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Crédit Agricole Private Equity makes an investment in Belgium in Ikaros Solar
Crédit Agricole Private Equity is investing in Belgium in Ikaros Solar through its FCPR Capenergie 2 fund.
Ikaros Solar, based in Antwerp, Belgium, and in Wales, designs and creates "turnkey" solar power plants on the roofs of mainly industrial and commercial buildings. It is one of the market leaders in big photovoltaic roof installations in Belgium, and has created installations for amongst others Ikea, Philips, Carrefour and Johnson & Johnson.
With this deal, Crédit Agricole Private Equity and Ikaros Solar have decided to strengthen their existing ties, established in 2010 within the framework of Ikaros Solar Park I, the roof-mounted solar power installations holding company owned by Capenergie 2 and two Belgian investment funds.
This holding company is intended to invest in the photovoltaic assets developed by Ikaros Solar. With an investment capacity of €15 million, its aim is to own a portfolio of over 30 MWp and it has already invested in a 1 MWp roof-mounted power system on roof-tops belonging to the Belgian federal government.
Yves Devis, Chairman of Ikaros Solar, comments: "We are delighted to be able to benefit from the expertise of Crédit Agricole Private Equity, which will enable us to step up our international expansion and help us to make Ikaros Solar one of the market leaders in solar energy in Europe."
Serge Savasta, Head of Renewable Energy at Crédit Agricole Private Equity, states: "This is the Renewable Energy team's first investment in Belgium and the third outside France. It fits in with our selective approach towards expanding our international activities. We are targeting in particular European countries with a pro-active and clear strategy in terms of renewable energies."
This constitutes the 18th investment made by Crédit Agricole Private Equity's Renewable Energy team in less than five years.
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Two Weeks in Twilight: Hurricane Sandy Through My Eyes
Posted on August 3, 2014 August 3, 2014 by Me
Squeezed into little pockets of time before sleep each night, I recently read yet another Michael Tougias book, because I cannot get enough of his stories of rescue at sea. This one hits a little closer to home than most. It's called Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy. It's about the tall ship Bounty, a replica of the HMS Bounty (used in a film), which sank during the storm after her captain decided to leave safe harbor and take his chances on the open seas, feeling the ship would fare better trying to skirt the storm than pummeled ashore.
I lived through Sandy, and while we were more fortunate than most – tree damage and considerable inconvenience was the worst of it for us – members of my family lost their home and had to be rescued by National Guardsmen. Another lost her rental property (and therefore the rental income). And others unrelated to me lost more – their homes still are in ruin as funding for reconstruction never came through; businesses (and livelihoods) were wiped out entirely; and lives were lost. Including two on the Bounty when she went to her watery grave at 33°54′N 73°50′W, the graveyard of the Atlantic.
The gathering storm: 1 day before Sandy's landfall
Monday, October 29th: Landfall
Sifting through old YouTube videos I came across one I took during the day when the storm hit our state. It was nothing compared to how bad it would get that night, when the majority of the damage was done. During daylight the trees trembled mightily, the rain fell hard and the lake outside was churned to a state I'd never seen it in before. Even with relatively small fetch in this area of the lake, the waves grew to tremendous heights and crashed mercilessly against the shore. Docks and sea walls were pounded to bits.
I took the video from inside the shelter of my parents' bedroom, looking out at the mounting chaos outside, with my then 10-month old son on my hip. We were in good spirits. At one point, he belched, and we laughed merrily.
As the day wore on I wondered when we would lose power. It was no longer a question of if. I work from home and need to keep up a daily pace or I fall too far behind. Parenting full time while working is a challenge and the scheduling is tricky. I kept my electronic devices charged and hoped for the best. Surprisingly, we kept power well into the night, finally falling into total darkness around 9pm. By that point, we could see half the town was without power as well. Entire stretches of shoreline were engulfed in blackness. The wind howled, and we used kerosene hurricane lamps and a battery powered radio and kept warm by the fire. The weather report promised the worst was yet to come.
By that point I had turned on and tuned in my police radio and was listening to frantic dispatchers and police activity throughout the county. It was looking pretty grim. A fire truck barreled down our street and pulled into my neighbor's driveway. Firemen got out and searched our back yard with flashlights. I can only assume they were looking for downed wires, because they were everywhere. Our street was littered with them, across the road, across yards and snaking through the forest.
When I could take no more of the eerie buzz of police activity on my scanner, I turned it off and took my son to bed. My bedroom then faced directly into the wind, and I was afraid the windows would blow out, or a tree limb would crash through. It wasn't a long distance between the windows and where we slept. I gated both sides of the bed with extra long safety rails and kept my son on the side of the bed furthest from the windows sheltered by my own body, just in case. As it was nearly Halloween, I'd decorated the room with battery powered multicolor LED ghosts in long strings, which were now the only source of light, like some kind of deranged disco.
Early Morning Hours, October 30th: Sandy Arrives
