This workshop is designed to increase drug, alcohol, and technology awareness for parents, school staff, and community members. Participants will learn some of the latest and dangerous trends engaging our youth. You will be amazed at the different ways our students are hiding drugs. Attendees will also learn about dangerous apps and technology trends affecting the school community.
Devine Middle School on November 8, and Devine High School on November 19.
Devine ISD invites parents, DISD staff, and community members to this informative presentation. Doors will open at the DSAC Cafetorium at 5:30 p.m. for PIZZA and snacks. Pre-registration information will be sent out on School Messenger to help us plan, but is not required for attendance. You can also call one of the campus offices to be sent a link to register or to register by phone. Babysitting info will also be part of the pre-registration form. Visit www.devineisd.org to register.
Larry Rodriguez has worked with the Education Service Center, Region 20 for the past seven years. Besides serving as School Safety Consultant, he also works as a Counselor with the Migrant Education Program, and McKinney-Vento Specialist. In his capacity as School Safety Consultant, Mr. Rodriguez is responsible for providing technical support, education, and training opportunities to school staff in public school districts and Charter schools within Region 20. Prior to coming to Region 20, Mr. Rodriguez spent 20 plus years in higher education as an administrator, counselor and faculty member in Psychology. He has worked at UTSA, Incarnate Word, and the Alamo College system.
Armando Talamantez is a Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Special Agent Talamantez presently serves as a Community Affairs Specialist and as a member of the DEA Houston Division Special Response Team. In 1994, he earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. In 1996, he served with the U.S. Border Patrol as a Patrol Agent within the San Diego Sector in California. In 1999, he began his career with the DEA with assignments at the McAllen and San Antonio District Offices. In a volunteer capacity, he serves on the State Executive Committee for the Texas Law Enforcement Torch Run, which promotes public awareness for the athletes of Special Olympics, and he serves as the chapter secretary for the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.


Trust is a potent force for good. Break it, and you and your business could suffer severe consequences.
Trust "is the one thing that changes everything", says author and motivational speaker Stephen Covey in The Speed of Trust. But if someone had to ask you to define 'trust', you might have some difficulty.
It's a complex concept, often driven by emotion rather than good sense, and it doesn't necessarily depend on the integrity or morals of the people who share it. Criminals often have deep trust in one another.
Perhaps the best way to define trust is to use an example: imagine having a friend or colleague who would never, deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously, take advantage of you.
Someone in whose hands you could, with complete confidence, place your entire situation – your status, self-esteem, career, and even your life. That's trust.
The concept was drawn to my attention recently by US neuroscientist Paul Zak's paper 'The Neuroscience of Trust'. It reports on research that Zak and his colleagues undertook to confirm a neurological link between the levels of oxytocin, a hormone produced by the brain, and trust.
They discovered that the levels of oxytocin in the blood reflect the extent of trust sensed by the individual concerned.
But of far greater interest to me was the finding that an outstanding organisation always has extremely high levels of trust between its people.
We've always known that members of great teams trust each other, but here, for the first time, we have a quantitative measure confirming this fact.
Managers frequently asked employees for advice and help.
These observations provide important pointers for managers wishing to build up trust levels in their teams.
In contrast, the consequences of broken trust can be harsh. Here is a true story. Joe and Susan (not their real names) were pillars of the local community and were widely admired and trusted.
Joe's large motor business was doing extremely well, and the couple had leadership roles in several local institutions, including the church and school.
Then motoring competitors arrived in town and Joe's business started slipping. One of his garages burnt down and, because he had not kept up the insurance premiums, he was not covered for this disaster.
Under great financial pressure and with easy access to the ready cash they handled for the various community organisations, the couple 'borrowed' small amounts to pay their urgent personal debts. This became a habit and, of course, they were eventually caught out.
Overnight, the reservoir of trust built up over many years evaporated. Their business collapsed and the couple became virtually destitute. Five years later, their act of breaking trust with close friends and colleagues has still not been forgotten or forgiven, and perhaps never will.
High levels of trust enable people to move mountains. But if trust is broken, the results can be devastating. Trust takes a lifetime to build, but it can be destroyed overnight. Take care with it.


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CWRU among best in the country for commercialization of research
October 31, 2017 FeaturedRankingsUniversity News
New Brookings Institution report highlights advantages of urban universities in research-related economic activity
Case Western Reserve ranked 13th in the country—ahead of Harvard, Georgia Tech, and the University of Chicago—in a new study of research universities' effectiveness in translating research breakthroughs into commercial success.
"This result is a testament to the dedication and creativity of our faculty, as well as the efforts of our Technology Transfer Office and leadership of Vice President for Research Suzanne Rivera," President Barbara R. Snyder said. "I congratulate them all, and look forward to still more innovation that benefits our world."
The Brookings Institution's "Hidden in plain sight: The oversized impact of downtown universities" finds that leading higher education institutions located within major metropolitan areas dramatically outpace suburban and rural peers in research-related economic activity. On average, these research universities create 71 percent more start-ups and complete 80 percent more licensing agreements, among other metrics. Rockefeller University, a New York City-based institution focused on biomedical research, ranked first overall and in every category, with MIT and Columbia respectively second and third overall.
Meanwhile, Case Western Reserve ranked 13th overall, but stood at sixth for its number of patents per 1,000 students, at 4.1. Its licensing deals (2.7) and new businesses per 1,000 students (0.4) each ranked 13th, while it fell to 26th for licensing income per student, at $155. Overall, Harvard was 15th, Georgia Tech 14th and the University of Chicago 22nd.
The report builds on earlier research regarding the advantages of urban areas that include leading research universities, entrepreneurs, independent inventors and companies eager to support their efforts. Cleveland, for example, features not only the university, but also leading hospitals, start-up organizations and foundations with interest in supporting economic development.
Companies that have emerged from research projects at Case Western Reserve include Thermalin, which this fall completed $17 million in new financing, and Rodeo Therapeutics, which drew nearly $6 million this summer. Two years ago, CardioInsight—then a company to whom Case Western Reserve licensed technology developed on campus in 2006—was sold to Medtronic in a transaction valued at about $93 million.
To read the full report, visit brookings.edu/research/hidden-in-plain-sight-the-oversized-impact-of-downtown-universities/.
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Digging deeper to better understand Earth's interior
New research paper supports using microbiome data to develop potential probiotic therapies

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also here be the evolution....erm or should i say de-evolution of Vaun.
I have to agree with you here. It's not the best pic of him. I wish the make-up team. Would get their act together, but in Vaun's defends. I think it's just the lighting and the angle. Were having to look at him at.
When the scene changes and Vaun moves his head for us. The make-up doesn't look that bad.
I thought he looked good here.
The hood makes me giggle. I LOVE the hood...it's just that when he was speaking with Abe with the Ancients, he looked like he was totally camped out for the winter. In his hood. I just pictured a bunny sitting in it's den. All cozy. He'd give the side eye without turning his head..cozy.
added a makeup comparison pic!
I still dig the Vampire Hunter no matter what.
I just think the creators/producers really changed up a whoooooooole lot of stuff from season one in season 2.
I hope it gets better though.


