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Back down the Central Sensitisation rabbit hole
Our website noigroup.com is getting one very big overhaul. In fact, we're rubbing it out and starting again. With the old website being put out to pasture, we want to make sure that the years of collected content don't get lost, so we will be re-posting some classic old NOI notes to ensure that they have a new digital home. It's been an interesting process reading back over material from over a nearly ago!
We're firing up the wayback machine once more and heading back to 2010 to look at one of the more vexed and certainly most discussed issues in pain – Central Sensitisation – with David Butler's post Time for a closer embrace. What (seriously, just what) is it? Who 'has' it, can you has it? Should we try to talk about it with people experiencing ongoing pain? Is it a diagnosis?
Time for a closer embrace
Decades of denial
We have known about central sensitisation (CS) for at least 20 years, since Patrick Wall, Clifford Woolf and others published seminal papers suggesting that some pain and altered sensory states may be due to synaptic and membrane excitability changes in the central nervous system and not necessarily due to processes in tissues. This should have been a great relief to health professionals, but attempts to introduce the notion into rehabilitation, especially the manual therapy world (Butler 1994; Gifford and Butler 1997) were met with slow acceptance and often derision. I can recall introducing it in a conference in Scandinavia in the early 90s with the following speaker saying "well that's well and good but we have to get on with the treatment", and so the next session was on muscle stretching. "You are turning into a counsellor" was another comment. Many prominent physiotherapists and anatomists still deny the state and the current level of integration in most undergraduate and postgraduate programmes appears little more than lip service. Central sensitisation underpins modern biopsychosocial holistic management, yet we have a long way to go to integrate it. It deserves core curriculum status. A hot off the press review article by Clifford Woolf (2010) makes me believe that there may be a growing knowledge gap between science and practice.
Admitting that there is more to the story
For health practitioners to take on central sensitisation, they usually need to accept that the old peripheral story is not complete. A trigger point may have little to do with issues in the soft tissues, the palpably tender C2-3 nothing to do with processes around the joint, and the irritated gut only partly related to the gut, but are now known to be more due to a central nervous system which has lost the ability to "feature extract" from input and defaults quickly to a pain construction. The pathophysiology of this state is now well described. See Latremoliere (2009) and Woolf (2010) for updates. Of course this can be a challenge – many successful practitioners have a lot of clinical mileage at stake and large investments in continuing education. While many readers of these notes will have embraced it, most of the rehabilitation community is yet to integrate it.
A word from a big picture expert
Gordon Waddell (1998) summed it up nicely when defending modern holistic biopsychosocialism "it is all very well to say that we use science and mechanical treatment within a holistic framework, but it is too easy for that framework to dissolve in the starry mists of idealism. We all agree in principle that we should treat people and not spines, but then in daily practice we get on with the
business of mechanics."
"But what about chronic knee OA and OA hips that respond to hip replacement"
The hard core biomedicalists often bring this out as evidence of the tissue base of chronic pain. Of course, these are peripheral diseases which are often amenable to peripherally directed management. But even here, the degree of pain does not match radiological finding or degree of inflammation, suggesting a central mechanism as well (Bradley, Kersch et al. 2004). In OA knees (Arendt-Nielsen, Nie et al. 2010) and OA hips, there is impaired central inhibitory controls. This key feature of central sensitisation will improve with hip replacement (Kosek and Ordeberg 2000). This and other data summarized by Woolf (2010) strongly suggests central sensitisation should be a consideration in all acute and chronic pain states.
Bums into gear
This NOInotes is unashamedly all about getting readers to update, reconsider and read the Woolf update – here you can read all about CS in rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, TMJ disorders, fibromyalgia, headache, miscellaneous musculoskeletal disorders, post surgical pain, irritable bowel syndrome etc. etc.
Central sensitisation is treatable, though currently predominantly by medication. The NNT (number of people need to treat to get one with 50% pain relief) in fibromyalgia for a drug like pregabelin is around 6 (Russell 2006). This simply reinforces the fact that the conservative forces of management need to get their bums into gear, review current paradigms and get CS evidence based management strategies including neuroscience education (Butler and Moseley 2003), graded activity and exercise, imagery, mindfulness, and appropriate manual therapies out there and heard. Central sensitisation is so liberating in the clinic – the relentless and often disappointing searches for sources of nociception in the clinic becomes less important and it supports the critical notion that functional restoration can processed even in the presence of pain.
And there is a little bit of muted satisfaction seeing the research emerge which supports the importance of central sensitisation in all acute and chronic pain states.
-David Butler, 2010
Has the pendulum swung too far?