It sounded like a jet engine was sitting right outside my room, and it did not abate, it went on all night. The long, long, long night, when I slept in fits and starts, punctuated by hours of wakefulness in the roaring wind and the cold. I took a book to bed, a compendium of Stephen King's short stories. As the wind punished my world I read The Mist. Perhaps not the greatest of choices.
Whenever I woke I'd check the clock to see what time it was, because the meteorologists had promised the worst would be over by 2am or so. 2am, 3am, 4am, the winds blew. Finally I fell into deep enough sleep, or the winds lessened enough to allow me to sleep, until daylight. And when we woke, we woke into a world that was dim as twilight.
Soon I was an old hand at changing diapers by lamplight and spoon feeding my son in the bleak grayness. There was no sun, as with the previous two days, and candles or flashlights were required to navigate the house and use the pitch black bathrooms. Because the house runs entirely on electric, we lost the ability to cook, to draw water from the well (bathtubs had been filled the previous night while power remained, as well as every pitcher in the house filled with drinking water, and buckets prepped for toilet flushing – which could be refilled from the lake), to see and to keep ourselves warm. The fire crackled non-stop in the fireplace and our only entertainment was a radio station we could pick up on an AM frequency I'd never used before, which played 70s rock interspersed with emergency announcements and e-mails from listeners who were selling generators for much, much more than their retail value. But everybody wanted one. Outside, the few on our street who had them polluted the air with the constant hum of gas-powered machinery. (A serious gas shortage then followed as people required fuel to run their generators. It became impossible to find stations that still had gas very soon after the storm passed, which made running automobiles difficult, too. Gas lines were immense.)
From the radio I learned shelters had been set up throughout the area for people to go keep warm and town water supplies had been made available to the many of us with wells. A college with power and operational plumbing opened its locker rooms to the public so they could take showers.
My police scanner lost charge and I no longer cared. My phone, however, was precious, and I kept it powered off most of the time. I powered it on only to check emails periodically, and even that was dicey, because as the hours drew on the cell towers themselves were running out of battery power and dying. I went from 4G to 3G to whatever it is that we used to use in the olden days.
No Power, Just Chaos
The afternoon of the 30th I bundled my son and myself and set out for a walk along our street. I wanted to see firsthand the aftermath of such a powerful storm. At the end of our street, trees had fallen entirely across the main thoroughfare through town, taking power lines with them. No traffic could exit the town that way, except through a detour eventually set up along our road. However, our road was blocked off for a significant amount of time, because wires were downed in nearly every other property, and trees lay strewn about the street. Everyone had to stay where they were for the time being.
Trees downed in the forest and lines scattered on the ground
The autumn colors were a stark contrast to the dark gray in Sandy's wake
Downed wires coiled and snaked across many yards and driveways
Trees fell across the road and were quickly cut and dragged into driveways and forest
Downed wires, the greatest concern in most of our region
We cooked on a tiny gas powered range designed for extended camping. I don't remember what we ate, but it was likely soup, or boiled hot dogs. We were painfully aware that both fridges and freezers, stocked with food, including expensive organic produce for my son's meals, would soon thaw and everything would be lost. Discovering that my parents' store 25 miles away actually had power, my sister and step-father filled coolers and cool storage bags with the food we valued most and shuttled it down to the refrigerator there.
The hours dragged on. It was so quiet, I couldn't stand it. The power company had no earthly idea when they'd sort out the mess. The infrastructure was painfully outdated; this was a disaster waiting to happen, and it finally had. Contract power and light employees from all over the country drove to our area to help restore electricity and marveled at how bad northern New Jersey's power infrastructure really was. School was canceled, and canceled and canceled, until parents went stir crazy with their bored children and worried that they would get no vacation days since they were rapidly being consumed by the darkness of Sandy.
It's amazing how incredibly dull a world with no sun, no sound (apart from the whine of generators) and nothing of our modern comforts and entertainment can be. After the second night I declared I just couldn't do it anymore. I had to get to a place where we could have heat and electricity, running faucets and functional plumbing. I couldn't keep on with a 10 month old baby I couldn't properly bathe and supplemental bottles (supplementing my breastmilk) I couldn't reliably warm. I asked to move residence, temporarily, to the back rooms of my parents' store, which was laid out in several rooms of goods open to the public and then several rooms of stock storage and furniture for taking breaks in the back. There was a refrigerator and a microwave. There were toilets and sinks (but no showers or tubs). There was electricity for my netbook and phone so I could work. There was wireless Internet. It was like the promised land.
Eight-Day Exile in Storage
Halloween was postponed in most towns, canceled in some. My son's first Halloween – for which he was to be dressed up as a lobster – would have to wait. Meanwhile we settled into our temporary life as refugees carving out tiny corners of comfort where we could. I pushed two chairs together and slept sitting up with my legs on one and the rest of me on the other, and my son in my arms. Upstairs, we made a makeshift changing table, where we also sponge bathed him daily. For naps, we slept together on an air mattress in a vacated office (which my parents occupied at night). My sister slept on another air mattress tucked between a wall display of porcelain gifts and a tree festooned with glass ornaments.