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Kaiden and the first check-up
We had Kaiden's 4 month check-up today and everything went very well indeed.
Kai had been doing fantastically well, and even though he lost all of the his words after the surgery, he has started brining it all back together.
p.s. This post was written WAY after it should have been…
We have been thinking about how to quantify Kaiden's progress and can only think to do it using an age that we think he is currently at. We think he is about a year behind where he should be and there is a lot of hospital appointments going forward.
Figure: Kaiden, Evagelina and Truffle at the World Bagpiping Championships
Kai is not even dreaming of walking properly yet, but he is starting to do more. Specifically he has been trying to shuffle up and down the furniture. He does have physiotherapist appointments, but they are more about training Jadie on how to do the physiotherapy herself and monitoring his progress than actually doing anything with Kai.
Although this is disappointing, it does mean that he gets way more one-on-one care as Jadie is always there.
With the bombshell that we will be moving to the USA still fresh we wanted to get as many appointments out of the way as we could before we go. It may have taken us a long time to figure out the US system and many of them we due just before we went. So we booked a many as we could to see the Neurologist and the Endocrinologist.
Because Kaiden is now a LOT less lethargic than he was when we had the first MRI, he needed to be under a general Anaesthetic. As we have had so much trouble getting blood out of Kaiden in the past we wanted to make this as easy as possible we got the bloods for the Endocrinology Department tests taken at the same time as the ones the Neurosurgery Department was taking while he was under for the MRI.
Well, getting Kaiden to sleep was one of the most brutal experiences so far. It was very traumatic for him and us. But the results were fantastic.
Figure: left - Pre-operation;Right - post operation
You can see that the new scan is much better than the old one.
You should be able to see that his brains are a lot less squished now which means that, although it is difficult to see, there are a lot more ridges.
Figure: This time we have the full scans
Because we are heading to the USA we will be needing the full history and Scans to take with us. So I have better pictures
Jennifer Brown told us that although Kaiden had the worst case of Hydrocephalus that she had ever seen that he had made exceptional progress and that she had no problems saying that there would be no difference between Kaiden and another child in a few years time.
She even told us that from the day she saw his scans she wanted to operate immediately, but that she did not have the capacity. If you remember we had to wait 4 weeks between the Scan results and meeting her, and another 2 weeks to operate. This is our one and only problem with the care provided by the NHS…. there is no slack.
Wish us luck in the US…
Labels: Endocrinologist, Neurologist, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the worrying moment
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After we brought Kaiden home he was very crabby (irritable) and was holding his head often. We called the doctors, who called Dr Shaik and although they allowed Kaiden to take both Paracetamol and Ibuprofen at the maximum dose they were not happy.
Figure: Kaiden at home, but on lots of pain killers
I was going down to London for business and the night before we got a call that they wanted to scan Kaiden to see if there was any problems. While I headed (driving some 450 miles) to London, Jadie was to take Kaiden into the hospital on the Wednesday.
Figure: Lovely weather for the trip to Reading, London
Wednesday 21st July
After the scan Jenifer Brown, the neurosurgeon, was round to say that the CT Scan had reviled that the fluid that was supposed to be draining was in fact pooling between his skull and his brain.
Now, although this was deemed to be bad, Jenifer had never scanned a patent after only a week, so did not know if this was just part of the normal rearranging of the brain. There is no air in your skull, so if the thin walls of Kaiden's brain are moving around (as horrible a picture that presents) then the fluid would build there.
Jenifer opted to wait for a few days and scan him again on the Monday. If the scan showed the fluid dissipating and Kaiden was well then they would do nothing. If everything was not OK then they would operate immediately.
I decided that it was prudent to head strait back up to Glasgow and I arrived on the Friday afternoon and went directly to the hospital.
Friday 23rd July 2010
Figure: The same lovely weather on the way back
I needed to relive Jadie so I stayed in the hospital on the Friday and Saturday nights. We were back in Ward 66 at the Southern General and Jennifer had said that although she would get into trouble, she would make sure we stayed there.
Figure: I love my drum
Everyone at Ward 66 is fantastic and Kaiden and I had great fun playing, watching movies and watching the older kids play the Wii and PS2. They have a room with a shower set aside for the parents and a Parents room for preparing food and getting away from the ward. I could not praise Ward 66 more, not was there much to complain about. The food was really the only thing, but with the ability to make your own in the kitchen it was really a mute point. They don't feed the parents anyway, only the kids.
Figure: Who needs a wee sleep, Kai does
I had forgotten to request Kaiden's meds and he did fantastically without them. He was tired, but at least some of the would be due to boredom. I was surprised how well he did without any pain killers and it seamed that things were on track. One hiccup was on Saturday morning when he threw up, but I may have sat him up too quickly.
Figure: I love In the Night Garden
I headed home for Sunday night and Jadie took over. Evangelina (Kaiden's older sister) was staying at the grand parents and they needed a break so I took her home, and dropped her off again to head back to the hospital on Monday morning.
This was exactly two weeks after the operation, and for a boy who could not even roll over you would not believe what he did.
Figure: OMG, that's not just standing
Since his operation, in fact within an hour of it, he has started to pull himself up and seamed to have much more control over his legs.
Figure: Kaiden walking for the first time two weeks after his operation
The took Kaiden down for a CT Scan around 12pm and we then had to wait anxiously for the results. I managed to catch a sneaky look at the scans and they looked fantastic compared to the pre-operation MRI.
When Jennifer Brown came up to see us, she said that all the fluid was being absorbed and that she could not believe the difference in Kaiden in just two short weeks. She said that we would still have little niggles for the next month or so, but that everything looked fantastic.
Jenifer was happy to send us home, so we said our goodbyes to Staff, patents and parents alike and headed home.
The only thing we have currently noticed is that although Kaiden has always sleeped with his eyes open just a crack, this is ridicules
Figure: Kaiden fell asleep on the way home
Since we have been home he has been into everything and trying to walk. We are very impressed with his progress. Next appointment is just under 4 months…
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, Endoscopic, Hydrocephalus, Neurosurgery, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the homecoming
During the night Kaiden decided that he did not like his dinner and threw up all over his bed. Luckily the nurse had just arrived to do his observations (9pm) and we were right there when he did. They changed his bed while I got him bathed and changed. After than we played for a while on my bed, and that was when the rest of his dinner arrived.
After another change he reached often but had little to come up. I asked for the on call doctor who gave him a check-up and we though it could either be a bug (Jadie, Eva and I had had one) or post-operation puking. I got him to sleep around 11pm and he slept right through from there with the exception of the observations.
Wednesday is the day of the grand rounds at the hospital. This is where many of the departments and wards get all of their doctors together and visit all of their patents.
We were expecting a visit from the Ward doctors, the endocrinologist and the neurologists. Staying with Kaiden overnight was good as I was able to speak to them all and find out what was going to happen. The ward doctors were happy with his progress and his four hourly observations had stopped that morning. Kaiden was a little grumpy as he had been woken every four hours through the night for the last two nights and he, like his dad, loves his sleep.
Early afternoon was Dr Shaik's grand round and this was the reason we were at Yorkhill. He was happy with Kaiden's progress and the results of the bloods had come back. Even though Kaiden's pituitary glad had been squished, the only thing they found was a low level of growth hormones. This was fantastic news as there were lots more nasty things to worry about than growth hormones. Dr Shaik explained that the results could just have been low on the day, but he does expect there to be a problem. He wants to see Kaiden in three months to rerun the tests, but other than that, we could go. Woohoo!
As Kaiden had been sick during the night, Dr Shaik wanted to make sure he could keep down his dinner before letting him out. he felt that the sickness was post-operative
We had to wait for Jennifer Brown to see him anyway, and by the time she came round at 5pm he had eaten. And it stayed down.
Jennifer was also so happy with his progress that she said we were good to go. She explained that he would have an air bubble in his head that would go away over the next 2-4 weeks and that it would just be a minor annoyance for Kaiden.
We packed everything in the car, is amassing the stuff you end up with and headed home. About half way home I noticed that Kaiden was pale and he did indeed throw up a little in the car. He had never been car sick before.
When we got home Jadie called the Doctors for some advice and she called Dr Shaik. If Kaiden as sick again we had to go back in, but he did not…
