The site is divided into a number of basic topics as shown in the headings at the top of this page, and each of these basic topics will in-turn reveal a list of sub-topics once you click on the topic heading. Start at the start with the introduction. Then work your way through the topic and sub-topics on the bottom line, the core concepts needed to implement Theory of Constraints are there. Core concepts such as; the goal and necessary conditions, the 5 step focusing process, and throughput accounting. Thereafter, you will probably want to jump to your special area of interest; production, supply chain, thinking processes, strategy, project management, or healthcare.
All the topics and sub-topics are listed and can be accessed directly from the site map. There is also a table of contents with details of the paragraph headings for every page. People who like to "browse" should check through the table of contents for items of interest, or actively search using "Ctrl F" on your internet explorer. In addition, there are a number of "side-bar" pages that are accessed from within sub-topic pages, these side-bar pages are listed in the table of contents and also as an appendix in next step. In next step you can also find a bibliography, links to other resources, and some biographical and contact information.
But look, while I have your attention, I want to explore a few philosophical issues. Maybe in the future these issues will find their way into the introduction, but for the moment, this is as good a place as any.
You see, Theory of Constraints is pretty cool. If you could just imagine the depth and breadth of the problems that it can be applied to you would be amazed. I am often saddened by the number of people who immediately discount that it has any relevance to their particular problem. If only they would stop for a moment and try, they would be quite surprised. Have you ever read "Green Eggs And Ham? If so, you will know what I mean.
Just think for a moment, too, about going to a bookshop, or searching Amazon, for books on operations or some other aspect of business. Why do we use such explicit means? We do so without even thinking about it. Mankind is quite clever really, through speech, and more recently, the printed word we can encapsulate and access the knowledge, experience, and wisdom of others – people from different places, and people from different times. Imagine if we could only access such things on a personal and one-to-one basis by seeing and doing. Dissemination of knowledge would be severely hampered.
Yet, if you look at modern business operations in their broadest sense they are hugely tacit – based upon our personal experience and the "knowing" of what to do. Schemes such as ISO 9000 try to make this tacit knowledge explicit, but just end up tying the business in knots instead. Business is based upon doing – and "knowing" what to do.
Yet we seem to have forgotten about this, we tend to think we can absorb new explicit knowledge and then just do it. And in fact we should just do it, because right then and there we are generating our very own and essential new tacit knowledge. However, far, far, too often in our modern society we are awash with the needed explicit knowledge and yet we fail to act upon it, we fail to do the doing part. Why?
The answer is paradoxical; it is the old explicit knowledge that we know and believe that we have confirmed tacitly that stops us from looking afresh at any new explicit knowledge and then seeking to confirm or refute it. In a nutshell it is damn hard to be dispassionate and removed and analytical about new ideas; they are always examined with respect to our old ideas. History is full of such stuff.
This places us, you and me, in something of a conundrum. This website is explicit, and this is necessary but not sufficient. My intent has been to make this website as simple, and as clear, and as concise as possible. I've used both diagrams as well as text in order to circumvent "what you think you know." Simplicity, however, gives us a good test of whether our old knowledge, our old "know-how," is blocking us or not.
Theory of Constraints is inherently simple, therefore when it doesn't appear simple then there is something wrong. It is something of an advantage that I come from science rather than business and therefore I didn't always "know" the correct old business approach to many problems. Nevertheless, there have been no less than 4 occasions over the last 10 years or so when my old knowledge blocked me from moving forward. And I was acutely aware of it each time, and I could only rationalize that, because Theory of Constraints is inherently simple, then it must be me, not the theory that is wrong. And of course that was the case every time. I've tried to write and draw my way around these issues so that there is much less chance that they will also happen to you. And of course I have had the privilege of watching numerous people "lock up" at various points, and then had to try and work out how to avoid that next time around.
My advice is that if things do not look simple and you feel blocked, then back up and wait a while. Re-read things upside down or back-to-front and see if this helps, or better still just try to do what doesn't seem right in a small and controlled way and see if the scales will fall from your eyes. But whatever you do, don't discount that there is a huge potential for both you and your organization if only you can overcome the blockage. Once you do overcome the blockage you won't be able to believe that one previously existed at all. After all, all that has changed is our way of thinking about things. Current reality doesn't change, we do.
You should also know that you are in very good company. Deming quotes his mentor Walter Shewhart (pronounced Shoe hart) as having read C. I. Lewis' Mind and the World Order fourteen times before it began to mean anything to him. Fourteen times! This says two things; that Shewhart's intuition told him that there was something very important there, and that his mis-conceptions blocked him, for quite a while, from finding what he was looking for.
You know, we are very much luckier, we are dealing with non-abstract things, real-life tangible day-to-day activities of producing products and services. We have the luxury of just trying things.
Taiichi Ohno, one of the major developers of the Toyota Production System put it this way; "There are so many things in this world that we cannot know until we try something. Very often after we try we find that the results are completely opposite of what we expected, and this is because having misconceptions is part of what it means to be human." And he goes on to point out that as we move up through supervisors, managers, and senior managers it becomes harder and harder to persuade each other – and yet the answer is still the same – to try things.
If you have a critical look at Jim Collins' Good to Great you will see that the companies that he describes have an inherent simplicity about them. Their goals are unitary, and the basic supporting metrics are few and fundamental. It is worth pondering why such companies can achieve this and yet the more recent aspirants who model themselves upon them – and there are many – can't.
I would like to pretend that the word "theory" does not cause any problems, but that would be untrue. A very recent experience that I had was with an investor who pleaded with me not to use the word "theory" in a meeting with another party. Of course the other party didn't have a problem with the word "theory" at all, it was the investor who did, but he couldn't bring himself to admit that. And look if you can't be honest with yourself then don't go any further with this web site, it won't do you any good.
Of course there is a good reason for this, most existing business theory is absolutely impractical – but it doesn't cop any flak for being impractical because almost everyone else is equally hobbled by using exactly the same approach. Ironically, the one approach that really is practical happens to have the word "theory" in the title. My advice is that there are much larger problems in the world; learn to get over this one quickly.
You may find that useful to remember.
But more importantly, "theory" as used by Goldratt in "Theory of Constraints" is to my way of thinking the same as "hypothesis," to which I quickly want to add; as in "working hypothesis." This is to say, I'll continue to use this hypothesis until it is proven to be not working. So far that has not happened. In fact, I would argue the opposite; it just gets better and better.
Deming didn't mince his words around theory. He, and countless others, argued that everything we do is based upon theory (whether testable or not is another issue) – usually so implicit that we don't even think about it, and if this were not so we could hardly be certain of anything. Every outcome would be unexpected and a surprise – no matter how often we repeated them – we wouldn't learn a thing. That most outcomes aren't unexpected is indeed a measure of how embedded our implicit assumptions are.
Once you sort out the "descriptive" from the "prescriptive," then this is just plain old Deming-speak once again – without good theory (descriptive insight) we can not make predictions (develop prescriptions). Boil it all down, and then no manager is better than their working assumptions (theory or conceptual framework). Theory of Constraints offers an unparalleled set of working assumptions.
Elliott Jaques argued that there was indeed no testable theory in business. He was wrong. His own theory of Human Capability is testable. Theory of Constraints is testable. That is we can challenge these entities with the chance of proving them wrong. And that is a very significant test indeed.
But let's leave the last word on this to John Boyd, inventor of the OODA loop amongst a number of other significant contributions. Boyd's Trinity was; people, ideas, things. People create ideas, be they; theory, hypothesis, conceptual frameworks, mental models, schemata, paradigms, perspectives, perceptions, beliefs, viewpoints, assumptions, opinion, or whatever else you wish to call them. These allow us to interact in the way that we do and to create the things in our world around us. People, ideas, things, in that order.
There is an important convergence between inherent simplicity and theory. Taleb in his book The Black Swan argues that we have a confirmation bias; once we develop an opinion we tend to look for confirmation and we tend to ignore failure. You might like to level such an assertion against me. However, I have a defense, and that is that the simpler a theory is, the more likely we can find a case where it might fail.
Simpler theory is better testable, simpler theory applies to more and more cases than a complex theory and therefore it should be easier to find an instance that might falsify it. The greater the chance to falsify a theory, and yet remaining unable to do so, the more robust the theory becomes and the more likely we are to be near to the understanding of an underlying reality. Thus there is a convergence between inherent simplicity and good theory (with all of its practical implications).
Anyway, enough of that, there is something else of importance that we need to look at.
I spent quite some time living in Japan working within a large corporation that was both a batch manufacturer and a significant supplier to Toyota. Their batch production mode had always caused them to decline "offers" from Toyota to improve their process and timeliness (but not their products which were in every sense of the word "World Class"). However, together, we were able through Theory of Constraints to produce very significant improvements within a very short period of time. Results that were significant enough to be reported in the national business press and also national television.
Let me say that I have deep respect for the fundamental techniques of Japanese kaizen, and of Toyota in particular. Let me also say that I am not ignorant of Lean nor of its predecessors; World Class Manufacturing, Just-in-time, and so forth. But there is something that is wrong with Lean (and Six Sigma) and I want to try to explain this.
There is something that is wrong, and it is on two levels. The first is simply mechanistic, all of the Western interpretations of Lean freely leave out things that the Japanese do do, and add in things that the Japanese do not do. I've tried to describe the critical parts of this in the introduction to healthcare. That may seem like an odd place to address these issues, but healthcare like many parts of industry and services, is applying Lean and suffers hugely as a consequence and doesn't even know it.
