While the rewards of time spent in the wilderness are nearly priceless, not everyone possesses the desire or the means to truly rough it in for an extended period of time. And while Emerson, Thoreau, and Kerouac may have differed in opinion, we believe holding on to some semblance of our tech-driven lives helps us maintain some sanity and safety in the great outdoors; no one wants to quit cold turkey.
Now, we're not suggesting a direct transference of your home entertainment system to the nearest campsite, but we do want to shed light on some perks that even the most adventurous outdoorsmen may receive from a little tech assistance. Items like a portable stove or a beacon signal can spell the difference between an expedition and rescue mission. It's also nice to carry some tunes along for the ride as well, which is where that Bluetooth speaker may come in handy. And while tech may seem to run our day-to-day lives, a great camping gadget serves a supplementary purpose, facilitating in a more enjoyable experience for all parties.
And that's the goal here: to not remove the stars from your vision but to make them more visible, to not prevent you from enjoying time alone with nature but provide you with a hot meal when the day is done, to light up the night without worry, and maybe even document a few moments as well. Emerson once suggested that "in the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through a man," and for what it's worth, we certainly agree, that's why we've compiled a list of the 20 best camping gadgets to facilitate that wild delight, while peppering in a bit of comfort to boot.
Don't let a little wind get you down. This powerful wind-resistant burner reaches temperatures up to 2300 degrees F and features an electron ignition. Functioning as a lighter attachment, the pocket torch works with just about any lighter on the market today. Light your camp stove, melt snow, even solder metal if you feel up to the task. The piece's durable and wind-resistant design ensures that even when the weather won't cooperate, your lighter won't let you down.
"Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink" will no longer be an unfortunate reality for you while out on the trail with an empty water bottle. The award-winning LifeStraw, which removes 99.9999 percent of waterborne bacteria, has been used by over 5 million people across the globe since 2005. It surpasses EPA standards for water filters and can filter up to 1000 liters of contaminated water without iodine, chlorine or other chemicals.
Time to rid the camping trip of mosquito bites without smelling like a citronella candle. Each Invisaband is 100 percent guaranteed to stop mosquitos from invading your personal space thanks to their unique porous microfiber design that slowly releases the active natural ingredient, geraniol, over the course of its 120-hour lifespan. And since each pack comes with five bands, you and your friends will be set for a pest-free trip.
The only thing worse than spending hours on end chopping wood for a campfire is struggling to light the thing. Luckily, the Exotac fire starter provides an ultra-portable and collapsible self-contained option that's proven to provide users with up to 3000 fire-starting strikes per piece. It's machined from 6061 aluminum right here in the USA and the hosts a replaceable 1/4" Ferrocerium rod that will get the job done even if it's a little wet.
It's not camping without the right survival tool. We know this, and figured you should as well. The Origin Survival Tool comes equipped with a sewing needle, lifesaving tips, and techniques, 3 square feet of aluminum foil, a combination knife, LED light, a whistle, and a compass button. There's also a wide variety of additional tools and features embedded in this modular design that'll ensure when a problem arises, it doesn't escalate.
A campsite without a lantern is a dark and depressing place at night. So perk things up and spread the light with this double power LED lantern with 80 lumens enclosed within its frosted globe that properly diffuses that power into softer, ambient light. It's collapsible, features a double-hook hand loop and three fold down legs making it adaptable to any light-starved environment.
When the sun is shining it would be a shame not to take full advantage of its awesome power. The Anker solar charger hosts PowerIQ charging technology delivering up to 2.1 amps under direct sunlight and is quite durable thanks to industrial-strength PET polymer-faced solar panels sewn into the charger's polyester canvas.The result is a weather-resistant piece that's suited to stand up to consistent outdoor abuse.
For when the warmth of the fire just isn't warm enough, there's Mr. Heater. Each heater provides heat up to 200 square feet fo space, sure to heat things up quite nicely. Safety features include auto shut-off if low oxygen is detected, the pilot light goes out, or if it's tipped over. And since it's approved for both indoor and outdoor use, Mr. Heater can spread the warmth back at the homestead as well.
Light up the night with this headlamp that hosts one triple power LED, two single power white LEDs and two single power red LEDs that emit up to 110 lumens. It comes with several optional settings depending on the desired utility. These include full strength, dimming, strobe, red night vision and lockout. They are also available in different colors as well if all black isn't your forte.
It's tough to spend significant time outdoors without having access to potable water, especially when all you want to do is clean off some of the dirt and grime that comes with the territory. The Nemo Helio Pressure Shower is unlike ordinary gravity-fed camp showers in that it's pressurized to deliver enough psi to wash hair, clean the dishes, or rinse off your gear. The system includes an 11-liter tank and 7-foot neoprene hose.
Keep your tech alive during your time away from the land of the outlets with this recharger. Each Venture 30 contains a built-in Micro USB tip and a solar-ready charging tip to charge two devices at once or share with a lucky someone. It's waterproof and hosts a 7,800mAh Power Pack that'll charge phones up to three times and tablets once.
In a perfect marriage of old school and new, the BioLite Campstove is a true testament of harnessed energy. It's the camp stove that uses its own created energy from the fire to charge just about any USB-chargeable device, including smartphones. In this case, about 20 min of charging with the fire gives users about 1 hours of talk time. It can boil 1 liter of water in 4 1/2 minutes and altogether, the stove weighs in at about 2 pounds.
Oh coffee. You are too often abused under-appreciated on camping trips due to faulty equipment. Well, not anymore. The Hanpresso delivers the caffeine-infused goods to the campsite in a sleek manner. It includes an E.S.E adapter, made from aluminum, and the brews with 16 bar pressure. The machine's small stature also makes it highly packable so the Handpresso fits perfectly into any camping or hiking backpack.
Heading off the grid can have its rewards as well as its pitfalls. The goTenna offers the best of both worlds in this instance in turning your smartphone into an off-the-grid communications tool that lets you text and share GPS locations on offline maps with at least one friend. They're sold in pairs of two and are lightweight, weatherproof and simple to use. With the goTenna the only people you'll be in contact with are those out there as well.
Every camping trip should feature a little action camera documentation. Be it on a hike, while mountain biking, fishing or kayaking, capturing the adventure is sometimes half the fun. The HERO4 Session is the smallest and lightest camera yet that's durable and waterproof so no additional housing is required. It shoots 1440p30, 1080p60 and 720p100 video with 12fps photo burst capability as well.
Designed to come in handy when the silence of the wilderness becomes too much to handle, the UE Megaboom offers 360-degree sound coupled with deep bass in a tiny package that will fit in any backpack and get the party started the right way. It hosts up to 100 feet of Bluetooth connectivity range, a 20-hour rechargeable battery and improves over time with wireless updates for user convenience.
If things head south while you're out and about the DeLorme will keep you alive. Acting as a satellite messenger, the inReach software triggers an SOS on command allowing you to interact with their 24/7 search and rescue center. Users can also send and receive 160 character texts to and from anyone in the world thanks to the Iridium satellite network as well. It's the ultimate safety net in tech for even the most extreme adventurers.
We're huge fans of Big Agnes' tents and when we heard this particular find won the 2015 Backpacker magazine's Editor's Choice Award we had to include it in the list. Known for its built-in LED lighting, you'll never be without a bit of light once the sun disappears below the horizon. It fits up to two people and can function in three seasons without issue. The Spur Tent also hosts two doors, and two vestibules with storm flaps on the vestibule zippers.
What's a gadget-fueled camping trip without the proper adventure watch? The Suunto Traverse Alpha hosts both durable quality and a full set of useful outdoor features including GPS navigation, hunting and fishing options, moon phases, sunrise alerts, weather trends and a red backlight to use on those dark nights. Keep current on the time and the surrounding conditions; Suunto can help in a stylish manner.
The only thing that's better and a great set of binoculars is the ability to record what you find. How else are you going to prove to your buddies that Sasquatch exists? Each pair of these Sonys features Twin G Lenses with 12x optical zoom, an optical SteadyShot Active Mode, and a splash-proof and dust-proof design. And once you gather the footage you can relive the trip in the wild in Full HD or 3D on your home entertainment system.


