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Tagged with: Frustration • Guitar Hero • Music • Tiny Tim • Ukulele • Video Games
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Anonymous says:
yer that should he a real game!!
rock on!
Jen says:
"Tiny bubbles…."
That's it for me. I only know 2 ukele hits!
Seraphine says:
Ukulele's rock.
bnpositive says:
You never fail to completely crack me up with these comics!
Anonymous says:
zomg… and i JUST got guitar hero.. man.. i wish i had gotten this instead!!!
Anonymous says:
hahahahhaha damn, thats a good one! i guess only old fogies like me might get this one 😛
Anonymous says:
It's a bit too realistic with the strings though. Then again, this game makes a lot more sense than playing bass in GH.
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I'm waiting for Cowbell Hero!
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Thats rich!
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Do you have sensitive teeth?
Just when you are about to enjoy your cone of ice cream or a cup of hot coffee, you feel a sudden sharp sting of pain in your teeth. How often you encounter this? Are you experiencing it frequently?
No matter how often it happens, the pain is telling you that there is something wrong with your teeth and you need to make that appointment with your dentist as soon as possible. It may be a cavity or cracked tooth. But for most of the cases, the problem is often caused by tooth sensitivity.Tooth sensitivity is a dental discomfort that can be triggered by other factors besides common temperature triggers like hot, cold, sour or sweet foods. Some individuals claim to have sensational tooth pain even by breathing cold air. The pain, though it may vary, can be so sudden but can shoot deep right into the nerve endings of the teeth.
There are tendencies that as people age, gums recede or move away from the tooth enamel exposing a great deal of root surfaces of the teeth. This is the leading factor for having tooth sensitivity. Some other possible causes may include brushing too hard and where the tooth enamel wears out. Gingivitis and other periodontal diseases can also be the culprit for having tooth sensitivity. The teeth can also be irritated due to application of tooth whitening products. Habitual grinding or clenching, acidic food intake, and the use of highly-acidic oral products, can also be the reason why there is sensitivity of the teeth. Presence of plaque on the tooth's root surface can also be link to this discomfort.
The best way to treat tooth sensitivity is to ask first for a professional advice, like your dentist, regarding the proper method of treating this oral inconvenience. Your dentist will first examine the state of your oral health to figure out which method is proper to treat your dental problem. He or she can assess whether you just need a regular application of fluoride gel or advise you to use desensitizing paste to lessen the sensitivity of your teeth. Sometimes, your dentist can apply dental sealants to strengthen your tooth enamel which in effect, reduces its sensitivity to extreme food temperature. This can further help in blocking pain transmission to the nerve up to the brain.
If ever the cause to your tooth's sensitivity is gingivitis or improper brushing method, the dentist can give you a review on proper application of oral hygiene techniques. Grinding and clenching can be reduced by wearing protective mouth guard while you're sleeping. Your diet, of course, should also be checked and be properly planned as to prevent ingestion of acidic foods that can cause further tooth sensitivity. The best step left would be to regularly visit your dentist. They can actually provide tooth cleaning and other oral hygiene techniques to effectively reduce tooth sensitivity while protecting it from further occurrence. For cases of hypersensitivity, your dentist may recommend you to undergo endodontic procedure where the infected pulp within your damage tooth is being cleaned and sealed off.
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Secrets of the Sewing Bee
Author: Kate Thompson
Secrets of the Sewing Bee tells the story of the defiant and courageous women on the home front, from Kate Thompson, author of Secrets of the Singer Girls. Orphan Flossy Brown arrives at Trout's garment factory in Bethnal Green amidst the uncertainty of the Second World War. In 1940s London, each cobbled street is strewn with ghosts of soldiers past, all struggling to make ends meet. For the women of the East End, their battles are on the home front. Flossy is quickly embraced by the colourful mix of characters working at Trout's, who have turned their sewing expertise to vital war work. They fast become the family that Flossy has always longed for. Dolly Doolaney, darling of the East End, and infamous tea lady, gives her a particularly warm welcome and helps Flossy settle into wartime life. Things aren't so easy for Peggy Piper, another new recruit at the factory. She's used to the high life working as a nippie in the West End, and is not best pleased to find herself bent over a sewing machine. But war has the ability to break down all sorts of class barriers and soon Peggy finds the generosity and spirit of her fellow workers difficult to resist. Dolly sets up a sewing circle and the ladies at Trout's play their part in defending the frontline as they arm themselves with their needles and set about stitching their way to victory. But as the full force of the Blitz hits London, the sewing bee are forced to shelter in the underground tube stations on a nightly basis. In such close quarters, can Dolly manage to contain the secret that binds them all? And how will Peggy and Flossy cope as their lives are shaped and moved by forces outside of their control?


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Scottish actor and producer Sean Connery is perhaps best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven films between 1962 and '83. As a boy, Connery drove a milk cart. At 18, he joined the Royal Navy. He was later picked during a modeling gig for his first acting endeavor. His career has included the films The Hunt for Red October, Murder on the Orient Express and Dragonheart.
Childhood in Scotland
Actor. Born Thomas Sean Connery on August 15, 1930 in Fountainbridge, Scotland. The son of Joe, a truck driver, and Euphamia, a 20-year-old housewife, Connery had a modest upbringing in a neighborhood known as "the street of a thousand smells" for the stench of the local rubber mill and several breweries that always filled the air. His home was a two-room flat in "tenement land," where the infant slept in a bureau drawer because his parents couldn't afford a crib. "We were very poor," Connery has commented, "but I never knew how poor because that's how everyone was there." Joe brought home only a few shillings a week, and those were often spent on whiskey or gambling.
Known during his youth as "Tommy", Connery grew up on the streets along with the rest of the Fountainbridge youth, playing tag or soccer and causing rips in his short trousers that his mother was always patching. The local gangs dubbed him "Big Tam" because of his size and his ability to pummel most of his playmates. He attended Tollcross elementary school and amazed his teachers with a lightening-quick mathematical aptitude. From the day he could read, he devoured every comic book he could get his hands on and dreamed up his own imaginative tales of Martians and madmen. Even then, he had a fascination with film: "I would play hooky and go to Blue Halls, the local movie house, to watch the pictures," he recalled.
When Connery was 8 years old, his parents had a second child: Neil. Young Tom delighted in the role of big brother and, as they grew up, the Connery boys were inseparable. They fished in nearby Union Canal (using their mother's stockings for line) and skipped school to fit in more amusing extracurricular activities—including running with "the wrong element." Connery claims to have had sexual encounters with local ladies at the age of 8 (although he can't recall many of the details) and to have helped with his father's gambling rounds at the local pubs.
Young Drifter
At age 13, Connery quit school to work full time at the dairy. Three years later, he joined the Royal Navy. Like all good sailors, he got two tattoos on his arm, which he still bears today: MUM AND DAD and SCOTLAND FOREVER. Unfortunately, the artwork lasted longer than his naval career. Though he signed up for a seven-year stint, he was released from service after three years due to stomach ulcers.
Back home, Connery took assorted jobs shoveling coal, laying bricks, polishing coffins, and posing nude as a model at the Edinburgh Art School. For months, he skimped and saved every shilling to become a member of the Dunedin Weightlifting Club. "It was not so much to be fit but to look good for the girls," he once admitted. The local ladies were impressed—but so were his fellow gym mates, who nominated him for the Mr. Universe contest. So, in 1953, Connery traveled the nine hours to London, where the competitions were held. He boldly introduced himself to the contest judges as "Mr. Scotland," pointedly flexing the ample muscles on his 6-foot 2-inch frame. He was chosen third in the tall men's division and given a medal—but that wasn't all. A local casting director in attendance liked the hammy Scottish kid and asked him to join the chorus of a new musical, South Pacific, playing on Drury Lane, in London's theater district. "I didn't have a voice, couldn't dance," Connery admitted. "But I could look good standing there."
Acting Career
One rehearsal was all it took: "I decided then and there to make acting my career." He chose the stage name "Sean Connery" because Sean, besides being his middle name, reminded him of his favorite movie hero, Shane. "It seemed to go more with my image than Tom or Tommy," he recalled. "Sean Connery" was listed as a chorus member in the South Pacific program.