After 'decades of denial' CS seems to be everywhere in the pain literature now – as a mechanism, a phenomenon, a diagnosis, and in some cases a 'catch-all' for any persistent pain. No one can seem to agree what it is and the insidious conflation of nociception of pain is evident as soon as you start reading. Take for instance this from a recent Special Issue on Central Sensitisation in the Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research:
"Central sensitization refers to the amplification of pain by central nervous system mechanisms… Features of central sensitization have been identified in nearly all chronic pain conditions, and it is considered the primary underlying cause of pain in conditions such as fibromyalgia" (emphasis added)
You keep using that phrase 'central sensitisation'…
The now ubiquitous use of central sensitisation has prompted some researchers to ask questions about what exactly the phrase means and how it should be applied. The general consensus seems to be that there is no consensus, with some calling for a diminution of the scope of central sensitisation – back to the basic science itself. In an excellent commentary from 2018, van den Broeke et al (sorry, paywalled) make the following points:
"In sum, we conclude that
(a) the term CS, as defined by the IASP, refers to changes in nociceptive neurons only and therefore cannot be applied to enhanced responses to stimuli other than nociceptive and/or pain;
(b) the evidence for CS in widespread pain (other than secondary hyperalgesia) and many other conditions is scarce to absent;
(c) at this moment, CS is a descriptive label for the explanandum rather than an explanation and, as such, suffers the risk of being a circular explanation; and
(d) the explanatory role of learning and cognitive and emotional factors should be considered as potential mechanisms for the wide range of phenomena that are currently interpreted as evidence for CS. We therefore propose to reserve the term CS for the phenomenon related to its discovery: the increased excitability of spinal nociceptive neurons triggered by peripheral nociceptive input" (emphasis added)
What to make of this? Pedantic semantics? Perhaps the answer can be found with a deep dive into the literature…
The CS rabbit hole will get you every time
Go on, we dare you… just start reading a few papers on central sensitisation, then a few more, maybe just a few more… We'll see you on the other side (maybe)! It's a fascinatingly deep rabbit hole to get lost down, but a rabbit hole none the less with more questions than answers and multiple conflicting definitions and ideas. If nothing else though, you'll come out knowing your heterosynaptic from your homosynaptic potentiation, and a whole lot more about NMDA receptors. Want to read some blogs to get you started? A couple of excellent posts here and here – both with excellent comment sections to lose yourself in!
As ever, back to the clinical encounter
So where does the idea of central sensitisation fit in the clinic? At NOI we've been contacted by a number of people who have been told that they have Central Sensitisation Pain. Some have been quite worried and distressed by the "diagnosis", however at least one was quite reassured – finally having been given a reason for their pain; a phrase, a concept – something, anything – to ground their experience.
Are we as clinicians still in denial? Or have we become addicted to an overly-simplistic conceptual category in which to lump everyone with ongoing pain? Your clinical mileage will vary, and we'd love to hear about it below.
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References for the original NOInote 'Time for a closer embrace' above
Arendt-Nielsen, L., H. Nie, et al. (2010).:"Sensitization in patients with painful knee osteoarthritis." Pain 149: 573-581.
Bradley, L. A., B. C. Kersch, et al. (2004)."Lessons from fibromyalgia : abnormal pain sensitivity in knee osteoarthritis" Novartis Found Symp 260: 258-270.
Butler, D. S. and L. S. Moseley (2003). Explain Pain. Adelaide, Noigroup Publications.
Butler, D. S. (1994). The upper limb tension test revisited. Physical Therapy of the Cervical and Thoracic Spines. R. Grant. New York, Churchill Livingstone.
Gifford, L. and D. Butler (1997). "The integration of pain sciences into clinical practice." The Journal of Hand Therapy 10: 86-95.
Kosek, E. and G. Ordeberg (2000)."Lack of pressure pain modulation by hetereoptic noxious conditioning stimulation in patietnns with painful osteoarthritis before but not following surgical pain relief." Pain 88: 69-78.
Latremoliere, A. and C. J. Woolf (2009)."Central Sensitization: a generation of pain hypersensitivity by central neural plasticity." The Journal of Pain 10: 895-926.
Russell, I. J. (2006)."Fibromyalgia syndrome: Approach to management" Bull Rheum Dis 45: 1-4.
Waddell, G. (1998). The Back Pain Revolution. Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone.
Woolf, C. J. (2010)."Central sensitization: Implications of the diagnosis and treatment of pain." Pain (in press)
3 Responses to "Back down the Central Sensitisation rabbit hole"
Pierre Fabre
Physiotherapy industry is now like fitness industry… "Paradigm shifts" every month, to sell or convine patients or ourselves we're developping new tools, the good ones this time (all were bad, and now definitively we know the "truth about", we're debunking the myths, etc. etc. Problem: the Dunning-Kruger effect seems to be highly active in physio community. Competences are not evolving with the speed of the increase in volume of literature (rate of pubkications). Physios are not well prepared enough to play with some concepts. So, a lot actually thinks they're doing "psycho-logy", others are fascinated by neo-phrenology (without knowing the basics of neurology, imaging, etc, sometimes), others persuaded they manage the biopsychosocial model with ease (just ask if a person is happy). Lack of culture sometimes, of basic formation… Why do physios hate so much their profesion that they now want to be psychos, personal trainers (PT want to be physios on the other side…). We invoke "evidence" (to give us identity or strengthen opinions, associated with often the need of social media marketing… Who really read papers ? Who knows really how to interpret them ? Who has the epistemological tools ? Time ? 5% of physios ? Who reads beyond the comments of gourous ? The guys in the labs ? And ? This is a crisis of identity, with the good, the bad and the ugly sides. Thanks for your job.
