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Flash and Blessed
Yesterday morning, Radio Four covered the progress of the government's vaccination scheme in a feature on the 'Broadcasting House' programme. Toward the end of the segment, they interviewed beloved actor and big personality Brian Blessed, who apparently has been vaccinated now. I recognised Blessed from his role as King Richard IV in the first series of Blackadder , and from sundry miscellaneous appearances on panel shows and chat shows. After the usual and well-deserved praise of the NHS, the BBC interviewer prompted Blessed to send a message to all listeners named 'Gordon', at which point Blessed roared 'Gordon's alive!' (at the 20:00 marker).
I've lived here for nigh on to twelve years now, and this still mystified me. Though I had always kept an eye on goings-on in British film, television, popular music, and so on, I don't have the background of a lifetime fully immersed in British popular culture, and this one hit not just one, but areas of my ignorance.
For US readers: it turns out that this all hinges on the campy Flash Gordon film (the one for which Queen performed the soundtrack), in which Blessed plays Prince Vultan. I had no interest in Flash Gordon when the film was released in 1980, so I missed it the first time around, and I never returned to a film that I thought cartoon-y (in a bad way), dated, and probably tone-deaf about cultures and gender. In this respect I differ, apparently, from Her Majesty who allegedly watches the film every Christmas. At a certain point in the film, Prince Vultan learns that the eponymous hero has not, in fact, nbeen killed by Ming the Merciless I still have not watched Flash , but I'm fascinated by catch-phrases and the way they develop, so I sought out a clip from the film that includes Blessed expostulating 'Gordon's… alive?!'
Two things struck me as I watched the clip in question. First, I strongly doubt that anyone would have guessed at the time that Blessed's query would develop into a catchphrase. Nothing in the dialogue, the blocking, or the cinematography suggests emphasis on these words. It is a certain sort of emergent phenomenon, catching particular viewers' attention, in a particular way, in connection with a particular actor, at a particular cultural moment.
Second, if you listened to the radio clip and then watched the film, you might be surprised (as I was) that although Blessed bellows his line on the radio (and everywhere else he appears — Blessed has been given a unique vocal instrument and he makes the most of it), in the film he expresses it in a fairly ordinary tone. Ever since then, though — and in keeping with the magnitude of Blessed's persona in everything he has done since then — the phrase has necessarily been roared at full volume.
So learning, and deliberating about quirky details in life and culture, never stops.
Oh, by the way: running streak = twenty-three days.
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There are many considerations when it comes to getting the best care for an auto related injury. Proximity, quality, treatment options, types of doctors, insurance coverage, and legal matters all come into play when deciding where and what treatment you get. I want to share my perspective on the best route of getting better faster, while also protecting your legal rights to a fair settlement.
Proximity and convenience are key factors when choosing a conservative option for where you get your care. Chiropractic and physical therapy typically require around 3 months of care for moderate car accident related injuries. This requires approximately 20+ visits, and maybe 2 to 3 times more for severe whiplash related injuries. This will require many visits to and from the clinic so it must be convenient.
Quality will always trump convenience with whiplash injury care. This risk of whiplash injuries becoming permanent with haphazard non-thorough chiro or do your own PT style care will increase your risk of chronic pain. There is a plethora of conservative options for the person that has been in a whiplash type car accident. Usually, people will need a multitude of different types of therapies from different types of providers. Car accidents produce unique injuries that need evaluated by a team of professionals and unique imaging is usually required that is not common with regular injuries. This is not only important for getting the correct diagnosis and treatment for your injuries, but it is also important for the medicolegal aspect of your case.
In larger cities, such as Denver, we have many all in one type multidisciplinary clinics that specialize in whiplash care, management, and documentation. These types of clinics are well versed in the ins and outs of auto injury care and can be convenient for you in completing a treatment plan that involves multiple types of doctors. An online search looking at various chiropractic clinics that also provide physical therapy, massage, acupuncture, medical doctors, that also having imaging can save you a lot of time. Please make sure that check online reviews on Yelp and Google. In my experience, Yelp reviews are more valid as their screening process to complete a review is a little more thorough than Google. The other benefit to these all in one type clinics is the communication that occurs between the providers that ultimately will increase the quality of your care.
When searching for types of treatment for whiplash injuries, it is important to seek treatment as soon as possible. Injuries will respond much better when they are treated soon after the accident. Utilize online reviews from google and yelp, consider if the clinic has more than one different type of provider, and know if the providers have specialty auto accident injury training.Common google search terms to find multidisciplinary clinics are; whiplash treatment in Denver, car accident care in Denver, auto injury care in Denver, whiplash accident treatment in Denver.


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Natural orifice surgery on thyroid gland: totally transoral video-assisted thyroidectomy (TOVAT): report of first experimental results of a new surgical method.
Benhidjeb T1, Wilhelm T, Harlaar J, Kleinrensink GJ, Schneider TA, Stark M.
Neck surgery is one of the newest fields of application of minimally invasive surgery. The technique of minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT) developed by Miccoli  is the method that has so far become most widespread. Limiting factors of this method include the bothersome 20-mm cervical incision and consequently the specimen size to remove. Several papers describing an access outside the front neck region have been published. Such approaches are via the chest, axillary, a combined axillary bilateral breast, or a bilateral axillary breast approach [2-5]. The development of cervical scarless thyroid surgery is a great step toward better cosmetic outcomes. However, these techniques just moved the scars from the front neck region to the axilla or the chest where they are still visible. And the mentioned minimally invasive accesses as well as the conventional approaches to the thyroid gland do not respect the anatomically given surgical planes. This may result in complaints by the patients, e.g., scar development and swallowing disorders. Furthermore, the extracervical approaches do not comply with the use of the term "minimally invasive," because they are associated with an extensive dissection of the chest and neck region, thus being rather maximally invasive for the patients. The main goal of this project was the introduction of a technique of thyroid resection that fulfills the following criteria: (i. Respecting surgical planes and minimizing surgical trauma in thyroidectomy, ii. The access itself should be close to the thyroid gland to achieve a minimally invasive procedure, iii. Achieving an optimal cosmetic result may only be obtained by performing a scarless operation, iv. This optimal cosmetic result with scarless surgery should be achieved with minimal trauma, v. The minimally invasive character of this approach and the optimal cosmetic result may not be reached at the expense of patient's safety.). The technique that meets all of these criteria is the transoral access because the distance between the sublingual place and the thyroid gland is short, thus avoiding extensive dissection maneuvers. Furthermore, the mouth mucosa can be sutured without difficulties and repairs itself without leaving any visible scars. Feasibility of the transoral access has been recently demonstrated by a member of our group in a porcine model by using a modified axilloscope . However, the described technique is a hybrid one because an additional medial access (3.5-mm incision) 15-mm below the larynx was necessary for the insertion of a fixation forceps through a trocar. The main goal of our project was the investigation and introduction of a technique of totally endoscopic thyroid resection that is minimally invasive and safe for the patient and at the same time cosmetically optimal (scarless).
Description of landmarks of surgical steps and dissection of defined anatomic structures could be achieved. The subplatysmal space could be reached without any major problems within a short time. Anatomical dissection showed intact muscles and vascular structures. One-side subtotal thyroid resection could be successfully performed without any additional skin incision in 60 minutes.
The minimally invasive aspect and the scarless character of TOVAT form the rationale for the preclinical investigation of this method in human cadavers. We could succeed in defining objective parameters, which describe the procedure in details and also allow an evaluation of the surgery performed. Access and feasibility of TOVAT could be demonstrated. The next step will be its application in living pigs before it may be applied in humans. To our knowledge of the literature, this is the first report on NOS application in thyroid surgery and also the first totally and scarless performed video-assisted thyroidectomy.