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, Endocrinologist, Neurosurgery, Operation, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the political shenanigans
In my last post I talked about our experiences on arriving at Yorkhill Children's Hospital and that we had no idea why, when there were many other patients recovering after an operation on Ward 66 at the Southern.
Well a consultant did come in and explained why, but I do not think that he would want his name in here. Politics…
It seams that the surgical ward at Yorkhill is run by the anaesthetists and they do not like that post operation patents are staying up on Ward 66 at the Southern and they have been putting pressure on Ward 66 to send patients down to the surgical ward.
This I think is ridicules as the neurological patients that are on Ward 66 do not tend to be unwell as with most operations and the surgical ward is not setup to handle those kind of patents.
Kaiden was settled in on Ward 66 at the Southern and with his surgeon only a building away was safe as well. It took me 20 minutes at an off peek time to get from the Southern to Yorkhill and I would not want to have to wait if there was a problem.
On top of that the facilities at the Southern are far superior to Yorkhill. With the construction of the replacement hospital at the Southern under way you can see that there has been nothing spent on the upkeep at Yorkhill.
There seams to be an amount of const saving at the expense of patents. The surgical ward takes patents from all over, so when they arrive they do not know who anyone is. On of the fantastic things about being on Ward 66 was that we had the same care and staff as we did pre-operation. It just makes the whole process slicker if you don't have to relearn the where and the who. There is enough going on.
Politics should stay out of the way of the health and wellbeing of patents at all times.
Labels: Neurosurgery, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the hospital transfer
Kaiden was transferred to the surgical ward at Yorkhill Children's hospital on Tuesday afternoon, and it was a very traumatic experience for both Kaiden and Jadie.
When the Ambulance arrived I took Eva in the car and Jadie, Kaiden and one of the Nurses from Ward 66 headed down. Now, I don't know about you, but I would have thought that an ambulance sent to pick up a 18 month old child would have some sort of child seat. But no, all they could offer was for Jadie to be strapped in to a folding seat and for Kaiden to sit on her lap. They did offer to have Kaiden restrained on a gurney, but if you have any children you would know that that could never be an option for a conscious child. It was most frustrating as I was travelling to the hospital with Kaiden's car seat in the back.
To be honest, if I had know that this would have been the situation I would have refused to allow it. To often do we just go along with things as parents with the NHS. If you would not let your child travel in a car without being safely strapped in, why would you allow it in this case!
Anyway, when Jadie arrived at Yorkhill she was directed to ward 4b, and the Nurse from the southern remarked that she did not understand why we were being sent there as we were expecting to go to Dr Shaik's ward which was 7c.
Jadie were about half way down the corridor to the nurses station when a rather heavy set Nurse shouted "Go in there", which directed her to another dingy room.
This was a rather disheartening arrival which was then compounded by someone with no name badge coming and directing her to put Kaiden in a chair to be weighed.
It was just after this that Eva and I arrived to find Jadie very upset and near to tears at both the treatment and stark contrast in the look of the ward compared to the one we had just left. It was like night and day.
Anyway, we settled in and as it was dinner time for Kaiden I went hunting for somewhere to heat up the lovely beef stew that my mother had made for him.
Luckily there was a microwave in the kitchen opposite and I asked at the nurses station if it was ok to use it. "No" was the answer, that microwave is for staff use only and there was no facility to heat food for patients or parents. WTF!
This was most annoying as there was no way I would let Kaiden eat the hospital food. I insisted and they would let me use it this once.
It has got to be pretty common for parents to bring in food, they cant all let their kids eat the crap that is served! Some facility to heat up food should really be provided.
At this point, with Kaiden wanting to have a wee look round, that Jadie came out of the room with an inquisitive little boy who was probably looking for some nurses to hug. This was when the next bombshell hit as the same nurse as before shouted at her to get back into the room and that she could not leave. WTF!
Apparently as we had come from another hospital Kaiden could not leave the room until his swabs had come back negative for whatever it is that they look for, MSRS and whatnot. So when a nurse came to take the swabs I asked when they would be back, and was told that it could take 48 hours. WTF!
With Kaiden eating his dinner, Jadie was so upset with the situation that she wanted to either take Kaiden back where we came from, or home. I managed to convince that I would stay with Kaiden and see could go home and get some sleep with Eva.
I have to say that this was a very harrowing experience for us and for Kaiden as he would see us upset. For a wee boy on the mend who wanted to play and interact with other people and being allowed to play and move around for two days after his operation to then be restricted to a small room was ridicules.
We were on the surgical ward which was really set up for patents recovering from very serious operations. Most of the kids here were confined to their beds anyway and they had very little facility for someone for whom you would not know had had and operation if you could not see the stitches.
We really should never have been moved down to that ward and no one could explain why.
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, Endocrinologist, Hydrocephalus, Neurosurgery, Operation, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the recovery
Maybe because Kaiden has over done it on Monday , or maybe because he had picked up the stomach bug that Eva, Jadie and I had suffered from, he did not keep his dinner down and had thrown up during the night.
The next day he was a little groggy and grumpy. I feel this was due to the Anaesthetic and painkillers wearing off as well as the bug. The staff at Ward 66 in the Southern General were fantastic and the facilities were good. There was a nice parents room, kind of like a break out room, which had a fridge and microwave. As you know the hospital food is not great and we do not feed Kaiden chips twice a day at home, so why would we here. The family made some lovely dinners for Kaiden and Jadie which made them feel that little bit better.
Figure: Kaiden having a wee sleepy
The day after the operation Kaiden had his dressing removed and got his first proper bath. This gave us a good look at his stitching, and I have never seen a neater job, nor a smaller incision for what he had. We love Mss Jennifer Brown (our neurosurgeon.)
Although Kaiden was more sleepy today, he still had time to play with the other kids, and he loved getting huggies and carries from the Nurses (Kaiden likes nurses.)
Figure: How neat is that scar going to be
We were told that we would be moving down to Yorkhill Children's hospital, and that would be by ambulance and we would be going to Dr Shaik's endocrinology ward. We had been over to see Dr. Shaik's before and had stayed on his ward. He is very nice and his staff are exemplary as well.
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, Endoscopic, Neurosurgery, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the operation
Today was the day of the operation. I arrived at the hospital at 7:30am and Jadie and Kaiden were all ready. We were taken down to the Anaesthetic room to get Kaiden off to sleep and although they usually only let one parent in to the room, we managed to blag both of us in.
Kaiden got a hug from him Mum and the Anaesthesiologist used his hand as a mask to get him to take the gas. Once Kaiden was asleep the Anaesthesiologist swapped hand for a mask and we put Kaiden onto the gurney and were ushered out.
We did not want to just sit in the hospital for 3 hours terrorising each other, so we headed out to pick up Kai's sister Eva and take her out for a while.
We had been told lots of different estimates of the operation time from 3 hours to 5 hours, so we were actually surprised when only 2 hours later I got a message on my answer phone.
"That's Kaiden out of theatre and in recovery sooner than expected"
We managed to read many, many things into "sooner than expected" on the way to the hospital but once we got there we got the good news.
The operation had gone well, and with no problems at all. We got the call after a few minutes to go down and see Kaiden and we headed down to the recovery room.
Figure: Kaiden about 30 minutes out of theatre
Our very brave boy had not even cried when he woke up and although we had been told that it was standard practice to send all young children to ICU (Intensive Care Unit), they said that Kaiden could just go back up to the ward.
Figure: Kaiden has a red face from the anaesthetic
If everyone was surprised at his alertness 30 minutes out of theatre you should have seen how surprised they were after another hour!
Figure: Kaiden playing with his new fire engine
Figure: Kaiden only one hour after surgery on his brain
Just after this Jenifer Brown was up to see us and she explained that the operation went very well with no complications. She was able to put a big hole in the top of the cyst, but only a small one in the bottom as she was at the limit of the reach of the instruments and there was little room. This is good news as it means that we may be all done from the surgery side (fingers crossed).
She was happy for us to be transferred to Yorkhill Children's hospital to see Doctor Shaky the Endocrinologist, whom had requested the transfer. That Jenifer was happy to have Kaiden out from under her supervision so early was fantastic, but that the endocrinologist had requested a transfer does not bode well for the results of the earlier tests.
