It has been said a win is a win is a win. And while the Tampa Bay Rays 10-5 victory over the White Sox wasn't pretty, that they were able to put another tally in the win column is all that matters. The Rays, now 9-3 on the season, have won four consecutive series and have built a six-game cushion in the W/L columns.
For the fifth consecutive game, Tampa Bay took the lead in the opening inning. This time around Austin Meadows singled to right off Ervin Santana, swiped second, moved up to third on Tommy Pham's fly-ball out to right-center, then scored on Brandon Lowe's sacrifice fly to center field.
The team tacked on three more runs in the second inning, starting with Avisail Garcia's solo homer to center off Santana.
It was Garcia's third career home run off Santana and his first as a Ray.
Then with two outs, Willy Adames worked a free pass before Meadows homered to right-center, capping the rally.
Austin Meadows adds to the @RaysBaseball lead with a 2-run blast in the second inning!
It was Meadows' third homer this year.
The Rays scored again the next inning, when Brandon Lowe belted a homer to left center, for a 5-0 advantage.
The Rays weren't done at the plate. They added a pair of runs in the fourth, chasing Santana when Michael Perez and Adames went back-to-back with one-out doubles. Finally, with two on, Meadows hit an RBI single to right-center — the seventh, and final, run charged to Santana.
On the other side of the plate, Morton gave up a two-run shot to Yoan Moncada in the bottom of the third inning, although he otherwise kept the White Sox off balance by leaning on his fastball (both two and four-seam, 46 thrown, 29 strikes, 63% strike rate), curveball (30 thrown, 15 strikes, 50% strike rate), and his cutter (14 thrown, 11 strikes, 79% strike rate).
Kevin Cash handed the ball over to Wilmer Font, who was charged with two runs (after he left the game) across 2-2/3 innings of work. The right-hander threw 57 pitches (36 strikes, 63% strike rate) and averaged 94 mph with his four-seam fastball, which hit 97 mph. Up until his final inning of work, Font showed signs of improvement, much like when he came over from Oakland last season.
(Font) did a good job. He really picked us up. It's good to see him get out there and get his pitch count, I think he got close to mid-50s, maybe a tick higher than what we would like, but the velo was good. We needed to get to the end of the game and he got us pretty close.
While Tampa Bay scored a run on a wild pitch in the top of the eighth, things got messy in the bottom of the frame.
After Font was pulled from the game with two outs and a pair of runners on base, Ryne Stanek, the third hurler of the day couldn't retire a batter. The right-hander allowed an RBI single to right to Tim Anderson, then walked Welington Castillo, loading the bases. Eloy Jimenez followed with a slow roller past Stanek for an infield hit to draw Chicago within four. It made for an odd play, as Lowe and Adames collided as they attempted to field the ball.
Cash then called upon Jose Alvarado, who became the third pitcher of the inning. The typically dependable Alvarado walked pinch-hitter Jose Rondon on a full-count pitch to force home a run. Pinch-hitter Adam Engel, representing the go-ahead run at the plate, worked the count full then swung at what would have been ball four, ending the inning.
#Rays gave up 3 runs in the eighth. But Jose Alvarado Ks Engel with this 99 mph sinker to get out of the inning.
Feeling the air escaping from the stadium, Tampa Bay bounced back to score two more insurance runs in the ninth when Kevin Kiermaier singled home Lowe, then Meadows walked with the bases loaded to force home the tenth and final run.
Adam Kolarek took over in the ninth inning and put together a quiet frame. All told, Rays batter collected a total of 13 hits and eight walks, while every starting position player reached base at least once.
A win is a win is a win indeed.
The Rays and White Sox are slated to play the final game of the series on Wednesday, weather permitting. Tyler Glasnow (2-0, 0.82 ERA) will start opposite fellow righty Reynaldo Lopez (0-1, 10.00 ERA).
Tyler Glasnow went to work in the bottom of the first, against San Francisco, with a plate appearance by the former face of the franchise, Evan Longoria, looming. The right-hander quickly disposed of the first two batters on five pitches, bringing Longoria to the plate.
Glasnow promptly got ahead in the count before he spotted up a well-placed curveball on the inner third of the plate, locking up Longoria.
The first at-bat against the former face of the franchise culminated in a punch out, as the 1-2-3 first set the tone for the afternoon against the tall right-hander.
All told, Glasnow scattered three singles and allowed a walk, while striking out six. He threw first-pitch strikes to 17 of 23 batters (74% first-pitch strike rate), and 59 of 82 pitches overall for strikes (72% strike rate).
On Monday, Blake Snell threw six impressive innings en route to the Tampa Bay Rays eighth win of the season, 5-1, on the south side of Chicago.
The Rays bats swarmed early, scoring two runs in each of the first two innings against right-hander Carlos Rodon, who previously allowed just two earned runs total in his first two starts.
In the first inning, Yandy Diaz singled to right-field, Tommy Pham walked — extending his on-base streak to 43 games — and Daniel Robertson hit a single to right, loading the bases. After Avisail Garcia went down swinging on a 93 mph fastball on the inside corner, Guillermo Heredia walked, forcing home the game's first run. Ji-Man Choi followed with a sacrifice-fly that Adam Engel ran down in left-center, preventing an extra-base hit.
Then in the second inning, Willy Adames led off with a double to left-field before he was wild-pitched into third base. Pham walked for the second time in as many innings, and Robertson followed with a perfectly executed safety squeeze bunt for an RBI hit, extending the lead and moving Pham up 90 feet.
After Robertson and Pham swiped second and third (respectively), the Pham came home on a Garcia's RBI base hit for a four-run advantage.
Yet while Tampa Bay had chances to add on more, the team left a lot of chicken on the bone — stranding 13 men on base (.188 BA wRISP), despite collecting 11 hits and eight walks. Suffice it to say, it made for a frustrating 5-1 win.
Be that as it may, the Rays were able to tack on one last run against reliever Carson Fulmer in the eighth inning on a bases-loaded walk to Austin Meadows, capping the scoring. On the bright side, they have scored four or more runs in five of their last seven games — inching their runs per game (RPG) average up to four after starting the season with 2.75.
Snell allowed just a single run on six hits across the first six frames. He didn't walk a batter and struck out 11.
Hunter Wood, who was recalled from Durham, followed Snell and threw three scoreless innings, for his first big league save. Wood struck out three, allowing just three hits.
It was awesome. I was grateful to get the opportunity to go in, and kind of hopefully prove myself. I want to be here and I want to help this team out any way I can. … I know the bullpen was kind of running low so it was really big to step up and save the bullpen for a day.
The Rays look to win their fourth series in a row on Tuesday afternoon with Charlie Morton (1-0, 1.64 ERA) on the mound. He'll pitch opposite of Ervin Santana (2018, 0-1, 8.03 ERA).
Charlie Morton is looking for his third consecutive quality start as a member of the Rays. In two starts this season, the right-hander has struck out 14 batters across 11 innings and has a 1.64 ERA. In two career outings against the White Sox (totaling 12-2/3 innings of work), Morton has been good, going 2-0 with a respectable 3.55 ERA.
— Willy Adames collected three hits and is 6-for-11 since his 1-for-27 start. Yandy Diaz has hits in nine of his 10 games played.
— Rays manager Kevin Cash said both Brandon Lowe, who tweaked an ankle running the bases, and Yandy Diaz, who hit his head diving back into second, were fine.