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Yi Bite: Recent works by Feng Mengbo
When 16 Sep 2010 - 5 Nov 2010
Where Chambers Fine Art
M 01, silkscreen on silver leaf, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Chambers Fine Art NY
September 16 – November 5 2010
Chambers Fine Art announces the opening on September 16 of Yi BiTe: Recent Works by Feng Mengbo. For his first exhibition at Chambers Fine Art New York, Feng Mengbo continues his investigation of classical Chinese culture that began with Wrong Code: Sanshui without abandoning his deep immersion in every aspect of the cyber world. More than any other artist in China today, Feng Mengbo has been associated with the world of computers, video-games and youth culture. Exploring the darker aspects of this technology, he moved rapidly from CD-ROMs to actual games in which spectator participation became increasingly important. His vast interactive media-installation, Feng Mengbo: Restart was exhibited at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 2009.
Beginning in 2005 Feng Mengbo returned to painting, not as a rejection of the technological orientation of his earlier work but as a supplement to it. After the Built to Order and Wrong Code: Sanshui series of paintings, Feng Mengbo has turned to fundamental texts such as the Jieziyuan Huazhuan (Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden) and other calligraphy and landscape copybooks as the source of this new body of work. At first glance the silver-leaf panels covered in silk screened patterns of black squares appear to be elegant abstractions, an unexpected development for an artist of Feng Mengbo's transgressive persuasion. As soon as the source of these apparently random arrangements is revealed, however, their relationship with the rest of his oeuvre is apparent.
As Andrew Solomon has remarked: "The current exhibition encompasses classical works of brush painting and calligraphy reduced to one-bit form – the smallest amount of information possible for a computer age, the most primitive possible code – and silkscreened onto silver-leaf panels. …Literati artists worked in an extremely reduced vocabulary, and their genius lay in being able to express all of existence in a few brushstrokes. Feng Mengbo automates the process, and reduces expression to far more austere essentials. It is surprising that even in these deliberately impoverished images, much of the beauty of the hand survives; Feng Mengbo preserves both style and meaning. In his view, the artists whose work he copies were brave and radical innovators, and he posits that if they were living now, they would be obsessed with technology. The brush on rice paper is a code, just as digital technology is.
Although unexpected, this recent development in Feng Mengbo's art is a tribute to his inquiring mind. Having been submerged in a world of fantasy and popular culture as represented by video games since the beginning of his career, Feng Mengbo has turned to the past and found that it has more in common with the unruly present than might have been expected.

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Q: How download a project from code.google? How can i download a project from code.goole.com ?
it gives me a checkout like this :

http://mensch-aergere-dich-nicht.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
mensch-aergere-dich-nicht-read-only

i also see this topic and use DownloadSVN but it gives me error :

Failed to download: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

i already download project without these kinds of probelm :(
tnx in advance

A: It looks like that project is not configured correctly. There are no files in the trunk/ folder. Try downloading
http://mensch-aergere-dich-nicht.googlecode.com/svn/MenschAergereDichNicht/

(I don't use SVN, so I don't know if that URL will work with svn checkout or if you need to download the individual files some other way.)

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Punta Agrimbau (spanisch) ist eine Landspitze im Nordosten der Brabant-Insel im Palmer-Archipel westlich der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Sie liegt auf der Nordseite der Albena-Halbinsel und ragt östlich der Sumer-Passage in die Gerlache-Straße hinein.

Argentinische Wissenschaftler benannten sie nach Miguel Agrimbau, der 1933 und 1935 in diesem Gebiet hydrographische Vermessungen durchgeführt hatte.

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 Agrimbau, punta im Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (englisch)

