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Man buys stolen £1,300 bike for £80, gives it back to real owner
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A man bought an expensive stolen bike just so he could return it to its owner because he knew 'someone had paid a lot of money for it'. Stet Burke, 26, paid £80 for the bike, which he knew cost over £1300, after being approached by three men who asked him if he wanted to buy it.
He says he realised the bike was stolen after noticing a bike lock on the back wheel when the men approached him. He told Metro.co.uk: 'I had just come home from the gym and I was getting my gym bag out of the back of my car to go inside my home when I was approached by 3 men carrying the bike. 'That was my first red flag, then I saw the bike lock on the back of the wheel and he wanted to sell a £1350 bike for £100. I offered him the £80 and he took it. 'So as soon as they left I put it on Twitter because I knew it wouldn't have been stolen far away as it was locked.'
After the post went viral, Stet was contacted by a woman claiming to know the original owner, who she put him in contact with. A few hours later the man met Stet and had the key to the lock as well as the paperwork for the bike, including a receipt. Stet said: 'He thanked me as his home was recently burgled and it's a bit of good news for him through the hard time he's going through. 'He told me he got paid on Friday and could he send me the money then and I said no. I told him I didn't feel right taking money off a man who has just had his house burgled.' Following the incident, Halfords have been in touch with Stet to offer him a free bike of his own, however, he says 'he didn't do it for free stuff'.
He said: 'Halfords have been very kind reaching out to me, I didn't do it for free stuff I just did it because I knew someone's paid a lot for it.' He was also happy to have received the praise of rapper Stormy who he said was his 'hero'.
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The Man Booker shortlist
I woke up knowing that the Booker shortlist had been announced while I was asleep (10am BST). My first intimation that it was not what I and some other readers were expecting came when I read Rosario's and Theresa's tweets. Whoa. There were three I expected and three I didn't, two choices that I agreed with and multiple omissions I didn't. So, I suppose, a normal Booker year? Here's the list:
4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
The History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Elmet by Fiona Mozely
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Autumn by Ali Smith
What was different for me this year was that I had read over half the list, which is far and away the most, and I'd been so sure, along with a few other people, that some of the books were slam dunks. In that category were the Ali Smith , which made it, and Reservoir 13, which didn't. In the next category (probably but not a slam dunk) were Solar Bones, Lincoln in the Bardo, and Home Fire. I thought Days Without End and The Underground Railroad might suffer from the "too many awards already" problem, but the Barry certainly deserved to be there on quality grounds in my opinion, and the bookies and the rest of the literary world thought the Whitehead did too.
This year's longlist was really strong, and there were always going to be worthy books left off. I'm still kind of stunned, though. I shouldn't be; after years of reviewing genre novels I certainly know the importance of taste, and when you have a high quality threshold like you do here, taste is going to play a key role.
Of my choices that didn't make it, the one I feel most strongly about is Reservoir 13. It's a terrific accomplishment, it's innovative while still being accessible, and McGregor is a long way from a household name. McCormack has already won awards for Solar Bones, and I'm guessing Home Fire will do well in upcoming award competitions.
Right now my first choice on this list is Autumn, but I plan to read the Fridlund and the Mozely before the announcement, and I'll see how much headway I can make on the Auster. My taste-wise least favorite is the Saunders; I can see why it was chosen, and lots of smart thoughtful readers love it, but if it wins I'll know how the anti-Sellout people felt last year. 🙂
The winner is announced on October 17.
How about you? What do you think? Are you surprised, pleased, befuddled, or some other emotion completely? Which ones are you going to read (or not)?
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18 Comments to "The Man Booker shortlist"
Barb in Maryland says:
My thoughts are all over the place. I've read only one book on the shortlist (Autumn) and I may try to read another one or two. My library system doesn't have Elmet (not surprising, as it is a small press offering by a new author). I've read enough varying reviews of Lincoln in the Bardo to know that it isn't for me. I may try Exit West and/or History of Wolves. However, I still want to read three others from the longlist–whenever the library can get them in my hands(Reservoir 13, Home Fire and Solar Bones).
I would like to think the judges wouldn't give the top prize to a US author two years in a row, but what do I know about how their minds work?
Sunita says:
I'm swinging between being really disappointed and thinking I don't understand how the Booker works, despite following it for decades. I think my problem is that their rationales don't explain the results. It's all about the writing, but the longlist had better examples of great writing. Under-appreciated authors? That explains the debut authors, but Saunders is a MacArthur genius grant recipient. Part of it is that books like the Auster and the Fridlund are not that unusual in terms of fiction in the US. One of the reasons I didn't want to read the Fridlund was that it sounded so much like other recent books. The Auster may be great, I haven't read it (also true for the Fridlund), but I'm not seeing a lot of innovation here. And given the Booker pays attention to such things, historically, I'm kind of bummed that we have 5 white authors, 1 LGBT author and 1 POC author. So, I'm bemused, to use your term.
Liz Mc2 says:
Reading your comment to Barb, I wonder about how the judges being British colored their views of the originality of some books. My feeling about Auster was kind of "blah, four versions of a New York/NJ Jewish male writer's life?" but maybe they thought about Reservoir 13 "blah, village life in the Midlands?".
I liked/admired the Saunders book less as I read more of the others. Partly that's personal taste: I found it both more vulgar and more sentimental than Solar Bones or Reservoir 13, even though arguably taking up some similar themes. It's showier and less controlled. That's not my preference and I think its experiments weren't that successful, but I can see the case for it. I don't get the Fridlund, though. I did like some of the writing–the narrator's observations of the natural world–but like Saunders' book I thought its ideas were kind of jumbled and the plot structure just did not work for me. The pieces did not fit together and I didn't find it at all suspenseful.
Ron Charles (book editor for The Washington Post), has an interesting take that I really agree with. And he says it better than I can. But is his wish likely to happen?
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Reading the first chapter and the reviews on the Auster, one of the reasons I put it on the back burner was that it sounded like so many other White Dude Grows Up In the 1960s books, just with an interesting structure. But it didn't sound as if the structure really led to much that other books hadn't done better.
I got the Fridlund from the library and I'm going to give it a try. Maybe the language will be enough, but I kind of doubt it.
I saw that and thought it was a great column. He's right that from a purely selfish viewpoint, American readers heard about non-US books that we wouldn't have necessarily come across thanks to the Booker. Now we're seeing books shortlisted that have already received a ton of press here. But I think they're not going back, and it's a shame, especially because as Liz said above, it's harder for non-specialist judges to know what is new and fresh if they're not familiar with the particular culture. Of course that happens with books they pick from outside the UK, but those are usually genuinely under-publicized in the big markets.
Thanks to following a couple of reader groups at GR (The Mookse and the Gripes, and Newest Literary Fiction), I've learned about other awards in the UK and elsewhere which sound interesting. In particular, the Goldsmiths Prize is UK/Ireland only and emphasizes innovative styles and subjects (Ali Smith has won one and Solar Bones won in 2016). It releases its longlist at the end of this month, and I'm looking forward to seeing what's on it. And I've been reading more translated fiction this year and last, which I've really enjoyed. All of which is to say that while I'll still follow the Booker, I'm trying to branch out so that I can find more Reservoir 13s.
Janine Ballard says:
I'm no expert on the Booker, nor have I read any of the books yet. But… does it strike anyone else as odd that in this post-Brexit, Trumpian year, the selection of authors on the shortlist is as white as it is? is this "Paul Beatty won last year" tokenism, or am I missing something? It just seems to me that if you're going to make the short list half American, there should be at least one book by an American author of color on it, if not more, especially given that race is *the* issue at the heart of US society right now.