Over the next few years, Connery was cast in numerous films and television programs, including a much-acclaimed BBC staging of Requiem for a Heavyweight. But his lack of education worried him. "I decided I didn't want people to think of me as some lout," he confessed. So began reading the classics, including Proust, Tolstoy, and Joyce—"all the books I skipped when I was in school." The book-learning, however, did not soften his street instincts. In 1957, while filming Another Time, Another Place with Lana Turner, Connery was involved in a brawl on the set. The Hollywood tabloids reported that he and Turner were having an affair, and her boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, stormed onto the set waving a gun. Connery responded with a quick right hook.
Big Break as James Bond
Connery liked the reputation of being a rugged ladies' man. But that changed in August 1957 when, while filming a TV show for Britain's ATV Playhouse, he met a beautiful blond Australian actress named Diane Cilento. She was married at the time, but Connery's attraction to her was undeniable. Smart and sexy, she taught him "the most amazing acting techniques" in the privacy of her dressing room.
At first Cilento felt nothing for her castmate except friendship: "He seemed like a man with a tremendous chip on his shoulder," she remarked. In 1959, just as Connery's career was taking off, Cilento contracted tuberculosis, and the actor realized how devastated he would be if he lost her. He turned down a big break in the Charlton Heston film El Cid to be close to her while she recovered. The decision didn't hurt his career; in fact, Twentieth-Century Fox studios came calling with a contract, and Connery made several films in Hollywood. When the contract was up, he had another stroke of luck. Producers Harry Saltzman and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli cast him as the lead in a spy movie based on one of a series of Ian Fleming novels, Dr. No — and Bond, James Bond, was born. The film was hugely successful and had immediate sequels: From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964). Thunderball (1965) and You Only Live Twice (1967) followed.
Sly, sexy, and confident, Connery as Bond was the embodiment of the British secret agent (even if he did have to wear a toupee to cover his prematurely balding head). "We all knew this guy had something," Saltzman would recall. "We signed him without a screen test. We all agreed, he was 007." A notable non-Bond role was in Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Marnie (1964). He declared his last role as Bond would be in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever.
Personal Challenges
His acting career now cemented, Connery decided it was time to settle his personal affairs as well. Diane was now divorced, and the pair wed secretly at the Rock of Gibraltar in November 1962 while Connery was filming his second Bond film, From Russia With Love. They honeymooned briefly in Spain before the actor returned to the States for a flood of publicity. Connery thrived on the attention and adoration: "Now, I can kill any s.o.b. in the world and get away with it," he bragged to The Saturday Evening Post. "I eat and drink nothing but the very best, and I also get the loveliest ladies in the world."
But Connery had a tendency to go too far in interviews. For example, he told a London newspaper his opinion on hitting women: "An open-handed slap is justified. So is putting your hand over her mouth." He later told Playboy, "I don't think there's anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman ... if all other alternatives fail and there's plenty of warning."
The comments came back to haunt him when, in 1973, 10 years after his son Jason was born, he and Cilento divorced amidst a flurry of tabloid rumors that he had abused her. Connery denied them all, and married French-Moroccan artist Micheline Roquebrune in 1975—again at Gibraltar. The pair met in a golf tournament in Morocco (golf was a shared passion). He won the men's award; she, the women's.
Being 007
By this time, Connery had made a total of six Bond pictures, and fans were in a frenzy. Once, he looked up from a urinal to find a photographer snapping a photo. The man who once reveled in notoriety now shrunk from the spotlight. He retreated from Hollywood, moving his wife and her three children from her first marriage into mansions in England and Marbella, Spain. It would be more than a decade before he reluctantly agreed to reprise his Bond role one last time, in 1983's Never Say Never Again. For this, he was paid salary of several million dollars—a far cry from the original $16,000 he earned for Dr. No.
Despite the money, Connery was bitter and criticized Broccoli and Saltzman for stifling his talent. "This Bond image is a problem in a way, and a bit of a bore," he said of his last performance. He donated a large portion of his earnings to the Scottish International Education Trust to help students from poor backgrounds like his own. But his critics wondered if he was motivated by generosity or politics: Connery fervently supports Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom, and has also given a great deal of his own money to the secessionist Scottish National Party. Since 1974, he has lived in Marbella on "tax exile" from England, refusing to be "squeezed till I'm dry in the 98 percent bracket."
Recent Work
After Bond, Sean Connery continued to work regularly—The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Robin and Marian (1976), The Great Train Robbery (1979), Time Bandits (1981), and The Name of the Rose (1986)—and finally won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a Chicago cop on the trail of Al Capone in 1987's The Untouchables. His career continued forward with no signs of slowing down. He played the father of the title character in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and, in 1990, Connery played a defecting Russian submarine captain Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October. Other films include Medicine Man (1992); his prison action-adventure, The Rock (1996) with Nicolas Cage; as well as The Avengers (1998) with Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman; Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991); First Knight (1995); and Dragonheart (1996). He played a cat burglar in the love story-thriller Entrapment (1999) with Catherine Zeta-Jones. In 2000, he starred in the film Finding Forrester and in 2003, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
He's been called "the rogue with the brogue", and at almost 60 years of age in 1989, was named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive." But while his professional work is applauded, his personal choices have often come under fire. "I'm not shy about voicing what I believe to be true," he said in 1998 when he was denied a British knighthood due to his active support for the Scottish National Party. (He was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.) In 1999, Connery also received a Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement.
After decades in the spotlight, Connery remains a street-smart, self-made man who never apologizes, and time doesn't seem to have mellowed him. Sir Sean Connery, with his charm, sex appeal, and trademark braggadocio, credits none other than himself for his success and longevity. But he acknowledges a debt to his fans as well. "Everything I've done has had to be accomplished in my own cycle, my own time, on my own behalf, and with my own sweat," he has said. "But if people hadn't liked what I was doing, I'd probably be delivering milk today—and I never forget that.
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Sun Pharmaceuticals, an Indian drug manufacturer, is recalling its most successful medication Warfarin after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) criticized its poor quality.
Warfarin (also known as the brand names Coumadin, Jantoven and Mareva) is a blood thinner used to prevent thrombosis and thromboembolism, which are both caused by blood clots.
Many common foods and medications can interact badly with Warfarin, like leafy greens and vitamin K. Patients using Warfarin must undergo blood testing to rule out the risk of excessive bleeding.
In May 2014, the FDA wrote a letter to Sun Pharmaceuticals, warning the company about one of its foreign manufacturers. Inspectors had discovered that the staff had been hiding batch failures, conducting unofficial testing and deleting files.
The letter told Sun that there was a "general lack of reliability and accuracy in the data generated by [the] firm's laboratoryŌĆ" that raises concerns about the integrity of all data generated by your firm." This will be SunŌĆÖs third medical recall this year.
Sun recalled antidepressant Venlafaxine Hydrochloride back in July for failed dissolution tests. Antibacterial drug Cephalexin followed quickly, after the FDA uncovered substandard manufacturing processes.
Why Was My Drug Recalled?
Warfarin can have dangerous side effects, even in its standard dose. Overdoses of the drug can cause excessive bleeding risks, so the drug must be in its proper concentration to be safe and effective.
Sun Pharmaceuticals is quickly developing a reputation for inaccurate data reporting and unsafe manufacturing. When pharmaceutical companies cut corners, it is the patients who suffer.
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Remembering Brian Jacques
Kidsreads.com mourns the passing of celebrated children's book author Brian Jacques, who passed away on February 5th at the age of 71. Jacques was the author of the New York Times bestsellingRedwall series, which has sold more than 20 million copies and been published in more than 20 countries. The 22nd and final book in the series, THE ROGUE CREW, will be in stores on May 3rd.
Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England, on June 15, 1939. Along with 40% of the population of Liverpool, his ancestral roots are in Ireland, County Cork. He grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks. His interest in adventure stories began at an early age when he read the works of Daniel Defoe, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. One of his favorites was Kenneth Graham's WIND IN THE WILLOWS.
Jacques is survived by his wife and two grown sons.
Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15th, 1939. Along with forty percent of the population of Liverpool, his ancestral roots are in Ireland, County Cork to be exact.
He grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks. His interest in adventure stories began at an early age with reading the books of: Daniel Defoe, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Thomas Malory, Robert Michael Ballantyne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Kenneth Grahame. He attended St. John's School, an inner city school that had its playground on the roof. On his first day at St. John's, at the age of ten, he had an experience that marked his potential as a writer. When given an assignment of writing a story about animals, he wrote about the bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The teacher could not, and would not, believe that a ten year old could write that well. When young Brian refused to falsely say that he had copied the story, he was caned as "a liar". He had always loved to write, but it was only then, that he realized that he had a talent for writing.