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11 Rihanna Lyrics That Prove She Was Always Meant to Be a Bond Girl
By Kadeen Griffiths
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In what is quite possibly the most perfect casting since Aubrey Plaza was selected to be the voice of Grumpy Cat in the upcoming Christmas special, Rihanna might appear in the next James Bond movie. It's nothing more than a rumor of a rumor of a rumor at this point, but is there anyone out there who can imagine a more perfect acting role for someone like Rihanna than as the next Bond girl? Not just because Rihanna wore a see-through dress to a gala, but because if there's any celebrity who exudes mystery, sexuality, and confidence, it's Rihanna. And practically any Rihanna song would make a great soundtrack for a James Bond movie. In fact, half her songs are perfect evidence for why she'd make a good Bond girl to begin with.
According to Wikipedia, a Bond girl is defined as "character (or the actress portraying a character) who is a love interest of James Bond in a film, novel, or video game... There is no set rule on what kind of person a Bond girl will be or what role she will play. She may be an ally or an enemy of Bond, pivotal to the mission or simply eye candy." If you examine Rihanna's lyrics, they tell a familiar story that many Bond girls find themselves cycling through in your typical Bond movie. Let's take the narrative of the alluring woman that James Bond meets and tries to help only to later discover she was working for the bad guys all along, shall we?
1. Funny you're the broken one but I'm the only one who needed saving.
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Song: "Stay" (2013)
James Bond is your pretty typical brooding male hero with all the charm and the skills to distract us, and himself, from the fact that he has a pretty messed up past. And there's always a hint of vulnerability in the girls that he meets that entices him to want to help them.
2. I don't wanna be a murderer.
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Song: "Unfaithful" (2006)
Sometimes, the Bond girls begin with the revelation that they're working for the bad guys, but paint themselves as the victim. Maybe the bad guy is blackmailing them, maybe the bad guy has a gun on their family, or maybe they have Stockholm Syndrome, but they are occasionally reluctant villains who need a guy like James Bond to help them break free.
3. I'm the question and you're of course the answer.
Song: "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" (2006)
It doesn't take long for the game of seduction to begin. After all, this beautiful woman is nothing but a mystery wrapped inside a riddle and only James Bond can put this puzzle back together.
4. Got you where you wanna go if you know what I mean.
Song: "Shut Up and Drive" (2007)
"Shut Up and Drive" is one long allusion to sex using car imagery. Sorry if I spoiled that for anyone. Most Bond girls have a raunchy name that ranges from the subtle to the don't-let-your-children-watch-this. Pussy Galore, anyone?
5. I'll tell you all my secrets that I'm keepin', you can come inside. And when you enter, you ain't leavin', be my prisoner for the night.
Song: "Only Girl (In the World)" (2010)
Next comes the reveal. Just when things are really heating up between James Bond and his love interest, she reveals herself to have been working against him this whole time and he's left in a sticky situation. Sometimes in more ways than one.
6. I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it.
Song: "S&M" (2010)
Like some kind of switch has been flicked, if they seemed vulnerable-yet-dangerous before then they really crank it up to 11 when they don't need to pretend anymore. Rihanna in particular would bask in being the bad girl we all know and love.
7. I'm such a f***in' lady. You don't have to be so afraid.
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Song: "Wait Your Turn" (2009)
However, just because she's been revealed to be a villain doesn't mean the Bond girl is any less glamorous and sophisticated than she was before the reveal.
8. My runway never looked so clear, but the hottest bitch in heels right here.
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Song: "Hard"
To be honest, this lyric applies throughout the entire movie. That's why James Bond took such notice of her in the first place. That Rihanna reign just won't let up.
9. Easy for a good girl to go bad and once we gone best believe we've gone forever.
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Song: "Good Girl Gone Bad" (2007)
For some Bond girls, however, their feelings for James Bond overcome their alignment and they begin to doubt that they're doing the right thing, even if it seems like it's too late to turn back.
10. Then I get a scary thought. That he's here means he's never lost.
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Song: "Russian Roulette" (2009)
Helping them along on their journey back to James Bond's side is the fact that the villain betrays them or attempts to dispose of them in some way, making them realize that James Bond is the only guy they've ever been able to trust. Sometimes, this ends in their death and sometimes they get to be James' hero.
11. We found love in a hopeless place.
Song: "We Found Love"
Then James and his latest Bond girl fall madly in love until the next movie in which he falls for someone completely different. Rihanna has a song or lyric for every James Bond movie under the sun, so it's really shocking it took someone this long to put her in one.
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Why Talking About Death Might Help You Live a Better Life
"Everybody's going to come across it. It's a matter of when and where and how."
Eighty percent of Americans want to die at home but only 20 percent do. Most spend their final weeks in hospitals or nursing homes. As a society, we dedicate a lot of money to providing people with an end of life they don't actually want. For example, about 25 percent of Medicare's spending is for individuals' last year of life.
Clearly, death is something we should be talking about. So why is it that we'll do almost anything to avoid it?
At the 2018 Fortune Brainstorm HEALTH conference on Tuesday, a panel of passionate advocates for a more open discourse on the subject of mortality, moderated by Thrive Global Founder and CEO Arianna Huffington, explored the importance of eliminating the stigma around discussing death.
"Talking about death is not a morbid thing," said Michael Hebb, founder of Death Over Dinner, a non-profit organization that gathers people around a dinner table to discuss death. "We've turned it into this medical act. We've sterilized and separated ourselves from death, but when we discuss death, what we're talking about is life."
Not only does the conversation surrounding death reveal our vulnerability, it also has the ability to deeply connect us as human beings, Hebb explained. The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, director of the Ethics Initiative at MIT Media Lab, agreed, adding that death is a "great equalizer," as it comes for all of us regardless of gender, race or net worth.
Priyadarshi also expressed concern about increasing loneliness among people nearing the end of their lives. "We live in a society of seven billion human beings," he said. "Loneliness should be the last thing on our mind at this stage."
In terms of how to initiate an end of life conversation with patients or loved ones, Hebb suggested approaching it the same way you would a love interest — with creativity and "a kind of playfulness."
Priyadarshi maintained that death is the "one experience that nobody can deny," despite society's growing desire to achieve immortality through modern technology. "Everybody's going to come across it," he said. "It's a matter of when and where and how."
Moving forward, Hebb said we should strive to be just as literate about death as we are about anything else. "Just because [death is] mysterious does not imply that we should be fearful of it," Priyadarshi said.
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Discussion in 'Public Game Developers Forum' started by VirtualPool, Apr 3, 2009.
We are starting to wonder how the currency conversion is done when we get paid at end of month. We assumed that you could take the number off the financial statement, Google and conversion ratio, multiply and then have a close approximation for what to expect from the wire. However... month after month we get at least 10% less in USD than what we calculate using current rates from internet. Sometimes 20% off. I hate to be greedy, but it does add up. Maybe the conversion is done some other way???


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PUBG Sues Apple and Google for Selling Rip-Off Versions of the Game
In the recent news, Krafton Inc, the developer of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (better known as PUBG) has filed a lawsuit against the biggest tech giants in the industry, Apple and Google. PUBG is suing the tech giants for selling rip-off versions of PUBG on their app stores.
Free Fire is One the Rip-Off Versions of the PUBG Game
Krafton reasons in a US-based lawsuit that Garena's online battle royale game Free Fire, which is presently one of the biggest competitors to PUBG Mobile, has reproduced several of PUBG's copyrighted elements. This allegedly encloses the game structure, in-game items, equipment, and locations.
PUBG was originally launched as one of the first battle royale games of the gaming industry. The battle royale game type was also integrated into other famous titles later including Fortnite, Call of Duty: Warzone, Apex Legends, and others. Krafton states that Free Fire started trading on the App Store and Google Play Store of Apple and Google respectively in 2017 and Garena also began selling another copyright-infringing video game last year named Free Fire MAX.
Read more: PUBG New State Surpasses 10 Million Downloads On Play Store Within a Week
The official objection states that Apple and Google have distributed millions of copies of Free Fire the rip-off versions of the PUBG game on their app stores. Garena has allegedly made more than $100 million through Free Fire sales in the U.S. in the first three months of 2021.
Krafton Asks Apple and Google to Stop Selling Copies of Free Fire
Krafton further claims that Google's YouTube acts as a defendant to Free Fire for hosting its gameplay videos on the platform as well as a Chinese film that is allegedly a live-action dramatization of PUBG.
In addition to this, Krafton claims that it asked Apple and Google to stop selling copies of Free Fire the rip-off versions of their game in December 2021 to no avail. The PUBG maker has now requested the court to block sales of Free Fire and has also demanded damages that Garena has made through the game. There has been no official comment from any of the involved parties so far.
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With Brand Licensing Europe just around the corner, Aardman are delighted to announce some fantastic new licensing deals for global brand Shaun the Sheep and classic property Wallace & Gromit across a host of core categories.
Aardman have agreed a new partnership with Aurora to produce plush items for Shaun the Sheep brand and the much anticipated feature film sequel 'Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon'. The deal spans multiple territories including UK, France and North America with lines being showcased at the upcoming trade fairs in Hong Kong, UK and Germany in January 2019.
During a busy summer, Aardman have also signed a number of new UK licensees through their agent Start Licensing, across the Shaun the Sheep and Wallace & Gromit brands. These include Ideal Home Shopping for create and craft items, Teddy Mountain for 'Build your own Shaun' plush, Blackbird for costume jewellery, Beams for composite gifting, Artland for art prints, Wentworth for wooden puzzles and Aptec and Jardinopia for garden ornaments and Signature Gifts for personalised books and giftwares.
Alongside this they have recruited both TDP and Dreamtex to create nightwear and bedding respectively, based on their Sheep Dreams sleep themed style guide.


