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Environmental issues may have captured global attention, but getting businesses to adopt eco-friendly technology will take a little more time.
Philip Carter, IDC's green IT lead for Asia-Pacific, said: "Vendors are creating hype around green IT, which makes it ultimately confusing the market. Ironically, for the most part, IT managers are currently not using eco-friendliness as a criterion for their purchasing decisions.
"And when they do, it is only when cost savings are potentially there, or when they have to due to regulatory requirements," Carter said.
Rakesh Kumar, vice president of Gartner, said the IT department should assume the role of "green technology arbiter" when selecting any form of green technologies for the organization.
"In other words, a large part of the green issue in business will be resolved with new technology products. But selecting these technologies is, and will, increasingly become a complex exercise. This is where the IT group should be used," Kumar said.
For CIOs thinking of going green but are not sure where to start, here are five practical tips to get going:
1. Start small
Industry experts agree that the best way to approach the green issue is to start small, and then learn and adapt the processes.
Rakesh Kumar, vice president of Gartner, said it is "very difficult to differentiate the marketing hype from the actual product benefit". Therefore, he advised IT decision makers to form a small group that will focus on green IT and build a strong knowledge base.
The team can then work with corporate social responsibility (CSR) groups to ensure "long term, holistic strategies are undertaken, rather than short-term product acquisitions", Kumar added.
According to IDC's Carter, since IT managers will have to balance cost and sustainability, it is important that they understand what they are trying to achieve as part of the overall green IT policy. "The next steps are to define what to measure and how to measure it. This is a complex and potentially lengthy process. The best advice woul be to start small," he added.
2. Little things count
Lionel Lim, Sun Microsystems' president for Asia South and Greater China, said IT managers will see a reduction in their data center's energy bill within 30 days of taking these simple steps:
- Adjust the thermostat set point to 77°F, as per ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) standards ;
- Identify and turn off unused machines (typically 8 percent to 10 percent of machines) ;
- Fix air flow problems ;
- Enable power management features where available ;
- Refresh old servers. The newer models today are said to be more energy efficient and take up less storage ;
- Refresh disk technology. That is, instead of buying more storage hardware, simply increase the current capacity. For example, replacing 70GB drives with 500GB will be more cost and energy efficient as it means no additional power requirements and costs ; and
- Move old data to tape. Tape storage is "greener" and more cost effective than disk storage because disk platters spin continually, with each bit of stored data consuming energy. Tape libraries also outlast most other storage technologies by two to five times, adding to their eco-friendliness.
"To get greater results, it would be ideal to implement all steps," said Lim. "However, if only one step was to be taken, we would recommend turning off unused machines as it can produce dramatic results." A computer on standby is estimated to use 70 percent of its typical power consumption when it is in operational mode.
3. Use labels as a guide
Eco-labels like Energy Star, EPEAT, TCO-Development, Blue Angel are useful guides for evaluating, comparing and selecting technology products.
Simon Mingay, a Gartner analyst, said: "Next year we'll also see Energy Star for servers, which will be a long overdue valuable addition. Look at the criteria used for these eco-labels. They tell you most of what you need to know to be a more informed buyer."
CIOs can also educate themselves on the ways to reduce power usage and lower costs through more efficient computing and data storage practices. Additional resources are available from Lean & Green, a new program developed by the Business Performance Mangaement (BPM) Forum and storage vendor BlueArc.
4. Use tools to get a gauge
IT heads can also use calculators offered by vendors like Sun Microsystems and Dell Computer, to estimate energy consumption needs or power savings.
5. Have the will to change
Bryan Low, AMD's vice president of sales and marketing for South Asia, said going green will require a change in mindset.
"It is easy to write a set of policies but the challenge is in having the will to push the policies through all levels of the organization," Low said. "Starting is always difficult because we are talking about changing mindsets and making certain values integral to the core of an organization."


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Three call-outs in 24 hours for The Mumbles RNLI volunteers
Volunteer lifeboat crew at The Mumbles RNLI had a busy 24 hours after lifeboats were called out to three incidents.
On Friday afternoon (22 April) at 3pm the Tamar class all-weather lifeboat Roy Barker IV was called to the aid of cabin cruiser which had run aground after suffering engine failure.
The Mumbles RNLI's inshore lifeboat boat was also launched to assist with the casualty at Whiteshell Point before the vessel, with two crew on board, were towed back to Swansea Marina.
Then on Saturday morning (23 April) the all-weather lifeboat was launched to the aid of another cruiser with engine failure on the Gower.
Then later the same day the volunteers were paged again and the inshore lifeboat was called to the aid of four people cut off by the incoming tide on the outer island at the Mumbles.
The alarm was raised by the skipper of a passing yacht who thankfully advised the stranded people to wait for the lifeboat when he'd called for help.
The lifeboat brought the stranded four to safety.
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The attached picture shows The Mumbles all-weather lifeboat crew attaching a tow to a broken down cabin cruiser on Saturday 23 April. Credit RNLI/The Mumbles
For more information please contact Andy Miles, The Mumbles RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer, at The Mumbles lifeboat station on 01792 366246 or Chris Cousens, RNLI Press Officer, Wales and West, on 01745 585162 or 07748265496 or by email on email@example.com.
Key facts about the RNLI
The RNLI charity saves lives at sea. Its volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland coasts. The RNLI operates over 238 lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland and more than 240 lifeguard units on beaches around the UK and Channel Islands. The RNLI is independent of Coastguard and government and depends on voluntary donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824, its lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved over 142,700 lives.
Learn more about the RNLI
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I have always been an avid reader of fiction. When I discovered Harlequin at age 12, I became hooked. I used to hide copies of Harlequin novels in my school text books so my mom wouldn't catch me reading them when I was supposed to be studying. Some of my favourite authors then included Linda Howard, Carol Mortimer, Penny Jordan and Emma Darcy. It is a testament to the talent of your authors and the great stories they write and which you publish that 30 years later I can still connect to and enjoy – quite immensely – beautiful stories by your "newer" authors. These days I'm hooked on Caitlin Crews, Maya Blake, Tara Pammi, Olivia Gate,Jennie Lucas, Lynne Graham and a host of others. Reading these stories also helped me a lot with developing my language skills – not that my mom would have found that a good reason back then.
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"The Books We Publish Make People Feel Good": 35 years at Harlequin
by Dianne Moggy, VP, Editorial
I can't quite believe it, but I've just celebrated my thirty-fifth work anniversary at Harlequin. I'd just graduated with a degree in journalism and a dream of one day reporting from Parliament Hill when I began doing freelance reads for the world's largest romance publisher. That freelance work resulted in my first full-time job as an editorial assistant with Gold Eagle Books, Harlequin's men's action-adventure line. I remember telling friends at the time that I'd be here for five years and then try something else!