Figure: Kaiden only two hours after surgery on his brain
After that Kaiden has been very chatty and even tried to climb out of his cot. He could have been trying to stand, or the escape attempt might have been to avoid the hospital food (Chips serves twice a day for the kids! Remember the previously mentioned healthy policy of only diet fizzy drinks being sold on hospital grounds).
Figure: Contemplating escape
I left about 4pm to get Eva for a visit and once we got back they played for a while. Eva was very happy to see her brother and mum, but was very unhappy to leave. I think it must have been around 5:30pm that we left, just as the chips arrived.
Jadie called about 10pm to say that Kaiden has been crying for two hours and she could not quieten him. He had been crying so hard that he has split his wound (but not his stitches thank goodness) and the nurses were now prowling the corridors with him in his pram, which had entertained him enough that he stopped crying.
This I think is the result of Kaiden over doing himself after such a serious operation and that he would be very frustrated at spending another night in the boring hospital. When Jadie had first called I was quite worried, but on reflection its a lot for a wee man. I don't know what he was running on all afternoon, but whatever it was it has run out.
Jadie called again at 11pm to say that Kai was sound asleep. So far, all is well and Kaiden has successfully had his Arachnoid Cyst fenestrated.
Labels: Anaesthesiology, Arachnoid Cyst, Endoscopic, Hydrocephalus, Operation, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the sword
The day before the operation (Sunday 11th July 2010) we arrived at the Southern General at 1pm to get the bloods redone that had failed before. True to usual NHS from we were asked why we came in so early and the bloods could be taken later!
Figure: Kaiden got settled in and found the TV
The only doctor on shift on a Sunday afternoon promptly arrives 4 hours later to take the bloods. An predictably enough insisted on going through the whole rigmarole of "try this arm" no!, Lets try the other one and so on. However this doctor managed to get at least some blood. This blood was needed for two reasons.
First for Typing, I guess just in case Kaiden's blood type had changed since Friday, but more importantly to make sure that there is some compatible blood available just in case.
Figure: Kaiden was quite happy in thy play room
The problem was that the doctor did not think that they had been able to take enough blood for this test, but she convinced the lab tech to have a go. The doctor said that they could have the bloods taken once Kaiden was asleep before the operation to make it less traumatic.
While that was going on we decided to head out for dinner and took Kaiden out to TGI Fridays at the Escape centre and sat for a while to watch the snowboarders.
Figure: Kaiden with a sword balloon
When we arrived back at the hospital we were told what we expected, that the bloods needed to be taken again, but that the Anaesthetic Consultant was not happy to wait until the operation. By now it was quite late, about 8pm and we were worried that Kaiden would not get any sleep. The shift changed at 8:30pm so we made sure that the same doctor and she started where she left off.
After a few attempts and lots of screaming she managed to get double the amount of the last time.
This time it was OK (sigh)…
I headed home to get some sleep before the big day and Jadie stayed with Kaiden.
Labels: Anaesthesiology, Hematologist, Operation, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the bloody mess
On Friday we were at the hospital for all the pre-operation things.
We were in at 10am for a day of mostly waiting around. Luckily the facilities for kids in the Southern General are fantastic, and Kai had lots of toys to play with.
Figure: King Kai
We had a visit from the anaesthesiologist which was good. He talked about the process and what would happen. It looks like only one parent is usually allowed down to the anaesthetic room, but it depends on the Anaesthetic Consultant that we get. Apparently the room is rather small, and if only one parent is allowed it will most likely be Jadie.
Figure: Something is funny
One of the junior doctors came in to take bloods, and we told them about the previous problems of getting blood from Kaiden, but they would not listen. So another traumatic time trying to get blood, which ended with a heal prick. Will they never listen?
Figure: All I need now is a beer
One strange thing was that when I went looking for some coke all of the vending machines has diet drinks only. Apparently this is the NHS's attempt at healthy. You have got to be kidding, let alone the Aspartime in the diet drinks that is know to cause problems, they are still fizzy drinks. What a joke!
We had a visit from Jennifer Brown who again delivered straight talk, but in addition she said that in her experience and from having a good look at the scan's she did not think that Kaiden would be affected intellectually in the long term. She said that it looks like it is just his gross motor skills that are affected. This is fantastic news, even though it comes with no guarantees. Time to head home.
Well, the hospital called a few hours after we had left the hospital to say the Kaiden's blood was congealed and they could not run any of the tests. Going back at 1pm on Sunday instead of after bedtime as was the plan.
Figure: Cute as a button
So, Kaiden goes back into hospital at 1pm tomorrow and they plan to do the operation at around 9am on Monday.
Labels: Endoscopic, Neurosurgery, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the scared sister
Jennifer Brown's office called today and we now have a date for the operation. Kaiden will be admitted to the Southern General tomorrow (9th July 2010) and they will operate on Monday (12th July 2010). Jenifer did say she wanted to do it quickly…
When Kaiden is admitted to hospital tomorrow they will be running all of the tests and helping us complete all the relevant paper work that they need, we will be taking Kai home in the evening as the actual operation is not until Monday. It is better to have him home on Saturday rather than stuck in the hospital doing nothing. Then it's back to the hospital on Sunday and they will operate on Monday morning.
It has been a long slog from the 26th May 2010 when he had his Scan and we were told about the Arachnoid Cyst, the Hydrocephalus and we saw the scans. It was only 2 months ago, but a frantic and distraught two months.
Figure: Afternoon nap with his big sis
Our current understanding is that Kaiden will be in for a week to recover, but that most of that is for observation and to prevent infections. The operation itself is not a "taxing" one on the body so he should be bright and alert as soon as the aesthetic wares off.
Figure: Kai & Eva having sleepy hugs
Kaiden's sister Evangelina has been very worried about him, and for a three year old this must all be very scary. A couple of times she has said:
Why are they going to cut Kai's head off (sniff)
It just shows what they pick up, and we had to explain everything, which she accepted just fine.
Now all we are wishing for is a happy & healthy baby boy, who makes a speedy recovery, with nothing holding him back from walking and talking…. here is hoping…
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, Endoscopic, Hydrocephalus, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the Neurosurgeon
Today was the day to see the Neurosurgeon. We took Kaiden to the Southern General Hospital for his appointment with Miss Jennifer Brown FRCS. We had heard from staff at the Southern that she did not have a good bedside manor, but that could not be further from the truth. She is just a strait talker, and by the time you get to see her, that is really what you need.
Figure: The Boy – Kaiden is a happy boy who is frustrated at not walking
She does not want to do a Shunt as she considers that the old way of doing things, but instead prefers to do endoscopic neurosurgery to go in through the high side of Kaiden's head and make an incision in the top of the cyst. She will then push the endoscope into the cyst and make an incision at the bottom creating a channel for the fluid to escape.
Figure: The Arachnoid Cyst – The cyst is blocking fluid like a plug
If that does not work, which she thinks it will, she would do a second surgery to put in a shunt. Shunts tend to have a much greater chance of infection and rejection as you would have a little tube going from your brain al the way to your stomach. A Shunt can also be blocked and contains a little valve that can brake.
She answered all of the questions we put to her with compassion and with no nonsense that we can all associate with ignorance and uncertainty.
There is a 1% chance of major complications and by that Jennifer talked of cranial bleeds of which she has only seen 2 in 25 years of neurosurgery. There is also a 10% chance of minor complications but they are all manageable.
Figure: The Hydrocephalus - Fluid build up behind the cyst
Jenifer can't give any guarantees that Kaiden's gross motor skill will improve once the procedure has been completed as damage to those sections of his brain may already have been done, but she is confident based on previous cases that the outlook is good. At worst there should be no further exacerbation of the hydrocephalus and thus no more damage incurred. As Kaiden is so young it is difficult to tell what is late development due to damage and what is late development due to…well..being a lazy boy. In saying that she is very certain that being over six months behind in his gross motor skills is due to the hydrocephalus and the cyst.
Figure: The Pirate – At Kaiden's first birthday he was a pirate
Baring any emergencies she plans to do the operation within 4 weeks which is fantastic news for anxious parents wanting things to start moving and but also fills us with fear and hope for the outcome.
Kaiden and the secret apointment
What we were not expecting when we arrived at the hospital for an appointment to take blood was an overnight stay!
The Southbank clinic had arranged for Kaiden's bloods to be taken to test for a number of things that could be affecting his walking and gross motor skills. They mentioned some enzymes and a chromosome check. The endocrinologist also wanted to do checks for hormone levels because of the damage to his pituitary gland. He said that the would make sure that the appointments were combined.