Offset is the most common printing technology. In offset printing, the desired print image is burned onto a plate and is then transferred (or offset) from the plate to a rubber blanket, and then to the printing surface. The lithographic process is based on the repulsion of oil and water. The image to be printed gets ink from ink rollers, while the non printing area attracts a film of water, keeping the non printing areas ink-free.
• The unit cost goes down as the quantity goes up.
• Quality and cost-effectiveness in high volume jobs.
While today's digital presses are close to the cost/benefit ratio of offset for high quality work, they are not yet able to compete with the volume an offset press can produce.


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require 'dotenv'
Dotenv.load

dir = File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'lib'))
require File.join(dir, 'stattleship')
require 'pp'

# Construct params for the fetch
query_params = Stattleship::Params::BasketballTopStatsParams.new

# use a slug, typically 'league-team_abbreviation'
query_params.stat = 'rebounds_offensive'
query_params.type = 'basketball_rebounding_stat'
query_params.place = 3

# fetch will automatically traverse the paginated response links
top_stats = Stattleship::BasketballTopStats.fetch(params: query_params)

# the populated object
pp top_stats

# can access friendly helpers
pp top_stats.first.to_sentence

# "Tyson Chandler had 13 rebounds_offensive in Hawks vs Suns January 23, 2016 at  7:00pm for the first best performance"

# or, individual attributes
top_stats.each do |top_stat|
pp "#{top_stat.player.name} - #{top_stat.format_stat(top_stat.stat)} ORB - #{top_stat.place} best performance on #{top_stat.game.short_date}"
end

# "Tyson Chandler - 13 ORB - 1 best performance on 01/23/16"
# "Tristan Thompson - 11 ORB - 2 best performance on 12/17/15"
# "Andre Drummond - 11 ORB - 2 best performance on 12/11/15"
# "Andre Drummond - 11 ORB - 2 best performance on 11/ 3/15"
# "Dwight Howard - 10 ORB - 3 best performance on 01/18/16"
# "Trevor Booker - 10 ORB - 3 best performance on 12/30/15"
# "Ed Davis - 10 ORB - 3 best performance on 11/20/15"
# "Greg Monroe - 10 ORB - 3 best performance on 01/15/16"
# "Andre Drummond - 10 ORB - 3 best performance on 12/18/15"
# "Andre Drummond - 10 ORB - 3 best performance on 11/29/15"

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Eleazar Vasquez, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Exceptional Student Education, Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute
Office: ED 315F
Dr. Vasquez's current research focuses on the evaluation of academic and behavioral outcomes for students with autism utilizing technology to enhance instruction. Dr. Vasquez was recipient of the inaugural Reach for the Stars Award (2014) and has been recognized as a Teaching Academy and iSTEM Fellow at the University of Central Florida. Recently his research has expanded from K-12 schools to postsecondary institutions and other venues to prepare students who are traditionally marginalized, such as those with executive functioning disorder, for careers in STEM related fields. Dr. Vasquez's research has been supported in part by $8 million from the National Science Foundation and Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. Nationally Dr. Vasquez serves as the Treasurer for the Universal Design for Learning Implementation and Research Network, and Technology Chair for the American Council for Rural Special Education.
Ph.D. in Disability Disciplines
Single Subject Design
2016 Research Incentive Award
2016 Excellence in Research Award College of Education and Human Performance
2015 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award
2015 iSTEM Fellow
2014 Inaugural Reach for the Stars Award
Vasquez, E., & Marino, M. T. (2020). Enhancing executive function while addressing learner variability in inclusive classrooms. Intervention in School and Clinic.
Schereffler, J., Vasquez, E., Chini, J., James, W. (2019). Universal Design for Learning in postsecondary STEM education for students with disabilities: A systematic literature review. International Journal of STEM Education 6(1), 8
Mrstik, S., Pearl, C., Hopkins, R., Vasquez, E., & Marino, M. T. (2019). Combatting special educator attrition: Mentor teachers' perceptions of job satisfaction, resiliency, and retention. Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education. 1-14. doi:10.1017/jsi.2018.20/
NSF Award 1611019 Collaborative Multidisciplinary Engineering Design Experiences for Teachers (Project CoMET)
OSEP Award H325K150201 Preparing Special Educators in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Project ASD)
NSF Award 1612009 Adapting Collaborating Classes to Equally Support Science Students (Project ACESS)
NSF Award 1505202 Interdisciplinary Coaching as a Nexus for transforming how institutions support undergraduates in STEM (Project iCAN)
OSEP award H325K130222 Special Educator Preparation in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Project ASD)
Toni Jennings Exceptional Education Institute
Project ASD
Project iCAN
Universal Design for Learning Implementation and Research Network (UDL-IRN)
American Council on Rural Special Education (ACRES)
Teacher Education Division (TED)
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
International Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA)