— According to Marc Topkin (Tampa Bay Times) … Tommy Pham walked in the first inning to extend his team-record streak of reaching base to 43 games, crossing the halfway point to Ted Williams' 1949 record of 84.
— Tampa Bay has given up two runs or fewer in nine of the team's 11 games, and have allowed just 20 runs total. Yet, of the 20 runs, 11 have come via the long ball. The bullpen overall has allowed just 10 runs across 44 innings.


Gathering time starts at 5:30pm and with dinner at 6:00pm. We are having a Chili, Soup and Corn Bread cook off. Your Unit can come and bring multiple Chili's, Soups and cornbreads for a chance to win some great prizes and bragging rights. There will be a Champion for each Category! The Unit with the most members in attendance will also receive a great prize to be shared by all. We will have some fun entertainment and there will be Ceremonial Team representatives who will promote our District Ceremonial Teams. Cost is $10.


Time for Blog hopping.This time i was little late for posting my recipe.Hope,everybody know's about the event.For new visitors....,event started by Radhika from "Tickling Palates".
For this week, i paired with Jayashri from "samayalarai-Cookingisdivine.blogspot.com".She's having sooo... many recipes in her blog.Was little confused...to select the recipe.Finally i decided to make Puzhi Satham/Puliyogare,My hubs Favorite. Many times he used ask me to prepare a spicy Puzhi Satham.I wont like more spicy one,so i wont make :-) when i checked her recipe...it looks very flavorful and Yum...I tried and the result's was too gud.
Wash tamarind in water first.Take out seeds and all waste things from it.
Take 1 cup of water ,put the tamarind and microwave it for 2 mins.
Once it cools,strain the juice using hands or filter.
Otherwise pour some hot water on washed tamarind,allow to cool. And follow the same.
Roast all ingredients under "to roast & grind" list,in 1/2 teaspoon of oil.
Allow it to cool down,then make in to a powder form.
Now heat a wider kadai with 3 table spoon of sesame oil.
Splutter all ingredients one-by-one, under tempering list.
Roast all ingredients well in the oil,add the tamarind juice in it.
Cook it for 5 mns in medium flame.
Once raw smells goes from the mixture slowly add the ground spice powder to Tamarind mixture.
Mix well with the spoon,after adding the spice powder the mixture will goes in to a thick form.Switch off the stove.
Now the basic Puliogare mix's ready.
Take some amount of the mixture and mix with the white rice.Mix gently to cover all white rice.
Let it rest for minimum 30mns before eating.
I served with Potato Podimas.
Adjust spiciness to your taste.Add are decrease the amount of red chilly.
Use only Sesame oil,for exact taste.
Recipe goes to Tickling Plates,Check "here" to see what out Co-Bloggers doing..
my fav- the platter looks yum !
Looks super good..:) It is such a life saver during busy weekdays..Tangy goodness..
Love this delicious tangy rice..
I simply love this tangy delicious rice..
like the spice mix...me too use spice mix for my puli sadham...love it!!!
Tried it... Came much much better than what I used to cook... Nandri.
Thanks a lot Kumaresh!! Really really that u liked the dish.Try more recipes ,any doubt plz give a call.


You need to look for a great advertising agency when you need to do a successful marketing campaign. This calls for you to know what things to look for in such an ad agency. There are things you need to do while at it.
You can expect the best performing marketing agencies to be known for it in the industry. It shall have all its bases covered. This includes the most number of businesses represented, the most recognition in its class, and a reputable method of getting word out there about products and services it is expected to. The fact that they are all different means that you shall get different attributes from each. You need to be clear on your expectations in this search. You also need to consider what direction you wish to take the brand. Do not be in a rush to get marketing done for the sake of it. It shall benefit you more to take time to come up with a good approach.
When you are looking at the reputation of the marketing agency you are about to hire, you need to go further. You need to be keen on their vision when owing on such projects. There may be industry standards you are expected to follow, but you need to focus more on what works for your needs.
It is important also to be sure that you get along with the advertising agency. You shall be working closely with them for a given period. You may end up more productive together, or not at all. This is governed by the level of harmony that exists between all of you. As much as you would love to go for the most prominent marketing company there is, you need to be more prudent. They may come off as the most successful there ever was. But your main focus should be to find one that you are on the same page about what you need.
You need to review your need for hiring an agency in the first place. This should reveal the qualities that you expect the agency to possess to be able to manage your expectations. A marketing agency can handle a campaign in so many different ways, which is why you need to be careful which one you decide to go with.
The process of choosing a marketing agency needs you to go further than their level of expertise, capabilities, client service track record, company size and resources, and the like. You need to get to their culture, trust, philosophy, attitude, and chemistry.
When you are putting together an advertising campaign; you cannot expect fireworks if you five people something lukewarm. This also applies to your choice of an ad agency.


Time is the heartbeat of retail with operations, logistics, supply chain, IT and systems being time-based or time-sensitive. From auctions to speed of delivery and seasonal activities, this streams covers retail from real-time to the long-term.
Responsible for the profitability and development of John Lewis's online channel, Mark leads the online and omni-channel development teams.
Andy Harding is the Executive Director, Multi Channel for the House of Fraser and is responsible for the UK and international, online and mobile strategy.
Prior to relaunching its new website, Winsor & Newton was faced with the challenge of having a limited, or no, direct relationship with the users of its fine art products. By putting the artist at the heart of its strategy and including innovative, built-in community tools on its site, the company has developed real online stickiness. Fleur and James will share the strategy and key innovations helping Winsor & Newton grow sales through its online and offline channels, gain valuable insight into its users, and establish itself as the product of choice for artists the world over.
New front ends, new back end systems to run online, in store, contact centres and mobile, what?s next? B&Q is on an omnichannel journey that?s bringing them from a position of catch up to one of acceleration poised to harness the customer and colleague experience changes in architecture, hardware, functionality and culture. Mike Durbridge will share key learnings from the transformation journey to date and how the synchronisation of digital and physical is enabling a move to stores that are easier to browse and shop with customers that are more confident to serve themselves.
Sainsbury?s boasts a ?1bn+ online channel, was the first UK supermarket to launch Click & Collect at scale, the first to experiment with ?Mobile Scan & Go?, and has created an industry-leading proposition in digital ebooks. Bringing 145 years of history to the digital arena, Sainsbury?s has an exciting future. Jon Rudoe will talk about Sainsbury?s latest innovation and continued development as a leading omnichannel retailer.
Multichannel success is about meeting the challenge of constant change – Ready for that?
Leading retailers need to trial, assess and constantly adapt their multichannel merchandising strategies. This is a complex, challenging and resource intensive task and carries a high risk of failure. This session will look at how retailers can thrive on constant change and adapt online selling tactics in real-time to deliver the optimal, intelligent multichannel strategy. Apptus will share some important insights that could make a significant difference to your business: reducing your cost of optimisation and driving your competitive advantage and growth.
Panel Discussion ? How far can delivery and returns choice take retail and courier margins and markets?
The panel will consider operations and logistics issues around delivery to home, click and collect, lockers, location, timing, margins and maximising returns.
Transformation at scale: The M&S digital storyIn 2010, M&S set out its plans to become a leading international, multi-channel retailer. Central to this plan was to move away from the Amazon-based platform and build an M&S owned multichannel platform and infrastructure. In this presentation, David will provide the inside track on the transformation and creation of a new flagship digital experience that is built around the evolving customer.
