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Attorney General Downplays Ties To MPAA... Just As NY Times Reveals MPAA Actually Wrote The Letter He Sent Google
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Hood said the MPAA "has no major influence on my decision-making," although he noted that content creators occasionally provide reports and advice to him. "They're just reporting wrongdoing. There's nothing unusual about that," he said. Hood said he has never asked MPAA a legal question, isn't sure which lawyers they employ, and doesn't think he's ever met the organization's general counsel.Okay. Now keep that above paragraph in mind as you read the latest report from the NY Times, in which reporters Nick Wingfield and Eric Lipton (who just a few months ago had written that big article on questionable lobbying of Attorneys General) dig deeper into the Sony emails concerning the MPAA and AGs Jim Hood and Jon Bruning from Nebraska. The Times also uses some public records requests to show that the infamous letter that Hood sent to Google was almost entirely written by the MPAA's lawyers. You can see the whole thing at the link, but this thumbnail shows a pretty long letter with the only parts actually written by Hood's office being the intro at the top in green and a few minor word choices. All the rest came from the MPAA's lawyers at Jenner and Block.
The NY Times further uncovers that the "go-between" for the MPAA and Hood is a lobbyist the MPAA hired to run an MPAA front group. That lobbyist? Hood's predecessor and close friend:
The movie industry, through a nonprofit group it funded called Digital Citizens Alliance, picked the perfect lobbyist to squeeze Mr. Hood: Mike Moore. Mr. Moore was Mr. Hood's predecessor as Mississippi attorney general and helped start Mr. Hood's political career. He remains a close friend of the attorney general and travels with him frequently; he has even played a role in helping Mr. Hood get elected as the president of the National Association of Attorneys General, emails obtained by The Times show.That front group, the "Digital Citizens Alliance," is one we discussed earlier this year, when it released a report about "evil" cyberlockers based on a misreading of two debunked studies. Certain cyberlockers have demanded a retraction of the report because of its ridiculous and shoddy methodology. In other words, the Alliance is not exactly the most trustworthy of operations -- and it's hired Jim Hood's best buddy and political mentor. But Hood wants us to believe that this group has no influence on him?
Even other Attorneys General find the situation questionable:
Peggy Lautenschlager, who served as attorney general in Wisconsin, said that the role that the movie industry had played in pushing Mr. Hood, through Mr. Moore and others, was inappropriate. "A private interest is influencing some attorneys general's offices," she said.Meanwhile, others are trying to understand why Jim Hood is so close with the MPAA at all, since Mississippi doesn't even have much of a connection to the film business:
That makes his behavior all the more unusual since Mississippi has almost no economic interest in the movie industry. Indeed, the state lacks a major film school, doesn't house production for a single scripted TV show, and has served as the main shooting location for only 5 widely released movies over the past decade. The MPAA itself says that the state has a total of 242 film-and-television-production related jobs; one of the smallest per-capita totals in the nation. All-in-all Mississippi has more people who make their living arranging flowers (460, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' databases) than in film and TV production. Maybe Jim Hood really likes hanging out with movie moguls?Hood's stated reasoning makes even less sense:
"Google's not a government, they may think they are, but they don't owe anyone a First Amendment right," Hood told The Huffington Post. "If you're an illegal site, you ought to clean up your act, instead of Google making money off it."It appears Hood is quite confused about, well, nearly everything. No, Google doesn't "owe anyone" a First Amendment right, but the government does. And here it appears that Hood -- a government representative -- is flat out supporting a censorship list of websites that must be blocked. Furthermore, he doesn't seem to understand the difference between a search engine and actually hosting or uploading infringing content. He also doesn't seem to recognize the history of blacklists and the fact that they always over-censor. Nor does he seem to understand how Google functions. All of these things would be rather easy to find out -- but just as easy to ignore if the MPAA is the one giving you all your talking points and legal documents.
Hood recalled a meeting in Boston, where a high school girl demonstrated to attorneys general how easy it was for her to find a violent version of "Django Unchained" on the Internet. "Some of the AGs were amazed at that real-time example of what Google is assisting," Hood said.
Hood has "tried to get Google to delist several sites," relating to pharmaceuticals. He said he views movies and music piracy as "insignificant" to state prosecutors, compared with more serious types of crime. But Hood said he would support a nonprofit organization coming up with a list of piracy sites that Google would remove from search results. He argued that current copyright law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, isn't adequate, because a website can get millions of takedown notices, but still do business as usual.
Meanwhile, the original letters revealed that the MPAA was looking for other Attorneys General it could convince to get in on the game, and the NY Times notes that a clear target is Nebraska's Jon Bruning:
The movie association and its member companies, the messages show, have assigned a team of lawyers to prepare draft subpoenas and legal briefs for the attorneys general. And the groups have delivered campaign contributions — with several movie studios sending checks — to Jon Bruning, the Republican attorney general of Nebraska, who was helping push their cause, and who made an unsuccessful bid for governor this year.Meanwhile, the reaction to all of this has been fascinating. I've seen multiple lawyers connected to Hollywood have kneejerk reactions that paying for an investigation, coordinating all of the efforts including writing up the letters and subpoenas, is just normal, everyday "aggressive competition." Yet, these are the same people who go out there and claim that you sharing a copy of a movie you liked with someone else is morally bankrupt and evil. Some people, it seems, have a different moral compass. Frankly, private companies financing government investigations of other private companies seems a hell of a lot more morally questionable than someone sharing a copy of a film they like.


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Infectious Mononucleosis
Patient Education
- Herpesviruses
- Overview of Herpesvirus Infections
- Chickenpox
- Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infection
- Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) Infections
- Genital Herpes
- Herpes Zoster
- Infectious Mononucleosis
Infectious mononucleosis is caused by Epstein-Barr virus (EBV, human herpesvirus type 4) and is characterized by fatigue, fever, pharyngitis, and lymphadenopathy. Fatigue may persist weeks or months. Severe complications, including airway obstruction, splenic rupture, and neurologic syndromes, occasionally occur. Diagnosis is clinical or with EBV serologic testing. Treatment is supportive.
EBV is a herpesvirus that infects 50% of children before age 5. Over 90% of adults are seropositive for EBV. Its host is humans.
EBV infection is usually asymptomatic.
