Robin Catling wrote a great critique of the first edition of Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04. I wanted to respond to a few of his points and didn't want to constrain myself to a small comment on his blog.
Who are we aiming this at—who is in our intended audience?
Our idea of the audience for our manual is admittedly not very well-defined at the moment. It's something we're working to improve. Currently, we assume our audience has basic computer skills (e.g., they know how to use a mouse and keyboard and they have a basic understanding of the concepts of windows, menus, etc. and how to manipulate them). While we occasionally make references to Windows and Mac OS X software that is analogous to the Ubuntu software we're discussing, we don't rely on any explicit knowledge of that software. Our audience isn't defined much beyond these basic assumptions, though.
I'm not worried about the length at this point, only the content. However, we're planning on making our writing more concise and culling out some material for the Maverick edition. We will likely take much of the advanced material (such as the introduction to the terminal) and provide it in an online-only format (or gathered together in a separate manual).
Thank you for the encouragement to be more bold. I have some ideas to help us break out of the typical 'step-by-step instructions' and 'slog through all this boring stuff to find the bits you care about' forms of computer manuals. I'm currently gathering my thoughts on this and doing a bit of research. I'll be pitching my ideas soon.
How many of the audience groups listed above give a flying #### about 'the philosophy of Ubuntu'?
I agree wholeheartedly. We will be rearranging this material in future editions so that it's more supplemental and not the first thing a reader encounters upon opening the book.
We will be revisiting this in our Maverick edition. If you have any specific recommendations, I'd love to hear them.
I'm not sure a flowchart qualifies as a 'friendly map', but I take your point. We should add some text to the prologue that serves as a roadmap to the remainder of the manual.
Consider task-oriented layout, what do I as user need to achieve.
I think a task-oriented organization structure is great for system help where people can look up step-by-step instructions to complete a particular task. A book, though, better lends itself to goal-oriented projects and more longer-term learning experiences.
Instead of presenting step-by-step instructions for, say, scanning a photo using Simple Scan, we could provide instructions and tutorials on creating a great-looking birthday card that incidentally requires the reader to learn how to scan the photo, touch it up (to remove red eye, crop it to the appropriate size, etc.), install a funky font, pull the photo into Inkscape, lay it out on the page, set up her printer to use the special card stock she bought just for the occasion, etc.
The goal-oriented approach shows the reader how to accomplish awesome things using Ubuntu and its applications. The goals consist of multiple tasks and helps keep the reader engaged—now they're doing something realistic and that has direct application to their life—not simply reading through a series of steps to set up a printer.
This format is completely different than most computer manuals take. I'm going to work with the docs team, learning team, and manual team to see where this type of instruction fits in the Ubuntu documentation ecosystem.
Most people will use the PDF on-screen. Put it in landscape and 2- or 3-column. I'm scrolling too much.
This may be true. For on-screen instructions, we're going to provide an HTML version for Maverick. And, as always, there is still the existing system help.
This manual was designed from the beginning to be a printed book and that's what the design focuses on. Some concessions were made to improve on-screen readability, but there are better formats than PDF for that purpose.
Putting the text in two columns means that the reader would have to scroll twice as much: down the first column, then back up to read the second column.
Thorsten Wilms and I spent quite a bit of time exploring the open fonts that were available to us. We discovered that most of the open fonts had lousy kerning or poor glyph coverage (for supporting non-English languages). The typeface we chose for the body text (Linux Libertine by Philipp H. Poll) has great language support for Latin-based scripts, Greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic. In addition, it has a nice italic, an unobtrusive bold, and a full set of small caps.
Translations that require other scripts are using different typefaces.
If you have specific recommendations for other typefaces we should consider, or specific complaints about the current typeface, please let me know.
It's still too much text and jargon for a new user.
There's still not enough pictures with arrows, circles and highlights—even cropped screenshots of relevance could go in the right margin/column.
I agree with this, too. We're looking at methods of annotating screenshots for the Maverick edition. We're rewriting Quickshot and greatly expanding its capabilities.
Put the text next to the relevant pictures. I need to see what it is you're talking about. Don't give me a whole page of text about Gnome desktop then overleaf give me a picture of a blank one with no highlighting.
I concur. We'll try to do better in future editions.
There's not enough links to glossary entries. The glossary is too slim.
The glossary was something we added at the last minute. (This is primarily my fault, as it took me a while to get the code in place to support the glossary. Similarly, the index.) The glossary and index will both be expanded and improved upon in future editions.
The licence should be a link to a webpage, not a re-print of the whole text (most users don't care, you just wasted a bunch of pages).
You're right in that most people don't care at all about the license. However, keep in mind that the final product is a printed book, not simply a PDF viewed on a computer screen. Not everyone has the Internet access required to view the license online. We want anyone using the book to know that they are allowed to freely make copies of the book.
Heh. Fair enough. The colophon has nothing to do with correctness. It was added at literally the last hour by me. We had to add another couple pages to make the page count come out to a multiple of four due to the printing process. If we didn't have anything there, it would've been a blank page. So I figured we may as well put something on that page and I have a fondness for colophons. I like knowing how books are made, and I thought it would be a nice way to highlight the open source software, open fonts, and graphics that we used to create the manual. I don't think the colophon is in the way of anything and no one's forcing you to read it.
And I could go on. How long have you got…?
I've got plenty of time! Keep the criticism coming—it's very helpful and I've made several notes about things we should improve in our future editions. Thanks again for such a thorough critique—I really appreciate it!
All good to hear Kevin and I know from the exchanges I had with Benjamin there's parallel development of the Learning Center on-line to go with this.
You're right about getting the content first, then multi-platforming the print and on-line for different readers; that should take care of most of my gripes in one hit. I can see the evolution already.