This appointment was made over the phone so when we arrived at Yorkhill today for our appointment we went to Ward 1C as instructed. The nurse who met us said "You should be in 7A!". Well ok, that could be an easy mistake, one we could have made ourselves. "We have a room ready for you". Hmmm, what?
Turns out the the appointment for the water deprivation test the endocrinologist had discussed was made for today, but no one bothered to notify us! Its extremely lucky we had an appointment already that day. No wonder 30% of appointments are no-shows, I bet at least half of those are due to a lack of communication.
We did not want to re-arrange the appointment as we are seeing the neurosurgeon next week and we want as many results as possible for her when we meet. The less roadblocks the better.
We were at the hospital for a 2pm blood taking and now need to change plans for an overnight at 4pm. Not enough time to go home, so off to Asda to buy jammies for the wee man and wife along with the usual trappings of an overnight stay at the hospital.
The new plan is for Kaiden to stay overnight and to fast from 4am to get bloods done at 9am. Hopefully he will not wake up after 4am for a drink, otherwise there might be a screaming match. He needed to get a drip attached so they could take the bloods easily multiple times and the nurses would also monitor his fluid intake and output.
There were two very nice doctors including one we had seen before on a visit to Yorkhill with Kaiden at 3am. Jadie commented that the other looked too young to be a doctor, but that is just what happens when you get older…everyone else looks younger. They tried to get the drip into Kaiden's arm first and I have never heard Kaiden scream more than he did then. It was not the drip, it was having his arms immobilised that terrified him the most. This was very distressing for us as parents and Jadie especially as she insisted on holding him.
With Kaiden not really using his legs and his arms being his main mode of expression I can understand why he was so distraught.
Although they inserted the drip it stubbornly refused to dispense blood and they had to remove it. We were dreading another attempt, but they decided to go for the legs. This proved to be the best decision and Kaiden only cried when they were actually inserting the needle, before and after he was giggling and laughing. He pretty much ignored the vice grip on his legs and let them get on with it.
He did however put on a rather strange expressions when a nurse came in after his bath and attached a bag to his winkle (Jadie friendly word) so they could measure output.
I think that expression is surprise, he is too young for anything else!
Kaiden will be discharged tomorrow so I will be picking him and his mum up early afternoon.
Labels: Endocrinologist, Hematologist, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the wonky eyes #2
It's day 2 of the strange eye saga. We took the advice of the on call doctor, but only after my father had verified what he said.
It turns out that my grandmother was seeing the Ophthalmologist yesterday as well and here eyes were both still dilated after 5 hours.
Kaiden's eyes have not gone back to normal this morning so I called the hospital and was told that there were only optometrists in and the real doctors get in at 9:30am.
What is this, part-timers-r-us at the NHS? 9:30-5? I wish…That's an hour and a half for seeing patents. They could see three more patents per doctor per day.
Anyway, I was put through to a optometrist and she said that children, and especially children with light eyes can take longer to get over the eye drops. But even she said "Next day", which it currently is. Apparently there is a clinic in the afternoon, and if we are still worried to call back then.
Figure: This is with a flash going off! At least the right pupil is now working.
After doing a little work, I work form home, I had to look after the kids for 5 minutes while Jadie went to the shop across the road. Kaiden was outside, and it looks like his eyes are back to normal.
Remember we were told nothing of this possibility at the hospital, so we have had unnecessarily panicked parents for 24 hours because of a lack of transparency between the hospital and those responsible for the patient.
Labels: Hydrocephalus, Ophthalmologist, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the wonky eyes
Its now dinner time and we have noticed something strange about Kaiden's eyes. Can you see what it is?
Figure: One eye is dilated
We checked both his eyes with a weak light and neither of them react to it at all.
We were not told that this would happen at the hospital, but they did put drops in so they could look at the back of his eyes. The drops we were told was "die" so they could see into his eyes, but a quick Google-Fu about ophthalmologists and eye drops implies that it might be apathetic. If we had been told it was antithetic I would have had a couple of questions:
When will it ware off? (we have all been to the dentist)
We phoned the hospital, but surprise-surprise everyone in that department has gone home. The on-call doctor dismissed our concerns and said that it should not be a problem and to bring him in in the morning if he is still presenting the same symptoms.
I am not so sure, it has been over 4 hours since his appointment and we have only just noticed this. Now, it could be we were just not looking for it and it has been like that for 4 hours, but I think it is something we would have noticed.
If they were antithetic drops then I am not worried and would leave it till tomorrow, but if they were not antithetic and were just die I would be worried.
I am currently debating on wither to take him down to Yorkhill A&E…
Talks about apathetic drops: http://www.essortment.com/lifestyle/whattoexpectd_sfbd.htm
If you have one eye bigger than the other: http://www.eyecasualty.co.uk/maincontent1/introductiona.html
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, Ophthalmologist, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the Ophthalmologist
We took Kaiden to the Ophthalmologist (Professor Dutton's surgery) at Yorkhill Children's Hospital. When we got there Kaiden was very brave an was happy to get checked out and have some drops put in. The drops were to allow the ophthalmologist to get a better look at the backs of his eyes and see if there is any pressure on the optic nerve.
After a long wait we got to see the ophthalmologist: I do not know what it is, but light in the eyes is one of Kaiden's pet hates and he screamed the place down. While Kai struggled in his mothers arms the doctor managed to get a good look at one eye and a glance at the other. All the while Kai was screaming and struggling which was very distressing for a parent. Jadie eventually has to hold his head still while the doctor had a look with the strange apparatus attached to her head. Eva though she looked very silly, and I would have to agree.
The outcome? Kaiden's eyes are just fine. Woot, this in the only good news that we have had since we found out about the Cyst. With every other visit to the hospital with Kai resulting in bad news, I half expected the doctor to say "he will be blind by the time he is 3" or something equally scary. Thank goodness for that.
I am not sure how this works, but she also said that he does not need glasses. I don't understand how they can tell as it takes an optician ages to figure it out while asking me "bettor or worse" and trying to fake me out by using the same lenses over and over again.
The doctor assured us that there is currently no ongoing pleasure on the optic nerve that was evident on the scan. This is most likely due to the hydrocephalus occurring before birth so this also relieves our fears of ongoing damage.
Next appointment is in two days for them to take bloods…lots of bloods…
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, Hydrocephalus, Ophthalmologist, UK (NHS)
Kaiden and the chicken pox
With Kaiden's condition when his sister Eva had the pox last week she was put on medication to accelerate the progress of the virus. The result was that it was only 4 days from spots to crusting and 6 days to no spots.
There was some debate about what should be done for Kai: You can't have brain surgery when you have chicken pocks as there is a far greater risk of infection.
There were two options:
Temporary immunisation so he does not get it, but this only works if he has not yet been exposed
Same as Eva and speed up the process
Our GP Dr Pexton from Williamwood Medical Practice is the only GP we trust. Not only did he decide that something had to be done, but he also called the Nero-surgeon and Yorkhill Children's Hospital for advice. If you are not familiar with the UK GP system, they deal with all of the non emergency minor ailments and are usually your first call if you want to see a specialist.
The advice was to wait and see, and if he does get it to speed up the process so he has it for as short a time a possible. Dr Pexton said to call right away if he has symptoms.
Well…he got it!
Figure: Poor little man suffering from Chicken Pocks
He presented with spots on Thursday night and we called Friday morning for the prescription. Unfortunately Dr Pexton was off, sick I think :) and the receptionist said that she would put it through to one of the doctors as soon as possible.
Well, Jadie called after lunch to see when I could go an pick up the prescription and they had not even put it through! Jadie was livid and insisted that they put it through immediately. Which the receptionist ignored and was very rude and dismissive of Jadies concern.
I will never understand why a dumb assed receptionist thinks she has more knowledge of the circumstances and clinical risk of particular circumstances than a doctor or those intimately involved in the situation.
In fact Jadie called back just after 2pm and with the note still not sent through I called to say I was just coming down for the prescription and just sat there until I got it.
The receptionist even made me wait 20 minutes once I got there before even telling the doctor that I was waiting…
It sucks, but we has to tell Yorkhill that Kaiden has chicken pocks and they have moved the appointment with the opthamologist back to the 21st June.
Labels: Arachnoid Cyst, UK (NHS)


