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[MoMath] 2015 Feb-March Upcoming Events
Dear MoMath friends,
Get interdisciplinary with MoMath's diverse palette of upcoming events: investigate the connections between math and light, math and strategy games, and even math and drumming, then see math take a starring role at the movies and in the theater. And in April, enjoy an exciting series of events in our nation's capital: explore Escher at the National Gallery, Man Ray at the Phillips, or just enjoy a day of fun in the sun with MoMath during the first-ever National Math Festival. Plus, don't miss the middle school MoMathlon Tournaments, or an all-new Winton Power Series in March with Breakthrough Prize winner Simon Donaldson!
MoMath at a Glance
Now through February 21 MoMath's 2015 Pi Day competition is accepting submissions!
Now through March 2015 Matthew Brand's Luminaries in Composite, the gallery at MoMath
Now through May 19 Apply for the 2015 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation in Math Teaching
January 31 Summer Camp 2015 Open House
February 2 Professional development (PD) workshops for teachers
February 19 Composite Chat: the surprising technology of serial inventor Matthew Brand
February 19 Movie Night at MoMath: Counting from Infinity
February 24 2015 MoMath Masters Tournament featuring Will Shortz
February 27 Family Fridays at MoMath presented by Time Warner Cable: "ITSPHUN"
March 2-31 2015 Con Edison MoMathlon Tournaments
March 4 Math Encounters: "Poetry, Drumming, and Mathematics" with Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava
March 8 The Mathematics of Being Human
March 13 Family Fridays at MoMath presented by Time Warner Cable: "Cat & Mouse Games"
March 14 Celebrate Pi Day at MoMath!
March 22 MoMath Winton Power Series: "Dimension: A Geometric and Topological View" with Simon Donaldson
March 28 Unbounded: An Evening at MoMath — Game Night!
April 17-19 MoMath goes to Washington!
April 18 Volunteer with MoMath at the National Math Festival
Now on Saturdays! PolyPals toddler program
Tuesdays/Thursdays Expansions after-school program for gifted students
MoMath's 2015 Pi Day competition is still accepting submissions!
Through Saturday, February 21
Share your love of pi! Write and record pi-themed lyrics, create a limerick about pi, or send in a pi-ku, and you could win MoMath's 2015 Pi Day contest. The contest will run through February 21, so start brainstorming! See more details and submit your entries at piday2015.momath.org.
Matthew Brand's Luminaries at Composite: the gallery at MoMath
Through March, 2015
If you like the Light Grooves exhibit at MoMath, you'll love this gallery show featuring the newest work of light artist, inventor, and visionary Matthew Brand. Evoking figures from ancient Egypt to the medieval Silk Road to modern casinos, Brand has captured some of history's most intriguing thinkers. Visit Composite: the gallery at MoMath to discover the world's first large-scale show of lumography — smooth, water-clear lenses whose undulating surfaces rearrange light beams into ghostly morphing pictures. Many years in development, Brand's marriage of sand castle mathematics and swimming pool optics runs through March 2015. Entry is included with Museum admission.
Apply for the 2015 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation in Math Teaching
Through Tuesday, May 19
MoMath is pleased to announce that the application period is now open for the 2015 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation in Math Teaching. Designed to recognize and promote hands-on math teaching in upper elementary and middle school classrooms, the Rosenthal Prize carries a cash award of $25,000 for the single best activity, plus up to five additional monetary awards for other innovative activities. The winning teacher(s) will have the opportunity to share their innovative activities with educators across the country. Learn more about the prize and how to apply at rosenthalprize.momath.org.
Become a MoMath intern!
Now accepting applications for the summer
Share your love of math with others! MoMath is now accepting applications for summer internships for current college students. Improve your interpersonal and communication skills, explore mathematical concepts, and learn valuable job skills. See more at momath.org/jobs. Please note that internships are unpaid.
Note: The application window for Spring 2015 high school internships is now closed; more information about Fall 2015 high school internships will be available in June.
Summer Camp 2015 Open House
MoMath is gearing up for a great summer with an exciting day camp! Come learn more about Transformations 2015, the summer camp at MoMath, and be the first to explore some of this summer's newest activities. Learn more about Transformations and register at openhouse.momath.org.
Given sufficient interest, a second Open House may be scheduled for Wednesday, February 11 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Please email summercamp@momath.org if you would be interested in attending this alternate date.
Professional development (PD) workshops for teachers
Monday, February 2, 8:30 am – 3:00 pm (waiting list only)
Participate in hands-on interactive activities that reveal the wonders of mathematics, and learn how to spark your students' curiosity with easy-to-reproduce materials linked to the Common Core curriculum. The workshop will feature topics covered in the Common Core standards, including the relationship between 2D shapes and 3D objects, angles, patterns, algebraic thinking, number and operations, and symmetry, and will also include a Museum tour. Workshops will be provided at two different levels: high school teachers (grades 9 through 12), and upper elementary and middle school teachers (grades 4 through 8). See more at pd.momath.org and email programs@momath.org to be placed on the waiting list.
Missed registering for MoMath's upcoming PD session? It's not too late to experience the joy of mathematics at MoMath, with the next professional development session now open for registration. Explore Weird Ways to Work With Pi, featuring nationally acclaimed educator James Tanton, on Thursday, June 4. Contemplate the meaning and mystery of pi, and then let it loose on all kinds of wild shapes — all while exploring and uniting ideas from the Common Core curriculum. Middle school and high school teachers welcome: see more and register at pd.momath.org.
Composite Chat: the surprising technology of serial inventor Matthew Brand
Thursday, February 19, 6:30 pm
Have you seen Light Grooves, MoMath's holographic metalwork, or the picture-forming lenses in MoMath's Composite gallery? Did you know that both are demonstrations of entirely new technologies? Join us for a conversation with artist and serial inventor Matthew Brand on the mathematical and technical challenges of doing art with optics — and doing freeform optics with automotive tools. Brand will give a short presentation to kick off the event and just might take the opportunity to reprogram your visual system. See more details and register at brandchatfeb.momath.org.
Movie Night at MoMath: Counting from Infinity
Thursday, Friday 19, 8:00 pm
Join MoMath for the New York premiere of Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture, an inspiring new mathematical documentary by George Csicsery. In 2013, little-known mathematician Yitang Zhang submitted a paper that had big ripples in the world of prime numbers, leading to an exciting string of mathematical discoveries and progress on the Twin Prime Conjecture. Counting from Infinity chronicles this incredible moment in mathematical history, interleaving the story of Zhang's perseverance amidst adversity and his breakthrough with a history of the Twin Prime Conjecture and its challenges. Register at counting.momath.org.
Special Offer! Register for both Composite Chat and Counting from Infinity at a discounted rate at doublefeature.momath.org.
2015 MoMath Masters Tournament
Tuesday, February 24, 6:00 pm
Join MoMath for the 2015 MoMath Masters Tournament, the exciting annual competition and charitable fundraiser! Get your thinking caps on for this fun-filled night, from the entertaining cocktail round right through to the challenging and suspenseful finals. You can work on your own or as a group, create fun pseudonyms to post your answers, and even buy extra time, all in the spirit of friendly competition. Will Shortz will return as this year's host — but who will win? Space is limited, so reserve your seats now at masters.momath.org.
Family Fridays at MoMath presented by Time Warner Cable: "ITSPHUN"
Friday, February 27, 6:30 pm
The creators of ITSPHUN, the geometric construction toy, are back at MoMath! Learn how to build the five "perfect" polyhedra and other highly symmetric, geometric objects that have fascinated humans for thousands of years. Discover interesting facts about shapes and explore their mathematical beauty during this fun, hands-on evening of mathematical play. Warning: playing with patterns and symmetry can be addictive! This presentation is free to attendees, as part of Time Warner Cable's Connect a Million Minds campaign. For more information and to register, visit familyfridays.momath.org.