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PLOT: Matthew and Sarah are med students with an interest in neurology. A fellow student is knifed to death by a serial killer. Matthew runs a telepathy experiment with Sarah, who sees visions of the killer, and together they try to visualize the murderer.
After Last Season made a minor stir on the Internet in 2009 when its nonsensical (but, as it turns out, completely representative) trailer was released on YouTube and other video sites. The piece was so thoroughly anti-cinematic, with its laughable props and the meaningless minutiae of its dialogue, that many people assumed it was a parody of a low-budget indie film created by an established director. The frenzy reached it's peak when "Entertainment Weekly" published an article repeating rumors that the trailer was a hoax by notorious prankster Spike Jonze intended (somehow) to draw attention to his upcoming film Where the Wild Things Are.
After Last Season got a one week release in four U.S. theaters.
Director Mark Region claimed the film cost $5 million to make. Few believed him.
After the original run, producer/distributor Index Square stopped offering new DVDs for sale, and actor Jason Kulas said Region has told him there are no plans to produce more.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: The astoundingly crude computer-generated animation, which often looks like it could have been drawn in MS Paint. The best moment is when a killer's knife (which looks like an ice cream cone held upside down) emerges from out of a blank wall.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: "Huh?," "um…," and "whah?" are all equally valid responses to After Last Season. This movie may go down as this generation's Beast of Yucca Flats: stultifyingly dull at times, but so full of misguided directorial choices and failed attempts at cinematic poetry that it takes on a dreamlike character. Watching After Last Season is like trying to follow a old-timey radio serial on an AM station with fading reception: you can tell there's a voice trying to make itself heard, but the transmission is so garbled that the basics of the story become lost in static and long stretches of dead air. It's difficult watching, for sure—thus the "beware" rating—but for intrepid curiosity seekers looking to experience the weirdest of the worst, it's a must see.
COMMENTS: There's a concept in cinema theory called "film grammar;" it refers to sets of filmmaking conventions that have been proven over time to work to tell a story to an audience in a coherent fashion. A director breaks these "grammatical rules" at the risk of confusing and losing his audience. Here's a very simple example of a "grammatical" movie "sentence": a two way conversation starts with a shot of the character who's speaking, cuts to a reaction shot of the party who's listening, then cuts back to allow the speaker to finish his thought. In After Last Season director Mark Region consistently exhibits atrocious film grammar: he will have his speaker deliver a line and then pause awkwardly, then cut to a shot of the listener reacting to a few moments of silence, then cut back to the speaker, who resumes his thought. This isn't a common sort of gaffe; it's more the equivalent of consistently putting adjectives after nouns. Another norm that should be self-evident that Region likes to break is "don't focus on long, undramatic shots of furniture during transitions." He's not just content to mangle the small-scale standards, either; he breaks the big storytelling rules too, rules like "don't include a scene of your main character discussing which floor has a working printers unless the discussion has some relationship to the plot," "don't have any scenes of completely unnecessary characters discussing genealogy while giggling inappropriately," and "don't make one third of your movie a dream sequence unless you have a reason to." New characters, or shots of exteriors (or furniture), are introduced without any context and edited randomly into ongoing conversations. The results are so incoherent and disorienting that it takes two viewings just to verify that there is a real story hiding somewhere in this mess.
Adding to the oddness, the film seems to have been shot in just two locations: a large, vacant house and a warehouse. A medical examining room appears to be someone's bedroom, with pink walls, a ceiling fan, and an MRI machine made out of cardboard boxes taped up with sagging contact paper. (The plot doesn't require an MRI machine, in case you were wondering, but the movie pays it a lot of attention nonetheless). Region is fond of taping pieces of paper to walls; usually, they tell you what set your viewing, such as "Prorolis Corporation," "Psychology Exercise," or "Cell 1″; but sometimes he inexplicably tapes blank sheets to the exteriors of buildings. You feel almost saddened for the actors, who aren't very good or charismatic, but obviously received no help from the script or the director; it's painful to watch them just standing around, not knowing what to do or how to react as they're being assaulted by invisible forces throwing chairs or stabbing them with unseen knives. There's almost no soundtrack, but at times little bursts of a piano or organ playing an odd, semi-melodic series of notes breaks into the action.
This mix of a thin paraspychological plot that's approximately 50% padding, incoherent storytelling and incompetent production might have produced a bizarre enough concoction, but the weird little cherry on top is the "telepathic" scenes brought to us courtesy of outdated software that was probably originally intended as an aid in architectural design. (The credits tell us it took ten people to put together these sequences, but you would never be able to tell from the what appears onscreen). The resulting visions are blocky, geometric abstract designs. Sometimes they resolve themselves into recognizable objects like automobiles, and in one case into fish in an undersea coral reef made of floating cubes and conic sections. The most ambitious animated scene recreates a murder, with a faceless killer wielding a conical knife against a slow-moving cartoon woman. Mostly, however, we watch abstract shapes floating around in space at different vectors, sometimes colliding and bouncing off each other. These scenes are long and add nothing to the story, but they contain some nice weird and moody sound effects; focus real hard, and you might be able to achieve an altered state of consciousness off them.
After Last Season explicitly raises the topic of schizophrenia: the MRI machine has been used in the past to image psychotic brains, although that doesn't have much relevance with Matthew and Sarah's current coursework. The movie itself is not quite schizophrenic—it's not savage and aggressive enough. A better diagnosis for the film—leaving the "Seasonal Affective Disorder" joke on the table—may be derealization disorder, a condition characterized by "a feeling of unreality or detachment from, or unfamiliarity with, the world, be it individuals, inanimate objects, or all surroundings. The individual may feel as if he or she were in a fog, dream, or bubble." This description jibes with the reports of an actual theatrical viewer who claimed that the movie left him "not sure what's real and what's not." The disorder also would explain the film's desperate obsessions with providing directions (there are sudden insert shots of a directional arrows taped to a blank brick wall), with prepositional dialogue explaining the relationships of locations ("I've been through that town, but not to it"), and with its clinical attempts to visualize objects ("several cubes are in an empty room…") The script is intent on orienting itself in space in order to suggest a sense of geographic reality that is belied by its own vague locations. A supposed corporate waiting room looks like folding chairs and a file cabinet set up on the concrete floor of an empty warehouse; a supposed dorm room looks like the same warehouse with a sheet of wallpaper halfheartedly taped to the wall. Ironically, the script never takes the same pains to orient itself in narrative space, that is, to explain to the viewer what the story is actually about and why they should care.
DVD INFO: Good luck on finding an actual DVD copy of After Last Season (we keep the one in our offices in a locked vault, along with the original print of London After Midnight and Akira Kurosawa's never-released sequel Seven More Samurai). Amazon and Ebay searches performed in August 2015 came up empty. If you do manage to find a copy, you'll get the infamous trailer and an additional 30-second spot as bonus items.
Can someone please tell me how to get this movie? The DVD's out of print, and I can't seem to find anyone selling it ANYWHERE, nor can I find it online ANYWHERE. I'm pretty desperate… this movie looks amazing.
DO NOT watch this freakin' movie. It's TERRIBLE. U will regret it if u watch it. You've been warned.
Any film that can smack me down with the same level of pure disorientation that this anomaly provides is a welcome guest in my home.
I think most of those 5 million dollars went to paying the Mafia.
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I have finally seen the movie and was glad to discover that Matt can indeed be a man of action if you need someone to explain where good back-up printers are.
This might be the most nebulous film ever rated by the MPAA. Having studied film in college, this smacked me as someone's effort to make a movie following "the rules", with those rules inferred from a hung-over roommate's sporadic class notes.
Perhaps a 10th-anniversary "kick-starter" campaign for a director's commentary is in order.


I was diagnosed with Coeliac Disease by doctors at Epsom District Hospital in 1976 when I was only a year old. I was extremely ill before then.
About 1 in 1000 people in the UK are diagnosed as having Coeliac Disease. In very simple terms, a Coeliac's (ie. someone with Coeliac Disease) gut is unable to digest gluten. Everybodies small intestine has lots of little sticky up bits which vastly increase it surface area. The sticky up bits are called villi. If you put gluten into a Coeliac's stomach it makes the villi lie down, thus reducing the surface area and making it difficult for the stomach to digest anything at all. There is a slightly more technical description on the Coeliac UK website here.
If I eat gluten I get pretty ill within a day or two (diarhoea, headaches, vomiting, lethargy, weight loss). The intensity of the reaction depends on how much gluten I eat. If I ate a sandwich then I might get a bit of a headache and an upset stomach later that day. On the other hand, I might not notice any reaction at all - it depends on how good my general health was before. Nonetheless, every time I eat gluten it will damage my stomach and it won't always recover totally, so I must avoid eating gluten whenever possible. Fortunately, I don't start having fits or start having difficulty breathing like some people who are allergic to peanuts.
That sounds terribly restrictive doesn't it? It's not all that bad though. Nowadays there are laods of companies that produce gluten-free versions of all the above. Fifteen years ago there wasn't much available except tinned bread (yep, it came in cans!). Gluten-free foods can be very expensive, but thankfully the Doctor can prescribe most of the important things. The doctor can prescribe bread and pasta and plain biscuits, but the little luxuries like chocolate digestives and bourbon biscuits I have to buy... and they are expensive! It's hassle having to order things days in advance to come to the local pharmacy, but the diet I eat is reasonably healthy and provided I stick rigidly to the gluten-free food I can live a perfectly normal lifestyle.
It's not always obvious what is and what isn't gluten free. For example; King Size Mars bars are gluten-free, but the fun size ones are not! To help me with this, Coeliac UK (formerly known as The Coeliac Society) publish a little handbook which lists all the manufactured products I can eat.
The handbook is pocket size and lists everything by manufacturer. It is vital that I check products against the handbook to ensure that I don't eat things that will make me ill. Of course, I get to know what products are in the book and what isn't, so I don't have to look everything up. Also, some manufacturers helpfully put a symbol on their packaging or a statement to say that the product is gluten-free (although I always treat these with caution because occassionally they are blatantly wrong).