There are many reasons why five years have morphed into thirty-five, but at the heart of it all is the fact that the books we publish make people feel good. I believe that knowing we have a positive impact on our readers has helped define the company's culture and has certainly contributed to my own job satisfaction. Our culture is also defined by the fact that our books are, by and large, written by women for women. Although it's true there were far more men in senior positions when I joined the company, it's also true that that the numbers shifted much more quickly at Harlequin than in the companies where my friends work. And regardless of gender, I believe my colleagues at Harlequin feel they're part of a family. It explains the long years of tenure across most departments and it explains why over four hundred women (and a few lucky men) get out on the dance floor at the annual Harlequin party celebrating our authors when the DJ plays "We are Family."
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Incremental value of combined perfusion and function over perfusion alone by gated SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging for detection of severe three-vessel coronary artery disease
Author + information
- Received November 15, 2002
- Revision received March 23, 2003
- Accepted April 10, 2003
- Published online July 2, 2003.
Author Information
- Ronaldo S.L Lima, MD, PhD*,§,
- Denny D Watson, PhD‡,
- Allen R Goode, MS*,
- Mir S Siadaty, MD, MS†,
- Michael Ragosta, MD, FACC*,
- George A Beller, MD, MACC* and
- Habib Samady, MD, FACC*,* (hsamady{at}virginia.edu)
- ↵*Reprint requests and correspondence:
Dr. Habib Samady, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, P.O. Box 800158, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0158, USA.
Objectives We hypothesized that combining functional assessment to perfusion enhances the ability of electrocardiographic gating Tc-99m sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography (gated SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) to detect defects in multiple vascular territories in patients with severe three-vessel coronary artery disease (3VD).
Background In patients with 3VD, perfusion defects in multiple vascular territories may not always be evident due to globally reduced perfusion.
Methods Gated SPECT MPIs were interpreted sequentially with perfusion first, followed by combined perfusion/function, in 143 patients with angiographic 3VD and a control group of 112 non-3VD patients. All patients underwent coronary arteriography within one month of MPI.
Results In 3VD patients, combined perfusion/function analysis yielded significantly greater numbers of abnormal segments/patient (6.2 ± 4.7 vs. 4.1 ± 2.8, p < 0.001) and more defects in multiple vascular territories (60% vs. 46%, p < 0.05) than perfusion alone. In the control group, there were no differences between the combined perfusion/function and perfusion alone interpretations. Multivariate analysis of 15 different clinical, stress, and scintigraphic variables in all patients revealed age (p < 0.0001) and number of abnormal vascular territories by combined perfusion/function (p < 0.0001) to be the most powerful predictors of 3VD. Addition of functional data to clinical, stress, and perfusion yielded a significant increase in the predictive value of 3VD (global chi-square: 131.7 vs. 89.8, p < 0.00001). Specificity of combined perfusion/function analysis was not lower than perfusion alone (72% vs. 69%, p = NS).
Conclusions Adjunctive assessment of function with perfusion by gated SPECT MPI enhances the detection of defects in multiple vascular territories in patients with severe 3VD, without adversely affecting its specificity.
Among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), those with left main and three-vessel disease (3VD) are at highest risk for death (1,2). A primary goal of noninvasive testing is to identify this high-risk group in whom revascularization results in improvement in symptoms and survival. Although in the pooled literature the overall sensitivity of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) to detect multivessel disease is 80% to 95% (3,4), only 29% of patients with angiographic 3VD show defects in all three territories (5). Similarly, in patients with left main disease, multivessel perfusion defects on thallium-201 imaging is found in only 49% of patients (6). A possible mechanism for this underestimation of disease, in patients with critically diseased vessels in all vascular beds, is balanced ischemia yielding few or no relative perfusion defects. In this situation, there is no normal scintigraphic reference segment with which to compare segments supplied by stenotic vessels.
Electrocardiographic gating Tc-99m sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) perfusion imaging (gated SPECT MPI) has been shown to provide added diagnostic and prognostic value to perfusion imaging (7–9). Persistent post-stress wall motion abnormalities on gated SPECT has been shown to increase the accuracy of identifying severe and extensive CAD in patients representing the spectrum of coronary disease (10).
In patients with severe 3VD and/or left main CAD, little information is available on whether combined perfusion/function analysis on gated SPECT would have incremental value over perfusion alone for detection of disease in multiple vascular territories, without adversely affecting the specificity of disease detection. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to determine if post-stress gated SPECT MPI can more accurately identify patients with 3VD, compared with quantitative perfusion SPECT MPI, without a corresponding decrease in specificity in patients without 3VD.
Between July 1999 and March 2002, all patients who underwent stress gated Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT and coronary arteriography within 30 days who had significant 3VD or its equivalent formed the study cohort. Patients with ischemic events between MPI and coronary angiography were excluded. The angiographic criteria for inclusion into the 3VD group were: 1) presence of ≥50% narrowing of the internal diameter of left main coronary artery plus an ≥70% narrowing of the right coronary artery; or 2) an ≥70% narrowing of the left anterior descending artery, right coronary artery, and left circumflex artery, or their major branches. Patients who had undergone coronary bypass grafting were excluded. A total of 143 patients fulfilled these criteria and were classified as the 3VD group. The control group constituted 112 patients without 3VD who underwent both stress gated Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT and coronary arteriography within 30 days. This cohort included 43 patients with no CAD (0VD), 43 with one-vessel disease (1VD), and 26 with two-vessel disease (2VD).
Imaging procedure
Patients deemed to be relatively low risk were encouraged to come off medications for 48 h before the study; SPECT imaging protocol was performed as previously described (9,11–12). A same-day rest-stress Tc-99m sestamibi gated SPECT MPI protocol was performed, with a weight-adjusted dose of 240 to 300 MBq of Tc-99m sestamibi at rest and 750 to 900 MBq at peak stress at least 3 h after the first injection. Images were obtained 60 min after tracer injection. Briefly, gated images were acquired on a Picker Prism 3000 triple-headed gamma camera using a low energy, high resolution, and a parallel-hole collimator (Picker, Cleveland, Ohio). Sixty projection images were acquired using the step-and-shoot method. An electrocardiogram R-wave detector provided a gate to acquire eight frames per cardiac cycle during the post-stress acquisition. The University of Virginia quantitative gated-SPECT software was used for image analysis (14 segments per patient). Three sets of SPECT slices representing summed, end-diastolic, and end-systolic images were formed for computer display. The summed image set was normalized conventionally for comparison of stress and rest images. The gated images were normalized to the region of highest activity on the end-systolic image set.
Scintigraphic interpretation
Studies of controls were mixed randomly with the 3VD studies and read blindly by two readers: perfusion alone followed by combined perfusion/function. Quantitative values of relative tracer activity in each of 14 segments are compared to a gender-specific normal database and flagged if abnormal using the same criteria as with clinical readings (lower limits of normal set to a normalcy rate >90% on the normal database).
Wall-motion abnormalities were determined based on the quantitative thickening fractions (TF). Gated SPECT function studies in our system are displayed as end-diastolic and end-systolic images juxtaposed and scaled to the end-systolic image set. We use the partial volume effect to compute segmental TFs in each of the same 14 segments used for quantitative perfusion analysis (11,12). Regional quantitative TFs are compared to a normal database and flagged as abnormal if they are more than 2 SDs below the normal average. The use of quantitative values based on the partial volume effect (ratio of end-diastolic counts over end-systolic counts) does not require endocardial edge detection.