2015 Con Edison MoMathlon Tournaments
Monday, March 2 (Westchester); Tuesday, March 3 (Bronx); Monday, March 9 (Queens); Thursday, March 12 (Suffolk County); Tuesday, March 31 (Manhattan)
Playing a sport, being on a team, competition…every middle school student deserves to experience the fun and exhilaration of making friends and working with them toward a goal; this can build confidence and teach skills that last a lifetime. MoMath provides New York kids this opportunity every March, when, together with supporters Con Edison and Brookhaven National Laboratory, it sponsors several middle school math tournaments, culminating in a thrilling tournament of champions. These unique tournaments allow budding mathematicians to experience the same thrills that student athletes receive from their pursuits: challenges, teamwork, refreshments, souvenirs, trophies, and memories that will inspire them in high school, college, and beyond. The tournaments will take place throughout March in the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Suffolk County, and Westchester; for more information and to register, visit momathlon.momath.org. To ensure participation, register by February 6.
Math Encounters: "Poetry, Drumming, and Mathematics" with Manjul Bhargava
Wednesday, March 4, 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Did you know that many modern mathematical tools used in probability and combinatorics, and applied in varied technologies such as those on NASA space missions, originated in problems encountered by linguists and musicians thousands of years ago? Princeton University Professor and 2014 Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava looks at some of these ancient, poetic problems — and their remarkable solutions through the ages — to reveal much about the nature of human thought and the origins of mathematics. Refreshments follow the afternoon presentation of Math Encounters; arrive by 6:30 pm for refreshments preceding the evening presentation. Register at mathencounters.org.
The Mathematics of Being Human
Sunday, March 8, 6:30 pm
Battle lines are drawn between mathematics and the humanities when English professor Naomi Kessler and mathematician Mike Pearson are compelled to co-teach a course at a university bent on promoting interdisciplinarity. They tussle over everything: from the value of 'nothing' in King Lear, to the fractal nature of cauliflower, to the relevance of non-Euclidean geometry in poetry. Will they be able to give their beleaguered students a glimpse of synthesis or will their insularity prove impossible to surmount? The fireworks fly in this new play written by the University of Maryland Baltimore County's Michele Osherow (English professor and dramaturg for Washington DC's Folger Theatre) and Manil Suri (mathematics professor and author of "The Death of Vishnu"), and directed by Alan Kreizenbeck. The staged reading will be followed by a talk-back, so make sure to bring your thinking cap. See more and register at human.momath.org.
Family Fridays at MoMath presented by Time Warner Cable
: "Cat & Mouse Games"
Friday, March 13, 6:30 pm
A cat chases a mouse on a grid. Can the cat catch the mouse? Sometimes yes… sometimes no! Play some games and see when you can escape — then find out if math is on the side of the cat, or the mouse! Dan Zaharopol, Executive Director of the Art of Problem Solving Foundation, guides us through the strategy of a simple game as viewed through the lens of mathematics. This presentation is free to attendees, as part of Time Warner Cable's Connect a Million Minds campaign. For more information and to register, visit familyfridays.momath.org.
Celebrate Pi Day with MoMath!
Pi is more fun when it's shared. Enjoy a day full of special pi-related activities at MoMath, from a scavenger hunt through the exhibits to circular tic-tac-toe and pi puzzles. You can make pi personal by finding a unique number sequence in its infinite digits, and make pi even more delicious by estimating it using candy! Plus, be there to hear the winning entries from MoMath's Pi Day competition.
MoMath Winton Power Series: "Dimension: A Geometric and Topological view" with Simon Donaldson
Sunday, March 22, 5:30 pm
Simon Donaldson will illuminate phenomena in the study of mathematical manifolds that depend crucially on dimension. Going back to the mid-20th century, the initial focus of the presentation will be on the ideas of algebraic and geometric "intersection numbers" and the fundamental connections between them which hold in high dimensions. The story will continue through the late 20th century and beyond, when contrary phenomena in low dimensions were detected, but still not thoroughly understood. Don't miss your opportunity to hear from Simon Donaldson, one of only five winners of the $3 million Breakthrough Prize — the most substantial prize in all of mathematics. This presentation will be followed by a question and answer session and an informal reception. Register at powerseries.momath.org.
Unbounded: An Evening at MoMath — Game Night!
Saturday, March 28, 7:30 pm
21+ (ID required)
Don't miss MoMath's first adult-only night of 2015! This month's event features a special game component designed by Richard Garriott de Cayeux, inventor of the Ultima adventure series: come play with us! Unbounded provides the opportunity to experience MoMath's unique atmosphere and interactive exhibits in the company of New York's math-chic community, including the mathematicians and designers behind the Museum. Mathematical know-how is not required at Unbounded — fun, adventure, exploration, and play are in store for all who come. 21+ (ID required). One free drink included with admission. Register at unbounded.momath.org.
MoMath Goes to Washington!
Join MoMath for a not-to-be missed three-day extravaganza in the nation's capital during the first-ever National Math Festival!
Explore the masterpieces of M.C. Escher on this exclusive private tour of one of the world's largest and most complete collections of his works. Housed in a restricted area of the National Gallery of Art, this collection includes woodblock, wood engraving, and lithography, in both monochrome and color. This is an extraordinary opportunity to view and closely study the original works of M.C. Escher, focusing on his analytic elements of design, his intuitive geometric sense, and his brilliant printmaking techniques. For more information and to register, visit escher.momath.org.
Join MoMath as its popular Math Midway exhibition, back from a five-year national tour, arrives on the scene at the Smithsonian's Enid A. Haupt Garden. Ride the Square-Wheeled Tricycle, enjoy laser-based geometry exploration with the Ring of Fire, and play with algebraic gold doubloons along with Pirate X and Lady Y. Experience more than 20 hands-on, engaging math exhibits that helped launch the nation's only Museum of Mathematics, and discover the wonder and beauty of math in a fun festival setting. Plus, participate in Spacellation, a giant geometric coat-hanger construction making its national debut, or tie yourself up in String Upon a Star, and become an integral part of the first-ever national celebration of mathematics. No registration needed to attend, but math-savvy volunteers can join the MoMath team to help convey the joy of math! Students and adults both welcome: dcvolunteers.momath.org.
Math meets art in this first time three-part display of Man Ray's surrealistic-inflected Shakespearean Equations series, side by side with the original geometric models that inspired the paintings, plus the inventive photographs of these mathematical forms made by Man Ray in Paris in the 1930s. Don't miss this unique opportunity to join MoMath on a private tour of the exhibition, learning firsthand how art and math intersect in this display of over 100 pieces, including a custom version of MoMath's own Formula Morph exhibit, designed especially for this unique show. As a special bonus, join MoMath's President and founder, Glen Whitney, for brunch before the tour, and hear the mathematical backstory of the Phillips Collection's latest exhibit. For more information and to register, visit manray.momath.org.
PolyPals: Bring your toddlers and preschoolers to MoMath for weekly fun!
Now on Saturday mornings! (Ages 2-5)
PolyPals, MoMath's program for pre-K children, offers our littlest mathematicians the opportunity to listen to math-themed stories and have fun exploring the concepts behind them. Led by MoMath's skilled educational staff, toddlers and preschoolers participate in songs, stories, and activities tied to a different theme each week. Patterns, shapes, numbers, and more – PolyPals is a great way to enrich your child's day with mathematical inspiration. Registration for 2015, with new weekend sessions, is now open. For further information and to register, visit polypals.momath.org.
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Tuesday afternoons (HS students); Thursday afternoons (K-8, separated by level)
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This blog post was made by Dr. John Agar on March 24th, 2016.
Optimal frequency: to permit small and large solute removal.
Optimal time: to allow slow, perfusion-friendly rate of volume removal.
The current Kt/Vurea formula has unfortunately encouraged clinicians to increase one of the two numerator variables (K) in an effort to reduce the other (t). This has resulted in the human body being treated like a multiplication table, where increasing one variable and reducing the other yields an unaltered result. Both 2 x 4 and 4 x 2 = 8.
In the US, it is commonly 3.0 - 3.5 hours, 3 times a week.
In Japan and ANZ, it is more commonly 4.5 - 5.0 hours, 3 times a week.
These are unlikely to be fully comparable, either in the efficiency of solute removal, or in the speed of ultrafiltration. Yet, they are frequently conflated and compared as if they were the same in open discussion or in literature reports. Conventional centre-base dialysis – and especially the US conventional model – offers neither sufficient time for full solute removal, nor sufficient frequency for volume control. While an inadequate sessional duration "seduces us" by providing an apparently adequate cleansing of small solutes like urea, the more insidious middle molecules that depend on time for removal are not sufficiently removed.