Oita prefecture is famous for hot springs mainly in Beppu Onsen and Yufuin Onsen.
Oita are appealing hot springs as a catchphrase "Onsen Prefecture, Oita".
As a special product, famous are Seki Mackerel, Seki Aji, Shiitake Mushrooms, Kabosu and Shochu(Sake).


During the gasoline transporting from one plant to another, the fuel tanker ever wasted 10 liters of gasoline. The process of filling the tank at one plant and discharge of gasoline from its bottom at another is monitored very carefully.
All holes of fuel tanker were thoroughly filled, and it was accompanied by a reliable guard during their journey. But still, the discharge of fuel always lacked exactly 10 liters.
Where did the petrol disappeare?
bucket to the bottom of the fuel tanker.


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Q: spring mvc controller test org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException Can someone help on this?

 I am getting the below exception(org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException) when I run this test.

In the response I get this Headers.
Headers = {Accept=[application/octet-stream, text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-1, application/xml, text/xml, application/x-www-form-urlencoded, application/+xml, multipart/form-data, application/json;charset=UTF-8, application/+json;charset=UTF-8, /]}
The add method in the controller is
@RequestMapping(value = "/addTrain", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public @ResponseBody void addTrain(@RequestBody Train train) {
        trainService.addTrain(train);
    }

I am doing JUnit test for a method. Below is my Test class and MockHttpServletRequest and MockHttpSErvletResponse.

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:/config/webapp-config.xml" })
@WebAppConfiguration
public class TrainControllerTest {

    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Autowired
    private WebApplicationContext wac;

    @InjectMocks
    TrainController trainController;

    @Mock
    private TrainService trainService;

    private final List<Train> trainList = new ArrayList<Train>();

    private Train train;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        // Process mock annotations
        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this);
        this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.wac).build();

        train = new Train();
        train.setId(12L);
        train.setName("chennai");
        train.setSpeed(100);
        train.setDiesel(true);

        Train train1 = new Train();

        train1.setId(15L);
        train1.setName("kovai");
        train1.setSpeed(150);
        train1.setDiesel(false);

        trainList.add(train);
        trainList.add(train1);
    }

    @Test
    public void testAddTrainList() throws Exception {
        Mockito.doNothing().when(trainService).addTrain(train);
    this.mockMvc.perform(post("/trains/addTrain")).andDo(print()).andExpect(status().isOk());

    }
}

 The request and reponse are below:
MockHttpServletRequest:
         HTTP Method = POST
         Request URI = /trains/addTrain
          Parameters = {}
             Headers = {}

             Handler:
                Type = com.xvitcoder.angualrspringapp.controller.TrainController
              Method = public void com.xvitcoder.angualrspringapp.controller.TrainController.addTrain(com.xvitcoder.angualrspringapp.beans.Train)

               Async:
   Was async started = false
        Async result = null

  **Resolved Exception:
                Type = org.springframework.web.HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException**

        ModelAndView:
           View name = null
                View = null
               Model = null

            FlashMap:

**MockHttpServletResponse:
              Status = 415
       Error message = null**

        Content type = null
                Body =
       Forwarded URL = null
      Redirected URL = null
             Cookies = []

A: Your request has to specify the Content-type header from one of the acceptable ones.
Try changing your mock request as below:
this.mockMvc.perform(post("/trains/addTrain").contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)).andDo(print()).andExpect(status().isOk());

Resolved Exception:
                Type = org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException


Apparently, when Romania captured its first-ever bronze Lion award at Cannes, the Romanian president turned up to congratulate the winning agency.
Since McCann Erickson Bucharest has already notched up two Grands Prix this week, we can only imagine the public celebrations that are being planned back at home.
Meanwhile, I wonder if David Cameron has ever heard of the Cannes Festival of Creativity, or is at this very moment feeling rather deflated by the UK's patchy presence on the awards podium this year. OK, Cameron's got some bigger things to think about, but it's true that the ad industry here gets little support at a governmental level, and has lost some of its cultural pull as an industry worthy of public note (beyond something to complain about).
So are this week's festivities in Cannes even more self-delusionary than usual for the British contingent, clinging on to a golden past when UK agencies were global leaders and when the advertising business had some cultural cache?
I don't believe so, but the small voice that always asks "what's it all for?" gets a little louder every year. At least - to answer that voice - there are more opportunities for learning than ever before in Cannes this year, with the most vibrant programme of seminars to date.
But, as always, the best learning comes from looking at the work, sitting through the shortlists, exploring the entries from emerging creative countries and listening to the comments from the juries. The point of all this is not just to be inspired by the exciting originality of some of the work, but to be reminded that brilliance does not recognise borders, languages or the past.
That, in the end, is surely what Cannes is really for. And as the competition increases, with British agencies having to work even harder to make a mark, a Grand Prix has become more coveted than ever. This is quite some feat to pull off, particularly when the number of categories seems to be growing out of control.
What a contrast to the D&AD Awards, whose grip on the UK ad industry seems to be slipping. I didn't make it to the awards night last week, though I really wanted to go. There's been so little buzz about it, no doubt because so few UK agencies were awarded. As D&AD continues to embrace creative brilliance in advertising from around the world, it's losing its appeal on home turf. Unlike Cannes, its awards are arguably becoming less sought-after as the judging lens takes a global view.
And that's a real shame. I'm not sure what the answer is, as there's surely no going back from its global stance. But D&AD needs to find a positioning for itself that isn't just Cannes-lite. That's the real challenge for the incoming chief executive, Tim Lindsay. I hope he can find a solution.