More importantly, however, is not the mis-representation of the mechanics, but rather the absence of proper context. This is a problem that has repeated itself time and time again since Taylor in the early 1900's. It is not a cultural context that is missing. I can attest to that; in my own country we had the highest quality non-robotized Toyota assembly plant in the world – and we certainly aren't Japanese. The context isn't cultural, the context is social.
If we check the literature (you know that explicit source of knowledge we all rely upon) then a couple of things are clear to me. Westerners miss the social context. I suspect that this is simply because they don't see it/experience it. We've almost outlawed learning by doing so how could we know of it. The Japanese who write for Western audiences don't mention it. Maybe they take it for granted, which is a very likely reason, or they just plumb think Westerners can't get their heads around it.
The trick for us, is to read the English translations of the Japanese texts written by Japanese for Japanese. There are a couple by Ohno, many by Shingo, but my personal favorite is by an emeritus professor of Keio University in Tokyo; Takeshi Kawase's Human-centered problem-solving: the management of improvements. Get a copy, you will find aspects addressed there that are not addressed anywhere else.
You know we have only ourselves to blame, there is excellent material available we have just to learn to winnow the wheat from the chaff.
And all that I have said about Lean equally applies to Six Sigma. Deming warned us about TQM, and nobody listened, it failed, and now parts of it have been renamed as something else. These parts, too, will fail and that is a shame, the toolsets are superb, the context is most often dead wrong.
"World Class" use to be the catch-phrase that large organizations aspired to. But there was a problem with this, Toyota stood as an absolute standard with which such a company could be only too readily compared with. More recently I have seen a large number of organizations, especially those with significant supply chains, claim "International Best Practice." Scratch the surface, however, and you will find the same old paradigm of; maximized local efficiency, local costing, economic order quantity-based decisions, and large and infrequent transfer batches. The very antithesis of Toyota. This type of approach belongs in the 1950's. People are denied the right to question this because the words "international' and "best practice" suggest that this is the pinnacle. It is not. Moreover, it discourages any further improvement. It is very sad, and it is very common. Why do we so earnestly embrace such ideals? We continue to do "the thing right" without ever stopping long to ask if this is "the right thing" to do.
You know the story about the definition of insanity – continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results. Well isn't that what we are doing with Lean and Six Sigma. We are repeating World Class Manufacturing and we are repeating TQM under different names and we are expecting different results!
Are we really so crazy?
Well, I'm not crazy, and I'm sure you are not either. But do you see the issue here? We know Theory of Constraints demonstrably delivers huge results and yet so often we block ourselves and don't go full the distance. Yet we readily accept some parts of Lean and Six Sigma (and readily reject other parts) even though time and again they fail to deliver for us.
I want to address these issues in the section & More, in fact it exists in nearly complete draft off-line as The Paradox of Systemism. What I have done previously, however, is try to tease the basics out and put them into a number of power point presentations. What we learn and experience day-to-day as individuals stops us from truly understanding our recent systemic industrial endeavors. The metrics that our psychology causes us to impose upon ourselves, and each other, ensures that this situation is locked into place. Check the power points on values, beliefs, and industrialization, also logical types, clouds, and fantasies, and the reformulated lieutenant's cloud to see how this happens.
We still have a great deal to learn – the social context for these methods.
I'm sure I have used this heading more than once and I will continue to do so until I think that the message is getting in. It is all about people. We think that our huge tin sheds with their skylights and machines and noise and hum have an existence that is separate from us; it is not so. We think that this extant structure is populated with "workers" and "managers" who function as the props in a play; this is not true. The machines and the buildings and the noise and the hum are the props. We are the players – we write the play and we act it out – everyday – and then we wonder why we don't like the part that we have given ourselves. Well go and talk to the playwright – go and talk to ourselves. A little bit of honest introspection wouldn't hurt.
Taylor found in the late 1890's that craftsman "soldiered," but that the very same people with the very same equipment could produce vastly different results given the right conditions – nothing to do with scientific management. It was a people problem; not an individual problem "of" the craftsmen or laborers themselves, but rather "of" the system in which they worked. The business owners, with the best of intents, placed their workers in a position where they were forced to do less. Taylor addressed this. The consequent rise in real wealth of people is credited with avoiding a class war roundly expected in the late1880's and early 1900's. Without proper knowledge, people with the best of intents, make the process worse.
Shewhart found in the 1920s, as electrical items became production items and industry moved more and more from craft-made-to-fit to mass-made-to-spec, that people took a stable process and tampered with it and made it unstable. That is, with the best of intents, people, good people, took something good and made it worse. Can you imagine that? Would that happen today? Oh yes, in just about every service industry imaginable – and to paraphrase Deming; including health, education, and government. Shewhart showed how knowing what not to do, and thereby refraining from tampering with the system, lead to better results for all. Without proper knowledge, people with the best of intents, make the process worse.
Machines don't make parts, people do. It is a people problem. Without proper knowledge, people with the best of intents, make the process worse.
Deming was a statistician; so they say. Actually, he was a physicist first and foremost, however it might have been a more accurate to say that he was, as were the others before him, a humanitarian. It is only through such a perspective that notions of trust and collaboration could have come to the forefront of his methodologies. Deming like Taylor recognised that we are "of" the system and that only management are in the position to effect change to the system. It is a people problem. Without proper knowledge, people with the best of intents, make the process worse.
Theory of Constraints sets out to ensure that all of the non-constraints are fully subordinated to the constraint. This means not doing more for most people, and indeed most often it means doing less. People with the best of intents do too much and make the system worse, not better. Goldratt is a physicist, but again it would be far more accurate to say that he is a humanitarian. Why do these humanitarians care about this capitalist beast – the modern business organization? They care because these organizations are full of people.
There is an often too easily forgotten necessary condition in Theory of Constraints; the need for secure and satisfied employees. It is there for a purpose, it isn't there for decoration or lip-service. It is a fundamental necessary condition, if we violate that then we will violate all of our attempts to improve. Without proper knowledge, people with the best of intents, make the process worse.
You know, the playwrights of business keep writing tragedies – and as they say; it would be comical if it weren't so sad. Is this the only thing that we know how? I don't think so. It is a people problem, and not "their" problem but "our" problem. We know the things that we should do and that we don't do, and we know the things that we shouldn't do and yet we still do them. It's not rocket science, but it does require stopping and thinking and listening to what is happening around us.
Who uses this website? Well many, many, people and for many different reasons. However, as an illustration, I trawled through the identifiable substantial users over just two evenings and this is an extract of those that are large enough or significant enough in other ways to be identifiable to most people in most parts of the world.
Sears (North York, Ontario, Canada), U.S. Navy (Pensacola, Florida), Bombardier Aerospace (Belfast, Northern Ireland), General Motors (Detroit, Michigan), Bank of America (Concord, California), Comalco Aluminium (Brisbane Australia), Schlumberger (Houston, Texas), Detroit Edison (Detroit, Michigan), The Boeing Company (Seattle, Washington), Stockholm Healthcare (Sweden), Deutsche Bank (Hong Kong), Lufthansa (Frankfurt), Smart Systems for Health Agency (Toronto), Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, California), Intermountain Healthcare (Salt Lake City, Utah), Hitachi Europe Ltd (Bracknell, United Kingdom), Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore), Komori Corp (Tokyo), NASA (Palmdale California), Deere & Company (Moline, Illinois), Baxter Healthcare Corporation (Chicago, Illinois), Xerox Corporation (Rochester, New York), Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (San Jose, California), Bristol Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute (Princeton, New Jersey), Roche Diagnostics Gmbh (Germany), Alaska Department Of Transportation And Public Facilities (Juneau, Alaska), Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho Falls, Idaho), Combustion Engineering (New York), Terex Corporation (Westport, Connecticut), Calpine Energy Services (Houston, Texas), Midwest Perinatal (Kansas City, Missouri), Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Michigan), Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore), IBM Corporation (Poughkeepsie, New York), The Corporation For Financing And Promoting Technology (Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam), Abbott Laboratories (North Chicago, Illinois), General Services Administration (Arlington, Virginia), Commission Europeenne (Brussels).
Of course this doesn't do justice to the substantial volume of traffic coming through telecom ISP's from South America, South-East Asia, Japan, China, India, Africa, West and East Europe and the Nordic Countries. I trust however that this illustrates something of the depth of penetration that Theory of Constraints finds in today's businesses. It is far better known and in use than you might ever suspect. The vast majority of this traffic is self-referred and doesn't come from "surfing the net" but rather from bookmarked pages or from internal links.
The best way to print a section of this website is not to print it at all. Part of the original philosophy was that people, when implementing Theory of Constraints, don't read the necessary books or even parts of chapters of books that will provide a well thought-out and exact answer to the questions asked. "Yes we want to improve but we are so busy that we just don't have time to read anything." So printing another book won't help – all the information already exists.
Part of the problem is that we make people just too busy with everyday detail to sit and read and reflect. Partly also, Western culture deems that anyone sitting reading, or heaven forbid, thinking must be doing nothing. Therefore, I rather hoped that something in html on a screen would enable people to learn at work and to also feign being busy at the same time – you know the routine; lots of paper around the desk, a few reports, and a drawer open or a file box on the floor, and of course an excel spreadsheet open in another window to flick to.
Another reason for using html is that it allows wonderful freedom from page breaks; therefore I know that the diagrams and text will flow. However, for those who must insert page breaks and who want to read on the train home then you can print pages out in html by setting your printer margins to 5 mm or less. That surely is a win/win.
Just, please, respect the copyright and the amount of effort that has gone into this project.