Tom Deacon
This topic is addressed in Explain Pain Supercharged, as follows…
Hansson 2014 made the argument that central sensitisation should only refer to physiological events at the dorsal horn as originally described by Woolf. Hansson did not think there was enough evidence for clinicians to use the term central sensitisation to explain clinical presentations like fibromyalgia etc
( https://insights.ovid.com/pubmed?pmid=25067835 )
Thankfully, Woolf himself replied with a contradictory view that central sensitisation is an appropriate recommendation for persistent pain states. He also explains that his group first coined the phrase central sensitisation when studying the dorsal horn but, in his opinion, central sensitisation can occur in any parts of the central nervous system that contribute to pain hypersensitivity
( https://insights.ovid.com/pubmed?pmid=25083929 )
I was quite relieved to read Woolf's response as he voices a sensible, clinically-relevant approach to central sensitisation. If the term was Dorsal Horn sensitisation then it would be inappropriate to use it as an explanation for a wide range of clinical presentations. However, calling it central sensitisation means it is an umbrella term that can apply to the sensitising process for pain production that occur anywhere in the central nervous system. This includes brain areas for thoughts, emotions, sympathetic, endocrine and immune responses etc.
I think it is understandable that some pain researchers feel a bit protective of the term considering that it started it's life as a quite specific neuro-physiological phrase, but I think we should all be able to share the phrase with an understanding that it can have slightly different meanings depending on the context in which it is used.
It is definitely an interesting debate!


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I was trying to come up with a few words to easily sum up this one-shot involving The James Dean of the assassin world and all that really ended up coming to mind is…well, this issue is phenomenally average.
This one-shot comic involved with Villains Month can really only be described as average. It's right in the middle of being an enjoyable comic with no real distinguishing features or large hook that pushes it beyond average, and on the other side there's nothing really awful that pulls it down into the void of suck.
The comic written by Matt Kindt and illustrated by Sami Basri & Keith Champagne doing the present sequences, while Carmen Carnero & Bit draw the past sequences. If you haven't put two and two together JLA# 7.1 is a comic that dives into Deadshots past, his childhood and how he became the never-say-miss assassin that he is now.
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This one-off I would only suggest to hardcore Deadshot fans who want to know more about his sordid past, though even then I'm not sure it's something worth going out to buy. It's something you'd pick up on a whim, read, bag, and think "well that was all kinds of OK!"
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On August 16, we learned that the CW had picked up Parenthood star and new author Lauren Graham's Someday Someday Maybe, a one-hour drama based off the actor's bestselling debut novel. The series, created and produced by Graham and longtime friend Ellen Degeneres, is expected to follow the plot of the book, which followed a 20-something actress with six months left in a three-year deadline to make it on Broadway. As if the news that we'll soon have more Lorelai Gilmore in our lives wasn't good enough, Graham revealed that her Parenthood daughter and real-life best friend Mae Whitman has auditioned to play the lead, and we couldn't be more excited
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The effects of coffee consumption on cardiovascular health have led to much debate, and despite earlier concerns about a potential increase in heart disease risk, researchers found that people who drank a moderate amount a day had the least risk of coronary calcium in their arteries.
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Isaiah 21:14 (KJV) 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
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He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Revelation 21:6 (KJV) 6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
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How many times have you noticed a mindset of limited thinking and lack – either in yourself or in those around you? Chances are you have seen this more in others than in yourself. Today I'm going to tell a personal testimony of my own where God had to break me past a major mental barrier in exactly this topic of limited thinking. I recently had to discover a new realm of how God has been training me to operate according to true kingdom and sonship principles of financial provision.
This example I'm going to tell below put me in a major battle (mind war) over how a certain required expensive item was going to come into my life "right now". The war was very intense in my head but after a ton of prayer, God gave me an overwhelming sense of peace and then a strategy for how to obtain something that I will tell you about in this video. I really, really hope you will take to heart what I am saying here because this video is going to be one of the biggest keys to breaking you out of a mindset of lack.
I'm also going to walk through logically how God did not design us to live in such poverty mindset conditions which originate from the devil and were designed to prevent you from ever reaching your God-given purpose and destiny.
The video below will be a part 1 follow up to the one I posted a couple weeks ago on "Endgame" (click that link or the one below at the bottom of this blog post). Some of what I include in here will also follow up on a rather long video I did last week about finding your purpose. If you have not seen that video, I also must strongly urge you to do that because soon after that, I had a dream where God confirmed in a most overwhelming way that those who took my advice there have already now begun accelerating into their purpose! Please watch both of those videos after you see this one!
I believe this video will give you practical wisdom to help you take a major step that is the key to your own breakthrough right now and get you moving toward your own God-designed purpose.
As soon as I finished recording this video, I heard the announcer on local Christian radio read a verse from the exact passage I was just speaking about here (Matthew 6:33). So everything you're going to hear me say has just been validated by the Holy Spirit. I hope you take my advice!
Relevant Bible Passages
The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.
Proverbs 28:1 (NKJV)
The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
Isaiah 11:2 (NKJV)
"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
Matthew 6:22 (NKJV)
"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Matthew 6:24 (NKJV)
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Matthew 6:30 (NKJV)
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:6-7 (NKJV)
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Espargaro "really close" to new Aprilia contract
Aleix Espargaro has revealed he is "really close" to finalising a deal to remain with the Aprilia MotoGP team in 2021 and beyond, admitting that such a contract would likely be his last before retirement.
Espargaro has often been critical of the Gresini-run Aprilia squad since coming on board in 2017, having achieved only a best finish of sixth in three seasons and a best championship placement of 14th.
His current contract was due to expire at the end of this year, but said that his positive experience of Aprilia's radically-revised 2020 bike in pre-season testing in February had convinced him to stay at the team.
The 30-year-old also hinted a new agreement with the Italian marque could be longer than two years, but suggested he would likely bow out of MotoGP upon its conclusion.