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These Pictures Of "Dear David" Watching Adam Ellis Sleep Are Officially The Scariest Thing On The Internet
By Lucia Peters
Adam Ellis/Twitter
Have you been obsessively checking Adam Ellis' Twitter account for past few weeks in search of the continuation of Dear David? Me too —and hey, guess what? We've got one now. The latest photos in the Dear David ghost story are similar to others we've previously seen… but they're also a lot different, too. They're a heck of a lot more menacing — and given how menacing the whole thing was already, that's really saying something.
It's been just over two weeks since the last update — the one in which, you'll recall, Ellis opened up the hatch in the ceiling outside his apartment door and subsequently discovered a small child's shoe and an antique marble. (I still can't believe he hung onto those items, by the way; part of me wonders whether last night's update is directly connected to the fact that they're just, y'know, sitting on his dresser, all casual-like.) This time — as has become his pattern — he started by apologizing for the length of time between updates, noting that the delay has been due to two factors: A) He hadn't been feeling well, and B) not much of note had been happening. By "not much of note," though, he really meant that what he was experiencing was more of the same: He wasn't sleeping well, and he'd been having weird dreams that were "vague and hard to describe." He also wrote that he'd been feeling "sleepy all day" and been suffering from odd "bouts of dizziness."
However, on Wednesday night last week — which would make it Dec. 6 — he said he woke up in the middle of the night with a strange feeling:
It happened again the following night (Thursday, Dec. 7) — and this time, it was accompanied by a feeling that he'd just missed something. So, he decided to try something in an attempt to catch whatever it was that he missed:
When he woke up again, he had hundreds of pictures to sort through; based on the fact that the app was set to take a picture once every minute, it looks like Ellis had been asleep for not quite six hours when he "jolted" back awake, as he put it.
Most of the photos, wrote Ellis, just showed him sleeping in his bedroom:
But then… this happened:
"Then, suddenly, he was there. Standing on the chair at the foot of the bed staring at me," wrote Ellis.
Because Ellis left some lights on, I had no trouble spotting David in the photo above without needing to run it through an image editing program; in case you want a clearer look, though, here's a brightened-up version of it:
Adam Ellis/Twitter; remixed by Lucia Peters
David appears to have stayed there for a minute, adjusting his gaze to look up:
Which might be significant, given the noises Ellis had been hearing above his apartment, the hatch, and what he found in the crawlspace up there during the last update.
In any event, David then did something… weird (well, weirder than usual — this whole thing has been pretty weird right from the get-go, so "doing something weird" is kind of relative at this point):
I did have to brighten up this photo to see David collapsed in the chair; the shadows are such that he's a little difficult to spot as is:
After a few photos similar photos, David appeared to vanish —but then, about 15 photos (and, therefore, about 15 minutes) later, he reappeared:
Again, I had a tough time spotting him here, so I brightened up the photo; what's more, even after doing that, it still took me a while to find him. I've put a red circle around him here in case you, like myself, have never been terrific at Where's Waldo?-style puzzles:
You can probably guess what happened next, right? I mean, David started on the chair; then he disappeared out of sight for a bit; then he reappeared at the foot of the bed... there's a logical progression here:
Yep. There it is. Here's a brighter version of that photo:
What's more, David seemed to know he was being recorded:
Brighter:
All together, now:
Ellis ended the update with a cliffhanger, as usual:
BUT WAIT. THERE'S MORE. (There's always more.) Behold what this follower found upon creating a GIF stringing together all of those photos:
DUN DUN DUN.
If you've been following my incessant coverage of the Dear David saga with any sort of regularity, you already know that I am firmly of the opinion that the whole thing is a really well-carried-off hoax — so, I will not belabor that point yet again. Whether these images were photographed with an actual doll representing David directly in the shot, or whether David has been edited in afterwards, pictures like these ones are really easy to fake.
What I do think is interesting, though, is that the plot of the story is circling back round to where it started — which makes me wonder if maybe it'll be drawing to a close soon. This is the third time we've seen this scenario: The first occurred at the very beginning of the story, when Ellis recounted a dream he'd had in which David appeared on a chair in his bedroom, approached the bed, and began crawling towards him; the second occurred at the beginning of November, when he snapped a few photos of David approaching him during what Ellis thought was a dream, but which turned out not to have been; and now, we've got this third incident on the books.
Here's why I think that's interesting: Structurally, Ellis seems to be setting the story up such that his original dream portends the tale's climax. Exactly how he intends to resolve it, of course, remains to be seen — but I do think this structure is effective, if it turns out to be what he's going for.
For what it's worth, there are a few loose ends that have started to bother me as time has gone on; what happened, for example, to the weird phone calls Ellis was getting? What about the static his sleep app was recording? Why hasn't the pet cam captured more? Have the cats stopped being bothered by David? Will we see the marble and the shoe come back into the story in any meaningful way? What about the warehouse? I'm not sure whether all — or even any — of these loose ends will get wrapped up when the story concludes; indeed, leaving the questions left unanswered might even lend more realness to the tale. Real life is messy, after all, and actual resolutions aren't often full and complete.)
Either way, though, I'm eager to see where the story will go from here — and how it might end. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Only time will tell.

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Moving forward, there will be only one mandatory cut-down from 90 to 53 after the conclusion of the preseason.
But there will be many more acceptable options to choose from after the National Football League approved three general categories of celebrations: using the ball as a prop; going to the ground; and group celebrations. That will allow for longer review on players through the entirety of a team's four preseason games.
The NFL game may be best served by rolling back the 2012 modification in which the league changed regular-season overtime from sudden death to occasionally prolonged death.
If any of these can make their way into the NFL this season it will be worth the price for however you're consuming the league.
Research suggests the number of games that will go into overtime and end up tied will climb slightly. But demonstrations that are deemed offensive, that delay the game or are directed at opponents are still prohibited.
Still, there is a fair amount of gray area within the new guidelines.
Owners have cut the overtime period from 15 to 10 minutes for all games following concerns from coaches who felt too many players were exhausted and risking injuries at the end of the extra period. Under the new rule, two players per season are eligible to return to practice if they have been on IR for at least six weeks. Imagine a Super Bowl ending in a tie.
"The reality is you know that the players want to celebrate", Goodell said.
"It was something we wanted to accomplish, as you know".
Instead, when NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent looked out into the room, "You could kind of see the head nods, because it was a process that included your season-ticket holders, those that are watching it on television, the players, the coach", Vincent told reporters afterward.
"I don't think you can talk to one kid who doesn't like seeing the guys act a fool when they score a touchdown", the retired receiver said. Previously, those celebrations resulted in a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. "But some things will still be open to interpretation".
"The rules were changed for a reason, and I thought we had a good outcome", continued Lewis regarding restricting celebrations years back.
"Our focus in this process is this building should host multiple Super Bowls over many generations, and we need to make sure we deliver a building that is an exceptional, Super Bowl-quality building", Rams chief operating officer Kevin Demoff said last week. "In addition to all of the efforts, ownership put $300 million to a stadium solution in Oakland and we still couldn't get there", he said.
As Scott ponders whether to sign or veto the bill, he has powerful friends and enemies on opposite sides. As the deadline approached, he offered little as to what he would do.