Some teachers at St. John's proved to be good role models. As Mr. Jacques recalls:
"My favourite teacher was Mr. Austin Thomas. He looked like Lee Marvin. Big Man. A Captain in World War II. He came to school on a big bush bike with the haversack on back. He was a man's man. Always fair. I was fourteen at the time when Mr. Thomas introduced the class to poetry and Greek literature. (Because of him, I saved seven shillings and sixpence to buy THE ILIAD and THE ODYSSEY at this dusty used book shop.)"
This interest in poetry extended to Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Goldsmith. It was also at St. John's that Brian met a teacher, Alan Durband (who also taught two Beatles, Paul McCartney and George Harrison), who, more than thirty years later would bring about a major change in his life.
After Brian finished school at fifteen, he set out to find adventure as a merchant seaman. He travelled to many far away ports, including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a bobby (Police Constable 216D), a postmaster, and a stand-up comic.
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Practice Essentials
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common enzymatic disorder of red blood cells, affecting 400 million people worldwide. [1] Paul Carlson and colleagues first reported G6PD deficiency in 1956 while working on a patient previously identified as "primaquine sensitive." [2]
G6PD is an enzyme involved in the pentose monophosphate pathway. G6PD deficiency leads to free radical–mediated oxidative damage to red blood cells, which in turn causes hemolysis. [3] It is an X-linked disorder with high prevalence particularly in people of African, Asian, and Mediterranean descent. G6PD deficiency is polymorphic, with more than 400 variants.
Patients with G6PD-deficient alleles have selective advantage against severe malaria; hence, it is highly prevalent in populations where malaria is endemic.
Signs and symptoms of G6PD deficiency
The clinical presentation of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency includes a spectrum of hemolytic anemia ranging from mild to severe hemolysis in response to oxidative stress. The likelihood of developing hemolysis and its severity depends on the level of the enzyme deficiency, which in turn depends on the G6PD variant. [4, 5] Jaundice, pallor, and splenomegaly may be present in patients with severe hemolysis. Patients may have right upper quadrant tenderness due to hyperbilirubinemia and cholelithiasis.
Workup in G6PD deficiency
Semi-quantitative tests
The fluorescent spot test is a direct test that measures the generation of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+); the test is positive if the blood spot fails to show fluorescence under ultraviolet light. It is rapid, simple, sensitive, and inexpensive. [6, 7, 8]
The methemoglobin reduction test is a rapid indirect test that measures the reduced methemoglobin levels produced after NADPH oxidation. [6]
The cytofluorimetric method is a cytochemical typing assay that provides a fluorometric readout of the classic methemoglobin reduction test at the level of an individual red blood cell. [7]
Quantitative test
Quantitative tests for G6PD activity are considered the criterion standard. The rate of NADPH generation is spectrophotometrically measured at a wavelength of 340 nm. The G6PD activity is finally expressed as G6PD IU/red blood cell and G6PD IU/hemoglobin ratios. [6, 7, 8]
Most individuals with G6PD deficiency do not require any treatment. Acute hemolytic anemia in G6PD-deficient patients is largely preventable by avoiding exposure to fava beans, drugs, and chemicals that can cause oxidant stress. Identification and discontinuation of the precipitating agent is critical in the management of hemolysis in patients with G6PD deficiency.
Anemia secondary to mild to moderate hemolysis in G6PD deficient patients is usually self-limited and often resolves in 8-14 days. Transfusion is rarely needed in cases of severe anemia.
Infants with prolonged neonatal jaundice as a result of G6PD deficiency should receive phototherapy. Exchange transfusion may be necessary in cases of severe neonatal jaundice or hemolytic anemia caused by favism.
Systematic assessment for the risk of severe hyperbilirubinemia should be performed before discharge in neonates in whom G6PD deficiency is suspected to provide early and focused follow-up to prevent bilirubin encephalopathy. [9, 10, 11]
Persons with chronic hemolysis or nonspherocytic anemia should be placed on daily folic acid supplements. Consultations with a hematologist are ideal for long-term follow up.
The G6PD enzyme catalyzes the oxidation of glucose-6-phosphate and the reduction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP+) to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) in the pentose monophosphate shunt. NADPH is important in maintaining glutathione in its reduced form, which protects the red blood cell against oxidative stress.
Red blood cells carry oxygen and hence are more susceptible to oxidative stress than other cells. The pentose monophosphate shunt is the only means of NADPH generation in red blood cells and therefore crucial in protecting red cells against oxidative damage.
In a G6PD deficient patient, oxidative stresses can denature hemoglobin and cause intravascular hemolysis.
Drugs, chemical agents, infections, ingestion of fava beans, or ketoacidosis can trigger oxidative stress leading to hemolysis.
Jaundice in G6PD-deficient neonates is considered to be due to an imbalance between the production and conjugation of bilirubin, with a tendency towards inefficient bilirubin conjugation. Premature infants are at special risk of the bilirubin production-conjugation imbalance.
G6PD deficiency is prevalent worldwide. In the United States, African Americans are primarily affected, with a prevalence of about 10%; however it is also seen among Italians (especially Sardinian ancestry), Greeks, Turks, South East Asians, people of Asian ancestry, and Sephardic Jews. [11]
Internationally, the geographic prevalence of the disorder correlates with the distribution of malaria. The highest prevalence rates (with gene frequencies from 5-25%) are found in the following regions:
Tropical Africa
The Middle East
Tropical and subtropical Asia
Some areas of the Mediterranean
Papua New Guinea
The heterogeneity of polymorphic G6PD variants is proof of their independent origin, and it supports the notion that they have been selected by a common environmental agent, in keeping with the concept of convergent evolution.
G6PD deficiency affects all races, although the severity of G6PD deficiency varies significantly among racial groups. The highest prevalence is among the people of African, Asian, or Mediterranean descent. Variants producing severe deficiency primarily occur in the Mediterranean population. African populations have milder hemolysis due to higher enzyme levels.
G6PD deficiency is an X-linked inherited disease that primarily affects men. Women may be affected if they are homozygous, which occurs in populations in which the frequency of G6PD deficiency is quite high. Heterozygous women (carriers) can experience clinical disease as a result of X chromosome inactivation, gene mosaicism, or hemizygosity.
Many people with G6PD deficiency are asymptomatic. However, case reports of acute massive hemolysis with jaundice have been reported especially in the neonatal period, leading to kernicterus and fatality. [12, 13, 14, 15, 16]
Kernicterus or bilirubin encephalopathy is a rare complication of neonatal jaundice complicated by G6PD deficiency. Kernicterus, although infrequent, has about 10% mortality and 70% long-term morbidity usually evident in infants with a bilirubin level higher than 20 mg/dL. [9]
Massive hemolysis complicating G6PD deficiency has also been reported in patients with hepatitis infections, specifically hepatitis A and E in the Indian subcontinent. [17]
A literature review by Lai et al suggested that G6PD deficiency is a risk factor for diabetes, with the risk being greater in men than in women (odds ratio of 2.22 vs 1.87, respectively). [18]
A study by Rostami-Far et al indicated that G6PD deficiency increases the likelihood of neonatal sepsis. The study involved 76 neonates with sepsis and 1214 without sepsis, with the prevalence of G6PD deficiency being significantly greater in the sepsis group than in the controls. [19]
Patient Education
The X linked pattern of inheritance of G6PD deficiency and its clinical severity should be discussed with parents and counseling with regard to their risk for having other children should be provided, especially in populations in which G6PD deficiency is highly prevalent. [10]
If a mother is a heterozygote, the chances of recurrence is 50% with every subsequent male pregnancy. [20]
Parental-child G6PD deficiency self-care discussions are associated with better child health, and parental involvement in these discussions is facilitated by the thoroughness and clarity of patient education received from provider. [10]
Additional resources are available at G6PD Deficiency Association - Favism.
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Rare earth minerals (REEs) news does not generally capture headline news of major newspapers or broadcast media. That is not to say that the 17 or so extremely rare minerals are not important. In fact, they are critical to many products, both industrial and consumer. The use of REE varies from commercial to military applications and hence the overwhelming concentration (97 per cent) of these minerals in the People's Republic of China has prompted American policymakers to treat the subject as a matter of national security.
