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2011 was a great year for http://tomsfoodieblog.com, I logged in a couple new pounds from the great tasting food and made a couple new friends along the way. This year I tried over 40 different restaurants and about 25 different food trucks.
Believe it or not my fellow foodies, I am really behind in trying new foodie friendly restaurants. My Wife's group buying obsession has led us to discover some really nice restaurants, some featured in this blog; but at the same time, we have experienced some really big disappointments. The true downside of this group buying experience is that I yet to experience some foodie centric restaurants that have been open for several months.
My New Year's resolution is to make up for lost time by dining at all the new foodie centric restaurants in the O.C. and providing you my loyal readers detailed reviews. See I am a giver, I am doing the hard work, so you dont have to gain the extra pounds from bad food.
This is my 2012 restaurant bucket list, if you think I am missing anything good, please leave me a suggestion! Also if you think one of these restaurants is a waste of my time, please let me know. Please take the poll on the bottom of the page and let me know which of these restaurants look the best to you:
Former Food Trucks Going Brick and Mortar
- The Playground – Former part owner of the Lime Truck, Jason Quinn, struck it out on his own using his winnings from the Great Food Truck Race to start-up this brick and mortar. The restaurant has been open for a couple of months and has already created a loyal following by offering chef centric and foodie friendly dishes. The menu tends to change daily as well, so all dishes are very seasonal. The Playground's website
- SeaBirds Brick and Mortar Shop – One of my top 10 food trucks of 2011 is going at it in a brick and mortar style, sometime in the first half of the year. I have nothing but good expectations for this restaurant, as owner Stephanie Morgan makes Vegan food extremely enjoyable to eat, even for non-vegans. I will be posting details when an opening date is announced. Rumor has it that a location has been picked in Santa Ana. OCWeekly article on the new restaurant
- Short Stop BBQ Brick and Mortar Shop – This Southern BBQ truck, opened their Brick and Mortar restaurant last week. I read the menu and they were offering duck on the menu…my ears perked up. It is located at 711 N. Placentia Ave. in Fullerton, just east of the 57. Their website doesn't give the address or hours, so I suggest you call or check their Facebook page if you plan on visiting.
- Slap Fish Truck's Brick and Mortar – Chef Andrew Gruel's sustainable seafood truck is opening a brick and mortar establishment somewhere in Huntington Beach. If the restaurant is anything like his truck, expect extremely fresh and seasonal seafood that you can feel good about. I think a brick and mortar restaurant will give him a little more room to show his flair for the dramatic. I'm looking forward to seeing what he will pull off. No word yet on the restaurants format. OC Weekly Article on anticipated restaurant opening.
Pizza and Italian
- Pizzeria Mozza – –This is Los Angeles eatery that is the brainchild of Mario Batali, Nancy Silverton and Joseph Bastianich. This restaurant features authentic rustic and sophisticated Italian Cuisine. this restaurant has already attracted large crowds in it's first couple months. It is located at 800 Coast Highway Newport Beach.Pizzeria Mozza Website
- Cucina Enoteca – A new Italian restaurant in the Irvine Spectrum which opened in December 2011, with positive reviews from my foodie circle. This restaurant represents an expansion from it's San Diego sister restaurant Cucina Urbana. I have heard they serve upscale Italian with dishes in the mid $20's price range for foodie friendly choices. Cucina Enoteca Website
Chef Centric & Farm to Table
- Paul Martin's American Grill – This "Farm to Table" and "Chef Centric" restaurant that recently opened in the Irvine Spectrum in late 2011, under the Guidance of Chef Paul Martin. This restaurant has turned into a favorite among Orange County foodies. This restaurant features sustainable seafood, all-natural meats and organic produce. Paul Martin's American Grill Website
- Tamarind of London – This is a London-based restaurant that opened an O.C. version in the Crystal Cove Promenade in Newport Beach. I do not know much about this restaurant except reports that the London restaurant earned several Michelin Stars and features "Indian Cuisine and cross-over dishes." I checked out their online menu and sides range from $7-13 and mains range between $16- 22 for most items. The menu looked yummy! Tamarind of London Website Link to Yelp Reviews
- Charlie Palmers – One of the restaurants that helped put Orange County on the Foodie Radar. I am very embarrassed to say that I have never dinned at Charlie Palmers, even though it has been open for a couple of years. This restaurant had amazing reviews, although they have recently started taking a hit on yelp (perhaps due to Chef Santana's departure?). I will let you know the results of my investigative eating. It is located at Bloomingdales in South Coast Plaza. Charlie Palmers Website Yelp Review for Charlie Palmers Yelp Review for Charlie Palmer
- The Ranch – This Anaheim restaurant is the creation of Disneyland's two culinary geniuses and also highly respected members of the foodie community, Michael Jordan and Michael Rossi of Napa Rose fame. I have no doubt that the food will be amazing with these two at the helm. The restaurant is part Country Western Saloon and Part Fine Dining. Does this concept remind anyone of an upscale Crazy Horse Saloon? Website for The Ranch Restaurant and Saloon Yelp Review for the Ranch
- The Eatery – This upcoming restaurant featuring "upscale and nutritious comfort food" according to the "Kick Start Funding Website". The restaurant will be operated by three award-winning chef's including Anahita Naderi. This restaurant will open in Anaheim in 2012. Not much is known about this restaurant , but I will be reporting when I get more details. News from the Eaterys KickStarter Investor's Page
- Three Seventy Common – This Laguna Beach restaurant occupies the former Sorrento Grill locationand is another Chef Centric restaurant that features bold menu choices that are chef centric and wine friendly. The menu appears to have everything from steak to Foie Gras, something for foodies and the timid eater. Three Seventy Common Website Yelp Reviews
- Broadway by Amar Santana – Amar Santana is the former Chef at the Arnold Palmer Restaurant and his new restaurant Broadway offers a Chef centric menu, featuring "Classic Modern Cuisine of the Americas." This restaurant looks very promising and a has been doing a brisk business every weekend. Broadway by Amar Santana Website Yelp Reviews for Broadway by Amar Santana
Something Eclectic
- Bruxie – A Quick Service Restaurant that specializes in savory and sweet sandwiches stuffed in WAFFLES! Yes you read that right. Some of their offerings include a Chicken and Waffle sandwich to a banana and Nutella dessert offering. This restaurant has gained a cult following on Yelp / Urbanspoon and is another restaurant that I am embarrassed that I have yet to try. There are two locations one in Brea and the more popular one in the Old Town Orange.
- Anaheim Food Hall – This is an upscale food center based inside a Spanish Revival Architecture building that was originally used as a citrus packing center, dating back to 1915. This venue will house 25 food concept vendors. Early committed restaurants include Pitfire Pizza. This concept is an experiment for Orange County, but similar ventures have been successful in places like New York's "Eataly", by Mario Batali. OC Register Article on the planned venue:
Chains that have put on a big flashy bet on Orange County
- Saddle Ranch Chop House – This chain restaurant is known for being
a flashy "rock-western" chop house that prides
itself on the rock and roll attitude of its staff. I tried one of the restaurants at the Universal City walk and it had good food and a fun vibe. Rumor has it that they will even have a mechanical bull. This will their 5th restaurant, but their first in Orange County located at Triangle Square in Costa Mesa. Saddle Ranch Chop http://www.srrestaurants.com/
- Wood Ranch BBQ and Grill – This upscale western themed chophouse that has a very strong presence in Southern California, including Rancho Santa Margarita. The new restaurant is located in the Irvine Spectrum is reported to have good food and ambiance.
- Capital Seafood – This Chinese / Dim Sum restaurant has received some good reviews so far on Yelp and from friends who have tried it. The new Irvine Spectrum location is supposed to be their ritziest venue yet with a 8,000 square foot restaurant and upscale décor.