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'Creed' Review: A Successful Hit
Alex Huibsch, Editor-In-Chief
In the current movie industry, many films fail to live up to the hype they are initially embraced with; however, one film delivered a surprised knockout that no one was expecting.
Predicted by many to solely be a cheap cash-in on the Rocky franchise, Director Ryan Coogler's Creed successfully wowed audiences and critics alike when it hit theaters Nov. 25. Uniquely, it incorporated the charm of the classic Rocky films with refreshing new characters, in a contemporary setting.
The story centers around Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), a troubled youth whose rough life has bounced him in and out of different group homes. As fate would have it, a woman by the name of Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad) takes young Adonis into her care and ultimately informs him on his background.
As it turns out, Mary Anne is the widow of the famed boxer Apollo Creed, leaving Adonis as his illegitimate son. Naturally, Johnson decides to put his hereditary talent to use in the ring instead of on the streets, providing an impetus to Johnson's quest to find a coach and fight professionally. This eventually leads him to Philadelphia, where he befriends his father's late friend and former rival, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone).
"One need not be proficient in "Rocky" lore to appreciate "Creed," but for those who have followed the exploits of Sylvester Stallone's Philadelphia boxer, Ryan Coogler's latest film pays unexpectedly rich emotional dividends. "Creed" is so reminiscent of the 1976 film that introduced us to Rocky Balboa that I sense newcomers will fall for "Creed"'s characters the way viewers fell for "Rocky"'s 40 years ago. Though 2006's "Rocky Balboa" was a fitting final chapter for its titular hero, "Creed" finds more of his story to explore," wrote Odie Henderson of rogerebert.com.
Ultimately, it is for the reasons aforementioned as to why Creed is such a success. Yes, it is jammed pack full of action, as boxing is a large part of the plot, but it should be stated that the story is not solely about the sport alone. The film expresses underlying themes that add richness to the circumstances and feeling to the characters.
In Johnson's own fight, the pain derives not so much from the punches of his opponent, but from the pressures of living up to his father's legacy under the same name. Similarly, the audience can relate with the struggles that accompany the other characters in the film. Whether it is Rocky battling his cancer, Mary Anne worrying about her adopted son taking on the same profession that killed her husband, or Johnson's girlfriend, Bianca (Tessa Thompson)—a musician slowly losing her hearing; everybody is fighting something regardless of the circumstances.
Conclusively, Creed combines stellar performances, brilliant writing, an interesting plot and beautiful cinematography all in one. While the formula of the film closely resembles that of 1976's Rocky, it should not detract from the film itself, which truly encompasses much more than a sports drama, for it explores deep themes that serve as a touching, yet inspirational reminder that everybody is fighting their own personal battles.
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PT talks to Professor Franklin Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law, about the intricacies of gun control legislation, the hurdles to a reasonable solution and the best path to practical gun control policy.
PT talks to Carolyn McCarthy, U.S. Congresswoman from Long Island, New York, about the spread of gun violence in America, the political minefield of gun legislation and how to best frame the debate.
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Special Containment Procedures: For safety reasons, it was decided that SCP-103-FR is to be contained according to the Beta hypothesis, as it would cause heavier damage than the Alpha hypothesis if improperly contained; hence, it should be considered true until proven otherwise.
SCP-103-FR is to be kept in an in-ground salt water pool measuring 12,000m3 in volume. The object does not require any particular surveillance, although the pool is to be fitted with a walkway, cameras, or bay windows for direct observation.
On a weekly basis, two (2) personnel with no prior experience with the object are to be selected by the Research Director to observe SCP-103-FR using the current pool's equipment. Their reactions and hypotheses are to be recorded and noted in Document 103-B.
Description: SCP-103-FR's nature cannot be confirmed with certainty. All subjects that become aware of the existence of the object will be led to hypothesize about its nature, always following two existing theories (referred to as Alpha and Beta). This effect is not limited to its observers as it seems to be based on the subjects' knowledge rather than their senses.
According to the Alpha theory, SCP-103-FR is a 1:1 scale replica of Mosasaurus hoffmannii. Subjects believing in this claim behave like they would in front of a representation of this creature and have an inclination toward assessing its realism and quality.
According to the Beta theory, SCP-103-FR is a living specimen of Mosasaurus hoffmannii. Subjects believing this claim behave like they would in front of any large, dangerous animal, showing signs of basic anxiety. Despite implications of this hypothesis, SCP-103-FR does not seem to suffer from lack of food or its confined living space. It does not display the motivation or ability to move, although this cannot be confirmed because of its effect.
The distribution of subjects between the two hypotheses is roughly 60% - 40%, favoring Alpha in a sample of two-hundred (200) individuals. Analysis of the subjects did not reveal any parameter that might influence their choices.
It is supposed that the object creates a meme inhibiting the cognitive mechanisms allowing for differentiating an object from its representation, creating confusion when considering SCP-103-FR. This confusion only appears when the subject thinks about the object, and does not affect their perception of other objects.
Addenda 103-1: SCP-103-FR was discovered on ██/██/████ on a beach near ███████████, ██. The following note was found in a watertight capsule nearby.


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Ray Allen considering retirement
By Dan FeldmanJun 13, 2014, 1:22 PM EDT
The Miami Heat are old, and aside from LeBron James, they look spent.
The Heat might have aged out of title contention, even with LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. They need a younger, more-energized supporting cast.
So what's next for Ray Allen, who turns 39 next month? Not only is he Miami's oldest player, he's the oldest by three years!
Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe:
the guard said retirement is an option.
"I guess everything [is factored into the decision]," he said Thursday before the Heat lost to the Spurs, 107-86, in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. "You get away from it, you sit down and get an opportunity to think about it. It depends on how my body feels. I love the condition I've been in over the last couple of years. It's just a natural progression."
"I don't look at this as an age thing for me, it's never been an age thing," said Allen, who was averaging 9.6 points in the playoffs entering Game 4. "I always laugh because I see the birthdates of the some of the younger guys. They're born in the '90s. In the '90s! I was kicking it hard in the '90s.
Allen hasn't lost a step in the quote department. "They're born in the '90s. In the '90s! I was kicking it hard in the '90s" is pure gold.
But Allen has lost a step on the court.
Game 4 showcased what Allen brings in his advanced age. He made 2-of-4 3-pointers, but he also committed four fouls in 30 minutes and was -18.
Shooting ages well, and Allen will remain an NBA-caliber shooter for a long time. The key question is whether he can continue doing anything else well enough to get on the court.
Now that Derek Fisher has retired to coach the Knicks, Allen is the NBA's third-oldest active player – behind Steve Nash and Mike James. But Allen has kept himself in such good shape, he often reminds us of his Jesus Shuttlesworth days.
If Allen wants to play next year, he'll get signed. Teams will covet his shooting, at least attached to a minimum-salary contract. And his famous work ethic makes him a role model every team desires, regardless of how he produces on the floor.
He's also played professional basketball for 18 years. Maybe he wants to move onto the next stage of his life.
To his credit, he's positioned himself where the decision is his.


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A Hard Look at the Ebola Epidemic and Barriers to Containment
Sen. Bill Frist
This post was original published at One.org.
I was shocked to learn that the largest previous Ebola outbreak occurred in 1976 in Zaire: 318 confirmed cases and 280 deaths, but the current outbreak in West Africa has exceeded 4,200 cases with 2,200 deaths and growing. According to WHO estimates, 10,000 more lives will be lost before the virus is contained.
An Ebola Turning Point: An Early Diagnosis?
Read my earlier Ebola primer and a look at what we know about how the virus behaves.
As the Ebola situation in West Africa progresses, we are dealing with increasingly complex medical and cultural challenges. I addressed some of the cultural issues in a Morning Consult column last month, and highlighted the importance of identifying infected patients:
The only solution is prevention, which relies on containment and isolation. The sick must be rapidly identified and contained. Their contacts must be followed for 21 days so they can be rapidly isolated, should they develop symptoms. Their care must be delivered in a hazmat suit. If the patient dies, and [50%] do, the body must be properly disposed of because a recently deceased Ebola victim is actively shedding the virus from his skin.
New Video from HTHH, and Upcoming Conference
Click here to watch our Mother & Child Project video.
The Mother and Child Project:
Helping Families in the Developing World
Keynote Speaker: Former US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, MD
Host: Senior Pastor Mike Glenn
Ebola's Hard Lessons
J. Stephen Morrison
As September opened, a striking consensus had emerged among global health leaders that the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea has transmuted into a colossus that continues to gather force: It is "spiraling out of control" (Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC); "We understand the outbreak is moving beyond our grasp" (Dr. David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Ebola Disease ); Ebola is "a global threat" that " will get worse before it gets better, and it requires a well-coordinated big surge of outbreak response" (World Health Organization Director General Dr. Margaret Chan); "Six months into the worst epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it. Leaders are failing to come to grips with the transnational threat" (Dr. Joanne Liu, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) International President).
Are donors properly funding faith groups for maximum impact in global health
David J. Olson
Last November, at an event associated with the International Conference on Family Planning in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, I was struck by a public comment from a representative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID): "With almost 90% of people globally professing a faith, it doesn't make sense to do family planning without the faith community."
HTHH "The Mother & Child Project" Conference at Brentwood Baptist Church
This faith-based conference will host dynamic speakers talking about the critical global health issues of maternal and child health, with a special emphasis on the benefits of healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies as a life-saving mechanism in the developing world. Local and national speakers will come together to talk about their special work as service providers in countries around the world, caring for mothers and children worldwide. We will lead a robust Q&A session with all the speakers encouraging further discussion. And the conference will close with practical, simple steps for how YOU can save lies and help families thrive in the developing world.
Senator Frist Discusses Ebola on The Costa Report
With the current ebola crisis in West Africa, Senator-Doctor Bill Frist weighed in at The Costa Report on critical aspects of the outbreak.
Listen to the full story here.
Contagious vs. Infectious
Senator William H. Frist, MD
As the CDC treats the nation's first two Ebola cases there are a lot of questions and concerns about the disease in America—Could it become an epidemic here? How contagious is it? How is it caught?
Although my medical specialty is cardiothoracic surgery, I have spent a good deal of time working on global health issues in Africa and elsewhere, and I have been in close contact with the CDC over the past week. I thought it might be useful to highlight some of the features of Ebola that make it more—and less—dangerous.
As a viral disease, Ebola follows a fairly predictable timeline.
Touch, the dog
Kate Etue, Director of Communications
Senator Frist is working with the Old Friends Dog Sanctuary to create a dog statue to auction off for their fall fundraiser. His dog, Touch, started out blank, but thanks to some local students, Touch is becoming complete little by little.
Ebola Primer and Liberia
As I hope you've heard, there is an outbreak of the Ebola virus in Western Africa right now, particularly in Liberia. Two American aid workers, Dr. Kent Brantly with Samaritan's Purse and Nancy Writebol, a volunteer working with the faith group Service in Mission, were recently infected.
I've been discussing the situation with the Centers for Disease Control, and I wanted to write a little bit about the transmission and natural history of the virus.
Ebola is a type of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). Four families of viruses cause VHFs, and Ebola is from the family Filoviredae. Dengue fever, Yellow fever, Crimean Congo fever, Hantavirus and Lassa fever are other types of VHFs you may have heard of.