"The most important thing is that I finished the pre-season with a very good taste in my mouth," Espargaro told Motorsport.com. "The changes I've been waiting for for the last three years came in two tests and I ended up very happy.
"The talks had stalled until a couple of weeks ago, but we are really close to reaching an agreement.
"I am very happy with Aprilia, I don't have many years left in my career and I have always said that my biggest wish is that the bike works and that I can retire from this team. I am sure that if I renew for Aprilia, it will be my last contract.
"I don't know if it will be two years or more, but if the project convinces me and I like it, I will finish my career here.
"I trust and wish that the technical project will continue to grow from now on and in the future, and if that is the case I would like very much to continue to be the leader of this team."
Espargaro has been partnered by three different teammates in his Aprilia tenure so far, and could end up with a fourth different partner next year depending on whether current Andrea Iannone is able to get his 18-month doping ban overturned.
Although Aprilia is known to be keen on retaining Iannone if possible, but Danilo Petrucci has also been linked to a potential switch to Aprilia if he is not retained by Ducati, as seems likely.
Espargaro admitted he felt sorry that Ducati had elected to promote Jack Miller to a factory seat at Petrucci's potential expense based on the pair's results last year.
"I know that Aprilia want me and Andrea to continue and keep both riders, but I know there is a bit of a mess with all this," said the Spaniard.
"What I feel bad about is how Danilo has been treated. Not only did he win a race, but he made the same points as Miller in 2019, and now it seems that Jack Miller is the new Casey Stoner and that Danilo is no good, when last year with the same bike they made the same points.
"In the end time puts everyone in their place, maybe Jack will get on the official bike and do very well, he is young and talented. We will see if Ducati will do well."
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Erica & Peter | Proposal
I've been blessed with photographing Erica & Peter several times at this point; I photograph couples for a living, so I guess you could say that I'm kinda sorta really a romantic and love telling every unique couple's story.
But Erica & Peter have that special something that truly transcends words for me. Maybe it's an empath thing, but it's so apparent that they have the kind of love that is bound to endure whatever this life throws at them.
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Aria Cole and Declan Sinclair are as opposite as positive is to negative. They have one thing in common; their love of being near the ocean.
When Aria escapes to a beach house to heal after a devastating loss she comes face to face with an interesting man.
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Private Show (and some piano)
I spotted this whilst out and about and had to get a picture. The homeless man perhaps trying to enjoy a rare nice moment of life with a good read accompanied by some violin. At least it gave me the title to this post: Private Show.
On to the point of the post, its been ages since I've recorded any piano, so here are a few pieces I've been playing in my lessons. First up, is the start of Sarabande in D minor by Handel. I played it a few times on piano and then switched to the strings setting and thought it sounded better, so I recorded it like that.
Sarabande in D minor (Handel)
Here is the piano version too.
Next up is a piece I started learning over two years ago, but then gave up on it. I picked it up again recently so thought I'd record it. It is Bach, Prelude in C. This has been difficult, firsty to keep up the consistency of the continuous rhythm, but then also inject some feeling into it because of its continuous rhythm, but here it is as a record of my progress. The piece is fantastic, with some amazing chord progressions throughout.
Prelude in C (Bach)
Finally, a piece from Jazz Piano Pieces – Grade 2. I bought the book because I wanted to try and do a few pieces that I can learn relatively quickly. I've still found them tough though!
Contemplation (Tyner arr. Iles)
Just to finish off with a random picture, here is the outside of Victoria Station in Manchester City Centre. Its an air-filled ETFE roof and looks great in the right light. These couple of pics were from my new Lumix GX7, now at bargain price due to the release of the GX8. I've not had much chance to try it out yet other than one quick wander round the city and I didn't manage to capture much….


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It feels like a straightforward formula—a engine, just both wheels, a framework and yet the number in technology and bicycle style throughout the previous century has been remarkable. Full fairings, 1 cylinder, eight strands hardtails tails, stripped-down café racers. That's 1 reason, together side their status as symbols of rebellion and freedom, they've continued to catch the imagination for such a long time. Back in September, Assouline lasted its Impossible Collection string together with the launch of The Difficult Assortment of Motorcycles: The 100 Most Exemplary Speeches of this Twentieth Century. Set together by artist and industrial designer Ian Barry and automotive journalist Nicolas Stecher, the publication centers on bicycles both commonplace and rare, from exceptional oneoff models such as the Moto Major to favorite manufacturing cycles just such as the Ducati 916. Concerning coffee table books that are high end, that is the main one to possess for any bicycle enthusiasts that are big-time. And after attaining the process of whittling down the decision into this 20th Century's 100 best cycles, we asked up his favorite to be picked by coauthor Nicolas Stecher five star. Here is what he developed.
Curtiss V 8
This really is among the crucial and very famous bikes made for factors. Engineering-wise it is a bike that is amazing, it is extremely trendy. Glenn Curtiss was a guy, and he also fit a v 8 engine that is 4000cc a bike, that will be pure lunacy. It resembles a Venice shore cruiser using a plane engine hit the top. As these have been just bikes without a suspension, When you take a close have a take a look at the bicycles they were predicted bone rattlers. And the Curtiss V8 has been the motorcycle on the planet for roughly 30 decades.
That 1 has been chosen on decorative. It's really a bike that is gorgeous, and also the body work has gone unmanageable. It had aero dynamics for its own time. The real reason production wasn't struck by that this bike was since it had been shortly after World War II, with no Italians could manage to get it. It's only a singular car or truck that is completely and lovely. There.