- P.F. Chang – Already reviewed this place but putting this on here as a reminder that you should try it as well. Great open floor design and awesome revamped menu. My blog Post on the revamp: Tom's Foodie Blog Review of P.F. Chang's:/
- Pitfire Pizza– For anyone who has lived on the border of Newport and Costa or even hung out at Peirce Street Annex, this new restaurant occupies the old Marie Calendars location. This restaurant features rustic pizzas that are cooked in a pit wood-fired pizza oven. This venue will have a large patio and fire pit, perfect for getting some food before hitting up my favorite dive bar across the street. I wonder if they will deliver to Pierce Street.
Gourmet Burgers
- 25 Degrees – A upscale Burger and Wine Bar, that also serves alcoholic shakes, in a swanky French bordello ambiance. This Huntington Beach restaurant has an ideal location, just on Main Street to attract their target audience. Initial reports indicate this place has, "Giant and Juicy Burgers that will make you Tap Out half-way though." Yelp reviews are mostly high with a couple bitter reviewers in the mix.
- Unami Burger -This upscale version of Fuddruckers is opening two locations in Orange County, Anaheim and Laguna Beach, and is generating a good deal of buzz. According to their website the ground their own beef, process their own cheese and pickle their own vegetables. I admit I am curious about this restaurant, despite the gimmicky name.
- DG Burger – The sluttier side of Charlie Palmers Bloomingdales restaurant that features gourmet burgers that will make you salivate. Yelp and Urban Spoon reviewers are giving it either very high or very low reviews. The DG in its name stands for "Dam Good", I will have to bring back a report. r
Gastro Pubs
- The Side Door – A gastropub attached to the Five Crowns restaurant in Corona Del Mar. Each time I visit the Five Crowns for dinner, I secretly want to go The Side Door instead. This is a British themed Gastropub and there is a heavy emphasis on chartuerie, cheese, sandwiches.
- Lola Gaspar – A Gastropub in the Santora building of Santa Ana Artist's District. This Gastropub that has generated a solid buzz among the foodies in my circle of friends. Rumor has it that this venue has great food and a nice craft beer selection. I am told this place might remind you of visiting a tapas bar in the alleys of Barcelona
- Haven Gastropub – I am been here but never written a review, I will be back to take pictures and get a feel for the quality, service and seasonal menu on my return visit. Their food is spot on and always has a great craft beer selection. I have never been disappointed by a meal here, although recent Yelp reviews have seen complaints about the price to quantity ratio. I will do my due diligence and eat here to write a blog; again I will make the sacrifice for my readers 😉


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There's a saying about buses…… you wait ages for one and then three come along at once! Excitingly, in this instance, it's a Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys and Shrek the Musical bus bonanza!
Our Media team has secured some fantastically eye-catching, stand out positions for three of the best loved and most popular West End musicals. Each show will soon have their own wrapped bus for the summer, which will be travelling routes between Stratford (the bus depot is right by the Olympic Park) and Central London all day, every day; reaching Londoners and tourists alike. Keep your eyes peeled and to spot them all!
Have a look at our gallery below to see the buses in all their glory.


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About the Property
Beautiful 2 bedroom / 2 bath condo on the ground floor.
The master has a queen size bed and a flat screen T.V. and a private bathroom.
The second bedroom is large and has a new bunk bed with a trundle. Full bed on the bottom and 2 twin beds. There is a full bathroom right off the hallway.
This two bedroom condo has wood flooring throughout. It also has a washer and dryer. All the appliances are full sized. There is a flat screen T.V. in the living room and a sitting/ reading area off the living space. The dining room table sits 6 people very comfortable.
There's a outside patio.
Area Information
Everything you need is nearby and Destin
offers so many different recreational activities, there is something for every member of the family to do. From arts and culture to eco-tourism, from fine dining to quick bites, from sports and adventure to shopping and spas; the Destin area has it all.
Chateau La Mer is a desirable,family-oriented complex, perfect for a peaceful get-away. There are large expanses of green space, sidewalks for walking or riding a bike, and a boardwalk that runs along the gorgeous beach. Walk to restaurants. Cool off in the large community pool that is seasonally heated. Try your hand at tennis or shuffleboard, located on-site. Prepare local delicacies on one of the many outdoor grills available. You can also entertain in the neighborhood clubhouse. There is no through-traffic, so families with children can easily enjoy the outdoors.
This is condo-living at its best–no waiting for elevators! Walk to nearby restaurants
or pick up some local seafood for a relaxing evening at your home-away-from-home. Your walk to the silky white sands of the Gulf is maybe 150 steps. This ground floor two bedroom is elegantly beachy. The queen sized bed in the master bedroom is welcome after a day of fun in the sun. The second bedroom is large and has a full sized bed with a twin above it and a twin trundle bed under the full. This two bedroom condo has tile throughout. It has a washer and dryer. All appliances are full sized. There is a flat screen t.v. in both bedrooms and one in the living room. This is NOT a pet friendly unit.
Enjoy listening to the sounds of the gulf while lounging outside on the patio or grilling on the barbeque grill that is only steps from your back door.Take a dip in the heated neighborhood pool or if the 'surf's up,' you are only a few steps away from our 230 feet of private beach
access and the shimmering white sands and turquoise waters that make Destin famous. The tennis courts are well kept and provide hours of fun and exercise. There are laundry facilities on-site and even a clubhouse available to rent for special events. The Chateau La Mer
neighborhood is located on Scenic Highway 98 along the coast and has no through-traffic, which is greatly appreciated by families with kids and/or pets.
You are minutes away from Destin Commons or Silver Sands Outlets. It is a short walk to several nearby restaurants or you can pick up some local seafood for a relaxing evening at your home-away-from-home.
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Minecraft is one of my favourite games and this love was born out of playing the Pocket Edition, a simpler, mobile version of the incredibly popular PC and Mac game.
Back in December, we took a look at Minecraft Pocket Edition but, since then, the game has received some pretty significant content update, as is the nature of Minecraft. Let's take a look at the key additions of the game and perhaps adjust our thoughts in light of the slew of updates.
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Survival Mode
One of the biggest changes to Minecraft Pocket Edition is the addition of Survival Mode, and the renaming of the previous gameplay mode (the default and only option in the game back when we did our original review) to Creative Mode.
Players of Minecraft on the PC and Mac will be familiar with the Survival Mode that introduces a day/night cycle — and with night, something else that we'll get on soon — and a system of health. Environmental damage will be applied to a pretty generic health system that can be healed but does bring about the chance of death.
Perhaps more notably is that Survival Mode actually requires the player to actually take blocks from the randomly generated world to be replaced, rather than having access to unlimited resources. You can't fly, either.
Should you want to fly and have access to unlimited resources, starting a world in Creative Mode allows for that. This can be appreciated by those that don't necessarily want a challenge, and instead prefer to just express their creativity.
With Survival Mode comes the introduction of mobs. Both passive and hostile mobs exist; the former including animals like pigs, cows and chickens which offer food for the player, aiding recovery.
However, there's an added challenge in Survival Mode with hostile mobs. Zombies, skeletons and spiders will spawn in the dark and at night with the intention to kill the player. Of course, there's also the infamous and explosive Creeper that has become an icon of the game. Fortunately, crafting tools will help to fight off the onslaught and constructing a bed can even help you skip the night all together, eradicating the time-based spawning of monsters.
When we first reviewed Minecraft Pocket Edition, there was one pretty big element missing: crafting. Crafting is now in the game and allows survival players to create blocks that aren't generated and obtainable in the game world.
Crafting is a little different than in the PC and Mac versions, using a system dubbed the "Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System," or MATTIS. With the system, you need to only tap on the item you want created and, if you have the necessary materials, see it enter into your inventory. This way is a little more friendly to touch, not needing players to lay out individual materials in a 3×3 grid.
Alongside crafting comes furnaces which allow certain blocks to be smelted into more useful resources (such as turning iron ore into useable iron for tools).
New Items and Blocks
In the last year of updates, there's also been a number of new blocks and items added to the game.
New items include the aforementioned tools that can help with mining, collecting resources and fighting enemies. Adding a little more depth, you can also mine for valuable ores underground, smelt them into useable resources and then craft stronger tools.