Further, the rapid ultrafiltration rates required to remove the accumulated interdialytic volume excess are known to promote intradialytic circulatory instability and hypotension, cramp, nausea, vomiting and—more threateningly to survival—"stunning" of vital organs, in particular the heart and brain. Yet, to our shame, this dialysis model is the option most current dialysis patients are offered, and receive.
This is exemplified by most current in-centre nocturnal dialysis regimens. Longer duration dialysis, especially those regimens (commonly nocturnal) that permit between 7 and 9 hours of sessional duration, encourage deep-compartment cleaning (Eloot). Intercompartmental and transcompartmental "deep cleaning" of time-dependent solutes takes exactly that: time, and time cannot be artificially accelerated. So, while from a solute perspective this model works, its failure lies with poor volume management, as the result of inadequate frequency.
A longer interdialytic period will inevitably bias towards a larger interdialytic fluid gain. The more hours without dialysis, the greater the time a patient has to eat, drink, and accumulate excess fluid volume, albeit patients who retain the benefit of a residual urine volume will be at greater advantage under this modality than those who are anuric. Thus, while in theory the longer sessional duration of this model should permit a slower ultrafiltration rate, this theoretical benefit may be effectively cancelled out by the larger accumulated interdialytic volume that requires removal.
This modality is typified by the (largely US-centric) "short daily hemodialysis" (SDHD) model. Current SDHD broadly favours an increase in treatment frequency to 5 or 6 treatments per week. But, as this model concurrently trades-off a reduction in sessional duration against an increase in frequency, it still does not provide the wisest or most appropriate answer.
Higher frequency dialysis benefits small solute clearance by more frequently providing a maximal concentration gradient for small solute clearance.
But…most so-called "middle molecules," (or PO4 with its hydrophilic skin) are characterised by linear diffusion over time and, rather than moving down a concentration gradient (like urea), exhibit time-dependent removal patterns.
Thus, while high frequency combined with time-reduced dialysis may deliver better small solute clearance (as measured by Kt/Vurea), high frequency combined with truncated time does not significantly improve larger solute clearance (e.g. β2M, homocysteine, PO4).
SDHD, like its name, thus falls (all solute) short!
Higher frequency dialysis may reduce the interdialytic fluid accumulation period.
But…if concurrently combined with a reduction in sessional duration, the shorter available intradialytic time for ultrafiltration will effectively enforce an unchanged (and still excessive) volume removal rate, despite any potential reduction in volume accumulation that might result from the shorter interdialytic period.
Volume removal above all else needs time, and time is the one universal constant that cannot be abbreviated.
Deep-compartmental cleaning is possible, as the long sessional duration allows for time-dependent extraction as well as optimal concentration-gradient driven diffusion.
A shorter interdialytic accumulation period, and thus a lesser volume to remove.
A longer sessional duration in which to remove a lesser-accumulated volume.
What is abundantly clear is that longer and more frequent dialysis makes sense, no matter from what angle dialysis is viewed. Perhaps the "key" variable for solute clearance is sessional duration, though, clearly, an extended interdialytic period will also bias to greater solute accumulation. Perhaps the "key" variable for volume management is sessional frequency, though, clearly, the greater the abbreviation of sessional duration, the higher the ultrafiltration rate will have to be for any given accumulated volume, even if this is lessened by increasing the frequency of sessions.
So, the final question is…what matters more: solutes or volume?
While both matter, I would contend that volume pips solute at the post. Volume is the cardiovascular bête noir. With the possible exception of potassium, morbidity and mortality in dialysis patients is driven by either (or both) an excessive load of volume accumulation, or an excessive speed in volume contraction.
Rationalising this, 'f' beats 't' by a whisker.
Perhaps this is why, when a decade and a half ago, the two giants of 20th century dialysis (Scribner and Oreopoulos) were pondering their proposal for a measure of good dialysis - the Hemodialysis Product (the HDP) - they decided to square 'f' as they arrived at HDP = t x f2 and not simply HDP = t x f.
While squaring 'f' may be overemphasising its importance, giving it equal value to 't' may also be undervaluing 'f'. Perhaps the truth lies somewhere in between? What is certain, in my view, is that time and frequency are the only two factors that really matter. The rest is noise.
After being a dialysis patient for over 4 years I now realise that we are all different. I found I had kidney failure 22 years ago when my GFR was measured at 15. This figure stayed about the same , up to 17 at times and down to 13 at others.
I have many thoughts and though we are still new to HHD (I am the (EXTREMELY ENGAGED) care partner I too feel that the message is not getting out to the masses. Forget long slow HHD how about just HHD? At our last clinic visit I asked how many HHD patients did they have including us? Answer? 1!! They encourage PD before HD I would imagine due to the lower cost of training. We chose HHD based on the research that I did as far as long term outcomes. I called my husband's PCP the other day just to let him know that we are doing HHD thinking they would be interested to know that in our very small community one of their patients are utilizing this modality. The interest was minimal at best. Education is the key but it's not going to come from the doctors it's going to come from the patients and care partners. The other question regarding why don't more chime in? Are they there? I run a very demanding business full time, come home we do dialysis, I prepare healthy meals and I have minimal time and when I do I'm exhausted, stressed and emotional. We are very interested in becoming part time advocates to go out and share our story with others. I'm connected to our Congressional representative and I am fairly articulate. Sadly though, there are only so many hours in a day and currently my energy has to go toward providing for us and dialysis. I have learned that this is a very lonely existence. There is no community that understands the life that we now have. I have no family, no children and my friends have pretty much vaporized. If there was an opportunity where I could advocate for HHD full time I would grab it in an instant as I see this as something we will be doing for a long time. On my few posts I know that I come across as negative but that is often due to stress and exhaustion. Overall, considering we've only been doing this for 3+ months I think we're doing extremely well and are hoping that nocturnal is in our near future!
I am kinda in the same boat you are. My doctor wanted me to return to dialysis after I quit going in December (I started dialysis in August), I did this with the caveat that I would at least be on the waiting list to do HHD. Well the first day returning to dialysis I was told that I have to be "compliant" incenter for three months. I tried hoping that the symptoms that made me quit going in December would be better but they weren't, if anything they were worse. I called the next day and told the administrator the issues I was having, she told me she would speak to my doctor, never heard from her. I sent her an email that told her not to expect me, that if I needed dialysis I would let them know and I would wait for a chair.
Amanda, when you saw 'I am kinda in the same boat you are', I am assuming you are referring, there, to the comment from Greg Francis.
This is such an individual decision that it is hard to lay down rules, but one rule that CAN be set for that decision is that it should NEVER be made in response to the eGFR alone ... yet, oddly, the idea that an eGFR should somehow trigger the 'start' response still seems to permeate the thinking of some nephrologists and/or renal services. That said, and while you do not state either your eGFR at start, or that your eGFR was a considered factor in the 'start' decision in your case, I am making an educated guess that it may have been.
Why? ... well, there has been a very disturbing trend - especially in the US - to start dialysis earlier and earlier, long before it is needed, and while considerable residual renal function remains. Was this the case with you? I don't know. Might it have been? Very likely.
Many 'wear' quite severe renal impairment very well. Greg clearly has. Others do. Many will function quite well down to eGFR levels of 5-7 without major symptoms beyond fatigue - a symptom often primarily driven by the accompanying renal (read EPO/Fe++) related anaemia = another component I personally think is under-corrected for in the US because of a strange reticence to adequately restore the Hb.
My guess is that, like Greg, you may be one (of a great many) who have been started too early, both when dialysis was neither necessary or likely to result in 'feeling better'. It may explain why you have been considered 'naughty' where, in truth, you may have simply recognised that you were 'not ready'.
I may be being a little 'out there' on this as I do not know your individual circumstances, so while these comments may not apply to you, there is certainly data that confirms they apply to many.
Back in 2014, I was given the honour of presenting the Opening Plenary Address to the ADC in Atlanta on the topic: 'When to Start Dialysis'. My address, in part, explored the wealth of literature (and this includes not only the IDEAL trial but many similar studies from all around the world:Canada, Sweden, Austraia and New Zealang, Turkey, France and the UK) ... all of which confirm that dialysis often started way too early ... and this is particularly true of the US ... often when the eGFR is still a quite healthy at 12+ or, even worse, at a bouncing 15 or 15+. Why this is so is complex, and I would rather not point fingers here, but simply attest that it is so.