For the purposes of this study, we additionally graded scans as showing defects in single or multiple vascular regions (anterior, lateral, or inferior). If a wall motion abnormality (significantly reduced TF) was indicated in the region of a perfusion abnormality or in an adjacent segment, it was considered to be in the same vascular territory. Wall motion abnormalities can sometimes show in segments rotationally displaced from the perfusion abnormality as a result of cardiac torsional rotation during contraction.
The key to this study was the identification of abnormal wall motion in segments for which there were no concordant perfusion abnormalities. As stated, these were identified only if the computed value of TF was significantly reduced in a region remote from another identifiable perfusion abnormality. Because there are 14 segments, a 2 SD error in computed TF in at least one of 14 segments can occur with significant statistical frequency. Consequently, if the perfusion scan was entirely normal except for a single flagged segment of reduced TF, the wall motion was still graded as entirely normal. However, if there was an identifiable perfusion abnormality (with or without an associated TF abnormality) and additional segment(s) of reduced TF in a different vascular territory where there was not a relative perfusion defect, then this was interpreted as abnormal function in a remote vascular territory.
Angiographic interpretation
All patients underwent coronary angiography within 30 days of MPI (7 ± 8 days), and no event or procedure occurred between the two exams. Coronary angiography was performed in multiple oblique projections. Coronary artery narrowing was assessed by visual analysis and reported as the percentage luminal diameter stenosis. Left main stenosis was considered significant when there was ≥50% lesion. In all other vessels, a luminal narrowing of ≥70% was considered significant.
Statistical analysis
Data are presented as mean ± SD when appropriate. Univariate comparison of continuous variables between 3VD and control groups was performed using the ttest and discrete variables using the chi-square test. Multivariate analysis of 15 variables was performed using a logistic model where the outcome was the presence of 3VD.
The number of abnormal SPECT segments per patient, abnormal SPECT vascular territories per patient, and abnormal SPECT MPI per group were compared by perfusion alone versus combined perfusion/function using ttest for continuous variables and chi-square tests for discrete variables. Global chi-square statistic by likelihood ratio test was then used in the whole cohort to compare the overall performance of perfusion versus combined perfusion/function for detection of angiographic 3VD.
To test the hypothesis that the incremental value of combined perfusion/function was greater in patients with 3VD compared with control patients, an ordinal logistic regression model was used. A score, with values from 3 to −3, was ascribed to each patient based on whether the number of abnormal SPECT vascular territories on combined perfusion/function versus perfusion alone analysis matched the number of angiographically diseased vessels (e.g., a score of +3 was ascribed to a patient with 3VD, if perfusion showed no defects and combined perfusion/function showed defects in three vascular territories). Thus, the mathematical sum of all these scores provides a relative value of the combined perfusion/function analysis versus perfusion alone for accurate diagnosis of patients with angiographic 0VD, 1VD, 2VD, and 3VD. Other clinical, stress, perfusion, and function variables were entered into this model to adjust for possible confounding effects and for differentially distributed background variables. From this regression model, an odds ratio for correctly matching number of angiographically diseased vessels (zero, one, two, or three) was calculated for combined perfusion/function versus perfusion alone. A p value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analyses were done by SPSS v.10 and R v.1.5.1, both for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois).
Demographics and SPECT results of 3VD versus control patients
Demographic characteristics of 3VD and control groups are shown in Table 1. Compared with the control group, patients in the 3VD group were older (64 ± 10 vs. 57 ± 12, p < 0.001), more frequently male (71% vs. 57%, p < 0.05), and more likely to undergo pharmacologic stress testing (53% vs. 38%, p < 0.05). There were no differences in history of diabetes, prior myocardial infarction, angina score, heart failure score, stress-induced chest pain, ischemic ST-segment depression, or exercise workload between the two groups.
On SPECT MPI, compared with the control group, patients in the 3VD group had more reversibility (53% vs. 38%, p < 0.05); greater prevalence of fixed left ventricular enlargement (37% vs. 21%, p < 0.01); greater frequency of transient ischemic dilation of the left ventricle (20% vs. 11%, p = 0.05); more abnormal segments per patient by perfusion analysis alone (4.1 ± 2.8 vs. 2.5 ± 2.5, p < 0.001); more abnormal segments by combined perfusion/function analysis (6.2 ± 4.7 vs. 2.8 ± 3.6, p < 0.001); and lower post-stress left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) (45 ± 12% vs. 53 ± 10%, p < 0.001).
Multivariate analysis of six clinical, three stress, four perfusion, and two combined perfusion/function variables in the whole cohort (3VD and non-3VD groups) identified four variables as independent predictors of the presence of angiographic 3VD. These were age (p < 0.0001), male gender (p < 0.05), combined perfusion/function analysis (p < 0.0001), and post-stress LVEF (p < 0.05) (Table 2).
Combined perfusion/function versus perfusion analysis
In patients with 3VD, compared with perfusion alone, combined perfusion/function analysis resulted in significantly greater number of abnormal segments per patient compared with perfusion alone (6.2 ± 4.7 vs. 4.1 ± 2.8, p < 0.001). Interestingly, in 3VD patients, pharmacological stress resulted in more segments with combined perfusion/function abnormalities than exercise stress (7.2 ± 4.5 vs. 5.1 ± 4.7, p < 0.001) despite similar number of segments with abnormal perfusion (4.4 ± 3.7 vs. 3.8 ± 2.9, p = NS). In contrast, in the control group, there were no differences in number of abnormal segments per patient with abnormal perfusion/function compared with perfusion (2.8 ± 3.6 vs. 2.5 ± 2.5, p = NS).
Figure 1shows the distribution of number of abnormal vascular territories by perfusion versus combined perfusion/function in patients with 3VD. The overall sensitivity for identifying any SPECT abnormality of the combined perfusion/function assessment was higher than that of perfusion imaging alone (88% vs. 83%, p = NS). Importantly, the prevalence of multivessel defect pattern was significantly greater in the combined perfusion/function than perfusion analysis (60% vs. 46%, p < 0.05) due to higher detection of 3VD pattern (25% vs. 10%, p < 0.001) (Fig. 2).
In control patients with 2VD and 1VD, the overall sensitivities of combined perfusion/function versus perfusion were identical, 92% versus 92% for 2VD, and 86% vs. 86% for 1VD. Similarly, in this cohort, there were no differences in prevalence of multivessel defect pattern between combined perfusion/function and perfusion alone (42% vs. 38% for 2VD and 28% vs. 21% for 1VD, p = NS for both comparisons).
The specificity of Gated SPECT MPI was not adversely affected by combined perfusion/function versus perfusion (72% vs. 67%, p = NS) among all patients in the control group. When the definition of no angiographic CAD was made less stringent (from <70% to <50% stenoses in all three vessels), the specificity of gated SPECT imaging improved, but remained similar between combined perfusion/function and perfusion (79% vs. 79%, p = NS).