Closing keynote: Blurring the lines of retailThe lines between publishing and retailing are blurring with retailers launching magazines and publishers selling product online linking their digital, print and mobile titles. Is this convergence becoming a sales channel in its own right, a route to further customer engagement or is it the future of retailing? Hear how Cond? Nast is pushing boundaries for its titles and partner brands.


When dealing with Arthritis stiffness and pain, sometimes it's hard to get motivated to exercise. But exercise is essential in keeping your body healthy and weight in check. Exercise can also help with stamina, range of motion and muscle strength.
What are the Best Exercises When You Have Arthritis?
Take it slow and easy with any exercise program. Concentrate on stretching, walking, or exercising in the pool. When you're not feeling your best, or the weather is cold, snowy or rainy try house walking. Put on some music and walk for 20 minutes. Your body will feel energized and it will give an emotional lift.
Jumping – most people with Arthritis already avoid this instinctually.
Running – too hard on the knees and joints in general.
Aerobics – like Zumba or high impact aerobics.
Tennis – a wide variety of stresses on joints, hands, knees, ankles.
Repetitive movement – typing, cleaning, sports.
Apply heat or cold – Don't try and just deal with the pain or power through it. Take a moment for self-care and apply a heating pad (for 20 mins) or take a hot shower or bath to soothe aching joints. Remember not to make the water too hot to prevent burns or scalding of skin.
Try a moist heating pad from the drug store or DIY at home by putting a wet washcloth into a zip bag and heating in the microwave. Test with your finger or hand to make sure that the cloth is not too hot. Place over the painful area for 15-20 minutes.
Or try a paraffin wax dip for hands or feet. Some salons offer these services, so it becomes a spa day and less of a "pain day".
Topical Creams – There are a variety of topical creams available on-line or at the drug store. Try Menthonol (Menthonol.com) to help with pain.
Apply Menthonol – After applying heat or cold the next step to feeling less pain is to apply Menthonol. At first there is a cooling sensation, then after a few minutes many have reported feeling reduced pain to no pain for many hours.
Massage Therapy – Throughout time the human touch and massage have relieved pain that sometimes even medicine can't. Find a massage therapist that specializes in Arthritis pain and make sure to let them know the sore spots. They will address the areas that are painful with care and a soft touch.
Acupuncture – Many people benefit from pain reduction or pain relief entirely when using acupuncture. It is a medication free way of coping and lessening/eliminating pain for many.
Try Relaxation Therapy – Taking 30 minutes to meditate and doing light yoga stretches can be beneficial along with just taking a minute for you and thinking about the things you enjoy in life. It may be the key to redirecting some of the frustrating feelings that are associated with pain management.
If you suffer from Arthritis there are probably a few medications that you turn to when pain escalates. OTC - Over-the-counter medications like ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, etc), acetaminophen (Tylenol, etc) helps to relieve pain quickly. Be sure and read all directions of use and warning panels on any OTC products.
Are you taking too much OTC pain relievers?
Then it is time to talk to your doctor to find a more efficient and better way to treat the pain. He/She can offer many options that help with extended pain relief. Taking too many OTC's may impact your kidneys or liver so keep track of how many OTC's you are taking and how often. Be sure and update your doctor every time you have an appointment.
Could Depression Make Pain Worse?
It's no secret pain can bring about symptoms of depression. Dealing with daily pain can be wearing and difficult. Talk to your doctor about your pain as well as your feelings because some anti-depressants can actually help with pain relief.
Being in constant pain can take a toll on your attitude and mood. It can bring about feelings of hopelessness, bitterness and impatience. But there are ways to help improve and lift your feelings, so you can better manage your pain. The key is communicating with your doctor to come up with a plan that works for you.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – Sometimes it helps just to verbalize your pain with a third-party. Speaking with a Therapist can help to sort out feelings, frustrations and depression that can sometimes occur when dealing with constant pain. They can also offer advice on how to improve your mood.
Anti-Depressants – Many people shy away from taking anti-depressants because they want to "tough it out" or "want to resolve their problems on their own". But sometimes pain can alter the chemistry levels in your brain that can bring about depression. That's when anti-depressants can help to restore you back to your old self. Don't suffer needlessly, talk to your doctor.
Everyone knows that we should eat healthier, but what does that exactly mean? Simple changes/substitutions and incorporating a few fresh veggies or fruits into your diet can make a significant impact on your well-being. If your typical breakfast consists of a cup of coffee or tea and a muffin or a bowl of cerea, it is not a very nutritious or exciting breakfast. But when time is a consideration, or you just are not too keen on cooking, try a bowl of unsweetened oatmeal (you can microwave this) with some berries or whole grain toast with almond butter and banana slices. Or if you are in the mood to cook, an egg or egg white on toast with some avocado slices is a healthy alternative. If you are feeling daring try a swoop of hummus, it adds a lot of flavor and makes breakfast fun again. All of these healthy alternatives will provide you with energy and nutrition to keep you going thru the day.
Eat less processed foods - shop the perimeter of the store. Go to the vegetable/fruit section, the meat, dairy, bakery section, and scale down on the snacks, goodies and prepared foods on inner aisles.
Read labels – if you don't understand the ingredients think twice about eating that item.
Incorporate beans, legumes into your diet. They are flavorful, filling and provide your body with the protein and fiber that keep you full, healthy and lean.
Eat less sugar – this goes with the "read the label" section. Most people don't realize that the non-dairy creamer or bottled beverage most often has A LOT of sugar. Many people lose weight just cutting out the excess sugar that sneaks into our diets.
Take the time to enjoy your meal. Turn off social media, the TV and dine. Enjoy your food & company - even if it's just you!


From street level, number 2 Wilby Road in Singapore's affluent Bukit Timah seems, if anything, nondescript compared to its grandiose neighbours. Foliage tumbles from the front garden over a wooden fence, while an unkempt, once-white pillar modestly bears the address. But behind a black gate, a steep driveway circling around an Art Deco conservatory is lined with forest trees, offering an early hint of its owner's predilections.
In this cosy nook, flanked by lithographs of maharajahs in the Empire era and Bengali contemporary art, sits genial polymath Dr Easaw Thomas. Co-winner of the National Parks Board gardening competition in 2006 and world corporate secretary for the International College of Surgeons, this anaesthetist, horticulturalist and oenophile starts recounting his life story with childlike enthusiasm.
The medic beckons me over to behind the main body of the house into a broad courtyard. A pathway bifurcates a koi-inhabited pond, while a treehouse – Dr Thomas's bedroom – stands imperiously over the lush tropical scene.
The arduous process of reshaping the earth behind the old house – which had been built in 1937 – and installing new rooms and a garden on the upper levels, took two years.
First, the doctor brought in wooden pillars from Kerala to prop up a veranda facing the pond (it now functions as a mini-art gallery). A spiral staircase above leads to two enormous bedrooms filled with sunlight and warm decorative tones, with door handles crafted by Salvador Dalí. A sizeable gazebo above the driveway was also transported from Kerala.
At the time of purchase, the house had a market value around SGD2.45 million (USD1.75m); 27 years later, it's worth as much as SGD40 million – more than the recently contested family home of Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew.
The mystery tour continues. The doctor shows me an artwork he created from scrap bamboo, now tied together in an eye-pleasing formation, with Murano glass wall decorations either side. Grinning like a recalcitrant schoolboy, he opens a "secret" door that swings back to reveal a stacked cellar of red wine.