Just after we took a nap on the air mattress
Happy with our sleeping arrangements – two chairs pushed together, with ribbons, silk flowers and wreaths hung about
We made a makeshift changing table on an unused display shelf and enjoyed light, heat and warm water for sponge baths. Every few days one of my mom's employees kindly loaned us use of her apartment to do laundry and to take proper showers and baths. We ate a lot of takeaway. But it was bliss compared to the depressing darkness at home.
People at my work marveled about the fact that I was living in a break room in the back of a shop, sleeping on a chair, but it was alright. I'd had two days of the alternative and had no desire to trade places. We were fortunate and looked for ways that we could help those who weren't so lucky, like sending diapers and other necessities to shelters down south.
At one point my mother went to the grocery store to buy some fried chicken. As she waited in line, the woman behind her struck up conversation about the storm. Mom revealed that we were living in a store, which astonished the woman. When my mother mentioned we also had a 10 month old baby in company, the woman burst into tears and begged us to come have dinner at her home. A total stranger. It was a touching invitation but we declined. But, it exemplified the guilt and helplessness that most of us felt when it came to those who'd lost so much more. The people who had power felt guilty about it and wanted to shelter those of us who did not. Those of us who had no power but still had houses felt guilty about it and wanted to reach out to those who no longer had anything. It was an odd phenomenon, layers of guilt and charity, glued together by humanity.
A play break while Mama worked nearby
Finally the town where my parents' store is located rescheduled Halloween, several days after the holiday, and about a thousand people, mostly costumed children, took to the streets to trick-or-treat at local stores. I dressed my son in his costume and took him up in his stroller. Because he was too young for candy, we draped a bag of candy over the side of his stroller and wrote on it, "I give candy". We invited passing children to take candy from the bag. It was infinitely more fun than going door to door asking for it.
His first Halloween, at last!
Upgrading Accommodations
Two dear, long-time friends of the family had electricity in their nearby stately, comfortable home. They implored us to come stay with them and finally, gathering all our belongings like gypsies, we did. The last days of our Sandy-imposed exile were spent in complete luxury. We watched the presidential election from a large flat-screen TV with cable. (My vote, incidentally, was not counted; our largely Republican county allowed those of us who'd been displaced by the storm to vote via fax, but of the three votes we sent that way, only the Republicans' were acknowledged…my Independent vote was ignored.) Elijah and I slept on high thread count sheets in a spacious king sized bed with comfort topper and a fluffy down duvet. We bathed in a jacuzzi tub. We were fed incredibly delicious, hearty home-cooked meals.
Lounging around in comfort
On the 11th day we returned to our home when power was restored (confirmed by calling our land line, which is cable-powered, so when there's no electricity it does not work). The toilets smelled worse than outhouses and the place took a while to warm up, but we were home. It felt odd. Across town, people were still without power. My grandmother's came back on the 12th day. It was over 2 weeks for more remote sections of town to light up again.
The whole thing seems like a dream, and knowing how much worse it could have been – and that we had places to go – makes me feel very lucky indeed.
117 people in the United States died, 34 in New Jersey. At least 2 in my county.
As a hurricane and post-tropical cyclone, Sandy broke three records (lowest barometric pressure, highest surge at Battery Park and highest surf in New York Harbor).
On November 1st 4,800,000 million people were still without power, in 15 states. The total rose to 8,100,000.
On November 3rd 12 counties in NJ began gas rationing, which lasted 15 days.
By November 7th the Red Cross had raised almost $103,000,000 in Sandy relief donations. FEMA approved $403,000,000 in relief. A further $385,000,000 in housing assistance was also available.
Also on November 7th, a nor'easter hit our already vulnerable area. We made it through that storm fine, too. Again, we were lucky.
On November 28th, NJ's governor estimated the damages from Sandy to be appx. $36,000,000,000. About 3,000,000 in New Jersey were still without power.
An estimated $25,000,000,000 in business revenue was lost.
Sandy was estimated to be the second-costliest hurricane, after Hurricane Katrina.
More Sandy facts from CNN and from TIME.
Writing this post, I still feel that odd combination of good fortune and guilt. I feel like I barely have a right to tell my Sandy story, when the stories of so many others were much worse. So I hope you will forgive me the indulgence of describing what life was like for the two weeks following the storm. My experience was trivial compared to others, but it was difficult in its own ways, involved sacrifices and will certainly never be forgotten.
And Michael Tougias's book is well worth a read.
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2 thoughts on "Two Weeks in Twilight: Hurricane Sandy Through My Eyes"
Jules	 August 6, 201410:42 am
It was really awesome to read about your experiences with hurricane Sandy and I am thankful that you all were able to make it through everything. I couldn't have imagined living through it but you do what you've got to do.
Mama	 August 6, 20144:14 pm
Thank you Jules! I'm glad you enjoyed my post. 🙂 Have a great day too!