The Tour de France begins this Saturday and for anyone claiming they cannot eke out even a brief moment in time to peek in on the race over the next 3 weeks, or that doping has forever damaged their view of this Grand Tour - I say, fine. An estimated 3.499999 billion other people will be there to cover your absence by viewing this event; 11.999999 million other people will take your place curbside to watch this race live in person.
That is a nice way of saying "The race will go on" with or without you. Thank goodness, because I love the Tour de France. Anything that has hung around since 1903 deserves some respect. The Tour de France is a tradition which never becomes stale, it adapts and changes and will be around for a long time to come. Evident by the fact that a race called the Grand Boucle (Word of the Day at the TDF: Boucle) in no way resembles a circle loop, and that seems perfectly okay with just about everyone. It is a sporting game afterall!
This year's route zigs and zags all over the fine country of France as if it were a tourist on a 9-day all-inclusive tour of the French countryside without a map, finally finding Paris on the last day.
Stage 1-3 - We are on the French island of Corsica (which is not part of Italy) for the first time in Tour history. Napoléon Bonaparte was born on Corscia. Which reminds me that I cannot look at a tiny cobbled lane or a plane tree in France without thinking of Napoléon (Tour Travel - Tour de France, Stage 11).
Stage 4 - We cross the Ligurian Sea (not the Mediterranean Sea) for the Team Time Trial in Nice. Time to appreciate the pageantry and the time gaps a TTT creates.
Stage 5-7 - We are skipping across the Côte d'Azur and Provence which should highlight the tourist epicenter of the universe.
Stage 8-9 - We head south into the Pyrenees and straight west over any mountain that crosses our path plus a few which do not just because it is week number two of the TDF and the point is to start tiring somebody out of contention. This year the Tour doesn't even touch the slopes of the Col du Tourmalet, which is a shame, but also quite good luck since horrendous floods have wiped out the road.
Rest Day - They call it a "rest day" but really it is a "travel day" because the next stage starts way up in the northwest corner of France.
Stage 10-11 - We're in the northwest of France now so that the riders can complete an ITT with a finish in Mont-Saint-Michel - for photo ops. At least I am pretty sure that is why we came all the way up north.
Stage 12-15 - Time to ride back across the entire country and through some vineyards and by some chateaus into the huge city of Lyon and all the way back to Provence (well technically the Vaucluse) and ride up Mont Ventoux, which was a few kilometers away from Stage 6 just 10 days ago prior to the photo op.
Rest Day - On paper this looks like a "rest day," yet because the riders rode 242.5 km yesterday and will have to ride 168km tomorrow, they will certainly be out riding the roads in Vaucluse on this "recovery day".
Stage 16-18 - Now we spend a couple days to ride all the way up to the Alps. Throw in an ITT, and then ride up Alpe d'Huez not once, but twice! This is also the day that the French Senate anti-doping commission will release their statement on findings. Unusual timing.
Stage 19-20 - We'll get to see some of the most beautiful terrain imaginable on a bicycle as the race covers the Grand Bornand and comes really close to Switzerland to add a couple more million fans into the mix, even though Fabian Cancellara is not riding this year!
Stage 21 - The Stage will start in opulent style in the gardens of the Château de Versailles and end in opulent style in the evening on the Champs-Élysées. With a big party or parade expected since it is the 100th Tour de France and they have all that printed material, costumes and props to reuse from 2003 when it was the 100th year of the TDF.
This year for the 100th Tour de France it will be all France all the time. There will be no going outside the country's border for this edition of the Tour. Although it is unlikely that a Frenchman will win, the French people admire true hardship and endurance in any athlete. Supposedly they seriously do not care about the nationality of the winner, except that only French riders get airtime on French TV, even if they are in 175th place. But now that Vinokourov has retired, I am willing to act like The only thing that matters is that the best man wins.
There is something thrilling about watching the grueling schedule of the Tour de France and seeing the direct affects it has on everyone. And I mean every one. The race is torturous and that is exactly what makes it such great entertainment.
As fans, I predict we will spend the first 6 stages watching for crashes. By Stage 8 the teams will have to remember which riders have abandoned and stop calling them back to pick up more water bottles for the guys at the front; as fans will be left to adjust our fantasy teams. By Stage 9 the Bike Tour Companies will be lucky to have all their clients accounted for after a very brief visit to the Pyrenees. By Stage 11 we should have a good idea of who might take the General Classification, but more importantly which team cars get priority in the massive line-up of vehicles into Lyon. By Stage 14 the journalists will begin to forget where they are and which stage they are reporting on. By Stage 15 the Caravan staff, who have been partying for 2-weeks straight with long hours in the sun out on the road, will be so exhausted it is clear why there is good reason to strap them onto those "floats," especially going up Mont Ventoux. By Stage 16 everyone is really tired of eating croissants and filling up the car with diesel but we have finally made it into the Alps. By Stage 17 don't be so sure you know who the top three are after the ITT because tomorrow a double dose of Alpe d'Huez is on the menu. By Stage 18 every rider will have to dig deep to make it to the top of Alpe'd'Huez or miss the cut-off time and lose their chance to spin the pedals three days later in glory over the cobbles of the Champs Elysees. This is not the day to go home! Stage 19 is hard hard hard. By Stage 20 we'll know the winner after a final brutal day of climbing and a long transfer sure to guarantee a funny walk onto the podium after the final 133.5 km long "ceremonial ride" into Paris.
Velo News has rights to publish the official guide to the TDF on U.S. soil and today online they released these super impressive facts - read: 100th Tour de France, by the numbers for lots more facts.
The race is broadcast in 190 countries on 60 live broadcast channels (proof why I still end up watching the race online with annoying ads).
There are 925,000 fans on Facebook, and 800,000 related apps for download on the Tour de France (0.86 app per FB fan). While the official letour.com website had 11.5 million unique visitors, in one month, last July (proof that websites rock!).
Stage Date Day's route (towns, regions) and terrain Length in Km.


In 1982, Markville Toyota opened its doors in north-east Markham with a small staff and a young brand. We have grown over the years however, meeting and exceeding our customer's expectations will always be very important to us.
We are ISO 9001 certified as part of our commitment to constantly monitor all aspects of our business and implement improvements whenever possible.
Our state of the art 55,000 square foot facility includes a 12 car indoor showroom and a heated and air-conditioned 20 vehicle demonstration area. Our service area includes15 service bays plus an indoor service drive-thru to accommodate our valued customers.
Today, Markville Toyota is north-east Markham's Toyota Superstore. Come in and see how our friendly straightforward approach to dealing with our customers sets us apart. We continue to enjoy a reputation as one of Canada's most respected Toyota dealers.