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Although there have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions from these products, the FSIS is concerned that the products may be in consumers' freezers. There products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase, said the FSIS.


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Patients receiving penile prostheses should be instructed in the operation of the prosthesis before surgery and again in the postoperative period. The prosthesis usually is not activated until approximately 6 weeks after surgery, so as to allow the edema and pain to subside. The prosthesis is checked in the office before the patient begins to use it.
Once a complete sexual and medical history has been completed, appropriate laboratory studies should be conducted. In the initial evaluation of ED, sophisticated laboratory testing is rarely necessary. For example, serum testosterone (and sometimes prolactin) is typically only useful when the patient demonstrates hypogonadal features or testicular atrophy, or when clinical history is suggestive. Additional hormonal evaluation may include thyroid stimulating hormone in those with a clinical suspicion of hypothyroidism or appropriate diabetes screening in those presenting with a concern for impaired glucose metabolism. If the patient has not been evaluated with a lipid panel and hyperlipidemia is suspected, measurement and appropriate referral to internal medicine or cardiology is recommended. In most cases, a tentative diagnosis can be established with a complete sexual and medical history, physical examination, and limited or no laboratory testing.
Erectile dysfunction or ED (It used to be called impotence) is the inability to achieve or sustain an erection suitable for sexual intercourse. Problems with erections may stem from medications, chronic illnesses, poor blood flow to the penis, drinking too much alcohol, or being too tired. Erectile dysfunction can occur at any age, but it is more common in men older than 75.
Several studies accessed the prevalence of ED. The Massachusetts Male Aging Study reported a prevalence of 52%.2 The study demonstrated that ED is increasingly prevalent with age: approximately 40% of men are affected at age 40 and nearly 70% of men are affected at age 70. The prevalence of complete ED increased from 5% at age 40 to 15% at age 70.2 Age was the variable most strongly associated with ED.
The sympathetic pathway originates from the 11th thoracic to the 2nd lumbar spinal segments and goes via the white rami to enter the sympathetic chain ganglia. Subsequently nerves travel through the lumbar splanchnic to inferior mesenteric and superior hypogastric nerves to the pelvic plexus. The T10 through T12 segments are most often the origin of sympathetic fibers, and the sympathetic chain ganglia that innervate the penis are located in the sacral and caudal ganglia (3).
*all photos are models and not actual patients.If you are interested in a prescription product, Hims will assist in setting up a visit for you with an independent physician who will evaluate whether or not you are an appropriate candidate for the prescription product and if appropriate, may write you a prescription for the product which you can fill at the pharmacy of your choice.
The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial was a landmark study by Thompson et al that prospectively assessed the time to developing CVD after the diagnosis of ED. There were 4247 men with no ED at study entry; 2420 developed incident ED (defined as the first report of ED of any grade) over 5 years. Those men that developed ED had a 1.45-fold higher probability of experiencing a CV event compared with men who did not develop ED.27
Treatment depends on the underlying cause. In general, exercise, particularly of the aerobic type, is effective for preventing ED during midlife. Exercise as a treatment is under investigation.[22]:6, 18–19 For tobacco smokers, cessation often results in a significant improvement.[23] Oral pharmacotherapy and vacuum erection devices are first-line treatments,[22]:20, 24 followed by injections of drugs into the penis, as well as penile implants.[22]:25–26 Vascular reconstructive surgeries are beneficial in certain groups.[24]
Penis pumps produce erections by drawing blood, via air suction, into the penis. The devices consist of a cylindrical tube, 12 to 18 inches long, connected by a small air hose to a hand pump (on many models this resembles the squeeze mechanism on a blood pressure monitor). Users place the tube over the penis then pump to produce an erection. They must then place an elastic band around the base of the penis to keep the blood there and maintain the erection.
The idea of using low-energy shock waves to treat erectile dysfunction comes from studies that show that these types of shocks help heart blood vessels regrow, a process called revascularization. Shock wave therapy may also work on the penis, and there have been some promising results, but it's not currently an approved ED treatment. "It's similar to the type of shock waves used to break up kidney stones, and it may cause revascularization," says Bennett. "However, there are not yet any good controlled studies to recommend it to patients."
ED is defined as the inability to achieve a full erection or the inability to maintain an erection adequate for sexual intimacy. Other types of sexual dysfunction such as premature ejaculation and low libido may occur; however, the most common and disruptive problem in men is ED. Although most men will experience periodic episodes of ED, these episodes tend to become more frequent with advancing age.
In some cases, ED can be a warning sign of more serious disease. One study suggests ED is a strong predictor of heart attack, stroke, and death from cardiovascular disease. The researchers say all men diagnosed with ED should be evaluated for cardiovascular disease. This does not mean every man with ED will develop heart disease, or that every man with heart disease has ED, but patients should be aware of the link.
Alprostadil may also be administered into the urethral opening of the penis. In MUSE (medical urethral system for erection), the man inserts a thin tube the width of a vermicelli noodle into his urethral opening and presses down on a plunger to deliver a tiny pellet containing alprostadil into his penis. The drug takes about 10 minutes to work and the erection lasts about an hour. The main side effect is a sensation of pain and burning in the urethra, which can last about five to 15 minutes.
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The obvious risks are the same that accompany any surgery: infection, pain, bleeding, and scarring. If for some reason the prosthesis or parts become damaged or dislocated, surgical removal may be necessary. With a general success rate of about 90 percent, any of the devices will restore erections, but they will not affect sexual desire, ejaculation, or orgasm.
The availability of phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors—sildenafil, vardenafil, tadalafil, and avanafil—has fundamentally altered the medical management of ED. In addition, direct-to-consumer marketing of these agents over the last 15 years has increased the general public's awareness of ED as a medical condition with underlying causes and effective treatments.
Organic Impotence. Diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease, and dysfunction of the pituitary gland or testes can cause impotence, as can certain medications. Other organic causes include arterial ischemia associated with atherosclerosis of the aorta and common iliac arteries, extensive pelvic surgery such as radical prostatectomy, spinal cord injury and other neurologic disorders, and a history of cigarette smoking. Because certain medications can cause impotence, it is recommended that in cases of recent impotence it be determined whether the patient has started on a new drug. The most common offenders are diuretics, antihypertensives, and vasodilators. Alcohol, which sometimes is ignored as a drug, is often a contributor to the problem of impotence.
VED involved placing the penis in a clear plastic tube where negative pressure created by the vacuum pump leads to penile engorgement and tumescence. Usually a constriction ring can be placed on the base of penis following penile engorgement. Some men complain of bruising, a "cold" penis and pain associated with the constriction ring; however, in some men with NED sensation may not be intact mitigating the side effects of VEDs. VEDs have reported effectiveness up to 90% in certain ED populations and it remains a non-invasive means to achieve and erection.
Think of erectile dysfunction as your body's "check engine light." The blood vessels in the penis are smaller than other parts of the body, so underlying conditions like blocked arteries, heart disease, or high blood pressure usually show up as ED before something more serious like a heart attack or stroke. ED is your body's way of saying, "Something is wrong." And the list of things that cause erectile dysfunction can include:
Penile Injection Medication: This is just what it sounds like. Injected at home directly into the penis, the medication alprostadil produces erection by relaxing certain muscles, increasing blood flow into the penis and restricting outflow. Although some sources report an 80 percent success rate, the therapy has disadvantages, such as risks of infection, pain, and scarring—fibrosis—in the penis, and it may also cause priapism. A popular version of this medication is Upjohn Corporation's Caverject. The MUSE System, by VIVUS, involves the same medicine (a pellet of alprostadil) applied with an eye-dropper-like applicator, directly into the urethra.
Many experts believe that atrophy, a partial or complete wasting away of tissue, and fibrosis, the growth of excess tissue, of the smooth muscle tissue in the body of the penis (cavernous smooth muscle) triggers problems with being able to maintain a firm erection. Poor ability to maintain an erection is often an early symptom of erectile dysfunction. Although the condition is called venous leak, the real problem is not with the veins but malfunction of the smooth muscle that surrounds the veins. The end result is difficulty with maintain a firm erection (losing an erection too quickly) that is now believe to be an early manifestation of atherosclerosis and vascular disease.
Iatrogenic hypotension can occur in men in neurodegenerative disease using sildenafil (49). Hussain et al. placed men with PD and MSA on sildenafil and recorded blood pressure before and after. Half of the 12 MSA patients developed postural hypotension, while none of the twelve PD patients did. Since MSA can be difficult to distinguished diagnostically from PD, baseline blood pressure measurements prior to prescribing the medication and seeking medical assistance if symptomatic hypotension occurred was recommended for all patients with PD, and MSA. Of note, none of the men with MSA who developed hypotension discontinued sildenafil use due to its effectiveness at improving their erections.
Low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy has been proposed as a new non-invasive treatment for erectile dysfunction caused by problems with blood vessels. Shock wave therapy machines are now available in some medical practices in Australia. Although there is some evidence that it may help a proportion of men with erectile dysfunction, more research is needed before clear recommendations on its use can be made.