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Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 14, 33–46. Cathy Meyer. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 454–474. The consequences of divorce for adults and children. 2013) and in the United States (Wu and Schimmele 2005). 2 (housing and domestic outcomes), Fig. This view of women bearing the highest burden of divorce and requiring more public and private support than their ex-partners is partly based on solid evidence. The divorce sample included respondents (1) who were initially observed sharing a household in a marital union, (2) who divorced across the observation period, and (3) for whom the year of divorce could be determined by consecutive observations in the panel. My measures of health behavior were also limited—particularly data about drinking behavior that were available for only a few panel waves and did not directly measure alcohol abuse. Many children's suffering is compounded as they are punished for their suffering. This context of a conservative male breadwinner model appears conducive to gender inequality in the effects of divorce, particularly regarding economic consequences for women. In subsequent years, women's incomes recovered to reduce the resulting average gender gap from more than 11,000 Euros to approximately 6,500 Euros of equivalized annual household income (all income listed in 2011 values). Feijten, P. (2005). Thomas Leopold. "These boots are made for walking": Why most divorce filers are women. Divorce is one of the major issues in the world today. Baruch, G., Barnett, R., & Rivers, C. (1983). The divorce rate for a second marriage is between 60-67%. The Journal of Men's Health states divorce can have a greater toll on men than women. 4), whereas the frequency of visits to friends and neighbors was more responsive to the divorce process (panel f). In‐depth, qualitative interviews with 40 women and 39 men who have experienced a gray divorce were analyzed using grounded theory methodology. In the year of divorce, women lost approximately 40 % of their predivorce incomes, whereas their former husbands experienced moderate gains of approximately 5 %. Father-child relationships and nonresident fathers' psychological distress: What helps and what hurts? Since women are more likely to initiate divorce, men may experience denial during the initial stages of separation. Social Forces, 81, 1459–1498. Union dissolution, unemployment and moving out of homeownership. To understand the difference, the same study conducted on people aged 65 and older revealed that 25% of … 1). Figure 1 shows gender differences in the consequences of divorce for four economic outcomes. Although it was important to control for these experiences before divorce, canceling out their effects after divorce would be undesirable because both factors could mediate divorce effects on several of the outcomes under consideration (see Amato 2000:1272). After separation, women experience a sharper decline in household income and a greater poverty risk (Smock 1994; Smock and Manning 1999). Gender Differences in the Consequences of Divorce 771 Housing and Domestic Outcomes of Divorce Housing and domestic outcomes figure prominently among the stressors associated with the divorce process. In Tables 2 and 3, I present descriptive statistics and detailed information about the measurement of all outcomes. A 2 x 2 (event x gender) ANOVA showed that people expect that they are more likely to have a happy marriage than a divorce (Main effect of event: F (1, 305)=78.20, p<.001), irrespective of gender (Effects involving gender are not significant at p<.05). Moreover, these losses are not easily compensated for given that interaction partners as well as social settings allowing to form new ties are not readily available to many divorcees. Their former husbands, in contrast, may even improve their standard of living in postdivorce years. Finally, social integration with friends and relatives was similar for the control sample and the divorce sample, but respondents from the latter group were more likely to experience feelings of loneliness. Because only characteristics that vary over time can enter the fixed-effects model, all time-constant variables drop out of the equation. An important benefit of these data is the large array of subjective and objective outcome measures combined with an extensive window of observation, allowing me to assess short-term and medium-term consequences of divorce as well as gender differences therein. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 62, 1269–1287. 2015; Smock 1994) and standard of living (Bianchi et al. This model is conducive to gender inequality in the economic impact of marital disruption, and the economic domain was the key area in which large and persistent gender gaps emerged. Women's poverty risk surged upward in the year of divorce. (2014). Homeownership in later life—Does divorce matter? Second, where gender differences emerged, they were mostly short-lived. (1991). Marital status and happiness: A 17-nation study. 45, No. Herbers, D. J., Mulder, C. H., & Modenes, J. Findings for the German context have shown that women's satisfaction with household income reached men's levels shortly after separation (Andress and Bröckel 2007; Leopold and Kalmijn 2016). A further potential reason for the absence of medium-term gender differences in many outcomes is adaptation. They suffer in both similar and different ways depending on their gender. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0667-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0667-6, Over 10 million scientific documents at your fingertips, Not logged in 2005). Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 139–157. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 40, 111–125. Wagner, G. G., Frick, J. R., & Schupp, J. This large window of closely spaced observations allowed me to study gender differences across the divorce process. Leopold, T., & Kalmijn, M. (2016). Jeffery, R. W., & Rick, A. M. (2002). Depression in a child can be mistaken as a kid with attitude. I allowed for variation in the effects of time, captured by a set of dummy variables designating five periods: (1) 5 to 3 years before divorce (reference period), (2) 2 to 1 years before divorce, (3) year of divorce, (4) 1 to 2 years after divorce, and (5) 3 to 5 years after divorce. De Vaus, D., Gray, M., Qu, L., & Stanton, D. (2015). CNEF variables with extended income information for the SOEP (SOEP Survey Paper No. Regarding repartnering, my findings were consistent with earlier research showing higher chances of repartnering among men. Satisfaction with family life showed the strongest reactions to the divorce process among all satisfaction measures examined in this study (panel c, Fig. HYPOTHESIS 2. In contrast to the measures for income and poverty, these results on the subjective measures of economic well-being indicated smaller and transient gender differences. The effect of children on men's and women's chances of re-partnering in a European context. Grabka, M. M. (2013). These results suggest that research should consider both objective and subjective measures to understand gender differences in postdivorce economic well-being. Women and men did not differ much in terms of the consequences of divorce for (1) subjective economic well-being; (2) residential moves, homeownership, and satisfaction with housework; (3) mental health, physical health, and psychological well-being; and (4) chances of repartnering and social integration with friends and relatives. 