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Kanstantsin Iawhenievitch Kaltsow - du biélorusse :  - ou Konstantin Ievguenievitch Koltsov - en russe :  - (né le  à Minsk, Biélorussie) est un joueur professionnel biélorusse de hockey sur glace. En 2008, il obtient un passeport russe.

Carrière en club
Koltsov a commencé à jouer pour l'équipe du HK Iounost Minsk dans le championnat biélorusse au cours de la saison 1997-1998 puis il a évolué en Russie dans l'équipe du Severstal Tcherepovets la saison suivante.

Il a été choisi par les Penguins de Pittsburgh au cours du repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH 1999 au premier tour ( au total). Néanmoins, il décide de rester jusqu'en 2002 en Russie où il évolue avec l'équipe de Metallourg Novokouznetsk puis Ak Bars Kazan et enfin l'équipe du Spartak Moscou.
Il fait ses débuts en Amérique du Nord en 2002 dans l'équipe de la Ligue américaine de hockey affiliée aux Penguins de Pittsburgh, les Penguins de Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
Ce n'est qu'au cours de la saison 2003-2004 de la LNH qu'il commence à évoluer pour les Penguins de Pittsburgh en effectuant 82 matchs (9 buts et 20 passes décisives). Au cours de la grève de 2004, il retourne jouer au Spartak Moscou. Depuis 2006, il joue au Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa. En 2008, le club intègre la KHL. Il remporte la Coupe Gagarine 2011 avec le Salavat malgré une blessure qui l'empêche de disputer les séries éliminatoires.

Le , il annonce son retrait de la compétition.

Carrière internationale
Koltsov représente l'équipe de Biélorussie de hockey sur glace senior depuis les Championnats du monde de hockey sur glace 2001.

Statistiques
Pour les significations des abréviations, voir statistiques du hockey sur glace.

| 1998-1999 || Severstal Tcherepovets || Russie || 33 || 3 || 0 || 3 || 8 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2
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| 1999-2000 || Metallourg Novokouznetsk || Russie || 30 || 3 || 4  || 7 || 12 || 11|| 1|| 1|| 2|| 6
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| 2000-2001 || Ak Bars Kazan || Russie || 24 || 7 || 8 || 15 || 10 || || || || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2001-2002 || Ak Bars Kazan || Russie || 10 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 2 || || || || ||
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|  HC Spartak Moscou || Russie || 22 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 12 || || || || ||
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| 2002-2003 || Penguins de Wilkes-Barre/Scranton|| LAH || 65 || 9 || 21 || 30 || 41 || 6 || 2 || 4 || 6 || 4
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| 2002-2003 || Penguins de Pittsburgh || LNH || 2  || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || || || || ||
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| 2003-2004 || Penguins de Pittsburgh || LNH || 82 || 9 || 20 || 29 || 30 || || || || ||
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| 2003-2004 || Penguins de Wilkes-Barre/Scranton || LAH || 3 || 0 || 4 || 4 || 4 || 24 || 6 || 11 || 17|| 1
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| 2004-2005 || HK Spartak Moscou || Russie || 31 || 6 || 9|| 15 || 48 || || || || ||
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| 2005-2006 || Penguins de Wilkes-Barre/Scranton  || AHL || 18  || 7 || 5 || 12 || 13 || || || || ||
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| 2005-2006 || Penguins de Pittsburgh || LNH || 60 || 3 || 6 || 9 || 20 || || || || ||
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| 2006-2007 || Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa || Russie || 54 || 14|| 11|| 25||43||8||1||1||2||2
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| 2007-2008 || Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa ||Russie || 36 || 12 || 10 || 22 || 27 || 15 || 3 || 1 || 4 || 4
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| 2008-2009 || Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa ||KHL || 42|| 8|| 7|| 15|| 14|| 4|| 0|| 2|| 2|| 0
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|| 2009-2010 || Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa|| KHL || 48|| 8|| 17|| 25|| 28|| 16|| 3|| 1|| 4|| 2
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| 2010-2011|| Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa || KHL || 32|| 4|| 11|| 15|| 16|| || || || ||
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| 2011-2012|| Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa || KHL || 51|| 1|| 11|| 12|| 20|| 6|| 0|| 0|| 0|| 2
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|2012-2013 || Atlant Mytichtchi || KHL || 52|| 6|| 7|| 13|| 26|| 5|| 0|| 0|| 0|| 0
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| 2013-2014 || Atlant Mytichtchi || KHL || 54|| 11|| 10|| 21|| 22|| -|| -|| -|| -|| -
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|rowspan="2"|2014-2015 || Atlant Mytichtchi || KHL || 34|| 2|| 1|| 3|| 18|| -|| -|| -|| -|| -
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| Ak Bars Kazan || KHL ||19 || 0||2 ||2 ||7 || 20||3 || 3||6 ||4
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| 2015-2016 || HK Dinamo Minsk || KHL || 43 || 3 || 7 || 10 || 14 || - || - || - || - || -

| 144 || 12 || 26 || 38 || 50  || || || || ||

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Voir aussi

Naissance en avril 1981
Joueur international biélorusse de hockey sur glace
Choix de repêchage des Penguins de Pittsburgh
Choix de premier tour au repêchage d'entrée dans la LNH
Joueur des Penguins de Pittsburgh
Joueur des Penguins de Wilkes-Barre/Scranton
Joueur du Severstal Tcherepovets
Joueur du Metallourg Novokouznetsk
Joueur de l'Ak Bars Kazan
Joueur du HK Spartak Moscou
Joueur du Salavat Ioulaïev Oufa
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2002
Joueur de hockey sur glace aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010
Joueur de l'Atlant Mytichtchi
Attaquant de hockey sur glace
Joueur du HK Dinamo Minsk
Naissance à Minsk

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Dimitra graduated in 2006 from Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Dental Institute with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery and was awarded her Membership with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2008. She subsequently worked as a Senior House Officer in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Hospitals, the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Sussex and in private practice in Kent as well as in Athens, Greece.
In 2015 she completed her specialty training at the Eastman Dental Institute, UCL where she was awarded her MClinDent in Periodontology. At the same time, she obtained her Membership in Restorative Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and was accredited a Certificate in Periodontology from the European Federation of Periodontology.
Dimitra is registered on the GDC's Specialist List for Periodontics. She collaborates closely with our team at K Dental Studios to provide treatment for patients with periodontal needs and delivers a number of lectures and workshops on the topics of periodontology and implant dentistry. Her interest in Periodontics stems from the perception that changing patients' attitude towards oral hygiene and optimising the periodontal tissues set the foundations for achieving oral health and are vital steps before proceeding to advanced dental treatments.
Dimitra also holds a post as Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Dentistry at Queen Mary's University, London where she works on clinical trials at the Centre of Clinical Oral Research.