When lifestyle changes alone don't work, drug therapy (Viagra®, Cialis®, Levitra®, etc.) is normally the next step. Most of these medications work similarly to enhance a natural chemical in your body that relaxes the muscles in your penis. The goal of this medication is to increase your response to sexual stimulation by increasing the blood flow in your penis allowing you to get an erection.22
Erectile dysfunction is the inability to develop or maintain an erection that is rigid enough to allow penetration of the vagina, and therefore functional sexual intercourse. Generally, the term erectile dysfunction is applied if this occurs frequently (75% of the time) over a significant period if time (several weeks to months). If this is the case, the term impotence may also be used.
ED is a common occurrence after SCI, occurring in up to 80% of men, and results from disruption of the nerve pathways essential for erection (24,25). Different degrees of ED may occur depending on the spinal cord level of injury (LOI), extent of lesion and timing from injury. Reflexogenic erections can occur with lesions above L3 or L4 when the erectile spinal reflex arc remains intact. Psychogenic erections can occur with low lesions in the sacral and lumbar spinal cord but may not occur in complete lesions above T9 that can damage sympathetic outflow. Additionally, reflexogenic erections are not likely to occur in the spinal shock period that occurs after the initial cord trauma. Conversely, their occurrence may signal that the period of shock is over (26). Typically SCI affects younger men in their "sexual prime" and ED is associated with decreased quality of life (27).
Ejaculatory incompetence, erectile difficulty, erectile dysfunction, erectile failure, frigidity–female Medtalk The inability to achieve or maintain a penile erection adequate for the successful completion of intercourse, terminating in ejaculation; penile erection is mediated by nitric oxide Epidemiology Prevalence of minimal, moderate, and complete impotence in the Massachusetts Male Aging Study was 52%; age is the most important factor; complete impotence ↑ from 5%–age 40 to 15%–age 70; for an erection to achieve a successful outcome, it requires
Much of the emphasis on erectile pathophysiology has been placed on penile smooth muscle function and cavernosal hemodynamics. The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of erection can be characterized but its full extent is poorly understood. Neurologic disease does not always reproducibly affect erections in a uniform manner compared to other types of sexual dysfunction (SD). This offers many obstacles to understanding the role the nervous systems plays in SD and consequently obscures what treatment options readily optimize erections specific to the neurologic insult.
Physicians on the Ro platform use telemedicine technologies to diagnose ED in the same way they diagnose patients in-person. Doctors ask questions to evaluate your symptoms and make sure it's safe and appropriate to prescribe ED medication. The physicians on the Ro platform use your answers to diagnose your condition and create a treatment plan. That's why it's vital you answer each question to the best of your knowledge and ensure that every communication with your physician is truthful, accurate, and thorough.
Another study compared the response of surgically and medically castrated rabbits to vardenafil with that of control rabbits. [22] Castrated rabbits did not respond to vardenafil, whereas noncastrated rabbits did respond appropriately. This result suggests that a minimum amount of testosterone is necessary for PDE5 inhibitors to produce an erection.
The symptoms of erectile dysfunction include difficulty achieving an erection, trouble maintaining an erection, and a reduced interest in sex. Because male sexual arousal is a fairly complex process, it can sometimes be difficult to identify a specific cause. Arousal starts in the brain but it also involves the nerves, muscles, and blood vessels and can be impacted by hormones and emotions. If a problem develops with any of these things, erectile dysfunction could be the consequence.
Depending on the cause, erectile dysfunction (ED) may be curable, but the condition is almost always treatable for most men. The first step is to visit your doctor, because several health conditions -- and the medications that treat them -- can cause ED. For example, cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease causes arteries to narrow, which decreases blood flow to the penis and can cause trouble getting or maintaining an erection.
Centrally active compounds such as apomorphine have been used in men with ED whose cardiovascular comorbidity may prohibit PDE5i use, or in men who have concurrent apomorphine use for its anti-parkinsonian properties. Unfortunately, its side effect profile and poor effectiveness compared to other ED treatments have impaired its mainstream utilization (118). It is suspected that the side effects of apomorphine relate to its D2 receptor affinity. D4 receptor agonists, such as ABT-724 and azulenylmethylpiperazines, may not have the same associated side effects and show potent pro-erectile effects in animal models compared to apomorphine (32,119).
Learn more about sex. If you have deep-rooted anxieties or guilt related to sex, these negative emotions might be causing your ED. Learning more about sex can be a good way to feel more comfortable with your body and better understand your needs in bed.[8] Read up on sex techniques or take a sex-positive workshop as a way to open your mind to new possibilities and increase your comfort level.
In the 14 years or so since Viagra was introduced in 1998, the number of men diagnosed with erectile dysfunction (ED) has increased by a whopping 250 percent. Men are realizing more and more that they're not alone and that they have options. Aside from pills like Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis, for example, there are surgical, therapeutic, even do-it-yourself treatments that can bring back that lovin' feeling. "Some older ED treatments are actually being used more than ever, especially for men who can't take the pill," says Michael Feloney, MD, a urologist at the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. Read on to find out about nine common remedies for ED, plus the truth about which ones live up to the hype and which fall flat.
Zerman et al. performed penile implant surgery in 245 men with neurolgic impairment caused by spinal cord injury, CNS neoplasm, CNS infection, MS and SB (110). Mean follow-up time of 7.2 years was achieved in 195 patients, 50 patients were excluded for lost to follow-up or death from nonurological causes. Interestingly, 135 patients underwent penile implantation to assist with management of urinary incontinence and improve ability for condom/intermittent catheterization. Ninety-two patients patient underwent implantation for ED. Eighty two percent of patients were satisfied with implantation for ED, and 67% of partners were satisfied. Complications included infection (5%), perforation (0–18%), and technical dysfunction (7–33%). Perforation rates were high with the malleable device when it was placed through a subcoronal incision. After adopting an infrapubic approach the perforation rates dropped substantially.
The truth is medication or psychosexual counselling are the first treatments a doctor will suggest because they've been proven to work. If a doctor has approved a medication for you then it's safe. If you would still like to see if herbal supplements work for you, then there is a list below of supplements thought to work for erectile dysfunction. Just before you invest your money in them, remember they aren't proven to work:
Recently, several advances in the uses of stem cells have bet met with great anticipation. Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into different cell lines based on the cellular signaling they receive. Bone marrow mononuclear cells in particular have been used for the treatment of ED in animal models. Yiou et al. recently delivered bone marrow-mononuclear cells (BM-MNC) into the intracavernous smooth muscle of post radical prostatectomy men (123). The open label, dose escalation phase I/II trial showed improvements in IIEF-15 assessment as well as increased vascularization of the corpora based on penile Doppler arterial velocity measurements. Although promising, further investigation in humans is required to substantiate BM-MNCs impact on erections, and erectile function recovery going forward.
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By Dave Golder 2010-12-07T16:57:53.34Z News
How To Train Your Dragon awards glory; The Walking Dead Finishes On A High; Iron Man 3 Will Be A Multi-Sequel
How To Train Your Dragon Dominates Animation Awards Nominations
Everyone is expecting that Toy Story 3 is a shoe-in to win the Best Animated Feature Oscar next year, but there are quite a few film fans (including a few members of the SFX crew) who wouldn't mind if How To Train Your Dragon managed to defy expectations. In which case, the nominations list for the 38th Annual Annie Awards (run by the International Animated Film Society) make for exciting reading: Dragon leads the way with 15 nominations ( Toy Story 3 only gets three), and is up for the top prize – Best Animated Feature – against Despicable Me , Tangled , The Illusionist and Toy Story 3 . But these kind of specialist awards ceremonies usually go for more esoteric selections (bet they give Best Feature to The Illusionist, mainly because it's not Hollywood) and you still have consider the Pixar Triquel as Oscar favourite.
The Walking Dead Ends On A US High
The final episode of The Walking Dead 's first six-episode season in the States managed to gain the highest viewing figures the show has achieved so far – six million viewers. Oh, and it's broken all sorts of records for demographics on cable channels (the kind of figures advertisers like to hear). If you include the show's repeat showing later in the evening, the total goes up to 8.1 million, reckons The Hollywood Reporter . The site also reports that the show has now the dubious honour of having knocked Chuck off the top of the list of the most pirated show on torrent downloads.
Eliza Dushku Leaves Bird Dog
Only last month we were reporting that Dollhouse and Tru Calling star Eliza Dushku had secured the led role in a new cop series called Bird Dog . But now it seems she has left the show. The actress posted on her Twitter feed : "Hey guys! News to report – We have mutually & AMICABLY decided to part ways on Bird Dog due to creative differences. No worries/fears/tears!"
Iron Man 3 Will Be A Multi-Sequel To A Whole Bunch Of Marvel Movie s
Iron Man director Jon Favreau has told MTV.com that Iron Man 3 , won't only be a sequel to Iron Man , it'll be a sequel to a whole bunch of other Marvel movies too. "In theory, Iron Man 3 is going to be a sequel or continuation of Thor , Hulk , Captain America and Avengers ," he says. "This whole world... I have no idea what it is. I don't think they do either, from conversations I've had with [the other directors]." It seems, bizarrely, that a lot of the Marvel movie directors are working in a bit of a bubble. "I don't know a lot about Thor, " admits Favreau. "I've talked to Kenneth Branagh. I've met the cast members. I had a conversation with Joss Whedon in passing, giving him my two cents about the film."
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Лебяжье — село в Рамонском районе Воронежской области.