1 shows, however, that despite these disproportionate losses, women's average satisfaction with their household income dropped below men's averages only in the year of divorce. Divorce effects, and gender differences therein, extend into various spheres, including changes in economic status, health and well-being, domestic arrangements, and social relationships. These findings on the absence of clear-cut gender differences are consistent with previous research on similar measures, including studies on subjective economic well-being (Andress and Bröckel 2007), health and psychological well-being (Strohschein et al. This gap of research precludes a broader view of gender differences in the multiple consequences of divorce. (1991). Debates about gender differences in the consequences of divorce as well as policies aimed at alleviating these differences often center on women's vulnerability (Amato 2000; Diedrick 1991). However, gender differences in the effects of divorce on the probability of residential moves were relatively small and were significant only for women's higher probability of moving 1 to 2 years after divorce (Table S5). In this study, I examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce by tracing annual change in 20... Introduction. Respondents from the divorce sample were also observed longer and less likely to drop out before the last interview in 2015. A re-evaluation of the economic consequences of divorce. The effect of marriage and divorce on women's economic well-being. I analyzed data from 32 waves (1984 until 2015) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), one of the world's largest and longest-running household panel studies. Berntsen, K. N., & Kravdal, Ø. Kalmijn, M., & Broese van Groenou, M. (2005). Entry into romantic partnership is associated with obesity. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 61, 700–711. A second theme involves the chances of repartnering after divorce, commonly found to be higher among men. Given the time dependency of divorce effects, I controlled for life course profiles (changes with age) and the periodic profiles (changes across calendar years) of the outcomes. Third, my conclusions are limited to the West German context from which the data were drawn. Second, a comparison between divorce sample and control sample provided information about compositional differences and selectivity, indicated by the extent to which the event sample differed from control sample in terms of the measures used in the analysis. systematically address gender differences than previous studies have done. These friends may only know the divorcing couple as a married couple, making it increasingly difficult to separate an independent identity from the marriage identity. In my analytic sample, attrition rates were lower among divorcees than among those who stayed married. Confidence in the results for subjective measures of satisfaction in different domains of life is strengthened by research showing that the single-item measures used in this study are sensitive, valid, and reliable (Diener et al. Gender differences in satisfaction with divorce settlements. Three main findings emerged from the analysis. Diedrick, P. (1991). Horwitz, A. V., & Davies, L. (1994). The first and most intensely studied is theme parental strain associated with custodial arrangements. Last medically reviewed on August 7, 2017, Psych Central is proud to host a number of weekly podcasts on a variety of mental health and topics relating to mental illness. Signs of Major Depression Subtypes: Psychotic Features, Signs of Major Depression Subtypes: Seasonal Onset, Signs of Major Depression Subtypes: Introduction, Improving Diagnostic Accuracy: 1 Disorder Generating Another, Improving Diagnostic Accuracy: Other and Unspecified, Part 2. The gender gap in loneliness narrowed over the next years, although increases in men's levels remained significantly larger than changes in women's levels in the medium term. Women after divorce: Preliminary report from a ten-year follow-up. Although both genders can experience a midlife crisis there are differences in the way the symptoms manifest themselves. Because of psychological stress and often poverty, physical health is the outcome of these results. Paranoia is not simply synonymous with fear. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 27–36. None of the gender gaps in terms of health and well-being outcomes changed in meaningful ways when predivorce and postdivorce periods are compared. The same pattern was observed for women's larger declines in satisfaction with household income, suggesting that gender differences in the consequences of divorce are generally larger in the short term than in the medium term. Gender differences in domestic well-being . This is not only true for a divorce that occurred early in the life of the child, but also for late divorces. In the domestic sphere, the measure of satisfaction with family life was consistent with the finding that the noncustodial parent suffers more than the custodial parent after a divorce (Bauserman 2012). ), Wohnen und gender. When actively dealing with divorce, men are more likely to use action rather than words to express their feelings. Although many people who have divorced twice continue to marry again, the success rates are not in their favor. Bröckel, M., & Andress, H.-J. Both wife and husband are greatly impacted by divorce. Health satisfaction, measured on an 11-point Likert scale at every panel wave, is a valid and reliable health measure that is highly correlated with other measures of self-rated health and predictive of objective outcomes such as mortality (Idler and Benyamini 1997). Research on gender differences in the consequences of divorce has typically focused on only one of these domains. A third theme comprises the consequences of divorce for social integration beyond the ties to partners and children. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 37, 339–349. Journal of European Social Policy, 3, 159–173. 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About Earthship Brighton
Earthship Brighton was the Low Carbon Trust's first project and was the first Earthship to be built in England.
Earthship Brighton is an off-grid building that heats, cools, powers itself from the sun, harvests it's water from the sky and treats it's wastewater onsite using plants.
We offer tours of Earthship Brighton and training courses on how to build an earthship.
The project was built as a community centre for use by Stanmer Organics, a Soil Association accredited site in Brighton.
This pioneering demonstration project has evolved over the last ten years, providing jobs for local workers and enabling people to come and experience a cutting edge eco-build and be inspired to respond to climate change in their own ways back at home and work.
The aims of the Earthship Brighton project were to deliver a sustainable community centre in response to a genuine local need, change values in the construction industry and inspire positive action in individuals to generate environmental change through modifying people's behaviour to less carbon intensive lifestyles.
Throughout the project the focus has been spreading a positive message of climate change education and helping people to modify their behaviour to live with a lighter carbon footprint.
Click here for an online tour of Earthship Brighton.
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Michael Schaff and Grace Mack to Present at Healthcare Financial Management Association Physicians Practice Forum | Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A.
Michael Schaff and Grace Mack will present a webinar for the Healthcare Financial Management Association Physicians Practice Forum, entitled "Practicing Telemedicine in NJ: Trends and Challenges." The webinar will focus on the legal aspects and future trends arising from the practice of telemedicine in New Jersey .