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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Film, 1981 (Excerpts)
Australian producer Antony Ginnane brought this $6 million romp to New Zealand, after Aussie union Actors Equity objected to the four lead roles going to foreigners. Deer hunting heroes Donald Pleasance (Halloween) and Ken Wahl (six years before becoming TV's Wise Guy) race around in helicopters and jet boats, after discovering a half-sunken WWll plane. This opening excerpt indicates the film's mixture of action, comedy and Southern scenery. Zephyr helped establish Aotearoa's reputation as a place to film; Ginnane and Kiwi John Barnett produced further projects together.
Jennifer Ward-Lealand: Acting royalty finds new opportunities online…
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
Jennifer Ward-Lealand is often referred to as acting royalty in New Zealand. Ten years after her first interview with NZ On Screen, Ward-Lealand sits down again to bring us up to date on what she's been up to over the past decade.
The Marching Girls
Television, 1987
The Marching Girls is the seven-part story of a Taita social marching team who decide to have a crack at the North Island Championships. As she writes here, actor/writer Fiona Samuel created the pioneering series out of frustration over a lack of challenging female roles: she declared it was about time the Kiwi "alienated macho dickhead" shared some screen time with women. Synth-rock soundtracks, ghetto blasters, Holden Kingswood taxis and chain-smoking abound in this feminist Flashdance in formation 80s classic.
Michael Woolf
Actor, Entertainer
Putting on magic and Punch and Judy shows as a child led Michael Woolf to a career as a broadcaster and performer. After joining the NZ Broadcasting Service he became an announcer, presenting TV in Wellington in the 60s and performing the country's first televised puppet show. As an actor he appeared in Goodbye Pork Pie, and played a villain in Rangi's Catch.
Kiwi acting legend Jennifer Ward-Lealand began acting at age seven; her first screen role followed at age nine. Since then she has starred in big screen dramas Desperate Remedies and Vermilion to critical acclaim, and appeared in a long run of television shows, from TV drama Danny and Raewyn to Australian comedy show Full Frontal.
Trevor Spitz
Producer, Promoter
Trevor Spitz, who died in March 2012, was a key player in the 1989 launch of channel TV3. The musician turned promoter had begun working in television in the 70s as a talent scout and producer of entertainment shows, and won success — and controversy — with hit television export That's Country. He was influential in the careers of many performers, including comedic duo McPhail and Gadsby and singer Suzanne Prentice.
Peter Harcourt
Presenter, Actor
Best known for his many decades in radio, Peter Harcourt's career also included books and varied screen appearances. In the 60s he and his wife Kate Harcourt fronted Junior Magazine, one of our earliest children's TV shows. Peter went on to act on Gloss and present the Mobil Song Quest, though his most famous screen appearance runs just 21 seconds – a 60s era underwear ad which was originally rejected as too risque to screen.
Ken Blackburn
Ken Blackburn, MNZM, is a familiar face on New Zealand stage and screen. In a career spanning 50+ years he's appeared in iconic television shows (Gliding On, Shortland Street) and films — including a lead role in 1978 feature Skin Deep. Blackburn was awarded a New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005; in 2017 he received the a Lifetime Achievement award, acknowledging long-serving local actors.
Elizabeth McRae
Veteran actor Elizabeth McRae, NZOM, is probably best-known for her long-running role as Shortland Street receptionist Marjorie Brasch. Alongside her work as a theatre actor and voice coach, her screen work includes leading roles in the Return Journey episode of anthology series About Face, and Nancy Brunning short Journey to Ihipa.