Входит в состав Павловского сельского поселения.

История
Здесь, в устье ручья, селились лебеди, от чего и произошло название села – Лебяжье озеро. Село было основано в начале XVIII века. К концу этого столетия Лебяжье озеро было уже достаточно крупным селом с церковью Преподобного Сергия Радонежского, построенной в 1788 году. В селе Лебяжье был роддом с фельдшерским пунктом, три магазина: виноводочных изделий, промтоварный и продуктовый, кирпичное здание (около 600 м.кв.) государственного магазина зерна «Гамазея», в которое засыпалось зерно неприкосновенного запаса. Из него выдавали ссуду остро нуждающимся жителям села.

До революции в селе Лебяжье находился Волостной банк, после революции это здание передали под клуб. В 1809 г. строится новая каменная Богородицкая церковь оригинальной архитектуры, сегодня являющаяся памятником архитектуры

География
Расположено на берегу Большой Верейки при впадении в нее Средней Верейки.

Улицы
 ул. Замостье
 ул. Заречная
 ул. Сиверцева
 ул. Чапаева

Население

Примечания

Ссылки
 Лебяжье (село)

Населённые пункты Рамонского района

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Bob Coburn, Host of L.A. Radio Program 'Rockline,' Dies at 68
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Bob Coburn (R) listens while 'Warrant' band members Steven Sweet, Joey Allen, Jani Lane, Erik Turner and Jerry Dixon answer listeners' questions during their appearance at Rockline Studios on May 7, 2008 in Burbank, Calif.
Bob Coburn, Los Angeles radio personality and host of the nationally syndicated show Rockline, has died. He was 68.
His radio home since 1980, Los Angeles station KLOS 95.5, announced Coburn's death on its website. The station said he died Saturday of lung cancer after being diagnosed earlier this year.
Coburn was well known to rock stars and music fans as host of the weekly Rockline show, which ran from 1981 to 2014. He interviewed such superstars as Keith Richards, Robert Plant and Paul McCartney on the program, where listeners could call in with questions.
Gone But Not Forgotten: In Memoriam 2016
Def Leppard, Tom Morello, Paul Stanley, Joe Satriani, Stephen Pearcy and Avenged Sevenfold were among the rockers who reacted on Twitter to Coburn's death. Stanley called him "a lovely guy and the spirit of kindness."
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The Perfect Murder: Dial "M" for Murder (1954)
Do you really believe in the perfect murder? Mmm, yes, absolutely.
So after years of his absence from my Horrorfest countdowns, I have finally included Alfred Hitchcock in not one, not two, but three posts.
Alfred Hitchcock is my favorite director. He was influential in creating new ways of filming psychological thrillers, he is often credited for creating the true horror genre/slasher film with Psycho (1960), and was just a pure cinematic genius. He is just amazing.
Dial "M" For Murder is one of his highly known films (although not as known as Vertigo or Psycho). It has been referenced or parodied in countless films and TV shows. In the '90s they even remade the film under the title A Perfect Murder. It starred Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortenson; but it wasn't nearly as good.
This film also started Hitchcock's filming relationship with Grace Kelly. This film was crucial in her career as it made her stand out not only to Alfred Hitchcock but other directors as well, a huge step to becoming a permanent leading lady. After this film she starred in Hitchcock's Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. Hitchcock was impressed with her ideas and thoughts on the script in how a woman would act (especially regarding clothing), that after this film he allowed her to make all her own wardrobe decisions. She, like Audrey Hepburn, quickly became known for her style and class. But that wasn't the only thing that Hitchcock found attractive, he really liked her and fell for her; but she wouldn't give him the time of day, (romantically that is). (For more information on Hitchcock and his leading ladies, I strongly suggest the book Spellbound by Beauty by Donald Spoto. It's an amazing read!) And sadly she had to retire from acting at an early age as she married the Prince of Monaco. However short a career, it was an amazing one.
This film also reunited Hitchcock and Robert Cummings, who had starred in an earlier film, Saboteur (1942). In this film Cummings plays an important role, but a smaller one than his earlier collaboration.
This film is also the only Hitchcock film to ever be shot in 3-D. In the 1950s, 3-D was super popular, so popular that some people came up with the idea of Smell-O-Vision to beat it (I'm serious!). Hitchcock didn't want to shoot in 3-D, but until the late 1960s, studios had a lot more pull and Warner Bros. wanted it. Hitchcock obliged, although it did cause a few issues for him as he had to rework his known style to incorporate what 3-D was able to accomplish at the time.
So the film is based on the play of the same name Frederick Knott, and he also helped write the screenplay. It is set in England and as you can guess from the poster, the phone plays a huge role in this film as well. That really seems to be a theme this month. I swear that wasn't planned.
Well here we go!
So before I start the film, let me give you the background on the characters. Now as you watch the film things are revealed to you, but it's easier for me to give them at the start.
So we have a couple, Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) and his wife Margot (Grace Kelly). Tony was a huge tennis star and met Margot when he was competing. She comes from a very wealthy family. The two were married and Margot convinced him to give up competing as she didn't like him being away. He complied and now sells sports equipment. However, as he no longer is the dashing tennis star, she lost interest in him and had an affair with Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings) an American Crime writer.
As the film starts out we have Margot and Mark in a very cozy embrace.
"Margot Mary Wendice: Let me get you another drink. Mark, before Tony comes I ought to explain something.
Mark Halliday: Yes, I've been waiting for that.
Margot Mary Wendice: I haven't told him anything about us."
Margot tells Mark that she burned all his letters, except one. That one was stolen by a blackmailer who demanded payment, but he never picked up the money or returned the letter. She is worried that her husband will find out.
Mark has a completely different reaction to the news.
He wants them to tell Tony all about the affair so that Margot can get a divorce and the two can marry. Margot doesn't want to as "she feels bad" about hurting "Tony's feelings".
Now I'm no expert, but if the person doesn't want to break up the relationship, it seems to me that they want, to quote an old cliché, "have their cake and eat it too." I think Margot likes the respectability of her marriage and doesn't want the divorce scandel, but at the same time is heavily intrigued by Mark. And who can blame her? Robert Cummings is a looker.
Photo from Saboteur
That night Tony is introduced to Mark, him being Margot's "friend". The two discuss Mark's profession.
Tony Wendice: How do you go about writing a detective story?
Mark Halliday: Well, you forget detection and concentrate on crime. Crime's the thing. And then you imagine you're going to steal something or murder somebody.
Tony Wendice: Oh, is that how you do it? It's interesting.
Mark Halliday: Yes, I usually put myself in the criminal's shoes and then I keep asking myself, uh, what do I do next?
Margot Mary Wendice: Do you really believe in the perfect murder?
Mark Halliday: Mmm, yes, absolutely. On paper, that is. And I think I could, uh, plan one better than most people; but I doubt if I could carry it out.
Tony Wendice: Oh? Why not?
Mark Halliday: Well, because in stories things usually turn out the way the author wants them to; and in real life they don't… always.
Tony Wendice: Hmm.
Mark Halliday: No, I'm afraid my murders would be something like my bridge: I'd make some stupid mistake and never realize it until I found everybody was looking at me."
Tony invites Mark to join him for a tennis party, and Mark agrees. Its all men, so Margot will be staying home. After a bit more pleasantries Margot and Mark leave to go out "as friends" to a theatre show that Tony didn't want to see, while Tony stays home to "work" on some stuff.
After they leave, he calls up an old friend. Swann (going by the name Captain Lesgate) from his old Cambridge days. He brings him there under false pretenses of wanting to purchase a vehicle from him. He then tells Swann that he wants him to murder his wife.
"Tony Wendice: One thousand pounds in cash.
C.A. Swann: For a murder?
Tony Wendice: For a few minutes work, that's all it is. And no risk, I guarantee."
Tony then goes on to tell Swann a story.
Tony only married Margot for her money, and it really injures his pride to see her cheating on him and tossing him over like an old shoe. He followed her one day and discovered the affair.
He wanted to kill Mark.
He then moved to the idea of murdering his wife. But things changed…
"Tony Wendice: It's funny to think that just a year ago, I sat in that Knightsbridge Pub actually planning to murder her. And I might have done it, if I hadn't seen something that changed my mind.
C.A. Swann: Well? What did you see?
Tony Wendice: I saw you."
Back in the day, Swann was always getting into trouble for all kinds of stuff, and it struck Tony that he could commit the perfect murder. He then began extensive planning. He has been collecting £1000 over the year, under the guise of racetrack betting, etc.; compiling the money for such a purpose.
He even went to great lengths to get one of the letters from Mark and pretended to blackmail her. With Mark back in town he has set up the whole scenario on how to murder her even planning to use Mark as an alibi, as being the husband he will be the first suspect. All he needs is someone to do it for him. He has a lot of information on Swann's background (as he has been tracking him) and uses it to blackmail him into completing his murderous plot. And he has to do it tomorrow.
He reveals his perfect plan.
"Tony Wendice: At exactly three minutes to eleven, you'll enter the house through the street door. You'll find the key to this door under the stair carpet here.
C.A. Swann: The fifth step?
Tony Wendice: That's the one. Go straight to the window, and hide behind the curtains. At exactly eleven o'clock, I shall go to the telephone in the hotel to call my boss. I shall dial the wrong number. This number. That's all I shall do."
His wife will answer the phone, and then Swann can strangle her and leave through the french windows.