MVAgusta Magni 860
Was that the attractiveness of this particular bike. It looks just like a streetfighter, like a motorcycle. It's only so handsome and squared away. You will certainly be the coolest dude ever In the event that you had been riding this thing around Brooklyn today. Arturo Magni had been the mind of this race team for MVAgusta, also Magni abandoned and began building parts for bikes that are modified, and also it is clearly one if MV ceased hurrying. Beauty is subjective, however the square-ness paired with all the fluidity of this tube whenever you examine the geometry of the bike. It's only a motorcycle that is magnificent.
Ducati 916
I believe this bike is European appearing, perhaps maybe not Japanese appearing. You put the Ducati 916 close for this, which came and is regarded as one the bicycles of time, you consider either of these and this foreshadows that the 9-16. It had been $60,000 as it arrived on the scene. I mean there are super bikes that cost much, however in the'90s which has been uncommon. People thought they had been mad to come out. They're trying for about $150,000. This had been just another bike which has been a marvel of technology. Honda's engineers were awarded money to generate the bike they could to unlimited, and that is exactly what they developed.
Many folks believe that it's dreadful, but I feel that it's magnificent, as well as being amazing as being. It arrived on the scene on this century in 1999. Even the'99 Hyabusa is faster than the present ones. It. The thing about the Hyabusa is that, until it came together, the Honda Super Blackbird has been the bike on the planet. And now Hyabusa is falcon in Western. They eat and search blackbirds, so that Suzuki decided this name. They strove to come up with plus so they wound up making the one which has been approximately 10 mph faster. It frees the fairings. Plus it was just 14,000 or $12 as it arrived on the scene. That is significantly less than a Honda Accord.


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Norfolk farmers travel to Westminster to raise industry concerns with MPs
PUBLISHED: 16:03 26 February 2019 | UPDATED: 16:13 27 February 2019
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A delegation of senior Norfolk farmers travelled to London to raise important industry issues with politicians – including seven of their county's MPs.
The 10 National Farmers' Union (NFU) members making the trip came from a cross-section of the county's agricultural sector, representing arable and livestock producers, fruit growers and conservation managers.
During a series of meetings, the delegation met eight Norfolk MPs: George Freeman, Elizabeth Truss, Sir Henry Bellingham, Richard Bacon, Keith Simpson, Clive Lewis and Norman Lamb. They also met Labour's shadow environment minister David Drew and Lords environment spokesperson Baroness Jones of Whitchurch.
Important regional topics under discussion ranged from the Environment Agency's review of water abstraction licences in the Broads, the regular animal activist protests at Norwich Livestock Market, and rural crime such as thefts and hare-coursing.
But the group also discussed the impact of national issues including the availability of migrant labour after Brexit, and the implications of new agricultural and environmental policies for Norfolk farming.
READ MORE: Farmers urged to harness Norfolk's political power base to avoid cheap food 'crisis'
NFU Norfolk county adviser John Newton, who organised the event, said: "There was good discussion on all these subjects, and I certainly think the MPs understood these issues better after speaking to us.
"It was very positive. To get that number of MPs turning out is quite remarkable, really. They are extremely busy with Brexit at the moment and so this was a great opportunity for our members to put their points directly to their MPs."
READ MORE: Farming's tech revolution can only succeed if we get Brexit right, says MP
Although Norfolk's farming sector faces many challenges in the coming months, one of the most immediate relates to the review of 250 irrigation licences in the catchment of the rivers Ant, Bure and Thurne in order to comply with environmental regulations.
New NFU Norfolk chairman Nick Deane challenged environment secretary Michael Gove directly on this subject last week at the unions' national conference, saying the proposals to revoke 21 abstraction licences would "destroy some farming businesses".
But Mr Newton said it was important to also reinforce the message through Norfolk MPs.
"For some, water licensing may not have appeared on their radar before, " he said. "MPs around the Broads were aware of it, but those further afield in the county were probably less so. We undertook to give them further briefings and they said they will take it up with Mr Gove.
"I think it is very important because it backs up our lobbying and the more pressure we can apply on these subjects, the more likely we are to get a resolution."
South West Norfolk MP Ms Truss, a former Defra secretary, said: "It was extremely helpful to have the discussion with Norfolk farmers particularly focusing on the challenges that they face with water abstraction, future funding models and more robust systems in place to tackle rural crime, hare coursing and fly tipping. I have asked to meet Norfolk chief constable Simon Bailey to address these concerns."
Wereham farmer Ed Lankfer, who attended the meeting in Westminster, said: 'It was good to meet the MPs and discuss the issues faced. As a farmer, we operate in remote locations with a lot of valuable equipment. I am keen to see more protection against rural crime, theft, illegal hare coursing and fly tipping."
Other Norfolk farmers making the journey to London included Nick Deane, Tony Bambridge, Will Sands, Ken Proctor, Graham Shadrack, Tim Place, Jamie Lockhart, James Woodhouse, Jake Fiennes and Tim Papworth.
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SpongeBob SquarePants is the main protagonist, and the eponymous character, of the Nickelodeon animated comedy series of the same name.
He has starred alongside characters from "The Fairly OddParents!" in the Nicktoons video games, "Nicktoons Unite!", "Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island" and "Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots". He also has appeared in several of the Nickmas Shorts.