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package crud.lecture1_create;

import intern.BaseTest;
import io.sphere.sdk.products.attributes.AttributeConstraint;
import io.sphere.sdk.products.attributes.AttributeDefinition;
import io.sphere.sdk.products.attributes.MoneyAttributeType;
import io.sphere.sdk.products.attributes.StringAttributeType;
import io.sphere.sdk.producttypes.ProductType;
import io.sphere.sdk.producttypes.commands.ProductTypeCreateCommand;
import io.sphere.sdk.producttypes.commands.ProductTypeDeleteCommand;
import io.sphere.sdk.producttypes.queries.ProductTypeByKeyGet;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Optional;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

public class CreateTest extends BaseTest {

    /**
     * if working with product types, use this import
     * import io.sphere.sdk.products.attributes.*;
     * This way there are less name clashes with CustomTypes.
     *
     */

    @Test
    public void createAProductType() {
        final ProductTypeCreateCommand createCommand = TODO();
        final ProductType productType = ct().complete(createCommand);
        assertThat(productType.getName()).isEqualTo("boiler");
        assertThat(productType.getKey()).isEqualTo("boiler");
        assertThat(productType.getDescription()).isEqualTo("engine to heat water");
    }

    @Test
    public void createAProductTypeWithAttributes() {
        final ProductTypeCreateCommand createCommand = TODO();
        final ProductType productType = ct().complete(createCommand);
        assertThat(productType.getKey()).isEqualTo("boiler");
        final AttributeDefinition shorttextAttributeDefinition = productType.getAttribute("shorttext");
        assertThat(shorttextAttributeDefinition.getAttributeType()).isInstanceOf(StringAttributeType.class);
        assertThat(shorttextAttributeDefinition.getAttributeConstraint()).isEqualTo(AttributeConstraint.NONE);
        assertThat(shorttextAttributeDefinition.isRequired()).isTrue();
        final AttributeDefinition srpPriceAttributeDefinition = productType.getAttribute("srpprice");
        assertThat(srpPriceAttributeDefinition.getAttributeType()).isInstanceOf(MoneyAttributeType.class);
        assertThat(srpPriceAttributeDefinition.getAttributeConstraint()).isEqualTo(AttributeConstraint.NONE);
        assertThat(srpPriceAttributeDefinition.isRequired()).isFalse();
    }

    @Before
    @After
    public void cleanUp() {
        Optional.ofNullable(ct().complete(ProductTypeByKeyGet.of("boiler")))
                .ifPresent(boiler -> ct().complete(ProductTypeDeleteCommand.of(boiler)));
    }
}

