many times I've seen unit owners wait months or years before reporting the problem and acting upon it. A necessary component to this suggestion is that the management (the condo board, the property manager, etc) needs to follow up with these reports, investigate the causes, and watch for patterns (i.e. leaks or moisture at the balcony doors of more than a couple of units may indicate a defective sliding door design or installation, a membrane problem, or slope deficiency that might affect most or all units in the complex).
- Establish a system of inspecting and maintaining the exterior of the building. While a window and a wall assembly might be reasonably expected to last for 20-30 years (or much more), caulking and other seals generally are not. One excellent building envelope consultant that I worked with often in Vancouver told me that, ideally, caulking should be inspected every 1-2 years and completely replaced every few years. If a building has systemic water ingress problems and significant design or construction flaws, this usual and normal maintenance won't likely solve the problem. However, if a building is not maintained, owners can bet their bottom dollar that the defendants in their cost recovery claim are going to raise a lack of maintenance as a defence (contributory negligence) to the claim.
- One of the most important things to do following the discovery of a problem is to consult legal counsel quickly. Every Province has its own legislation that governs the timeframe within which a would-be Plaintiff must start its lawsuit. In Ontario, the current legislation requires that a lawsuit be commenced within 2 years of the event giving rise to the claim. It's actually much more complicated than this – there is a huge body of law surrounding when that 2 year clock begins to tick – but many otherwise strong claims have been defeated because a Plaintiff failed to commence a claim in time. This is a heartbreaking way to lose the right to pursue compensation for repairs. Bottom line: Err on the side of caution and act quickly.
- Keep good records (and store them in an organized file) with respect to building envelope maintenance, reports of water ingress, any investigations undertaken, discussions (i.e. meeting minutes) and communications (i.e. emails, letters, etc.) on the subject, and financials. If a problem arises and if litigation becomes likely, not only will the condominium corporation's lawyer love management for having done this, the condominium corporation will likely save considerable money in legal fees if the lawyer doesn't have to comb through dozens of files and thousands of documents looking for and sorting the relevant documents.
- If there is a suspected problem with the building envelope, take steps to find out the identities of all of the players involved in the construction of the building in question. Some of this information can be obtained from the condominium's description documents and the contracts of purchase and sale. However, often the best source is in the planning and building department file of the municipal authority having jurisdiction over building permits and approvals and such. A bit of advance notice to the good staff at the planning and building department and a half an hour at City Hall will usually net a lot of good information. If a lawyer is retained, he or she can take care of this as well but can better "hit the ground running" if some of this information is already known. This can also save valuable time if limitation periods are an issue.
At the end of the day, the central theme of these few suggestions is to monitor and investigate, maintain, and to seek advice promptly if problems are discovered. Another important point to take away is that, if owners fail to properly and diligently maintain their buildings over time and act quickly if problems emerge, they will, to varying degrees, risk having to absorb or share in the blame that might have otherwise been borne by the developers, designers, builders, trades, and municipalities that designed, built, and approved the construction of the building.


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(Copyright (c) 2010 Cynthia Shenette) "God Bless Us Everyone," so says Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens' famous tale, A Christmas Carol. A fitting wrap up to a heart-warming story. Feast and food play an important part in the tale--the giant turkey, the plum pudding, the roast goose. I get the warm tingles just thinking about it. But not in a good way...
I read A Christmas Carol for the very first time in eighth grade English class. Oh, that story made such an impression on me. One of the other English classes, not mine of course, actually got to stage a Dickens-style feast, complete with costumes, in our junior high cafeteria. Why couldn't my class do that? No Salisbury steak, instant mashed potatoes, and gray green beans in the cafeteria that day, but a real honest to goodness Dickens-style feast. I was so jealous.
I must have mentioned my disappointment to my mom. She came up with a brilliant idea. Why couldn't we stage our own Dickens feast right at home? She would make a goose and a couple of the other traditional English dishes for our celebration. Sounds good on paper right?
Well off mom went to the grocery store, but apparently back in the mid-1970s goose was hard to come by in Worcester, MA. No luck on the goose front. She did find a duck though. Mom figured that would be acceptable. I agreed. Mr. Dickens would most heartily approve. So home we went with our duck ready and willing to prepare our feast.
Mom, not knowing anything about duck, decided to prepare the duck the way she usually prepared turkey. This was back in the day when those turkey cooking bags were new to the grocery market. Mom was all for making things easier in the kitchen, so in went the duck, into a cooking bag. Mom also had heard that ducks can be kind of greasy, so she decided to put a trivet underneath the duck, inside the cooking bag so the grease could drip off into the bottom of the pan. Mom tied up the bag, and put the entire bag and it's contents into a pan, and faster than you can say Bleak House, the duck was in the oven. Our Dickens of a feast would be on the table in no time.
There was one fatal flaw in this plan. You knew there had to be one, right? Mom forgot to cut holes in the cooking bag to let steam out. Oops. While the duck was cooking away in the oven I was in the kitchen helping mom to prepare the rest of the meal. All of a sudden boom! An explosion! I looked over to the stove. Through the glass oven door I saw the duck, bag, trivet and all, blow up, hit the top of the oven, and plop back down in the pan! Being the nervous type I went for the kitchen fire extinguisher. Mom, not being the nervous type, told me to put away the fire extinguisher. The duck was fine. I wasn't doing so well.