Paul Beatty last year and Marlon James the year before that. I did notice that the POC writers, with the exception of Hamid, were left off. There are always more worthy books than places, but still. And Saunders' take of history at a period of intense racial conflict was quite unsatisfying to me. So yeah, it was odd.
Yeah. I misspoke earlier… Race is always the issue at the heart of US society, but right now it is playing out in such an incredibly ugly way. I started reading the Hamid last night and though I'm only a short way in, I love it so far. I often chicken out of literary novels midway but I hope I don't with this one.
It ends on a positive note, as long as you aren't too invested in seeing Nadia and Saeed stay together. I liked that aspect a lot, because even though there are plenty of depressing things happening, Hamid makes space for hope as well.
I think the Booker panel would be criticized more for giving it to three American authors who were all men (James was perceived as American by some critics because he lives in Minnesota now) than for giving it to three black authors writing about race. And I guess I don't see 2017 as marked departure in terms of racial conflict and ugly racist discourse, although our President has taken it to a new level in terms of public normalization. But I also live a few miles from Ferguson MO in a city notorious for segregation and racial discrimination, so my perspective reflects that.
Yes, that's why I corrected myself. Trump is inciting hate crimes and Nazi demostrations, and of course there are his policies as well. But racial conflict and ugly racist discourse have been around forever.
With regard to the awards, I guess I have an expectation of literary award committees to issue their awards with an eye toward what's happening with Trump. it's an opportunity for them to make a statement. Maybe that's a foolish assumption? But the exclusion of American POC makes me feel that this particular committee may not be all that interested in what US authors have to say on injustice in the US. And that makes me wonder why they expanded the awards to include the US.
To correct myself again, I should have said, this year's judges panel, rather than this particular committee–that's what I meant!
I don't know that I want the judges of a literary award to make a statement about American politics just because they're accepting submissions from American authors. Many Americans are understandably obsessed with Trump, worldwide online media in English seem to be obsessed with Trump, but does literary fiction in English need to reflect that? It can, certainly, but that sounds like a terrible burden to put on an artist.
An award needs to be whatever it is, with all the downsides and upsides attached to what its terms of reference produce. The Booker has always straddled a line between high-literary and readable-middlebrow, with awards for books that are too extreme in either direction getting a lot of criticism. Sometimes they go with the popular choice, sometimes they don't. But they've not often been like the Nobel Peace Prize, i.e., using their choice to send a political message. Which to my mind is good, because we've had some Peace Prize winners that really do not hold up in the medium and long term.
In thinking further about the long v. short lists, only 2 of the 6 longlist choices are focused on contemporary political themes and issues. The Roy and Shamsie were also left off, and they are extremely political (India and the UK/War on Terror respectively). I also think of the McGregor and the McCormack as politically relevant through their engagement with issues of ecological change and human effects on nature. Also left off. So whatever their criteria were, politics were not high on the list.
That's a good point about the Nobels. There is certainly something to be said for not using literary awards that way. My thinking may be muddied by my feeling that Trump's rise to power is a huge disastrous turn and not just for the US. But that is something only time will tell.
I saw the Goldsmith short list today. Besides 'Reservoir 13' (which I already have on hold at the library) there were 2 others that caught my interest –'A Line Made By Walking' by Sara Baume and 'Phone' by Will Self.
They also released the short list for the Canadian Rogers Writer's Trust fiction prize, but I haven't had a chance to dig into it yet.
Your thoughts? Any that you can recommend?
I thought the list looked great. I got the Baume at the library and I'm really intrigued by the Self as well, although it's the third in a series and it's long! I think I'll order it and the Barker, which has gotten some advance buzz. Not sure about First Love but it's also available at the library so if I have time then maybe.


The long-awaited story about how C-3PO got his red arm seen in The Force Awakens has been released. Being told in a special one-shot issue from Marvel some of us doubted that this was ever coming out. It was delayed numerous times but now that it's here is it worth our time. Ron and Steve gave it a read and they share their thoughts about this issue (hint: they wish that Lego's Droid Tales were in canon instead).


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$5,000 in virtual reality equipment will make world travel possible for Washington High students
Two Washington High teachers receive the largest Innovation in Education grants this school year.
$5,000 in virtual reality equipment will make world travel possible for Washington High students Two Washington High teachers receive the largest Innovation in Education grants this school year. Check out this story on argusleader.com: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2019/05/09/washington-high-school-sioux-falls-south-dakota-grant/1144623001/
Shelly Conlon, Sioux Falls Argus Leader Published 3:17 p.m. CT May 9, 2019
Teachers wait to hear the winners of the Innovation in Education grants from the Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at Washington High School. (Photo: Erin Bormett / Argus Leader)
Washington High School students who can't afford to see the world outside of South Dakota will have a chance to travel next year no matter their economic status, as long as they take Britt Samson's German classes.
Samson was one of two Washington High teachers to receive the largest grants given away by the Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation this spring, each worth more than $5,000 to go toward improving classrooms.
The educators were surprised with the grants during a faculty meeting Wednesday after school.
Samson's grant of $5,342 will allow her to purchase 15 Google Expedition virtual reality devices, 15 viewers, a teacher tablet, router and storage and charging cart to bring the world to students, foundation officials said. The equipment will also be used in georgraphy courses.
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"By eliminating distractions and creating a 3-D virtual reality experience, students will truly feel as though they are in another place," Samson wrote in her grant application."I cannot tell you how excited I am to think I can give these students an experience they will never forget. All will be able to 'visit' a new country with their classmates, regardless of income."
Samson's surprise even went a step further when a former student. Reece Almond, a foundation board member and attorney with Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP, announced the grant, she said.
Washington High teacher Britt Samson blinks tears from her eyes as she expresses her gratitude after receiving an Innovation in Education grant from the Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 in the Washington High School library. The grant will be put toward virtual reality equipment to allow her students to travel the world regardless of income. (Photo: Erin Bormett / Argus Leader)
The minute he announced Samson taught him in Huron, South Dakota as a child, she had a small feeling she won, she said.
"This was huge," Samson said after the surprise. "It means a lot that people gave this to our kids, and I'm really grateful to the foundation. I'm just really excited for what this could mean for class."
The other education grant went to Meghan Wounded Head, a finalist for the Sioux Falls School District's Teacher of the Year award. She'll be using her $5,242 grant to purchase 16 iPads and a charging cart for students in her Accelerated English courses. The technology will help them complete five literary projects revolving around themes of cultural conflict, adversity, social protest, civil unrest, ambition and restraint.
"Each of these projects allows students to apply their learning and think outside the norm," she wrote in her grant application. "My students have the ability to academically succeed; it's my job to push their thinking, develop their creativity and encourage continued growth."
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The grants were one of 22 awarded this school year by the foundation to 43 teachers. Overall, the foundation gave away about $57,000 in education grants this year, said Allison Struck the foundation's first executive director.
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Since 2008, the foundation has funded more than 330 grants, totally more than $450,000. In recent years though, the demand for those grants have increased, and Struck was charged with finding ways to meet that need.
"I feel like we're kind of at a Publisher's Clearing House event whenever we walk in (and do this), Struck said.