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Advisor, Analyst and Facilitator, Canadian Federation of Agriculture, National Food Strategy, 2012 – present
Visiting Academic, OAC, University of Guelph, 2010 – present
Facilitator, Consumer Association Roundtable, 2010 – (on contract to Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
CEO, Agricultural Institute of Canada, (2007 -2010)
Senior Policy Analyst, Policy Integration Division, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2007
Executive Director, Canadian Agri-food Marketing Council, 1997 – 2007 (consultant to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada)
Strategist and Facilitator, Dairy Industry Working Group, 2006 – 2007 (consultant to Canadian Food Inspection Agency)
Strategist and Facilitator, C-Internet Stakeholder Partnerships, 2005 – 2006 (consultant to Public Health Agency of Canada)
Senior Advisor and Coordinator, Sectoral Advisory Groups on International Trade, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, 1989 – 1996
Economist and Trade Policy Analyst, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1987 – 1989
Association management:
CEO, Agricultural Institute of Canada, 2007 – 2010
Executive Director, Canadian Agri-food Marketing Council, 1997 – 2007
Identifying, analyzing and synthesizing input from public, private and academic sectors relevant to policy development and program implementation pertaining to industries of the agro-economy (e.g. primary agriculture, agri-food, bio-fuels, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and functional foods, bio-materials, environmental goods and services.)
Developing and implementing plans and strategies to inform and engage a diversity of stakeholders.
Preparing, reviewing, overseeing and presenting reports, briefing notes, presentations, speeches, backgrounds, and other communications/engagement products.
Assisting agri-food industry groups in seeking consensus, solving problems and preparing strategies and plans through key stages of the transformation process.
DEMONSTRATED SKILL
Management of agri-food industry associations calling for exceptional financial, human resource and strategic management skills including innovative fundraising and team building techniques.
Design, implementation, facilitation and management of consultations and engagement strategies resulting in (a) improved government use of private sector contributions to public policy and program development and (b) enhanced private sector awareness of public policy and program challenges.
Moderation of diverse stakeholder interests resulting in consensus.
Commercial, economic and political analysis of complex policy and program issues.
Preparation of clear, concise and informative briefing notes, submissions and presentations.
Oral presentations to a wide range of audiences (e.g. House of Commons Standing Committees; meetings with Ministers, their staff, and senior officials; industry and government conferences).
Building trust with senior representatives of the agriculture and agri-food sector across commodity and product lines and throughout individual value chains.
Identification and recruitment of individuals to actively participate in consultations and engagement projects.
Broad range of agriculture and agri-food policy areas: e.g., trade policy; international market development; supply management; environment; health and food safety; supply chain relationships.
Business challenges, opportunities and public policy concerns of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food and other sectors.
All facets of association management.
Public administration: e.g., budgetary, legislative and regulatory processes; federal-provincial, inter-departmental and industry-government relations.
Consultations and engagement techniques.
B.A. (Economics), McGill University, 1983
English; French
CAREER HISTORY DETAILS
Visiting Academic
OAC, University of Guelph, 2010 – present
Initiated and secured the largest OMAFRA grant ever won by the College of Management and Economics for research on the competitiveness of the Ontario food manufacturing sector.
Analysing past and current research and advocacy conducted by industry or "think tanks" pertaining to competitiveness
Managing the stakeholder engagement of the project.
Advisor and Facilitator
Consumer Association Roundtable
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 2010 – present
Facilitating the consultations between CFIA and eight Canadian consumer associations on a wide range of regulatory matters under the auspices of CFIA.
Agricultural Institute of Canada (AIC), 2007 – 2010
With a budget of $1.5 million, a staff of seven and reporting to a Board of Directors, responsible for repositioning AIC as a profitable advocate for the scientists and other professionals engaged in contemporary agriculture.
Under my leadership and as part of the AIC team, accomplishments of AIC included:
Developing a strategy to rebrand AIC as the unifying voice companies and institutions advocating for the sustainable and profitable maximization of societal and commercial benefits derived from the agri-resource base.
Agreement among Board of Directors, AIC members and staff of a new strategic direction for AIC, one that supports agri-food related professional and scientific capacity building.
Providing innovative proposals and a road map to:
increase financial and in-kind support of AIC,
improve relations with current AIC stakeholders,
to extend AIC's membership base into the corporate community.
Significant costs reductions through operational management.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (2007 – three month term appointment)
Research and analysis of intellectual capital demand and supply for industries dependent upon agriculture for feedstocks.
Canadian Agri-food Marketing Council (CAMC), 1997 – 2007
With a budget of $500 K and on behalf of Federal Ministers of Trade and Agriculture and industry members, designed, managed and grew impact of CAMC to provide advice to government on policies pertaining to domestic and international market development and competitiveness including science and innovation.
Under my leadership and as part of a team of CAMC co-chairs, members, other private sector contributors, academics and seconded public servants, accomplishments of CAMC included:
advice on programs to support value-added export growth;
the establishment of export targets to provide a strategic focus to a range of public polices and programs;
the establishment of enabling goals which, if reached in e long-term, would support Canada's supply capabilities to meet projected market demand;
provincial governments brought on board with targets and enabling goals;
original proponent of overarching integrated government strategy for Canadian food sector including regulatory and science policies;
policy and business analysis leading to a strategic basis for Branding Canada;
introduction of the concept of "blessed by nature" and the density advantage of Canadian agriculture into policy development;
raised early awareness on impact of animal health and zoonotic disease on Canadian trade prospects;
convened and managed national conferences on innovation, regulation and value-added strategies.
Fundraising Consultant
John Bouza & Associates, 1996
On behalf of an international board of trustees, conceived and negotiated a strategy with governments, multilateral institutions and business to provide a sound financial basis for a sustainable development research centre in South America.
Senior Advisor and Coordinator
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1989-1996
Provided full range of policy analysis, association management and consultations and engagement services to Sectoral Advisory Groups on International Trade representing agriculture and agri-food, fisheries, textiles, apparel, and consumer products sectors and to the International Trade Policy Committee representing all key industries of the Canadian economy.
Economist and Trade Policy Analyst
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, International Trade Policy Directorate, 1987-1989
Analyzed stakeholder interests in agricultural trade policy negotiations, coordinated the operations of a directorate of 20 trade policy specialists and support personnel, and developed a communications strategy on trade issues in agriculture.
House of Commons, 1986-1987
Analyzed federal agriculture and agri-food policies and programs, played an active role in Member's contribution to Standing Committee on Agriculture deliberations, wrote speeches, liaised with Ministers' offices, and managed House of Commons office staff.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Farm Development Policy Directorate, 1983-1986
• Conducted economic and political research for farm finance and farm management policies, coordinated on behalf of the Director General, operations of the 30 person directorate, and developed a computerized management information system.
Arrell Food Institute Summit and National Food Strategy
Government Response to Standing Committee's Report "A Food Policy for Canada"
Workshop toward a National Food Policy and Council
Food Security: Many Teams – Common Goal
McConnell Foundation and National Food Policy – Market-Based Instruments
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Trump administration weakens Obamacare birth control coverage mandate
Posted 8:47 PM, December 10, 2018, by CNN Wire
The Trump administration issued two final rules on Wednesday providing employers more flexibility with exemptions to deny women insurance coverage for birth control.
Under the Affordable Care Act, employer-provided health insurance plans are required to cover birth control as a preventive service.
Now, the US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a final rule providing exemption from the contraceptive coverage mandate to entities that object to such coverage based on religious beliefs. The second final rule provides exemption to nonprofit organizations and small businesses that may have non-religious moral convictions to such coverage.
These rules finalize interim rules that were issued last year and take effect 60 days after their publication in the Federal Register, according to the agency.
"The religious and moral exemptions provided by these rules also apply to institutions of education, issuers, and individuals. The Departments are not extending the moral exemption to publicly traded businesses, or either exemption to government entities," the agency said in a news release Wednesday.
Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the nonprofit National Women's Law Center, issued a statement Wednesday in response to the Trump administration finalizing the birth control rules.
"The Trump Administration decided to finalize these outrageous rules, despite several pending lawsuits and two federal courts blocking them," Graves said.
"It's clear that this Administration will stop at nothing to attack women's health care. By taking away access to no-cost birth control coverage, these rules try to give a license to virtually any employer, university, or health insurance provider to discriminate," she said. "But if the Administration thinks it can move these rules forward without a fight, they're wrong. Countless women depend on this critical birth control coverage for their health and economic stability — and we will continue to fiercely defend them."
The conservative group Alliance Defending Freedom released a statement from Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor in response to the rules on Wednesday.
"The beliefs that inspire Christian colleges and universities, as well as groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor, to serve their communities should be protected," Baylor said. "Through these regulations, President Trump kept his promise that people of faith wouldn't be bullied on his watch. At the same time, contraceptives will remain readily available to those who wish to use them."
Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, a national organization representing publicly funded family planning providers and administrators, said in a statement Wednesday that the rules "could leave millions of women without access to birth control and reverse some of the important public health progress made under the Affordable Care Act in recent years," she said. "Family planning has been designated one of top ten public health achievements of the 21st century. It is baffling that the administration would support any policy that could diminish access to this essential preventive care."
In October 2017, the Trump administration issued two interim final rules providing an exemption for those who had religious or moral objections to such coverage, while seeking public comment on the rules.
In 2017, Health and Human Services officials said the rule would have no impact on "99.9% of women" in the United States. It based that percentage on the 165 million women in America, many of whom are not in their childbearing years.
The agency calculated that, at most, 120,000 women would be affected: mainly those who work at the roughly 200 entities that have been involved in 50 or so lawsuits over birth control coverage.
Policy experts, however, argued that this could open the door to hundreds of employers dropping coverage.
For instance, there are hundreds of Catholic hospitals, nursing homes and nonprofits that may want to stop providing contraceptives, said Tim Jost, emeritus professor at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.
Experts pointed out last year that many women use birth control for more than pregnancy prevention, including treatment of hormonal imbalances and endometriosis.
"There is no way to know how many women will be affected," said Alina Salganicoff, director of women's health policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on health policy research and communications.
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Raising awareness of global issues and inter-dependence.
The name "Susila Dharma" combines two Sanskrit words, which together mean 'guided from within to take action in the world.' Susila Dharma work originates from an awareness of a common humanity that transcends differences. The intention behind Susila Dharma is to support people to live and work in harmony in their quest for a just and sustainable society. The focus of Susila Dharma is on people and relationships, and a belief in the ability of people to reach their potential — socially, economically and spiritually.
We give priority to the needs, aspirations and participation of the individuals and communities with whom we are working.
We recognize the importance of fundamental human rights and environmental sustainability.
As a network we freely share our information and knowledge, continuously learning from each other and from the communities we are trying to assist.
We base our decisions on mutual understanding and respect. We aim to learn from our mistakes and value our success, no matter how small.
We seek to identify the appropriate scale and terms of financial support on a case-by-case basis.
In addition to being well informed and learning from others, we strive to trust our own perceptions and follow our inner feelings as development practitioners.
SD Canada was created in 1986 by Canadian Subud members as an affiliate to the Subud Canada Association. Subud is a global association of people who belong to all cultures and religions and who are united through a direct, personal experience called the latihan that acknowledges a higher spiritual power. Subud members are often inspired to give back to those in need through charitable giving, humanitarian actions and through creating development partnerships.
SD Canada is a voting member of the international association of Susila Dharma national organizations called SDIA, a USA registered non-profit charitable organization. In 1989, SDIA was granted special consultative status with the United National Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Since 2000, SDIA has been affiliated with the UN Department of Public Information, NGO Section. SDIA is affiliated with the World Subud Association (WSA). SDIA has been ranked 282th out of the world's top 500 non governmental organizations by NGO Advisor based in Geneva.