I don't know if this applies to, or was not, 'you' ... but if not 'you' specifically, then there are others who DO fit this picture. While it is true that some patients ARE difficult - often as a combination of reticence, fear, and denial - the decision regarding 'when to start dialysis' requires individualised nuance. It must incorporate a combination of factors that will vary, from patient to patient: it needs mutual trust in the decision and its timing: and it needs mutual cooperation with the planned program. Starting will neither proceed smoothly nor succeed without theses planks in place.
And ... note ... eGFR does NOT figure in that list.
Thank you so much for your response. I crashed into dialysis during a quite serious gout attack and a medically induced 3 week coma after I went into hypervolemic shock in the ER (iv fluids). My nephrologist seems okay with me doing without for now and even scheduled my next appointment 5 weeks out instead of 4.
Dear Corlyn, Dr Agar and Henning Sondergaard both, are right on the money. I am an Australian patient, who has been on dialysis for over 7 years now, Initially on emergency Haemo in- centre for a few months, then PD for almost 3 years, followed by Home HD for the last few years. I started on HHD doing 5 x 5hr sessions per week and soon followed that with 8 hrs nocturnal every other night, which I have continued long term. Of all the dialysis modes I have experienced, Long Slow Low UF Nocturnal stands out above the others.
As John pointed out, as an Australian, I was trained to dialyse taking care of everything myself. With the excellent training we receive, it has allowed me a trouble free run for all the years I have been on HHD and I have done all of that without a care partner. As a single man, I take care of all my own household chores as well, cooking, cleaning, shopping, laundry etc, ....... and ..... I currently work driving a truck 7 days a week in excess of 80 hrs weekly. In amongst that, I have somehow found time to embark on a new relationship. It's a busy life, but a very satisfying one.
I write this to encourage both you and your man to take steps have him take control of as much of his treatment as he is capable of, relieving you of much of the load you now carry and enhancing both your lives. My description of my personal experience is meant as an example to show what is possible. I wish you both well.
No ... you don't come across as negative ... you are, just like all dialysis carers and dialysis doers, whether patient or carer or significant other, forced into a situation you didn't ask for, that you didn't expect, and that you hate for the impact it has had on your life, your lifestyle, your dreams and the 'future' you thought you'd have ... and you (as do others like you) rightly feel a dull resentment at having to be there, though you are because of the love your share with and for your husband who is now dependent on your care. As to that last statement - here in Oz, we ensure that the home patient does their own dialysis ... all of it ... and that a carer (as the doer) is NOT required. Slef-care dialysis is our mantra, and we believe it is a far better model ... so encourage your husband to do as much of his own care as you can ... and all, if possible. You have other skills to bring to your partnership - full time demanding work, cooking, buying in, home management and more - and your post demonstrates the very reason why US home dialysis fails so often and so recurrently. The US home dialysis 'failure rate' is several times the rate seen in other countries where the patient is trained as the doer and develops the self-sufficiency and self-pride that accompanies self-care. Dependence on a carer at home simply extends and transfers the learned dependence of a centre-based program into the home = never a good look, nor an effective option. I hear your loneliness and your lack of support, and that saddens and shocks me that your post represents such a persistent and prevalent theme coming from the US. If you have the energy, teach your husband (if no-one else will) to do his own dialysis - as much as he is able. Know that elsewhere, while he self-dialyses, you would be ding the parts of your partnership he cannot - work, income, the other side of caring ... while he manages his own illness. HHD remains the best option (by far) and in my view, NHHD remains the best option in HHD. So ... you are part of the way there. It does get easier with time ... but will be easier still if you care for the home while he cares for his home dialysis.
Most HHD failures in the US is due to care partner burn-out and that is not fair to either the person on dialysis or the care partner.
I think we should start taking the term care partner seriously. You are not a care giver but a care partner - one who can be there as an equal partner, not the person who takes care of everything for him.
I know you guys have only been at it for 3 months now and things might start to get better, but I am pretty sure if you don't let him take over most of his treatment regime things might actually get worse for you. It is an unbearable burden you have put upon yourself with all that you are doing. I know how much energy you put into food and nutrition and into your business. There are only so many hours in the day and that is why I am urging you to find a way where he can do his own treatments and not be so dependent on you.
Right on the money, Henning ... and in the editorial that Peter Kerr and I wrote for the January edition of AJKD, it was not only the outmoded-ness of the US model of home care we had intended to refute, but the incorrect reliance on 'care-giving' with the extrapolation of learned dependence from facility to home that that model entrenches that we wanted to critique. Sadly, that was a step too far for the peer reviewers, and we were forced to be a little less critical in the editorial than we had first wanted to be. Corlyn ... I hope you can heed Hennings advice and, somehow, persuade your husband to do as all non-US home patients do - and that is to assume full responsibility for his own care and let you care for the non-dialysis stuff.
As I read through the comments, I find it interesting that we are only talking about fluid and solute removal. Dialysis treatment is a two way street for patients and care team (physicians, nurses, social workers, dieticians and dialysis technicians). I do understand that we can do and give everything to make the patients get the best treatments as well as medications, but if the are not willing to do their part is a losing battle. You can asked any Care Givers and will agree that those who follow the rules by the book even with dialysis 3 times week at 4 hours are doing great and feeling better. Do not get me wrong, I agree with all the comments but if you look at time being spent with patient and when explaining to them, we are giving them words that are foreign to them meaning Medical terms specially when making rounds. All the others things are irrelevant if patients do not understand what we are telling them. This is my observation and if you take time, patients are really receptive and tends to be more complaint.
Dear Ernie .. While this blog focused only on the two practical treatment-oriented aspects of dialysis I believe to be the most important physiological levers in good dialysis [for example, while my blog has also been criticised for ignoring the psychosocial aspects, no one blog can (or should) try to cover it all], I agree that many other aspects I purposefully ignored matter too. There is no question of that. And, you are right that dialysis is a slow dance between giver and receiver, and to make the dance work, both partners must be and remain in step and aware of the nuances of the other. As professionals, we must be prepared to lead, but we need a willing partner - the patient (and their significant others) - and each must keep step, learn, listen, and appreciate the other if the dance is to work.
I have read your comment in response to Henry P Snicklesnorter, and I find it very sad that only study based articles can be submitted and printed in medical journals, since some of the studies appear to be poorly conducted, and it is difficult or even impossible to draw conclusions from them, yet they are widely quoted.
John, as Colin McKay said, brilliantly explaIned! Based on the responses, I do wonder, however, if blog posts such as these are, as you recently said on fb, 'Preaching to the choir.' How are we going to get this vitally important message out to the masses and the medical community?
Thanks, Henry ... but you are right, this site - and I fear this blog - does go largely to 'the choir' ... those who already DO home haemodialysis or home PD, or are at the least aware of it. After all, the site name is Home Dialysis Central, so (as the cynic in me asks) why come here if you either have no interest in, no stake in, no awareness of, or no intent on embracing/doing/investigating home dialysis? Dori, our moderator, assures me that the readership is much wider than I (we) think, but how much wider, and whether that is simply to the more silent home dialysis group as a whole or whether to the centre-based patients and their professional staff (= those who, above all, should be the readers) or ... even better ... to the DC and other administrators/movers/shakers that make the rules is, to me, an unknown. I suspect, all Dori's hopes aside, that the KidneyViews and HDC FB page are only read by a thimble-full of those who might benefit from them. Even the ADC ... the largest annual dialysis assembly I know of ... is, 9/10ths 'the Choir'. And, as I personally have reached my dotage and must soon try to slow down and to concentrate more on personal commitments within my family and to my ailing 'bride', no other professional voice(s) have yet put their hand(s) up to wave the 'more is better' flag. And so ... like you, Henry ... I ache to find a pathway that might deliver a wider understanding of the truly better life that can be lived - despite and beyond your grim reality of being 'on dialysis'. But, broadly, journals won't take any material that is not 'a study', and long gone are the days of journal debate of ideas and viewpoints: long lost are these once vibrant vehicles for thoughtful interchange. I must be one of the last alive who remember that medicine was once an art as well as a science ... and while art is all about perception, free thought, dreaming of 'a better way', and wonderment, science has become the realm of the statistic - some still believe to its detriment. Stats are important, trials matter, but so, too, do ideas and concepts. Alas, I have NO IDEA how to make messages like this blog - and in my humble view, it contains an important message too - more widely discussed or read. So, to all you out there ... and Dori Schatell says your ARE out there ... do you have any thoughts about how to get the deaf to hear? If you do, speak up ... for at my end, the continued silence is depressing.