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Catheterization of the Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein to Perform Hemodynamic Measures, Infusions and Blood Sampling in a Conscious Rat Model
Jing Feng1, Yvonne Fitz1, Yan Li1, Melinda Fernandez1, Irene Cortes Puch1, Dong Wang1, Stephanie Pazniokas2, Brandon Bucher3, Xizhong Cui1, Steven B. Solomon1
1Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 2Harvard Apparatus, 3ADInstruments
A Microplate Assay to Assess Chemical Effects on RBL-2H3 Mast Cell Degranulation: Effects of Triclosan without Use of an Organic Solvent…
Isolation, Expansion, and Adipogenic Induction of CD34+CD31+ Endothelial Cells from Human Omental and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue…
Vascular accesses to measure hemodynamics, provide fluids and perform blood sampling are important to any small animal model study. We present a technique for implanting catheters into the carotid artery and the common jugular vein in an anesthetized rat for connecting to a system to perform monitoring, infusions and sampling.
Feng, J., Fitz, Y., Li, Y., Fernandez, M., Cortes Puch, I., Wang, D., Pazniokas, S., Bucher, B., Cui, X., Solomon, S. B. Catheterization of the Carotid Artery and Jugular Vein to Perform Hemodynamic Measures, Infusions and Blood Sampling in a Conscious Rat Model. J. Vis. Exp. (95), e51881, doi:10.3791/51881 (2015).
The success of a small animal model to study critical illness is, in part, dependent on the ability of the model to simulate the human condition. Intra-tracheal inoculation of a known amount of bacteria has been successfully used to reproduce the pathogenesis of pneumonia which then develops into sepsis. Monitoring hemodynamic parameters and providing standard clinical treatment including infusion of antibiotics, fluids and drugs to maintain blood pressure is critical to simulate routine supportive care in this model but to do so requires both arterial and venous vascular access. The video details the surgical technique for implanting carotid artery and common jugular vein catheters in an anesthetized rat. Following a 72 hr recovery period, the animals will be re-anesthetized and connected to a tether and swivel setup attached to the rodent housing which connects the implanted catheters to the hemodynamic monitoring system. This setup allows free movement of the rat during the study while continuously monitoring pressures, infusing fluids and drugs (antibiotics, vasopressors) and performing blood sampling.
Arterial and venous catheterization of rats has long been used in laboratory research.1, 2 Catheterization can be used for monitoring of hemodynamic parameters including systolic, diastolic and mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR) and central venous pressure (CVP).3,4 In addition, these catheters allow the infusion of standard treatments or potential therapies as well as blood sampling to further analyze the underlying mechanism of an illness or treatment. Therefore, having vascular access in a small animal model is critical for studying clinical performance measures and treatment effects.
To study the underlying causes of critical illness, it is important to first develop a model to simulate the human condition. Intra-tracheal inoculation of a known amount of bacteria has been successfully used to reproduce the pathogenesis of pneumonia, a severe pulmonary infection which then develops into sepsis.3, 5 Monitoring hemodynamic measures and providing standard clinical treatment is critical to simulate routine supportive care. Standard clinical treatment includes infusion of antibiotics which aids in clearing the underlying infection and the administration of fluids and vasopressors, two therapies employed in septic patients to maintain blood pressure.5-7 Vascular access, specifically implantation of patent catheters is especially important when we study investigational therapies for sepsis.
For many years, the ability to administer standard clinical treatment to rodents was limited by the availability of the materials with the needed properties for constructing implantable catheters and the ability of the infusion technology to deliver small volumes accurately over time. In addition, the ability to trigger an infusion in response to the continuous monitoring of a specific hemodynamic measure allows for a consistent and reproducible standard treatment model when using larger sample sizes typical of rodent studies.8, 9 These technological limitations in materials and precision hardware have been overcome but to simultaneously provide routine therapies while monitoring hemodynamic parameters, both arterial and venous vascular access must be available.
The video details the surgical technique for implanting carotid artery and common jugular vein catheters in an anesthetized rat. Following a 72 hr recovery period, the animals will be re-anesthetized and connected to a tether and swivel setup attached to the rodent housing used to connect the implanted catheters to the hemodynamic monitoring system. During the study, the system allows for a fluid infusion based on either delivering a given volume at a certain infusion rate or an automated system that delivers an infusion rate depending on the mean arterial pressure detected to maintain a given pressure range. The fluid infusion system uses programmable syringe pumps that interface with the data acquisition system's digital outputs and are controlled by the software monitoring the MAP. The tether and swivel setup allows free movement of the rat during the study while monitoring pressures, infusing fluids and vasopressors, and performing blood sampling without having to manipulate the animals. Simultaneous monitoring of up to 12 instrumented animals with 2 catheters each (in our setup) with the hardware expandable to monitoring 24 instrumented animals allows for a great deal of flexibility for studying multiple stratified groups in each experiment.
This catheterization procedure can be beneficial to research facilities that use similar rodent models requiring vascular access for monitoring, sampling and treatment for up to 11 days. If the research facility considering this procedure has experience with rodents and a proper support structure for maintaining these animals then developing these skills can provide a significant cost saving, reducing total cost per catheterized rat from more than $180 to less than $50 (including naïve rat, catheter components and technical costs) and increasing scheduling flexibility (naïve rats are readily available vs. company delivery schedule of implanted rats). The success of this procedure is dependent on the skills of the individual performing the catheterizations. The training animals required to become proficient in this procedure has ranged from 20 to 40 rats with a resulting catheter patency rate of >90%.
The procedures described below were performed as part of a protocol approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health.
1. Preparation for Surgery
Gas sterilize catheters and instruments.
2. Prepare the Catheters
Flush the catheters with heparinized glycerol (250 IU heparin/1 ml glycerol) to ensure patency and avoid leakage. Plug end of the catheter with a metal stopper (20 ga, 15 mm) to retain heparinized glycerol.
3. Prepare Aseptic Workstation
Use 70% alcohol to spray the workstation and instrument trays. Use a sterile drape to cover the operating table and instrument trays and place instruments on the tray.
4. Prepare Rats for Surgery
Place rat individually in a Lucite chamber and expose to an anesthetic; isoflurane (3-5%) mixed with oxygen until unconscious. Remove rat from the chamber and shave fur from anterior and posterior areas of the neck. Apply lubricant ointment to eyes.
5. Catheter Implantation
Place anesthetized rat (confirmed by toe pinch) onto a heated surgical table in the ventral position; place its nose into the nose cone to maintain anesthesia with spontaneous respirations (isoflurane; 3.5%). Gently scrub the surgical area 3 times alternating use of Betadine and 70% alcohol. Make a 0.5 cm midline skin incision between the scapulae using a surgical scissor.
Reposition rat in the dorsal position; gently restrain the legs to each side of the table using rubber bands; maintain anesthesia. Place two rolled sterile 4x4 gauze under neck to slightly hyperextend for better exposure. Make a 2 cm ventral cervical skin incision right of the midline of the neck at the level of the clavicle using a scalpel.
6. Right Jugular Vein Catheterization
Using a hemostat, bluntly dissect the right jugular vein, separate out the salivary and lymphatic tissues to visualize and isolate a 5 mm section of the vessel. Using 4-0 silk suture, place a loose tie on both cranial and caudal ends of the vessel to maximize the exposure of the vessel. Using a micro surgical scissor make an incision large enough to pass the catheter, in line with the vessel between the two ligatures and tie the cranial ligature around the vessel.
Insert the venous catheter into the vessel towards the heart with the assistance of the micro dissecting hook and forceps and advance the catheter until all of the PU 3F segment is in the vessel. Use the ligatures at the cranial and caudal ends to secure the catheter to the vessel.