Figure 3shows that the addition of perfusion variables to clinical and stress variables resulted in a significant increase in the global chi-square in the prediction of 3VD (89.8 vs. 51.0, p < 0.00001). Subsequent addition of functional analysis by gated MPI to the combined model of clinical, stress, and perfusion data yielded a further significant increase in the global chi-square (131.7 vs. 89.8, p < 0.00001).
Table 3shows that the odds that combined perfusion/function analysis versus perfusion alone correctly matched the number of angiographically diseased vessels was 8.8 times higher in 3VD than in control patients. Interestingly, when the 3VD group is compared individually with 0VD, 1VD, or 2 VD patients, combined perfusion/function assessment has the greatest added value over perfusion in 1VD patients (6.2, 14.7, and 6.2 times higher, respectively).
The present study assessed the incremental diagnostic value of segmental post-stress thickening abnormalities on gated sestamibi SPECT MPI to better identify patients with severe angiographic 3VD. Adding function to perfusion yielded significantly greater detection of multivessel defects (60% vs. 46%, p < 0.05) and 3VD pattern (25% vs. 10%, p < 0.001) compared with perfusion imaging alone in patients with severe 3VD. This was achieved without a loss in specificity in the control (72% vs. 69%, p = NS). Age and combined perfusion/functional analysis were the strongest predictors of angiographic 3VD. Addition of functional analysis to the combined model of clinical, stress, and perfusion data yielded a further significant increase in predictive value for 3VD (global chi square 131.7 vs. 89.8, p < 0.00001). Combining functional assessment with perfusion was 8.8 times more likely than perfusion alone to yield a scintigraphic pattern identical to the angiographic extent of disease in patients with 3VD compared with patients without 3VD.
Although the sensitivity for the detection of CAD in patients with 3VD or left main disease is high (3,4), perfusion defects are often seen in only one vascular territory (5,6). In patients undergoing exercise stress, variables such as magnitude of the ST depression, rate-pressure product, or hypotensive blood pressure response may assist in identification of these high-risk patients (5).
Johnson et al. (13)have previously highlighted the value of global post-stress functional analysis by demonstrating that a significant decrease in post-stress LVEF compared with the rest LVEF correlates with more extensive ischemic burden. Similarly, Yamagishi et al. (14)have shown that post-exercise worsening of LVEF is more likely to detect multivessel CAD than reversible perfusion defects alone.
Segmental analysis of post-stress images for a regional dysfunction could also be useful to enhance the detection rate of high-risk CAD patients. Sharir et al. (10)demonstrated the incremental value of combined wall motion/perfusion over perfusion alone in identifying severe disease. The additional information was more relevant in the presence of multivessel disease or proximal left anterior descending coronary artery. Emmet et al. (15)also showed that the reversible wall motion abnormalities correlated quite well with the angiographic severity of the coronary lesions.
The results of the present study support our hypothesis that, in the presence of three severe coronary lesions, when tracer uptake may be reduced in all vascular territories, detection of segmental wall motion abnormalities on post-stress images could be extremely useful for detecting additional stenotic lesions. We found that 3VD patients were almost 14.7 times more likely than 1VD patients, 6.8 times more likely than 2VD, and 6.2 times more likely than 0VD patients to derive incremental diagnostic value from combined function and perfusion than perfusion assessment alone.
Previous studies were not specifically designed to study the population with severe 3VD. Indeed, the percentage of patients with 3VD were 30% of the total patients in the study by Sharir et al. (10), 28% in the report by Emmett et al. (15), and 17% in the study by Yamagishi et al. (14). Thus, the number of patients with 3VD was too small to test the hypothesis that functional data regarding abnormal wall motion or thickening provided supplementary diagnostic value to perfusion data in patients who might have balanced ischemia.
An important aspect of our data is the demonstration that the incremental diagnostic value of gated SPECT imaging over perfusion alone did not result in loss of specificity for detection of CAD in lower risk patients. In fact, the combined perfusion and function analysis resulted in a slight increase in specificity in the control group (72% vs. 67%, p = NS). These specificity values are lower than those reported in the literature (4–6,9), which likely reflects our more stringent criteria for "no significant" CAD (<70%) in our 0VD patients, compared with the usual <50% stenosis used for most studies. When the specificity of gated SPECT imaging was based on <50%, our specificity increased to 79% by both gated SPECT interpretations.
Potential mechanisms for wall motion abnormalities in patients with 3VD
Wall motion in this study was determined about 1 h post-stress. Wall motion abnormality at this time could be the result of prolonged post-stress stunning. However, in our experience, true post-stress stunning is infrequent in stable patients. It is likely that the majority of wall motion abnormalities we detected were the result of subendocardial scar or of chronic repetitive myocardial stunning or hibernation in a heart where every vascular region was compromised. We cannot conclude from our data the mechanism of wall motion abnormality. However, we can conclude that observation of wall motion abnormality is an important indicator of the extent of CAD and may be the only clue when diffuse 3VD has caused diffuse myocardial flow limitations that will not be shown by regional relative myocardial uptake measurements.
Pharmacologic stress is less likely than exercise to cause frank ischemia and, therefore, regional wall motion abnormalities. Surprisingly, we found the combined perfusion/functional reading to identify more myocardial segments as abnormal than perfusion alone, when stress was achieved by pharmacologic means than by exercise. Recent studies (16,17)suggest that wall motion abnormalities induced by dipyridamole occur commonly in flow-limiting stenoses. In addition to the well-described mechanism of blood flow diversion from collaterals by vasodilation (horizontal steal), "steal" of blood from the endocardium to the epicardium (vertical steal) might result in regional ischemia and subsequent stunning.
It is also possible that patients who undergo dipyridamole stress are simply a selected group with more extensive CAD associated with greater wall motion abnormalities than patients undergoing exercise stress.
Study limitations
Although angiography is frequently used as the gold standard for validation of noninvasive testing, its limitations are well known. Indeed, even in the presence of angiographic CAD, a normal SPECT scan portends a good prognosis. We did not specifically account for presence of collateral circulation, which could have contributed to some discrepancy between angiography and SPECT MPI. However, we believe our stringent criterion of >70% stenosis resulted in severe flow-limiting lesions (mean and median percent stenosis were 88 ± 11% and 92%, respectively). Furthermore, angiographic disease burden remains the predominant means for ultimate clinical decision-making regarding revascularization.
Combined assessment of global and regional ventricular function with perfusion on stress Tc-99m sestamibi SPECT MPI enhances the sensitivity for detection of high-risk variables such as defects in multiple vascular territories or reduced LVEF in patients with severe 3VD. The number of abnormal vascular territories by combined perfusion and function analysis has strong incremental predictive value for the presence of 3VD when compared with other clinical, stress, and scintigraphic variables, without adversely affecting the specificity of disease detection.