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Nicktoons Unite! Series
When SpongeBob discovers Plankton had taken over the Bikini Bottom, a porthole opens and Goddard comes out right in front of him and Gary, scaring him. His screen opens and Jimmy Neutron appears on it and explains to SpongeBob that Plankton teamed up with the rest of the Nickelodeon villains, Vlad Plasmius, Professor Finbarr Calamitous and Denzel Crocker. SpongeBob then follows Goddard through the porthole to Jimmy's Lab. SpongeBob arrives in Jimmy's Lab where he meets Jimmy, Danny Phantom and Timmy Turner. SpongeBob then teams up with the other Nicktoons on their mission to stop the villains and save their worlds. After the villains were defeated and their worlds were saved, SpongeBob says Jimmy can visit him in the Bikini Bottom anytime and they become friends. SpongeBob meets Timmy and his GodParents again a couple more times in the other Nickoons games. In Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island, SpongeBob, Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda and the other Nicktoons team up to stop an evil enemy called the Mawgu. Jimmy Neutron is the only Nicktoon that's not a playable character but instead the one who always makes contact with SpongeBob, Timmy, his GodParents and the other Nicktoons. In Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots, he, Patrick and Tak find Timmy and his Fairy GodParents in Calamitous' Toybot Factory and save them. He, Patrick and the rest of the Nicktoons then battle their way to fight of Calamitous' Toybot army.
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Vanessa Williams will 'Save the Best for Last' at Segerstrom Concert Hall Pops concert
To prime time audiences, Vanessa Williams is best known for "Ugly Betty," "Desperate Housewives," "The Good Wife" and, of course, the Miss America pageant.
But it's her voice that's won her the most professional acclaim — on Broadway, on film soundtracks and on the charts. Her 11 Grammy nominations — and one Tony nomination — eclipse her three Emmy nominations for "Betty." Her 2007 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame depicts a spinning record, not a motion picture camera.
"Broadway combines everything: a live audience, you get to play a character, you work with an ensemble that's incredible, and you work with a great director," said Williams, 55, who made her Broadway debut in "Kiss of the Spider Woman, first as an understudy to, then replacement of, Chita Rivera in the title role.
"She was one of my idols, and to follow her into the role of this unique and amazing show was both alluring and scary. And it was filled with wonderful dance numbers. I grew up wanting to perform on Broadway, where I definitely feel like I'm home," she said.
So it follows that the Pacific Symphony chose Williams to open its Pops Series Oct. 12 and 13 at the Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. She knows the Great American Songbook, as well as her way around an orchestra.
"I've been touring with symphonies since 1997," said Williams, who joins the San Francisco Symphony in December. "I get to hear real strings. I love that richness of having an orchestra play your songs."
With the Pacific Symphony and with her band, Williams will sing many of her iconic songs, including "Dreamin'," "Save the Best for Last," "Love Is," "The Way That You Love" and "Colors of the Wind," the 1995 Academy Award winner for Best Song.
"They [at the Oscar ceremony] acknowledged my part in making 'Colors' such a hit," said Williams, who can also be heard singing it during the end credits of Disney's "Pocahontas."
While in Orange County, Williams plans to visit her youngest child, Sasha Fox, who is majoring in film as a freshman at Chapman University in Orange. Another daughter, Jillian Hervey, is a singer-dancer.
"With Sasha gone, I've got an empty nest, so I now have time to do more," Williams said.
Such as recording her ninth and latest studio album, an as-yet-untitled CD of standards.
"These are songs I've sung throughout my life, from high school to now, and therefore reflect my life," she said, adding that the CD should be released sometime next year.
The songs demonstrate Broadway, pop and rhythm 'n' blues influences.
She also wrapped production on a theatrical film, "Bad Hair," and a TV movie, "False Profits."
As if not busy enough, Williams is also heavily involved in charitable causes, notably the Special Olympics.
An unusual project that saw fruition in 2012 was a book Williams, daughter of music educators, co-wrote with her mother, Helen. It's the one with a lengthy subtitle — "You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)."
Although it reveals many memories sensitive to Williams, this is not one of those tell-all books that felt therapeutic to write.
"It wasn't therapy because I didn't write it harboring resentment," she explained. "It's a book of our lives, our obstacles, our tragedies. It's not stuck in the past, and it's filled with teachable moments. I've been asked several times to write my memoirs, and I usually turn them down, as I'm still too young.
"Then I thought of asking my mother about doing this as a dual story. So you get my story and my mother's account of that same story, which often differs. It just goes to show you have no idea what goes on behind your back, behind the scenes."
Who: Vocalist Vanessa Williams.
What: Pacific Symphony Pops Series Opener, Richard Kaufman, conductor.
When: 8 p.m. Oct. 12-13 p.m.
Where: Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa.
Cost: Tickets start at $46
Information: (714) 755-5799, pacificsymphony.org.
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Billy Joe Saunders: 'Performances like that scare the likes of Canelo and Golovkin'
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BILLY JOE SAUNDERS has vowed to "school" both Gennady Golovkin and Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez following his master-class WBO world middleweight title victory over David Lemieux in Montreal on Saturday night.
MTK Global-managed Saunders oozed class as he cruised to a dominant unanimous-decision points win over former IBF world champion Lemieux.
The Hatfield native, who is now based in Sheffield under trainer Dominic Ingle, was awarded every round on one judge's card, 120-108, while the other officials scored the bout a lop-sided 118-110, 117-111 to make it a shutout.