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Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!: Is it Monday, Already?
And while I tried to make the quilt on the Design Floor my main focus – real life crept in, slowly ate up all of my available time and I didn't get done.
But you know what? What is more important?
Real life fun with friends for lunch and antique shopping or quilting?
Real life run back to Galax for a much desired church pew and ice cream out, or getting that quilt top done?
Real life Saturday going back AGAIN to Galax for lunch with The Hubster on his birthday and watch his eyes light up over the possibilities this vintage 1950s Carolina Pride stove holds for his workshop?
And movie night – Don't forget movie night!
As with any old stove / heater, I always remind new owners to check them over carefully for cracks or holes.
I would suggest setting it up outside and burning some straw or leaves in it, something that will smoke good. Thus you can see if their are any areas that might leak smoke before it smokes up your husband's shop.
I'll look forward to seeing some photos when you have it cleaned up and hooked up. This Pride looks very solid and should be an easy restoration. If your husband has any questions, please let me know.
The Prides were introduced in the late 1920's, the first models were slightly different. All Pre-WWII models had nickel trim parts, after WWII they changed to the Gray Porcelain. The urn / finial on the top helps us date these, since Glascock didn't make these pieces but bought from another source.
Your Pride has the last urn / finial used and thus dates from early 1950's to mid 1960's. The foundry official shut down in 1964, but the Prides were available from inventory until 1967. The Carolina Prides were made in 2 sizes, the 418 like yours and a slightly larger model the 420. In the Galax area, Matthews Hardware, Vass Kapp Hardware and Gwyn Furniture were all distributor's of Glascock products back in the day.
THANKS again for contacting me, let me know if you have any questions. Welcome to the ownership of a Glascock product.
How's THAT for customer service when I really wasn't a customer? And I felt such CAROLINA PRIDE coming from the Great Great Grandson of the Glascock Stoves founder. I bet several generations back – wherever they are –his ancestors are smiling.
So just how far did I get yesterday?
Just the center section left to go.
And what's the rush? It will be here waiting for me (Though more block surfing may happen in the interim!) when I get back early April.
Enjoy some mountain farmland views and a paintbrush sky?
The panorama goes on and on.
This is Appalachia. Where my heart dwells.
Another thing that ate up about 3 1/2 hours of time yesterday – my Brother Scott and his wife Alicia live in Boise, Idaho. My Dad of course is in Arizona and I am here in Virginia. 3 time zones between us.
And this game yesterday went on for 3 1/2 hours. Bye bye sewing time – but again – what is more important? We all live far away from each other – yet through playing this game together, our voices mingling through our headsets and solving the riddles, we were TOGETHER.
Again, the sewing can wait….
I enjoyed my trip to Bloomington so much – So many of these folks have become to so dear to me over the years. They went out of their way to welcome me, and for that I am SO grateful. The harder it becomes to be away from home and family for long lengths of time, the more I appreciate what folks to do make me feel at home in their midst.
Which brings me to yesterday's #IGquiltfest prompt: Snap A Pic of your Quilty Friends!
The Bloomington Bonniacs. LOVE YOU!!!
The Brazos Quilting Bees and Beekeepers!
And for all of those who are on their way to Pigeon Forge, TN to see me at Mountain Quiltfest – I'm on the road as soon as this posts and we are going to have a fabulous week together! Don't forget your Show & Share!
Do I have everything I need in the van? I think so! I'm ready for a beautiful mountain drive, maybe some antique shopping on my way – lunch somewhere between here and there, and a great week ahead.
I'll be welcoming you to come join ME!
Pineapple Blossom quilt from the free patterns tab on my blog shared by a student during our Michigan workshops 2017.
While in Pigeon Forge, if you don't mind a little drive, check out Pappaw's Catfish. It's out on Wears Valley Road. I am not sure of the hours during the week, but the catfish is honestly the best I have ever had. And the Pigeon Forge deli. If you decide a burger is in your future, check out Chubby's.
I prefer local places to chains and these places are awesome.
"Last Will" looks like so much fun! Have you tried playing an Escape Game? Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg have several sites where you and up to 7 friends go and have 1 hour to escape from a locked room using clues and solving puzzles. I'll be there if you need a friend!!!
Wow! Your schedule sounds frantic. Enjoy your drive and all the workshops you are teaching and the lectures you are giving .
Waiting with great anticipation of the time when I can book a retreat at Quiltville Inn - is there a special place to sign up for updates specifically for the Inn, or will you post on the main blog?
Awesome news on the pot bellied stove, so much information and such a helpful man. It's going to look amazing after your hubby has fixed it up and the plus side it will keep him comfortable and warm in his workshop.
Love those pictures of the views near where your cabin is absolutely stunning, I think it's so nice that you are able to join in a game on line with your family the game looks interesting and I'll check it out it looks like one my sons would enjoy.
Hope you have a wonderful time at Pigeon Forge looks like some really busy workshops such fun one day I'd love to come to the US and join one of your workshops or maybe even get to Quiltville Inn.
I love the idea of playing Last Will with my family. I can only find Board Game (In Person) versions of it. Do you have an online version? IF so, when you have a minute (!) could you share where you found it?
Box Kite Day in Slidell, LA!
A Crabapple kind of Scrappy Day!
Jamestown Landing by the Water!
March '19 Quilty Box Gift-Away!
A Blue Ridge Mountain Day to BREATHE!
Back Trackin' To Sand Castles!
Days upon Days–Bringing on the Strings!
Idaho Square Dance–Mountain Quilt Fest, Day 3!
The Scrappy Bargello Dance–Tennessee Style!
Mountain Quiltfest Day 1–Geese on a String!
The Quilting Day That Wasn't!
Twice to Galax and Back Again!
A Turkey of a Day!
When All You Wanna Do is Sew!
Friday Night with the Bonniacs!
Wonky Wishes for the Win!
Pinwheel Fancy Day, the Indiana Way!
Inspiration at Cactus Queen Quilt Co!
No Time to Catch Up!
Home for a Quilty Box Gift-Away!
Straits of Mackinac in Denton TX!