I want you to know that I sent this blog to the listserv for social workers and encouraged them to share it with their staff and physicians and I sent it to folks I know who work or consult with the ESRD Survey & Certification Group. I routinely send blogs to these folk. My hope is that my sharing blogs helps to counter any efforts by dialysis corporations to soften expectations for care of dialysis patients.
Doing nocturnal for six weeks now (every other night for eight hours). Not only do I feel better physically, I also feel better psychologically. No more grudgingly need to give up valuable time to do dialysis, and more importantly, I know I am doing the best I can for my overall health.
Another excellent post, as usual. I always learn something from you! If, by chance, I feel I know the material covered, your posts serve as support and encouragement that I am on the right path. Thank you for your infinite wisdom and allowing us to care for ourselves in a better way.
Excellent as always. REcently I keep hearing about (mainly incenter) patients with fluid overload, so they bring them in for an extra tx that ONLY removes fluid (No toxic removal), sometimes only for an hour. To me this is the height of inanity! For two reasons, why not remove toxins if you are running and extra tx, and how effective can fluid only removal be in 1 hour? I cannot fathom their reasoning, but perhaps you can enlighten me?
Very thought provoking and thorough. Thank you so much.


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Retired Air Force Major Accuses Cyberstalking Law of Violating First Amendment
By Teresa Lo
Summary: A retired Air Force major and a UCLA attorney have filed a lawsuit, asking for Washington's cyberstalking law to be overturned.
Criticism is free speech, according to a retired Air Force major; and he wants the right to write whatever he wants online. On Tuesday, the internet troll filed a lawsuit against the Washington Attorney General, claiming that the state's cyberstalking law is unconstitutional.
Richard Lee Rynearson III filed the lawsuit against Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Kitsap County Prosecutor Tina Robinson. He was responding to a threat of prosecution he received for repeatedly posting criticism online, The Seattle Times reported. Rynearson said he has been given a restraining order and threatened with a year in jail if he doesn't stop posting about a local community activist.
The activist in question is Clarence Moriwaki, who founded a memorial dedicated to the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II. Rynearson disagreed with the fact that Moriwaki did not also condemn the United States' government's treatment of other minorities in the war on terror, and he posted frequent criticisms but not threats on Facebook.
Moriwaki obtained a temporary restraining order against Rynearson and filed a police report last spring. He said that Rynearson was persistent in his Facebook posts and text messages, and he claimed that the vet was cyberstalking him. No charges have been filed against Rynearson yet, but he said that it was against his right to free speech to be ordered to change his behavior.
Rynearson's First Amendment case is being represented by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh who filed a similar lawsuit in Ohio.
"How can it possibly be constitutional to ban mean speech online?" Volokh said to The Seattle Times. "If someone is appalled by a local official and wants to embarrass them by posting things online, that's a crime?"
Washington passed its cyberstalking law in 2004 in order to curb online bullying. The law makes it illegal to send electronic communications repeatedly or anonymously with the intent to harm someone. The law applies to messages sent directly to the target or on a public forum such as a Facebook post.
Rynearson's criticism of Moriwaki included calling for him to resign as president of his organization and creating a Facebook page designed to pointing out Moriwaki's lack of addressing the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens in the fight against terrorism.
According to the Seattle Times, opponents of the cyberstalking law said that it criminalizes common online behavior that is protected by the First Amendment. Volokh said that online harassment laws have been struck down in New York and North Caroline for their unconstitutionality.
No matter what the outcome of Rynearson's case, Moriwaki appears fed up by his behavior.
"He just won't leave me alone," Moriwaki said to The Seattle Times. "I told him to stop posting about me, to stop contacting me, and he won't. He's a classic cyber bully."
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Sony Pictures hired Jason Reitman to direct new 'Ghostbusters' film
Sony Pictures has enlisted Jason Reitman as director for the new Ghostbusters film.
Jason Reitman, image credit Variety
Reitman is the son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. Jason Reitman will helm the new film that he has been working on in secret.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker co-wrote the script with Gil Kenan. Kenan is the director of the animated film Monster House. The film is set to go into production this summer and is expected to release in 2020.
The whole project, which has been under a veil of secrecy, has been operating under the code name "Rust City."
Sony is calling the new film "the next chapter in the original story," and says it continues the narrative of the 1980s classic.
However, whether the original members will return or not remains to be seen. Sources told the magazine that Reitman is on the lookout to cast four teens in the film, two boys and two girls.
Reitman has been twice nominated for a best director Oscar (2007's Juno and 2009's Up in the Air) and directed two films last year - Tully, a drama starring Charlize Theron, and The Frontrunner, a political drama on former Sen. Gary Hart and starred Hugh Jackman.
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The Piece That Started My Collection: Annette Campbell-White
By Martin Dean
To coincide with the publication of her memoir, a new exhibition featuring the extensive rare book collection of venture capitalist Annette Campbell-White will open on August 24, sponsored by Sotheby's. The collection features a number of Modernist authors, and highlights include manuscripts and correspondence by Virginia Woolf and letters by William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. We spoke to Annette ahead of the opening to find out more about her passion.
Sotheby's: What began your interest in collecting books?
Annette Campbell-White: It didn't start with a decision to collect books; rather, book collecting just entered my life organically. I always loved books and reading as a child and young person, and when I was looking for work in London in the early 1970s, I happened upon an antiquarian book shop. One of the items in that shop, among a few other books of Modernist authors, was this tiny hard backed book, made with hand made paper, containing a limited edition of T.S Eliot's 'A Song for Simeon.'
This limited, signed edition of T. S. Eliot's "A Song for Simeon" (1928) was the purchase that started a lifetime of book collecting. (Drawing by E. McKnight Kauffer. © Simon Rendall.)
S: What was it that drew you to that work, and what made you consider it your first 'collected' book?
ACW: What drew me to the book was the fact that it was signed. I was so young and so naive that I had no idea that authors did produce signed and limited editions of different works. T. S. Eliot was a poet with whom I was very familiar, and I happened to know this poem well from my schooldays. I took it as a sort of sign that life was going to improve, so felt I had to stretch to buy this little book. Once I bought it, having spent so much time in that book shop, I decided that once I had a bit of money, I was going to buy more rare books. And so it went on from there.
Annette Campbell-White. Photo credit: Reenie Raschke
S: You've written a memoir, Beyond Market Value, A Memoir of Book Collecting and the World of Venture Capital. Do you consider your book collecting a form of escapism from a busy career, or an application of your skills as a venture capitalist?
ACW: It was definitely the former. Book collecting is a private world you can vanish into and visit with the writers, look at illustrations, think about the writers of the times you collect – it takes you completely away from the world of finance and business.
S: Your collection is particularly focused on Modernism, and you worked to collect rare editions of all one hundred titles listed in Cyril Connolly's The Modern Movement. Can you tell us more about your attraction to Modernist works?
ACW: It started serendipitously with that first purchase, because Eliot is one of the cornerstone Modernist writers. I found that I knew a number of – certainly the English – writers of the Modernist movement. However, initially I focused on the poetry of the First World War. That's a limited field, but of course a number of those poets were writers of the Modernist movement as it is defined. I knew a little of the French and American authors on the Connolly list. It's a period that appeals to me – both historically and of course, because the literature is profound. It's a product of reaction to the convulsive times of the late 19th and early 20th century, when literature changed to reflect more than merely the narrative and even the moralistic, to reflecting a more inward examination of the human condition.
S: Have any pieces in your collection been love at first sight?
ACW: Well, a recent acquisition comes to mind and that's one of fifteen proof copies of Stèphane Mallarmé's Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard, which I bought at one of the Pierre Bergé auctions that were carried out in several parts by Sotheby's and Pierre Bergé Associés in, I think, six parts. This was a sort of vanity auction for Bergé's collection but my, he was a great collector. What a fine collection of literature he had. Anyway, I resisted until I saw this on offer in, I think, the fifth sale. It is the key work of Modernism in my opinion, because many say that this was the work that started the Modernist movement. I had to buy it.
The hand of the wartime censor meant that the original version, probably written by Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart Hospital in 1917, remained unknown for many years. (© Siegfried Sassoon by kind permission of the Estate of George Sassoon.)