7. Left Carotid Artery Catheterization
Using a hemostat, bluntly dissect the omohyoid muscle longitudinally to expose the left carotid artery and isolate a 5mm section of the vessel. Ensure the vagus nerve (white in color) is completely separated from the artery. Take care not to shred or break the nerve.
Using 4-0 silk suture, place a loose tie on the caudal end of the vessel, tie off the cranial end of the vessel and place a bulldog clamp caudally above the suture to stop the blood flow following the incision. Using a micro surgical scissor, make an incision, large enough to pass the catheter, in line with the vessel between the two ligatures. Insert the arterial catheter towards the heart with the assistance of the micro dissecting hook and forceps.
Use a smooth needle holder without lock to hold the portion of the catheter inside the vessel tight before removing the bulldog clamp. Advance the catheter with a pair of forceps while loosening needle holder slowly until the entire PU 2F segment of catheter is in the vessel. Tie the loose caudal ligature around the catheter and vessel to secure, but not so tight as to occlude, the catheter.
8. Using a Straight Hemostat, Tunnel a 5 cm Tube back Subcutaneously behind the Ear and through the Incision between the Scapulae. Exteriorize the Catheters through the Tube and Remove the Tube.
9. Close the Ventral Incision with Three Stainless Steel Wound Clips, and the Dorsal Incision with 4-0 Silk Sutures to Secure the Exteriorized Catheters in Place.
10. Post-surgical Monitor and Care
Following catheterization, terminate the anesthesia and recover the rat in lateral decubitus position in a cage with cellulose bedding. Observe the rats at 2 hr intervals for at least 4 hr or until showing no signs of pain and then once daily. Give Ketoprofen [5 mg/kg, subcutaneous injection (SQ)] immediately post procedure and every 12 hr if the rat shows signs of pain or distress. In our experience, no rats have required additional analgesia for pain following the initial injection. Characteristics observed that would elicit consideration for additional doses of analgesia include but not limited to; abnormal posture; increase/decrease in respiratory rate, unthrifty/ungroomed, infection/inflammation of the incision site, eye discharge, piloerection ("spiked haircoat"), reduction in activity in response to audible or tactile stimuli.
NOTE: Rats recovered for 72 hr that gain >10 g from pre-catheterization weight will be enrolled in the study.
11. Connection to Hemodynamic System
Following recovery, enroll healthy rats (weight gain > 10g) in the study. Place rats in Lucite chamber and anesthetize as previously described.
Place sterile drape on surgical table with sterile hemostat, micro forceps, 1 ml syringes with blunt needle attached.
NOTE: The tips of the hemostat should be covered with rubber to avoid damage to the catheter. Place anesthetized rat on a surgical table in the ventral position and place nose into the nose cone to maintain anesthesia (3-5%) with spontaneous respirations.
Clamp arterial and venous catheters using a pair of rubber capped hemostats just below the metal plug pins. Use a pair of forceps to remove the metal pin at the end of the catheter and attach a 1 ml syringe filled with heparin saline with a blunt needle attached. In turn, remove the hemostats and withdraw 0.1 ml to ensure the catheters are patent.
Re-clamp the catheters, remove the needle and attach this end to a longer catheter (pre-flushed with heparin saline) that's connected to a swivel and tethered on top of the shoebox cage. Connect these catheters to the transducers for data acquisition and recording, sampling, or infusion.
NOTE: All catheters are protected with coiled spring conduits long enough to allow an animal's full range of motion in their cage.
Following catheter connection, terminate anesthesia and recover the animals in the sternal position in a cage with cellulose bedding. To maintain arterial catheter patency, manually flush the lines with 0.05 ml heparin saline (50 IU/ml) every 1 hr for 24 hr which coincide with the regular assessments of the animals.
12. Blood Sampling, Pressure Monitoring and Drug Administration
Attach empty syringe to stopcock connected to arterial catheter and withdraw 0.6 ml inline flush. Attach sample syringe, take sample, and return the 0.6 ml inline flush followed by 0.7 ml heparinized saline flush.
Use data acquisition hardware and software to measure and record MAP and heart rate continuously.
Connect the automated drug delivery system (ADDS) to the venous catheter.
NOTE: ADDS adjusts the rate of vasopressor infusion (high, low, or 0 dose) based on the MAP detected to maintained pressures within the normal physiologic range.
Changes in vascular pressure are transmitted through the fluid filled catheters (Figure 1) and converted into electrical signals represented by the hemodynamic waveforms (Figures 2, 3). Without vascular access, these measures could not be made. Real-time streaming of the waveforms allows for detection and analysis of changes on a beat to beat basis (Figure 2). Compressing the time scale of the waveforms allows for quantifying changes that occur over a longer duration (minutes to days) (Figure 3, upper 4 waveforms) which can be correlated with changes in vasopressor infusion rates (Figure 3, lower 4 waveforms).
Figure 1. Catheter Design: Details of the components of the arterial and venous catheters. PU, polyurethane; PE, polyethylene (segment length) Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 2. Real-time MAP waveforms of 4 typical rodents 7 days post-catheterization over 7 sec. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Figure 3. Time-compressed MAP waveforms of 4 typical rodents (upper 4 waveforms) 7 days post-catheterization over 1 hr. When the MAP is averaged (lower 4 waveforms), that value is used to trigger ADDS high (< 90 mmHg), low (<100 mmHg) or stop (>110) flow response from the infusion pump. Please click here to view a larger version of this figure.
Investigating therapeutic approaches to a clinical model of illness necessitates the ability to accurately perform hemodynamic monitoring, thus requiring vascular access. In our model of sepsis, arterial catheterization provides systemic pressure monitoring and venous catheterization allows for the application of standard clinical therapy. Standard therapy for sepsis includes the infusion of antibiotics to treat bacterial infection and the infusion of fluids and vasopressors to maintain arterial pressure within the desired range. Both catheters are used for blood sampling. In this design, the application of programmable infusion pumps with automatic triggering of the vasopressor infusion rate based on real-time mean arterial pressures is an advance over the clinical setting which requires manual titration by the medical staff and in the pre-clinical setting makes the use of this treatment modality possible for studying large numbers of animals.
Some complications were experienced early in the development of the model. These included partial occlusion of both arterial and venous catheters from over tightening, ties on PU2 and PU3 components, (1-2%); misplacement of jugular venous catheter into a small branch, (<1%); unexplained sudden death after recovery (no pulmonary thrombus or other organ damage evident), (1-2%) resolved by keeping isoflurane concentration 2-3.5% with O2 flow rate of 2 L/min. Other common surgical complications of hemorrhage, local infection and self-inflicted damage were not observed. Once surgical proficiency is attained, each procedure should be able to be completed in no more than 15 min. The rate of success measured as a healthy recovery and patent catheters, can be expected to exceed 90% once fully trained. An additional animal is included in each study to minimize the loss of data and the total number of animals needed and account for a failed catheter that may be "infusion only" or mortality due to complications.
The most critical step in this procedure is the design and placement of the catheters. The materials need to be soft at the tip so as not to pierce the vessel wall without crimping too easily. The body of the catheter has to be stiffer (than the tip) to be able to advance into the vessel sufficiently and be secured in place. Figure 1 shows the 3 diameters of tubing that are connected for the arterial catheter and 2 different diameter tubing connected for the venous catheters. These components are slid within each other to reduce catheter diameter at the tip and are glued together with anchors added to ensure placement of the catheter in the vessel or heart is maintained.