Swann agrees to the plot as he feels he has no other choice in the matter. Tony is estatic as everything seems to be going along perfectly.
But then things start falling apart. Margot doesn't want to stay home. She is thinking of going out to dinner and seeing a movie. Mark thinks it's a great idea but Tony convinces her to stay home.
"Margot Mary Wendice: Don't make me stay home. You know how I hate doing nothing.
Tony Wendice: Doing nothing? Why there are hundreds of things you can do. Have you written to Peggy, thanking her for the weekend? And what about those clippings? It's an ideal opportunity.
Margot Mary Wendice: Well I like that. You two go gallivanting while I stay home and do those boring clippings."
Before Tony leaves, he stills Margot's key from her bag and puts it in the marked hiding place. Keeping his key in his pocket, he and Mark leave for the party.
Back at the home, Margot has been working hard on her scrapbooking. She eventually goes to bed, putting everything away…at least almost everything. She actually forgets the scissors and leaves them by the phone.
That night everything starts being put into motion. Swann enters the place the same way that Tony planned it out. He leaves the key under the stair and hides behind the curtains waiting for the phone.
However, back at the party, things aren't quite going as planned.
Stupid, stupid
Tony's watch stops and he has to ask for the time, finding out that it is actually past 11:00.
He hurries to the pay phone and makes the call, hoping that everything else goes accordingly. Margot gets up to answer the phone. As she is talking, Swann reaches out to strangle her.
But instead of overpowering her like he's supposed to, Margot ends up getting him. As the two are struggling, she reaches for something…anything to stop him. She ends up grabbing the scissors and stabbing him with them, completely killing him.
Margot is a mess and is freakin' out. I can't blame her, someone is trying to murder you and you kill them.
Tony tells her to touch nothing and wait for him. He's on his way over.
As he heads over Tony freaks out. His plans have failed. But then something comes to him. A new plan, a way to fix things.
He decides to make it look like Swann was blackmailing Margot and that she murdered him rather than self-defense. He calls the police and sends Margot to bed. He then plants Mark's letter in Swann's coat, takes the key and puts it back in Margot's handbag, and burns the scarf that Swann was going to use, replacing it with Margot's stocking. He then tells Margot to make sure she doesn't tell the police that he told her not to call the police. He's worried how it might make her look. However, Tony is plotting very well, and the police begin to strongly suspect her.
The police figure out that Swann did not come through the French Windows. He must have come through the hall, as it rained the night before. If he had come through the garden there would be muddy footprints. Inspector Hubbard (John Williams) strongly suspects Margot and believes her to be the killer. We cut to a scene showing Margot on trial amd sentenced to be hanged.
Except thing are not quite perfect. There are quite a few things Tony didn't plan. One of which was getting rid of the money. As Tony mentioned, he's been drawing a lot of money out of his bank every week, pretending to spend it on racehorses. He had planned to give it to Swann, but now is at a loss. He can't put it back in the bank as there would be too many questions. He can't keep it, if the police find it, it's all over for him.
So he tries to spend it all. Unbeknowest to him, the police are watching him very carefully. And they notice this.
Months later, on the night before Margot's execution, Mark comes to speak to Tony. He tells him that instead of letting Margot die, he should say that he tried to murder her. That he hired Swann. This will give him some jail time but save Margot's life. Tony does not want to do that.
Inspector Hubbard comes back to the flat to question Tony some more about the money he's been spending. Mark hears this and starts searching, finding the briefcase full of money.
Tony thinks of a lie quickly and says that this was the money Margot had to give to Swann, but then changed her mind and killed him. The Inspector listens and takes his comment as fact…or does he?
Now, if Tony was really smart he would have made up a different lie. I would have said that I realized there was nothing between me and Margot and was planning on leaving her. However, I knew that I wouldn't get much money in the divorce (he signed a prenup), so I've been taking some money out, bit by bit. When the murder happened, I knew it would come to light and was afraid that it might put me in a bad light or under suspicion. I mean its not the perfect excuse, but at least it shows he wasn't going to kill her as why remove money when he was planning on getting it all. But he doesn't think that way.
This makes the inspector highly suspicious of Tony and he steals the key from Margot's purse, intent on sneaking in and investigating.
Hold on, that is illegal. He doesn't have a search warrant or permission to be searching the house. Anything he finds will be immaterial and thrown out of court. I looked it up and this is what it said:
By the laws of England, every invasion of private property, be it ever so minute, is a trespass.No man can set his foot upon my ground without my license, but he is liable to an action, though the damage be nothing; which is proved by every declaration in trespass, where the defendant is called upon to answer for bruising the grass and even treading upon the soil. If he admits the fact, he is bound to show by way of justification, that some positive law has empowered or excused him. The justification is submitted to the judges, who are to look into the books; and if such a justification can be maintained by the text of the statute law, or by the principles of common law. If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.
So technically, anything he finds can not be used in a court of law. That's it, Tony is allowed to go free.
But of course this is a movie, and things go differently. Inspector Hubble discovers that the key in the purse does not work on the front door. He instead finds it under the stair carpet. This gives him the great idea of creating a little trick to discover if Tony is the true killer.
The Inspector visits Tony and steals his raincoat, leaving his own, therefore taking Tony's key. He calls the station and asks them to release Margot. She immediately returns home, but finds out that her key won't work. Hubbard watches her and discovers that she does not know the key is under the stairs. The Inspector let's her in and gets a policeman to take the bag back to the station. They then begin to wait for Tony.
Tony comes home from his errands and finds that he can't get inside. His coat belongs to Inspector Hubble and he has the wrong key. When Tony discovers his key doesn't fit, he goes down to the station to get Margot's bag. When that key doesn't fit, he looks under under the stairs and finds the key, giving himself away.
Tony enters and figures out they caught him. Being the gentleman he is, he doesn't fight them. He knows when he has been defeated.
Tony Wendice: [pouring a drink] As you said Mark, it might work out on paper, but congratulations, Inspector. Oh, by the way… How about you, Margot?
Margot Mary Wendice: Yes, I could do with something.
Tony Wendice: Mark?
Mark Halliday: So could I.
Tony Wendice: I suppose you're still on duty, Inspector.
It;s a great movie, despite the small legality issue, but otherwise an amazing film. I definitely recommend it.
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The Only Thing That Matters is the Ending: The Secret Window (2004)
You know, the only thing that matters is the ending. It's the most important part of the story, the ending. And this one… is very good. This one's perfect.
So I watched this movie on recommendation from a friend and loved it. It is a psychological thriller from Stephen King's book; Secret Window, Secret Garden. King got the idea for this novella from the many people who claim that that he has stolen plot ideas for different works from them. In this story, instead of the person being just delusional, they are also demented.
Now this film has had mixed reviews. I loved it and I showed it to some friends who also thought it was really good. However I have had friends who hated it, they thought it was too kitschy and predictable.
Johnny Depp plays Mort, an author (of course).
So the film starts out with Mort discovering his wife is having an affair. He decides to go to Maine, as they do in almost every Stephen King film, to an isolated cabin, (another Stephen King Usual (SKU). Mort is a writer (SKU), and decides that he will be able to get over his writer's block (SKU) in the middle of nowhere than at home (SKU). He also had to leave the house as his wife is getting the house in the divorce.
One day he is confronted by a man called John Shooter, played by John Turturro, who does an amazing job at being extremely creepy.
Shooter has come to demand Mort to give him credit as he's convinced that Mort stole his story, "Sowing Season". Mort just blows him off, but Shooter leaves his manuscript and threats behind.
Mort tosses out the manuscript and moves on, but unbeknowest to him, his cleaning lady pulls it out and leaves it on the table. Mort than reads the story and realizes that Shooter's story is just like his story, "The Secret Window".
He stole my story!
The next day, Mort is out and about and runs into Shooter. They argue over who wrote it first; Mort happily telling him that his story was written and published a full year before. He has proof as he has a copy of the magazine it was published in at his home. Shooter is furious about this and tells him that he has three days to deliver the magazine as proof or else.
John Shooter: Do you wanna wake up from one o' your stupid naps 'n find Amy nailed to yer garbage bin? Or turn on the radio one mornin' and find out that she came off secon' best in a match with the chainsaw you keep out 'n the shed? Do ya?
Mort doesn't really care to listen to Shooter's threats.
However, Mort quickly discovers that Shooter's threats are not harmless. Shooter starts stalking him and his ex-wife. Bodies start piling up, as Mort goes down a road of insanity, trying to discover the truth of who is Shooter and why is he after him.
Just like some of the previous films, the end is too good for me to reveal. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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If there's falling production coupled with a low price, it's to balance supply and (low) demand.
If there's falling production coupled with a high price, it's constraint on supply.