S: How do you go about finding books for your collection? Do you have a wish list, or is it more impulse driven?
ACW: Now it's more impulse driven. When I was collecting the Connolly list, it was a wish list to find not only the books of the list, but fine, inscribed and related copies of those items. Now it's collecting letters, manuscripts as well as books, involving authors – still Modernist authors – but I travel further afield now in my collecting choices. For instance, I have a lot of the art and writings of Mervyn Peake, who could by no stretch of the imagination be called a Modernist... a fantasy writer, perhaps. I have a peculiar attraction to the Titus trilogy. But I collect intensely authors in whom I really have interest – Verlaine, for example, who was not mentioned by Connolly for some reason. I find most books these days at auction, but occasionally a dealer has something fine to offer.
S: What's the most important thing to keep in mind when collecting books, and what advice would you give to a new collector?
ACW: I made many mistakes with my early collecting because I was finding my own way. Focus is important. I made a number of trips down blind alleys until I focused finally on Modernism. I spent far too long with works of fine print after the First World War collection had stalled. Condition is key; I didn't understand that at first. Literary letters should say something of interest – I personally don't think that a letter thanking someone for a dinner adds anything to the conversation about that author. If you don't have funds at your disposal, find a subset of the area that interests you where you can afford to assemble a collection. For instance, in Modernist terms, those Ariel poems reflect a lot about the early Modernist movement in English writing and they were and are very affordable.
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Martin Dean
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Japón (2002, Carlos Reygadas)
I am so glad I didn't see this film in the theater. From what I can tell, it was well reviewed, and I imagine my uncontrollable laughter at the end would have offended a few folks. Japón is long. It's only 132 minutes, but you feel every one of them.
It was shot 16mm and blown-up to 2.35:1, which is at times successful, at times not. Reygadas knows how to shoot some scenes and doesn't know how to shoot others. Imagine if Terrence Malick knew how to take pretty pictures, but not how to take pretty pictures that meant something. Reygadas also is a fairly terrible writer–a man, apparently shallow enough to want to kill himself because he limps, goes to the middle of nowhere to do it. There, he meets an old woman and decides life's worth living–so long as she gets jiggy with him.
Japón is incredibly serious, so much so I think Reygadas is daring people to say it's a pretentious piece of shit (Carlos, it's a pretentious piece of shit), and he seems to keep the critics at bay. Or maybe critics are stupider than I thought (just got done reading someone making fun of Woody Allen again. An Entertainment Weekly "contributor"). Reygadas also self-indulges a lot (no, not just showing us the naked old lady and the dude playing with himself), he forces us to sit and watch the all amateur cast sit around. In one scene, one guy starts bitching about the movie crew, only to be shushed by someone.
The film was all right for a while, maybe the first forty minutes, and I was planning on a reasonably nice review about how people who aren't Terrence Malick shouldn't pretend to be Terrence Malick (like that George Washington nitwit). Terrence Malick can write. Carlos Reygadas cannot (neither can that GW nitwit). Either GW nitwit, actually.
Wow, this film has really put me in a bad mood. I've got to stop thinking Guillermo Del Toro is indicative of Mexican filmmakers.
2002, ⓏⒺⓇⓄ, Directed by Carlos Reygadas, Film, Foreign, Japon, Mexican film
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My wife and I watched Japon just last evening, and we did not care for it. The camera work, probably intended to be artistic, was simply annoying. The animal cruelty that Mr. Reygadas detailed was overdone and fairly pointless, particularly the scene where the lead beheads the Dove and the scene where a barnstormer is choking the puppy. The long pauses while we are shown the floor or the ground, the interminable camera journey up the train tracks to the bloody (and very predictable) remains of poor Ascen, the inexplicable parade of the children, the wedding song….none of that meant much to us.
There was nothing attractive, thought-provoking, or informative in this film…not for us, at least. At the conclusion, aside from relief that it was over, both of us felt a little betrayed.
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San Zenone al Lambro is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Milan–Bologna railway, it serves the municipality of San Zenone al Lambro.

Services
San Zenone al Lambro is served by line S1 of the Milan suburban railway network, operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord.

See also
 Milan suburban railway network

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The ELM, Dispatches and Awlaki
SHIRAZ MAHER
The East London Mosque (ELM) continues pushing the line that it only hosted the al-Qaeda linked preacher Anwar al-Awlaki at its mosque on one occasion and that 'there was no credible evidence at the time of the event that al-Awlaki might be an extremist'.
Both parts of that statement are demonstrably wrong.
The ELM admits the Awlaki spoke at the mosque in January 2009, stating:
A video of al-Awlaki was shown by an external hirer on 1 January 2009 in which he talked about life after death. Nothing controversial or extreme was said in the video.
That might be so, but the manner in which the event was advertised was certainly controversial and extreme. Billed as an 'end of days' conference the poster shows Manhattan under siege, submitting to an almost Hadean apocalypse.
The content of Awlaki's talk in this respect is largely irrelevant. Yes, he spoke about 'life after death' but would the ELM have allowed Nick Griffin to lecture at their mosque provided he agreed not to speak about race?
The ELM says this is the only occasion on which Awlaki spoke at its premises. Yet, at a conference the following month held at the London Muslim Centre – a venue owned and controlled by the ELM, and attached to the mosque – the same group that hosted him in January promised to repeat the lecture:
[Message from "Abu Salahudeen"]
Re: Noor Pro Media…Don't Despair
For those who missed the opportunity to watch the video lecture by Anwar Al Awlaki (Your Just Reward…Paradise or Hell) at our last event, we will be airing this video again at this event.
So please arrive early and make sure you have purchased a ticket, as we have limited seating available.
It is not known whether this actually happened but, so far, there have been no denials from either the ELM or the event organisers, Noor Pro Media.
What the ELM also fails to acknowledge is that they hosted Awlaki in 2003. He spoke at an event hosted by the now defunct group 'Stop Police Terror' in the East London Mosque and focused on anti-terror arrests, urging Muslims not to report fellow Muslims under any circumstances:
A Muslim is a brother of a Muslim, he does not oppress him, he does not betray him and he does not hand him over…You don't hand over a Muslim to the enemies…
You can hear his speech here:
The second point raised by the ELM is that when it allowed Awlaki to broadcast his message in 2009 'there was no credible evidence at the time of the event that al-Awlaki might be an extremist'.
To be honest, I don't even know where to begin with this one.
Last month I produced an authoritative rebuttal of the argument that Awlaki has somehow become more radical in recent years. It is manifestly untrue.
Long before Awlaki spoke at the ELM he was translating and disseminating jihadist texts such as Thawaabit Ala' Darb Al-Jihad – which means 'The Constants of Jihad'. He also promoted stories from the 'Book of Jihad' written by a 14th Century jihadist, Ibn Nuhaas and delivered the lecture 'Allah is preparing us for victory' in which he told listeners:
…the solution for the Ummah is Jihad fe Sabeelillah [Jihad in the path of God]. When the Ummah revives this Ibaadah [worship], it becomes ironical; Jihad fe Sabeelillah becomes an irony. People run away from it because they see that is it a loss of money and it's also a loss of self; you could loose [sic] life and you could loose [sic] your wealth in Jihad fe Sabeelillah. The irony is that when the Ummah fights Jihad fe Sabeelillah, the Ummah becomes the wealthiest and when the Ummah is fighting Jihad fe Sabeelillah, the least of this Ummah die.
Indeed, two months before the ELM hosted Awlaki in 2009 the Homeland Security Under-Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Charles Allen, stated:
Another example of al-Qa'ida reach into the Homeland is U.S. citizen, al-Qa'ida supporter, and former spiritual leader to three of the September 11th hijackers Anwar al-Awlaki-who targets U.S. Muslims with radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen.
One month after Awlaki's video message was broadcast at the ELM, he wrote the following on his blog:
I pray that America sees no progress at all. I pray that Allah destroys America and all its allies and the day that happens, and I assure you it will and sooner than you think, I will be very pleased.
Let's assume the ELM is sincere when it says it did not know the truth about Awlaki. Surely that means its senior management – such as Mohammed Abdul Bari – are grossly unfit to continue serving as government advisers on violent extremism?
That is the best case scenario for them.