Once recovered and connected to the swivel and tether, the MAP and CVP waveforms should appear similar to the data represented in Figure 2. To maintain arterial catheter patency during monitoring, an hourly heparin saline flush (0.05 ml) should be performed. Continuous infusion maintains the venous catheter patency. During line connection and flush, close attention must be paid to insure there are no air bubbles in the line. An air bubble of ≥0.1ml can result in an embolism in the lung, brain or other organs. Hemodynamic waveforms are recorded and analyzed over the course of the study. When compressing time in the x axis, Figure 3 shows the changes in MAP and CVP over the course of 1 hr as well as the changes in rate and effect of vasopressor infusion.
The procedure has several potential limitations. In our studies, the catheters remain patent for up to 11 days. It is unknown how long the catheters would remain patent beyond this period. To fit the catheters as described, there is a minimum vascular size, which roughly correlates with rodent weight, requiring animals enrolled in this study to be greater than 200 g. The use of a smaller catheter diameter would result in increasing resistances to flow reducing patency. Attaining central venous pressure measures requires precise catheter placement in the atrium sufficient to account for size and growth during the study period and can be a challenge.
Once mastered, arterial and vascular catheterization can provide the basis for a wide variety of rodent models requiring hemodynamic monitoring, blood sampling, and infusion of fluids or therapies while minimizing any pain and distress during instrumentation or handling once recovered. In fact, in conjunction with a previous JOVE publication10 describing catheterization of the femoral vein, we have successfully performed this model with 3 implanted catheters.
The authors have no potential conflicts of interest.
Intramural NIH program supported the development of this model. Publication support was provided by Harvard Apparatus Inc. and ADInstruments Inc. The work by the authors was done as part of US government–funded research; however, the opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the National Institutes of Health.
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Delicate straight hemostatic forceps Roboz RS-7114 surgical instrument
Delicate curved hemostatic forceps Miltex 7-4 surgical instrument
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Micro dissecting hook Miltex 19-220 surgical instrument
Angled on edge micro dissecting spring scissor Roboz RS-5618 surgical instrument
Light operating scissor Roboz RS-6750 surgical instrument
Scalpel handle and blade (#10) Cincinnati Surgical RS-9843 surgical instrument
Pack of 4-0 silk suture with curved needle Ethicon FS-2 surgical instrument
Straight micro suturing needle holder Roboz RS-6410 surgical instrument
Wound clip Stoelting 59027 surgical instrument
Sterile gauze 2"x2" Dynarex 3362 consumable
Gauze 4"x4" Covidien 2556 consumable
Anesthesia vaporizer Surgivet V703001 equipment
Lucite box Custom equipment
Isoflurane Baxter equipment
Downdraft Table Airscience equipment
Table top surgical platform Custom equipment
Arterial Catheter Custom - Scientific Commodities Inc. consumable
Venous Catheter Custom - Scientific Commodities Inc. consumable
Data acquisition system ADInstruments Powerlab 16/30 equipment
Data analysis software ADInstruments LabChart v7.3 equipment
Programmable infusion pumps Harvard Apparatus PHD Ultra equipment
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Two of the best-known American food journalists have been telling readers lately that the DASH and Mediterranean diets aren't best for our health.
But the evidence tells a different story.
The journalists are Gary Taubes, the author of The Case Against Sugar, and Nina Teicholz, the author of the bestselling The Big Fat Surprise. In their recent Los Angeles Times op-ed, they accuse the U.S. News & World Report of presenting the failed nutritional status quo in their January cover story on "best diets," where the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) and the Mediterranean diets are tied as best diets overall.
The DASH and Mediterranean diets promote the consumption of vegetables, fruits and whole grains, and recommend lower intakes of red meat and saturated fat. In the realm of human nutritional sciences, these are two of the most well-respected diets. That's why they ended up on the top of U.S. News & World Report list, based on clear criteria.
Yet, ironically, one of the first claims from Teicholz and Taubes is that both diets don't have enough evidence showing they reduce overall mortality, and they dismiss supporting studies of these diets as flawed. They also assert that dietary guidelines around the world, which largely have promoted dietary patterns similar to DASH or Mediterranean diets, are responsible for our epidemic of obesity and its comorbidity, Type 2 diabetes.
Instead, Teicholz and Taubes propose a diet lower in carbohydrates (including sugar) and higher in fat, like Atkins, paleo, ketogenic or South Beach diets – all of which were ranked low on the U.S. News list. They explain how these low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diets are well researched and the answer to the worldwide obesity crisis.
It seems a nice tidy story – except it isn't. They're saying the emperor has no clothes when they're also naked.
Good evidence for reduced total mortality on LCHF diets doesn't exist (it doesn't exist for DASH or Mediterranean diets either). But DASH and Mediterranean diets do at least have larger randomized controlled trials, something LCHF diets do not.
In terms of weight loss, sticking to a diet that leads to a negative energy balance (eat less than what you burn) is what works, regardless of the diet style. Markers of health, including blood sugar and blood lipids, tend to improve during weight loss irrespective of diet – and as long as the weight loss and diet lasts.
Teicholz and Taubes also proclaim LCHF as the way to reverse Type 2 diabetes, citing an ongoing study as their evidence. While LCHF diets may reverse Type 2 diabetes, it's possibly a product of weight loss. This is supported by the Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial (DiRECT), which recently demonstrated remission of Type 2 diabetes without the need of LCHF diets.
Our dietary patterns, in the macronutrient sense (carbohydrates, protein and fat intake), are more likely the passengers than the drivers of the obesity crisis.
Teicholz and Taubes list the cause of our obesity problem but misidentify it. They say people have been following dietary guidelines (in fact, they have not). Yes, Americans have been "notably increasing their consumption of grains, vegetables and fruits and eating less whole milk, butter, meat and eggs," as Teicholz and Taubes claim. But what they didn't note is that Americans have been increasing their overall energy consumption.
People consume more energy than they did in the 1970s. Factors like urbanization, decreased physical activity at work and at home, and lower food costs (especially for calorie-dense, nutrient poor foods) have all worked to increase the availability of food energy and decrease its expenditure. These are the real drivers of the obesity crisis, not simply carbohydrate (or indeed, sugar) intake.
In this post-fact world, narrative and belief seem to be the only true currencies. In human nutritional sciences, there seems to be a narrative for every diet and for each diet, an army of believers.
Teicholz and Taubes want you to believe that the LCHF diets weren't ranked highly because the U.S. News expert panel may have been "entrenched in their opinions, supported by the industries that benefit from these diets, motivated by non-nutrition agendas such as animal-rights activism." This a strong assertion to level at a panel of 25 diverse and well-established scientists. The accusations of personal bias also seem hypocritical when the authors make some of their living promoting low-carbohydrate diets.
In the midst of a worldwide obesity and diabetes crisis, we don't need more input from industries or from people selling books. We need more large-scale, public health interventions that address root causes of the obesity epidemic. It's time to let evidence dominate the diet discussion.
Dylan MacKay, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences and a clinical trialist at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and an expert adviser with EvidenceNetwork.ca.


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BOSTON -- NFL owners will meet Tuesday to discuss issues involving the league, including player safety. Stephen Jones says there will be another pressing issue on the agenda: the increasing problem of getting
Stadium innovations a priority to NFL owners BOSTON -- NFL owners will meet Tuesday to discuss issues involving the league, including player safety. Stephen Jones says there will be another pressing issue on the agenda: the increasing problem of getting Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/12I9Ojh
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BOSTON -- NFL owners will meet Tuesday to discuss issues involving the league, including player safety.