In many respects, the matter of REE hit world headlines when The Independent of the UK revealed in late 2010 that China could be cutting back on supply of two metals in 2012, primarily to meet its domestic demand. This has precipitated a mad rush by some of the world's largest economies in Western Europe to look for alternative sources as far and wide as South Africa to Greenland. What makes REEs so precious is that they are used to produce many components and products we have come to take for granted. These include: Dysprosium - helps make electric motor magnets 90 per cent lighter; Terbium - makes electric lights 80 per cent more efficient; Praseodymium - used to make lasers and ceramic materials; Gadolinium - used to manufacture computer memory (RAM). Industrial minerals such as Ytterbium (used to make infrared lasers) and Erbium (essential to the manufacture of vanadium steel), whilst other metals help produce wind turbines, solar panels, hybrid car batteries and fibre-optics, all play a vital role in churning out products that are crucial to one industry or another.
According to a United States (US) Congressional report on REE published in late 2011, the global demand for REEs stood at 136,100 tons in 2010 with annual global production standing at 133,600 tons. It was estimated that by 2015, global demand could reach 210,000 tons per annum. While the Industrial Minerals Company of Australia (IMCOA) puts that demand at a more conservative 185,000 tons in the year 2015, the fact remains that China's output is estimated at no more than 140,000 tons. What is evident from the data presented above is that the balance of 45,000 - 70,000 metric tons of REEs will have to be sourced from elsewhere to feed the world's voracious demand. At this juncture, it remains unclear as to where such material can be found, in sufficient quantities to feed demand, especially in light of the fact that mining rare metals have proved ecologically disastrous for China. Hence, whilst it may be 'politically' and 'economically' acceptable for China to go ahead and extract these metals at whatever cost to the environment, it may be a whole different issue for countries like South Africa which have significant untapped deposits.
The adverse effects of overdependence on a single source for such vital resources are already evident in the global geopolitical scene. When the Obama administration announced in early 2010 of arms sales to Taiwan worth US$6.4 billion, an article in Shanghai Dongfang Zaobao, a pro-Chinese Communist Party paper, proposed the banning the sale of REEs to American companies as retribution. Although the threat did not ultimately materialise, it did help wake up Western capitals to the dire prospects of a potential clampdown on exports by China. Although China controls about 97 per cent of the world's current output of REEs, it certainly does not have all the deposits. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), China's share of reserves stands at 55 million metric tons out of 110 million metric tons. The US has around 13 per cent followed by South Africa and Canada. Other potential players include Australia, India, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia, and Malawi.
Unlike China, the US has not sufficiently developed this industry. The supply chain for REEs includes mining, separation, refining, alloying and manufacturing (devices and component parts). The Achilles heel for the US is its lack of refining, alloying, and fabricating capacity to handle any type of rare earth production. The end result of this lack of investment and interest in such a crucial sector translates into the US (and indeed almost all other nations) is that it must source practically its entire need for REEs from China. This gloomy scenario has forced the Congress into action. A number of legislations have been brought forth in the 112th Congress that range from 'H.R. 1388, the Rare Earths Supply Chain Technology and Resources Transformation Act of 2011′ which hopes to re-establish a competitive domestic rare earths supply chain with the Department of Defence's Logistics Agency, to the 'H.R. 1314, the Resource Assessment of Rare Earths (RARE) Act of 2011′ that directs the USGS to "examine the need for future geological research on rare earth elements and other minerals and determine the criticality and impact of a potential supply restriction or vulnerability".
Indeed, capitals across the industrialised world have now been sufficiently alarmed and the search for new sources of REEs is on in full swing. As stated above, sources of known deposits are already known. The tricky question of extracting the rare metals under acceptable terms to the environment remains, till date, a major challenge. One can only hope that alternative sources of supply can be found so that we can move away from mono-sourcing of such metals. For a disruption in the supply chain of REEs could spell disaster for the global economy, already reeling under sustained recession that is looking more and more like the 'great depression' of the 21st century.
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Concussion Care for St Louis Athletes
posted: Aug 29, 2018.
Concussion Care for St Louis Athletes
The St Louis high school and college football season is about to begin and now is the time to talk about the risks associated with concussions, also known as, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in youth sports. In the US, there are 3.8 million sports related TBI annually.
Professional athletes in all sports are walking away in the prime of their careers due traumatic brain injuries and the lasting effects of brain function deficits later in life. While a lot of attention is directed toward the professional and college athletes, at Vidan Family Chiropractic we are actually more concerned about the health of student athletes in our own community.
4 key points that you should know as a parent of a St Louis athlete:
- High school athletes are twice as likely to be concussed, in fact 1/5 of all high school athletes experience a concussion. 70% of these occur at practice where most organizations don't have the means to staff medical personnel at all times, increasing the risk of immediate further injury. Open communication between you and your athlete is key to having them tell you when they were struck and possibly causing a TBI.
- TBI have more than doubled among children. According to the CDC, from 2001 to 2012, the rate of emergency department visits for sports and recreation-related injuries with a diagnosis of concussion or TBI, alone or in combination with other injuries, more than doubled among children (age 19 or younger). Once you have discovered the injury call your primary care physician or take your athlete to the emergency room.
- Be on the lookout for a second TBI. Football players who have a history of previous concussions are at a greater increased risk of experiencing future concussions as compared to athletes without a history of such impacts. Even if the TBI happened months ago, be on the lookout for the possibility of having another TBI with less trauma. Concussions (TBI) can occur without any impact to the head, and could be caused by a whipping motion of the neck.
- There has been a link to concussion and decrease in academic performance. When athletes suffer from a TBI their grades may suffer as well. Early detection and treatment in the short and long term will help your athlete get back to studying at their maximal potential.
Treatment options in St Louis MO can take a multi-pronged approach:
· Chiropractic adjustments can restore function of the neck and sub-occipital region, which are often affected with a head injury that can result in headaches and neck pain/stiffness. With proper specific adjustments, function can be restored to the spine and allow your athlete to heal more effectively. These specific adjustments can be the key in
· Physical Rehabilitation to restore strength and balanced muscle function. Specific rehab exercises can be performed to allow the athlete to strengthen and stabilize muscles that may have been injured in the event causing the concussion.
· Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitative stretching to retrain muscle groups and improve feedback to the brain (afferentation) can be done to help in the healing process.
It's important to be evaluated after a concussion (TBI) as soon as possible. Without proper management of the injury, they can be significant and have long term complications. For this reason it is suggested that you find a doctor like Dr Vidan, that has experience in caring for these types of injuries.


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Martial Artist- 40 XP: You have mastered the arts of one fighting style, which most assuredly will aid you combat. Taking this feat, you select one of six fighting styles, and immediately gain the benefits.
Judo: When declaring an attack with your fist, you can instead opt to do a kick. The kick does normal damage, however, it takes your strength instead of half of your strength.
Karate: When you are attacked by an enemy at melee range, and they hit, you can declare to "perry" at a tier higher body combat check. If you succeed, the attack is negated, and you gain a free attack as a reaction.
Russian Boxing Style: When you attack, the enemy must make a strength X2 save, or fall prone.


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TITLE: Fate Throws a Curve Ball
TYPE: Yaoish...
RATING: pg-13
GENERAL PLOT: Backstory of Rio and Bryan
Now, lets begin...
She's got my number I must confess, one look in her eyes and I feel undressed, she can see right through all my little games, she's got my number she's got my name. Late night *FZZK* The power button on the radio was punched suddenly by one white finger. Normally Rio liked to work out to music, but tonight all the songs just seemed to piss him off. Love songs, breakup songs, the badger song! Couldn't they play something else on that stupid station?!
The Holy Sword of Mukaru was currently doing an upside down stand on the pole in his lair, holding himself verticle using just his lower legs, letting his arms and long violet hair fall to the floor gracefully. He sighed and curled up the pole, grasping the spot above his feet firmly, before lowering himself down as smooth and slow as molassass on a cold day. He wasn't a warrior...he was a cleric of Sunei, the goddess of love, beauty, and hedonism and exotic dancing was the only workout he could stomach. The elf leaned down to pick up his towel and took a glance out the window. It was late...possibly midnight, and all he saw were the stars out past the hazy mists that surrounded the city. The magical domes that surrounded the inner city cast a faintly red glow on the sky, making it seem purple to him.