Saunders (now 26-0, 12KO), having come through his third world title defence and extending his undefeated record, reiterated his desire to meet Golovkin or 'Canelo' if the latter pair cannot agree on terms for a rematch in 2018.
"I've come into this guy's backyard and schooled him," said Saunders. "I've done it to Lemieux and now I'll do it to Canelo and I'll do it to Golovkin. I'll fight them anytime, any place, anywhere and they both know it.
"I'll give them a boxing lesson. The bookies and some others claimed this was a 50-50 fight against Lemieux and it was nothing but a money-maker for punters who know a good bet when they see one.
"Performances like that scare the likes of Canelo and Golovkin off. When you perform like that and you look like you're a million dollars, they don't want a piece of it."
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Sitting at ringside, lineal world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who is advised by MTK, hailed the performance as Saunders' "best ever" performance and "a master-class boxing display" before adding: "I'm thinking, 'what does Canelo Alvarez make of this?'"
The 28-year-old southpaw bamboozled the heavy-handed Canadian, who landed little throughout the bout, with the champion openly mocking his opponent's failure to catch him.
Saunders landed a big right hand early on in the seventh, staggering his foe, before bloodying the home fighter's nose with a left hand moments later.
While Lemieux attempted to finish strongly, catching Saunders late on in the penultimate round, the champion was unruffled and eased to victory.
"It was easy because Dominic [Ingle, trainer] told me what to do and everything that he said would happen happened," said Saunders. "We've been working hard for months together and I'm a new fighter and nearly the finished article.
"I'll get my belt home, enjoy Christmas with my family and get back into the gym in the new year and I'll polish things up to be the best I can be. I'll make sure I'm ready for whatever comes next. There'll be no slacking off," added the MTK Global-backed middleweight.
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Olympic Torch Relay Comes to Salt Lake City
By Todd Warshaw
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(Editor's note: Part 1 of Todd's adventure following the Olympic torch around the USA can be found in Sports Shooter v. 38.)
February 1: First thing in the morning we head to Garden of the Gods Park outside Colorado Springs. Amazing rock formations, and a very clear bright morning. The shot running around Balanced Rock is perfect, despite a couple operational problems as the torchbearer came through.
Most of the day is in the mountains, through small towns and mining areas, including Leadville- the highest altitude on the relay at 10,200 feet. Our security runners don't seem to be affected much (although their rotation got a lot quicker!), but the few times I had to get out and run for a shot- ugh. No thanks; I'll stick with oxygen-rich sea level!
The final shot for the day is a downhill skier at Vail, where it's chillingly cold with huge crowds- bigger than they had for the last world championship skiing event. Finally on to the hotel 60 miles away, where I get tasked with shooting credential mug shots for the staff involved with opening ceremonies.
Not exactly my idea of a relaxing evening, but I track down the 20 - odd people and get their pics, then take care of transmitting them to the SLOC command center. I'm on the list as well, although it's unlikely I'll be in the stadium. While it would be nice to see the FINAL torch run, I'm not too concerned since I've seen nearly the rest of them!
February 2: Our first shot out of the gate is, of all bizarre things, a swimmer taking the torch across a hot springs pool in Glenwood Springs. Why not, it's only 12 degrees out?! We advance to the pool, and between the video and still group, the advance team organizing the site, etc there are about 20 of us.
On a pool deck completely shrouded in steam, it's a challenge not to step into the pool! It's also a little disconcerting to us since if we can't see each other, how can we POSSIBLY see the torchbearer or flame?!
We're blessed with a day 'off' tomorrow, so the advance staff has set up a nice evening. We have a few videos of the staff, one of all the dogs we see along the way, and a slide show from my work. Lots of fun and time to relax without a 5 am wake up call.
Photo by Todd Warshaw/Pool/Getty Images
February 3: There really isn't a day off here, just a staging day. The following day we'll cover nearly 600 miles, so we have to stage vehicles and staff throughout Utah and Northern AZ.
For the core caravan group (about 40 of us) we head to Moab, for a scouting trip to Delicate Arch in Arches National Park. We'll also be doing a dress rehearsal of the ceremony at Delicate. It's a fun hike - cool clean morning.
We get to spend a couple hours up at the arch waiting for all the people involved to arrive, very mellow and relaxing. Last time I was here it was 105 degrees - not so much fun!!
After hiking back down (its about 2 miles each way) we organize things at the hotel and on Media 1 for the upcoming week, then settle down for a Super Bowl party with the crew. It was fun to watch a pretty good game and be able to enjoy it with some friends. Thankfully it's over early, since we roll at 4:00 am the next day. 45 states down, one to go.
February 4: Yup, it's early. Getting up at 3:30 am is just not appealing. After arriving at the Delicate Arch parking lot a couple of us head up immediately.
It's 5 am and totally dark, just some moonlight and the stars. GREAT hike. We weren't especially in a hurry - the site was already scouted and our positions were set, but it was 10 degrees and the only way to keep warm was to keep hiking.
The National Park Service had marked the trail with glow-sticks every 30 yards or so, without those we would have been in trouble. Even after hiking it the day before, it looks completely different in the dark.
They also took care of limiting the number of people and checking credential lists - more stringently than many sporting events I've done. That kept the crush of media and VIP's to a manageable number, especially since there is a very limited amount of space.
Eventually we head back to the airport for the flight over to Bryce Canyon National Park. Not a bad area to fly low over! The Bryce running is a bit chaotic. It's a short distance over a pretty narrow route, so there's not much room for leeway.