Isn't it as simple as that?
The depletion of oil and gas wells is not always the same shape, and not really some kind of bell curve, but the decline of production is usually preceded by a plateau in most cases, as far as I understand it.
If anything, the outlook for oil supplies is somewhat more pessimistic than it was a few years back. Take a look, for example, at this recent survey of petroleum geologists [PDF] that was conducted at a recent professional convention and reported in the journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Three out of five petroleum geologists surveyed believed that global oil production would "peak" within 10 years.
The geologists may be wrong, of course. But trying to outguess the considered opinion of well-informed scientists is a sucker's game. So no matter what oil prices do in the short term, we'd be wise to prepare ourselves for tightening oil supplies, and higher oil prices, in the not-too-distant future.
Sorry to be so slow in replying. I tried to reply several days ago with loads of links and text, but the posting failed, and I don't have time to replay all the content.
Suffice to say, in response to you saying : "It has been reversed in various places around the world" : yes, production depletion in various places and even in specific oil wells has been reversed, usually by variations on Enhanced Oil Recovery.
So we are left with oil wells that will carry on performing for longer, but not performing much faster. The net effect overall is still depletion.
As you hint at with : "Once transient behavior crosses over into standard production decline, the flow rate can best be described as a exponential decline for some period of time, possibly lasting until the well is plugged."
And when you say "a reasonable amount of choke is applied to keep production/pressure within various operating constraints, pipeline fill, reservoir management, minimize any possible formation damage, etc etc" : yes, of course output from various oil wells is controlled, not only by operational issues, but also by investment issues.
Just knowing that there are heap big oil chambers out there does not necessarily mean that anyone will spend the money to get it pumped out.
You say : "Sometimes it is reversed by unconventionals." Yes, let's talk unconventional. If it takes more energy input to get the same energy output, the high quality oil and gas is always used first, and the corporates are unwilling to go after the lesser quality unless there is a market for it...which brings me on to the Carbon Price.
If the EROEI Energy Returned on Energy Invested is graded downwards : in other words, if people switch their business from crude to tar sands, it causes a step change in profitability, owing to the higher Energy required to process the product.
If as seems likely everywhere in the World initiates some form of Carbon pricing, that will be a double whammy on unconventionals, which are Carbon Emissions dirtier to bring to product, as well as being more expensive to process.
The necessity for Carbon Emissions limitation will inevitably make unconventionals unprofitable and undesirable. So we are left in a discussion about the competition for the last remaining good quality hydrocarbon Energy resources, and whether Demand Side control is perhaps the best way to calm that and extend the lifetime of the Oil Age.
Paul Mobbs (Energy Beyond Oil, Less is a 4 letter word) shows a nice diagram. With even a few percentage points drop in demand year on year, the good oil supply could last a hundred years.
We need restraint. We need prudence.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: You got me on the terminology !
Yes, sir, you got me on my loose terminology !
Yes, depletion simply means "emptying the well" and decline means "emptying the well more slowly".
Leaving aside enhanced oil recovery, and leaving aside the idea of choking the oil well, production decline is entirely out of our control. Once an oil well gets beyond a certain point in its maturity (measured by a number of factors), production will inevitably deline.
What I am attempting to establish is that many of the current oil wells are known to be liable to production decline, or have already begun their descent. In fact, there are particular fields which are declining in their entirety.
Hats off to you for pulling production out of a 100 year old well !
But the question is : what was the flow rate of production ? Not high, I'd guess.
This is the general experience of most attempts to increase extraction beyond expected. It doesn't come fast.
Therefore, although more oil is produced, it doesn't flow as quickly.
If this stays the standard experience, and all the oil regions become "mature", then we are definitely facing a peak : Peak Oil Flow.
Then what happens is (a) Since almost all we do in industrialised societies depends on the "Liquid Black Gold", prices for Carbon Energy will rise relative to the rest of the Economy (b) It becomes more expensive to go drilling for new oil. This would cause a "choke point" in production.
With any oil well, if someone is prepared to spend money, more oil can be extracted, albeit very slowly. This is true of any of the hydrocarbon resources, but there is a problem. The more unconventional fuels are sought, the more expensive they become, and the more Carbon Dioxide emissions are involved, which again makes them more expensive in a Carbon Costed World.
At some point, unconventionals become uneconomic, and you end up with the "dead zones" : abandoned tar sands areas will be impossible to clean up and return to nature. This will mirror all the former oil-rich areas now abandoned. People couldn't even afford to clean up the old rigs, pumps, derricks and gantries.
This sudden "Carbon Crunch" - a sharp decline in worldwide fuel production - would dwarf the current Economic disturbances. I would therefore recommend against fuel sources like unconventional oils as they require high input energy (and therefore cost), and so a shift away from crude to unconventionals could exacerbate any Carbon Crunch point - that is - make it more sudden.
We have to think systemically, and this means leaving precious crude oil underground where we can, sharply improving energy efficiency in industry and in equipment and vehicles, and also moving to renewably-sourced energy.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: You got me on the terminology !
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:21 am Post subject: Where does the value of money come from ?
Here's one thing I'd like to put before you, and I know your little grey cells are up to the task of analysing it.
You said : "More is nearly ALWAYS possible if you can afford it, thats the entire point of why the peaker dogma doesn't hold up well."
I would like you to consider the question : where does the value of money come from ?
I think that we can both agree that money is a form of exchange whose value is to a large extent buoyed up by the flow of crude oil.
In other words, Oil giveth Wealth.
The other half of my thesis is this : the International Energy Agency and other research and science organisations predict a decline in global production of crude oil, annual, as of now.
Which effectively means : Wealth is going away (or rather, Wealth Creation is going away).
Which leads me to my conclusion : since it is true that "More is possible, but only if you can afford it.", but it is also now true that what you can afford buys you less, there will come a point at which more will NOT be possible, because what you can afford cannot cover it.
My summary is that Money is a Hydrocarbon-backed Currency. It does not have a value that exists outside of the frame of reference of the markets in crude oil, natural gas and coal (about 95% of all Energy we use).
What we can afford depends largely on how much crude oil/gas/coal is gushing/hewn out of the ground.
Peak Energy takes away our ability to extend the life of declining oil wells.
It's OK at the moment to use unconventionals, but as money value becomes tight, we will not be able to justify affording unconventionals.
Signs that money value is shrinking : the cost of shipping, oil rigs, exploration is all increasing.
What do you make of all that ?
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:57 am Post subject: Re: Where does the value of money come from ?
While it is true that trade brings wealth to those who can command natural resources, it cannot bring wealth when those natural resources start to tail off, or if those natural resources begin to be considered of lesser or negative value.
Let's take the example of those rock crystals that some call diamonds. If, for example, people began to value some OTHER form of artificial crystals for decorative or industrial purposes, then the value of diamonds would fall away. Aboriginal peoples around the world have been tricked of their land rights by exchanging them for baubles. People talk to me about the innate lasting high value of gold, but it has none, really. We might just as well collect flints. What about Carbon Pricing ? As soon as Carbon has a price, the use of hydrocarbon fuels becomes charged. Should the traded value of hydrocarbons fall in that scenario ?
And what if the resource starts to tail off ? What if the United States is unable to continue to import crude oil ? Two thirds of the imports are used for transportation. The indigenous production would be entirely diverted to transport in order to secure that. And then there would be no trade possible with that natural resource. It probably would not even be traded within the borders of the USA : rations would have to be issued, and these would have an untraded value, so people wouldn't trade them.
Unlike you, I do not have a basic belief in the wealth-generating powers of trade. I think it is obvious that the value derived from trading must derive from the value of the goods that are being traded. In other words, oil performs a service that is valued, so oil itself has a value, so trading in oil confers value.
You say : "I can buy gold, silver, guns, real estate, cars, politicians and health care with the US $$, so I'm guessing that it has a value outside of your hydrocarbon frame of reference."
Before our industrialised societies used petroleum oil, what did we use to generate power ? Well, we didn't have electricity then. And how did we propel vehicles ? Horses fed on oats.
My view is that we have committed to a path of becoming dependent on oil and natural gas and coal.
It's not that oil is the only thing that generates value, it's that without oil, many of the systems and processes we currently use would not function.
Nobody could manufacture without oil, natural gas or coal, because all the plant runs on oil/gas/coal or oil/gas/coal-derived power.