Players of the PC/Mac version will also appreciate some familiar blocks making their way into the Pocket Edition, including bookshelves, coal, iron/gold/diamond ores (smeltable into their applicable resource) and saplings for growing trees. Chests are brought across for storing items while beds now allow you to set a spawn point and skip the night — a very welcome addition. Naturally, in a game like Minecraft, more stuff is always welcome.
iPhone 5 Support
iPhone 5 users, rejoice! A recent update to the game brings optimisation for the iPhone 5′s larger screen, something that definitely makes a difference, offering more screen space to the actual game rather than the on-screen touch controls.
Final Thoughts
With the fast-paced development of Minecraft, chances are that the Pocket Edition will never be on par with the PC/Mac version. However, the updates since our original review go very far into making them more feature-similar, especially with the introduction of Survival Mode and crafting. This contributes to an overall better gameplay experience that pushes up Minecraft's standing as a stellar example of mobile gaming.
And as one of the few games optimised for the iPhone 5, now is the perfect time to pick it up (if you haven't already). If you've never played the game before and are thinking about jumping into it on your PC or Mac, the Pocket Edition is a great bridge to what can be a complicated game at first.
We have no reason not to recommend Minecraft. If you've got an iPhone and haven't already installed it, you're missing out!
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A running theme in lesbian films involves a more shy character who is learning the art of lady love, who happens to be a photographer (Carol, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, High Art, etc.) There are a few different film constructs as to why this might be the case, and it's not just because everybody is obsessed with Annie Leibovitz.
There's this thing in feminist film theory you've probably heard of before called "the gaze" or "the male gaze." This term was developed to discuss the ways that women's bodies are fragmented visually in film as a way to reduce women to their body parts, and intentionally or not, visually dehumanizes them. The camera giving a woman the old "up and down" look has been described as "the classic male gaze shot."
Now we know that a great deal of objectification takes place by men gazing at women. However, there is a whole world of gazing that happens, and in later film theory, a lot more writing was done about race, about women directors creating a "female gaze," lesbian and bi filmmakers developing a "queer gaze," etc. This is part of what is so compelling about finding filmmakers that are women, people of color, and lesbians—they tell stories that would otherwise remain invisible or tucked firmly in the background of this highly visual medium.
But to circle back to photography, there's a particular narrative construct about characters that are filmmakers and photographers in particular. They create a disembodied gaze that they utilize an implement to capture their interests, and it becomes a fractured retelling of where their eye wanders. In the case of lesbians, this particular narrative device can speak to the myriad ways that women who love women are disconnected from the means of power and agency. In a lot of the stories that are told about lesbians and bi women through film, there are often concrete barriers to them living the life that they want and pursuing their romantic and sexual interests with other women.
The thread of photography as a tool for the ingenue's sexual awakening is a way that they can track the object of their gaze—specifically, women—in a way that creates a map for the trajectory of their desire.
In High Art in particular, the use of photography to explicitly document the photographer's erotic relationship with another woman is one way photography can close the gap in the disembodied gaze. The photographer always directs and animates the photography with their gaze and interest, but it is a tool of self-direction in this case rather than a stand-in for what she meant to say.
There are many tropes in lesbian film that tie lesbians to creative expression—writing is another strong contender. Many lesbians can attest to the ways in which creative expression gives opportunities for a loosening of structures that otherwise limit their imaginative possibilities for the things they create of an aesthetic nature as well as life itself. Creative outlets in film become the gateway to self-discovery that begins with taking pictures of women leaning out of windows and ends in some kind of revelatory sexual awakening.
The concept of photography in film is an interesting tie-in, however, because while we are a culture deeply committed to visual expression, we can generally internalize verbal statements more directly, and interpreting the visual language of film and photography offers greater ambiguity in interpretation. The act of taking pictures as a hobby is typically a solitary one, and the narrative of a woman engaged in private documentation speaks to an interiority that film can't explore explicitly but desperately wants to clue us in to.
There is a lot of talk about the importance of visibility, which plays out very explicitly in media and narrative about our stories. There is a specific fascination we have with how women depict themselves and document their internal lives and emotional states through visual mediums. We are literally unaccustomed to having visual media reflect our own experience, and most people are not conditioned to see the world through the eyes of gay women. We continue to value these particular narrative quirks because we see ourselves grappling with our own gaze directed outward, and the careful marks we make in film, in writing, to document our internal state—to say, I was here, I exist.


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As a Sunday School teacher, I was asked unusual questions, which I didn't always have the answer to. Kids are unbelievably insightful sometimes. Why, they wondered, was Christmas always December 25th, while Easter moved around? Excellent question...and not a particularly easy one.
According to documents from the 3rd and 4th centuries, Christians relied on their Jewish neighbors to determine the week of the Unleavened Bread; the Sunday that fell within that week would be Easter. Following the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, the date of Easter was separated from the Jewish calendar and its computations for Passover.
Since then, Easter Day is always the Sunday after the full moon that occurs on or after the Northern spring equinox, which is based on an ancient ecclesiastical computation, and does not correspond to the astronomical equinox. The church defines the spring, or vernal, equinox as falling on March 21st. Easter falls on the Sunday following the first full moon after the equinox. This full moon will occur somewhere between March 21st and April 18th, inclusive. Therefore, Easter cannot be earlier than March 22nd or later than April 25th. In 2008, Easter was particularly early, falling on March 23rd. That hadn't happened since 1913, and will not happen again until 2160.
Of course, there are handy tables available to find the date. But those tables are derived from something called "The Golden Number" and "The Sunday Letter". The Golden Number is computed by taking the year, dividing it by 19, and adding 1 to the remainder. For example, 2014 divided by 19 gives 106, with a remainder of 0. Adding 1 to the remainder gives a golden number of 1. Finding the Sunday Letter involves determining the first Sunday of the year, with the choices ranging from A through G. For example, if the first Sunday in January falls on the 1st, that year is an "A" year.
There are more computations, explanations, and nuances surrounding leap years, but for the purposes of the kids in my class, my summation was enough to explain the phenomenon. The short answer, really, is that Easter moves around from year to year in order to maintain the connection between the astronomical events (the phase of the moon and the season) which would have occurred during the Resurrection and the annual date on which we celebrate this holiday.
Whatever spring holiday or event you celebrate, I hope it's filled with family and happiness. Take some time to enjoy nature's resurrection--the new life, strengthening sun, and longer days that characterize this season. And if the Easter bunny visits (that's a whole 'nother story...blog post for next Easter maybe?), remind him to put some paranormal romance reads in your basket!
SILVER LAKE ~ A haunting, an old flame,
and secrets from the past ~ #1 Kindle Bestseller
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This case was written by one of our great Hennepin 2nd year residents, Aaron Robinson, with lots of comments and edits by Smith.
Thanks to Dr. Smith and Dr. Travis Olives for being part of this case.
A 12 year old girl with a history of mild intermittent asthma presented to the emergency department with worsening shortness of breath over the past couple of days. She is up to date on her vaccinations and has no PMHx besides asthma and a noncontributory family history. She does not identify any specific triggers for her asthma. Initial screen in triage revealed normal vitals signs and a normal temperature. Upon interviewing the patient and her mother, they state that the patient has been having worsening shortness of breath in the past week, but her neb treatments (which typically eliminate her issues) haven't been working. The child appeared anxious, but overall nontoxic during her initial emergency department evaluation. Her mother had given her two albuterol neb treatments prior to arrival, without improvement.
What was puzzling to the emergency physicians was the history and physical. On first glance, things seemed consistent with worsening asthma, but there was something that didn't fit. The child didn't have any wheezing on exam, but but this was not so unusual in that asthma frequently lacks wheezing. What was more unusual for asthma was that there was also no history of cough, (which is almost universally present in asthma).
It was further digging in the history that piqued the emergency physicians' interest: the abrupt onset of the shortness of breath, with no apparent trigger, as well as the lack of even minimal improvement with albuterol. When questioned further, the patient said "I feel like I need to keep taking a deep breath and I get really nervous, then it goes away." These episodes have increased in frequency over the past few weeks. This unusual history prompted the emergency physician to broaden the differential and consider other pathology.