- Abbreviations
- coronary artery disease
- gated SPECT
- electrocardiographic gating Tc-99m sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography
- left ventricular ejection fraction
- myocardial perfusion imaging
- single photon emission computerized tomography
- thickening fractions
- zero-vessel coronary artery disease
- one-vessel coronary artery disease
- two-vessel coronary artery disease
- three-vessel coronary artery disease
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- Revision received March 23, 2003.
- Accepted April 10, 2003.
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Heriot's Governance
George Heriot's Trust was established in 1624, and its main stipulation was to found and erect a hospital for the maintenance, bringing up and education of "poor fatherless bairns, who were the sons of freemen of the City of Edinburgh".
This aim has been adhered to through the centuries, first of all through the building of George Heriot's Hospital (now School), and the unbroken link of providing education and support to Foundationers each year since 1659. The most significant changes have been the transfer from Hospital (which provided residential accommodation) to Day School in 1886; the move from being a school for boys to a fully co-educational school in 1979; and the end of grant-aided status, which finally led to the establishment of George Heriot's School as a fully independent school in 1985.
As a registered charity Heriot's operates under a constitution known as the Trust Orders. In 2015 the Governors instituted a review of the Trust Orders. The objective was to ensure that the Trust's governance and administration reflected the original aims of George Heriot whilst meeting the modern best practice expected of a substantial educational institution, charity and business. A working party drawing on internal and external consultation and advice proposed a new governance framework. Following the agreement of the Board it was approved through the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator in early 2017 and adopted as The George Heriot's Trust Scheme 2017. The Scheme is supplemented by detailed administrative and funds regulations. Under the 2017 Scheme the Foundation is extended to children of widows and widowers, is means tested and has revised residence criteria taking into account that many Heriot's pupils now commute from outside Edinburgh.
A copy of the 2017 Scheme can be found here
The 2017 Scheme and Regulations also makes significant changes to the system of appointing Governors. Governors are proposed by a Nominations Committee and appointed by the Board based on criteria set by the Board. At least one third of Governors will be proposed via one or more of the previous Nominating Bodies, which include the Heriot Club (former pupils) and the Parents' Association. Governors serve terms of 3 years, with a maximum of 3 consecutive terms. The Chairman and Vice Chairman are appointed by the Board from their own number to serve 3 year terms, and are eligible for re-appointment.
In July 2017 Mr Sandy Paton took over as Chairman in succession to Mr Mike Gilbert, with Professor Mark Strachan being appointed as Vice Chairman.
More information about the current Board of Governors can be found here
The audited consolidated accounts for GHT for the year to 31 July 2018 can be found here
The Gender Pay Gap report for GHT published March 2020 can be found here


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- Sunday, May 20
- Museums of the Arroyo Day
- Free admission
When you think of some of the most historic structures found along the Arroyo Seco, the sizable natural feature that cuts a pretty and dramatic path through several eastside communities, you likely think back to, oh, the turn of the century.
As in the turn of the last century, or the early part of the 20th century, when handsome Craftsman landmarks like the Gamble House were constructed, as well as other notable homes and buildings along the arroyo.
And while Museums of the Arroyo Day, the annual free event that focuses on some of the Arroyo Seco's best-known buildings and characters, does typically have a century-gone-by vibe to it, visitors on Sunday, May 20 are advised to check their flux capacitor in preparation for a return to Nov. 5, 1955.
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What to do, where to go and what to see
For none other than Doc Brown will be welcoming visitors to the Gamble House in Pasadena, and, if you know your "Back to the Future" trivia, you know that the landmark served as the fantastical figure's home and workshop in the forever-popular 1985 film.
There will also be a DeLorean car on the Gamble House grounds, and "Back to the Future" merchandise sold in the landmark's gift shop.
True, this Doc Brown will be zanily standing in for actor Christopher Lloyd, who so winningly and wild-eye-ly played the eccentric genius in the timeless classic, but the spirit of the scientist will be as potent as pilfered plutonium during the free event.
So can Museums of the Arroyo Day, which has rocked a way, way, way back feel for nearly three decades, go a bit mid-century, all to honor the many movies fans who love the Gamble House's "Back to the Future" cameo?
Of course.
And consider that other stops along the way, from Heritage Square Museum to the Lummis Home and Garden, will keep up the early 20th-century vibes, for those who like this event to stay closer to its Edwardian dress and design.
How you'll zing from one stop to the next, on May 20, is up to you, though do note that there is a free shuttle. Also? The DeLorean in front of the Gamble House must remain parked for the duration of the day, so no sliding into the driver's seat.
Well, the famous car will remain parked if it doesn't suddenly zip off into the past, or future, at a moment's notice. Which is always a possibility when a DeLorean is near.


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It is a 'through hike' which means some of us will meet to leave cars at the destination (ahead of the meeting time so we can meet everyone at the beginning) and then drive the group back to the starting point to get their cars.
Start at Mt Laguna (exact spot TBD) and hike downhill (1700ft overall elevation loss) to Cibbets Flat Campground.
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I've finally finished working on my photos of my recent trip. I don't pretend to be a great photo journalist, it's more like, Oh! I should take a photo of this.
I get really caught up in what I'm doing and seeing, but here are some high points of my trip.
We're here! In Rome wait to go to the ship.
I must say again that the 4 year wait for this one was worth it!
The MS Noordam (we cruised on her 7 years ago in the Caribbean) is a lovely ship. Our home away from home.
Fruit and vegetable carving - I love the photo food maps that are posted - everything is plated very beautifully.
Our first port; Dubrovnik, Croatia. We loved it.
We had a wine tasting here after our bike ride at a private winery.
We took a 5 mile bike ride to this Monastery. It was beautiful.
This is Ancient Olympia.
This cruise became knows as the "Hot Rocks Tour".
The original Olympic stadium - the original. The kids and I ran it for fun.
Andrew Zorba Dances at lunch
Beautiful Santorini. This a town called Oia.
It's hard to see, but this is the mule trail. There are 3 ways to get up and down to the port; cable car (our choice), walking, or riding a mule.
Turkey! I'm very excited to add Asia to my list of visited continents. Turkey is beautiful.
We visited Mary's Chapel. The Virgin Mary lived out her life here on a mountain top in this 3 room home. The 2 most recent Popes' have visited it.
My favorite; the library - remarkable!
You know you're not in Jersey when you see this guy...
The Parthanon on the Acropolis (hotest rocks of all)
This temple with the Caryatids is my favorite thing here. Love those ladies.
Deck 3, Promenade deck was our meet up place in the late afternoon.
Hanna and I loved dressing for the formal nights. Hooray, she got to wear her graduation dress again. We look like salt and pepper shakers, lol.
This is a Clock Tower at the Cathedral in Messina, Italy. It is the largest mechanical perpetual clock in the world - It shows, day, time, year - but also the constellations, the phases of the moon, the biblical year, etc. It is incredible!
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I am reading Mark Steyn's new book After America: extremely funny and scary.