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Q: Unable to make HttpClient post request in Angular because of CORS issue I am developing a Web application using Angular. Backend API is developed using Laravel PHP framework. I enabled the CORS access creating a middleware in the Laravel.
This is the Laravel middleware
class Cors
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        return $next($request)
        ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers','X-Requested-With,content-type')
        ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        ->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');
    }
}

I can successfully make the GET request like this.
this.http.get<IEvent[]>(this.globals.API_ENDPOINT + "event/list?email=" + email).subscribe(data=> {
    //do something with the data
});

The above GET request is working fine. But the problem is with making POST request with some parameters.
I send the POST request like this.
var formData = {
   name: "My name"
}
this.http.post<ISimpleForm>(this.globals.API_ENDPOINT + "event/post", formData).subscribe(data=>{

})

As you can see the formData variable is object. When I send the request, I got this error in console.
Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin

I tried lots of solution online. For example, passing headers with "Content-Type" with "application/json" and so on. None of them helped. I already solved CORS issue in the server side as well.
But the request is working when I send the body it as string like this
this.http.post<ISimpleForm>(this.globals.API_ENDPOINT + "event/post", formData).subscribe(data=>{

    })

The CORS error is gone when I stringify the body. But the problem is when I log the request data in the server side using $_POST, nothing is passed to the request. So the body is empty.
So, how can I make post request with some request parameters using HttpClient in Angular? What is wrong with my code and how can I fix it?

A: I got the same error a while ago. this middleware works for methods not for preflight header. Check this Laravel 5.2 CORS, GET not working with preflight OPTIONS
Suggesting this to use in your project github.com/barryvdh/laravel-cors
instead of middleware.

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MeroveeMetaphysics, Spiritual, SynchronicityAscension shift 2022, Consciousness shift 202221 Comments
Deep water.
All the world's a stage.
Mindlines.
And Timelines.
All done with mirrors.
Shaking all over.
And in the mirror.
The Crystal Palace is real I've been told by a few over the years. And in 3D Crystal Palace has a chairman called Steve and an old stand named after a man named Arthur and their best known player is called Wilf. No Sheik Your Booty.
There is a Palace.
21 thoughts on "The Stage"
Merovee is a strange place.
And doesn't get much stranger than this. March 25th and Pope Rebecca's birthday and there is a weird 'joke' in there about Fat Amy as well. Nice ass. There are no private thoughts in the world of spirit clearly.
On Friday 25 March, during the Celebration of Penance at 17.00 in Saint Peter's Basilica, I will consecrate #Russia and #Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. #PrayTogether #Peace
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) March 15, 2022
'Pope Francis announced Tuesday that he will consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, fulfilling a 1917 vision purportedly revealed to Portuguese children that such a blessing would usher in a period of world peace.
The consecration will take place on March 25 and will be done at Saint Peter's Basilica.'
https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-consecrate-russia-fatima-prophecy
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2022/03/15/ukraine-russia-rosary-fatima-war-242596
And what we deny in ourselves. Who we truly are.
Synthetic consciousness and AI and gender and homosexuality and transgenderism and anima and animus etc.
BLM as well.
Synthetic realities after death ?
I came across a video where someone described their NDE. The positive side is they seem to show there is life post physical death. Normal description. However. Said she met her mother and she wanted to stay but was told she needed to come back. She was told she had 'work to do' was the phrase she used. Being told 'You have work to do' by your mother sends up a red flag to me.
Being pinged all the time.
I realise I keep on going about Carclew. Car clues keep showing up though. I think it's symbolic of something far older.
Lemon Family and Lemuria. And Crystal Palace and burning down the house on repeat. And DNA. The Lemons were Jewish.
'In 1934 Carclew was destroyed by fire and has been derelict since. It was then owned by Captain Charles H. Tremayne, a descendant of Sir Charles Lemon.'
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Carclew_House
Made me smile with the honesty and truth ! pic.twitter.com/OyWXaf0yYF
— helen warlow (@HWarlow) March 16, 2022
If I'm reading the runes right it seems my other letter to the US has been received. Not to do with anyone connected here. Kinetic energy.
And the reply has been speaking about Lemuria which was revealing. And DNA. Either spiritual or physical. Maybe both. And Car Clues. Seems to be confirming that Carclew and Heligan are symbolic of places far older.
hugosprobe says:
I think the 'Kristallnacht' storyline has run its course. The Chief Persecutor tried to pin it on Eichmann, along with everything else. And what was that if not a mirror image of one of the Nazis' defining traits? Specifically, their willingness to point the finger at everyone other than themselves.
As for Jekyll and Hyde Park, the story points the finger at a 'serum' and in so doing attempts to lay the blame squarely on Jekyll's own shoulders. I'm sure a lot of fun has been had with that particular example of 'reverse engineering'. And that storyline has also run its course as far as I'm concerned.
BREAKING: Ukrainian television broadcasts a segment advocating the extermination of all Russians, starting with Russian children.
It quotes Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who carried out the holocaust: "in order to destroy a nation you must destroy, first of all, children." https://t.co/zwekUuYcth pic.twitter.com/4VU4fCzROB
I found a lost hard drive a few weeks ago which had a lot of pics which I thought had gone down the pan. And included this pic from a visit to The Globe. Orbs showed up in a couple of pics from the Globe. Didn't show up on other photos with same camera. Is it a digital oddity or a real orb ? Or is it HAL ?
Extended CLICK5… CLICKB8: Zoltan Of Schwing… https://t.co/VwnrhQ5zkm via @Roobeedoo1 pic.twitter.com/U0Y5k5nFbK
— RooBeeDoo (@RooBeeDoo1) March 16, 2022
CLICK5: For St Paddy's Day, A Green Tweets Shamble… https://t.co/VdXszje2AA via @Roobeedoo1 pic.twitter.com/A1YEYdvuc7
Divide and rule. That's the name of the game, isn't it? Because those who feel isolated, alone and freaked out are easy to control. Same thing with the 'personal journeys', which all too often seem to deteriorate into something more 'personal' than individual. Aren't you sick of dredging up and representing the same information over and over again? And what is that 'information'? Is it anything more than propaganda? Is it anything more than distorted half-truths designed to demonise and wound? Can we not rise above that?