So, an ECG was ordered and is pictured below.
So, an ECG was ordered and is pictured below.
|What do you see?
There is a short PR interval at 101 ms, even for a 12 year old. Normal PR for a 12 year old ranges from 106 ms to 176 ms. Here it is 101 ms.
Furthermore, the computer reads a QRS duration of 117 ms, which is long even for an adult, but far too long for a 12 year old (normal = 87 ms).
In this case, the computer did interpret "ventricular pre-excitation/WPW [Delta Waves]"
But it might not always do so.
This is a textbook example of Wolff-Parkinson-White (Type B, see below).
With this finding, the ED physicians were immediately concerned that this patient wasn't having worsening asthma but was in fact having runs of symptomatic SVT. The patient was placed on the cardiac monitor. CXR was within normal limits, and bedside cardiac ultrasound did not reveal any grossly noticeable abnormalities. Initial troponin was negative, and chemistry was remarkable for hypokalemia (K=2.8), which places the patient at increased risk of dysrhythmia (how does it do so? see below). Magnesium was normal. Potassium chloride supplementation was given PO.
The hospital caring for her did not have advanced pediatric cardiac care and there was concern given the patient being increasingly symptomatic. The decision was made to transfer her to the nearby university hospital that had advanced pediatric cardiology for definitive care. She was transferred in stable condition. She never had any runs of SVT during her ED stay.
Follow up:
Follow up:
Follow up on the patient's transfer to a pediatric hospital with cardiac specialists:
The patient had a repeat chest XR and a formal echocardiogram the day of transfer, both of which were negative. No sign's of Ebstein's anomaly on echo. Why did they look for this? See below for an explanation. She was discharged with 24-hour Holter monitoring. She had multiple runs of SVT as well as multiple triplets and quadruplets of PACs that correlated with her symptoms. They took her to EP lab, where they performed a small ablation. Post-ablation, no further runs of SVT were seen and she no longer met criteria on ECG for WPW. No further AVRT could be induced in EP lab. The hypokalemia, as described above, was likely secondary to her albuterol use as we suspected. She is doing very well.
Why did they look for Ebstein's anomaly?
Ebstein's Anomaly: Basically, it's a critical congenital heart defect that causes "atrialization" of the right ventricle. The atrioventricular valve is displaced inferiorly and the RV size is very small. The valve leaflets are abnormal, and describes as "plastered" to the RV. About half of patients also have an ASD or PFO.
Why does this matter in our patient? About half of patients with Ebstein's also show evidence of WPW on ECG. Cardiac physicians were screening for this in this case. Remember cardiac anatomy: a thick, fibrous ring known as the anuli fibrosi cordis electrically insulates the atria from the ventricles. In MOST patients, the AV node is the limiting factor with its refractory period, and why atrial fibrillation usually can't degenerate into ventricular fibrillation. This is, of course, barring the fact that no accessory pathways exist, unlike our patient. Because of the severely displaced right-sided AV valve, the anuli fibrosi cordis is at risk of being disrupted, and why ~50% of patients with Ebstein's have WPW.
Learning Point
In this case, the ECG is not at all difficult. The computer even accurately diagnosed it.
The learning point is that even children's symptoms may sometimes be explained by the ECG. I (Smith) always obtain and ECG on children with chest pain that does not have a clear explanation, as they may have myocarditis and even myocardial infarction (from coronary dissection, previous Kawasaki's disease (which may be unknown), coronary anomalies). And I even get just one troponin in these cases.
Any child (just like adults) with episodes of palpitations, lightheadedness, syncope, or pre-syncope could have any of WPW, HOCM, long QT, Brugada, or Arrhythmogenic RV dysplasia. Any child with unexplained dyspnea could have MI, myocarditis, congenital heart disease, RV hypertrophy from pulmonary hypertension, and more. The ECG is simple, cheap, and non-invasive. Nevertheless, in one major study of syncope in children in the ED, 58% did not get an ECG recorded!
Just this week, the New England Journal of Medicine [379(6):524-534; Aug 9, 2018] published an article which found that 42 of 11,168 asymptomatic adolescents screened for athletic activity had a variety of disorders that are associated with sudden death (36 detected by ECG, for 0.32%, or 1 in 300), including 5 HOCM, 2 Arrhythmogenic RV dysplasia, 1 dilated cardiomyopathy, 3 long QT, 2 with coronary anomaly, 3 with dangerous bicuspid aortic valve, and 26 with WPW (1 in 400).
If asymptomatic children have this many significant abnormalities, then children with unexplained symptoms would have many more, though this number is not known (as far as I can tell).
The only danger to recording an ECG is misinterpretation. Especially not recognizing normal variants as normal.
The only danger to recording an ECG is misinterpretation. Especially not recognizing normal variants as normal.
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
The Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome is a pre-excitation syndrome that is manifested by dysrhythmias due to an accessory pathway between the atria and the ventricles (i.e. The Bundle of Kent, or atrioventricular bypass pathway). It is more grossly typed as an Atrio-Ventricular Reentrant Tachycardia, or AVRT. It's classically defined by the appearance of the "delta wave" on EKG, which is the slurred upstroke of the QRS and the presence of a short PR interval. Because the accessory pathway goes through abnormal tissue, the conduction is not fast like the AV node/Purkinje network. When the SA node fires, the slowed conduction through the accessory pathway initially is responsible for the delta wave. Generally, the AV pathway predominates overall, and the patient is without issue. However, when a reentrant circuit is formed between the AV node and accessory pathway, a patient can enter SVT and be stable or symptomatic/unstable. Conduction occurs in orthodromic (most cases) or antidromic (~5% of WPW) conduction.
Orthodromic (latin "correct") conduction is conduction anterograde the AV node (the normal way) and retrograde up the accessory pathway. This causes the QRS to be narrow because the initial depolarization is as it usually is.
Much less commonly, antidromic reentry is exactly the opposite: anterograde conduction through the accessory pathway and retrograde up the AV node. This abnormal conduction causes the QRS to be wide and can be difficult to distinguish from ventricular tachycardia. Thankfully, it is less common.
Depending on the location of the accessory pathway, the sinus EKG manifestations of WPW will vary.
Type A Wolff-Parkinson-White. An example is below:
Type B Wolff-Parkinson-White. Another example from the fantastic LITFL example is below:
Notice also that in both types, there are ST-T abnormalities that could mimic ischemia. These are "secondary" ST-T abnormalities, secondary to an abnormal QRS. Whenever you see abnormal ST-T, you should ascertain whether the QRS is the source (secondary) or whether the QRS is relatively normal (ST-T are "primary", due to pathology such as ischemia.
How did hypokalemia affect this case?
This patient has had an accessory pathway for some time. It did not just suddenly appear. So why did she start having symptoms? Most likely, it was due to hypokalemia. Hypokalemia can trigger premature atrial beats (PAB). The initiation of a re-entrant rhythm, whether in AVNRT or AVRT (atrio-ventricular reciprocating tachycardia, in WPW), is through a PAB. Normally, in sinus rhythm, the beat is conducted down BOTH the AV node and the accessory pathway. The 2 together create a fusion beat, the delta wave the result of conduction down the accessory pathway, and the remaining narrow complex beat the result of conduction down the Purkinje fibers. If there is a PAB which occurs when one of these pathways is refractory, then it will be blocked in that pathway and proceed down the other. Then it will be able to travel back UP the pathway that was initially blocked as that one will no longer be refractory. Then it can make an endless loop. PABs do not require hypokalemia but can happen for many reasons. Beta blockers are fairly good at suppressing PABs and therefore may be used to prevent initiation of SVT.
"Concealed WPW"
Interestingly, the delta wave may not always be seen! If the accessory pathway is far enough from the SA node, the depolarization from the SA node may not reach the accessory pathway by the time the AV node depolarizes. This results in no delta wave! However, you can "uncover" the accessory pathway by slowing the rate down in these patients. Another way that WPW can be concealed is in the very rare (~15% of all WPW patients) retrograde-only conduction, in which the accessory pathway ONLY allows retrograde conduction, which obviously wouldn't show a delta wave on sinus EKG but still predisposes the patient to re-entry tachycardias.