Stephen Jones says there will be another pressing issue on the agenda: the increasing problem of getting NFL fans off the couch, away from their high-definition TVs and back into stadium seats.
"Everybody always says we have to watch concussions and all of that, and that's at the forefront. But I'd say 1-A is this," the Dallas Cowboys' executive vice president and chief operating officer told USA TODAY Sports on Monday.
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"We don't ever want to take for granted our fans, and with the technology out there ... the flat screens, the laptops, the iPhones. I've got young kids, and they've got a lot of options. If we're not innovative, we're going to have issues."
The league is expected to award Super Bowl L to the Bay Area, and with that announcement there will be plenty of discussion about the innovations the San Francisco 49ers will roll out at Levi's Stadium, which opens in Santa Clara in 2014: Wi-Fi, tablet holders on seats, Internet Protocol television (IPTV), with in-house video and easy access via public transportation.
These innovations also will be presented to owners who built new stadiums at the turn of the millennium. Those facilities were constructed to move away from the multipurpose stadiums to football-only stadiums with luxury suites. Now, the challenge is adapting to reach the new breed of stay-at-home fan. Wi-Fi will be a major topic, according to several owners who have begun to explore the possibility.
"That's a technological challenge, to get that many people streaming video in a stadium," said New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, who has shared MetLife Stadium with the New York Giants since it opened in 2010 and knows it already will need tinkering. "I've heard you could have a little transmitter at each seat, but that wouldn't work, either. It's not a question of money. It's a question of know-how."
Do experts truly know how?
"They say they can do it, but let's see them do it," Johnson said.
Baltimore Ravens President Dick Cass said soon 85% of the fans at M&T Bank Stadium will have full 4G capability. Wi-Fi, though, is at least a year away in Baltimore.
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"It's what our fans want," said Cass, who, like Jones, is a member of a league committee called the Fan Experience Working Club group. "They want the ability to take out their tablet, send a Facebook picture and check the fantasy football scores, so we have to provide that."
To keep selling tickets, the NFL has mandated changes that include:
-- Cameras in the locker room to show edited content to fans inside the stadium.
-- Replays after all scoring plays, turnovers, fumbles, challenged plays, first downs and receptions when the receiver ends up out of bounds, with the best camera angles available.
-- More audio before each play (than rules previously allowed) and unlimited video to stir the crowd.
Jones, whose Cowboys already show locker-room footage in Cowboys Stadium, said further advancements are being explored, such as microphones on the players and officials to provide audio exclusively to in-stadium fans.
"You've got to be careful, because you want them to be football players and play how they play," Jones said. "But if fans want to watch Ray Lewis and what he's saying and doing, they don't need it all, but they could use some fun stuff."
No one is mocking the Cowboys' decision to put 160-foot-wide, 72-foot-tall, punt-blocking video boards above the field anymore. And the idea of vibrating "rumble seats" in the Atlanta Falcons' stadium proposals doesn't seem so far-fetched.
Meanwhile, the Houston Texans, hoping to be awarded Super Bowl LI, will boast video screens roughly 30% larger than the Cowboys', currently the largest in the NFL.
"Everything's bigger in Texas," Jones said. "You always want people aiming to do better."
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In New ISIS Video, British Hostage Delivers Propaganda Seated at a Desk
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2014-09-18 15:57:09 UTC
In a new video, a British hostage held by the Islamic State militant group delivers a propaganda message to the West, promising to show "the truth" about the jihadists and stop what he calls the "seemingly inevitable sequence of events" that's taking Western countries to another war in the Middle East.
The video posted by ISIS on Thursday is titled "Lend Me Your Ears," and features only a man identified as John Cantlie, a 43-year-old freelance photographer who was kidnapped in July 2012 while working in Syria. Sitting calmly behind a desk, wearing an orange jumpsuit, Cantlie admits that he's a prisoner and that he might very well die.
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But unlike recent ISIS videos that depicted the beheadings of Western captives, Cantlie is not killed. Instead, he promises that he will appear in more videos to come.
"Now I know what you're thinking, you're thinking: 'He's only doing this because he's a prisoner. He's got a gun at his head and he's being forced to do this,' right?" he says as he points his two fingers at his head, mimicking a gun.
"Well, it's true I am a prisoner — that I cannot deny — but seeing as I've been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hands of Islamic State, I have nothing to lose."
A screengrab of the YouTube video posted by ISIS, featuring John Cantlie.
Cantlie appears to be in good health, and as he directly addresses the Western public, he promises to present a series of "facts" over "the next few programs," which seems to indicate this is only the first of a series of videos.
"Join me for the next few programs and I think you may be surprised by what you learn," he concludes.
This is the latest in a series of slickly produced videos posted by ISIS to YouTube. On Wednesday, the group released an Hollywood-style video practically declaring war and pushing the United States to send ground troops to Iraq and Syria.
Topics: Islamic State, terrorism, U.S., World


Each year, the Cape Ann Forum presents a Gloucester High School senior (or seniors) with an International Awareness Award.
Gloucester High School senior Caroline Enos received the Cape Ann Forum's annual international awareness award this week for her outstanding leadership role with the campus Human Rights Initiative. HRI will receive a matchin g grant from the Forum for its activities. Forum chair Dan Connell presented the award to Enos on Sunday at Gloucester City Hall during the organization's final event of the season. The forum featured author and former National Public Radio journalist Sarah Chayes on the topic of how systemic corruption threatens global security and fosters the spread of violence and international terrorism.
The event marked the 99th free public lecture put on by the Cape Ann Forum since 2001, according to Connell, who thanked the audience for supporting the organization and endowing the student award. "These awards are part of our commitment to give back to the community and to invest in future education and advocacy around global issues that affect us all." The opening forum of the 2018/2019 season next September will mark the group's 100th session.
Connell presented Caroline Enos with a $500 check "in recognition of the pursuit of academic, international and cultural enrichment within and beyond the traditional classroom and a demonstration of exceptional creativity and commitment in educating other students and the wider community on these critical issues." He also announced a $500 gift for the Human Rights Initiative's continuing work, which will be presented next fall.
Her articles in The Gillnetter this year ranged from coverage of student speeches during the March nationwide protest over gun violence in the schools to the importance of freedom of the press and the potential impact of climate change on Gloucester. A story on what teenage students in Europe think of the United States, based on interviews she did during a summer workshop in Germany, won a Scholastic Gold Key award. Previous winners include author Truman Capote, TV star Lena Dunham and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
Enos will attend Suffolk University in Boston next fall, where she will double-major in journalism and American politics.
Gloucester High School senior Danielle Bauke received the Cape Ann Forum's annual international awaren ess award for her outstanding leadership role with the campus Human Rights Initiative. HRI received a matching grant for its activities next year. Forum chair Dan Connell presented the awards to Bauke, the president of HRI, on Sunday, May 6 at Gloucester City Hall during the organization's final event of the season. The forum featured nationally known author and commentator Stephen Kinzer reading from his latest book, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Birth of American Empire.
Connell presented Danielle Bauke with a $500 check "in recognition of the pursuit of academic, international and cultural enrichment within and beyond the traditional classroom and a demonstration of exceptional creativity and commitment in educating other students and the wider community on these critical issues." He also announced a $500 gift to be used for the Human Rights Initiative's continuing work.