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On this day in magazines: Sunday Times supplement 1962
First issue cover of the Sunday Times Colour Section, 4 February 1962
The first Sunday of February 1962 saw the advent of the Sunday Times Colour Section. It could not call itself a magazine then because the law prohibited magazines being published on a Sunday.
However, the colour supplement was a big factor in changing the nature of the magazine industry. The advent of commercial television in the mid-1950s had brought down general weekly magazines such as Picture Post, Everybody's and Illustrated. And monthlies too, such as Lilliput. From 1962, the Sunday papers became another nail in the coffin of weekly magazines. John Bull had relaunched itself as Today but would last just another two years; Tit-Bits, Reveille and Weekend would soldier on before eating each other up and closing in the 1980s. It was a story of slowly falling sales for women's weeklies too, with their circulations having peaked in 1960.
Yet it was not all plain sailing for the first 1960s colour section. Mark Boxer had been tempted across from the upmarket monthly Queen as launch editor. He said he had only seven weeks to produce the first issue and would later say he was 'amazed by its success'. He wanted to change the name to Sunday Times Colour Magazine but aside from the legal question, he was told that this might be interpreted as a sign of losing confidence. A few weeks after the launch, he said: 'The supplement is still not being taken seriously. It is like the toy in the cornflake packet.'
The art director was John Donegan, who had worked in advertising and later became a cartoonist for Punch and the Sunday Express. The cover for the first issue shows 11 photographs taken by David Bailey of Jean Shrimpton wearing a Mary Quant dress. They encircle a colour shot by photojournalist John Bulmer of Burnley's legendary striker Jimmy McIlroy. The issue also published the Ian Fleming short story 'The Living Daylights', but was described 'a crashing bore' in the news weekly Topic.
At the start of its second year, the Colour Section began calling itself a Colour Magazine. That word 'colour' was the magic ingredient, enabling the Sunday Times to offer a colour national advertising vehicle to big advertisers.It finally became the Sunday Times Magazine in 1964.
The idea of supplements is not new, of course. The Times launched a women's supplement in 1910, and a colour version a decade later, though bother were short lived. And the Times Literary Supplement and the paper's Education and Higher Education supplements are still published. But these are exceptions to the rule that supplements cannot make it as magazines. The last one to try – the Mail on Sunday's You, was an embarrassing failure when it tried.
Roy Thomson starting the presses at Sun Engraving for the first Sunday Times Colour Supplement in January 1962
'Bore' it might have been, but it pulled in the advertising revenue for Sunday Times owner Lord Thomson (a tycoon often remembered for saying that television was 'a licence to print money'). Other papers took notice, with The Observer following suit on 6 September 1964 with a cover portrait of Lord Mountbatten by John Hedgecoe, who established the photography department at the Royal College of Art the next year. It took its inspiration from magazines such as Life and Paris Match as well as the Sunday Times supplement. A Daily Telegraph supplement was launched the same month. Late in the decade, the Mirror had a ago, but this did not last long. Nowadays, however, most of the national papers have several magazine supplements, as do many local and regional papers.
Painted Mini by Alan Aldridge for the Sunday Times 1965 Automania special
Under editors such as Godfrey Smith, Hunter Davies, Ron Hall, Philip Clarke and Robin Morgan, the Sunday Times Magazine was a breeding ground for photographers, editors and designers, with people such as Peter Crookston, the future Nova editor; David Hillman, the Nova designer and later Guardian redesigner; and Peter Fluck and Roger Law (Spitting Image puppet makers); and art editor and Soviet archive owner David King all going through its doors.
Michael Rand ran the art side of the supplement between 1963 and 1993. In a commemorative issue (5 February 2012) he said:
I never attempted a style for the magazine. I just wanted it busy but simply laid out, and there had to be tension there: grit and glamour. I realise now my unconscious influence was Picture Post. It had those great covers and was unashamedly a picture magazine. And I used a lot of illustration — David Hockney, Peter Blake and Ian Dury did front covers. There was a feeling that, creatively, you could do anything.
And the supplements could do pretty much anything. The October 1965 front cover above – an Automania special issue – is an example. It is a real Mini painted in his psychedelic style by Alan Aldridge. The car was white-washed and painted with 100 tubes of designer's gouache, six cans of silver spray from Woolworths and checkered tape. It took five days. And then Denis Rolfe took the photo.
To encourage advertisers to prepare better artwork, the Telegraph group produced the Daily Telegraph Magazine Guide to Gravure Printing, a book written by its technical adviser, Otto M Lilien, in 1968. The expensive, 100-page guide was printed by Eric Bemrose, Aintree, the company that printed the magazine, with acetate pages produced by Harrison & Sons (High Wycombe) and binding by Tinlings of Liverpool.
The process and its technical differences from Letterpress and offset [lithography] are fully set out and illustrated In the following pages. Explanations are given to assist the achievement of the best possible results from the use of gravure through suitable basic design, typography, Artwork, photography and layout
The cost of printing the Mirror Magazine lost IPC millions of pounds in 1970
Supplements had massive print runs on the country's biggest gravure presses, and budgets to match because their economics were not the economics of a paid-for magazine.
However, get it wrong on a supplement and the printing costs could kill you – as it did the Mirror Magazine. IPC launched the supplement but the massive 5 million print run was too long for the copper cylinders on the gravure presses at Odhams Press in Watford. That meant two sets of very expensive cylinders – and the Mirror Magazine closed within a year having lost £7 million.
What's a copy of the Sunday Times Magazine worth?
To see almost 500 magazine covers and pages, look out for my book, A History of British Magazine Design, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, the world's leading museum of art and design
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Kroger testing new "smart cart'" that eliminates checkout
January 20, 2021 by krogerexperience
Kroger Store is examining the new innovation of modish shopping cart automation in Cincinnati district which subsides the paying at vacate.
Lately, after the earlier past of few of the weeks, the Kroger store has silently launched new innovative carts in the store Madeira, which is an identity of "KrogGo". This new innovation has permitted the buyers to fill up their cart with the maximum capacity, giving the buyers a convenience of carrying the grocery. The carts have digital machine attached which is for giving the accessibility to swipe the credit cards and debit cards. They have done this to achieve the efficiency level when it comes to keep the occupations functioning and making it less time consuming for the customers.
By the availability of this contrived intellect it has made the tasks easier for the consumers to gather their orders without having to scan the products because the carts can identify the products for example the milk carton or a bunch of grapes, it was said by Caper, that New York firms lacks innovation.
The carts have fixed scale which can measure the quantity of the products being sold, this calculate the weight of the product and the cart also have a fixed scanning screen which can display the data of buying of the items, it also shows exclusive promotional or discounts and other availabilities.
Consumers fill up their shopping bags with the products they want to purchase, they can also use recyclable bags which they bring along with themselves.
In reply regarding the pandemic (Covid -19), the increasing request of independence about the counter, invention is taking a huge part in the grocery stores and in the retail stores to pursue the stores to invent more advanced technological approaches which can help the buyers become obtaining harmless use also they encourage to have a modernize checkout which was told by the Lindon Gao, CEO and co-founder of Caper.
Apart from the Kroger store, Cincinnati founded Grocery store functions in an extensive area of Superstores lines estimated about it being in 35 state which involves Fred Meyer, Harris Teeter, Ralphs, Mariano's, Fry's, Smith's, King Soopers, QFC and the rest. This company approximately owns 2,800 stores and has about 500,000 employees working under them.
The Kroger's administrators admitted about the setup of Pilot Mission, they just gave an outline but have not confronted about finalizing. The Kroger store, continuously assesses about new invention within the bounded stores, who are yet examining the Scan, Bag, Go Pilot in minimum shops, it helps the buyers to utilize their own individual scanner machines when the buyers purchases items. Yet this program needs a halt at counter pay.
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Is the Kroger (KP) Stock outpacing its Retail- Wholesale Peers this Year?
The shareholders are more inclined towards Retail "Wholesale Space" have been known about Kroger Store, still the question arises that is the inventory complete in the presence of other competitors which requires a certain level.
Having a brief look when examining the presentation of the company's annual to its daily effort while comparing it with the other Marketing wholesale zones should be held answerable in proving relevant information which can assist us.
It's been informed that Kroger store is listed in 204 corporations also including it in the Retail Wholesale category. It has been lately classified that Retail Wholesale batch has made to the number 5 while being in Zacks sector rank. Zack sector rank having to prefer 16 diverse sets, calculating the standard "Zack Rank" having each goods in the similar segment to determine the passion of an individual assembly.