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I'm looking at two reports for the same campaign: an Email Link Performance Report and an Email Performance Report. Both reports have the same filter and are looking at the same selected emails with the same time-frame. Both reports also show the same number of qualified leads.
Yet, both reports are showing different numbers.
For example: Email Performance Report shows that the first email we sent out got 200 clicks, Email Link Performance shows that the email actually got 250.
I'm trying to understand why there might be a discrepancy between the two reports.
Is your time frame the same?
Yes, both reports are set to "All Time"
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Many T-Mobile users can't make calls or send texts due to a routing issue
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By Yoni Heisler @edibleapple
Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint users across the US are being impacted by a network connectivity issue.
Many users are saying they can't make or receive calls.
Other users are indicating that they're unable to send or receive text messages.
Updated: Due to a network problem that was later revealed to be a routing issue, T-Mobile users across the United States are reporting that they're unable to make or receive phone calls. The issue is also impacting a subset of Sprint users as well. Additionally, some users are indicating that they've been unable to send text messages. From what we can gather thus far, data doesn't to be impacted to the same degree.
According to reports, most of the United States is being impacted by the somewhat bizarre outage. The areas hit hardest appear to be Texas, Southern California, and the tri-state area.
According to DownDetector, the problems started at around Noon and only intensified over the next few hours. With respect to T-Mobile specifically, DownDetector relays that 52% of reported issues involve no signal. 19% of reported issues, meanwhile, involve no mobile internet access.
While initial reports suggested that Verizon was also hit with an outage, that doesn't appear to be the case. Speaking on the matter, a Verizon spokesperson provided us with the following statement:
We're aware that another carrier is having network issues. Calls to and from that carrier may receive an error message.
Twitter users who called their respective carriers to see what the problem was were told that engineers are currently looking into the issue.
Our engineers are working to resolve a widespread routing issue affecting voice & text. Customers may experience longer care wait times. Please try third-party calling apps (FaceTime, WhatsApp, Signal) as a temp solution.
— T-Mobile Help (@TMobileHelp) June 15, 2020
T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray tweeted the following a short while ago:
Our engineers are working to resolve a voice and data issue that has been affecting customers around the country. We're sorry for the inconvenience and hope to have this fixed shortly.
— Neville (@NevilleRay) June 15, 2020
Tags: Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon
A life long Mac user and Apple enthusiast, Yoni Heisler has been writing about Apple and the tech industry at large for over 6 years. His writing has appeared in Edible Apple, Network World, MacLife, Macworld UK, and most recently, TUAW. When not writing about and analyzing the latest happenings with Apple, Yoni enjoys catching Improv shows in Chicago, playing soccer, and cultivating new TV show addictions, the most recent examples being The Walking Dead and Broad City.
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Vladan Kovačević (, ; born 11 April 1998) is Serb professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ekstraklasa club Raków Częstochowa.