After initial replication in the nasopharynx, the virus infects B cells. Morphologically abnormal (atypical) lymphocytes develop, mainly from CD8+ T cells that respond to the infection.
After primary infection, EBV remains within the host, primarily in B cells, for life and undergoes intermittent asymptomatic shedding from the oropharynx. The virus is detectable in oropharyngeal secretions of 15 to 25% of healthy EBV-seropositive adults. Shedding increases in frequency and titer in immunocompromised patients (eg, organ allograft recipients, HIV-infected people).
EBV has not been recovered from environmental sources and is not very contagious.
Transmission may occur via transfusion of blood products but much more frequently occurs via kissing between an uninfected and an EBV-seropositive person who is shedding the virus asymptomatically. Only about 5% of patients acquire EBV from someone who has acute infection.
Early childhood transmission occurs more frequently among lower socioeconomic groups and in crowded conditions.
Associated disorders
Symptoms and Signs
In most young children, primary EBV infection is asymptomatic. Symptoms of infectious mononucleosis develop most often in older children and adults.
The incubation period is about 30 to 50 days. Fatigue can last for months but is usually maximal during the first 2 to 3 wk.
Most patients have the triad of
Fever usually peaks in the afternoon or early evening, with a temperature around 39.5° C, although it may reach 40.5° C.
Pharyngitis may be severe, painful, and exudative and may resemble streptococcal pharyngitis.
Adenopathy is usually symmetric and may involve any group of nodes, particularly the anterior and posterior cervical chains. Adenopathy may be the only manifestation.
Other symptoms include
Splenomegaly, which occurs in about 50% of cases, is maximal during the 2nd and 3rd wk and usually results in only a barely palpable splenic tip.
Although recovery is usually complete, complications may be dramatic.
Neurologic complications are rare but may include encephalitis, seizures, Guillain-Barré syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, viral meningitis, myelitis, cranial nerve palsies, and psychosis. Encephalitis may manifest with cerebellar dysfunction, or it may be global and rapidly progressive, similar to herpes simplex encephalitis, but is usually self-limited.
Hematologic complications are usually self-limited. They include
Transient mild granulocytopenia or thrombocytopenia occurs in about 50% of patients; severe cases, associated with bacterial infection or bleeding, occur less frequently. Hemolytic anemia is often due to anti-i-specific cold-agglutinin antibodies.
Splenic rupture can have severe consequences. It can result from splenic enlargement and capsular swelling, which are maximal 10 to 21 days after presentation. A history of trauma is present only about half of the time. Rupture is usually painful but occasionally causes painless hypotension. For treatment, see Splenic Injury : Treatment.
Respiratory complications include, rarely, upper airway obstruction due to pharyngeal or paratracheal lymphadenopathy; respiratory complications may respond to corticosteroids. Clinically silent interstitial pulmonary infiltrates occur mostly in children and are usually visible on x-rays.
Hepatic complications include elevated aminotransferase levels (about 2 to 3 times normal, returning to baseline over 3 to 4 wk); they occur in about 95% of patients. If jaundice or more severe enzyme elevations occur, other causes of hepatitis should be investigated.
Overwhelming infection with EBV occurs sporadically but may cluster in families, particularly those with X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome. Survivors of overwhelming primary EBV infection are at risk of developing agammaglobulinemia or lymphoma.
Infectious mononucleosis should be suspected in patients with typical symptoms and signs. Exudative pharyngitis, anterior cervical lymphadenopathy, and fever may be clinically indistinguishable from those caused by group A β-hemolytic streptococci. However, posterior cervical or generalized adenopathy or hepatosplenomegaly suggests infectious mononucleosis. Moreover, detection of streptococci in the oropharynx does not exclude infectious mononucleosis.
Differential diagnosis
Primary HIV infection can produce a clinical picture resembling acute EBV infection. If patients have risk factors for HIV infection, the following should be done:
HIV enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)/Western blot is usually negative during the acute infection and thus should not be used alone to diagnose early primary HIV infection. Quantitative HIV RNA and p24 antigen detection are more sensitive for diagnosing acute HIV infection because HIV RNA and p24 antigen are present in blood before HIV antibodies develop
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) may cause a syndrome similar to infectious mononucleosis, with atypical lymphocytosis as well as hepatosplenomegaly and hepatitis but usually not with severe pharyngitis.
Toxoplasmosis, hepatitis B, rubella, or atypical lymphocytes associated with adverse drug reactions can also cause infectious mononucleosis–like syndromes. These syndromes can usually be distinguished by their other clinical features or by specific testing.
Laboratory tests
Laboratory diagnosis usually involves a CBC and EBV serologic testing. Lymphocytes that are morphologically atypical account for up to 30% of the WBCs. Although individual lymphocytes may resemble leukemic lymphocytes, lymphocytes are heterogeneous, which is unlikely in leukemia. Atypical lymphocytes may also be present in HIV or CMV infection, hepatitis B, influenza B, rubella, or other viral illnesses, so diagnosis requires serologic testing. However, very high atypical lymphocyte counts are typically seen only in primary EBV and CMV infection.
Two serologic tests are used to diagnose acute EBV infection:
Heterophile antibodies are measured using various agglutination card (monospot) tests. However, heterophile antibodies are present in only 50% of patients <5 yr and in about 80 to 90% of adolescents and adults with infectious mononucleosis. Importantly, the heterophile antibody test may be false-positive in some patients with acute HIV infection. The titer and prevalence of heterophile antibodies rise during the 2nd and 3rd wk of illness. Thus, if the diagnosis is strongly suspected but the heterophile antibody test is negative, repeating the test after 7 to 10 days of symptoms is reasonable.
If the test remains negative, antibodies to EBV should be measured. The presence of IgM antibodies to the EBV viral capsid antigen (VCA) indicates primary EBV infection (these antibodies disappear within 3 mo after infection). IgG VCA (EBV VCA-IgG) also develops early in primary EBV infection, but these antibodies persist for life. EBV nuclear antigen (EBNA-IgG) antibodies develop later (perhaps after 8 wk) in acute EBV infection and also persist for life. If EBV antibody titers are negative or indicate remote infection (ie, positive for IgG antibodies and negative for IgM antibodies), other diagnoses (eg, acute HIV infection, CMV infection) should be considered.