Rio strode over to his dressing table while drying his hair, and grabbed the first atomizer he felt and sprayed the perfume into the air. It wasn't the rose water he'd been expecting...instead it was that rich frankensense, cinnamon, and cloves scent that Bryan always wore. That brought back painful memories, even more than the events of the past few days. Not only was his city being terrorized by bizzare alien creatures impervious to magic, but when his ex showed up at his door step with his new love in tow, things just went from bad to worse. He sat down heavily on the velvet covered stool and put his head in his hands. In the other room, his keen hearing could pick up the delicate voice of a young girl jabbering on and on...it was that Jessi kid. Thank go she would be out of his hair in the morning! And then...over it all...
"Jessi, do me a favor....and go to bed! We're tired, I've been drivin' all day..and did your cat just growl at me?!" That voice was a slightly rough tenor; Bryan. Rio would always recognize that voice, the musical way it sounded when its owner was telling a story...the whispers at night. It hurt to hear him talking to someone else. In the 60 years they'd been appart, Bryan had changed. Must be his half kitsune blood Rio thought, glancing darkly at the door that sepparated his living quarters from the main area where he held meetings, had meditiations, and conducted business. He knew right now that Bryan would be holding that bloody alien girl in his arms on his futon, letting her kiss him and maybe even....he didn't want to think about it. It was bad enough that Crescendo was a girl; HIS Bryan with a girl, now that was hard enough to ponder. Brainwashing must have been involved. But the very fact that she wasn't an elf...or any sort of local creature, but instead, a strange mixture of biomechanics, and nano technology. She wasn't even human and that would have been bad enough! A Cleric of Sunei with an imperfect hybrid creature like that....blasphemy!! And she was so...so...plain, even for a human looking creature. "No fashion sense either", he scoffed.
"Bryan...." there was the delicate birdlike voice of Crescendo with her strange clipped accent. "Are...are you still awake?" Rio dug his perfectly manicured nails into his palm and restrained himself from shouting "Well if he answers NO DUH you stupid git!" at the wall. Instead he started to pace, remembering the past when that would have been him in bed there asking his love those stupid questions in the dark. It was bad enough that Bryan's father, Elhaz of Eidios has taken young Aspen B. Nightstalker away from the temple and away from Rio, but to have him return with someone else....his heart hurt horribly.
"Yeah baby...I'm awake...." He sounded extremely tired. "What is it?"
There was a slight pause, Rio stopped, straining to hear, and leaned against the door. "I'm sorry about today, I, well I overreacted." That was that damn female again. Rio was sure that she was spooning with him about now, pressing those soft round breasts into his back and letting her hands stroke along his stomach.
"Anybody would have...it's ok. It's human, I can't blame you....I was shocked myself, I never would have thought he still carried a torch for me sixty years later."
"Bryan, do uh, you still um, have feelings about him?" Rio opened the door a bit and snuck into the room to hide behind the big bamboo screen on that side of the room. He could hear them, and see them now and a quick Prescense Mask spell made sure they didn't know he was there.
Bryan paused, Rio saw him look out into the dark of the room. He knew that those Kitsune halfbreed eyes could see heat in the dark..he was aways bloody annoying to play hide and go seek with. Thank goodness this enchantment makes me impossible to detect, even for him. Rio thought, waiting for the reply.
"I did. But those were feelings for the old Rio...back when he was innocent, back before...back before he joined with the sword. It's as if what was pure and loving has been stripped out of him by that damn thing! I had feelings for someone who no longer exists." He finished finally, his knuckles white gripping the futon in the dark. "I was a fool to think that he would be the same boy I once knew."
Cress sat up, the covers falling down to her waist, and leaned over her lover, holding back a little whimper. Rio saw that she was wearing one of Bryan's button up shirts and judging by the way it hugged her bust line and the view he got of her hip, nothing under it.
"Things change and so do people. It's over now, and now you've got me, and I've got you. Tho sometimes...I really doubt that I deserve you. You're so sweet to me, you put up with my paranoid crap...something I wouldn't force on anybody." Her soft voice cracked and Rio felt a wave of joy at her misfortune. "I wouldn't blame you for breaking up with me, over the way I've been acting since we got here....doubting your feelings for me and pushing you away. I'm sor--"
Her appoligy was cut short by a long passionate kiss from Bryan who had suddenly pulled her down on top of him by the front of her shirt. Rio noticed that she looked shocked, Repressed little virgin, I bet she doesn't even touch herself! Rio thought scathingly to himself, frowning so hard he was sure he'd get wrinkles. He felt hot with anger and panic. It didn't matter to him that they'd been broken up for sixty years, he was still HIS Aspen, HIS Bryan. With each second he listened to the sound of their kisses he got madder and madder and when he finally heard a soft moan from Cress, that was it!
"Well well well, what have we here?" He stood quickly and lit the room candles with a swiftly sung spell. "Fooling around in another person's house, on THEIR futon?! Think of my cleaning bills...women are so bloody messy." Rio strode into the center of the room, arms crossed over his well muscled chest. He delited in the look of total embarrassment that crossed the young woman's face as she tried to pull her nightshirt down over her pert behind before he could see. "Don't bother sweetpea, I have no interest in the bodies of women...and y'know, I didn't think Aspen did either, until recently when you showed up. I wonder...is there something I should know about you? Are you a drag queen? Maybe you bein' an alien, you have certain other 'attributes' that men of my persuasion might find amusing." He snarled nastily at her.
"Shut your trap Rio." Bryan was sitting by now, shaking his spiked pink hair into place. "You leave her alone, she's done nothing to you. If you've got a problem, it's with me, and you'd better spit it out NOW. We're facing berserker's tomorrow incase you've forgotten. It might be your last chance to tell me." His focused his old friend in his glowing green eyes, eyes that were slanted just a little like a fox. When he was mad, Aspen did have the sneaky look of a fox on the hunt, something many people found rather alluring.
He was right, it was time to get some things out of the closet, so to speak.
NEXT: It gets curvy...


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In not blogging for just over a month I missed an entire month's update and cruised right on by the next one too – hence, the combined update. And you know, I can't even be bothered to be apologetic about it because life has just been too damn much lately between travelling two weeks in a row and being sick twice in a row (one quick but brutal stomach bug, one bastard of a cold).
While Sloane thankfully missed out on the stomach virus, she was the one who gave me the cold, and a sick baby is no fun at all–less so when you are sick yourself. She's been sleeping like crap because she can't breathe through her nose (which means she also can't suck her thumb to self-soothe) and (I'm guessing from my own symptoms) she's also had a sore throat and headache. Good thing grape flavoured baby Tylenol turned out to be her poison.
Sickness aside, big changes these past two months include the arrival of the first tooth on November 6, followed up by the second one a couple weeks later for a cute little bottom middle set. Teething this time around didn't seem to cause a lot of grief as both teeth sort of popped out as a bit of a surprise to me. At her 6 month check-up and vaccination appointment (which was actually right on her 6 month birthday) she weighed in at 17.5 lbs and 26 inches tall. I'd guess by now she is up to about 19 lbs and at least an inch taller.
She also became a highly proficient roller and wriggler and went from okay to leave unattended for a few moments to "can't take your eyes off her for a second" in a matter of days. Like most healthy, red-blooded babies, she has a death wish and is magnetically drawn to hazards big and small. Current dark obsessions include pulling the floor lamp to the ground, yanking the CO detector out of the wall and/or sticking fingers in the now empty socket, scouring the ground for loose change and buttons to choke on, reaching fragile limbs into the mechanism of the gliding chair, rolling towards the top of the stairs, grabbing at cat whiskers, and sleeping face down in the mattress. Close to the 7 month birthday mark she made big strides towards crawling with a sort of rudimentary army-crawl, belly-slither technique that greatly increased her speed in reaching her death trap of choice. Fun!
Long story short, time inside the house can be a bit of a nightmare at the moment – with not a lot of safe space for her to explore before I have to redirect her from danger. Rescuing her every 20 seconds (and often pissing her off in the process) makes for an awfully long day and lots of running back and forth between rooms if I'm trying to do anything else.