Kovačević started his professional career at Sarajevo, who loaned him to Sloboda Mrkonjić Grad in 2018. Three years later, he joined Raków Częstochowa.

Club career

Sarajevo
Kovačević started playing football at his howetown club Željezničar Banja Luka, before joining Sarajevo's youth academy in 2014.

In February 2018, he was sent on a six-month loan to Sloboda Mrkonjić Grad. He made his professional debut against Kozara Gradiška on 17 March at the age of 19.

In August, Kovačević signed a new five-year deal with Sarajevo. On 5 August, he made his official debut for the team against Sloboda Tuzla. He won his first title with the club on 15 May 2019, by beating Široki Brijeg in Bosnian Cup final.

Raków Częstochowa

In June 2021, Kovačević was transferred to Polish outfit Raków Częstochowa for an undisclosed fee. He made his competitive debut for the club in 2021 Polish Super Cup game against Legia Warsaw on 17 July and managed to win his first trophy. A week later, he made his league debut against Piast Gliwice.

In July 2022, he extended his contract until June 2026.

International career

Youth
Kovačević was a member of Bosnia and Herzegovina under-21 team under coach Vinko Marinović.

Senior
In May 2019, he received his first senior Bosnia and Herzegovina call-up, for UEFA Euro 2020 qualifiers against Finland and Italy.

In February 2023, Kovačević accepted an invitation to the Serbian national football team and is expected to make his debut in March.

Personal life
Kovačević married his long-time girlfriend Sofija in June 2022. Together they have a daughter named Zona.

Career statistics

Club

Honours
Sarajevo
Bosnian Premier League: 2018–19, 2019–20
Bosnian Cup: 2018–19, 2020–21

Raków Częstochowa
Polish Cup: 2021–22
Polish Super Cup: 2021, 2022

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1998 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Banja Luka
Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina under-21 international footballers
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers
Naturalized citizens of Serbia
Serbian footballers
Association football goalkeepers
FK Sarajevo players
FK Sloboda Mrkonjić Grad players
Raków Częstochowa players
First League of the Republika Srpska players
Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players
Ekstraklasa players
Expatriate footballers in Poland
Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Poland

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Every divorce case is different, and most people have their own personal reasons for ending a marriage. If you find yourself in a Mississauga divorce lawyer's office, you might be wondering how common your reasons are; chances are, you're not alone.
Your Mississauga divorce lawyer can probably tell you that many divorce cases share similar themes—and among the most-cited problems are money, infidelity and a lack of communication. In addition to those, people often say their relationships are unbalanced, they fight too much or they had unrealistic expectations during the marriage that led to the split.
One of the most common reasons for divorce is money. Some couples have fundamental disagreements on where it should come from, where it should go or who should bring it in. Others can't seem to make it stretch far enough and don't agree on (or stick to) budgets. Your Mississauga divorce lawyer may suggest mediation to help you and your spouse come to a final agreement when money disagreements play a pivotal role in your divorce.
Mississauga divorce lawyers frequently deal with cases involving infidelity. Sometimes the slighted spouse is the one who files for divorce, and sometimes it's the one who strays who chooses to end the marriage. The decision to end a marriage is usually not easy for either party, and some couples try to work past it before talking to a Mississauga divorce lawyer.
Over time, many married people lose the connection they once had. Work, kids and other obligations often get in the way of one-on-one communication, and that often leads to one or both spouses talking to a Mississauga divorce lawyer. Sometimes couples can work hard and reconnect, but others may feel that it's better to continue to grow as individuals rather than as a couple.
Some relationships are unbalanced from the beginning, but the thrill of new love often overshadows inherent unfairness. When one partner feels they have too much responsibility in the relationship and that too little belongs to their spouse, resentment often follows—and that leads many couples down the path to divorce.
Many professionals agree that occasional fighting in a marriage is healthy. However, only fair fights fall into that category. When couples fight "dirty" and use personal attacks frequently, there are no winners. When one or both partners will pull out all the stops in order to come out on top, they'll often end up in a Mississauga divorce lawyer's office.
No matter what reasons you have, if you're contemplating divorce or have already spoken to a Mississauga divorce lawyer, you're not alone. People end their marriages for many reasons, and what matters most is that you're confident in the decision you've made.