Infectious mononucleosis is usually self-limited. Duration of illness varies; the acute phase lasts about 2 wk. Generally, 20% of patients can return to school or work within 1 wk, and 50% within 2 wk. Fatigue may persist for several more weeks or, in 1 to 2% of cases, for months.
Death occurs in < 1%, mostly resulting from complications (eg, encephalitis, splenic rupture, airway obstruction).
Treatment is supportive. Patients are encouraged to rest during the acute phase but can resume activity when fever, pharyngitis, and malaise abate. To prevent splenic rupture, patients should avoid heavy lifting and contact sports for 1 mo after presentation and until splenomegaly (which can be monitored by ultrasonography) resolves.
Although corticosteroids hasten defervescence and relieve pharyngitis, they generally should not be used in uncomplicated disease. Corticosteroids can be helpful for complications such as impending airway obstruction, severe thrombocytopenia, and hemolytic anemia. Although oral or IV acyclovir decreases oropharyngeal shedding of EBV, there is no convincing evidence to warrant its clinical use.
Key Points
EBV infection is very common; the virus remains within the host for life and is intermittently and asymptomatically shed from the oropharynx.
Only about 5% of patients acquire EBV from someone who has acute infection.
Typical manifestations include fatigue (sometimes persisting weeks or rarely months), fever, pharyngitis, splenomegaly, and lymphadenopathy.
Uncommon severe complications include encephalitis and other neurologic manifestations, splenic rupture, airway obstruction due to tonsillar enlargement, hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and jaundice.
Do heterophile antibody testing and sometimes specific EBV antibody testing.
Provide supportive care and recommend avoidance of heavy lifting and contact sports; antivirals are not indicated.
Consider corticosteroids for complications such as impending airway obstruction, severe thrombocytopenia, and hemolytic anemia.
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Residents were left to fend for themselves following a strike by the drivers of the City Bus Service on Saturday. Buses did not ply on roads till afternoon as the drivers alleged a senior official of Prasanna Purple Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd allegedly misbehaved with them on Friday when they raised the matter of a colleague being slapped by a cop.
However, a compromise was reached between the police and the protesting drivers on Friday.
Prasanna Purple Mobility Solutions maintains and operates City Bus Service. After going on protest, the drives also started demanding hike in salaries and sought that their working time should be fixed for eight hours in a day. They also refused to do night duty and asked the company to issue them salary slips.
On Saturday, when majority of drivers were sitting on protest outside the workshop on Tajpur Road, a driver, who was not participating in the protest, challenged his protesting colleagues he will operate bus as usual. The protesting and non-protesting employees entered into a scuffle following which both parties made police complaints against each other.
Driver Gurcharan Singh alleged that the protesting drivers had beaten him up when he tried to operate the bus, while supervisor Avtar Singh Gandhi alleged that the protesting drivers had beaten him up and also used abusive language.
On the other hand, Parjit Singh, who was leading the group of protesting drivers, claimed that Avtar Singh and Gurcharan misbehaved with them and entered into scuffle with them. He alleged that they also beat up a few of their protesting employees.
On the intervention of the police, the employees postponed their protest for five days. "If our demands are not fulfilled, we will again stage protest," said Parjit.
The protesting drivers also accused the authorities that their salaries were being deducted without any reason.
Aha rassed passenger, Deepinder Singh, said, "This is only harassment as the City Bus Service employees go on strike after every few days. The authorities concerned have failed to think about passengers who suffer the most due to these strikes."


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Challenge 63 - Cuddly!
Wayhey there folks! I'm guessing you're all settled into 2011 by now? So did you all make some resolutions for the New Year? You know all the usual culprits like a diet, less stash shopping (very drastic in my opinion!), resolve to be tidier in your craft areas (another impossible one for me!) Now you'll all be impressed to hear that I've made the same resolution that I've had for a couple of years. Now I can say hand on my heart that I've stuck solidly to this resolution. Mine is not to eat any tripe or cow heel! And yes not one piece has crossed my lips. Oh for you oversees readers Google it for images - you'll see why it was so easy to avoid!
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Collective wisdom (or the collective unconscious – information available to all of us) often remains hidden until a real effort is made to uncover the knowledge available. While a vault can represent a tomb, it also represents the 'archives' or records to which we all have access.
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Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and its financial center, with organizations and companies such as FIFA and Google residing there. The cosmopolitan city is home to many foreigners, making it a unique destination, and is also known for its food scene and its classical arts — opera, ballet, concerts and theaters. Many people come through Zurich as it has the biggest international airport in the country. Some make it their final destination, while others go on to explore other European countries or the nearby Swiss Alps.
The main sights of the city are located within the Old Town and include the churches Grossmünster and Fraumünster; Landesmuseum, a Swiss history museum; Kunsthaus, an art museum; Lathe lake promenade; Schanzengraben, an old canal; Jacob Coffee Museum; and Bahnhofstrasse, an expensive shopping street. Niederdorf is another shopping area, one that comes alive at night due to its many bars. If you want to see the whole city at once, journey up to Lindenhof, a high point that provides a view of the river and Old Town. It's also historically significant — Charlemagne's grandson built a palace on the site in the 9th century.
Zurich is known as the gateway to the Alps, and for good reason. Mountains surround the city, and tourists can choose one of many options to visit them. Mount Rigi, known as "the Queen of the Mountains" can be reached by cable car. Mount Pilatus, near Lake Lucerne is accessed via the world's steepest cog rail. Junfraujoch can be reached by railroad and is so high you can see the summits of many surrounding mountains from the top of it. Or, Mount Titlis, about 1.5 hours south of Zurich, has the highest vantage point in the country. If you're looking for a city getaway, venture to Lucerne, an ancient town just an hour away by train. The beautiful city sits next to a lake, Lake Lucerne, on which you can take a sightseeing boat trip. While there, make sure to see the 14th-century city walls and walk over the Kapellbrücke, a scenic covered bridge. You can also take a trip into the mountains from Lucerne if you'd like to combine the two day trips into one.