Still able to get some nice images and got just a bit more running in as well!
By now I've gone since 4 am without food, and it's starting to show. Luckily about now it's dark, and I'm able to catch a lift to the hotel with one of our out-bound shuttle buses. After some quick transmitting and the best meal I've had all day, time for some rest!
February 5: It would be impossible to top the day we had yesterday and we have NOTHING today but running. No boats, no bikes, no alternative transportation to break up the day.
It's probably the toughest day of the relay in terms of pictures - no way to compare to yesterday's vistas and parks! But of course we still have to get through it, and we have a very smooth (and dull) day. It's a very rowdy crowd as we come through Provo - not what we expected near BYU!
February 6: To start off the day, we head out to the middle of a field south of SLC and wait for a re-enactment of the Pony Express to carry the torch past us. It seems sort of bizarre - there are 7 of us (video, drivers, myself) in the field, nothing in sight, 3 degrees as the sun rises.
Photo by Todd Warshaw/Pool/Getty Images
Whatever, by now we're used to this! It's a beautiful morning as the flame comes past our position. Then we jump ahead to Salt Lake (the actual lake) for a boat segment - the last boat segment of the relay! We don our 'relay team' life jackets (which made a great souvenir!) and then, for some reason we have yet to figure out, we sat at the dock for 15 minutes as the flame began it's trip.
WHAT?! Wilson (the team video guy) and I try to convince them to launch, that we have to be able to SEE the flame to get any images of it and they tell us we all have to wait. We never heard a good reason why. When we finally do, we're so far back we don't see the boat we're after until the last TWO minutes of the ride --- 70 minutes! We see the flame for all of 2 minutes, during which time we shot right past it and the pilot refused to do a circle so we could shoot some more. Frustrating. And a preview of how little the purple jackets mean to anyone in Utah...
Our hotel tonight will be our final hotel - 3 nights in the same place!!! Of course, we're 2 hours late and get in at 1:30 am, so that excitement is not too evident with anyone the next morning!
February 7: Lots of small towns today, we're covering a good volume of torchbearers the last 2 days. One of the best moments of the relay is in Ogden early in the morning. Marland Turner is a high school janitor, he writes poems before every football and basketball game, and hasn't missed a game in nearly 30 years - the students absolutely adore him. He is the true definition of community inspiration, and when he runs, the ENTIRE school runs with him, probably 1000 people cramming both sides of the street and making their way down the route.
As we get to SLC the security is very evident. We get a first-hand look at the athlete's village as we run through, and then end up at the State Capitol, where there is a symbolic ceremony lighting off the Olympic rings built into the hillside high above the city.
The evening is wrapping up at the City-County building in downtown, where the last few torchbearers include Kristi Yamaguchi and John Stockton. The crowds are impressive, but nowhere near as intense as the small towns earlier in the day!
February 8: LAST DAY!!! We roll early- start running at 5:30 am. It's WARM out as we leave the hotel --- 50 degrees-plus. Odd. As the second torchbearer takes the flame, it was like someone flipped a switch - in an instant we had 40-mph winds, the temp dropped 30 degrees, and it started snowing.
Photo by Todd Warshaw/Pool/Getty Images
WOW! A transformer blew, so the street was pitch black. We had a couple hours of snow and cold, then it finally cleared. Again, just packed streets and great crowds. We have a very stringent time requirement tonight (something about a worldwide live audience of nearly 3 BILLION people), and the crowds are slowing us a lot. We cut 40 minutes of break time in 3 breaks down to 10 minutes in 1 break, and make up most of our time.
About 3 pm we get the word that we will have tickets to the opening ceremonies, courtesy of JetSet Sports, our merchandising partner for the relay. It's a great gift that the crew absolutely deserves - everyone involved has dedicated somewhere between the last 70 days to 6 YEARS of their lives to this project, and tonight is the culmination.
Most of the crew has been released and gets to see the entire ceremony - us core caravan people will stay with the flame until close to the end.
When we roll up to the stadium we bail out and run to our seats, getting in just in time to see the USA team enter the stadium. It was an amazing ceremony, and when the flame finally enters the stadium you could almost hear the 200 people in purple breathe a sigh of relief and excitement! As soon as the cauldron bursts into flame, we run back to the trucks and head off to our FINAL party.
Well, we did it. Seems like a VERY long time ago (longer than the lengthy 70 days it actually was) we met up in Atlanta and did drive school.
As I started my next assignment (some corporate work for the games), my colleagues wanted to know how I survived, how I was able to keep going the whole trip. The very simple reason was the people.
Everyone on the staff was simply amazing - no matter how early/late/cold/tired/sick/etc we all were, someone picked you up and made you realize why this was going to be another amazing day. EVERY day.
Not just because of the inspiring torchbearers, or the crowds who waited for hours for our arrival, it was that and the fact that our crew, our team was always taking care of each other. It's hard to describe how much difference that makes. It made this once-in-a-lifetime experience just that, and above all else it made this possible.
(The 2004 Olympic Torch Relay en route to Athens, Greece is projected to be a 5.5 month tour of 5 continents and 130 countries --- ready?)
(What do Todd Warshaw and Sports Shooter publisher Bert Hanashiro have in common? Great photographers? Fine human beings? Fabulous taste in clothes and wine? NO! They're both Fresno State Bulldogs!)
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