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April 16, 2018, 9:01 a.m.
Newsonomics: The news world will miss Michael Ferro
"To whom will we now turn to enliven the continuing conflagration that is the American newspaper industry?"
By Ken Doctor @kdoctor April 16, 2018, 9:01 a.m.
On Friday afternoon, Tronc announced that its lead shareholder Merrick Media, led by just-resigned board chairman Michael Ferro, was selling its entire stake in the company. McCormick Media — managed by Sargent McCormick, a distant relative of the McCormick family that controlled the Chicago Tribune for most of its long history — is the buyer of Ferro's 9 million shares. As we sort out the impact of the sale on the Chicago Tribune and the rest of Tronc's remaining newspapers, we offer this publishing obit for the would-be impresario who grabbed so many headlines of his own in the last two years.
Michael Ferro loved nothing better than entertaining a room of people with his wit and wisdom. Many of those entertained tell stories about how no one else had to even worry about coming up with their own tales; they only had to sit back and take it in.
Late Friday, ironically just after his beloved stock market close, Mr. Ferro's many associates and former associates found themselves shocked by his passing from the news publishing world. As word spread rapidly across Mr. Ferro's most prized means of transformation, the Internet, many tweeted and shared their wonder of a world shaken by the early departure of Mr. Ferro from his earthly publishing delights.
"To whom will we now turn to enliven the continuing conflagration that is the American newspaper industry," one queried near audibly. "What will Tronc be without him!"
"I hope we won't forget Michael Ferro," said media analyst Ken Doctor, who had tracked in voluminous detail the short but spirited 26-month run of Mr. Ferro.
"Call it the audacity of cupidity," he observed. "In an industry where the pace of change is so remarkable, I hope his name doesn't disappear into the dust like his most important recent predecessors — like Sam Zell, Doug Manchester, Aaron Kushner, or those of an earlier age like Canada's Conrad Black, Australia's Kerry Packer, and the U.K.'s Robert Maxwell."
In fact, even as Mr. Ferro departs the scene, he had been eclipsed by the attention recently showered on Alden Global Capital's Heath Freeman, who runs Digital First Media.
The story of how Mr. Ferro mesmerized his peers by turning a minority stake in Tribune Publishing into an industry-shaking tens of millions of dollars in profit — even as his company and the industry cratered — is a unique one. In his final days, he sold his stake in the company. In so doing, he returned his beloved Chicago Tribune to the back-to-the-future ownership of the local McCormick family — an act of civic conscience that will be hard to equal.
It was, though, in his ability to advance his own selfless interests that his publishing life distinguished itself.
In February 2016, then Tribune Publishing CEO Jack Griffin brought Mr. Ferro into the company fold. Mr. Griffin needed financial capacity to make an offer on the bankrupt-and-for sale Orange County Register.
Mr. Ferro and his Chicago associates bought a 17 percent stake in the company for $44 million, obtaining their first tranche of shares at a meager $8.50. In what seems like a New York minute, Mr. Ferro's adroit people-handling allowed him to dispatch Griffin, and the team that Griffin had assembled, and bring his damn-the-history, let's-transform command to what was then America's third largest regional publisher. He self-made himself chairman of the company within weeks.
Mr. Ferro soon found himself fending off the unwanted advances of the Gannett Company. Who can forget his moral outrage at the time? "They are trying to steal the company," he cried, just four months after dispatching Mr. Griffin in a coup.
With astounding energy — and aided and abetted by Gannett's own miscalculations — Mr. Ferro beat back the hostile offer.
At his side, though largely silent, was always the loyal Justin Dearborn. Though Dearborn had no publishing experience, Mr. Ferro believed both in Mr. Dearborn's ability to take direction and his off-the-charts note-taking ability and named him CEO. Mr. Dearborn also worked extremely well with Mr. Ferro's loyal-to-a-fault board members. Given that work, and perhaps one other minor issue, Mr. Dearborn had assumed Mr. Ferro's board chair role less than a month before Mr. Ferro's final leave-taking.
As the almost-six-month battle waged on, Tronc — the new dramatic new name for Tribune Online Content — emerged. Given the all-consuming nature of that battle, Mr. Dearborn wisely halted almost all actual digital transformation work, letting the name change itself stand on its own. By 2017, with Gannett humbled, its own share price halved, Mr. Dearborn could finally move forward to restart the engines of change.
Curiously, just months before Mr. Ferro's sudden demise, he had mused about his grandest dream: consolidating and leading the digital transformation of the entire U.S. newspaper business.
"I'm going to buy Gannett," he had told colleagues as recently as December. Then, in a twist of events that could only be captured in his second home, Hollywood, Mr. Ferro made Los Angeles medtech billionaire an offer he couldn't refuse. Reluctantly, he would — for the greater Los Angeles community good — relinquish the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, for close to $600 million, including pension obligations. Was that sum twice what the market said the properties might fetch at auction? It made no difference, as Mr. Ferro's selfless civic act is what is likely to be most remembered.
Add Mr. Ferro's sale of his Tronc stake to the McCormick family to his sale of the Times to Mr. Soon-Shiong, and his memory will be well-scented. "He came out of it all like a stinkin' rose," concluded Mr. Doctor.
Though described by many as "a much nicer guy" than President Trump, Ferro shared many characteristics with the most-watched person of his publishing years. Like Mr. Trump, his capacity to consume most of a room's oxygen amazed all he met. His self-assurance knew no bounds. His cat-like ability to find a way out of every jam defied reason. His incendiary personality won him the accolade of leading a company considered "the Chernobyl of corporate governance."
It is unclear, at this reading, whether Mr. Ferro's unexpected demise will affect the planned production of "American Hustle 2," with Christian Bale rumored to portray the entrepreneur.
"He would so have wanted to be there, at least in the first 20 rows at the Dolby, to take pride in the recognition of his work," said one Hollywood-friendly colleague with great hair. "He long thought of journalism and entertainment as being indistinguishable."
While that movie is in question, syndication plans move forward on two of Ferro's legacy projects. "Troncked: The Unbelievable Story of Digital Transformation" has been greenlighted for cable. Scripting of "Tronc Bloopers" — a reality re-telling of some of the company's hilarious misadventures in naming and even trying to operate — has begun. Both Malcolm CasSelle, Tronc's former chief technology officer, and Anne Vasquez, Tronc's current senior vice president of strategic initiatives, are rumored to be consulting on the project.
Services and a memorial for Mr. Ferro's publishing career are being planned, with Air Ferro, Mr. Ferro's leased aircraft, likely involved, as the numerous golden parachutes he offered for his most favored executives deploy from Los Angeles to Chicago to New York.
The list of those likely to serve as pallbearers, both honorary and burden-carrying, include a literal pantheon of those Ferro touched in his too-short publishing career. From the Gannett Company, it's understood that company chair John Jeffry Louis and CEO Bob Dickey are discussing whose involvement may be most appropriate.
Both former U-T San Diego owner Doug Manchester and former Orange County Register chief executive Aaron Kushner find themselves on the list. They can only stand back and admire Mr. Ferro's accomplishment.
"We thought we had taken the chaos theory of Southern California news publishing to a new level, but we stand in awe of what Michael did in just two years," said Mr. Kushner. "There may never be another like him — though I have to admit that Patrick Soon-Shiong's out-of-the-box moving of the company to El Segundo does hold promise for building on our collective legacy."
Los Angeles representatives of the News Guild actively consider who among them can best do justice to what Mr. Ferro has meant to their work.
"Without Michael, the 137-year-old Times might still be union-free. We appreciate this unprecedented partnership with a company that worked so actively to assure our positive vote," said one local union leader.
There's no word yet of whether News Guild national president Bernie Lunzer will be able to participate, as the groundwork Mr. Ferro laid in Los Angeles has enabled the Guild to ramp up its organizing efforts in Chicago and other cities.
In lieu of flowers, the Guild is asking mourners to send contributions to the Michael Ferro/Heath Freeman Memorial Fund for the Renewal of Journalism.
There's no word yet on the participation of Oaktree Capital principal Bruce Karsh, who could only thank Ferro for the wild investment ride his company enjoyed — and the discounted price he was paid, $8 a share less than what Ferro got from McCormick Media — until selling a year ago.
It is unclear what role, the now twice-discharged Lewis D'Vorkin, who three-month tenure as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times set its own record, will want to play.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ferro's many Chicago friends wonder where to put their increased wealth now that his publishing adventures have come to an end.
In tribute, as spring arrives, they are expected to gather soon, perhaps with their wives this time, at Mr. Ferro's Lake Geneva retreat, the site of so many memorable times.
In the end, Mr. Ferro's leaves a company a little worse than he found it, save for a couple more years of digital disruption wear and tear. In his wake, he has opened anew adventures of transition and restructuring for the grateful buyers of his holdings. We may not hear it publicly, but behind the scenes, they will be thanking him for a long time.
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The medical management of glaucoma is haunted by the question, "Which patients can be expected to progress from ocular hypertension to manifest glaucoma?" Looking at combinations of demonstrable risk factors may go a long way toward answering that question.
Thinner central corneal thickness. Increased vertical cup/disc ratio. Elevated IOP. Higher visual field pattern standard deviation index. Older age.
In 2002, the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS) identified these as key risk factors for progression from ocular hypertension to glaucoma, along with the finding that treatment works. It was useful information. And some of it, like the corneal thickness finding, was even surprising. But what did any of it mean for clinical practice? Could it be used to improve patient care?
As David S. Greenfield, MD, noted, "OHTS identified six factors that in the OHTS population proved to be important with regard to the ability to identify patients likely to convert to glaucoma over the course of the five years of study. But it didn't provide any guidance when faced with a specific patient that you're examining." Dr. Greenfield is associate professor of ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.
Research applied to the real world. Now, that guidance is available in the form of a calculator based on the OHTS data. "It's the first time in glaucoma, and probably the first time in ophthalmology, that a risk calculator has been applied such that one can translate the results of a clinical trial to an individual patient," Dr. Greenfield said, speaking of a calculator developed by Robert N. Weinreb, MD, and Felipe A. Medeiros, MD, professor of ophthalmology and assistant professor of ophthalmology, respectively at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center, University of California, San Diego. Dr. Weinreb is also the director of the Center.
That calculator, called STAR (Scoring Tool for Assessing Risk), was unveiled at the Academy's 2005 Annual Meeting. Its proponents say it is ready for prime time, and will lead to more appropriate treatment, and should do for ophthalmology and glaucoma what similar calculators have done for cardiology and heart disease for decades. "It will allow treatment to be targeted to those most in need of it, as well as avoid the costs and risks of treatment for those who least need it," Dr. Weinreb said.
The STAR harvested the OHTS data to assess an individual patient's risk of progressing from ocular hypertension to glaucoma within five years. Physicians who use it should have a better sense of which patients are at highest risk and which are at lowest risk of progression, Dr. Weinreb said.
Risk assessment in medicine is nothing new. For more than two decades, cardiologists have been doing it with data from the 50-year-old Framingham Heart Study, from which was developed a model to estimate risk based on a number of variables. As a result, internists routinely measure their patients' risk for heart disease by factoring such variables as smoking, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, obesity, diabetes and physical inactivity.
Glaucoma, some researchers argue, fits the hypertension/ cholesterolemia model in that it is a chronic disease with major known risk factors. Like cardiovascular disease, it is associated with multiple risk factors, which in combination may increase the likelihood of progression to glaucoma.
From good guesses to dependable data. The first attempts at risk assessment in glaucoma date back to the '70s, when researchers considered using cup/disc ratio and IOP to predict progression to glaucoma. But such predictions were not supported by data. OHTS changed everything. "Without the OHTS data this would have been very, very difficult to do," Dr. Weinreb said, explaining that it is one of a few independent study populations able to provide the supporting information.
"Finally, we're getting into risk assessment for these folks, where in the past we simply went on one variable, and that was almost always IOP. Now we're incorporating several different variables that the OHTS study pointed out as significant," said George A. Cioffi, MD, chief of ophthalmology at Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Ore. He and colleague Steven L. Mansberger, MD, MPH, developed their own risk calculator, also based on the OHTS data. That calculator, which has yet to be validated, but which considers the same six factors as the STAR, can be seen at www.discoveriesinsight.org.
The STAR is an easy-to-use slide rule with which physicians enter six risk factors—the five mentioned above, plus diabetes mellitus, which in OHTS appeared to have a protective effect. The directions are printed on the STAR, which is offered free as a professional service by Pfizer Ophthalmics sales representatives.
Do the math. Users of STAR are walked through the risk assessment of a sample patient with the following profile: 62 years old; pattern standard deviation = 1.60 decibels; cup/disc ratio = 0.5; IOP = 27 mmHg; central corneal thickness = 510 micrometers; no diabetes.
Risk estimate = 1-0.906exp(PI), where PI = (0.0223 x age) + (0.1044 x IOP) + (1.1157 x PSD) – (0.0150 x CCT) + (2.7763 x vertical C/D ratio) – (1.0498 x diabetes mellitus) + 1.6904.
Indeed, when contrasted with cardiovascular risk factors, only one of the risk factors in the glaucoma equation is modifiable, and that is IOP. So the parallels with heart disease could be overdrawn.
Simply another tool. But Dr. Weinreb said the calculator is not intended as a guideline for care. In fact, he shies away from the word. "I don't like 'guidelines.' That says there's something you should follow," he said. "Generally, I prefer to avoid recommendations that dictate patient care." Rather, he hopes the calculator will be used as a tool to help clinicians manage their patients based on their own judgment and experience. "I would envision that every physician has their own threshold." Some might set the high-risk threshold at 25 percent, he said, while others may follow the 15 percent suggestion of the calculator's designers.
Yet other caveats? Glaucoma risk calculators are easy to use and can aid in treatment decisions. But the current models cannot be used on every patient with ocular hypertension. For one thing, the calculator is useful only for patients with untreated ocular hypertension, and not patients with normal discs, IOP and family history.
Drs. Weinreb and Medeiros warn that their STAR scoring system is not intended to evaluate risk in treated patients or to reassess risk after treatment is initiated. What's more, since their calculations are based on patients in the OHTS study, the tool's use is limited to those patients who match the OHTS patient profile. In general, you don't want to use a calculator based on OHTS data on patients not defined by the OHTS.
The ins and outs of OHTS. The OHTS inclusion criteria were BCVA of 20/40 or better, spherical refraction within ± 5 D, cylinder correction within ± 3 D, open angles on gonioscopy, age 40 to 80, and ocular hypertension in both eyes.
OHTS excluded those patients with secondary causes of high IOP (e.g., pseudoexfoliation, pigment dispersion syndrome, iridocyclitis or trauma), other intraocular eye disease, history of refractive surgery or other diseases possibly affecting the visual field. Also excluded were patients with any evidence of diabetic retinopathy, people who had values outside the OHTS range (24 to 32 mmHg in one eye; 21 to 32 mmHg in the other) or elevated pressure in one eye but not the other.
The calculators may simplify a decision to treat, but they still leave plenty of room for clinical judgment. "The risk calculator should be used as an adjunct to, and not as a substitute for, clinical experience and judgment, and each physician is likely to have his or her own threshold for treatment," said Dr. Medeiros. Other factors, such as patient's overall health status, life expectancy and commitment to treatment should also be weighed against potential adverse events and cost, he said.
Attention must be paid. No matter how physicians use the numbers, risk assessment could improve clinical practice. Dr. Weinreb noted that studies have shown that clinicians don't routinely examine and document the appearance of the optic disc, but the risk calculator leaves no option. "You have to examine the optic disc," he said. "You have to measure CCT to use this tool. This will bring to everyone's attention the im-portance of examining the optic disc." He added that it also highlights the importance of an accurate baseline evaluation.
Kuldev Singh, MD, professor of ophthalmology and director of the glaucoma service at Stanford University, agrees. "Rather than just being able to tell patients, as we did in the past, 'You have high pressure and are at greater risk than someone with normal or average eye pressures,' we can actually give them numbers that are patient-specific, as opposed to average numbers of overall risk," he said. "Now you can have specific risks for specific individuals based upon characteristics other than just IOP elevation." He added that a patient who better understands his or her risk is better able to make a well-informed decision regarding treatment recommendations.
The glaucoma risk calculator may be ready for clinical practice, but it's just a start. "This is the first version of the risk calculator," said Dr. Weinreb, who anticipates that new data will lead to refinements. Dr. Greenfield agreed, and predicted that an enhanced model might include data on optic disc hemorrhage, abnormal HRT parameters, retinal nerve fiber layer atrophy and SWAP abnormalities.
Dr. Singh agreed that the diabetes finding was surprising, even when one takes into account that only diabetics without retinopathy were allowed into the OHTS. "In the future, if other studies find that diabetes is not protective, refinements will most certainly be made to existing calculators," he said.
In the meantime, the OHTS study group is preparing another risk calculator based on the OHTS data, which will be validated with data from the European Glaucoma Prevention Study. It should be available when the Academy meets in Las Vegas next November.
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Pick a number from one to 20. The OHTS found that preemptive treatment works: It can prevent a person with ocular hypertension from progressing to glaucoma. But it is a blunt instrument for the job, since 20 patients must be treated just to catch one who would have progressed.
Risk calculation, which attempts to home in on the particular subset of patients most likely to progress, could reduce the number of people now needed to begin treatment in order to prevent one individual from converting to glaucoma. "The 'number needed to treat' falls precipitously," said Dr. Weinreb, if you treat only patients who are at higher risk.
By any number necessary? The number per se is of less importance to others. "I think [risk assessment] will lead to more appropriate treatment, but I don't know if it will be more or less," Dr. Singh said.
He added that the risk calculator is not calculating the risk of going blind but of losing "a few ganglion cells in the retina from the earliest glaucoma damage." That, he said, is "far different from the risk calculators for cardiovascular disease, which give one the risk of really bad outcomes." Better data are needed, he said, to describe the long-term effects of observing vs. treating ocular hypertension, and what we really need is a calculator to assess the risk of loss of vision-related quality of life.
George A. Cioffi, MD Chief of ophthalmology at Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Ore. Financial interests: None.
David S. Greenfield, MD Associate professor of ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. Financial interests: None.
Paul R. Lichter, MD Professor and chairman of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and director of the Kellogg Eye Center.Financial interests: None.
Steven L. Mansberger, MD, MPH Glaucoma specialist at Devers Eye Institute, Portland, Ore. Financial interests: None.
Felipe A. Medeiros, MD Assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center University of California, San Diego. Financial interests: Research for the STAR was supported in part by a grant from Pfizer.
Kuldev Singh, MD Professor of ophthalmology and director of the glaucoma service, Stanford University. Financial interests: None.
Robert N. Weinreb, MD Professor of ophthalmology and director of the Hamilton Glaucoma Center, University of California, San Diego. Financial interests: Research for STAR was supported in part by a grant from Pfizer.