Zurich is divided into 12 districts, or "Kreise." The majority of what you will be exploring is likely in Kreis 1, a central district that straddles the river and where the Old Town and Bahnhofstrasse reside. The other Kreise that are popular to stay in are 2, 4, and 5. Kreis 2 is the lakefront district that attracts a younger audience with its hostels and nightlife. Kreise 4 and 5 also have many clubs as well as art galleries. The two districts are connected by the Langstrasse through a tunnel underneath the railway tracks. Though it used to be the seedy area of the city, they now attract a young, hip crowd. If you want a more laidback vibe, Zurich Nord, or Kreis 11, is home to many businesses as well as houses and hotels to stay in.
Zurich has clean and efficient public transportation made up of trams, buses, trains, cable cars, and boats, meaning there's often more than one way to get from place to place. Tickets give you access to any of these modes of transportation; cost depends on how many fare zones you cross during your journey. There are different daily and monthly passes you can get if you plan on using the system frequently during your stay. Though most of the service ends at night, there is also a nighttime network of buses and trains that operate within the city.
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Several lessons came to mind, all arising from the local Dia de los Muertes. Top of mind: family and novel-writing do not mix. Yes, it's November again, time for National Novel Writing Month. While I thought it was a one-time exercise that I had done and left behind last year, peer pressure won't let me drop it just like that. So here I go again.
Except that my word count on Day One was a dismal zero. Well, perhaps I'll do better today. Besides, I have 29 days left to make up for it.
Inconducive to novel-writing as it might have been, it also turned out to be a day for reunions for family and friends. All Saint's Day (and the slightly less popular All Soul's) are hallowed events for Filipinos. Everyone troops to the cemeteries to pay their respects to the beloved departed. Hence, you're bound to meet everyone, too.
So, second lesson: the Day of the Dead is still very much the Day of the Living. While we do commemorate our dead, the rituals we play out are still ultimately for our benefit. They're quite simple, really, even neighborly. Armed with an ammunition of candles, we hop from one tombstone to another, visiting the graves of friends we once knew. Short prayers said, and then it's off to the "How-do-you-do's" and "Won't-you-have-some-tea's" with their relatives. Thus are old friendships rekindled.
The Dead don't really have much need for candles and flowers and Hell Money. Apparently, it's we the Living who do. It's a balm for our own spirits as we attempt to do them just one more kindness in their afterlife. Joined in common ritual, it becomes a social event. No one knows this better than Filipinos (and perhaps, our cultural brethren, the Mexicans). Thus, our festivities.
Which makes me sad to see the pictures of columbaries that are all the rage in metropolitan cities. Columbaries, the Philippine Daily Inquirer assures us, is The Way to Go (literally) for this modern millennium. Cremation is neat, cheap, and convenient; after which, the ashes are stuck into a safety deposit box (or what looks like one.)
It just looks so clinical, and therefore, very sad. Gone is the festive atmosphere that marks days like these. Instead, it feels like the visit to the bank. I wonder: do relatives check out the ashes from their cabinet that they might celebrate briefly with their dead in a small conference room? Or do they just hang miniature wreaths -- corsages, really -- on the cabinet door?
Years ago, just after my Grandmother died, my Grandfather insisted on building a mausoleum to house her remains. Following his practical design sense, the mausoleum turned out to be quite breezy, reminiscent more of a modern apartment than a creepy crypt. Thank goodness for that. Never mind the cost, he said, he wanted to show her how much he loved her.
Grandfather passed away four years ago, and we laid his body right beside Grandmother's. Thanks to his foresight, we now have a solid roof to shelter under whenever we pay them a visit. I'd like to think we're the envy of our neighbors. It's a little joke that brings a chuckle underneath my breath as I say my prayers. After all, what's a social affair without a little bit of one-upmanship?
Final lesson, this time from Grandfather: let your love not be pusillanimous.
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The SCA Annual Meeting & Workshops and the Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium are the world's premiere events for the sub-specialty of cardiovascular anesthesiology.
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The SCA holds three separate meetings per year with exhibit options. Breaks, refreshments and receptions are held with exhibitors in the exhibit hall. Exhibitors receive significant onsite exposure and networking opportunities as well as recognition in the syllabi, signage, onsite PowerPoint slides, e-newsletters to the 5,000 members and on the website which receives approximately 73,000 hits per month. Exhibitor product descriptions with live links to your information are posted on the SCA website for one year as a reference for physicians worldwide. Higher level exhibit fees provide higher benefits and recognition in the above areas, and they also help the SCA provide the educational and operational funding for these critical educational offerings. Your support for the organization is made well known to the leadership and does not go unnoticed.
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Contact the event managers listed below for more information about how you can participate at the SCA 38th Annual Meeting & Workshops / SCA 5th Annual Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium - Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists.
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Conference/Event Dates: | 04/01/2016 - 04/06/2016 |
Expo/Exhibit Dates: | 04/03/2016 - 04/05/2016 |
Expo/Exhibit Hours: | Sunday 3pm-4pm; Monday 7am-3:30pm and 5:30pm-6:30pm; Tuesday 7am-1:30pm |
First Move-In Date: | 04/02/2016 |
Classification: | B2B |
Primary Industry: | Anesthesiology |
Other Industries: | Anesthesiology, Associations, Cardiology, Professional Healthcare |
Estimated Attendance: | 1,000 |
Cost to Attend: | http://www.scahq.org/2016AnnualMeeting/RegistrationInformation.aspx |
Audience: | Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists |
Notes: | SCA 5th Annual Thoracic Anesthesia Symposium: April 1-2, 2016 Thoracic Exhibit Only: April 1, 2016 SCA 38th Annual Meeting & Workshops: April 2-6, 2016 |
Venue: | Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego |
Venue Phone: | (619) 232-1234 |
Venue Type: | Indoor - Hotel |
Official Conference Hotel: | Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego |
Conference Hotel URL: | http://manchestergrand.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html |
Number of Exhibitors: | Up to 40 Exhibitors / Sponsors |
Exhibit Floorplan: | Click Here |
Show Owner: | Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists (SCA) |
Show Manager: | Van Wie & Associates |
Sponsorship: | Yes |
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my 2 month old son is growing very well hes now 15 pounds and 62 cms and my mom gave him some diabetic pudding on his soother and is always letting him have little tastes of food is this ok or should i tell her to stop i have told her but she insists its ok
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Early solids are not a good idea. Their gut is not mature enough and can't handle it. You need to stand up to your mom and tell her to stop. This is your baby, you are the mom, not her. She needs to accept your decisions regarding your baby. If she can't, then she doesn't need to be left alone with him. Right now it is just a few bites here and there, later she will be giving him ice cream when you have told her not to. It's hard for grandparents to leave the parenting of their grandbaby to the parents. She still sees you as her baby and wants to help and that is normal and wonderful. But she needs to help they way you want her to, and she needs to let you make the decisions regarding your baby. She can not go behind your back and disregard your wishes.posted 10/05/2010 by momsangel03
Its ok, most of us are guilty of letting our LO have a taste of this or that. As long as none of its getting introduced as diet and its just a little nibble, he should be fine. Just keep an eye out for allergic reactions, but he should be ok.posted 10/04/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
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I was understandably irked after the whole "baby belly" incident of last week. I kept going back and forth between feeling like a soon-to-be superhuman exercise goddess and a disgusting slob. Yeah, I know that's harsh. But it really stuck with me. The slob won over for a bit and I spent a few days being upset and overeating. But I finally rescued myself before it got too out of hand. I realized that I was only making things worse, and while I maybe deserved a little pissin' and moanin' time, enough was enough. So I called my gym and set up my first of two free appointments with one of their trainers (a perk for joining the gym). She was able to see me pretty quickly, thank goodness.