Imprisoning Safely securing her in a Jolly Jumper or Exersaucer is the only relief, but she only tolerates jail safety for small blocks of time. Although I'm not overly excited about returning to work, I won't lie: there have been several days in the past couple of months where I have waxed nostalgic for my out-of-the-home job (what a break! how civilized! soooo easy! The grass is noticeably greener at my office!) Time outside the house is loads of fun though, as she's always happy to be gawking at things and socializing with every passerby. Particularly if said passerby is a boy/man. She loves dudes and beards, so this whole hipster era is really working out well for her/us. We flew to Toronto to visit my brother and his kids and Sloane was happy as a clam to be out Bjorning or strolling all day long, riding the subways and streetcars and hanging out in restaurants. Similarly, when we took her to Banff shortly afterwards, the hotel, pub and outdoor swimming pool life suited her perfectly (until she got sick – and with the exception of the first night in the terrifying, rickety, possibly-haunted, hotel-provided crib).
The other big development was our slow-out-of-the-gate introduction to solid food. Because of her healthy size and appetite for boob, I had incorrectly assumed that she would be stoked to eat some real food at the recommended 6 month mark. Nope. She just wasn't that into it. If I tricked her into getting some food in her mouth, she would begrudgingly swallow it, but she had no real interest and wouldn't eagerly open her mouth for much. I have to say, this didn't bother me in the least. If she had been being selective or picky it may have (I have issues with picky eaters and dread having one) but because she was just altogether uninterested, I figured she just wasn't there yet. Every other milestone she's hit of her own volition and in her own good time, and I figured when the time was more right she'd let me know. I still kept offering solids (kind of half-assedly) but it was more of a token effort to keep up the exposure than to actually accomplish any feeding. Then, right around the 7 month mark, she was suddenly into it. She's still mainly a boob girl, but will pretty much try anything I give her and is definitely more excited about it all.
As for me, I'm tempted to take a pass on commenting at the moment. I went through a phase where I was feeling really good about myself (maybe the best I ever have) but now that I'm coming off of 3 weeks of travel, sickness and loads of one-on-one time with Sloane I just feel worn out. One of those "sick and tired of being sick and tired" kind of phases where it shows on your face, in your posture and in your attitude – but I know that it is just the sick and tired talking, not a lasting state of mind. Nothing a few good sleeps, a gallon of water, an industrial humidifier, a vat of eye cream, a lb of concealer, a babysitter, and professional lighting can't take care of.


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Star-shaped pendant with a jewel at its center. Prevents poison.Final Fantasy VI description
The Star Pendant (星のペンダント, Hoshi no Pendanto?) is a recurring accessory in the Final Fantasy series. It usually provides protection against Poison.
Final Fantasy VIEdit
The Star Pendant is a relic which protects against Poison, and can be bought in South Figaro in either world, or in Nikeah in the World of Ruin for 500 gil.
Final Fantasy VIIEdit
The Star Pendant can be bought in Gongaga Village for 4000 gil, found in Shinra Headquarters, and Mt. Corel, or dropped from Motor Ball.
Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
The Star Pendant prevents Poison and adds 20 to the Spirit stat. It can be purchased for 3,000 gil at from Research Dept. QMC or Nibel Accessories. It is also obtained from Zack's supply pod in Chapter 3.
Final Fantasy VII RemakeEdit
Final Fantasy X-2Edit
The Star Pendant guards against Poison and provides Defense +4 and Magic Defense +4. It can be bought in various shops throughout Spira for 4,000 gil, found in the Floating Ruins (Chapter 1), dropped from Boris, Aculeate, or Taromaiti, stolen from Aculeate or King Takouba, or bribed Assassin Bee, Mycotoxin, Haunt, or Archaeothyris.
Final Fantasy XIEdit
The Star Pendant is listed under the "Neck" series of equipment, only offering a modest Charisma boost and small Dark/Light resistances.
Final Fantasy XIIIEdit
Star Pendant is an accessory that grants resistance to Poison by 30% to 45%, depending on its level, and can be upgraded to the Starfall Pendant by using the Perovskite item. The Star Pendant can also be bought from B&W Outfitters in the Retail Network for 3,000 gil.
Final Fantasy XIII-2Edit
Star Pendant is an accessory that gives the ability Resist Poison +66%, the synthesis ability Debuff: Duration, and has a Capacity of 55. It can be bought from Chocolina (Bresha Ruins -005 AF- onwards) for 650 gil, or found as a treasure in the Bresha Ruins), or dropped from Svarog (3% chance). It sells for 325 gil.
Delicate Star Pendant is an accessory that gives the ability Resist Poison +33%, the synthesis ability Debuff: Duration, and has a Capacity of 35. It can be bought from Chocolina (Oerba -200 AF- onwards) for 325 gil, Star Pendant x1, Tear of Remorse x1, and Chocobo Plume x2. It sells for 162 gil.
Durable Star Pendant is an accessory that gives the ability Resist Poison +100%, the synthesis ability Debuff: Duration, and has a Capacity of 75. It can be bought from Chocolina (Archylte Steppe -??? AF-) for 1,300 gil, Star Pendant x1, and Millerite x1. It sells for 650 gil.
Final Fantasy XVEdit
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|Star Pendant
|Prevents Poison status (does not protect against Poison from Ignis's Quick Recipeh)
|Buy: 3000
Sell: 1500
|Find: Southeast from Longwythe Rest Area among some pipes and crates (Map), top of an arch in Duscae (south end of the westernmost arch near chocobo racing track; Map), Greyshire Glacial Grotto, Malmalam Thicket (25% chance, just north of lightning deposit; Map), Fodina Caestino, Ch.15: Pitioss Ruins, Ch.15: Greyshire Glacial Grotto maze (Level 27; 50% chance)
Reward: The Professor's Protégé (Sania) sidequest
Shop: Lestallum
A pendant with a celestial motif. Protects the wearer from poison.
|Patch notes: The arches in Duscae were made climbable in patch 1.06, and each has an item in the middle.
In the Spanish version Star Pendant is named "Colgante de Stella" (Stella's Pendant). The item's description says that it may have belonged to a heroine who was ostracized a long time ago.
Final Fantasy Type-0Edit
Bravely DefaultEdit
A pendant with a star-shaped plate made of silver. It alerts its wearer of the presence of poison by darkening. Some say it can even keep the wearer from being poisoned.Description
Star Pendant is an accessory that grants immunity to Poison. It can be bought in Ancheim for 500 pg, found in Florem and Harena Ruins, or stolen from Praline.
Bravely Second: End LayerEdit
Star Pendant is an accessory that grants immunity to Poison. It can be bought in Ancheim for 500 pg, found in Harena Ruins, or stolen from Praline Enthusiast.
Final Fantasy DimensionsEdit
Final Fantasy Dimensions IIEdit
Pictlogica Final FantasyEdit
Final Fantasy Record KeeperEdit
Star Pendant from Final Fantasy VII appears as a Rarity 3 accessory.
Final Fantasy Brave ExviusEdit
A pendant which protects the wearer against poison. Its star design and practicality make it quite a popular item, and it is known to be often worn by travelers who wish to protect themselves from the poison found in the fangs and claws of various monsters. The protection the star pendant offers against poison is ideal in preventing its vitality draining effects during a journey or in a skirmish.Description
Star Pendant is an accessory obtained by buying it for 20 Star Quartz from the Fat Chocobo at Town of Kolts and found in a chest at Port City Lydira. It provides 3 DEF and immunity to Poison.


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We thought we'd have a look back at the year and see who stood out for us as being style leaders and generally looking somewhat amazing. We're sure you'll disagree with our selections and rage at your screen how could he leave out . . . wheres . . . . what no . . .
So join in the conversation and tell us who you think should have made the list
Cate Blanchett – Always a fave here at FW Towers, elegant, graceful, and loves a great classic line in a dress. Its not just us that thinks Cate has had a good year having seen her grace so many of the major magazine covers.
Gwyneth Paltrow – Someone who we think gets better every year and more in control of her style, we really think these days she is calling the shots not the movie promo machine stylists, as evidence we'd say Michael Kors asking her to collaborate can't be that bad of a recommendation.
Helen Mirren – I don't think we even need to say why, but in short always looks amazing and oh insert your own gushing praise here . . .
Jennifer Lawrence – We will start with Jon Stewart thinks she looks like a young Helen Mirren (awkward moment on the Daily Show) This has been her year, a few misses but hit after hit after hit from casual to red carpet she has pretty much nailed everything.