Back in the main body of the house, the proud homeowner leads me on a whistle-stop journey through a collection of art and furniture that the word "eclectic" barely begins to describe. He frequently punctuates his commentary with the question, "Do you know where this is from?" I guess, mostly incorrectly, but it's a mind-expanding adventure nonetheless.
I'm sure if someone else had bought the land, they would have made it very flat. The monsters!
Within 10 minutes I've surveyed hand-carved, century-old American roll-top tables, an Inuit painting, a Ming dynasty urn, an Indian take on Aboriginal art, a Mongolian painting of Genghis Khan, a chilli sculpture from Malaysian artist Kumari Nahappan, an artwork from Italian architect Gio Ponti depicting the four seasons, a round table by Scottish designer Rennie Mackintosh, a Malaysian tree made into deer antlers and a caricature of himself drawn by "an Indonesian lady from Sulawesi".
I tell him that he has, to say the very least, wide-ranging tastes. Yet somehow, the muted colours, wooden surfaces and blend of classic and contemporary converge into something resembling visual harmony.
This fondness for scoring bargain artefacts is evident in the courtyard too, where the doctor has repurposed a series of objets trouvés amassed from around Singapore: a gorgeous dressing table and mirror, a Parisian bistro sign, a glass dining table.
"Everything here was thrown away," he exclaims, as if still struggling to comprehend the idea. "Can you believe it? Look at this, man! [He points at the dressing table.] This whole piece, someone threw it away." On the bedroom level of the extension, he's taken cast-off shutters and whole doors from shophouses, and affixed them to the walls.
"You're okay with heights, yes?" the doctor suddenly asks. Nodding nervously, I follow him on to the precarious ledge above the pond where he's cultivated his rooftop garden, and gaze admiringly at the preponderance of his favourite flower.
It's a fine example of how, despite the seemingly scattershot approach to design, Dr Thomas has brought together disparate elements while taking a holistic view. From the living room, he points out the semi-circular band that props up the orchid garden, and wraps appealingly around the courtyard facing the house – a counterpoint to the curved porch at the entrance. For him, this sensuous aspect of the design is a key factor in his home's appeal.
Indeed, this inviting layout and international flavour – coupled with the doctor's talents as a generous, extrovert host – have seen visitors arriving from far and wide to admire his multifaceted dwelling. The jungle-like old curiosity shop has attracted hundreds of guests from Indonesia, the UK and the United States.
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Write What You Know
This is the original article substantially as first published. See the book Exceptional C++ (Addison-Wesley, 2000) for the most current version of this article. The versions in the book have been revised and expanded since their initial appearance in print. The book versions also incorporate corrections, new material, and conformance to the final ANSI/ISO C++ standard.
Advice From the C++ Experts: Write What You Know, and Know What You Write
This article appeared in C++ Report, 9(9), October 1997.
My best advice? Don't get fancy. Treat a new C++ feature like you would treat a loaded automatic weapon in a crowded room: never use it just because it looks nifty. Wait until you understand the consequences, don't get cute, write what you know, and know what you write.
Cuteness Hurts
Cuteness does hurt, for at least two reasons. First, cute code hurts portability. The cute programming trick you used to good effect under one compiler may not work at all on another. Worse, the second compiler might accept the code but produce unintended results. For a simple example, many compilers don't support default template arguments or template specialization, so any code that relies on those features is effectively nonportable today. For a subtler example, many compilers disagree on how to handle multiple active exceptions -- and if you just did a double-take, thinking that multiple active exceptions aren't allowed (a popular misconception), just imagine how the poor compiler manufacturers must lose sleep over it since there can indeed be any number of simultaneously active exceptions during stack unwinding.
Second, cute code hurts maintainability. Always remember that someone will have to maintain what you write. What you consider a neat programming trick today will be cursed as an incomprehensible rat's nest tomorrow by the person maintaining your code... and that maintainer might be you. For example, a certain graphics library once made "cute" use of what was then a new language feature: operator overloading. Using this library, your client code to add a control widget to an existing window would look something like this:
Window w( /*...*/ );
Control c( /*...*/ );
w + c;
Instead of being cute, the library writers should have followed Scott Meyers' excellent advice to "do as the ints do." That is, when using operator overloading or any other language feature for your own classes, when in doubt always make your class follow the same semantics as the builtin and standard library types.
Write What You Know, and Know What You Write
When writing code, "write what you know." Consciously restrict yourself to the language features you understand well enough to write them correctly in your sleep. (You do dream about C++ code, don't you?) For those newer to C++, this probably means using it as just a better C, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Next, "know what you write." Be aware of the consequences of what your code actually does. Among other things, keep up your reading in magazines like this one; you'll need that continuous self-improvement to stay current with and deepen your understanding of your chosen programming language. For example, the following dangerous idiom crops regularly every few months on the C++ newsgroups:
T& T::operator=( const T& other )
if( this != &other )
this->~T();
new (this) T(other);
These people mean well: the intent is to improve consistency by implementing copy assignment in terms of copy construction, using explicit destruction followed by placement new. On the surface, this has the benefit of avoiding writing similar code in two places which would then have to be maintained separately and could get out of sync over time. This code even works in many cases.
But do these programmers really "know what they write"? Probably not, since there are subtle pitfalls here, some of them quite serious. Here are just four: 1. This code slices objects whenever *this and other are not the same type. 2. Consider how its correctness could depend on whether operator=() was declared virtual in a base class or not. 3. It's almost always less efficient because construction involves more work than assignment. 4. It makes life a living hell for the authors of derived classes. I'm sometimes tempted to post the above code in the office kitchen with the caption: "Here be dragons."
Is there anything wrong with the original goal of improving consistency? No, but in this case "knowing what you write" would lead the programmer to achieve consistency in a better way, for example by having a common private member function that does the work and is called by both copy construction and copy assignment. (Yes, I know that an example like the above actually appears in the draft standard. Pretend it's not there. That was to illustrate something different, and shouldn't encourage imitation.)
C++ is a wonderful language that I enjoy using daily. At the moment, it's my primary programming language. It has drawbacks compared to other languages I've used: for example, it has no real module system, and no standard garbage collection. It also has solid features available in few or no other languages: for example, its flexible templates support completely new styles of generic programming. Bottom line, C++ has more power than any of us can handle all at once. I doubt that there are more than half a dozen people on the planet (and I have specific names in mind here) who are true experts in the entirety of C++, from the core language to all the facets (pun intended) of the standard library. Most of the rest of us can only aspire to know a few narrow areas in depth and the whole reasonably well.
Fortunately, there's no need for us to all be Stroustrups or Koenigs to get concrete benefits from C++. Just avoid the dusty corners of the language, and remember that cuteness hurts in many ways. Above all, "write what you know, and know what you write," and you'll certainly do well!

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Janet Guthrie had a diversified background.
being invited to test a car for Indianapolis.
Janet Guthrie was born in Iowa City, Iowa, on March 7, 1938. Her family moved to Miami, Florida when she was three. She attended Miss Harris' Florida School for Girls for all but one of her elementary through high-school years, then graduated from the University of Michigan in 1960 with a B.Sc. in physics. She joined Republic Aviation in Farmingdale, New York, as a research and development engineer, working on programs that were precursors to Project Apollo. In 1964, she applied for the first Scientist-Astronaut program, and got through the first round of eliminations. She treasures a letter from astronaut Deke Slayton, a memento of that attempt.