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Date of Submission 27-Jan-2022
Date of Decision 08-Mar-2022
Date of Acceptance 10-Mar-2022
Date of Web Publication 25-Jun-2022
Keywords: Drug, induced, parkinsonism, tremor
Yadav PK. Study on drug-induced parkinsonism and its clinical patterns in Eastern Indian population. APIK J Int Med 2023;11:14-8
Yadav PK. Study on drug-induced parkinsonism and its clinical patterns in Eastern Indian population. APIK J Int Med [serial online] 2023 [cited 2023 Feb 8];11:14-8. Available from: https://www.ajim.in/text.asp?2023/11/1/14/348294
Parkinsonism is a syndrome of neurodegenerative disorders with characteristic clinical features and pathologically correlated with the degeneration of multiple anatomical structures within the brain.
The most common mechanisms are progressive protein deposition of alpha-synuclein or tau in the central nervous system giving rise to a variety of different parkinsonism syndromes.[1],[2]
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) is the most frequently seen subtype of parkinsonism with a incidence of about 14.2/100,000 person-years.[3] Drug-induced parkinsonism (DIP) is the second most common cause of parkinsonism after IPD.[4] Drug-induced movement disorders are a group of conditions, the most common being DIP followed by tremors, tardive dyskinesias, tardive dystonia, akathisia, and myoclonus. The manifestations of DIP can be very similar to IPD, and many a time, patients with DIP are misdiagnosed as IPD.[5],[6] DIP was first described in the early 1950s after the introduction of reserpine and chlorpromazine.
Postsynaptic D2 receptor blockade remains the usual mechanism leading to DIP. Presynaptic dopamine synthesis inhibition may be the cause for a few drugs such as tetrabenazine. Common agents causing DIP are typical antipsychotics such as chlorpromazine and prochlorperazine. Atypical antipsychotics such as olanzapine, risperidone, and aripiprazole are being increasingly recognized as a cause for DIP though to a much lesser extent than the former group of medications. Other drugs commonly involved are gastrointestinal motility agents such as (metoclopramide, levosulpiride, itopride, and clebopride), calcium channel blockers (flunarizine and cinnarizine), mood stabilizers such as lithium, valproate, and antidepressants such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.[7],[8],[9]
The objective of this study was to study the clinical patterns and medications leading to DIP in the study population.
This is a retrospective study at the outpatient neurology services of Aarogyam Neuroclinic, Durgapur, West Bengal, during January 1, 2021–July 31, 2021. Consecutive patients satisfying the inclusion criteria for DIP were studied. All the patients were examined by the same neurologist during the initial visit as well as during the follow-up. The diagnosis of DIP was made after detailed history and examination using the inclusion criteria. All the patients enrolled in the study had given signed consent to participate in the clinical study.
The inclusion criteria were
All patients with any two of the four cardinal features of parkinsonism – bradykinesia, tremor, rigidity, and postural imbalance
There should be a temporal relationship of intake of medications before the onset of symptoms
No features of parkinsonism before the intake of medications
Exclusion of parkinson plus syndromes, multi-infarct state, normal pressure hydrocephalus, and other causes of secondary parkinsonism by appropriate investigations such as magnetic resonance imaging brain
All other drug-induced movement disorders without parkinsonism were excluded from the study.
The age, sex, and other demographic characteristics of study population were studied. The pattern of parkinsonism – symmetric, asymmetric, tremor-dominant, or rigidity-dominant was noted. Detailed evaluation of the medication list was done. All the patients enrolled in the study were made to stop the offending medication and followed up every 2 months for 6 months. The change in the medication implicated in causing DIP was done after consulting the specialist who had prescribed the medication, to prevent worsening of the primary disease.
In the study period, a total of 52 patients were found to satisfy the inclusion criteria. Out of 52 patients studied, 34 (65.38%) were male and 18 (34.61%) were female. The most common age group involved was 60–70 years (30.76%), followed by 70–80 years (26.92%) and 50–60 years (19.23%). The least common age groups were <30 years, followed by more than 80 years. The mean age was 60.61 years with standard deviation of 13.44 years. On analysis of the clinical patterns of parkinsonism, the most common type of parkinsonism seen was tremor-dominant symmetric parkinsonism (53.84%), followed by asymmetric parkinsonism (asymmetry in either tremor/rigidity or bradykinesia) (25%) and akinetic-rigid parkinsonism (21.12%). Orofacial dyskinesias were seen along with parkinsonism in 17.3% of patients. One patient each had voice tremor and oculogyric crisis along with other manifestations of parkinsonism.
The patterns of parkinsonism are shown in [Figure 1].
Figure 1: Clinical patterns of parkinsonism
The common drugs associated with DIP were gastrointestinal motility agent levosulpiride (25%), calcium channel blockers such as flunarizine (19.23%), aripiprazole (11.53%), amisulpride (7.69%), sodium valproate (7.69%), olanzapine (3.8%), and itopride, flupenthixol, and risperidone (1.72%). Combination of two or more drugs was associated in causing DIP in 19.23%. The details of the medications associated with DIP are shown in [Table 1].
Table 1: Medications causing drug-induced parkinsonism
The patients were followed up every 2 monthly for 6 months duration. During the follow-up, patients were examined in detail by the same neurologist. Tremors, bradykinesia, rigidity, and postural imbalance were assessed, and any worsening or improvement in symptoms was noted. Twelve patients were lost during the follow-up. Forty patients underwent regular follow-up. In all the patients, the offending agent was discontinued and trihexyphenidyl was started in all patients. Minimum dosage of the trihexyphenidyl was between 2 mg and 10 mg depending on the severity of symptoms and tolerability of the medication. Trihexyphenidyl was continued minimum of 6 months during the follow-up period. During evaluation in the follow-up period of 6 months, 50% of the patients totally recovered from the DIP, 25% there was partial improvement, and 25% showed persistent symptoms.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-V),[10] defines DIP as the presence of resting tremor, muscular rigidity, akinesia, or bradykinesia, developing within a few weeks of initiating or increasing the dosage of a drug (typically a neuroleptic) or after decreasing the dosage of an levodopa–carbidopa or dopamine agonists.
DIP can present with varied manifestations which can make it difficult to differentiate from IPD as well as other atypical parkinsonism syndromes. Thus, it becomes very important to check the medication list of any patient presenting with features of parkinsonism.
Age, gender, and genetic risk factors are the most common predisposing causes for developing DIP,[1],[11] of which age is the most common and most important risk factor. Age-related decrease in dopamine concentration and nigral degeneration leads to this predisposition.[12] Female gender is more susceptible to develop DIP. The cause is not very clear; however, estrogen-related suppression of dopamine receptors may be the probable underlying cause.[13],[14] Not all patients exposed to dopamine blocking agents develop DIP suggesting a underlying genetic predisposition. Genome-wide screening has shown that genes such as R (gamma-aminobutyric acid) are involved in this susceptibility.[15]
In our study, 57.68% of patients with DIP were above 60 years correlating with the fact that it was more common in elderly population. Thus, in the elderly population, we should avoid medications which have extrapyramidal side effects and also keep them under close follow-up to detect DIP. In our study, DIP was found to be more common in male gender (65.38%) compared to females (34.61%). This was contrary to previous studies which showed a female preponderance.[13],[14] (R?) The most common form of DIP in our study was tremor-dominant symmetric disease in more than half of the patients and asymmetric parkinsonism in a quarter. Akinetic-rigid state was seen in 21% of the patients. Few previous studies have quoted symmetric akinetic-rigid syndrome as the most frequent phenotype.[7],[16] Our study showed asymmetric presentation in 25% of patients which mimicked IPD. Resting tremor and asymmetric rigidity and bradykinesia have been mentioned in previous studies.[7] We found in our study that DIP could occur as early as 2 weeks after the use of offending medications or may occur after many years of use of offending drugs.
Many of the patients were on antihypertensives, oral hypoglycemic medications, statins, and other similar medications for medical comorbidities. We could not find out any correlation between the medications for comorbidities and the DIP.
Our study found associated orofacial dyskinesias along with parkinsonism in 17.3%, thereby making it an important marker suggesting an underlying DIP rather than IPD as mentioned previously.[17] Some of the previous studies have mentioned nonmotor symptoms such as hyposmia, constipation, urinary symptoms, and sexual dysfunctions as accompaniments which are seen in IPD rather than PD.[18] However, in our study, we did not evaluate this aspect.