Bauke, who was nominated by her teachers at Gloucester High School, will graduate in June with Highest Honors. She has been the president of the Human Rights Initiative, which grew out of a local chapter of Amnesty International, for the past three years. During her tenure, HRI organized benefit concerts for the Special Olympics and for Syrian refugees. The group is now raising awareness on women's rights and will donate funds to Planned Parenthood, according to Connell. "Danielle is passionate and articulate with a well-developed sense of justice," said one of her teachers in an email to Forum organizers. "She is also creative and inquisitive." Bauke is also active in GHS stage productions and the Art Club and received a scholarship award last week from the Cape Ann Shakespeare Troupe (CAST). She looks forward to pursuing her interests in human rights, international politics, and the arts at St. Lawrence University, attended by students from more than 60 countries, in the fall. Bauke says she's ready to dive right in.
Stockman has been active in the community in a variety of capacities that reflect the range of her interests. She was a volunteer at the Sawyer Free Library when she was in middle school and won a Sawyer Medal for meritorious scholarship this year. She played one of Cinderella's stepsisters in the GHS Theater production of "Into the Woods" this spring and was a mouse in a GHS production of "The Ash Girl" last fall. But her acting career may have been launched four years ago when she appeared in the Annisquam Village Players production of "The Wizard of Oz." She's been riding the tornado ever since.
GHS teachers nominated her for the Cape Ann Forum award, which comes with a framed certificate of merit and a $500 scholarship. "Cara is someone we can all be proud of as a community for what she's done already and what she has in front of her to accomplish," said Forum chair Dan Connell, who presented the award. "We're really proud to recognize this now and look forward to following her progress in the future. An honor roll student ever since middle school who was inducted into the National Honor Society last year, she will attend Boston's Simmons College in the fall to study physical therapy and environmental science.
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Gloucester High School seniors Madeleine McDougal (left) Elizabeth Stephens (middle) each received a $300 scholarship from CAF chair Dan Connell with a certificate recognizing their "pursuit of academic, international and cultural enrichment within and beyond the traditional classroom and a demonstration of exceptional creativity and commitment in educating other students and the wider community." The candidates were nominated by their teachers at GHS. Stephens and McDougal are the co-presidents of the GHS environmental club, which is known as the Student Environmental Action League, and co-editors of the school literary magazine, "The Elicitor." Among their many other accomplishments, this year they organized raised gardens at the high school to produce food for local charities, according to their teachers. Stephens is a top student and played Thump in David Campton's "The Cagebirds" at this year's regional drama competition involving 100 high schools. Her teachers also called her a "remarkable photographer," working both digitally and with film. McDougal is also the treasurer of the GHS Human Rights Initiative and has worked with the Youth Food Project. She's an honor student and a former winner of the Sawyer Medal for outstanding academic achievement. She has also been a star performer on the GHS track team, running the low hurdles. Stephens plans to attend UMass Amherst in the fall to study sustainable agriculture; McDougal plans to attend Bennington College in Vermont to pursue her ecological interests. Both students are accomplished poets who have read their work at the Gloucester Writers Center.
The Cape Ann Forum named Gloucester High School senior Maryka Gillis (right) the 2012 recipient of its annual international awareness award. The award, which comes with a $500 scholarship, is given in recognition of a student's "pursuit of academic, international and cultural enrichment within and beyond the traditional classroom" and her "commitment in educating other students and the wider community on these critical issues," according to Forum chair Dan Connell. Candidates are selected in consultation with GHS teachers. Connell told the audience of more than 120 at the Unitarian Universalist Church that Gillis's teachers described her as "a very bright kid who 'gets it.' " Gillis ranks near the top of her graduating class and leads both the Human Rights Initiative and the Environmental Club at the high school, he said. She is also a member of the student council and has been active in numerous extracurricular activities, including the tennis team. Last year she went to Nicaragua to help build homes for the poor. Gillis will spend the summer in Gloucester before she leaves in the fall to attend Colorado College where she plans to study Environmental Science. An avid outdoors enthusiast, she says she looks forward to hiking in the Rocky Mountains, which will be a short stroll from the Colorado Springs campus.
Gloucester High School senior Terri Moody (right) received the Cape Ann Forum's annual international awareness award at City Hall on May 16, 2010 in recognition of her efforts to bring attention to the global environmental crisis among her peers at the high school. The $500 award was presented by Forum chair Dan Connell. Terri's first initiative this school year was to expand the recycling program into the classrooms that were not yet participating, according to the GHS teachers who recommended her for the award. When no school or city funds were available to purchase additional recycling bins, the Environmental Club under Terri's leadership organized fundraisers, purchased the bins themselves, and then monitored their use through the school year. In October Terri led a "350" climate change awareness campaign in the high school and participated in the "350" protest at the Man at the Wheel. The global campaign's goal is to reduce levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. In March she led an Earth Hour campaign at the high school and with Environmental Club members wrote a letter to the editor of the Gloucester Daily Times encouraging community members to participate. She is now organizing a bike-to-work/bike-to-school event for late May.
On May 3, 2009, the Cape Ann Forum announced its annual International Awareness Award to a graduating Gloucester High School senior who has made an outstanding contribution to increasing awareness of international issues and events to her/his peers. Only this year, there were four awardees. Normally the award is $500 for one recipient, but since GHS teachers had recommended four exceptional candidates this year who had worked as a team on a wide range of social issues since middle school, the Forum decided to increase the award and share it among them. As a result, each received $200. The award winners were Britta Akerly, Emily Castro, Isabel Pett, and Chloe Rideout, cited for their unstinting volunteer work in the school's Amnesty International chapter, the Model UN, the Environmental Club, and more. Over the past four years, Cape Ann Forum organizers have been developing a relationship with the Gloucester High School out of a concern that the next generation develop the tools and the conceptual framework to grasp what's going on in the world they will inherit, why that's important, and what they can do to improve on what we're leaving them. Forum chair Dan Connell, who teaches journalism and African politics at Simmons College in Boston, has done several assemblies at the high school on his experiences abroad, and the organization is assembling an archive of recordings of previous forums to donate to the school. The Forum, founded in 2001, has been setting aside funds to endow the International Awareness award in perpetuity. Students are selected with the help of GHS social studies teachers.
Over last three years, we've been steadily developing a relationship with GHS. I went there in February for 3rd time to talk to students about Africa. Meanwhile, GHS teachers worked with us again this year to identify a senior who has made an outstanding contribution to raising international awareness among his or her peers—essentially to do there what we try to do here. And we could not be more pleased with the candidate we have with us this evening to receive the award. Rebecca MacDougal (right) has a lot to be proud of, not least the fact that she comes from an extraordinarily committed family. Her mother, Sarah Latimer, home-schooled her before she entered GHS four years ago. Her older sister Catherine Ann was the coordinator of urgent action for Amnesty International and an activist in the school Environmental Club—what they call the E Eclub—which set the bar high for her little sister. But Rebecca made her own mark over the past 4 years. She spent 3 of them in the E Club and this year was its co-president. She coordinated the school's recycling program and, according to one of her teachers, she often was the program, running around the school on her own to collect recycling materials. Meanwhile, her family has year in and year out sponsored a child in India and a child in Africa through World Vision, and each Christmas Rebecca has been out cutting wild rose hips with her mom to generate more money for World Vision's charitable projects. She's also been out on our beaches with the E-Club in the summers picking up plastic bottles and other recyclable trash. This is a kid who clearly does not let up. And next fall, she's headed for Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.