Rachel was right on time. Cute and unintimidating, she made me feel at ease right away. She was fit, but not ripped or super skinny, which I liked. We talked for a little while about my current exercise routine, my diet, and the factors which determined my commitment to getting in shape. Of course, I told her about all of my jobs and caring for my mom. These, among other stressors, didn't deter my commitment, but they sure made it harder to focus. I told her I was weary and feeling defeated, but I was still going to give it my all, especially now that I was back at the gym. She seemed pleased, and eager to help.
Rachel let me through what I thought was going to be a fairly easy workout. It was a classic kind of workout, utilizing the machines, the hand weights, and the inflatable ball. I was familiar with all of these, but used to using them in the more boot camp style of Cross Fit. My old trainer and friend, Sandy, was a big fan of this method. It worked for a while, but really burned me out eventually. Perhaps this "gentler" approach would be just the thing I needed. But what I found was that it was actually pretty difficult, which was ok, but unexpected. I guess I really let myself lose that edge I had gained after working with Sandy so long. Not to worry, I was there, right? After the workout, Rachel and I chatted a bit and scheduled my next and final session. I wanted to do it quickly, in hopes of staying motivated. So we were on again the following Monday at 5 p.m.
I was really, really sore a few days after our first workout. Sore like I had a session with Sandy, which surprised me. Even rolling over in bed was agony. I felt so lame for being in that much pain, but it eventually subsided, as did that feeling. I was ready for round two. This time, Rachel, an avid runner, had me do a cardio interval workout. She stood one treadmill over and coached me through a thirty minute, 2.5 mile run. I don't think I have ever run that long without stopping, so I was pretty happy with myself at the end. After the run, she had me do sets of planks, squats, walking lunges, and bicep curls. I was exhausted, but feeling victorious. I told Rachel that I wished we could continue to work together, but that financial limitation made it impossible. She graciously offered her e-mail address, and told me that anytime I saw her around the gym, I should feel free to ask her questions.
I'm definitely feeling nervous about working out on my own. It's so much better to have someone there with you, telling you exactly what to do, and coaching you through it. But the real world doesn't work that way (except for maybe actors and famous athletes); I just have to deal with it. I have been given the tools, and have enough experience to do this on my own. I'm thinking that writing out workouts for the week in advance will help. But if my exercise journaling skills are anything like my food journaling ones, I'll be in trouble. Maybe I'll go out on a limb this week, and try to do both. That's some pretty positive thinking!
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It's a happening weekend in New Albany as the community's biggest annual event, Tallahatchie RiverFest, spotlights our community and its downtown.
Events got underway Thursday with the celebration of the Faulkner Literary Garden's 5th anniversary at the Union County Heritage Museum. Felder Rushing, Mississippi author and radio personality, was scheduled to be the highlight
Friday is the LiteracyFest and literacy competition awards. The event, sponsored by the New Albany Gazette, provides awards for writing to middle school students, high school students, adults and playwrights. Rushing will speak at the event at 10:30 a.m. in the Magnolia Civic Center.
The music on Friday starts at noon on the Bob Johnson Music Stage at the Courthouse with a variety of groups that will keep the stage occupied until nearly 11 p.m. Saturday begis with the 21sth annual BNA Bank Tallahatchie River Run. The one-half mile fun run starts at 8 a.m. and the 5K river run at 8:30.
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Music again starts at noon on the Courthouse stage. The major highlights are the Mosley and Johnson Band with Blues legend Sam Mosley accompanied by the Muscle Shoals Horns at 7:30 p.m. followed at 9 p.m. by long-time country music singer Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives.
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The light seeping in through the blinds, the slam of car doors sounding the start of the workday, and the soft patter of my housemates' drowsy, dragging footsteps downstairs signify the end of my nights.
Nighttime lends itself to a certain quiet, a certain clearness that the day just doesn't have for me. While others are happy to crawl into a cozy bed at an hour close to midnight and far from dawn, I am content and revitalized by the prospect of the long stretch of time ahead. I've always attributed these vampiric tendencies to some innate interest in the under-working of a city and its inhabitants, a fascination with the pun-ridden "darker side of things." (This has been my excuse for years, anyway, whenever someone sees me stumble out of bed just as the sun is going down.) The isolation that I often find at night is also just more conducive for work—it's a lot easier to hunker down and write an essay or a story when no one is awake to provide me with a distraction that I would undoubtedly welcome more often than not. But still, it is disconcerting at times to realize that everyone else is in my house is waking up as I'm trying to get to sleep, and it's often frustrating that everyone is going to sleep when I'm done with my obligations and raring to go.
I look to other creative minds for consolation; Karl Marx, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kafka all worked during the night. Sometimes I think of these people as the clock ticks away towards morning and wonder if they felt the same way, if they needed the backdrop of darkness to illuminate their work, if they fished something out of that dense expanse of night and twisted and chiseled it into something for themselves. There are no pretenses once the sun goes down; the bright, orderly appearance of the day is gone.