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Get ready for computers worldwide to automatically smother cyber strikes
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'Cyber ecosystem' could mimic dynamics of the human immune system to isolate and contain threats robotically.
The federal government is strategizing to build a virtual community that would prompt computers worldwide to instantly, en mass, suppress cyberattacks, sometimes without humans at the keyboard.
The so-called cyber ecosystem would take "collective action" to galvanize cooperation among networks, external devices, and consumers, the Obama administration announced today.
"Computer systems, devices, applications and users will automatically work together in near real time to anticipate and prevent cyberattacks, automatically respond to attacks while continuing normal operations, evolve to address new threats, limit the spread of attacks across participating devices," as well as share timely security information, a government research solicitation stated.
The Homeland Security Department and National Institute of Standards and Technology are seeking public input on the potential benefits and challenges of the approach before forging ahead with construction.
"This information will help DHS and NIST develop future cyber ecosystem security capabilities and an implementation strategy that will strengthen the security of critical infrastructures, federal information systems and the private sector," the bulletin stated.
This initiative would bring to life a 2011 thought paper by Philip Reitinger, former deputy undersecretary for Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate, who has since joined Sony Corp. The entertainment giant was victimized by hacktivists who filched personal information on almost 100 million users of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service.
Cyber ecosystem dynamics could possibly mimic the way "the human body reacts to an infection," federal officials said. Following the analogy, the system, for example, might be engineered to react locally to the immediate threat, or point of injury, as well as globally to contain damage.
Such an ecosystem would require worldwide buy-in from industry, governments, universities and consumers, officials acknowledged. They did not suggest a timeline for launch.
Monday's proposal poses several questions to guide feedback from experts. It asks, for instance, how cloud computing -- relying on remote machines to process information -- could play a role in the collective action.
The operation likely would involve some degree of machine learning so that computers could respond in real time and adapt to changing network environments.
The solicitation partly aims to find out if the field of artificial intelligence is mature enough to support the concept outlined. One question posed, for example, is this: "Can the cyber ecosystem be self-learning and automatically apply the learning to an attack without imposing unacceptable consequences to the ecosystem?"
Federal officials also are examining the drawbacks of such a system, including unintended consequences and "privacy and civil liberties concerns associated with automated collective action, including information sharing between cyber devices, interoperability of systems, behavior monitoring and authentication."
Monday's notice also asked whether a public-private partnership should manage the program at the outset.
NIST currently is organizing a public-private venture aimed at developing a login network akin to the credit card payment system that would enable Internet users to access distinct websites and apps without reentering personal information or creating new passwords. In August, the program, called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, convened a steering group headed by officials from the private sector, including PayPal, Citigroup and Aetna.
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In Baltimore you may earn a Bachelor's degree in fields such as American/Asian/ancient studies, engineering, dance, biology, accounting, advertising, communication sciences and others.
You Master's degree programme is available in biological sciences, engineering, computer sciences, business administration (MBA and executive MBA), education, leadership, nursing and others. PhD programmes and certificates can also be found in Baltimore's universities.
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While some universities include a foundation programme, others have associate degree programmes in their catalogue for fields such as accounting, business, cyber security, engineering and education, medicine and others.
While some universities offer courses in order to ease the students' way to employment, others provide counselling, internships, workshops and other opportunities.
Baltimore, however, was an industrial town that now focuses on a service economy that keeps local economy stable. Downtown Baltimore is the city's business heart, where technology is growing so fast that Forbes ranked the city as fourth America's "new tech hot spot". The main employment providers are two famous institutions: a hospital and a university.
The World Trade Centre Baltimore, located in the harbour is in charge of international commerce, while tourism placed the city on the East Coast map.
Baltimore is represented by the famous and spectacular Inner Harbour area, which also includes the National Aquarium. There are also other attractions such as the Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Fort McHenry or the neighbourhoods of Fells Point and Mount Vernon.
If you wish to mix indoor activities with culture, you may visit the Walters Art Museum, the Sports Legends Museums at Camden Yards, Baltimore Museum of Industry and B&O Railroad Museum or Charles Theatre.
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Some of the events that attract visitors are the Artscape and Maryland Film Festival. However, nightlife in Baltimore is active and impressive in some of the city's neighbourhoods, where you can find bars, taverns, clubs or sports bars.
Baltimore is a mixed city, when it comes to culture and origins of its inhabitants. Locals are friendly and try to keep a small town atmosphere. You may meet Hispanics, Africans, French and Chinese.
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Baltimore's climate is based on four seasons. Winters are cool and sometimes there are snowfalls, autumns and springs are warm and, sometimes, with precipitations and summers are very warm and humid. Afternoons sometimes bring a pleasant breeze. Average temperatures are of 2.1°C (35.8°F) in January and 27.1°C (80.7°F) in July.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) was founded in 1807. Today, this 71-acre research and technology complex encompasses 65 buildings in West Baltimore near the Inner Harbor.
The University of Baltimore is the public undergraduate, graduate and professional University, located in the heart of the state's largest city (just across the street from Penn Station) and proud to embrace the diversity that is critical to its role as an urban anchor institution.
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John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport , also referred to as Hamilton Airport or Toronto–Hamilton Airport,  is an international airport in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The airport is part of the neighbourhood of Mount Hope,  southwest of Downtown Hamilton and  southwest of Toronto. The airport serves the city of Hamilton and adjacent areas of Southern Ontario, including the Greater Toronto Area. It is considered as a reliever for Toronto Pearson International Airport. The airport is named after John Carr Munro, a longtime Member of Parliament for Hamilton East.