Vasculitis is defined as inflammation of blood vessel walls. This inflammation causes damage to the vessel wall with subsequent leakage of red blood cells out of the vessels and into the surrounding skin. There are various sizes of blood vessels in the body, from large to small. In most cases when there is skin involvement, small blood vessels known as post-capillary venules are affected; this is called small vessel vasculitis. This can lead to the development of purpura, or bruises, which are often raised or palpable. Depending on the amount and type of inflammation and vessel wall damage, blisters, ulcers, pustules, target-like lesions, or hive-like lesions can also develop.
When medium sized blood vessels are involved, the above changes may be seen in addition to lace or net-like purpura/bruising, lace or net-like redness and patchy discoloration (livedo reticularis), ulcers, nodules in the deeper layers of the skin, or necrotic or dead tissue. This is known as medium vessel vasculitis.
Vasculitis of the skin most commonly affects the lower legs, but can also affect the buttock area and rarely spread to the upper body. Lesions may be itchy, painful, or have a burning sensation.
What caused my cutaneous vasculitis?
In almost half of cases of small vessel vasculitis of the skin, a specific cause is never identified (called idiopathic). Otherwise, vasculitis usually occurs as a reaction to something else going on in the body. In about 15-20% of cases, an infection is the cause. Examples include bacterial infections such as Streptococcus and viral infections such as an upper respiratory tract infection or hepatitis B and C. Another 15-20% of patients may have vasculitis as a consequence of some other condition in the body that causes excessive inflammation. Examples include inflammatory disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease and autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and Sjogren's syndrome. In 10-15% of cases, medications such as antibiotics and NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) are the cause of the small vessel vasculitis. Rarely, the vasculitis can occur as a reaction to an underlying cancer in the body.
Causes of combined vasculitis of small and medium sized blood vessels include cryoglobulinemia and ANCA (anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody)-positive diseases. In cryoglobulinemia, the antibodies that help us fight infections collect together in colder temperatures and then attack our blood vessels which results in vasculitis; this can occur as a result of infections such as hepatitis C, autoimmune conditions such as those listed above, and lymphomas (cancer of the lymphatic system). ANCA-positive vasculitis is an autoimmune condition of unclear cause, although it can rarely be associated with certain medications.
Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a vasculitis of medium sized blood vessels. Similar to small vessel vasculitis of the skin, there are multiple potential causes as listed above.
What other problems am I at risk for?
Patients with cutaneous vasculitis may experience fevers, fatigue, and joint pains. If blood vessels in organs besides the skin are affected, there may be further manifestations. These include kidney damage such as protein and blood in the urine, gut involvement resulting in abdominal pain and bloody stools, nerve involvement causing numbness and tingling in the hands and feet, weakness, respiratory tract involvement resulting in trouble breathing including asthma-like symptoms, chest pain, cough, coughing up blood, and sinus congestion.
The skin spots of cutaneous small vessel vasculitis usually come up as a crops and then resolve over a few weeks to months. About 10% of patients will have recurrent disease showing up as crops of purpura every few months or years. If there is a distinct cause for the vasculitis and it is addressed, there is less likely to be a recurrence. For example, if an infection caused the vasculitis and the infection resolves or is treated, the vasculitis will also resolve.
Generally, patients with cutaneous small vessel vasculitis do well, but the severity of the disease depends on the cause. Those with involvement of organs besides the skin and with vasculitis of medium sized vessels have a greater risk of long term consequences and a low but present risk of death.
When you are evaluated for vasculitis, your dermatologist may do a skin biopsy to evaluate the type of inflammation present and size of the vessel that is involved. They may also do a second type of biopsy called a direct immunofluorescence (DIF) that helps to determine what type of antibodies have collected around your blood vessels. In the majority of cases, however, a dermatologist will make the diagnosis without a skin biopsy.
Next, the doctor may try and figure out why you have a vasculitis. They will ask you about how you feel including symptoms of infection, autoimmune conditions, inflammatory conditions, and cancer. They will ask you about your medication list. This information may be helpful in finding out the cause.
Also, they will assess for the involvement of the vasculitis in other organs besides your skin. For this they will ask you relevant questions about how you feel. If you do have involvement of other organs, you will be referred to other specialists to assist in taking care of you.
Depending on your skin examination, medical history, and a review of your symptoms, your physician may order specific labs and tests in order to get more information about your condition. At a minimum, these labs will likely include a complete blood count, comprehensive metabolic panel, and urine test.
What can I do to make my skin better? What will make my skin worse?
The treatment of cutaneous vasculitis starts by addressing the underlying cause. Any suspect medications should be discontinued and if an infection, inflammatory condition, or cancer is suspected, it must be managed by the appropriate doctor.
Initial treatment recommendations include leg elevation when resting, minimizing standing for long periods of time, and the avoidance of tight fitting clothing. Trauma can induce lesions therefore caution should be exercised. Topical corticosteroids may be helpful and for itching, oral antihistamines can be used. Often, the above measures alone will be of great benefit.
If the vasculitis still persists or progresses, your doctor may prescribe several weeks of oral corticosteroids such as prednisone or other oral medications such as colchicine and dapsone. Other medications options include hydroxychloroquine, azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil, and methotrexate. Less commonly used, but helpful treatments when the above measures are not enough include intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), rituximab, cyclophosphamide, and cyclosporine. All of these treatments require you to be closely monitored by your physician.
Cutaneous vasculitis does not run in families. However, if a patient has an autoimmune or inflammatory disease as the cause of the vasculitis, other family members have a slightly increased risk of developing an autoimmune condition as well, but not specifically the vasculitis.
Fiorentino DF. Cutaneous vasculitis. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2003;48(3):311-40.
Goeser MR, Laniosz V, Wetter DA. A practical approach to the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of cutaneous small-vessel vasculitis. Am J Clin Dermatol. 2014;15(4):299-306.


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These pictures would be placed on the front, with an advert for Peck and Snyder sportswear products printed on the back.
Elastica were born in 1993 when Frischmann brought in guitarist Donna Matthews, Justine Welch on drums, and Annie Holland on bass, who replied to an advert in the press.
Advertisement: A couple can also write the engagement announcement in the form of advert space in an online publication.
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La seututie 471 est une route régionale de Savonie du Sud.
À Enonkoski, une liaison par bac permet de traverser l'Hanhivirta.