For more on concealed conduction:
Treatment in the acute setting is largely focused on SVT and electrolyte optimization. Vagal maneuvers and/or chemical conversion can be attempted in stable patients (adenosine, CCB, etc) in SVT. Unstable patients should get DC cardioversion immediately. If the patient has antidromic conduction, extreme caution must be taken as to not mistake this for ventricular tachycardia (it's VT until proven otherwise). In the most recent ACLS update, the AHA states that one may "Consider adenosine ONLY if the patient is in a stable, wide complex, REGULAR, MONOMORPHIC tachycardia." This is because adenosine will break antidromic WPW (or SVT with aberrancy), but obviously will NOT correct ventricular tachycardia. Adenosine should NEVER be tried in a patient with a WIDE complex IRREGULAR rhythm. This may be the feared atrial fibrillation with WPW, a rhythm that, if AV nodal blockade occurred, the fibrillation waves from the atria will be directed solely down the accessory pathway, and the patient will very likely decompensate into ventricular fibrillation.
Definitive treatment of WPW can be through radio-frequency ablation of the accessory pathway in the electrophysiology lab or medical management. More can be found below.
Life in the Fast Lane does an outstanding job reviewing WPW and can be found here, including examples of WPW Type A and Type B EKGs.
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Comment by KEN GRAUER, MD (8/7/2018):
Our thanks to Drs Robinson, Olives and Smith for this thought-provoking case. As per Dr. Smith — one of the KEY points is that certain symptoms in children may be explained by an ECG. Clinicians have been fascinated by WPW for years. Many aspects of diagnosis and management remain controversial. In the interest of academic pursuit — I'll add the following comments.
- As noted — the diagnosis of WPW in this case is not difficult. There is obvious PR interval shortening — and, prominent delta waves are seen in virtually every lead on this tracing. But the diagnosis of WPW is often much more subtle. Delta waves are not always seen in as many leads as we do here. Some patients (especially older adults) develop some initial slurring of the QRS complex in a number of leads without there being any AP (Accessory Pathway). And, most importantly — is appreciation that in patients with WPW, conduction may be entirely down the AP — entirely down the normal AV nodal pathway — or — any relative percentage amount between these 2 possibilities. For example, if the relative amount of preexcitation is minimal (say 80-90% of impulses travel down the normal AV nodal pathway) — then delta waves may be difficult to recognize, and the QRS complex may not be overly wide (See ECG Blog #121).
- Conduction properties of the AP may vary for a variety of reasons. These include decreased ability to conduct in one or both directions over the AP as the patient ages — certain medications — autonomic stimuli, among others. This changing propensity to conduct over the AP is a major reason why risk of a potentially life-threatening WPW-related tachyarrhythmia is clearly less in adults over 35-40 with WPW who had not had previous symptomatic arrhythmias. As a result — older adults who have remained asymptomatic from their WPW over the balance of their lives do not necessarily need referral to a cardiologist. In contrast, given recent advancements in technology and the continually enhanced diagnostic and therapeutic prowess of experienced EP cardiologists — infants and children, and probably also teenage and young adult competitive athletes merit referral for full assessment in 2018, even when the patient is asymptomatic. NOTE: For more on assessment and management considerations in patients with asymptomatic WPW (including risk stratification) — Click HERE: ECG Blog #153.
Clinical Relevance of PR Interval Shortening:
The reason the PR interval is short with WPW — is that the AV node is bypassed.
- With normal conduction in sinus rhythm — the electrical impulse slows down as it passes through the AV node on its way to the ventricles. As a result — most of the PR interval normally consists of the time it takes for the impulse to traverse the AV node. The electrical impulse arrives at the ventricles sooner with WPW — because the relative delay that occurs when passing through the AV node is avoided by conduction over the AP.
- This is the reason the QRS complex with WPW will usually be wide when the rhythm is AFib or AFlutter — because in both of these arrhythmias, the impulse does not have to travel through the normal AV nodal pathway. Instead, entry into the ventricles can be accomplished much faster traveling anterograde over the AP. Absence of passage through the AV node with AFib and AFlutter also enables much faster ventricular rates to be achieved (depending on the refractory period of the AP — and not dependent on the refractory period of the AV node).
- In contrast, ~95% of AVRT is orthodromic — because the path to the ventricles passes over the normal AV nodal pathway. As a result — the QRS complex will usually be narrow in AVRT.
How to Recognize WPW in Patients with AFIB:
As alluded to above — the principal WPW-related Arrhythmias are: i) A regular reentry SVT = AVRT (AtrioVentricular Reciprocating Tachycardia); ii) AFib; and iii) AFlutter. While some WPW patients may be extremely symptomatic with episodes of AVRT — it is especially AFib (and not AVRT) that is most likely to be potentially life-threatening.
- Adenosine is potentially problematic if given to a patient with WPW who is in AFib — but, Adenosine IS useful to treat WPW patients with AVRT. The "good news" — is that you'll often be able to recognize that a patient with AFib has WPW. This facilitates knowing when to avoid Adenosine (and when to also avoid Verapamil/Diltiazem).
For example — How would you interpret the arrhythmia shown in Figure-1?
|Figure-1: How would you interpret this arrhythmia? (See text).
ANSWER: The rhythm is irregularly irregular. No P waves are seen. The QRS complex is wide. Therefore, even without seeing a complete 12-lead ECG — the above findings are virtually diagnostic of AFib.
- How fast is the rate of this AFib?
ANSWER: In places — the rate of the AFib seen in Figure-1 is between 250-300/minute (ie, the R-R interval in places is barely more than 1 large box in duration — which corresponds to a ventricular rate ~300/minute). The only way AFib results in a ventricular response this fast — is if impulses are bypassing the longer refractory period of the AV node — which means that there must be an AP!
- Recognition of the ECG features in Figure-1 are virtually diagnostic of AFib + WPW. These features are: i) exceedingly rapid AFib (over 220/minute in parts of the tracing); ii) QRS widening (due to anterograde conduction over the AP); and, iii) marked variability in the R-R intervals over this rhythm strip.
- For more on the basics of WPW-related arrhythmias — Click HERE: Section 12.
- Excellent teaching points made by this case include the likelihood that the cause of this 12-year old girl's shortness of breath was not asthma. And, while transfer to a facility with expertise in pediatric cardiology is the intervention of choice — it should be emphasized that we've not yet proved a sustained arrhythmia (AVRT, AFib, AFlutter) is the cause of this patient's symptoms. Holter studies have demonstrated that not only sustained tachyarrhythmias — but also brady rhythms and isolated PACs and PVCs may also be the cause of palpitations. Comprehensive risk assessment by EP cardiology is needed to determine if AP ablation is or is not the recommended management for this patient at this time.
Beyond-the-Core: A number of ways for classifying WPW types have been proposed. A step beyond division into Types A & B — is to use morphology of delta waves in multiple leads on the ECG to predict the probable location of the AP. Having studied numerous proposed algorithms for predicting localization of the AP — I synthesized those I found most helpful into a user-friendly method that is surprisingly accurate (though clearly not perfect). My method takes minimal time.
- I do not try to memorize the Algorithm in my method. Instead — I simply turn to ECG BLOG #76 whenever I want to attempt my prediction.
Take another look at the initial ECG in this case (Figure-2):
|Figure-2: Initial ECG on the 13yo girl in this case (See text).
- Click on the link to ECG Blog #76.
- The 1st Step in the Algorithm depends on where Transition occurs (ie, where the QRS complex in the chest leads becomes more positive than negative).
- Transition in Figure-2 occurs between leads V4-to-V5. This means that we begin with STEP B-5 — which immediately tells us we are dealing with a right-sided AP.