Dopamine transporter imaging may be quite useful in differentiating presynaptic dopamine deficiency disorders such as IPD from DIP.[19]
Drugs such as typical antipsychotics, gastrointestinal motility drugs such as metoclopramide, levosulpiride, itopride, cisapride, antiepileptics such as sodium valproate and calcium channel blockers (flunarizine and cinnarizine), and atypical antipsychotics (risperidone, olanzapine, and aripiprazole) are commonly related to DIP.
The use of typical antipsychotics has become less and is not seen much commonly as a cause of DIP. In the newer antipsychotics, clozapine and quetiapine are the ones associated least with DIP and other extrapyramidal side effects.[20],[21] In our study, aripiprazole and amisulpride were the common agents related to DIP. Risperidone, flupenthixol, olanzapine, and haloperidol were the other agents noted to cause DIP. Use of more than one antipsychotic agent is another risk factor predisposing to develop DIP.
Metoclopramide used to be the most common prokinetic agent associated with extrapyramidal symptoms and DIP. However, nowadays, levosulpiride is emerging as a very common cause of DIP. It is less associated with other extrapyramidal syndromes unlike metoclopramide and causes mainly DIP.[22],[23]
Our study showed that levosulpiride is the most common drug-associated with DIP in 25% of cases. There was one case of DIP associated with itopride. Nowadays, with the rampant use of levosulpiride with proton-pump inhibitors, there is a tremendous upsurge in DIP due to this medication.
In our study, flunarizine was the second most common agent (19.3%) related to DIP. All the patients were on long-term flunarizine of 6 months or more before developing DIP. The mechanism of causing DIP is not very clear; however, reducing dopamine transmission or direct action on the dopamine receptors may be one of the causes of it.[24] Sodium valproate was related to DIP in 7.69% of the cases. This was similar to 5% DIP related to valproate long-term use in literature. The mechanism postulated is oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction.[25]
Combination of valproate and flunarizine for migraine may lead to DIP commonly. Almost 20% of DIP cases were related to combination of two or more drugs with action on the D2 receptors. Hence, it becomes very important to look out for manifestations of parkinsonism during each follow-up when patients are being treated with such drugs.
One of our patients had voice tremors and one had oculogyric crisis along with features of parkinsonism. Both of the patients were on levosulpiride.
DIP usually resolves after stopping offending medication. Unfourtunately, in 10%–50%, it may persist or even progress.[26] There can be various patterns which may be seen during follow-up. Most common pattern is full and lasting recovery from DIP. Some patients may show persistence but no progression of symptoms, few may show progressive worsening of parkinsonism, and lastly and least commonly, some may show resolution in parkinsonism initially on stopping the offending medication followed by reappearance of symptoms later on. The last two patterns may, however, be cases of preclinical parkinsonism which may have manifested due to the offending drug. The time to recovery may be quite variable.[27]
Our study had a brief follow-up period of 6 months for these patients. In all the patients, the offending medications were discontinued or changed, and patients were started on trihexyphenidyl, amantadine, and rarely levodopa–carbidopa in refractory cases. Out of forty patients who were on regular checkups for 6 months (follow-up was possible only in forty patients), 50% of the patients totally recovered from the DIP, 25% there was partial improvement, and 25% showed persistent symptoms. Tremor was the earliest symptom to respond completely while orofacial dykinsesias was the most resistant symptom to treat. Whether some of the patients with persistent symptoms of parkinsonism had IPD or some other form of secondary or atypical parkinsonism was not clear and longer follow-up is required to assess the natural history of the disease.
The treatment of DIP is mainly removing the offending agent and changing to other medications which is efficacious for the medical condition as well which has less dopaminergic blocking ability. Anticholinergic agents are the drug of choice; however, the side effect profile should be considered before starting it in elderly population. Amantadine may be an alternative with less side effects. Levodopa may not be useful in dopamine receptor blockade-related DIP. It may be useful in DIP caused by tetrabenazine where dopamine depletion leads to parkinsonism.[28]
Limitations of our study were a short follow-up period because of which the course of persistent or worsening DIP could not be assessed.
Conclusion DIP is a common disorder which can have varied manifestations. Early diagnosis and stopping the offending medication is crucial for complete recovery.
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The Assist are peerless on latest EP
Indie-Rockers throw out the songwriting rulebook.
There are few emerging bands who have managed to garner the kind of devout cult following as The Assist. The indie-rockers have been on our radar for a good few years now and in that time they've gone from strength to strength, with their colloquial brand of intense post-Britpop earning them respect, adoration and a sense of Oasis-ness about them (not least thanks to the vocalist and guitarist being siblings).
So it's unusual that the band would disregard that so much on their latest EP, Trouble, and take such a bold step into new genre-splitting directions. The EP is the type of statement Oasis tried to make with Be Here Now, one that takes a band's well-established sound and embellishes it to the point of extravagance. Yet The Assist manage to pull this off flawlessly, progressing their career instead of effectively murdering it. It's a risk that few bands would take, and only the brave will benefit.
Take Love for example. The EP opening number is the closest the band remain to their establish sound, but it's expanded by a fascinating vocal hook and aural elements that just give it something else. There's something, somewhere in the mix, that makes this stand out from their back catalogue and feel like the start of something new. This is followed by Fashion, a song that flicks between hyper-relaxed indie tones and a heavier britpop stomp, and Nyabinghi, which mixes the band's indie sound with solid funk grooves and reggae vibes. It's an unusual journey and one that no listeners could have expected. Yet miraculously it works.
Trouble is the start of something new and exciting for the band. The Assist have always had an attitude that feels like they'll do things their own way and on their own terms, and their new EP takes that to another level. This is the sound of a band finding its feet in somewhere new, with no genre boundaries worth respecting or sounds not worth experimenting with. The Assist are unstoppable.
You can listen to Trouble on Spotify now.
by Tom Roden on 03/05/2016
Categories: EP Review, Review • Tags: Alternative, EP Review, Indie, Indie-Rock, Review, The Assist, Trouble EP
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Wendy Peel Selected for Women in Fintech Award
ReverseVision today announced that company Vice President of Sales and Marketing Wendy Peel has been recognized as a Most Powerful Women in Fintech award honoree by PROGRESS in Lending Association. Now in its second year, the annual awards program honors women who are shaping the future of financial services technology.
Peel was recognized for her two-decades' senior leadership experience driving sales growth at enterprise technology firms. Under Peel's leadership, ReverseVision has achieved record revenue growth. To date, the ReverseVision platform is used by all 10 of the top-ten HECM lenders and supports more reverse mortgage transactions than all other systems combined. Since joining the company in 2016, more than 2,500 lenders and brokers have enrolled in the ReverseVision platform, which serves nearly 10,000 active users.
In support of broadening lender adoption among forward lenders, Peel led ReverseVision's Fall 2019 transformation as an API-enabled flexible reverse lending platform, unveiling a new logo as part of its revised mission and rebranding. Peel also conceived the inaugural ReverseVision UserCon to highlight best HECM origination practices, offer expert marketplace insights, and gather guidance on future product development.
Before joining ReverseVision, Peel served as vice president of sales and marketing at CommercePromote, a cloud-based SaaS applications provider, where she executed a corporate rebranding campaign repositioning the company as an enterprise marketing and operations technology leader. Additionally, Peel has held executive sales and marketing positions at iCoStore, LLC; Take Notice, Inc.; PNA, Inc.; and TransPerfect Translations.
"Wendy's ability to understand the needs of our diverse customer base and stay ahead of a rapidly fluctuating mortgage market have helped build ReverseVision into the organization it is today," said ReverseVision CEO John Button. "We applaud her work connecting mortgage lenders with the technology they need to serve borrowers at every stage in life."


National Irish Visual Arts Library: Panels from the East of Ireland.
Panels from the East of Ireland.
Title: Panels from the East of Ireland.
Variant Names: [1960-1970] Little Theatre, Brown Thomas; exh: "Panels from the East of Ireland."