Here's an excerpt from his most recent column:
…The problem for the Western world is that it has incentivized nonproductivity on an industrial scale. For large numbers at the lower end of the spectrum (still quaintly referred to by British reporters as "working class") the ritual of work – of lifetime employment as a normal feature of life – has been all but bred out by multigenerational dependency. At the upper end of the spectrum, too many of us seem to regard an advanced Western society as the geopolitical version of a lavishly endowed charitable foundation that funds somnolent programming on NPR. I was talking to a trustiefundie Vermont student the other day who informed me her ambition is to "work for a non-profit."
"What kind of ambition is that?" I said, a little bewildered. But she meant it, and so do most of her friends. Doesn't care particularly what kind of "non-profit" it is: As long as no profits are involved, she's eager to run up a six-figure college debt for a piece of the non-action. The entire state of Vermont is becoming a non-profit. And so in a certain sense is an America that's 15 trillion dollars in the hole, and still cheerfully spending away.
In between the non-profit class and the non-working class, we have diverted too much human capital into a secure and undemanding bureaucracy-for-life: President Barack Obama has further incentivized statism as a career through his education "reforms," under which anyone who goes into "public service" will have their college loans forgiven after 10 years.
As I point out in my book, in the last six decades the size of America's state and local government workforce has increased over three times faster than the general population. Yet Obama says it's still not enough: The bureaucracy needs even more of our manpower. Up north, Canada is currently undergoing a festival of mawkish sub-Princess Di grief-feasting over the death from cancer of the Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Jack Layton's career is most instructive. He came from a family of successful piano manufacturers – in 1887 H A Layton was presented with a prize for tuning by Queen Victoria's daughter. But by the time Jack came along the family's private-sector wealth-creation gene had been pretty much tuned out for good: He was a career politician, so is his wife, and his son. They're giving him a state funeral because being chair of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative is apparently more admirable than being chairman of Layton Bros Pianos Ltd.
Again: Why?
The piano manufacturer pays for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, not the other way round. The private sector pays for the Vermont non-profits and the Manchester[U.K.] rioters and the entire malign alliance of the statism class and the dependency class currently crushing the Western world. America, Britain, Canada and Europe are operating on a defective business model: Not enough of us do not enough productive work for not enough of our lives. The numbers are a symptom, but the real problem, in the excuses for Manchester, in the obsequies in Ottawa, in the ambitions of Vermont, is the waste of human capital.


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- Acting for claimant in DIFC CA 010/2016 Sky News Arabia FZ-LLC v Kassab Media FZ (LLC)in a jurisdictional and commercial matter before the DIFC Court of Appeal.
- Acting on a number of s994 petitions before the Companies Court in matters concerning a major retail join venture, property investment, and an online business, including some involving multiple parties and related court proceedings.
- Acting for an international publisher of well-known novel in seeking injunctive relief in the Commercial Court against a distributor preventing further distribution of the novel and delivery up.
- Acting for finance company in High Court claim against potential borrower and their legal representative for payment of expenses under a due diligence contract.
- Acting for a local authority in a dispute in breach of contract claim in relation to a waste disposal procurement project.
- Acting for judgment creditor of major airline in obtaining worldwide freezing injunction for over £90 million in support of enforcement, with permission to enforce.
- Acting for developer against major retail chain in seeking to challenge an arbitration award in the Commercial Court on the basis of apparent bias, among other things.
- Acting for international manufacturing company in seeking approval of European merger under the Companies (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations 2007.
- Acting for Swiss defendant pharmaceutical company in a High Court claim concerning contract for manufacturing of a pharmaceutical product in India.
- Acting for the claimants in Travelers Insurance Co Ltd v Advani QBD, 10 May 2013 (unreported), involving enforcement of a judgment and third party debt orders.
- Acting as English law expert in matters before US District Court for Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, the US district Court of Southern District of Texas, and Court of Cyprus.
International arbitration
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for asset management companies against Eastern European group seeking payment under a finance agreement following the group's failure to carry out a reorganisation.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for respondent in claim under a guarantee for over $100 million brought by finance company.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for app development company in dispute with major telecoms manufacturer seeking specific performance and/or damages for installation contract.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for Turkish drilling company in a dispute against a group of mining companies seeking damages arising from alleged breaches of drilling contracts for two African mines.
- UNCITRAL Arbitration: Acting for financial institution in proceedings relating to agency fees and other monies allegedly payable under a joint venture.
- ICC Arbitration. Acting for respondent spare parts company in breach of warranty claim following sale of European business.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for hedge fund in claim brought by former partner for wrongful termination of a joint venture agreement arising out of complex derivative trading.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for Indian party in claim for commissions against international company based in the Netherlands.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for Italian energy company in claim against Swiss trading company in breach of contract dispute involving allegedly defective cargo.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for East European bank in claims arising out of loan agreements to businesses in the region.
- DIFC-LCIA Arbitration. Acting in construction arbitration involving the building of a regional hospital.
- LCIA Arbitration. Acting for respondent banker in claim for damages for breach of contract brought by former partners in East European financial services joint venture.
- UNCITRAL Arbitration. Acting for German company against Asian company for payments under contract involving the supply of pharmaceutical products.
- WIPO Arbitration. Advising international gaming company on WIPO arbitration proceedings and supportive injunctive relief in dispute with technology provider.
- ICSID Investment Arbitration. Acting as junior on an investor-state arbitration involving rights under an energy concession agreement.
- SCC Investment Arbitration. Acting as junior on an investor state arbitration involving alleged rights relating to a national telecommunications network.
- Acting for Dubai property developer in the DIFC Court in seeking the adjournment / stay of proceedings to enforce an arbitration award on the basis of a challenge to the award in the court of the seat of arbitration.
- UNCITRAL Arbitration. Tribunal member in dispute between an international consulting group and former partner based in the Far East.
- Appointed as ICC arbitrator in English law arbitration involving a contract between a Japanese company and UAE counterparty.
Banking and financial services
Contractual and negligence disputes relating to the sale of complex derivative products (including interest rate hedging product mis-selling claims), loans and guarantees including:
- Kays Hotels Ltd (t/a Claydon Country House Hotel) v Barclays Bank Plc [2014] EWHC 1927 (Comm), an interest rate hedging product limitation case.
- PJSC Vseukrainskyi Aktsionernyi Bank v Maksimov [2013] EWHC 3203 (Comm), an application for discharge of a freezing injunction sought by a Ukrainian bank.
- Advising bank on submissions to court in relation to compliance with confiscation order.
- Obtaining $50m worldwide freezing injunction on behalf of major Ukrainian bank in support of LCIA arbitration proceedings.
- Claim against Citibank for alleged failure to carry out client instruction in unwinding a significant CDS position.
- Acting for JP Morgan Chase in dispute brought by Shinhan Card, a Korean Company, in relation to possible default under $300m floating rate note.
- Representing fund in multi-million pound dispute against former trader involving complex derivatives trading.
- Representing company in seeking to recover commission payments relating to trade financing obtained through major international bank.
- Acting for individual in seeking to resist a claim against a bank on the basis of prior settlement.
- Acting for administrator of property development company in seeking court directions on the validity and/or effect of a guarantee, and various deeds of trust.