- We now need to measure the delta wave frontal plane axis — which we do by looking at delta wave polarity in leads I and aVF. Note that the delta wave in both leads I and aVF is positive — which means that the delta wave frontal plane is positive. According to the Algorithm — this predicts the AP will be localized to the Anterolateral RV Free Wall.
- NOTE: I labeled this last set of comments as "Beyond-the-Core" — because precise localization of the AP is not critical information for providers who are not the EP cardiologist caring for the patient. But: i) It's fun to be able to quickly and with surprisingly good accuracy predict localization of the AP; and, ii) I think it helpful to appreciate how the EP cardiologist knowing the likely location of the AP prior to performing EP study can facilitate more rapid isolation of the AP during EP study.


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Wednesday morning begins with an Executive Board meeting. This is followed by the luncheon of the National Officers Club. General Court itself begins Wednesday evening with a banquet.
The banquet is in the elegant Mayflower hotel and is always a nice start to the meeting. After everyone met the National Officers in the recieving line, they were treated to an excellent meal. Our banquet entertainment this year was a group of ladies who sang selections from the 1940's, in the style of the Andrews sisters.
The business meeting of General Court was held on Thursday. A memorial service was conducted to remember 42 ladies who had died over the previous year. We were grateful for our pages Frances and Donna who helped with the memorial wreath.
On Friday, there was a brief Executive Board meeting followed by a group tour of the State Department (more on that next week). After the tour, some of us took the memorial wreath to the Women in Military Service Memorial (WIMSA) for a brief wreath-laying ceremony.
Betsy Gauld, Peggy Christie, Frances Lowe and Kimberly Nagy at the entrance to WIMSA
The ladies in the Hall of Honor.
Conducting the ceremony.
Placing the Wreath.


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I am referring to the state pattern as described in this link.
In the example class diagram, a context has numerous states. However, it does not show how does a state communicates with a context (perhaps an input in a state has impact on a setting in the context).
The two examples on the page shows either passing the context to the state via a function, or storing a reference to the context. Are those advisable?
Are there other ways for a state to communicate with a context?
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For instance, I am doing a remote control which can have several states. Say, the context has a setting for Volume, and I am in one of the states which allow me to tweak the volume. How should the state communicates with the context that the volume is being changed?


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Photovoltaics offers one of the most promising routes to generate electricity in a clean way. As an emerging technology in photovoltaics, organic solar cells (OSC) have attracted a great deal of attention owing to their potential low-cost, lightweight, flexibility and solution processability. Although power conversion efficiencies above 12% have been achieved at this date, there is a great interest for new ideal materials to further improve the PCEs and address device durability, which are major concerns for the commercialization of this technology. The main objective of this thesis is to design and synthesize phenothiazine-based conjugate small molecules and explore their use as electron donor components in OSCs. Phenothiazine is a non-planar moiety with unusual "butterfly" type of geometry, which is known to reduce molecular aggregation and intermolecular excimer formation.
In the first study of this thesis, a small molecule based on a cyano-arylenevinylene building block with deep HOMO level was prepared. Although a high open-circuit voltage of 1.0 V was achieved, the tendency of the small molecule to crystallize in the active layer at a higher temperature and with time hindered the attainment of an optimal phase morphology required for the achievement of a higher efficiency. In the second and third studies, phenothiazine was used as a π-system bridge and as a core unit to construct small molecules based on symmetric and asymmetric frameworks with varying terminal electron-withdrawing groups. The electron-withdrawing property of the terminal units was found to have a significant influence on the optical absorption properties, electronic energy levels, molecular ordering, charge carrier mobility and morphology of the resulting active layers. In the fourth study, side-chain modification of the phenothiazine unit of symmetrically configured small molecules with an oxygen-containing (methoxyethoxy ethyl) side chain resulted in the enhancement of the dielectric constant. Although absorption properties were unchanged in solution, a dense π-π stacking was observed in the solid state.
In summary, it is demonstrated that phenothiazine is a promising candidate and worth exploring donor material for OSCs. Its versatility as a π-linker and as a central core unit in symmetric and asymmetric configurations has been explored. The use of nonplanar building blocks such as phenothiazine for the construction of donor materials is an interesting strategy for controlling molecular aggregation and difficult solution processability of small molecules if it is combined with a judiciously designed conjugate backbone.
A donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) molecule has been designed and synthesized for use as the electron donating material in solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells (OSCs). The D-A-D molecule comprises a central electron-accepting (2Z,2'Z)-2,2'-(2,5-bis(octyloxy)-1,4-phenylene)bis(3-(thiophen-2-yl)acry lonitrile) (ZOPTAN) core, which is chemically connected to two peripheral and electron-donating triphenylamine (TPA) units. The ZOPTAN-TPA molecule features a low HOMO level of -5.2 eV and an optical energy gap of 2.1 eV. Champion OSCs based on a solution-processed and non-annealed active material blend of [6,6]-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and ZOPTAN-TPA in a mass ratio of 2:1 exhibits a power conversion efficiency of 1.9% and a high open-circuit voltage of 1.0 V.
Originally included in Christian Larsens thesis with title [An Arylene-Vinylene Based Donor-Acceptor-Donor Small Molecule for the DonorCompound in High-Voltage Organic Solar Cells].
Two new acceptor–π(donor)–donor–π(donor)-acceptor small molecules SM1 and SM2 with benzodithiophene (BDT) donor core unit linked via phenothiazine (PTZ) donor units with 1,3–indanedione and malononitrile end capping units, respectively, have been designed and synthesized and used as electron donor along with PC71BM as acceptor for solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. The influence of these end-capping groups on their thermal, optical, electrochemical properties and photovoltaic performance was investigated. After the optimization of the donor to acceptor weight ratio and solvent vapor annealing, the organic solar cells based on SM1:PC71BM and SM2:PC71BM active layers showed the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 6.20% and 7.45%, respectively. Hence, the end-capping acceptor units for the two small molecules revealed a significant influence on the PCE of the organic solar cells, which resulted from differences in film absorption, molecular packing and charge transport properties.
Three compounds consisting of the electron-donating triphenylamine–phenothiazine conjugate backbone and each of the electron-withdrawing groups 3-ethylrhodanine, malononitrile and 1,3-indandione have been synthesized and used as donors in blends with [6,6]-phenyl-C70-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM) for organic solar cell devices. After improvements of the active layer structure by a selected donor-to-acceptor weight ratio and a two-step solvent and thermal annealing, the organic solar cells showed power conversion efficiency (PCE) values in the range of 4.79–7.25%. The highest PCE was obtained for the bulk heterojunction device with the indandione compound, which can be attributed to its better absorption profile, higher crystallinity, more balanced electron and hole transport, higher charge collection efficiency and reduced recombination, in comparison with the photovoltaic cells from the other two compounds. DFT-calculated characteristics, absorption spectra and cyclic voltammetry of the compounds, along with X-ray diffraction patterns of the blend films, are used to validate the photovoltaic results.
Three small molecules denoted SM1, SM2 and SM3, with the phenothiazine donor moiety connected to benzothiadiazole and 3-ethylrhodanine acceptor units through thiophene π-linkers have been synthesized for use in organic solar cells with PC71BM as electron acceptor. SM1 has a 2-ethylhexyl group at the phenothiazine nitrogen, while SM2 and SM3have a 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethyl group at that N. Opto-electronic and dielectric properties, charge carrier mobilities, morphology of active layers, and photovoltaic properties were investigated in detail. The three molecules have wide absorption bands with high molar absorption coefficients and relatively low HOMO levels (−5.21 to −5.27 eV). Compared with the N-alkylated SM1, both SM2 and SM3 exhibit red-shifts of the long-wavelength absorption band in thin films, and show enhanced crystallinity in thin films with smaller stacking distances, higher hole mobility, and higher dielectric constant. After solvent vapourannealing, the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) were significantly improved for the solar cell devices, from 1.69 to 3.95% for SM1, 2.78–6.62% for SM2 and 3.22–7.16% for SM3. This increase in PCEs was due to the enhancement in Jsc and FF attributed to the formation of nanoscale domains of donor and acceptor resulting in efficient charge separation, balanced charge transport and suppressed charge recombination. These results demonstrate that use of an oxygen-containing side chain, in conjunction with alkyl side chains for solubility during solar cell processing, is an alternative and effective strategy for achieving high-performance small molecule donor materials.