Kerry Washington – Queen of the dress during 2013, I think most ladies would die for her wardrobe to dress up, or want anything from when she dressed down.
Lea Michele – its difficult to move on from the idea of high school teen playing a badly dressed diva but it happened for Lea Michele this year, sexy, glam, yet still in her own style, mission accomplished, Rachel who?
Victoria Beckham – I can't see a day when Mrs B doesn't make my list, I've been besotted since she first stepped on the music scene, and now she is the greatest style icon we have and a damn fine designer adored by the elite and those on the High St.


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What Every Local Marketer Needs to Know About 2015
As 2014 draws to a close, many marketers are already laying the groundwork for 2015, allocating budgets and evaluating strategies for the coming year. While constant change is about the only certainty in local marketing that can be relied upon, there are certain trends on the horizon for 2015 that will offer new opportunities for growth to those who are willing to accept and adapt to the next round of changes.
The Continuing Evolution of the Mobile Revolution
- The consumer's love affair with everything mobile continues to roll on unchecked with no end in sight. Studies have shown that 72 percent of US consumers currently own a smartphone; this figure is expected to jump to 90 percent over the next two years.
- Mobile devices already account for 35 percent of all web traffic, and that figure is going nowhere but up.
- What's more, mobile users are proven action takers – half of all mobile searches result in a visit to the store being researched within one day.
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Consumers are Increasingly Using Mobile Pay Options
Consumers are continuing to take advantage of the convenience of paying for a variety of goods and services with their smartphones. Available apps for mobile payment processing include O2 Wallet, Square, GoogleWallet, and Passbook.
Depending on your niche and customer base, you might consider adding processing systems to accommodate the latest payment options preferred by an increasing number of consumers.
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The Leatt-Brace is promoted to protect the motorcyclist's cervical vertebral column. However, this device may produce "dangers" of its own. Of course, a device cannot be considered "dangerous": it is motorcycling which is dangerous. However this device could convert relatively innocuous or survivable injuries into injuries with greater morbidity and death.
Although claims are made that injuries to the vertebral column will be reduced if the Leatt-Brace is used, there is no possible way of substantiating this claim. Controlled trials are simply not possible. The tumult of a motorcycle accident and the multiple variables cannot be replicated. It is certainly not possible to re- visit those injuries and introduce categories as controlled trials.
Motorcycle accidents on the road are difficult to reconstruct. Race-track injuries are well documented, but these are usually slither-tumble injuries. On the modern race tracks the impact against stationary objects is relatively infrequent. Rarely do these become projection or impact injuries and occasionally "ride-over" injuries.
Motorcycle accidents on the road, however, are more likely to be collisions resulting in impact and projection injuries. Even in a slither event, the rider on the road often hits stationary or moving objects.
Therefore this claim remains a supposition, which is based on rather primitive, linear reasoning which is:
The neck is potentially vulnerable in that it is not protected by a strongl mechanical sheath, the way that the lumbar, thoracic, and intra-cerebral spinal cord is protected. Let us then put a mimicing brace about it, and so "protect" it.
Wish it were that easy.
This linear reasoning appears not to have fully comprehended the functional anatomy of the mechanisms of the cervical vertebral column, which makes it invalid.
If my head is fully protected by a helmet, is it not logical to extend that protection to my neck?
Firstly one must ask what protection the helmet offers.
There can be no debate that the crash-helmet reduces head injury and death in motorcyclists, a worthwhile but not universal protection.
The helmet prevents many penetrating, abrasive and direct contact facial injuries But it offers little protection against rotational injuries (which produced diffuse axonal and brainstem lesions) and may increase these injuries by its inertia if body rotation decreases rapidly.
The helmet reduces deceleration injuries to some extent but concussive and contra-coup injuries will be reduced only by a margin when deceleration is from speeds of excess of 50 km an hour.
Direct blows on the top of the head (axial compression injuries) are a common cause of spinal injuries. These might be increased in some circumstances by the weight of the helmet
The Leatt-Brace will not prevent axial compression injuries and could promote or worsen that injury, because it interferes with evasive actions
There is some evidence that helmets reduce injuries to the cervical vertebral column, but this is poorly documented and the types of spinal injury which are reduced by the use of a protective headgear are not well analysed.
How do we protect ourselves from external forces?
Humans, like most other mammals, have exceedingly good "energy dissipating devices". What this means is that there are highly sophisticated neuromuscular circuits which are designed to protect the individual from that universal enemy, the force of gravity. It is therefore possible for the human to fall, sometimes heavily, and sustain little or no damage. This is well illustrated in contact sports, notably rugby and professional wrestling. The sophistication of the martial arts have allowed specific techniques of energy dissipation to be trained into participants early in their martial arts career.
In American and rugby football, energy dissipation or "break fall" is not usually trained: Instead the players rely on intuitive and inherent capacities to protect themselves from injury when their balance is perturbed. Some fondly imaginings this is a "conscious" mechanism: it is not. It is not possible in the time available to rationalise which strategies should be employed. With very few exceptions, there is no time to anticipate the vectors of destructive forces. Humans survive by the blessings of "hardwired" and intuitive mechanisms [1]
That these mechanisms of energy dissipation exist is easily demonstrated. Most individuals could jump from a table to the floor and suffer no injury. There would be no outward expression of the kinetic forces, such as loud sounds, generation of heat or light or damage. On the other hand, if a 75 kg facsimile of that individual in granite was pushed from the table the forces of falling would convert to sound, heat, light and damage. Another example: Robots can do much, even mimic running. But robots do not have the energy dissipating mechanisms of humans. A robot on a rugby field would not survive the first tackle or even, perhaps, the first nudge, without damage.
How is this done?
The human frame, in its vertical axis is designed as a complex zigzag from the toes to the skull. Each of the angles of these zigzags is controlled by muscle allowing these zigzags to be compressed, concertina-like. During this compression, muscles response near instantly by tensioning, and by using their inherent energy allow the external energy to be slowly and safely dissipated.
Rotational movements are also used to dissipate energy, and allow the limbs to flex, reducing their lever-arm length, or tucking the limbs beside or behind the trunk.
There seem to be priorities in the methods of protecting the body. The head brain and eyes seem to have a priority re. protection. The hands and mouth are next in this triage and the feet follow.
Why a high head and a thin neck?
It is no coincidence that the head is placed high on the body. Better surveillance is an obvious benefit. Perhaps more important, by its height the brain high is maximally protected from injury. Whilst accepting that the phrasing which I use is teleological, the "purpose" of the mobile and relatively thin neck is that it allows the head a great freedom of movement and consequently the maximum capacity to protect the brain from jarring or other forces (including rotation) which could damage the enclosed brain. It is well-recognised how, when people fall, the head is "lifted" away from a potential point of contact with alacrity.
Now that is considering the tumult such as occurs in motorcycle accidents. This freedom to move the head will likely be the critical component to the broader "energy dissipating mechanisms" and its contribution to protecting the head from impact.
Where the body thrown towards an impacting surface, even a few centimeters of intuitive movement of the head away from the potential point of impact (perhaps transferring impact to the shoulder or the upper limbs) could prevent severe injury to the head. If this flexibility is lost and the ability to move the head is prevented (as it would be with the Leatt-Brace) that latitude is lost. . Even distances of one or 2 cm might be critical in preventing severe brain damage. Immobilisation by a neck brace might therefor result in severe injury
Whilst the Leatt-Brace could protect the neck from flexion injuries, by imposing immobility it is equally likely to make damage to the brain more common and more serious than any neck injury would have been.
Other functions of the head.
Inasmuch as movement of the head plays an important role in protecting the brain, the head also plays a vital role in the overall posture of movement, particularly movement during falling. The head weighs the equivalent of two bricks and functions as a counterbalance. The capacity to move the head rapidly and induce "coupling" dynamics in the physics of equilibrium is immensely important. If the head is restrained, for example by the Leatt- Brace, it becomes impossible to posture the body in space. This use of the head as a counter balance is well illustrated by springboard divers to control backwards and forward somersaults. Without a free range of neck movement it would be impossible for the diver to obtain a posture safe for entry into water, or the gymnast to land on a surface. Try jumping from a step wearing a Leatt-Brace! Make sure that it is not more than a step, since jumping from a height of even half a meter, wearing the Leatt-Brace, could produce a sever injury including a fracture of the base of the skull.