The airport opened in 1940 as Mount Hope Airport, which was primarily a Royal Canadian Air Force base, the history of which is reflected at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum located next to the airport. The end of World War II saw the closure of the base, and its conversion to civil use attracted regional and international passenger services with connections to major Canadian cities and seasonal destinations in the United States, the Caribbean and Mexico. Regular services to the United States declined as nearby Buffalo Niagara International Airport gained popularity for cross-border travellers in the region, but Hamilton remained an important base for a number of domestic low-cost carriers.

The airport is the third largest cargo airport (after Toronto–Pearson and Vancouver) and the "largest overnight express cargo airport" in Canada. Hamilton includes a  asphalt runway with centreline lighting for low-visibility operations and a smaller  asphalt runway, enough to handle large cargo operations with aircraft such as the Boeing 747 or Antonov An-124.

History

Early history

Hamilton's first airport was the Hamilton Municipal Airport or Civic Airport at Reid Avenue North and Dunsmure Road (site of Roxborough Park) in 1929. It began as the home to the Hamilton Aeroclub. The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) became a major user of the airport in the 1930s, but the airport closed in the 1950s to make way for residential development.

In 1940, Mount Hope Airport was opened and became the site of RCAF Station Hamilton. During World War II, the field hosted two units for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan: first,  10 Elementary Flying Training School (later moved to RCAF Station Pendleton) using the De Havilland Tiger Moth and Fleet Finch, then No. 33 Air Navigation School using the Avro Anson. After the war, the airport gradually shifted towards civil use, until the military ceased using it as a base for Air Reserve operations in 1964.

From 1969 to 1985, Nordair offered jet service from Hamilton to Montreal, Grand Bahama Island and Windsor. City Express flew to Montreal and Ottawa for three months in 1985. Tempus Air offered same route as City Express from 1986 to 1988. USAir began service to Pittsburgh in 1987. By 1988, Pan Am Express flew to New York City and Nationair flew to London, England. Pan Am Express and Nationair stopped their operations at Hamilton in the following year. Canadian Partner began service to Montreal and Ottawa in 1989.

1990s
Canadian Partner's service to Montreal and Ottawa ended in 1991. In the same year, Pem-Air and Air Laurentian offered service to Ottawa but both airlines stopped the route in 1993. Northwest Airlink offered flights to Detroit from 1992 to 1993. There was no scheduled passenger service until Greyhound Air flew to Hamilton in 1996 before the company folded in 1997.

In 1996, Hamilton-Wentworth signed a contract with a private company to manage and operate it for 40 years. The consortium consisted of WestPark Developments, Vancouver Airport Authority and TradePort International Corporation Ltd., a subsidiary of Vantage Airport Group, which manages 10 airports.

From 2000 to 2010
In 2000, WestJet expanded to Canada's eastern region, choosing Hamilton as the airline's eastern region hub, and flying to destinations from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia. Continental Airlines also offered service to Cleveland in 2000 but stopped in the same year. In April 2004, seeking to compete with Air Canada for business travellers, WestJet moved its eastern hub from Hamilton to Toronto Pearson International Airport. While Hamilton retained flights to many destinations, services to Montreal and Ottawa were ended. In the wake of the WestJet pullout, CanJet began service to Hamilton in 2003. Then in the spring of 2005, two weeks after Air Canada Jazz announced it would enter the local market with service from Hamilton to Montreal and Ottawa, CanJet announced a complete withdrawal from Hamilton. Citing high fuel prices, Air Canada Jazz withdrew its services from Hamilton airport to Montreal and Ottawa by 2008. From 2007 to 2009, Flyglobespan offered seasonal service to the United Kingdom, including Liverpool, Manchester and Doncaster. In 2010, WestJet cut two-thirds of its flights out of Hamilton. The only remaining service by WestJet was one daily service to Calgary. In 2015, Air Canada Rouge planned to begin daily service to Calgary by June 2015 but the launch was delayed and ultimately cancelled.

In 2007, YVR Airport Services (now Vantage Airport Group), which runs the Vancouver International Airport, took over 100 per cent ownership of TradePort International in a $13-million deal. In late 2007, Trade Port Co. and Citi Corp. bought land from the city of Hamilton to expand runway 06/24 to . This was expected to happen sometime between 2015 and 2019.

After 2010
Hamilton saw growth as Air Canada resumed daily flights to Montreal in 2016 via Air Canada Express and WestJet adding service to Edmonton, Halifax and Winnipeg.