Currently Zacks Rank is highlighting on obtaining revenue which is an evaluation also to calculate redrafting to detect goods in regard to get the upgrading of the positions. The function possesses extensive records of achievements, on which the goods are often on the line of making a prominent vision to cross the retails by the estimated time which is more than 1 month and can take up to 3 months as well. Kroger is in full stand for Zack Rank on being the number2 purchase.
90 days has been surpassed, Zacks agreement determines that Kroger's annual obtaining revenue has raised by 2.34% more. The earning displays that the person who examined on his beliefs has assisted to bring enhancement to the Kroger's earnings in building of a stronger image.
The new update which is accessible displays about Kroger being able to return approximately of 6.11% subsequently in the beginning of the New Year. In competition the other Retail stores has given back approximately 0.79%. The comparisons illustrates that how well Kroger has improved in its presentation of the company within the initial of this year.
Also letting to know that Kroger has become a potential associate of Trade. The superstores markets, with each having 9 other corporations which lists to number 43 in group of Zack industry Rank. A standard of this division has just achieved to gain a standard of 0.66%, in this year which tells that Kroger's performance has enhanced during the mean time.
The stockholders are inclined towards the Retail – wholesale goods to keep the continuation of pursuing Kroger. Goods would be timely measured to acknowledge the appearance.
Kroger Initiates Covid – 19 Vaccines in Georgia
Atlanta – which is a well-known grocery mart line is now planning onto vaccinate Georgians, claiming of a latest announcement, the Kroger has proclaimed about Georgia chemist's having the need of Covid -19 vaccines to be presented.
Vaccination happening Friday, it's told that the vaccinations are short in stock and are serving the list given below
To the health maintenance employees.
To the initiators.
Giving to the old people about 65 years old, to the more elderly and to their caretakers.
To the citizen and the employees of care services.
Vaccines to be accessible for the entitled consumers without charging them, giving them on having obtainability of the vaccines. The vaccines are only given by scheduling it out. The corporation has stated whosoever wants to avail the opportunity of having vaccination can appoint online.
Kroger is in a development stage of working on strategy where the people prefer to plan their appointment on handset. It's planned that the announcement of the number would be given out as soon as they would finalize it.
The situation being sensitive, Kroger is obliged in being a huge help to the people in making the vaccines more reachable for them said Felix Turner, who is an administrator of the company Kroger's Atlanta Division.
Turner has stated that Moderna vaccines are now available at Kroger chemists.
As a team we are passionate about inclining the consumers and the comrades to take initiative part in taking vaccines to prevent the maximum Covid- 19 spread in the society, as being a part of a community we all together will make sure to make the vaccines more approachable extensively stated," Turner added.
Kroger administrator stated that the consumer which have the health insurance must carry their insurance document along with them when they visit for an appointment. The people of Medicare affiliates are asked to come along with their red, white and blue Medicare Part B card.
If the consumers don't have their insurance document then they would be asked to submit their License card or the Social Security number.
Kroger to give out Covid-19 Vaccines
Bowling Green, ky, Kroger store has stated that they are willing to associate with Kentucky which is a state in United States, their aim is to provide the vaccines of Covid-19 to the locals where it is possible, to reach out for public in a wider assortment.
The initial heap would take place from the drive-thru service provided by the Kroger Clinics looking forward to take place in 1st February. Kroger will let the definite site and the timetable to be executed to the local people on 28th January.
Kroger store has developed a dispersed occupation in Kentucky having about 101 chemists also they have a compact clinic on the site, these services assists them in giving the vaccination in an extensive way of many covering of the residents.
The original start of giving vaccines would be initiating to give people from Stage 1a, 1b and lastly 1c.
Kroger has initiated to give a broader help in contributing for its people regarding healthcare making the vaccines more reachable in realm. Aside from this Kroger is seeking to gradually enlarge its attempt in providing the vaccines hence it wants to associate with the State to upsurge the obtainability of vaccines to the State Kentuckians, was urged by the Jerry Crain, the front-runner of Kroger who is in charge of heath and safety.
Kroger Shuffles Tech Jobs As It Enacts 'Transformative' Changes
December 1, 2020 by Alis Lee
Kroger Company is shifting a critical number of its advancement and computerized situations, with specific specialists may be losing positions, even as it is broadening its overall work in that creating zone.
According to CINCINNATI, Kroger is now focusing on Upgrading its technology which will be a major transformation from traditional supermarkets.
The spokeswoman of Kroger said that these changes are made for the betterment of Kroger which will support the growing business.
That business incorporates its new computerized appropriation focuses being created in association with United Kingdom's online grocery service by Ocado. A few communities are in progress, remembering one office for Pleasant Prairie with a 300,000-square-feet distribution center and an associated, 30,000-square-feet office. That office would begin with 350 to 400 representatives at startup, expected in spring 2022, and could develop to 700 workers in the duration of five years.
The distribution centers which are under the umbrella of Ocado will manage the home delivery of groceries for Kroger including store brands and Pick 'n Save Metro Market.
No doubt the tech and digital advancements will affect quite a number of employees, however, there is no official statement by Kroger, yet there are declining to share any headcount. The employee roles are changing as a result opportunities will be given to them for their applications. The Spokeswoman has given a statement that; "the newly added incremental roles as well as adjusted roles," further elaborated that there will be hundreds of new positions announced which is not a specific count but seems to be prominently high.
Kroger Spokeswoman further elaborated; "We expect the team will grow in size and many of our current associates will also be promoted or provided new opportunities for personal growth and development based on added responsibilities throughout this transition, while some roles are changing, throughout this process, hundreds of positions will be posted, and all associates will have an opportunity to apply for those roles."
There will still be a few employees left jobless in case they do not fit for the new roles announced.
Kroger hopes to wrap up the progress to these new innovations and advanced positions before entering 2021.
Kroger doesn't break out work numbers by division. Yet, it said in June 2018 it would have 1,000 workers in its new midtown Atrium Two computerized base camp, 221 E. Fourth St., by mid-2021.
Kroger's advanced deals took off 127% in the subsequent quarter, which finished Aug. 15, in the wake of flooding 92% in the primary quarter this year.
Kroger's digital sales soared 127% in the second quarter, which ended Aug. 15, after surging 92% in the first quarter this year.
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Yazu Ryoichi independently conducted research on calculating machines, and after obtaining a patent, manufactured Japan's first mechanical desktop calculating machine in 1903. It is said that Yazu got the idea for the calculating machine while helping with his father's clerical work. After dropping out of junior high school, he learned the basic subjects at a private school, and did research on flight and desktop calculators. With a model of his biquinary mechanical calculating machine (automatic abacus), which took three years of hard work to complete, and a paper on "Principles of Flight", which summarized the results of his years of research, he met with a man named Takahashi, who was the editor in chief of the Fukuoka Nichinichi Shimbun newspaper. Takahashi was greatly impressed by Yazu's abilities, and wrote a letter of introduction to Mori Rintaro (Mori Ogai), who was a medical officer in the Ogura 12th Medical Corps. Ogai also was deeply impressed by Yazu's character and research, and worked as a go-between with the professors of Tokyo Imperial University. In March 1902, Yazu applied for a patent on his automatic abacus, and completed a version made entirely of metal. The patent was granted in January 1903, and in March a shop was established, and the first calculator in Japan was manufactured. This was a manual desktop calculator which perfofmed decimal arithmetisc operations using a single cylinder and 22 gears with biquinary number setting. The price was high -- ¥250 for one machine -- but more than 200 were sold. The profits from the sale were invested into Yazu's airplane research. Yazu Ryoichi died young, at the age of 31.
The following description is from the pamphlet for Yazu's automatic abacus.
"Today, calculators are everywhere in the cities of Europe and America... However, these calculators were invented by foreigners with no knowledge of our abacus, and although they are superior to the abacus in many ways, there are more than a few points where they are still inconvenient. This new automatic abacus can meet the needs of those who wish to combine the abacus and the calculator to realize a fast calculation machine, and is being purchased by many customers who previously used foreign-made calculators..."
One of Yazu's calculators was preserved by the Hisatomi Family of Buzen Sho-e (the descendants of Yazu Ryoichi's elder sister), but today this machine has been entrusted to the City of Kitakyushu, together with its related documents.


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