- Acting for UK subsidiary of major US company in resisting winding up petition on the basis of an arbitration agreement contained in the agreement under which the alleged debt arose.
- Defending bankruptcy proceedings brought by fashion model against a photographer.
- Acting for various parties in relation to claims concerning the execution of instructions and ownership of securities connected to the insolvency of ES Bankers (Dubai) Limited (In Liquidation) before the DIFC Court.
- Acting for a major European investment bank in seeking to recover about $20m of bonds from Lehman Brothers (Europe) Limited in administration.
- Acting for liquidators of a foreign national bank in seeking recovery from directors and various third parties for alleged fraud.
- Acting in Re A Company [2010] EWHC 3814 (Ch), dealing with winding up petitions, and advertising.
Intellectual property
- Acting in passing off and trademark claims involving automotive services, fashion, specialised fonts, fast food, catering services, and beer including, Budejovicky Budvar Narodni Podnik v Anheuser-Busch Inc CA [2012] EWCA Civ 880 in relation to the Budweiser trademark.
- Acted in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in Les Laboratoires Servier v Apotex [2012] EWCA CIV 593 and [2014] UKSC 55, involving an action on an undertaking for damages following the grant of an injunction to prevent patent infringement and the application of the illegality principle.
Numerous commercial cases involving the licensing and exploitation of intellectual property including:
- A claim on behalf of inventor against healthcare company for royalties in relation to a medical device.
- A claim for technology company against major telecoms manufacturer for breach of contract.
- A claim against a pharmaceutical company for breach of contract arising out of alleged failures to comply with Good Manufacturing Practice.
- Patent entitlement proceedings before the UK IPO.


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Dr. Patrick M. Lin, DC
Dr. Patrick was born in a small village outside of GuangZhou, China. He moved to Albany, NY when he was just 6 years old. Dr. Patrick attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY where he received a Bachelor of Science in Biology. Not sure what Dr. Patrick wanted to do, he explored many options. Dr. Patrick shadowed doctors, surgeons, dentists and finally a chiropractor. He fell in love with the chiropractic philosophy the first time he visited a local chiropractic office. He then decided to attend Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA. While at Palmer, Dr. Patrick became the NUCCA Vice-President and later President.
Dr. Patrick understands the importance of giving back. He traveled to India with a group of 32 chiropractors, including Dr. Danielle, to adjust and treat over 5,000 people. Dr. Patrick has also volunteered with the YMCA coaching basketball. Prior to moving to Cedar Park to open Symmetry Health Chiropractic Center, Dr. Patrick worked in Zealand, MI with Dr. Stan Dombroski. Dr. Patrick and his wife, Dr. Danielle, chose Cedar Park, TX due to the lack of NUCCA chiropractic in the area. In fact, in the entire state of Texas there are only 9 NUCCA chiropractors.
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Dr. Patrick's Associations and Affiliations
Texas Chiropractic Association
International Chiropractic Association
NUCCA Organization
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Dr. Danielle J. Lin, DC
Dr. "Dani" grew up in small town Wisconsin. She received her first chiropractic adjustment from her grandfather before she can even remember! After her grandfather retired, Dr. Dani experienced NUCCA chiropractic for the first time. Even after over a decade of traditional chiropractic maintaining her general health, Dr. Dani noticed a significant difference; she no longer had headaches…at all.
Dr. Dani attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she studied kinesiology for three years before joining the early acceptance program at Palmer College of Chiropractic. She finished her Bachelor of Science while simultaneously becoming a Doctor of Chiropractic. Starting chiropractic school, she knew she wanted to study the NUCCA chiropractic technique even though it is regarded as one of the most difficult techniques. Following graduation, Dr. Dani worked at Correction Creek Chiropractic Centre with her cousin, Dr. Dale Strama. In April of 2010, Dr. Dani and her husband, Dr. Pat moved to Cedar Park and opened Symmetry Health Chiropractic.
Dr. Dani's Associations and Affiliations:
International Chiropractic Association
Webster Certified
NUCCA organization
5 Star Management
Volunteer and Sponsor of "Market Sprouts" Program at the Lakeline farmer's market
Dr. Issiah Sullivan, DC
Dr. Sullivan was born in a small farming community in Iowa. He grew up active in sports, 4-H, and with the collective help of his three brothers and parents, helped out with the family farm.
His oldest brother was getting his Ph.D. from Iowa State in Exercise Physiology and welcomed him into his home and Dr. Sullivan open-enrolled to a national powerhouse wrestling program in high school.
Dr. Sullivan then went on to wrestle for Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa where he received his bachelors degree in Fitness and Wellness Management.
Dr. Sullivan moved down to Dallas, Texas after college and attended Parker University. It is there where he received his Doctorate of Chiropractic degree.
Dr. Sullivan has always had a strong passion for health and human performance. NUCCA is a measurable and highly effective technique with amazing results. Dr. Sullivan loves the healing power of the body after interference has been removed.
Dr. Kevin Moc, DC
Dr. Kevin was born and raised in Alhambra, California. He originally attended Cal State Fullerton for the accredited accounting program but later realizing an interest in human anatomy and physiology. He then decided to change his major and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology. Dr. Kevin continued his education at Life Chiropractic College West where he received his Doctorate in Chiropractic.
Dr. Kevin, at a young age, was taught to always lend a helping hand to anyone who needs it. He was inspired to become a chiropractor after learning about the holistic approach to health. Dr. Kevin experienced his first NUCCA adjustment when he was in school and knew instantly it would be his technique of choice.
Laura Seals: Office Manager and Chiropractic Assistant
Laura Seals serves as our Office Manager and full time Chiropractic Assistant. Originally from the southeast, Laura recently moved to the Austin area in July, 2018 from Asheville, North Carolina. After receiving her Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Appalachian State University, she later decided to focus her full attention on health and wellness.
Her passion began 3 years ago when she decided to dramatically change her lifestyle and concentrate on her health. She first began by giving up smoking, and then started to workout and focus on her nutrition. She has now lost over 100 lbs and is determined to continue working on her short and long term goals. She enjoys working at Symmetry Health Chiropractic because it allows her to help reach out to others that want to take the first step to healing their body, and becoming a better and healthier version of themselves. She loves spending her free time hiking with her dog, traveling and photographing the landscape of Texas. She loves learning about the history and culture of Texas, and has made it a goal to visit all the State Parks in Texas.
At Symmetry Health Chiropractic Center, we believe that in addition to chiropractic care, in order to be well, you need to move well, think well, and eat well. We strive to live to this standard and encourage our patients to do so. We recommend exercising at a level that is unique to you. We also provide many opportunities to give back and nutritional education.
At Symmetry Health, we truly care not just about our patients, but our whole community. Each summer we hold an annual food drive and each winter we hold a toy drive. This year, Symmetry Health donated over $6,000 worth of chiropractic services in exchange for over 1,000 pounds of food! All food collected was distributed to local families by the Round Rock branch of the Capital Area Food Bank.