In 2017, Hamilton experienced an 80 per cent increase in passengers, to 600,000, which was still well below its capacity of 3 million per year. In 2018, ultra-low-cost carriers including Swoop, Flair Airlines, Canada Jetlines chose Hamilton as a hub for service to the Greater Toronto region. Flair Airlines later shifted operations to Toronto-Pearson in mid-2018 and Air Canada Express again ended its service to Montreal in early-2019. From March to September 2019, Norwegian Air Shuttle operated flights to Dublin, bringing transatlantic service to Hamilton for the first time in over a decade, but ceased operations citing Boeing 737 MAX groundings.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Hamilton airport saw 60% reduction in passenger services over the year 2020 while peak levels of cargo operations were maintained. The airport was a key entry point for imported medical supplies into the country, including Canada's first shipment of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine which landed on December 14, 2020 from Cologne, Germany by UPS Airlines.

In January 2023, Icelandic airline Play announced plans to re-introduce service to Europe in June 2023 with flights between Hamilton and Reykjavík.

Secondary airport for Toronto
Since the 1970s, Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) and the Government of Canada planned a second international airport for Toronto in Pickering, Ontario, to act as an official relief airport for Toronto-Pearson. Supporters of the plan argued that Hamilton is too far from Toronto to be a reliever, while the opposers pointed out that relief airports for Logan International Airport in Boston (T. F. Green State Airport and Manchester-Boston Regional Airport), for example, are farther from Downtown Boston than Hamilton Airport is from Downtown Toronto. In October 2017, the Pickering City Council supported the development of an airport in Pickering during its joint-bid with the rest of Greater Toronto to host Amazon HQ2. However, a GTAA report in December 2017 suggested that an airport in Pickering was not necessary at the moment and that Pearson can meet demand until 2037. Hamilton charges 30 to 50 per cent lower fees to airlines than Pearson and its compact size makes travel quicker for passengers and allows aircraft to spend less time on the ground.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

Statistics

Passenger

Hamilton has experienced significant volatility in its passenger traffic numbers. The airport met its peak at 1,041,204 passengers in 2003, when it was a hub for WestJet for a year before moving operations to Toronto-Pearson. Between 2016 and 2019, passenger numbers again increased close to a million passengers as more low-cost carriers began service at the airport. Passenger numbers sharply declined in 2020 after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cargo

With about 25% of the annual cargo tonnage of Canada's busiest cargo airport Toronto-Pearson, Hamilton is a major Canadian cargo airport. It has consistently ranked as the third or fourth busiest cargo airport in Canada over the last decade behind only Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver and, since 2017, Montréal–Trudeau. With around 70% of Hamilton's cargo tonnage being domestic cargo it has consistently ranked as the third busiest domestic cargo airport in Canada behind Vancouver and Toronto.

Access

The airport is located near Highway 6, which provides access to Hamilton International Airport via Highway 403. King Shuttle is a bus operator that provides scheduled service from the airport to Toronto Pearson International Airport and Toronto Union Station. The Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) operates bus route 20 A-Line Express, a limited-stop weekday service, from the airport to Hamilton GO Centre.

Megabus formerly operated a daily scheduled coach bus service between the airport and the Toronto Coach Terminal between 2019 and 2020.

Aviation institutions

The aviation programs of Mohawk College have facilities at the airport. As of 2017, the learning facilities include an electricity lab, a hangar, airport apron and two classrooms. Near North Aviation (NNA) is a flight school based at Parry Sound Area Municipal Airport with a base at the Jetport facilities in Hamilton.

See also
 List of airports in the Greater Toronto Area

References

External links

 Official website
 Canadian Owners & Pilots Association's Airport Directory

Certified airports in Ontario
Airports of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Transport buildings and structures in Hamilton, Ontario


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Relative to other WiiWare titles, the graphics in NyxQuest are very clean and crisp, if not slightly unpolished. The animation is fluid, and the backgrounds are amazing. The music is very Greek, for lack of a better word, and adds to the overall atmosphere significantly. Also, props to Over The Top for naming the majority of the levels after real Greek cities and locations (Thessaly, Argos, Mt. Parnassus, etc). However, there are some rough edges and there isn't a whole lot of variety in the areas you explore (usually a sandy/mountain area during the day/night). The game is also very short and can usually be completed in less than 3 hours, although I suppose that's to be expected.
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Our 2017 Road Trip, Part 14: See the Constellation
September 17, 2017 By Randall A. Golden in Travel Tags: Baltimore, boating, Civil War, Historic Ships in Baltimore, Inner Harbor, photography, photos, road trip, tourism, travel, USS Constellation, vacation, video Leave a comment
You may have noticed parts of this ship in previous chapters. We'll also come back to one of these buildings later in the series.
Every year since 1999 my wife Anne and I have taken a trip to a different part of the United States and visited attractions, wonders, and events we didn't have back home in Indianapolis. From 1999 to 2003 we did so as best friends; from 2004 to the present, as husband and wife. For 2017 our ultimate destination of choice was the city of Baltimore, Maryland. You might remember it from such TV shows as Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire, not exactly the most enticing showcases to lure in prospective tourists. Though folks who know me best know I'm one of those guys who won't shut up about The Wire, a Baltimore walkabout was Anne's idea. Setting aside my fandom, as a major history buff she was first to remind skeptics who made worried faces at us for this plan that Maryland was one of the original thirteen American colonies and, urban decay notwithstanding, remains packed with notable history and architecture from ye olde Founding Father times. In the course of our research we were surprised to discover Baltimore also has an entire designated tourist-trap section covered with things to do. And if we just so happened to run across former filming locations without getting shot, happy bonus…
After lunch we took a water taxi back to the Inner Harbor's Pier 1 and dedicated the rest of our Monday to touring their most visible collection of attractions, the Historic Ships of Baltimore. Docked along separate piers are four different American ships of military significance that you can tour for one combined package price. Their purposes and legacies date back decades, and each has its own exhibits, artifacts, and varying degrees of air conditioning. We started with the ship that was oldest and parked farthest west, the USS Constellation.
Anne tries out a practice ship's wheel on shore. If she works hard enough she might get promoted to commodore.
The Constellation isn't the first ship to bear that name, but this version was officially built in 1854. Originally assigned to policing and thwarting the African slave trade where possible, the Union later tasked her with various duties during the Civil War. She missed out on all the major naval battles and remained intact enough to continue handling important trips and odd jobs alike for decades after — including a reserve function through WWII — until final decommissioning in 1955 to serve out the rest of its existence for the sake of historical education. Numerous restorations have been required, as recently as 2012, but she's worthy enough today to allow guests aboard her upper levels.
Displays near the entrance include a spare steering wheel. Everyone loves wheels!
The cannons! The cannons! The cannons!
Visitors begin on the upper deck…
No visitors allowed in the crow's nest.
A lovely canopy shielded us from that increasingly oppressive sunshine. This shade was a life-saver during the next part.
As luck would have it, we'd arrived just as a tour guide in Civil War uniform prepared to launch into a live demonstration of life during 19th-century aquatic wartime. He talked us through the process with occasional bits of sarcasm. He tried to organize several volunteers, old and young, into a line of playacting soldiers in hopes of running them through a pretend drill. Differing opinions in "left" and "right" yielded mixed results and a bit of flustering for our would-be commander.
We didn't judge him for sneaking peeks at his notes.
Lovers of guns, explosions, or loud noises were excited when he offered to demonstrate actual rifle fire, using an old-school model that still worked but was much slower to load than today's semiautomatics or Gatling guns. He was determined to show us how many times he could load and fire it in a minute, just to replicate the laborious process and tedium that a real Civil War soldier would have faced on the battlefield, assuming they could concentrate between slowly loaded potshots flying around them from their opponents' equally handicapped artillery. Because we were in the heart of Baltimore, before he began he turned his personal volume up to 11 for a courtesy bellow to anyone and everyone who could hear him around the shoreline — something to the effect of, "ATTENTION, EVERYONE ON THE HARBOR! WE ARE ABOUT TO FIRE A GUN! WE ARE NOT SHOOTING AT YOU!"
For kicks I took video of his one-minute demo. Longtime MCC readers may be aware I never, ever remember to do this for any reasons ever. It's not the most scintillating activity, but gun aficionados may appreciate the historicity, and the Harbor scenery in the background is nice.
Thankfully everyone down below was cool about it and nobody called the cops on him.
Once we were dismissed, our self-guided tour continued on the next deck below, a bit more cramped but packed with details of past nautical lives.
Same cannons, other side.
The captain's stateroom, naturally the most comfortable quarters of all, albeit by a slim margin.
The captain also had the starboard washroom all to himself. Probably one of the best perks of command.
Serving aboard this vessel would've caused long-term spinal issues for today's basketball players.
The stern's view of downtown Baltimore as we disembarked. One historic watercraft down, three to go.
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package model;
// Generated Jun 8, 2017 3:17:03 AM by Hibernate Tools 5.2.3.Final

import java.util.List;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.hibernate.LockMode;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.criterion.Example;