Night owl Frank Loesser, the American songwriter best known for his scores to Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, simply and eloquently captures a certain feeling that all night-dwellers can relate to:
My time of day is the dark time
A couple of deals before dawn
When the street belongs to the cop
And the janitor with the mop
And the grocery clerks are all gone.
The nighttime is an intimate setting; it is occupied by few, and few want to regularly occupy it. Loesser conveys the tone of this sparsely populated time of night and describes a reclaiming of sorts. Whether by choice or by necessity, the night owls are taking their share of the world around them; part of the 24-hour cycle is theirs, too. This "dark time" is Loesser's time of day.
Perhaps this feeling of simultaneous singularity—of being lone and independent against the vastness of the night along with the unity of being in the company of the few others who occupy the day's darker side—is what makes the night so appealing, especially for artists. This duality parallels the artist's mindset; the ultimate goal of any creative thinker is to be a unique individual (and distinct from the rest of the artsy hipsters). Yet at the same time, artists need a sense of community, a feeling of common purpose and connection with like-minded people. Achieving a balance between these two sentiments is difficult, but the night allows some momentary harmony.
Edward Hopper's Nighthawks illustrates this balance. Hopper depicts three customers and a worker in a late-night diner. It is an evocative piece, one that conjures up a lot of feelings at once. The bright, fluorescent-lit interior of the diner appears as a haven, a beacon in the dark, sleeping street surrounding it. The customers, the last remnants of the city's unsleeping world, have gathered here and are brought together by their common seclusion. They are at once isolated and united.
But this concept of the night as an artistic equilibrium is not just a speculation; science also comes into play. Recent studies have shown that night owls are simply just more likely to be creative thinkers. Although a full explanation has yet to be formulated, researchers say that this could be the result of an adaptation to living outside the norm. In short, it may not always be the creative mentality that causes an inclination towards nighttime. In fact, the inclination towards nighttime might be what causes a creative mentality. "Being in a situation which diverges from conventional habit—nocturnal types often experience this situation—may encourage the development of a non-conventional spirit and of the ability to find alternative and original solutions," wrote psychologists Marina Giampietro and G.M. Cavallera in their February 2007 study, "Morning and Evening Types and Creative Thinking." (This can be found in the psychology journal, Personality and Individual Differences.)
Hans Van Dongen, an associate research professor at the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University, has also contributed important findings towards the study of biology-based sleep preferences. He and his colleagues discovered that a small group of brain cells (suprachiasmatic nuclei, for any biopsychology students), sends signals to the body that synchronize our sleeping patterns with the time of day. For "evening types, their "biological clock" is essentially set two hours later, and for "morning types," two hours behind. This internal clock may be partially determined by genetics.
The science of sleep is intriguing, no doubt, and also provides a legitimate-sounding excuse for a lot of us late-risers, but for graveyard shift workers, this research may be meaningless. Although we may not associate the waitress taking our bleary order at 3 a.m. with the typical idea of a nighthawk—the test-cramming college kid, the drunk, or the starving artist painting into the wee small hours—she is more immersed in the undertow of society, that unconventional society of the night, than any of us. The number of graveyard shift workers has been steadily increasing over the years. While the night shift was originally reserved for security guards, bakers, factory workers, etc., it has now come to include a wider array of positions, like computer programmers, technical support workers, and health care workers.
To work nights is to inhabit another world entirely—a Bizarro World, the day turned upside-down. Tracy Niece may be a familiar face to many of you; she works nights at Parkside Diner, usually from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m., and sometimes 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Niece has a full head of blonde hair and such a droll, relaxed way of talking that she may first strike you as aloof. You soon realize, however, that her manner has no edge to it; she is just unaffected.
"[Working the night shift] is hard to get used to at first," Niece said, "and then when you get home you don't wanna sleep." Niece said that her schedule is completely turned around, but she must adjust on her days off. Niece has an eight-year son, which makes napping impossible. "Sometimes you stay up for days," she said. Niece spoke about the people who came in during the night—as expected, a lot of drunk and high people stumble into the diner for a post-party snack. She was lighthearted as she related this, suggesting that they were easy targets for selling pricier menu items. "Yeah, you want some pork chops?" she laughed.
Other night workers also frequent the establishment—doctors, correction officers, nurses, etc. One is likely to encounter an eclectic mix of people going to Parkside late at night; the clientele is a diverse bunch, spanning a wide range of ages, races, and demeanors. And the closer one gets to dawn, the more likely one is to encounter an older crowd, presumably the retired, settling down for breakfast. It is a modern day Nighthawks, a sundry crowd of drunks, insomniacs, and early-risers, all brought together for one reason or another at a small, well-lit diner in Trenton. The romantic ideal of the night owl is hard to shake, but Niece provides us with a more sobering perspective. When asked if she had any last comments, she simply replied, "Don't work the graveyard shift."
The hours after midnight are both expansive in their possibilities and limited in their practicality. For some, they signify neither, and represent only a necessity of living—the graveyard shift is not a popular one, and most people take night shifts due to the lack of competition and better chances of employment.
I write this now as the sun is rising. Pulling back the blinds, I see neighbors heading to work, a garbage truck rumbling down the street, and birds lighting on the telephone wire. It's a new day, and I'm not even done with the old one yet. Staying awake through the night allows for a strange mixture of observations—you see the day, you see the night, you see the night give way to day again; the whole metaphor-ridden cycle of the world is before you. Van Gogh once said, "I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." Closing my blinds again against the glare of the early-morning sun and crawling into bed, I have to agree.


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Google is an Internet search engine that not only indexes the World Wide Web, but also caches the web pages themselves. It also indexes pictures on the web, Usenet newsgroups and news sites. As of 2003, it was the most popular search engine, handling upwards of 80% of all internet searches through its website and clients like Yahoo and AOL.
The popularity of Google is shown by the fact that nowadays the verb "to google" is sometimes used for "doing a web search". Google itself does not like this usage, as it fears the dilution and potential loss of its trademark (as happened to Yo-yo and Escalator).