Meanwhile, she had purchased a Jaguar XK 120 coupe, and began competing in gymkhanas, field trials and hill climbs. This led to the purchase of a Jaguar XK 140 for competition in Sports Car Club of America races. Her career in physics slowly yielded to the allure of sports car racing, and by 1972 she was involved in racing on a full-time basis. Along the way, she posted two class victories in the 12 Hours of Sebring.
Her big break at the top level of the sport came in 1976, when long-time team owner and car builder Rolla Vollstedt invited her to test a car for the Indianapolis 500. That year, she also became the first woman to compete in a NASCAR Winston Cup superspeedway stock car race. In 1977, she became the first woman to qualify for and compete in the Indianapolis 500; she was also first woman and Top Rookie at the Daytona 500 in the same year. She finished ninth in the Indianapolis 500 in 1978.
Janet Guthrie's helmet and driver's suit are in the Smithsonian Institution, and she was one of the first athletes named to the Women's Sports Hall of Fame. Her autobiography, "Janet Guthrie: A Life at Full Throttle" (Sport Classic Books), was published in 2005. In 2006, she was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. She is listed in "Who's Who." She does extensive platform and keynote speaking. Among her television credits are "James Michener's Sports in America" and over a dozen appearances on "Good Morning America."
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Joanna Abraham, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, is focused on improving collaborative practices in healthcare using principles and techniques from informatics to promote patient safety, quality and care continuity.
Dr. Abraham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Institute for Informatics, Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in Information Sciences and Technology with a focus on health informatics, human factors, and human-computer interaction, and has over 14 years of expertise in patient safety, cognitive science, and applied clinical informatics.
Dr. Abraham's research is driven by the overarching goal of improving patient safety through the design of health information technology, process re-engineering, and clinician training. She has led numerous patient safety and healthcare quality improvement projects on transitions in care and clinical communication, care coordination, medication ordering, and decision-making over the last decade. Her empirical research on communication and medication safety has translated into evidence-based tools at multiple hospitals. Key examples include the Discharge Transition Record (DTR) for supporting effective hospital discharges of pediatric patients; an EHR-integrated Rounding Report Tool (RRT) for supporting communication and coordination of teams; and a Void Alert Tool (VAT) for improving medication ordering safety. She and her research team have contributed to over 45 peer-reviewed publications in leading informatics and clinical journals.
Dr. Abraham is recognized as a national expert in the field of patient handoffs and care transitions, serving on the Multi-Center Handoff Collaborative, a national-level organization focused on perioperative handoff efforts funded by Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. She also serves on the Leapfrog National Expert Panel for its Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE) standard, including the CPOE Evaluation Tool. Previously, she has served on an expert handoff panel for the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety. Her work has also received recognition from the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the primary informatics professional society, which recognized her research through a Distinguished Paper Award in 2012, the Diana Forsythe Award in 2010 and 2021, the New Investigator Award in 2019, and the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Distinguished Reviewer Award in 2021.
Given the interdisciplinary nature of her research expertise, she has served on scientific review panels for several federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and National Science Foundation (NSF). She currently serves on the Editorial Boards for the JAMIA (Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association), JAMIA Open, and the External Advisory Board for The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
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Impact of EHR-based Rounding Tools on Interactive Communication: A Prospective Observational Study. International Journal of Medical Informatics (Featured in AMIA 2019 Year in Review)
Moving Patients from Emergency Department to Medical Intensive Care Unit: Tracing Barriers and Root Contributors. International Journal of Medical Informatics
A Qualitative Study of Perioperative Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Effects of CPOE-based Medication Ordering on Outcomes: An Overview of Systematic Reviews. BMJ Quality & Safety
Optimizing Emergency Department Care Transitions to Outpatient Settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Risk Factors Associated with Medication Ordering Errors. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Systematic Review of Intraoperative Anesthesia Handoffs and Handoff Tools. Anesthesia & Analgesia
Association Between Paediatric Intraoperative Anaesthesia Handover and Adverse Postoperative Outcomes. BMJ Quality & Safety
Ascertaining Design Requirements for Postoperative Care Transition Interventions. Applied Clinical Informatics
Use of Machine Learning to Develop and Evaluate Models Using Preoperative and Intraoperative Data to Identify Risks of Postoperative Complications. JAMA Network Open
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventions for Operating Room to Intensive Care Unit Handoffs. BMJ Quality & Safety
Building on Diana Forsythe's Legacy: The Value of Human Experience and Context in Biomedical and Health Informatics. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (Editorial for the Special Issue on the Continuing Legacy of Diana Forsythe's Work at the Intersection of Informatics and the Social Sciences)
An Observational Study of Postoperative Handoff Standardization Failures. International Journal of Medical Informatics
Measuring Content Overlap during Handoff Communication using Distributional Semantics: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Reasons for Computerised Provider Order Entry (CPOE)-based Inpatient Medication Ordering Errors: An Observational Study of Voided Orders. BMJ Quality & Safety
Comparison of a Prototype for Indications-Based Prescribing With 2 Commercial Prescribing Systems. JAMA Network Open
Interdisciplinary Handover between Obstetric Nursing and Neonatal Physician Teams: An Observational Study. BMJ Pediatrics Open
A Graph-based Approach for Characterizing Resident and Nurse Handoff Conversations. Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Transition in Care from EMS Providers to Emergency Department Nurses: A Systematic Review. Prehospital Emergency Care
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The Anesthesia History Association (AHA) and International Symposium on the History of Anesthesia (ISHA) welcome entries for the C. Ronald Stephen, M.D. Anesthesia History Essay Contest. Dr. Stephen (1916-2006) was one of the "Greatest" of the "Greatest Generation" of anesthesiologists who helped to define our present specialty. Upon his death, friends and former students established an endowment to perpetuate his memory.
The contest is open to all physicians or medical students who create the essay during residency, fellowship or medical school. A prize of $1,000 is awarded to the winner.
Entries can be on any topic related to the history of anesthesiology, pain medicine or critical care, and must be less than 2,500 words in length. The winning essay must be submitted to the Journal of Anesthesia History (JAH) to be considered for possible publication. The remaining entrants are encouraged but not required to submit entries to JAH.
AHA and ISHA Announce 2017 C. Ronald Stephen, M.D. Anesthesia History Essay Contest. ASA Monitor 2017;81(2):57.


There are lots of different CCTV cameras on the market each one making amazing claims so it's easy to see why people get confused. Correct camera choice is the single most important thing when creating a good quality CCTV system. It is also the thing most people get wrong fitting wide angle cameras then wondering why they can't make out any detail .
Retailers don't make things easy, they make claims in their advertising material which is simply not true.
In this buying guide we're going to look at some of the key things to consider when choosing a CCTV camera and help you avoid those common mistakes.
We cover things like optical range, how far away from the camera can you identify someone or read a number plate? We also discuss Infra red, the ability of a camera to see in the dark. TVL or television lines is something many retailers use to distinguish between cameras, we explain why this isn't a very good metric with which to judge cameras by. Finally we talk about optical versus digital zoom and explain why varifocal cameras offer a much greater chance of capturing high detail.
There is a lot of information here, if you'd rather pick up the phone and have a chat with someone we are always happy to chat 0800 3168269.
We can have a look at your site using Google Maps whilst talking through what you were hoping to achieve. This will allow us to put together a package for you together with a plan showing where cameras should be fitted.
In theory the higher the resolution the better your CCTV, more pixels means more detail. Well not necessaritly….