/**
 * Home object for domain model class Budgetperiodic.
 * @see model.Budgetperiodic
 * @author Hibernate Tools
 */
public class BudgetperiodicHome {

	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(BudgetperiodicHome.class);

	private final SessionFactory sessionFactory = getSessionFactory();

	protected SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
		try {
			return (SessionFactory) new InitialContext().lookup("SessionFactory");
		} catch (Exception e) {
			log.error("Could not locate SessionFactory in JNDI", e);
			throw new IllegalStateException("Could not locate SessionFactory in JNDI");
		}
	}

	public void persist(Budgetperiodic transientInstance) {
		log.debug("persisting Budgetperiodic instance");
		try {
			sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().persist(transientInstance);
			log.debug("persist successful");
		} catch (RuntimeException re) {
			log.error("persist failed", re);
			throw re;
		}
	}

	public void attachDirty(Budgetperiodic instance) {
		log.debug("attaching dirty Budgetperiodic instance");
		try {
			sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().saveOrUpdate(instance);
			log.debug("attach successful");
		} catch (RuntimeException re) {
			log.error("attach failed", re);
			throw re;
		}
	}

	public void attachClean(Budgetperiodic instance) {
		log.debug("attaching clean Budgetperiodic instance");
		try {
			sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().lock(instance, LockMode.NONE);
			log.debug("attach successful");
		} catch (RuntimeException re) {
			log.error("attach failed", re);
			throw re;
		}
	}

	public void delete(Budgetperiodic persistentInstance) {
		log.debug("deleting Budgetperiodic instance");
		try {
			sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().delete(persistentInstance);
			log.debug("delete successful");
		} catch (RuntimeException re) {
			log.error("delete failed", re);
			throw re;
		}
	}

	public Budgetperiodic merge(Budgetperiodic detachedInstance) {
		log.debug("merging Budgetperiodic instance");
		try {
			Budgetperiodic result = (Budgetperiodic) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().merge(detachedInstance);
			log.debug("merge successful");
			return result;
		} catch (RuntimeException re) {
			log.error("merge failed", re);
			throw re;
		}
	}

	public Budgetperiodic findById(java.lang.Integer id) {
		log.debug("getting Budgetperiodic instance with id: " + id);
		try {
			Budgetperiodic instance = (Budgetperiodic) sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().get("model.Budgetperiodic",
					id);
			if (instance == null) {
				log.debug("get successful, no instance found");
			} else {
				log.debug("get successful, instance found");
			}
			return instance;
		} catch (RuntimeException re) {
			log.error("get failed", re);
			throw re;
		}
	}

	public List findByExample(Budgetperiodic instance) {
		log.debug("finding Budgetperiodic instance by example");
		try {
			List results = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().createCriteria("model.Budgetperiodic")
					.add(Example.create(instance)).list();
			log.debug("find by example successful, result size: " + results.size());
			return results;
		} catch (RuntimeException re) {
			log.error("find by example failed", re);
			throw re;
		}
	}
}