Google was established by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford Ph.D students who developed the theory that a search engine based on a mathematical analysis of the relationships between websites would produce better results than the basic techniques then in use. Convinced that the pages with the most links to them on other sites must be the most relevant ones, they decided to test this thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for a their search engine. They founded their company
in September 1998.
The company, headquartered in Mountain View, California, is privately held, with the major investors being the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. In October 2003, while discussing a possible initial public offering, the company was approached by Microsoft about a possible partnership or merger; Google apparently rejected the offer. In January 2004, it was announced that Google had hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange its initial public offering. That IPO—one of the most anticipated in history (Marshall, 2003)—might raise as much as $4 billion, giving Google a market capitalization of $12 billion, according to a banker involved in the transaction.
The word "Google" is a play on the word 'googol', which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner in 1938, to refer to the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the Web.
Google uses an algorithm called PageRank to rank web pages that match a given search string. The PageRank algorithm computes a recursive figure of merit for web pages, based on the weighted sum of the PageRanks of the pages linking to them. The PageRank thus derives from human-generated links, and correlates well with human concepts of 'importance'. Previous keyword-based methods of ranking search results, used by many search engines that were once more popular than Google, would rank pages by how often the search terms occurred in the page, or how strongly associated the search terms were within each resulting page. In addition to PageRank, Google also uses other secret criteria for determining the ranking of pages on result lists.
Google employs a farm of more than 10,000 GNU/Linux computers to answer search requests and to index the web. The indexing is performed by a program ("googlebot") which periodically requests new copies of the web pages it already knows about. The links in these pages are examined to discover new pages to be added to its database. The index database and web page cache is several terabytes in size.
Since Google has become one of the most popular search engines, many webmasters have become interested in following and attempting to explain changes to the rankings of their websites.
An industry of consultants has arisen to assist websites in improving their rankings at Google, as well as other search engines. This field, called search engine optimization, attempts to discern patterns in search engine listings, and then develop a methodology for increasing rankings.
Forums can be found on the web where phenomena such as the "Google dance" are discussed. The Google dance is a period of a few days towards the end of a month when Google updates its database and ranking algorithms. Changes to the database can be observed by examining the number of results to a search such as "link:www.yahoo.com".
During the "dance" period, a site's ranking may change dramatically over a short period of time and different Google servers (e.g., www.google.com, www2.google.com, www3.google.com, www.google.co.uk, www.google.com.au etc.) may give different results for the same search. The dance period appears to coincide with the time at which the googlebot examines "stable" sites. Rapidly changing sites, highly ranked sites and news sites are examined more often, although apart from news, only minor adjustments are made to rankings during most of the month. In some cases it may take two or three months before new pages appear in search results.
The monthly searching, indexing and ranking cycle was replaced by a continuous rolling update in the summer of 2003. This change in the way google updates significantly reduced the unstable results of the monthly update "dance".
One of Google's chief challenges is that as its algorithms and results have gained the trust of web users, the profit to be gained by a commercial web site in subverting those results has increased dramatically. Some search engine optimization firms have attempted to inflate their Google ranking by various artificial means, attempting to draw more searchers to their clients' sites. Google has apparently managed to defeat or weaken these attempts by reducing the ranking of sites known to use them.
Google publishes a set of guidelines for website owners interested in improving their rankings using legitimate optimization consultants. [1]
Google's efforts to refine its database has led to some legal controversy, drawing a lawsuit from a company, SearchKing, that sought to sell advertisements on pages with inflated Google rankings. Google has stated in its defense that its rankings are its constitutionally protected opinions of the web sites that it lists. [1] [1]
Google has been criticized for placing long-term cookies on users' machines, enabling them to track a user's search terms over time. However, most of Google's services can be used with cookies disabled.
A number of organizations (most controversially the Church of Scientology) have used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to demand that Google remove references to allegedly copyrighted material on other sites. Google typically handles this by removing the link as requested and including a link to the complaint in the search results. There have also been complaints that the "Google cache" feature violates copyright. However, the consensus seems to be that caching is a normal part of the functionality of the web, and that HTTP provides adequate mechanisms for requesting that caching be disabled (which Google respects; it also honors the robots.txt file).
In 2002, there were news reports that the Google search engine had been banned in China. A mirror site (in all respects, including mirrored text) called elgooG proved useful to get around the ban. The ban was later lifted, and reports indicated that it was not Google itself that was targeted. Rather, Google's feature of a cached version of a website would allow Chinese users to circumvent any ban of a website itself, merely by visiting the cache instead. There is also a dynamic Google mirror working as a proxy server at http://www.zensur.freerk.com/google/. It is interesting to note that a more comprehensive caching service is provided by the Internet Archive, yet this site was not banned.
In late 2003 and early 2004, there were persistent rumors that Google would be sued by the SCO Group over its use of the Linux operating system, in conjunction with SCO's lawsuit against IBM over the ownership of intellectual property rights relating to Linux.
There are versions for the languages English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian. It covers the news articles that appeared within the past 30 days on news websites in the language concerned, from various countries; for the English language it covers about 4,500 sites, for the other languages less. It provides around the first 200 characters and links to the full article. Some of these websites require a subscription; in that case this is mentioned in the Google News summary of their articles.
Google News provides searching, and the choice of sorting the results by date and time of publishing (not to be confused with date and time of the news happening) or grouping them (and also grouping without searching). In the English version the grouping can optionally be tailored to a selected national audience. For any query, up to 1000 results can be shown.
Users can request Google News Alerts on various topics by subscribing with the use of key words. An email is sent when a news article matching the request appears online.
Google Hacks from O'Reilly & Associates is a book containing tips about using Google effectively.