I am not aware that this concept is discussed in standard textbooks of medicine, and for most medically and biologically trained people this is not considered.
Is the neck especially vulnerable?
The cervical vertebral column could be mistakenly considered a "vulnerable" area region. This might be because spinal cord injuries invoke highly emotive responses because they are potentially so incapacitating and incurable. However, taken overall injuries to the cervical vertebral column are less common than injuries to the brain. There are also specific situations where the vertebral column is at higher risk One is the diving into shallow water which has produced this devastating injury many thousands of times. The reason is that the diver does not expect to strike the head, and none of the "head / neck protection" mechanisms are recruited. Injuries to this vital part of the vertebral column also occur in road traffic accidents generally. These are far less specific and the victims range from pedestrians through to individuals who have survived motor vehicle accidents, and finding themselves inverted and held by seatbelts, then suffer catastrophic injury when a "helpful" individual releases the seatbelt: the victim then falls onto the (inverted) roof of the vehicle, and suffers cervical spinal cord injury.
How can we find out more?
Because it is so difficult to get sufficient information from road traffic accidents a possible model could be rodeo injuries, which are well documented. A number of rodeo injuries are caused by falls from height, such as would happen to a projected motorcyclist after hitting a stationary object.
In order to illustrate the effects on the neck of these types of falls, illustrations of Gauchos can be used to analyse the mechanics of the injury. Even more important is the analysis of the fail safe mechanisms which are spontaneously recruited by the rider. It is improbable that any rodeo rider would allow himself to be restricted by a Leatt-Brace – and it would be highly unethical to even suggest this.
Is there a way to protect this vulnerability of the cervical vertebral column, and perhaps the brain as well? This seems possible and the author has researched this in much detail. That research has included a detailed investigation into the (complex) locus of movement and angular velocities of the cervical anatomy.
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Update. 28th February 2018. Joby has come out with a blue tooth tripod / selfie stock of your smart phone and GoPro. The Joby GripTight PRO TelePod is going to retail for about $140 so what do you get?
As 2018 rolls around, stock of the new Gorillapod Tripods has finally arrived after been announced months ago. The range if you break it down is all about 5 tripods. The Gorillapod 5K, the largest of the range, holds up to 5Kg in weight and is available in the 5K Kit (being the legs and head), the 5K Legs and the 5K head. The Gorillapod 3K is it follows, a mini tripod holding up to 3Kg as is the Gorillapod 1K, designed to hold up to 1Kg and also comes in the 3 way option. The two smallest, being the 500 (500grams) and the 325 (325grams) only come as the complete unit being legs and head.
There are of course other ultra mini tripods in the range and we have them listed for you to see on this category. The latest range also includes a Mini Magnetic and Mobile Mini tripods, clearly for Mobile phones which comes in a variety of colours.
Update 6th February 2018. Just came across this video showing 4 clever ways to use a Joby Gorillapod.
Update. 24th January 2018. FINALLY, stock of the new range of Joby Gorillapods is coming into stock, It took 4 months but hey, it is finally available. Please see the next paragraph to make sense of my rant.
UPDATE September 2017. Joby is making a few changes to its Joby Gorillapod Tripod range. 5 Items have been discontinued and replaced by 5 others. We will continue to sell the now discontinued range until it is sold out and then stock the replacement Gorillapods. The changes are as follows ...
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Now let's have a quick look at the new Joby Gorillapod 5k, 3k and 1k lineup, we offer the casual review by Ramon of the Joby Gorillapod 5k kit. At first I thought that Ramon was going to ruin the video by babble on but his introduction flows well into what is a great overview of the Joby 5k Gorillapod. Thanks Ramon
The Joby Gorillapod mid ranged tripod is now called the Joby Gorillapod 3k. You can buy it as Legs only or you can buy the 3k ballhead, the value for money option is to buy them together as a kit.
Joby launched their range of Joby Gorillapod Tripods years ago with a revolutionary flexible tripod legs. The range has grown with the times to well over 20 different styles of Joby Gorillapod Tripods.
As of January 2017 the Joby Gorillapod Tripod range includes the top of the line Joby Gorillapod Focus tripod which is available with or without the Joby Gorillapod Focus Ballhead X which will hold with ease 5Kgs of DSLR and lens. There is the Joby Gorillapod GP3 and Joby Gorillapod Hybrid Tripods for a large DSLR with a medium sized camera lens.
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This is not a fully inclusive list of the range of Joby Gorillapod Tripods and remember that new models will join the list over time.
With so many different versions of the Joby Gorillapod Tripods range we invite you now to watch the Joby video that follows in which the mystery is unraveled.
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I am certain that somewhere in the world there are neurotypical people who get involved in conversations about neurodivergence. But I'm not sure if I've ever met one.
For instance, think about the person who says "oh, come on, ADHD isn't a real thing. They're just medicating ordinary life behavior these days. Not being able to concentrate on things that require sustained mental effort? Blurting out answers before the questions are finished? Constantly making careless mistakes? Having difficulty remaining seated? Come on, everyone does that."
There are two explanations for this. First, they may be genuinely confused about the difference between people with ADHD and people without ADHD, and need someone to explain to them that while it is perfectly normal behavior to lose your debit card sometimes, people with ADHD may forget it constantly.
Second, they might have ADHD.
In fact, they might have a lot of trouble from their ADHD. They have no access to medications or therapy or advice from other ADHD people about how to cope. They probably struggle with internalized ableism and self-hate because of their inability to do what other people do easily. They don't even have the comfort of knowing that when things are hard for them, there's a reason, and it's not just because they're worse than everyone else.
It seems to me that going "ugh, neurotypicals" is completely ignoring the possibility of this second category– and keeping us from making compassionate responses.
For another example, think about the famous "why don't you treat your depression with yoga?" There's a reason everyone laughed at this Hyperbole and a Half comic:
Because we have all met that lady, and she is an asshole!
But the thing is… yoga does have antidepressant effects. In my experience, when people recommend exercise as a depression treatment, they're people who were depressed, started exercising, and felt less depressed. They're not neurotypicals who have no idea what depressed people are suffering: they're formerly depressed people who are falling victim to the typical mind fallacy and assuming that everyone else's depression is fixable with exercise too.
The reason this is important is that you suffer from the typical mind fallacy too.
"Ugh! Those neurotypicals say that Prozac turns you into a zombie! That's not how antidepressants work!" Except that antidepressants do have emotional blunting and numbness as common side effects, and a lot of the people who are really passionate about Prozac turning you into a zombie are people who, well, took Prozac and turned into zombies.
If you're upset about people telling you to do yoga when it doesn't work, you really shouldn't tell people to take Prozac when it doesn't work.
Another very common debate is about whether neurodivergent people should take it easy on themselves. One side says, "Those neurotypicals don't understand that a lot of things that come easily to them are difficult for us. You know what? Sometimes I can't get out of bed! Sometimes it is an achievement for me to wash a single dish, or have a five-minute phone call with a friend! I refuse to be ashamed of this, and I refuse to stop celebrating my small achievements. And I shouldn't have to do things that make me want to kill myself, or have panic attacks, or experience flashbacks. If you can't cut me some slack when you know how much harder everything is for me, you're being an ableist dickbag."
The other side says, "Those neurotypicals are only interested in supporting people as long as their illnesses are 'cute'. I can't actually stay in bed all day, because I would lose my job! "Cut us some slack" is a great thing to advocate for, until you realize that some of the things my mental illness wants me to do are hurtful to people around me. And I feel a lot better about myself when I make myself do things that I don't want to do or even feel like I can't do. I can't believe that we are letting neurotypical people romanticizing mental illness and making excuses for why they should go easy on themselves get in the way of letting actual neurodivergent people recover."
There are neurodivergent people on all sides of these debates. And that doesn't mean that everyone's opinions are okay– "ADHD isn't real!" is a hurtful idea that causes direct harm to people with ADHD. But it does mean that we shouldn't assume that people's opinions come from ignorance. We should assume that they're informed by their own experience, which may be very different from our own, and look for the truth inside their positions. We should acknowledge that neurodivergence is complicated and things that work well for one person will not work well for another. And we should be cautious to make sure that we're not being the Yoga Lady for someone else.