At the moment there are lots of systems on the market claiming ultra high resolution right up to 4K. The problem is in most cases the cameras are wide angle meaning pixels spread apart quickly as you move away from the lens. It's like trying to heat your house with the doors and windows wide open, you will never win.
HD 1080P gives a great image when coupled with the right camera. To double the quality of HD 1080P you actually need to increase to 8 Megapixels as you are increasing on 2 axis, the horizontal and the vertical. You get the square root of the increase in pixels.
It's the same old story, people who don't really understand CCTV jumping on a bandwagon and using impact phrases to try and sell their products.
Throwing pixels at your CCTV system just fills up the Hard drive faster. 21 days rolling footage in HD1080P suddently becomes a mere 2.6 days rolling footage in 4K. Instead of fitting a 3TB hard drive you need to fit a 24TB one!
Our HD cameras come with either a fixed lens which has one angle of view or a vari-focal lens which can be adjusted during installation to balance area covered with detail captured. The more you zoom in the more detail you capture. We always recommend varifocal over fixed lens because it ensures you don't waste pixels on unwanted areas.
The images below are intended to give you an idea of what each camera will be able to see. In the case of the varifocal cameras we have shown the widest and most zoomed in extreme for that particular lens. We are always happy to advise you when it comes to chooing the best camera for your intended use.
Local stores like Maplins and on line retailers such as ebay and Tesco sell CCTV camera kits, everything you need for a CCTV system in one box. We are highly dismissive of these kits. Why is that?
The single biggest problem is that they generally use fixed lens wide angle cameras.
We cover these wide angle cameras in our Optical Range section.
Wide angle cameras don't capture detail regardless of what it says on the box.
As a guide a standard resolution 90 degree angle of view camera can only identify someone up to around 1.5 metres from the camera. Even with HD 1080P this only increases to around 3 metres.
The promotional material will often claim these cameras can identify someone 20 – 30 metres away. They can't.
It is unlikely that your installation will use all the same CCTV cameras. We take time to see what you're hoping to achieve then make sure you get the right cameras for each individual location.
Sometimes a wide angle low detail capture over view camera might be the solution but more often you need to capture higher levels of detail and these cameras can't do that as you move away from the lens regardless of resolution.
A camera designed to film people at you door won't be suitable to cover an area 10 or 20 metres away.
Another problem you will often face with these kits is a lack of support both pre-sale, during installation and also on-going. Our knowledgeable staff are not only there to help you plan an effective system we are also there to help once you've purchased your equipment from us.
The claims made by many people selling CCTV are simply laughable. We show you the discrepancy between what the advertising blurb says and what you actually get using a Swann camera typical of the type sold by Maplins, Costco, Screwfix, electrical wholesalers and any number of on-line retailers.
It claims an effective range of 25 metres our MD often said he would happily stand stark naked 25 metres away from one. We took him at his word. The result – it's not pretty !
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF CCTV CAMERA ON THE MARKET. THIS PAGE SHOULD HELP YOU WORK OUT EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE AFTER.
Traditional day night bullet cameras are designed to be mounted either inside or outside and incorporate built in Infra red (I/R) illumination. As light levels fall the Infra-red lights switch on automatically and the camera changes from colour to black and white. Black and white cameras require less light to work and respond to Infra-red lighting.
A traditional looking CCTV camera with a good visual deterrent. Easy to fit and adjust with versatile mounts.
Vandal dome cameras are designed for use in hostile environments the camera electronics are housed behind a clear dome providing protection and also making it harder to see exactly where the camera is pointing.
Fitting and adjusting these cameras can be a little tricky and the built in infra red light tends not to be as efficient due to potential internal reflection from the clear dome.
Open face vandal dome cameras offer much of the protection afforded by traditional vandal dome cameras but are easier to install and the infra red illumination is more effective because there is no way for it to reflect back into the camera lens.
Our cameras are all metal in construction and have a number of features which make fitting easier. We sell a large open face dome camera which has a varifocal lens and a small version featuring a fixed focal length lens.
Extremely versatile these can be used inside or outdoors and are suitable for short to mid range applications. Like the traditional vandal dome camera the longest lens option is 12mm (2.8-12mm).
Internal dome cameras have plastic housings and do not feature infra red illumination.
Their lighter weight makes them ideal for suspended ceilings. Stylish in design they blend into most interiors and are only suitable for internal use. For industrial applications consider using open faced vandal dome cameras or even traditional day / night cameras where longer distances are involved.
Speed dome or PTZ (pan tilt zoom) cameras have electronic motors allowing remote control of movement in all directions.
You can also zoom in and out remotely. It is tempting to see PTZ cameras as the ideal solution because they can easily be re-positioned but unless you have a full time operator they can be an expensive folly.
When pointing in one direction they are not filming in another and when moving they tend not to give good images due to blurring. In most instances we would suggest fitting more fixed cameras for the same price.
Some PTZ cameras have the ability to automatically track targets as they move about. The problem comes when you have more than one target and the technology does rely on the camera being pointed in the right direction to start with.
We would suggest keeping things simple and fitting more fixed cameras for the same price.
Mini Bullet cameras are shaped, how did you guess, like a bullet these don't come with infra-red illumination and tend to be used for slightly more discreet purposes due to their less intrusive appearance.
The camera size limits the maximum lens that can be used making them unsuitable for longer distance applications. Some bullet cameras are suitable for external use, others are only designed for internal fitment.
We sell a fixed lens and a varifocal version of our bullet cameras.
As the name suggests, covert cameras are small cameras that are easy to tuck away somewhere out of sight or cameras that are disguised as another object such as our PIR detector camera.
These all have fixed focal length lenses, mostly wide angle. Ultimate performance will never be as good as standard cameras due to the restricted size of the lens which limits light entry. Only being available with a fixed lens also means detail capture can not be maximised.


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Remember the climate catastrophe predicted by science savant Al Gore and 97 percent of his colleagues in climatology, meteorology, and alchemy? The world was warming, the seas were rising, and polar bears were packing up all their personal items, locking their tray tables, and putting their seats in the upright position.
Well, that rough landing, alarmist scenario is so last century, at this point. Literally, temperatures have not risen, visibly, annually, for going on 18 years now.
Thus, last week, another group of scientists came up with another, new hypothesis, based on computer models, rather than empirical evidence, like all "consensus science" should be. This time, the lads and lasses in the laboratory are convinced the world is heading for a cooling cycle, and there's nothing former vice president Gore, and his friend President Barack Obama can do to stop the seas from rising, or whatever. Blame it all on the Sun.
According to media reports, a new study claims that between 2030 and 2040, solar cycles will change and bring about a global cooling to the Earth. This phenomenon, named the "Maunder Minimum," first emerged between 1646 and 1715, when it was first observed by a husband/wife astronomy team in the late 19th century. Simply put, the Sun has regularly repeating cycles. While it was recently in a warming cycle, it will soon be in a cooling cycle. There's nothing that Michael Mann — the controversial Penn State scientist who has claimed he was a Nobel laureate, even though he wasn't — or any other person with a nifty "hockey stick" climate chart can do about it.
The new cooling climate model indicates that solar activity will decline by 60 percent during the 2030s to solar conditions last seen during the "mini ice age" that began in 1645, per the results presented by Prof. Valentina Zharkova at the Royal Astronomical Society meeting last week in Llandudno, a seaside resort in Conway County Borough, Wales.