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November is Diabetes Awareness Month! Some of my favourite writers have started participating in the Diabetes Month Photo-A-Day: this is where you post a diabetes-related photo every day, and the photos follow a certain theme or prompt.
I've decided to (try to) participate. I say "try to" because I'm not 100% sure I'll be able to post pictures every day for an entire month, but I certainly want to try!
Today's prompt is "past," so here it is:
In grade 8 my class was tasked with writing an autobiography. Mine included a second page about the insulin pump that I had started using about 6 months prior to writing the assignment, but this is the page about my diagnosis.
Fun Fact: the whole assignment has me as a year older than I actually am... so where it says "In 1992, when I was 5 years old [...]" I was actually 4. I started kindergarten a year early (at 3 instead of 4), so my parents fibbed about my age so I could be eligible to start school (since they wouldn't let a 3-year-old in to kindergarten). Apparently years later, at a different school (grade 8 / middle school) I was still perpetuating that lie... 😉
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Optimising nitrate removal and identifying critical factors for nitrate removal in wetlands is an important environmental task in the effort to achieve better surface water quality. In this study, eighteen free water surface wetlands with similar shape and size (22 m2 each) received groundwater with a high nitrate-N concentration (about 11 mg l−1). The effects of two hydraulic loads, 0.13 m d−1 and 0.39 m d−1, and three vegetation types – emergent, submersed and freely developing vegetation – on the nitrate-N removal were investigated through mass inflow and outflow measurements.
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Constructed in 1967, the Brookfield Swim Club's building is old, outdated and in need of replacement. So the club's now seeking a permit from the county to build a new one.
"We either have to modernize this facility or fall to competing clubs in the area," said swim club president Carl Cecil at last week's meeting of the West Fairfax County Citizens Association (WFCCA) Land-Use Committee. "Our club has authorized us to spend nearly half a million dollars."
HE SAID a new building is important for member retention and growth — motivating people to stay in the club and to join it — and "to provide a social club for Brookfield and the Chantilly community."
Seven years ago, Brookfield installed a two-story slide and two seasons ago, it renovated the pool. So a new clubhouse building is the final element needed toward readying the pool to better serve everyone.
Some 300 families belong to the Brookfield Swim Club, and 100 children, ages 4-18, are on the swim team. And, said swim team director and representative, Maryellen Silsby, "The club is open to anybody who wants to join. We have people who live in Centreville and Fairfax, and we have memberships open." (Call 703-968-9281).
Cecil, for example, lives in Sutton Oaks and, he said, "I think this would be a great place to have our community meetings." Silsby said a new building is "definitely needed. It's going to enhance the community and, from a swim-team standpoint, it'll enable us to host bigger meets."
Since the current building was constructed so long ago, it no longer meets the state building code or the Americans with Disabilities Act. Besides that, said Cecil, "It's a maintenance nightmare — plumbing, etc. — because it's almost 40 years old."
He said the building will be knocked down when this swim season ends in September, after Labor Day. Brookfield residents plan on the new facility being completed by the end of December — just in time to host a Super Bowl party.
The current building is 20x50 feet; the new one will be 30x65 and 35 feet high. A new, 10-foot deck will form an apron around the building, off the second story. And prior to or during the 2005 swim season, said Cecil, "We're going to extend the fence further onto the grass. And one of our swim-club members is donating new playground equipment."
THE SECOND floor will contain a meeting room that may be used year 'round for various events, such as birthday parties, and also for viewing swim meets. "It'll have a mini-kitchen, bathrooms, skylights, a trophy case and lots of windows looking out over the pool," said Cecil. "And the whole thing will be aesthetically pleasing to the community."
Kristin Nelson, the swim club's social director, said the new facility will be able to host adults-only parties with food, drinks, a deejay and swimming, as well as preteen and teen parties on summertime Saturday nights for kids, ages 9-18. These events would include a deejay, games, swimming and diving contests, dancing, pizza, ice cream and rootbeer floats.
"We could also have taco nights, pasta nights, barbecues, potlucks, pool float nights and ice-cream socials," said Nelson. "I'm excited."
Son Evan, 16, a Chantilly High sophomore, is a lifeguard and competes in freestyle and butterfly on the swim team. And he, too, is looking forward to the new building.
"Other pools, like Greenbriar and Poplar Tree, have nice pool houses — and ours will be even better," he said. "Other teams were crammed into a small team-area during meets, so this will give them more space. And [the new deck will provide] more room to walk around during swim meets."
Megan Silsby, 15, a butterfly star, said the pool's "like my second home so it'll be great to have a facility to hold all the members and even more. I can hardly wait 'til it's finished."
Julia Hed, 12, a Rocky Run seventh-grader, specializes in the butterfly on Brookfield's team and says the improvements will make things "a lot better" there. Her dad, swim-club treasurer Dave Hed, said there'll be "a lot more room for spectators and people in general — and bigger and better locker rooms."
Kevin Ludden, Pool Board member at large, believes the $375 membership fee is "the best summer investment a parent can make. A lot of these kids are second-generation members. This is one of the original community pools in the county."
BROOKFIELD'S been a member of the Northern Virginia Swim League (NVSL) since 1973, but has never been able to host a divisional meet or major event because of the facility's capacity. But the new clubhouse, fence expansion and deck addition will enable it to do so.
Seamus O'Connor, a Syracuse University sophomore, has been on Brookfield's team since 1992 and now coaches it with his mom Karen, the head coach. He said a new clubhouse "will bring in more revenue and we won't have to go all over the county for the big meets."
"We try to do an annual lock-in for the team, but haven't been able to for the past four years because it rained," he said. "Now, we'll have a roof over our heads. And we'll be able to exercise even if it's raining; we won't have to cancel practices."


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While teenagers may embrace dating as one more step in the continual process of growing up, parents may have a very different perspective and opinion about it. Parents may decide they don't approve of teen dating for a variety of reasons, but all usually come down to either the physical or emotional safety of their child.
Early Dating
Kids younger than age 14 don't possess the emotional maturity and social skills necessary for dating, states the Iowa State University Extension. At this tender age, a child doesn't have a firm personal identity in place -- meaning she just doesn't have a firm enough grasp on who she is, what she likes and what she doesn't like. Lacking this foundation, a youngster might not have the ability to stay strong and healthy in a dating relationship.
Sexual Activity
Sexual activity is one of the obvious parental fears of parents. With today's technological advances, teenagers are becoming more creative in the ways they engage in sexual activity, warns the WebMD website. Sexting with a cell phone -- sending pornographic images or engaging in suggestive conversations -- is a real possibility. Teenagers also have different views about what constitutes sexual activity, with many youngsters choosing to engage in oral sex, believing that it doesn't "count" as intimacy. The impacts of sexual activity can be major, including pregnancy and illness.
Dating Abuse
The prevalence of dating abuse is frightening, with over 50 percent of U.S. teenagers having some sort of exposure to dating abuse, states author and psychologist Anita Gurian, with the New York University Child Study Center. The abuse may include physical harm or even just the threat of physical harm. Dating abuse also includes psychological harm or the threat of it, including overt control tactics and humiliation.
Emotional Upheaval
Spending time in a dating relationship as an adolescent can lead to significant emotional upheaval, warns the Education.com website. Parents may begin to notice grades dropping, a change in a teenager's academic goals and school delinquency. Teenagers may experience depression and anxiety in connection with a dating relationship -- especially if a breakup occurs. Teens pursuing a dating relationship usually search for companionship, intimacy, affection and a social confidante.


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Online marketers spend a great deal of time looking at data measurement features such as number of visitors to a site, but often overlook online marketing metrics that matter most. While it's important to have site visitors, this is merely a small piece of the marketing performance metrics toolbox.