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Tipperary Road Race 2016: Results
It has been a long time since the county has had a county championship road race. Judging by the big crowds that turned up in wet conditions and the quality of riders in attendance, this is a race that will remain on the calendar from here on out. It is safe to say that the standard of cycling in the county is very good. New cycling teams are popping up in every town and village and it was great to see almost every club making the effort to be there. Friendly rivalries are being built and that can only be good for the county in the future.
After a week of fine weather, the Gods decided to bring the rain to Birdhill yesterday. Luckily for us the organisers, Tipperary folk are made of tough stuff and 56 cyclists made it to the start line. The 65km course is a safe one for racing so the slick conditions didn't make much of a difference bar people's back wheels slipping going up that little b#####d of a climb, Chapel Hill.
Shortly after 7:00pm, the cyclists assembled on the start line. There were 3 groups with a large A4 group getting a 2 minute head start on a large A3 and junior group, who in turn had a 2 minute handicap on the smaller A1/A2 group. There were plenty of strong riders in the A4 and A3 groups so the A1/A2 group knew they would have to ride hard from the start. The race set of at a lightning fast pace. There was a tail wind out to Nenagh so average paces were hovering between 45 – 47km per hour.
The A3 group were flying it from the gun and they were eating into the lead of the A4 bunch. Passing the Yellowbridge the group ahead were very close. Aichlinn O'Reilly plus two Raparee cyclists took the opportunity to break out of the A3 group. They made it up to the A4 group and the speed of that bunch increased greatly. At the roundabout in Nenagh there was only 20 seconds between the two groups but by the time they got back to Birdhill the gap had grown again by over a minute. The A3 group had stopped working well and were just waiting to be absorbed by the A1/A2 bunch.
The A1/A2 bunch worked well together with everyone putting in a strong effort to close the gap. Seán Yelverton, Peter Leahy and Simon Ryan were driving the pace but to their surprise the gap to the A3 bunch had not come down by too much by the first roundabout. They didn't let the heads drop and they stuck to the task and soon the gap started to come down quickly as the bunches turned into a head wind on the way back to Birdhill. Coming into Birdhill for the first time, the A1/A2 group caught the A3 group but the A4 group were still out of sight.
Unfortunately for the A3 group, being caught in Birdhill was not ideal. Chapel Hill was only 1 mile away and the pace up that was going to have a lot of people in trouble. There was plenty of jostling for position coming into the 20%+ gradient hill with the A1/A2 riders and top juniors making their way onto the front line. Simon Ryan and Sean Yelverton led a full on sprint up the hill. They were closely followed by Shane Scully and Aaron Kearney over the top. As they swung left back to Birdhill the back of the A4 bunch came into view.
The A4 bunch had survived up to the top of the climb and were able to adjust to the increased pace as the front group passed back through Birdhill. The race was strung out behind the front 15 riders with cyclists from the former combined A1/A2 /A3 group trying their hardest to get back in touch. By the time the race hit the hill at Kilmastulla we had a front group of 20 or so and small groups all over the road behind.
Seán Yelverton was calling loudly for a fast pace up the climb as he looked to keep the pace high. The fast pace was too much for a large number of the A4 riders and one by one they went out the back. The group reduced to around 14 riders close to the top of the hill. The pace slowed a little and Shane Scully used this opportunity to break off the front. He was dangling out there for a while before being joined by Simon Ryan. The two lads were joined by Seán Yelverton, Dermot Radford, Aichlinn O'Reilly and 1 other. This was a very strong group and the pace being set by Simon Ryan soon meant that they had a nice gap to the chase bunch behind.
Coming through the Yellowbridge, the race had taken a more orderly shape. You had the break of 6 out front (soon to become 5 as one rider punctured out). Behind that, you had a chase group of about 8 riders and then you had a large main pack which had reformed after the chase from Chapel Hill. At the roundabout in Nenagh the gaps were about 40 seconds between the first two groups and a further 20 seconds to the main bunch. All that was left in the race was the final spin back to Birdhill and then up the ramp (roughly 20km).
The front break kept working hard until they were well out of sight. Strong chasing from the main bunch saw the back two groups merging not long after the roundabout. This caused the chase to the breakaway to falter a little and soon it was obvious that the break ahead was going to be a winning one. For the final 10km the break attacked the living s##t out of each other. Dermot Radford was on the receiving end of much of this but he was able to close down every attack. Aichlinn was very strong in the break but he was finding all this sprint / slow action hard to handle and he got distanced with 5km to go. That left just 4 up ahead.
The attacking continued all the way to Birdhill. Seán and Simon took it in turns one after the other to go. Dermot answered everything and Shane was just content to hang on in there and wait for the final hill. The 4 lads were altogether rounding the final corner onto the 1km long finishing ramp.The finish line was thronged with supporters all eager to see who would cross the line first.
There was a slight headwind on the way up so they were nervous about going too early. With 700m to go Sean shot up the road; he wasn't followed. With 400m to go Shane attacked with Simon on his wheel. They put some distance into Dermot and closed the gap on Seán. With 200m to go Shane was out in front and he went on to take the win with Simon Ryan in 2nd and Dermot getting up for 3rd place, Seán in 4th and Aichlinn finishing 30 seconds later in 5th.
The bunch behind came in just over a minute later. There were still plenty of prizes and county titles to fight for. Leading home the bunch was Aaron Kearney cycling for NRPT. Aaron is just after finishing the Junior Tour and it was good to see him at the race. He took the prize for first junior. Next over the line was Bobby Coleman from Mego. In 8th place and 1st county A3 rider home was Matty Kennedy from Nenagh CC. In 9th place was Limerick CC's Anthony Gahan (miracles do happen!). In 10th place and 1st county A4 rider was Slievenamon's Richard Burke. First woman home was Niamh O'Dwyer, from Cashel Rock Pedallers.
Average pace for the day was very fast with the lead breakaway clocking close to 43 km / hour for the 65km race.
So the first Tipperary Road Race since I don't when is over. It turned out to be a great race. Some of the new clubs in the county are absolutely motoring. There is plenty of talent in the county and I am sure the standard will improve even more for next year. Thanks to everyone for turning up on a damp evening in the North of the county. Fair play to my own club for taking on the task of organising this race at short notice. Thanks as well to Cooper's Pub for the use of their facilities. Thanks to all our marshals and motor marshals. Thanks to our Commissaire Brian Jordan who took on this job at very short notice and helped us a lot. Finally, thanks to the many supporters who came along to cheer on their clubs. We will hopefully see ye all again next year, unless another Tipperary club want to bring the action down to their club. I am sure everyone in Nenagh CC will be there to support it.
Breakaway finish
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Bunch Finish
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Shane Scully, Nenagh CC
Simon Ryan, Mego
Dermot Radford, Tipperary Wheelers
Sean Yelverton, Mego
Aichlinn O'Reilly, Westport Covey Wheelers
Aaron Kearney, NRPT
Bobby Coleman, Mego
Matty Kennedy, Nenagh CC
Anthony Gahan, Limerick CC
Richard Burke, Slievenamon
Pat Ryan, Tipperary Wheelers
Kenneth Kennedy, Nenagh CC
Mark Bergin, Clonmel CC
Darren Allison, Raparee CC
Eamonn Hartnett, Nenagh CC
County Titles
Team Prize: Nenagh CC – Shane Scully, Matty Kennedy, Kenneth Kennedy
1st Shane Scully, Nenagh CC
2nd Dermot Radford, Tipperary Wheelers
1st Kenneth Kennedy, Nenagh CC
2nd Peter Leahy, UDCC
3rd John Dempsey, Carrick
1st Matty Kennedy, Nenagh CC
2nd Anthony Gahan, Limerick CC
3rd Pat Ryan, Tipperary Wheelers
1st Richard Burke, Slievenamon
2nd Shane White, Raparee
3rd David Donovan, UDCC
1st Niamh O'Dwyer, Cashel Rock Pedallers
Nenagh Summer League – is now over for the year. No more marshaling duties left for the club so ye can all let out a big sigh of relief!! Thanks for the big efforts put in by all club members throughout the year. Without yere help the Rás team would never have got to the start line in 2016.


Star of the moment Wizkid makes a major move to change the music game in Africa as he signs Mr Eazi, Efya and R2bees from Ghana to StarBoy Worldwide Records. According to Wizkid this is a take over and in reality it really is because StarBoy artists will dish out nothing but good/sweet music.
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After three years of drought, California's 2015 harvests are predicted to be smaller than usual. At first glance this doesn't mean a lot – 2012 and 2013 were record harvests and 2014 was the third largest in the region's history. But shorter supply means taller demand and in turn, higher prices.
While continuous water shortages have meant cutting back on car-washing and lawn-keeping for Californians, the relentlessly hot, dry weather can only be good news for the quality of Napa Valley grapes. Vines grown under stress produce fewer grapes with stronger flavours.
"It will be a good year for Cabernet with concentrated flavours and ripe tannins if things continue to progress as they are. We expect a heat spike this week, which is not scary for Cabernet with its sturdy thick skins. The fruit quality is reminiscent to me of the 2004 vintage" said Elizabeth Vianna of Chimney Rock winery.
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Now that April is upon us, we've been busy finalizing many of the details for this year's Fair!
Today we're pleased to announce that rules and entry forms are now available for the 2015 Fair Queen Pageant and the 2015 Little Miss Shippensburg Community Fair Pageant. Both pageants will be held on Monday, July 20th beginning at 6:00 PM, and are sure to be the main highlights of our opening day!
If you are interested in participating in one of these pageants, or even sponsoring a young lady who wants to participate, please use the links below to download the rules and entry forms that you'll need! Remember that the winners of these pageants are required to represent the Fair and the Shippensburg community for an entire year, so please review the information included prior to entering. Entries are due by May 26, 2015!


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Since I'm going away for a long weekend, I'll leave you with this post about phage therapy from the archives.
Rep. Mark Foley resigned yesterday because he sexually propositioned a sixteen year-old congressional page. That's awful enough–well, that and Foley was the Chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, but what's even worse is that the House Republican leadership knew about this for months and did nothing.
This transcends absurd: Republican Rep. John Boehner, the House Majority Leader, stated on national television that Al-Queda and Saddam Hussein were linked, even though President Bush himself has admitted no connection.


Did you know that the Halifax Citadel is the number one most-visited historical tourist spot in Canada? True story.
Today, I joined the ranks.
I was there for the changing of the guard and a free tour and a movie and I talked to the School Master who was excellent and I spoke with the off-duty guards. Actually, one of the off-duty guards was very cute and spoke very knowledgeably. The other one was clearly nervous and broke the spell for me that they weren't really soldiers. It was kind of darling. He must be a new recruit.
And if you want to know more about the events going on at the Citadel, have a look here: www.regimental.com.
Now that I'm seeing it, I wonder if maybe I shouldn't have waited to go for a Ghost Walk there. I'm sure that would have been interesting.
I spent 2 hours there and could have spent more, actually. They have a very good museum in there. It's interesting that they had such an elaborate, expensive defense system that took so long to build and it never had to defend itself once. It only saw action as a training ground and holding cells for prisoners of war, apparently.
A worthwhile place to visit if you ever get to Halifax.
I also found another pretty worthy coffee shop in the nearby Barrington Place pedestrian mall: Sam's Macchiato. Not as good as Cafe Ristretto, but definitely worth a go.
Number of Lost episodes watched: 5.
I'm so excited to see what happens!
Amount of chocolate eaten: sickening.


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The Waits-ing Game
To hear gravel-voiced beatnik troubadour Tom Waits tell it, the process by which he and his longtime friend, the photographer, designer, and director Anton Corbijn, have collaborated over the years has been pretty simple.
Bono and the Edge on the making of Achtung Baby, an album that marked one of the greatest reinventions in rock history, as the biggest band in the world forged into the future by wrestling free of the past—and why they're struggling to do that very same thing right now.
The accidental mythology of pop's original art-rock-fame-creature-showbix-changeling.
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