Throughout the year, Symmetry Health hosts classes on wellness. Dr. Dani and Dr. Pat also give lectures and healthy cooking demos for area organizations. At least twice each year, Symmetry Health brings in Cathy Harvey, an Applied Clinical Nutritionist, to give talks on how to detoxify your body using whole foods. This fall we are also looking forward to adding to our expert speaker list, Lori Fitzgerald, a Nurse Practitioner and Wellness Coach.


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An investigation has been made of the degree to which the invariance of the relative dispersion of the atmosphere will permit an interferometric separation between geometric path differences and path differences due to atmospheric inhomogeneities. Humidity variations are the most serious. A difference in average humidity of 1% of saturation at 15°C would affect the comparison of two paths by approximately 2 parts in 108. The feasibility of photographing interference for long paths through an uncontrolled atmosphere has been investigated. Photographs of channel spectrum interference have been readily obtained for path lengths of 115 m near ground level.
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Before we delve into the strange and kooky world of Brendan Leonard, let's review the facts, shall we?
Fact 1: Big corporations control the media.
Fact 2: ABC/Disney is one of said big corporations.
Fact 3: Big corporations tend to focus on the lowest common denominator. They try to appeal to as many as possible at once, avoid offending anyone, and generally show disdain for the fringe elements of society, whatever they may be.
Fact 4: ABC Family's "The Brendan Leonard Show" is the craziest, coolest, low budget, lowbrow, lo-fi television show on television today.
There is simply no theory to its success, or its inception in the first place.
Humble Beginnings
Brendan lives in a quaint Chicago suburb. He always took a liking to making and editing his own home movies, so much so that he applied for and got a cable access spot in town. He worked hard, interviewing up to 300 people a month and creating skits with his buddies. He frequently incorporated his family into his skits, and in general was a funny high school kid in Chicago. Ho hum.
Then, amazingly, an ABC Family employee caught his show one night and thought that their channel could use a show like this: imaginative, entertaining, and down-to-earth. More importantly, it could be made on a shoestring budget, which is always a big consideration in the helter skelter world of cable programming.
The Show
The show is simply a wonderment of independent spirit. From the opening credits (inventively shot in reverse on a playground set, with cast members "unthrowing" posterboards with their names on them) to the "Band Spotlight" - a different band provides the background music to the show each week, and Brendan shows his true love of indie rock, giving spots to The Promise Ring, Guided By Voices, The Magic Magicians, and Centro-matic, among others - each episode is filled with the zany ideas and antics of Leonard (a budding John Cusack lookalike) and his pals.
One particular episode begins with Brendan ranting about how doesn't like to dance ("How did that get started? Did some caveman accidentally step in the fire he just built? And the other cavemen were like, 'Yeah! Go Krunk! Go Krunk! It's your birthday!'?"). As his rant ends, he presents the concept of the next skit: what if life were like the musicals, where everyone spontaneously danced about any old thing? The shots of he and his buddies high kicking and strutting their stuff down his sleepy town's Main Street are priceless. He even dances during a visit to his orthodontist (told you he's just a regular doofus) and while he's going to sleep.
Other great skits include his two older sisters doing a play-by-play review of early home movies starring Brendan; his friends pretending to live their lives in reverse, including that unintelligible speech garbage of tapes played backwards (there's a great side joke where one of them interjects his garbled mess with "there's power in Satan", the alleged backwards masking lyric of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"); and of course, Brendan interviewing several celebrities, both Chicago locals and otherwise.
My Thoughts
The charm of the show lies entirely within Brendan and his friends. They aren't Hollywood celebrities or trained actors: they flub their lines, they've got stocky delivery sometimes, and they rarely seem to have worked on the skit more than once before it was filmed. Still, to their credit, they aren't Hollywood celebrities or trained actors: they are always very sincere and honest, they ad lib like professional comedians (or like good buddies do), and they never seem too worried about how the whole show's going to turn out. They simply hit record and have fun for thirty minutes.
Another great aspect to the show is the surprising depth and innovation that Brendan (and his executive producer parents) discover in low-budget filmmaking. When you see Brendan in the distance and then suddenly he appears in front of the camera just inches away (and you realize the distant Brendan is just a double), you appreciate a little bit more just how much Brendan and Co. are trying to genuinely entertain you. The sheer openness of the show is refreshing in the sea of pre-fabricated horse poop that is primetime television today.
If you haven't caught the show already, do so as soon as possible! It airs weekdays at 5:30 Eastern Standard Time on ABC Family. Simply a fabulous show. I hope it (and Brendan) succeed for a long, long time to come. You can visit the show's website at http://abcfamily.go.com/daytime/brendan/.
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he played everyones favourite puppy character in all of the pokemon episodes on television and his name is called pikachu. when he was younger he was quite naive and his owner ash would make him do things to him that he regrets now that he is a grown up and he always says to his close friends that he wishes he could just turn back the damn clocks so that he never had to do all of those things to ash and he always says that he wishes that he had just stood up for himself more and said no when ash was making him do the things to him but i think that it is important for him to just get on with his life and concentrate on bringing up his 3 children and it is a shame that he had to stop doing pokemon battling but he couldnt carry on with it any more because he has to look after his children full time since his wife died when they was on holiday in tunisia 6 years ago and i hope that he will start doing battling again one day but he says he is perfectly happy just bringing up his kids and writing for the magazines that he writes for and doing the odd modelling job now and again but i know that deep down inside of himself he still misses pokemon battling and i know that the last pokemon that he killed definitely wasnt his very last one and wherever he is today i hope that he is having a lovely day for himself and i hope that you are having a lovely day for yourself as well.
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Learning how to write a management resume education section is crucial since nearly all management positions require some form of college education or equivalent academic experience. Your education section could set you apart from other management job candidates if you use it to demonstrate specific academic experiences, degrees and skills that make you an ideal management candidate. If your resume is lacking in work experience as a manager, your education section is all the more important since it can fill in the gaps for potential employers.
What to Include in a Management Resume Education Section
The most important aspect of how to write a management resume education section is including the right information, such as the name of your degrees, institutional information, honors you received and specific experiences you had that make you a better management candidate. If you are a recent graduate or are lacking relevant experience you can include both your GPA and graduation date, but those with more experience should avoid including this information. Contrary to popular belief, it is preferable to mention any education in management or related fields, even if you did not actually finish your degree. Incomplete degrees still give hiring managers valuable information about which classroom experiences you have had as well as whether you have studied the basics of management theory. If you have management certifications and training experiences that do not warrant a separate section, the best place for this information is usually listed underneath your degrees in your resume education section.
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The first step to learning how to write a management resume education section is to list each of your completed or in-progress degrees in reverse chronological order. Begin each listing with the name of your degree, such as a Master of Arts in Management, and include the institution information toward the end of the first line. Use the subsequent lines to include management courses you have taken that contribute to your suitability as a candidate for the position you want. For example, psychology or law courses would be suitable to include for a human resources management position. If you participated in a school project that involved managing a large group of people, be sure to include this information in a resume education section for a management position with a large company, and if you have room, include any certifications or management training programs at the bottom of each institutional listing.
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