While it makes sense to measure marketing campaign effectiveness based on things like traffic or number of clickthroughs, the marketing metrics that matter most are those that can actually measure the effectiveness of a campaign based on the desired customer action. The most important online marketing metrics include those that maintain accountability, report appropriately on the ROI, and prove that a marketing campaign is truly effective.
Conversion Rates As A Marketing Metric
Conversions used to be all about sales but in the unique atmosphere of online marketing, conversions can vary rather significantly from one marketing campaign to the next. Online marketing metrics should be heavily focused on conversion rates but a marketer must first determine what the goal is and what constitutes a conversion. Knowing what you want your visitor to do can help you narrow down the activities and discover what works best. Conversions may include the following:
- Newsletter signup
- Sales
- Social shares
- Likes or comments
- Account signups
- Any type of business engagement that is desired
The success of your business is directly correlated to your ability to effectively convert website visitors into paying customers, online subscribers or leads. Google Analytics and other analytic tools can be used to map and track conversions to determine what content, landing pages or other features of a campaign are working and which features are not.
Visitor Engagement As A Marketing Metric
There's more to visitor engagement than just bounce rates, though these are important to understand too. Several variables should be closely monitored when judging the level of visitor engagement and the effectiveness of a marketing campaign. Understanding how your visitors interact on your site can provide great insight. Consider measuring visitor engagement based on the following:
Bounce rate (remember that some industries have a higher normal bounce rate than others)
- Average number of pages per visit
- Return visitors
- Average time spent on site
Various tools can help to measure visitor engagement including Google Analytics, heat mapping, or eye tracking software allowing you to actually visualize where and how your visitors engage on your website.
Social Interactions
Online marketing metrics now focus very heavily on social sharing and interactions. Measuring how effective a social media marketing campaign is or even how effective any marketing campaign is for that matter is heavily focused on how the social media world views a product or service. How many times does your brand show up in conversations on social networks? Is all the talk good? What are you doing to combat negative feedback? As the Internet shifts to a very social atmosphere, metrics must also shift to cover things like the following:
- Social likes
- Retweets
- +1s
- Shares
- Conversations involving a brand, product, or service
All indications are that having these marketing metrics tools in your toolbox will prove highly beneficial to you, your website and your bottom line.


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Atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, is the most common irregular heart rhythm in the United States, affecting over two million Americans. We hosted a live chat on Tuesday, November 15th at 12pm EST about atrial fibrillation with Mikhael El-Chami, MD, of the Emory Heart and Vascular Center where we received a lot of great questions about symptoms, treatments, and more.
Dr. El-Chami was able to answer these questions and provide insight on this condition that affects so many people. Below are some highlights from this live chat.
Question: Are there different types of a-fib? Is one more serious than another?
Dr. El-Chami: There are typically two different types of a-fib. The first type is persistent a-fib (always in a state of a-fib) and the other type paroxysmal a-fib (a-fib that comes and goes). One type is not more dangerous than the other. The most devastating complication of a-fib is related to the predisposition to stroke. If that is treated appropriately with blood thinners, then the risk is reduced significantly. At times, a-fib is also associated with weakening of the heart muscle, and if that is the case physicians are usually very aggressive at trying to keep patients out of a-fib.
Question: What are some risk factors for a-fib?
Dr. El-Chami: That is a very good question. Common risk factors for a-fib include hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity, aging and structural heart disease (patients with valve problems, weak heart muscle or thick heart muscle). A-fib could occur in a younger patient without major health issues, but this is not the norm.
Question: Am I more likely to have a stroke if I have a-fib?
Dr. El-Chami: A-fib is typically associated with a 5 fold increase in the risk of stroke. There is a clinical scoring system (CHADSVaSC score) that will better determine the risk of stroke in patients that have a-fib.
Thank you to everyone who participated in our live chat! You can view the full chat transcript here.


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|Electrocardiography Series. What is the cause of the regular wide QRS complex tachycardia?
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In Drinking Water: A History, James Salzman, the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at UCLA Law, shows how drinking water highlights the most pressing issues of our time -- from globalization and social justice to terrorism and climate change -- and how humans have been wrestling with these problems for centuries.
Bloody conflicts over control of water sources stretch as far back as the Bible yet are featured in front page headlines even today. Only fifty years ago, selling bottled water sounded as ludicrous as selling bottled air. Salzman weaves all of these issues together to show just how complex a simple glass of water can be.
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Vivekananda Law School, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi.
Eligibility Criteria
The Competition is open to students pursuing LL.B (3 year and 5 year) /LL.M courses from any recognized university across the country.
Theme for the Research Paper
"Globalisation, Technology and Law"
Sub-themes for the submission of the research paper may include, but are not limited to:
Globalization and law: Trans-National Corporation; Regulation, Responsibility and Human Rights.
Biotechnology and Medicine law: Bio-terrorism, medical patents, medical tourism.
E-Business and law: e-commerce issues, regulation of start-ups, consumer protection, product safety and quality, intellectual property and liability, competition law violations and concerns, jurisdictional issues.
Technology and Law: cyber-crimes, cyber-security, cyber-forensics, privacy, telecommunications.
Submission Guidelines
The research paper must be written in English.
Co-authorship up-to two authors is permitted.
Only one entry is allowed per-author.
Only original research papers will be considered for the competition. No part of it should have been published earlier nor should it be under consideration for publication else-where.
Any form of plagiarism will result in disqualification of the research paper.
The research paper must not be more than 3000 words (including footnotes).
The first page of the research paper must contain the details of the author/s, title of the paper and the name of the college/institution.
Registration Fee
Single Author: Rs. 500
Co-Author: Rs. 600
Registration and Submission Procedure
Registration details and Submission procedure: The Students interested are required to send the duly completed registration form to [email protected] along with a scanned copy of a Demand Draft in favour of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies and payable at Delhi of Rs.500 /- (per entry in case of single author) and Rs. 600/- (per entry in case of co-authorship) as the registration fee.
Submission Guidelines
The hard copy of the Demand Draft and registration form must be sent to Dean, Vivekananda Law School, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, AU Block, Pitampura Outer Ring Road, New Delhi -110034.
All the research papers must be submitted, both in soft and hard form.
The hard copies must reach on or before the deadline for submission at Dean, Vivekananda Law School, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, AU Block, and Pitampura Outer Ring Road, New Delhi 110034.
The soft copy in MS Word must be mailed [email protected]
Important Dates
Last date for Registration: 20th September, 2016
Last date for submission: 10th October, 2016
Announcement of result: Last week of October 2016
Declaration of Result and Prizes
The result shall be declared in the last week of October, 2016.
The names of the winner shall be displayed on the college website.
The winners shall also be intimated separately.
First prize: Rs. 3000/- and an opportunity to get published in the Vivekananda Journal of research bearing ISSN NO: 2319-8702.
Second prize: Rs. 2000/-
Third prize: Rs. 1500/-
The winners shall be given the monetary prize as well as the certificates.
Best paper will be considered for publication in the Vivekananda Journal of Research bearing ISSN 2319-8702.
Email: [email protected]
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MIAMI (WSVN) - A man was electrocuted, Friday morning, at a construction site in Miami.
7SkyForce HD hovered over the scene at 1620 N.W. 54th St. where a construction worker was reportedly electrocuted, just before 8 a.m.
Firefighters found the adult male on the second-floor semi-conscious after he, officials said, received 7,000 volts of electricity through his body
"As paramedics assessed him, he told them he was pouring concrete, and when he pulled the pole back while they were laying concrete," said Miami Fire Rescue Lt. Ignatius Carroll, "it hit one of the lines that carries 7,000 volts, and at that moment, it had him jolted for about a good 10 to 15 seconds. Then, he dropped to the ground."
Co-workers told fire officials that he was pouring concrete when the concrete delivery arm hit the line.
Miami Fire Rescue, along with the Miami Fire Rescue Technical Rescue Team, was seen at the site.
Traffic was shutdown in the area as the rescue team brought the worker down safely and cleared the scene.
The worker was transported to Ryder Trauma Center in stable condition.
He's expected to be OK.
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