Research was done with data from an observatory in California. The scientific details are a bit complicated, but to summarize the findings, Zharkova and colleagues examined three solar cycles-worth of magnetic field activity on the Sun. They also compared their predictions with average sunspot numbers, another strong marker of solar activity. "All the predictions and observations were closely matched," notes the statement from the Royal Society of Astronomy.
The cycles of the different segments of the Sun will "cancel each other out," and this will lead to a "significant reduction in solar activity," notes Zharkova.
"Over the cycle, the waves fluctuate between the northern and southern hemispheres of the Sun. Combining both waves together and comparing to real data for the current solar cycle, we found that our predictions showed an accuracy of 97%," says Zharkova.
Now, that 97 percent accuracy claim may be somewhat humorous, given the context here. Global warming fanatics have claimed for some time that 97 percent of scientists agree that the world is warming and that that is caused by human use of fossil fuels, and the only solution here is to radically reduce economic activity — e.g. pollution, driving one's car, pasturing one's cow — to reverse it all.
But other scientists have argued, based on other data sets, that any global warming that has happened on the Earth was in part caused by the Sun. This includes Willie Soon and Sebastian Lüning, who have taken a lot of flack for their research on the role of the Sun in this planet's climate. Soon, in particular, was savaged by the liberal media for his stance, and the infamous DeSmogBlog inaccurately portrays both men as capitalist lackeys, doing the bidding of big oil.
The real issue for so-called environmentalists is not whether the globe is warming, or cooling, though. The environmental movement is, intellectually, a kindred spirit to other, earlier socialist movements that have rejected technology and called for a return to nature.
Even Pope Francis has been caught up in the clamor of the environmental Left, and last month issued a pastoral letter, claiming that mankind was the primary cause of global warming. This teaching is leading to local churches publishing, in their weekly newsletters, excerpts of the Pope's screed, as my local church in suburban Chicago did over the weekend.
The story about the new hypothesis of global cooling broke in the Daily Mail of the U.K. late last week, but has not yet graced the web pages of most of the world's liberal media outlets, who operate on the latest false narrative that the climate skeptics faced their "Waterloo" when the Pope came out on the side of the alarmist scientists, and politicians, last month.
But this latest development reported by the Royal Astronomical Society shows who really has the Napoleonic complex — and that would be the environmental Left.


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Different and kid-friendly-er are probably the two words that will pop out of your mind when you visit the Garden this year. And rightly so. I haven't been to the gardens in ages and I can definitely see the recent changes and upgrades they have done within - in my opinion - to make it more conducive to families with younger children. A good business move as well if you ask me.
Last time we were there (ages as I've mentioned), there was nothing for my young child to get "lost" into, thus making the visit rather "boring" for her. Much as we adults enjoyed the visit, we never dared go back since we didn't want to "bore" our child again and give us grief in the process. Fast forward. We went back! We had a reason to go back. And surprisingly, there was something for my kiddo. I was hopeful. She's a lot older now but is still young enough to gravitate towards "child stuffs" especially in a boring-to-a-child-garden setting.
"I think you are cool."
Finally, something for every child in every age to enjoy. I think the Bird cage is fun - if you want to test your endurance to motion-sickness or if you simply want to get dizzy - this is for you! It's also huge enough, it can probably fit 10 adults in that cage! Or 15-20 children give or take. Something to go crazy in for anyone "bored". You can play spin-a-lot and find out who comes out as the last man or child standing. I dare you.
Now, the garden is still a work in progress with apparent addition in the works but we'll take it. It helped make the visit worthwhile somehow. More so, when you have a child who can't care less about what type of plant is in front of her, much care what it is.
"The thing is, you, my dear lost hollow were there for my child. You came through for me. My child actually interacted with the garden this time!"
Now we have a reason to go back, maybe. We shall see. For now, we all had fun. The ZimSculpt was interesting to see and discovering the Corpse flower was a great find. Not sure if I should be thankful or sad for missing it bloom and/or escaping its scent that smelled worst than crap. I can't decide. People flock to this flower if only to get a whiff of its stinky scent and get a picture of it. Go figure.
Either way, it was a great visit. Looking forward to when all the additions are in place.


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Why it was important to Casey Plett to portray realistic transgender life in her debut novel
In Little Fish, the author imagines life for Mennonite trans people across generations.
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Revelations about the hidden identities in a Mennonite family appear in the plot of Casey Plett's first novel, Little Fish. (Sybil Lamb, Arsenal Pulp Press)
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Casey Plett's debut novel, Little Fish, follows Wendy, a trans woman living in Winnipeg whose life is turned upside down when she is told a family secret: that her Mennonite grandfather was possibly also transgender. Wendy decides she needs to know the truth, and begins a quest to confront her family and the Mennonite culture she was raised in.
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"The character of Wendy came out and transitioned in her 30s. Her dad, who had always been financially and emotionally unstable, was supportive; but he was having a breakdown at the time and could only be there for her so much. The rest of her family was fairly conservative, so she had to go through her transition alone. Her parents gave her a religious upbringing. It was around high school she didn't want to go to church anymore. She later realizes maybe that's more a part of her than she's given herself credit for. By the time we reach her in Little Fish, she's more stable than she had been. But as the book goes on, some of that starts to destabilize again. I want to explore a realistic narrative about transgender life and how I also see trans women around me surviving."
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"Wendy is a person who hasn't been able to have role models. I think a very common experience for trans women is not having people around who have had your experience. Over the past decades, many trans women went stealth — which means you don't talk about or admit it to anybody, including other trans people. All that means is that Wendy has nobody to look to. When the possibility comes up that her grandfather might have been trans, she becomes obsessed with figuring this out. If she can find out how he navigated his troubles, maybe that would tell her something about herself."
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"I do not think my grandfather or great-grandfather were secretly transsexuals. But queer Mennonites have existed for as long as there have been Mennonites. It's probably been an internal, quiet and unwritten experience. Part of me writing Little Fish came out of thinking that if past generations who died when I was a kid or earlier were transgender, I probably would have never known. Throughout Little Fish, Wendy passes as cisgender. So how you look to a person can mean all sorts of things that you have no idea about and, in some ways, can't really control. We all have things we don't understand about ourselves."
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Women's basketball suffers heartbreak against LMU
By David Griffith on February 1, 2020 in Sports
Kristian Eanes dropped 21 points but it wasn't enough for Queens women's basketball to overcome an aggressive interior attack from Lincoln Memorial University (LMU), falling 55-51 earlier today.
A valiant fourth quarter comeback brought a large deficit down to a single point with 24 seconds left, but a pair of turnovers clinched the loss for the Royals.
Eanes scored over half of the team's then-39 points by the end of the third quarter. After that, LMU adjusted their defensive plan, shutting her out in the fourth.
"Overall I think I did what I was supposed to do in the game," said Eanes. "I scored and got steals when my team needed me to." She played physically, driving into the paint and drawing several fouls, unafraid of getting knocked to the floor.
Sharpshooter Tia McMillan chipped in offensively, draining four three-pointers on her way to 14 points. Though no other player scored more than four points, Eanes praised the team's ability to attack the basket.
Overall, Queens shot 30% from the field, compared to LMU's 41%. Lauren Flowers was particularly efficient for LMU, going 9 for 14, including three three-pointers. She led the team with 17 points.
Queens had nine assists versus LMU's seven. However, they appeared to lack a third go-to scoring option. The team shot five for 21 outside of Eanes and McMillan.