This award is given to a Gloucester High School senior who has made an outstanding contribution to raising awareness of international issues among her or his peers. The 2007 award—the Forum's second—goes to Samantha Alves. Samantha was unable to attend the forum and receive her award, but her mother (in photo at right) accepted it for her. Samantha participates in numerous campus activities that promote an appreciation for human rights and that contribute to international understanding among her peers, and she plays a strong leadership role in several of them. She is the president of the GHS chapter of Amnesty International and an active member of the Model United Nations and Political Asylum, the high school's political science club. She has written frequently on international issues for the campus paper, The Gillnetter, and she spent two winter breaks doing volunteer humanitarian work in the Dominican Republic. This is a young woman who lives what she believes—and she plans to continue this upon graduation from GHS, working with a major international relief and development organization. We wish her well in these endeavors, and we salute the contributions she has already made to the community and to the wider world in making this a fairer, safer and more just place for all of us.
The winner of the 2006 Cape Ann Forum International Awareness Award is graduating GHS senior Laura Griffin (right). This is a young woman who combines high ethical standards with a deep personal commitment to act on what she learns. She is a sparkplug among her peers and exerts strong leadership in almost everything she takes on, according to those who know her. Laura helped start the youth group at the UU Church 4 years ago—many of whose members are with us tonight. Also very active in GHS drama club, writing plays as well as acting in them, with minimal support from a way overstretched faculty—who also deserve recognition for all they do in these belt-tightening times as pressure builds to focus all energy on test-taking rather than critical thinking—but that's another story—maybe another forum. What brought Laura to our attention is her unstinting work with the GHS chapter of AI and her unrelenting effort to heighten awareness there and in wider community of the genocide talking place in Darfur, Sudan. In this respect, Laura represents the best in her generation—and society at large—someone who cares deeply about the suffering and injustice, but finds that caring is not enough in the face of the worst crime that human beings are capable of—the effort to erase the existence of an entire people—and that action to stop it is necessary not only to help the victims but to maintain her own humanity.


A few things happened today: Germany won the World Cup, and I ended up in several unsettling conversations about the current contretemps between Israel and Hamas, which somehow led to a German friend saying something to the extent that the Holocaust was 70 years ago and it was time for Jews to get over their sense of victimhood.
I won't debate that point here right now (I've already railed in unconstructive astonishment on social media…) but I decided that the convergence of events today warranted republishing this post I wrote in law school, during the semester when I studied in Germany.
I'm really enjoying my time here in Germany. I'm learning a lot of interesting law, meeting lots of really nice people, learning the language… I'm really glad I came, and as an American student I'm being made to feel very welcome at the school, in the city, and in the country.
But I'm not just an American. I'm also Jewish, and it's hard to think about being Jewish in Germany without stumbling upon the elephant in the room: what happened 60-70 years ago. It's the history we've all inherited – but to what end? I know relatives and acquaintances who refuse to set foot in Germany, not out of any sense of personal fear (although there probably is some distrust that the virulent anti-Semitism is truly a thing of the past) but more out of a lingering anger for those horrible crimes perpetuated against so many people, and particularly against people like us.


An example of the open source connection is the large number of vendors working to deliver device management and enterprise application integration as a set of common services hosted in the cloud, she explained.
The enterprise IT environment is rarely a hotbed for innovation.
Red Hat's approach to IoT has focused much more on the middleware pieces. The survey helped the company gauge its customer response to the operating system as not the most important thing in IoT.
To that end, Red Hat now will focus on the tools dev use. The goal is to make sure that the tools and programming languages devs prefer are included in Red Hat's software collections, according to Strenger.
IoT development is far from stagnant, but the time it takes to get a device from design to manufacturing may make it appear that way, suggested Baoguo Wei, founder of IoT development company Phoinix Technologies.
"The ability to capture consumer data and streamline processes — save money — will continue to make the IoT attractive to marketing and the enterprise," he told LinuxInsider.
IoT can play a big role in marketing operations, said . Soon the marketplace will be ripe with smart marketing for smart devices, said Matias Woloski, CTO of Auth0.
"The ability for IoT devices to access and perform actions using the Internet opens an arena for marketing opportunities," he told LinuxInsider.
IoT already has started to seep into enterprise operations. Enterprises use highly intelligent devices and data analytics tools that have contextual awareness of an environment. They adapt themselves accordingly and provide actionable data, or simply trigger an action on behalf of the administrator, according to Woloski.
"All of these are precursors to the impending IoT trend in enterprise operations," he said.
The IoT already is becoming more prevalent in enterprise surroundings. Business process management is all about connecting people, processes and automated systems to increase efficiency and accuracy, noted Pat Wilbur, CTO of Hologram.
IoT has an important role to play in the operations of many heavy industries, with 56 percent of such businesses estimated to have installed IoT processes by 2017. Despite the high level of activity, there are a few stumbling blocks for IoT, including project overruns and security costs, according to Tom Feltham, marketing director at Explore WMS.
"The proliferation of open source systems can certainly counteract the concerns over project overruns, as these systems and the communities around them grow," he told LinuxInsider.
Security costs associated with open source IoT systems are unlikely to be any different from those of proprietary systems. However, the reduced or nonexistent licensing costs of open source IoT systems can reduce the burden on small businesses, Feltham said.
On the other hand, open standards may be more critical to IoT than the involvement of open source, suggested Auth0's Woloski.
That will enable all IoT devices from all the different brands to talk to each other, Woloski emphasized. In turn, consumers will be able to have an automatic house with devices from all vendors, which will drive IoT in the near future.


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Nirvana 'Nevermind' 30th Anniversary Still Features Original Album Cover
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Despite the lawsuit filed against Nirvana earlier this year by Spencer Elden — the baby on the cover of Nevermind — Universal Music Enterprises and Geffen have reissued the album for its 30th anniversary with the original cover.
In August, Elden filed the suit against the band for child sexual exploitation, and also stated that the image of him on the album cover is child pornography. Meanwhile, he posed for photos recreating the cover back in 2016 to commemorate the record's 25th anniversary.
On Sept. 24 of this year, which marked the 30th anniversary of Nevermind, Elden publicly asked Universal Music not to use the original cover for the reissue. His lawyer, Maggie Mable, reportedly told TMZ that he was afraid that "he'll be subjected to public scorn and ridicule" with the release of the album, and that every year he deals with "renewed, unwanted attention from the media and fans" around its anniversary.
According to Digital Music News, Elden's lawsuit was pushed back to 2022 as of Nov. 11, and he's supposedly going to file an amended complaint "on or before" Nov. 22. Universal, Geffen and the surviving members of Nirvana are set to respond by Jan. 1, 2022.
In the meantime, Universal has been shipping out copies of the 30th anniversary edition of Nevermind with the unaltered original cover.
The reissue is available in various formats, including deluxe and super deluxe editions in digital, CD and vinyl. The largest box set, which is going for roughly $260, features eight LPs and a hardcover book of unreleased photos, but Universal has stated that this version won't ship out until May of 2022 due to the worldwide vinyl shortage.
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Allegheny Aikikai Aikido is located on the lower level of the Rose Hill Plaza at 514 East Pleasant Valley Blvd. in Altoona Pennsylvania. Go down the stairs on the left side of the building and enter through the door at the bottom of the stairs. Go through the door on the left side of the foyer and walk to the back of the garage. Allegheny Aikikai Aikido and Joseki Judo and Jujitsu consists of 2700 square feet located through the door in the back of the garage.
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