Parcours
 Nojanmaa
 Hannolanpelto
 Makkola
 Simanala
 Enonkoski
 Simanala
 Ihamaniemi
 Leipämäki
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"Not just males, but black males are needed; they are needed as mentors; they're needed as teachers and as friends."
Real talk: teachers want to be the positive male role model they needed "Not just males, but black males are needed; they are needed as mentors; they're needed as teachers and as friends." Check out this story on theadvertiser.com: http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/education/2017/10/24/real-talk-teachers-want-positive-male-role-model-they-needed/768046001/
Miranda Klein, mklein@thetowntalk.com Published 11:19 a.m. CT Oct. 24, 2017 | Updated 5:33 p.m. CT Oct. 24, 2017
Daniel Aikens is an English teacher at Alexandria Middle Magnet.(Photo: Courtesy)
Like some of his colleagues, growing up without a father figure motivated Shatter Roy to look for ways to be an example to boys and girls confronted by negative stereotypes about black males.
It's part of what brought him back to his former junior high school in Alexandria to teach math, in addition to an experience as a substitute that ultimately changed what Roy envisioned doing after graduating with an engineering degree and nearly accepting a job in another state.
"It gave me an opportunity to see that not just males, but black males are needed," Roy said of his time as a substitute. "They are needed as mentors; they're needed as teachers and as friends.
"A lot of these kids they don't get an opportunity to see a positive male role model, and for me growing up, it was kind of the same way."
That can even apply in the classroom, where no more than 2 percent of public school teachers are black men, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Only in a handful of mainly southern states, including Louisiana, do men and women of color combined make up more than 10 percent of the teaching workforce, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
At Alexandria Middle Magnet, the number of black male teachers has grown under Principal Dennis Stewart, who said he hired 17 new teachers, representing nearly half of the school's faculty, last year alone.
Most of them are back this year, Stewart's third at the school on Maryland Avenue, where 96 percent of the school's student body is characterized as "at-risk." More than 90 percent are black.
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Students come mainly from two areas of the city where median household incomes are slightly more than $24,000 and $26,000 and where more than half of households are headed by a single mom, according to the Statistical Atlas of U.S. Census data.
Putting together a more diverse faculty is one of many steps in a turnaround process AMMS administration is undertaking.
"I've always believed that (struggling) schools can change," said Stewart, who grew up in South Alexandria like some of his students. "It just takes special people and special planning."
Dennis Stewart has been principal at Alexandria Middle Magnet since 2015. (Photo: Miranda Klein/The Town Talk)
Not all but some of those people have included black men, many of whom grew up in inner-city Alexandria, experienced similar struggles to their students and feel uniquely equipped to meet the challenges outside factors like poverty and family dynamics present at school.
Here's what they shared about their experiences growing up, and now working, in the classroom.
When he was in high school, a teacher told Robert Hall he was going to "be something." He was right.
Hall was the first person in his entire extended family to go to college; only one of his other siblings graduated high school.
Because of the role teachers played in changing his life, Hall became one.
"I feel like it should be an ongoing cycle," he said. "If somebody did this for me, it shouldn't be a story in the past."
Robert Hall teachers math at Alexandria Middle Magnet (Photo: Courtesy)
Hall taught math at Pineville High School for several years alongside the teachers who helped him "think bigger" than the circumstances and poverty he experienced growing up.
"It's hard to think past it," Hall said, acknowledging a struggle for many of his students at AMMS. "I needed those words that I had never heard before."
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Hall started out volunteering time to tutor AMMS students in math and then chose to come teach at the school. It's a decision he doesn't regret.
"I didn't have my dad, but I thank the Lord that he put people in my life to guide me along and keep me on the right path," he said, "because without that, I would be exactly what we're trying to keep these kids from being. ... I was one person talking to me away from being that. I want to be that one person that's going to keep them from not being that. That's what drives me."
Hall said students come in contact with drug dealers in their own neighborhoods, and it's important they're exposed to better examples.
Pointing to himself, he said: "This face that they see never achieves anything. This face that they see has five or six kids and left a one-parent household. This face (as a teacher) makes a difference, because now they see this face in a different avenue. They see this face being successful, as someone who went to college, who graduated college, who is doing something with their life … now they see something positive in this face (they've) been seeing all (their) lives."
James L. Addison
Things were much different when James Addison started his career in 1963.
"It was just common to see black male teachers in schools; they didn't outnumber the women, but it was about 60-40," he said. "As integration came, some people stopped getting into the profession. Of course, we had some people retire, and the pool was kind of drying up."
James L. Addison teaches choir at Alexandria Middle Magnet. (Photo: Courtesy)
Growing up, Addison attended St. James, a segregated parochial school on Winn and Seventh streets in Alexandria.
He credits his junior high and high school choir teacher for inspiring him to enter the profession, and eventually, become a choir teacher himself.
"He gave us love, experiences away from school. He would take us on field trips," Addison recalled. " … I'll never forget he took us to (the University of) Notre Dame. And I was living in what's now called 'the ghetto;' I wasn't exposed to any of that stuff."
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Addison strives to do the same, particularly because he's been at Alexandria Middle Magnet.
He said his students gain a lot from positive male attention, especially ones who aren't in contact with a father, grandparent or uncle.
"I'm hoping I'm making a difference," he said. "Because that is one of the big reasons I'm staying."
Laron Baptiste
His background is in business, but Laron Baptiste knew he eventually wanted to teach.
Laron Baptiste teaches students determined to have an emotional or behavioral disorder. (Photo: Courtesy)
After a career that took him to California and back again, Baptiste said he's happy to be working at a school where he can be "proof that you can make it" particularly to students whose life experiences lead them to develop certain stereotypes about black men.
Baptiste teaches students with emotional and behavioral disorders whom, according to researchers, are particularly vulnerable to negative outcomes like substance abuse and juvenile delinquency.
"My goal is to at least show them there are other paths to success," Baptiste said.
Shatter Roy
Growing up in the same neighborhood as his students, Roy experienced similar struggles.
"Some of the students I interact with, they feel that they don't really know anyone who's come out of the neighborhood and bettered themselves," Roy said. "They don't know what to do in order to better themselves. Being that I was in the same situation, I feel like I can guide them."
Shatter Roy is a math teacher at Alexandria Middle Magnet. (Photo: Courtesy)
Roy sought out mentors and role models, something he thinks used to be easier through avenues like the Boys & Girls Club.
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"These kids, it's the same thing. They want guidance. Children naturally want guidance, but sometimes they don't know how to go about getting it," he said.
Roy said he hopes his class opens the eyes of students to career possibilities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields.
"It is a blessing for me to be able to come back to my school and give back," he said.
Brussell Rosenthal
In college, he had aspirations to go into law enforcement, but Brussell Rosenthal couldn't see himself anywhere else now.
As an assistant principal, he enjoys meeting the challenges particular to the school and students it serves.
Brussell Rosenthal is an assistant principal at Alexandria Middle Magnet School. (Photo: Courtesy)
"I feel like the at-risk setting is where you make your biggest difference," he said.
For example, it took creativity from administration this year to solve a chronic problem of students arriving to school late.
Because consequences alone weren't working, AMMS students are now assigned teacher mentors who meet with them in groups for about 25 minutes before regular classes start.
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It's something teachers said they enjoy because it lets them get to know students in a relaxed setting. And it has proven to be an incentive for students to be on time as it was intended, Stewart said.
Principal Dennis Stewart pose for a picture with some of Alexandria Middle Magnet School's students of the week. (Photo: Miranda Klein/The Town Talk)
Even the school secretary commented on how few students are tardy now.
Rosenthal said he's noticed connecting with students holds different challenges for men, but that they can be overcome.
"(Our students) are learning about men from women who have had negative experiences with men," he said, "so, of course, naturally they disrespect men, because that's all they've been taught by their single parent that men are worthless, men will leave you. So that's another battle we have to fight is earning respect. But it's easy once they learn that you (care)."
Johnnie Jackson
Jackson grew up in New Orleans in a neighborhood where he says the average black male didn't graduate high school.
Johnnie Jackson is a football coach and teaches Journey to Careers, a sixth-grade class that exposes students to career possibilities, at Alexandria Middle Magnet. (Photo: Courtesy)
Although his mother and other family members are teachers, he didn't see himself working in the profession until he was an adult.
In fact, he chose a different, harder path before a breakthrough that caused him to pursue a career in education.
Now, he hopes it's allowing him to inspire youth to go to college or learn a trade that will allow them to be successful.
"I'm so passionate about what I do because I know the journey that it took me," Jackson said.
D'Wayne Price
In some ways, it was the negative experiences he had in school that D'Wayne Price says motivated him to be a different kind of teacher, who always respects and never "talks down" to students.
"I know what I went through, and I know the struggle for a lot of young black boys," Price said. "I just go about it in another way."
Like many of his colleagues, Price grew up in Alexandria. He also works as a counselor for youth at Journey Rehab.
It gives him some unique insight into the kind of trauma and mental health problems boys and girls in the community experience, sometimes at young ages.
D'Wayne Price is a basket ball and football coach and physical education instructor at Alexandria Middle Magnet. (Photo: Courtesy)
The youth he counsels may not be his own students, but Price realizes the kids he sees everyday in his P.E. classes or the ones he coaches in basketball in football may find themselves in similar tough circumstances.
"I have a soft heart for them," he said.
Daniel Aikens
Daniel Aikens, a passionate English instructor and Louisiana National Guard soldier, has made this his teaching philosophy: "there are no bad soldiers, only bad leaders."
Aikens, who came to Alexandria Middle Magnet in the spring, said helping students achieve academic success is rewarding, particularly when they come to his class behind grade level and are able to catch up.
"It's been probably my best year of teaching yet," he said.
Aikens is working in education today partly because of an experience on his first day of student teaching.
It happened as he walked into a predominantly black high school in Monroe as classes were changing and students were shuffling through the halls.
"Everyone got quiet, then they (students) started looking at me," he recalled, "and someone said, 'That guy is a teacher.' And then I heard someone else said, 'No, he can't be a teacher; you've never seen no black male teachers; you know that's not a teacher.' That struck me … it kind of opened my eyes up."
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