The company
Google and the courts
Other tools
Google Groups (Usenet)
Google also has a usenet archive, called Google Groups (formerly an independent site known as Dejanews), an experimental machine translation services (see link below), and an image search function (called "Google Images").Google News
Google introduced a beta release (a product of the so-called Google Labs) of an automated news compilation service, "Google News" in April 2002. Google answers
In April 2002, Google launched a new service called "Google Answers". Google Answers is an extension to the conventional search - rather than doing the search yourself, you pay someone else to do the search. Customers ask questions, offer a price for an answer, and researchers answer them. Prices for questions range from $2 to $200, Google keeps 25% of the payment, passing the rest to the researchers, and charges an additional 50c listing fee. In May 2003 this service came out of beta, though the site hasn't attracted as many customers as hoped.Blogging
In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs, owner of blogger.com, a pioneering and leading blog-hosting website. Upon first glance, the acquisition seemed inconsistent with the general "mission" of Google. However, it was soon theorized that Google perhaps plans to utilize information gleaned from blog postings to improve the speed and relevancy of articles contained in Google News.Calculator
Google also includes a calculator and units converter, see [1].Google Glossary
In May, 2002, Google launched the beta version of Google Glossary, a search tool that, for a given word, retrieves the definitions it has been given on various web pages.Search by Location
In September, 2003, Google launged the beta version of Search by Location, which acts like a normal Google search, but lets you geographically restrict the search (within the U.S.) by state, city or zipcode. It will also provide you with maps to the listed sites, and an estimate on the distance and direction to the sites.Google Deskbar
In December 2003, Google launched the beta version of the Google Deskbar, a search tool which runs from the Windows system tray, without a browser having to be open. It can return film reviews, stock quotes, dictionary and thesaurus defintitions, plus any pre-configured search of a third-party site (e.g. eBay or Amazon).Froogle
Also, in December 2003, Google announced Froogle, a spin-off that searches catalogues for particular products. This site had been active in beta for some
months.Google Toolbar
An extension to Microsoft's Internet Explorer adds Google searching capabilities to Internet Explorer - which has been criticised for being a serious security risk as it updates itself without user intervention.
Other browsers, like Mozilla Firebird, have built-in scripts that perform the same abilites.Books
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A casino party theme provides guests with endless ideas to create their own costumes. Men can pull out their suits and become their own casino "fantasy" character. Women can adorn themselves in silky, slinky outfits, wear a full-length fur or drape a "stole" version over their shoulders. Add a poker table and blackjack game, and even rent a slot machine for the evening to really make guests feel they're in the casino. And just like the popular TV commercial says, remember to remind guests that "what happens at the party -- stays at the party."
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Mob Boss
Invite all the men to dress up like mob bosses. Pull pictures from the Internet to show how men dressed during the days of Eliott Ness, the famous FBI mob buster, and infamous crime bosses like Chicago's "Dutch Schultz" and any one of the fictional Corleone family characters from the classic mob movie, "The Godfather." Encourage dressing in pinstripe suits, fedora hats, and wearing a flower boutonnière in the lapel.
Mob Doll
What's a mob boss without a "mob doll" on his arms? Invite women to dress in garb from the prohibition era. Send pictures pulled from the Internet to spark ideas. Vintage storeowners can lend ideas to make their outfits "period-perfect." Adding sequins to existing garments or finds from a resale store can also turn a dress into a casino "mob doll" sensation.
Pit Boss
The "Pit Boss" of the casino era's heyday--from the 1940s to 1960s--was a man whose dress embodied his authority to settle a game with "questionable results" or to make a big payout. The hair was often worn slicked-back. Suits mimicked a corporate look--but with a pit boss twist, with dark fabrics and pinstripes. Instead of a traditional suit "pocket square" on the jacket pocket, a Pit Boss costumier can insert playing cards to make the outfit fun.
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"Old school" lounge performers were a casino staple--and so was their style of dress. Male performers often wore classic outfits in black and white. Sometimes they wore a white jacket to perform in a supper club, paired with black trousers, a white shirt and a black bow tie. Female performers would often dress in fitted floor-length gowns, bejewelled with sequins. Backup vocalists often dressed alike in outfits that never outshone the lead performer.
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Every casino needs its cocktail waitresses to keep guests happy; at your party, the role offers multiple guests a fun and flirty costume opportunity. Old school cocktail waitresses wore short skirts with "can-can" under garment skirts and white blouses designed to reveal cleavage. Fishnet stockings and high heels completed the look. "New school" costumes don't have to be as revealing; outfits could include black trousers, a white shirt, and a bow tie. Guests can make the outfit even more realistic by rigging a bed tray with a shoulder harness and including drinks, cigars and cigarettes to serve to the casino party guests.


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I'm lying on a tiny couch in a tiny apartment with a friend of a friend who I'm beginning to like. More specifically, I'm lying under this friend of a friend. We're kissing (and doing a pretty good job at it), and everything up until this point has been swell: the booze and some good conversation … Continue reading Source link


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Monday, February 24, 2014
Artistic Risk and Branding
4 comments:
- Tara Lapointe said...
I agree wholeheartedly. Risk is less risky when it is preceeded by trust, and ultimately, that's what a brand is - a relationship of trust.
Also interesting is the reference to Robert Lepage, who has broken ground in theatre, opera, film and now graphic novels! - November 28, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Inga Petri said...
Robert Lepage is a bright spot in my view. His company, Ex Machina at http://lacaserne.net - wish it was easy to find via Google - is an excellent example of reshaping the old boundaries and creating experiences that don't hold to any prescribed form anymore. It's not even a theatre in name, which is brilliant for opening up the creative possibilities. As far as I can tell, that kind of brand exists more readily on the creation and production side and less so on the presenting side of the performing arts. I wonder what it'd take for more presenters to embrace contemporary brand management, rather than the ill-defined default brands they let live in audiences' minds. Somehow standing for something seems still confined to a fuzzy view of reputation, rather than seeing it as part of the end-to-end audience experience and community presence and thus ensuring a holistic, contemporary Marketing view is brought to bear.
I am looking for contemporary branding and marketing examples among presenters in particular these days; so please forward along anything that comes to mind. - November 28, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- richardjenkins said...
So true Inga. I think the arts have historically been slow to seize the idea that your brand is the promise you make to the audience; a promise that sets expectations and establishes the basis of trust. Artists have been the first to grasp it but the broader organizations have been slower.
- November 28, 2011 at 4:02 PM
- Rick Robinson said...
An artist is their own brand and can shoot from the hip, whereas organizations are cumbersome to change. That's one reason I as an artist left an organization to experiment with New Classical presentations and pioneer techniques of engagement. I kept finding that the hardest part was just showing up! Letting things happen naturally invites risk, humor and consequently great spirit... which is one thing the NEW audience is expecting IN DROVES.
- February 26, 2014 at 10:55 AM