Later on that evening, we did have our feast. Duck and all. Even after it blew up it turned out fine. I know this may come as a surprise, but we never had duck again. Lesson learned. NEVER forget to cut holes in the cooking bag.
Aah, those warm holiday memories of Christmas Past. Now let me tell you about the time my mom set fire to the turkey...
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9 comments:
- Kerry Scott said...
Now THAT is a holiday memory!
- December 2, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
Great story! I'm sure it's one that gets told over and over. hehe.
Thanks for starting my day off with a laugh.
- December 2, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Susan Clark said...
Best title of the day, if not the year! Hilarious. I'll be giggling all day.
We did have a goose once - or rather didn't have it. Lesson #2 - don't try to smoke a goose when it's 5 degrees outdoors. That was the Christmas of mac & cheese...
- December 2, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Diana Ritchie said...
Great story!! That is a year that will live forever while all the routine, nothing went wrong years sort of blur together. Thanks for giving me a good chuckle!
- December 2, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Terri said...
What a great memory- and I would have been the first to grab for the fire extinguisher too!
- December 2, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Thank you all for your comments! Yes indeed, that was a memorable year. Funny, I kind of forgot about the turkey fire fifteen years or so later. Writing the exploding duck story triggered the memory. Well, at least I'll have something to write about next year. ;)
Susan, I am intrigued. What happened to the goose? And was the mac and cheese from a box or homemade? Do tell...
- December 2, 2010 at 5:30 PM
- Greta Koehl said...
And I though having eggs and potatoes explode in our oven was exciting! If I ever did anything like that, my family would never let me live it down.
- December 2, 2010 at 10:28 PM
- Cynthia Shenette said...
Greta - Thank you for your comment. Eggs exploding in the oven? I bet that was an ugly mess to clean.
Diana - It kind of occured to me, your right about the exploding duck memory. Most of my memories of our other Christmas meals all blend together. The duck year definately stands out!
- December 3, 2010 at 9:51 AM
- Barbara Poole said...
Before my comment, I read all the others. I agree with all of them, I mean what more can be said. I only wish I had read it yesterday, I could have been laughing with the others. So good Cindy, thank you. (I just started using those bags a year ago.)
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Had a hard drive go a month or so back, so decided to upgrade from the previous version of Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate with Service Pack 1 installed. Loaded Barca on from scratch using the recommended settings for folders etc (loaded with admin writes). Copied across mail folders, calendar, addresses from backup. Worked no problem until the last few days, the problems I'm having is...
The accounts I have setup are configured to poll the mail servers every xx minutes, this has work flawlessly for years & years, now it has stopped for no apparent reason, I have to manually do a check mail for the software to retrieve it. I have checked, double checked & triple checked all the account that the "quick links -> check mail" is ticked & that each individual account has Check This Account when Checking Email plus "Check For New Email" xx mins.
I've uninstalled Barca several times now, reinstalled as above, and the same thing happening.
When I close Barca down & then start it up again, it will then automatically check all accounts after that I have to do it manually
The next problem I have is that when I send any image file as an attachment or embedded in an email it gets corrupted at the senders end, if I check my sent folder the image is fine, when the receipient receives it it's corrupt, like lines through it or looks like a half loaded image. Now the funny part is it's only images larger than 640 x 480, anything 640 & smaller goes through okay & they can see them fine, anything larger - corrupt.
I've tested this myself by sending myself several images of varying sizes and same problem as my recipients.
I thought okay then it maybe down to my Anti-Virus when scanning outgoing email, I was using AVG, removed AVG installed another AV, same thing on both accounts no checking automatically & corrupt images, tried three different anti-virus packages and all same results.
I'm not sure if it's down to the Win7 64Bit Service Pack 1 install which happened a few days ago or if it's Win7 itself ?
I have Zone Alarm as a firewall and that's it !!!
Any light on the subject would be grateful, many thanks in advance


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Does anyone have the pre-Krivsky payroll versus Now???
Effective use of money is a major factor in this, in my opinion.
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WOW...I am not excited about this firing at all. I rally like Special K and wish him the very best.
I am so thankful as a Reds fan of what HE has put in place...His ability to identify and trade for undervalued MLB ready players is his major strength.
With Jocketty in place as GM I guess Mr. C is going to be spending more cash on veteran players and trading some of our prospects.
I honestly am surprised by this at this point in the year though I was ready for this boot to drop when Dr. J was hired this past winter.
"Sometimes, it's not the sexiest moves that put you over the top," Krivsky said. "It's a series of transactions that help you get there."
I'm sure Krivsky will land on his feet, maybe not as a GM, but in baseball
You can see the press conference on the Reds website at 4 PM.
Any GM will make a few expensive boo boos but I think WK's were excessive. Without argument he overpaid for Cormier, Stanton, Castro, Stanton, Patterson, Freel, David Ross, and there were others who are debatable. Was Jason LaRue his doing or was that OB?