The Royals faired well defensively. Moore led the way, helping the team force 21 turnovers. But when the Railsplitters were able to get a shot off, they crashed the boards with a tenacity the Royals were unable to counter, securing 10 offensive rebounds.
"We struggled with keeping them off the offensive boards and guarding the three early in the game," said Moore.
Starting center Lauren Fields was injured, leaving the Royals without a true big on the interior. LMU guard Lexi Kiser capitalized, repeatedly sprinting in from the three-point line to snag a rebound right out from under Queens' noses. She grabbed seven boards for the day. Overall, LMU outrebounded Queens 33 to 20.
Queens led 27-23 at halftime, but LMU surged back in the third, going up by seven to close out the quarter. The Royals made some changes after that. "We adjusted our defense to a zone, causing the LMU girls some trouble in the third and fourth quarter," said Moore. The adjustment worked and Queens began chipping away at the Railsplitters' lead.
With 25 seconds left in the game and LMU holding a 52-51 lead, Royals' guard Taylor Stevens threw up a three but the shot bounced off the rim. Herning Wang reached up and secured the rebound, but stumbled backward and fell. Though she appeared to be pushed, a travel was called and possession went to LMU. Queens fouled and two free-throws later it was 54-51, Royals' ball.
Unfortunately, with 13 seconds left, a dropped pass gave LMU possession again and forced another intentional foul. The game wound down 55-51.
Eanes wasn't pointing fingers, saying there was no one moment that sealed the result. "It was an accumulation of plays throughout the game that we could've done better with."
The Royals fell to a 4-16 record and have lost four straight. They sit second to last in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) standings. LMU moved up to 7-11, two spots above Queens.
Queens and LMU have developed something of a rivalry over the past few years, fueled largely by the men's basketball teams battling for first place in the SAC season after season. As such, Queens Athletics marketed this game more heavily than others, adopting #PR1DE on their social media and making the game a 'white-out,' complete with free t-shirts for the students.
Queens women's basketball hosts Coker University next on Wednesday, February 5 at 5:30pm.
Image courtesy of Queens Athletics.
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Color and the visionary abilities of the shaman may be related. Interviews with a shaman-artist of the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico reveal that color is conceptualized as a language which the gods and spirits of sacred sites use to communicate with the shaman. Colors are perceived by the sham an as part of a synaesthetic experience in which color may convert to both songs and language. This visionary color language is depicted in Huichol ar ts and even in art such as yarn paintings made for sale. These findings sug gest further lines of inquiry into entoptic phenomena and other theories of how shamans visualize. The interviews, conducted as part of the author's o ngoing research with the Huichol since 1988, also provide a new perspective on the well-known association of sacred colors and cardinal directions.


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Background:Aneurysms of the left ventricle may form as a complication of myocardial infarction. Left ventricular aneurysms comprise of fibrosed and thinned out portions of the left ventricle which potentiate blood stasis and thrombus formation. Such aneurysms with mural thrombus are most commonly seen at the left ventricular apex and often result in cardio embolic stroke.
Case History: We present the case of a 55 year old gentleman who was a known diabetic and hypertensive. He had a remote history of acute myocardial infarction. A recent echocardiogram revealed infero-posterior akinesia with basal infero-posterior aneurysm formation. He was admitted with a diagnosis of urosepsis. In hospital, he developed a Non-STEMI for which he was managed medically. The next day he developed new onset left sided hemiparesis. MRI Brain revealed multifocal acute infarcts in both supra and infra tentorial territories. In view of his ongoing fever and imaging features of cardio-embolic stroke, a trans-esophageal echocardiogram was performed. The TEE study initially revealed the same findings as the trans-thoracic study. However on further elaboration on trans-gastric views, a much larger basal inferior segment aneurysm was visualized which was filled with thrombus. Echocardiographic features suggested that the thrombus was non-organised. In view of these previously unrecognized findings, both anti-coagulation and aneurysmectomy were suggested. However, the patient and his family were unwilling for further interventions and the patient was discharged on oral anticoagulation.
Conclusion: This case illustrates the importance of trans-esophageal echocardiogram in the evaluation and management of suspected cardio-embolic stroke.


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Renault shows new Zoe with long range & fast-charging
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Renault has officially launched the new edition of their Zoe electric vehicle. The model known as Z.E. 50 has a 52 kWh rechargeable battery with a range of up to 390 kilometres. The battery of the old Zoe 40 remains the same with 41 kWh.
The optically and technically revised Zoe 50 also gets a new electric motor: the self-developed unit (sales name R135) has an output of 100 kW. Another novelty is quick charging capability via CCS – but only with up to 50 kW and not with up to 100 kW, as earlier rumours had said. The Zoe continues to support a charging capacity of up to 22 kW via AC. The new charging port is hidden under the brand emblem on the front.
With the model upgrade, a new driving program will also be installed: According to Renault, if the automatic lever is set to "B" instead of "D", one-pedal driving will be possible. Instead of applying the brake, in most cases the recuperation delay is sufficient. At the same time, the Zoe also features a new braking system: disc brakes on the rear axle will also decelerate instead of the drum brakes previously used.
The new Renault Zoe also includes an upgraded cockpit with a 9.3-inch touchscreen based on the networked Easy Link multimedia system and new driver assistance systems. The instrument unit has also been replaced by a ten-inch display on which a navigation map can be projected directly into the driver's field of vision, depending on the equipment. Besides, the windscreen now comes with special acoustic glazing, which is why the interior should be significantly quieter.
Renault has not yet announced prices. The updated model, however, is intended to build on the success of the current Zoe. By the end of May 2019, Renault had sold around 150,000 units. In 2018, with 40,000 new registrations, the Zoe achieved a market share of 12.8 per cent in electric vehicles in Europe.
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Olivia Scally, of Macomb Township, sings the National Anthem at the Oakland University women's basketball game on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020.
Courtesy of Karen Scally and YouTube
Girl, 6, sings national anthem
Six-year-old singer nails 'Star-Spangled Banner' ahead of Grizzlies' win
By Stephen Frye sfrye@medianewsgroup.com; @stevefrye on Twitter
Olivia Scally delighted the crowd at the O'Rena with her rendition of the national anthem ahead of the Oakland University win over the visiting University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers on Saturday.
"We are so proud of her," her mother, Karen Scally, said about the performance by the Macomb Township girl before the women's basketball game.
A first-grader at Parkway Christian Academy in Sterling Heights, remembering the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner" was no issue.
"She learned the anthem very quickly — she typically learns music pretty fast," her mom said. "She has actually known the lyrics of the anthem since she was 4, just from hearing it."
And this was not her first time singing it, having performed at a USPBL game this summer at the Jimmy John's Field. That performance was seen by someone at Oakland University, which led to the invitation to sing at the O'Rena.
"This was her first time singing in a gym, and I wasn't sure how she'd do going out in center court by herself, but she she was not one bit nervous in the least," her mother said. "She had an absolute blast."
The cheers from the hundreds of fans capped off the rendition.
While the crowd and standing solo were relatively new, music is what Olivia loves. First came the piano and lessons, and lately she's been playing around on the violin. Along with the singing, she also writes music.
Meanwhile, nowadays she is belting out songs from the new "Frozen 2" film nonstop, as her Elsa is her favorite Disney character. She also is a big fan of singer 7-year-old Claire Ryann Crosby from YouTube.
But it's not all music for Olivia, an older sister to Ari, 4. She also enjoys spending time reading and doing art projects.
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