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Q: Connecting to Soap server fails on random servers using PHP I need to connect to a Soap API using PHP but It has 'No response' error on some servers randomly. For example I can get response locally (xampp + PHP 7.3.5 + Laravel 5.8) but getting error on my dedicated server.
This is the web service:

http://moghim24.ir:8080/Moghim24Scripts/Moghim24Services.svc?wsdl

As reference when I'm testing the API with http://wsdlBrowser.com I can access functions and recieve the response but when using http://www.soapclient.com/soaptest.html the response is empty!
The API is not limited to specific IPs. What else should I check?
UPDATE:
Example code:
https://codeshare.io/293y70

A: I did test your code on ubuntu 18.04.1 with php 7.0.33, 7.2.19 and 7.3.6, and is working 100% and very fast.
I advice you to try to debug using is_soap_fault and also with strace. You should be able to find out what is the problem.
strace php myscript.php


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Q: Not clickable text input fields in web form in Android Chrome I have a gwt application that shows a login form.
I cannot click input fields using Android Chrome. I can do it using the default android browser and desktop browsers though.

  ...

    ...

      <form action="check" class="loginForm" method="POST">

         <input name="username" type="text">
         <input name="password" type="password">
         <input name="_spring_security_remember_me" type="checkbox" value="yes">
         <button type="submit">Sign In</button>
      </form>

I checked that there is no overlapping of elements. I added a listener for a click on the events like
document.addEventListener("click", function(evt){
    console.log(evt);
 });

Logging shows text fields receive click events but continue to stay unfocused.
I check focus events like that:
document.getElementsByName("username")[0].addEventListener("focus",         function(evt) {
    console.log("username focus " + evt);
});

I don't receive focus events using android Chrome. But receive them using desktop Chrome.
I also cannot resize or scroll the page using android Chrome.
I can hack the bug by using such js script:
document.addEventListener("click", function(evt){
    console.log(evt.target.focus());
 });

But I cannot figure out what is causing the problem. I cannot find any confirmed bugs in Chrome or GWT. What should I look for?
Android Chrome version: 47.0.2526.83

A: Have you tried using "touchend" instead of "click" like:
document.addEventListener("touchend", function(evt){


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UAC Home > Communications and Marketing Home > Feature Stories > 2017 > After a lifetime of experience, former judge & politician ponders fresh perspectives offered in class
After a lifetime of experience, former judge & politician ponders fresh perspectives offered in class
By Costa Maragos Posted: December 22, 2017 6:00 a.m.
Gary Lane enrolled in three classes at the U of R. By auditing the classes, students are not required to write exams or essays. Says Lane: It's been a tremendous personal experience." Photo - External Relations
Gary Lane looks as comfortable walking the hallways of academia as he did as a judge in Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal or as a longtime member of Saskatchewan's Legislative Assembly.
The learning for Lane has not stopped. Soon after retiring from the bench in Spring, 2017, he started auditing three classes at the U of R in the Fall semester. Students who audit a class do not write exams or essays. It's simply a great learning opportunity.
Lane earned his Bachelor of Arts degree and his Law degree at the University of Saskatchewan. He practiced law in Saskatoon and Regina and entered politics where he held a seat in the Saskatchewan Legislature for 20 years. That was followed by an appointment to the province's Court of Appeal where he served from 1991 to May 2017.
Lane continues to keep very busy and that includes taking classes at the U of R. We spoke with him about his experience returning to class and his advice for others thinking of doing the same.
What's it been like for you being here at the U of R?
At a minimum, it's been very interesting. First, I'm very appreciative of the opportunity the University gave me. And secondly, it's been just a tremendous personal experience.
I've enjoyed every part of it. I particularly enjoyed the fact that I'm auditing which does not mean there's not a fair amount of work. The classes require a great deal of reading and some research. But when auditing, one is not under the pressures of exams, papers, and presentations. It has been a way to learn without those stressors.
I found myself at times putting the pen down in class and sitting back and listening and just learning. It's been a pleasure.
What classes are you auditing?
I'm taking two history classes – Modern Dragons: Revolutionary China and Japan taught by Dr. Phillip Charrier and Renaissance and Reformation taught by Dr. Clay Burlingham. I also took a Shakespeare class – Comedies and Romances taught by Dr. Jan Purnis.
What made you come back to university?
I've always had an interest in history. I was a history major in university. I've had an interest in world affairs and public affairs so over the years I read a great deal in many of those areas and I knew it was something I wanted to do and to study some areas in more depth. I've never studied Shakespeare in University and it was something I always wanted to do. So it's always been in the back of my mind.
What do you think of the students in the class?
One brings their own life experiences into study and as a result, you do see things from a different perspective. So for me, it's been quite interesting to see where the students are at and how they see some of the issues raised by the professors.
What is the biggest difference you have noticed in university now versus when you took classes?
The biggest surprise I saw in history, was the manner of teaching. When I took history in university one took a period of history and you studied that period of history. In both history classes, the first couple of weeks were an overview; In other words how people in society arrived at this particular period under study. I found that very, very, helpful and very informative. I don't recall history being taught like that - but that was a very long time ago.
I'm sure there are some people thinking of returning to university to audit classes. What's your advice to them?
Just do it. I've been intrigued by the responses I get from friends and acquaintances when they find out I'm auditing classes. The usual reaction is "what a good idea" or "you know I thought maybe I'd like to do something like that." All I can do is encourage them. The University is giving me and anybody else who is interested the opportunity to study. I encourage them to take advantage of the opportunity. It's been a good experience for me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I plan to take more classes in the future.
What else would you care to add about auditing classes at the U of R?
The whole experience has been good. Right from the assistance you get at registration and I particularly thank them for their help and through to talking to the professors and students.
Interested in auditing a class at the U of R? Our team at the Registrar's Office is happy to help you. Please visit here for more information.