He also jettisoned fairly cheap talent that we could have used like Cody Ross, Brendan Harris and Jorge Cantu. We could probably also add Chris Denorfia to that list.
Overall WK didn't give BC what he was looking for so he's gone...
If KrivDawg was fired this early into the season it shows how bad the work environment had gotten inside the Reds FO. I don't think Jocketty went looking for Krivsky's job, rather he reluctantly signed on after Cast convinced him too. I would imagine Jocketty will stay around for 3 or 4 years while grooming a replacement.
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Wayne Krivsky was fired because ownership tired of writing checks to players who no longer played or who were paid too much for what they contribute now. See: Freel, Patterson, Coffey. Maybe more, though, he was fired because his people skills lacked. Wayne was a very territorial GM, who didnt always play well with others. That trait cost the Reds some good people, not the least of whom was Johnny Almaraz, the scout who found Johnny Cueto, among many, many others.
It must also be said that Wayne made some very good moves here... Brandon Phillips, Josh Hamilton, Arroyo for Wily Mo, Keppinger for a Class A pitcher, David Ross, Hatteberg, Burton in Rule 5 etc...
The danger with this coming when it did is (1) when you fire a GM, it's not like firing a manager... you essentially fire his support people as well...scouts, advisors etc... Front office continuity is a trait of successful clubs. See: Atlanta, Minnesota. The Reds front office is a carousel. That needs to stop.
Also, the draft is less than 2 months away... what do wayne's people do? Do they stay on? Are they let go? If they stay, how enthusiastic will they be, knowing they'll likely be out of work at the end of the year?
I got along well with Wayne, though he was as close to the vest, borderline paranoid a guy as I've dealt with. Sometimes, his silence was very effective: The Reds got F. Cordero before the Brewers even knew Cincinnati was interested. But it could also be off-putting.
I wish Wayne the best. I think he's a good baseball guy. Maybe scouting better suits his temperament.
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CINCINNATI -- When former Cardinals general manager Walt Jocketty -- a friend of Reds owner Bob Castellini -- was brought into Cincinnati's front office this past winter, many perceived it as a clear sign that Reds GM Wayne Krivsky's job was in jeopardy.
Few expected a change would happen this soon. But Castellini ran out of patience and Krivsky ran out of time.
The Reds announced on Wednesday that Krivsky was out as GM and that Jocketty will take over as president of baseball operations and general manager.
Jocketty and Castellini are scheduled to hold a 4 p.m. ET press conference at Great American Ball Park.
"We had a lousy season last year and we're starting this season not very well," Castellini told MLB.com by phone. "We felt it was time for a change."
Krivsky was Castellini and the new ownership regime's first significant hire when he replaced Dan O'Brien on Feb. 8, 2006. Krivsky previously served as an assistant GM with the Twins for 11 years. He was in the last season of a three-year contract with Cincinnati.
The Reds went 80-82 in Krivsky's first season but slipped to 72-90 in 2007. This season, Cincinnati has a 9-12 record.
Castellini informed Krivsky of his decision on Wednesday morning.
"He gave us 110 percent," Castellini said. "He is an outstanding baseball man and it's difficult to lose somebody like him."
Krivsky drew praise quickly when he made shrewd acquisitions that brought in Brandon Phillips, Scott Hatteberg, Bronson Arroyo, David Ross and Josh Hamilton. But other efforts to turn the team into a quick contender backfired.
The most notorious trade occurred on July 13, 2006, when the Reds sent Austin Kearns and Felipe Lopez to the Nationals in an eight-player deal that brought back Gary Majewski, Bill Bray, Royce Clayton, Brendan Harris and Daryl Thompson.
It was disclosed shortly after the trade that Majewski arrived with an injured shoulder, and he never fulfilled expectations. He and Bray are currently with Triple-A Louisville while Clayton and Harris are out of the organization. Thompson, with Double-A Chattanooga, is considered a rising prospect.
The signing of free agent reliever Mike Stanton to a two-year contract last year also didn't pan out. Stanton was released before this season opened and will be paid $3.5 million this year. Reliever Rheal Cormier ($2.5 million) was released early last season and infielder Juan Castro ($1.075 million) was designated for assignment on Monday.
Castellini said it wasn't absorbing contracts that got Krivsky dismissed.
"Frankly, I blame it on my own impatience," Castellini said. "I wouldn't say that it was a particular thing. We're not going to bat 1.000 [on acquisitions]. The results were not there."
Castellini said Jocketty was signed through the 2011 season.
Jocketty spent the previous 13 seasons as the Cardinals GM. They went to the postseason seven times and won the 2006 World Series during that time. Jocketty was named Major League Baseball's executive of the year by The Sporting News in 2000 and 2004 and by Baseball America in 2000.
In October, Jocketty and St. Louis mutually decided to part ways after a tumultuous 78-win season. He maintained a personal friendship with Castellini, who used to be a minority shareholder of the Cardinals.
On January 11, Jocketty was hired to be a special advisor who reported directly to Castellini. Although he made overtures that he wasn't interested in being a GM again right away, that's just what ended up happening on Wednesday.
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