Bob Reccord is a gifted speaker. He gave the keynote address for our recent gala which is our center's largest annual fundraiser. Bob's presentation was compelling, highlighting the moral, social, physical, and spiritual implications when we fail to value and cherish human life. By sharing his own personal story, Bob hit home his points that every human life matters and that we can all do our part to make a difference. His speech was so moving and powerful that people are still discussing it nearly two weeks later. I highly recommend Bob for your next event. He is able to motivate and inspire all those who attend to unite with you in carrying out your mission to save babies and share the gospel.
We just had Bob Reccord speak at our annual fall fundraising banquet and "wow" are we glad that we did. We actually tried to secure him in previous years and I can say that he is well worth the wait!
Bob's wife, Cheryl, handles his arrangements and is a joy to work with in planning for an event. That means a great deal to me as a center Director and for my team! As the time approached Bob spoke with me at length over the phone, had prayer for me, my family, and my team. On the day of the event he arrived early, encouraged our team and from the moment the VIP reception began, was talking non-stop with our donors.
When it came time for Bob to speak he was engaging, humorous and "on target"! He is passionate about life and his message for us was very timely. Our people were glued to his presentation and significantly moved by his own personal testimony, which he incorporates within his presentation. One of the things I appreciated so much was the insightful information Bob brought concerning abortion and its impact upon the woman involved, but also the man, the baby and our society as a whole. The information he shared with us gave many present new and challenging food for thought. My own teenage son was moved by Bob's testimony and was greatly impacted by this quote that he shared. As my son Evan recalls, "All that has to happen for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!"
And last -but-by-no-means least, Bob is straightforward, focused and inspiring in his challenge for all present to give, and to give out of faith...not convenience or comfort. I would wholeheartedly recommend Bob to any center that wants a fresh voice and an engaging evening!
Dr. Reccord was one of the best banquet speakers we have ever experienced. The response his presentation was overwhelming. His powerful, impactful prolife message delivered in a context of gentle grace was fortified by his touching and potent personal account of being adopted. Attendees from all walks of life verbalized how much they learned from Dr. Reccord's unique perspective on how abortion impacts us all. In addition, we had the highest amount of gifts we have ever had for a banquet due to his impact.
We were delighted with Bob Reccord as our banquet speaker. He put everything into his presentation which was so powerful . He challenged our guest. He educated them. He exhorted them, and then he concluded by telling his transformational personal story of grace and redemption through adoption. He had the audience in his hands. Some of our guests said he was our best speaker yet! Feedback has been outstanding. We also asked Bob to give the challenge for giving, something with which many speakers struggle. But not Bob! His way of giving the challenge was the best we've ever heard. We know of at least three people who doubled the amount they were going to give due to Bob's challenge. We raised the second highest amount ever!! We highly recommend Bob for any pregnancy center looking for a dynamic speaker who gets the job done!
Recently, Piedmont Women's Center had the opportunity to obtain Dr. Bob Reccord as our annual banquet speaker. Dr. Reccord's technique to deliver thought-provoking ideas peaked interest with the donors, board, and staff of our organization. His biblical reasoning in presenting life as sacred and holy in our 'culture of death' is unquestionably on of the best I've ever seen. The night of the banquet the audience was motionless as they listened to him unfold his own personal testimony. I was grateful for his down-to-earth style, warm personality and charming sense of humor…qualities that helped our donors engage their minds and think on a totally different level.
Based upon the feedback from our donors and my firsthand experience I would highly recommend and endorse Dr. Reccord to any organization that is looking for a creative, caring and compassionate speaker. Our results in first time donors, new volunteers, medical professional help and both in-kind and monetary gifts were outstanding!
Thank you so much for speaking here at HeartReach for our fundraising banquet. You did a tremendous job drawing our guests in and letting them see what we do and why they should support us. I was so pleased that even with the delay because of the dinner service we could finish as planned and respect our guests time.
Your personal story was such a meaningful addition to the evening. I personally was touch and have heard many say it touched them also. The way that you presented the "Ask" was an improvement from what we had done before. It was so clear and really challenged the audience to give in a sacrificial way.
I really appreciated all that you did for us from coming in early and meeting with the area pastors to giving of your time and talent the night of the event. I am sure that you have already heard that the banquet was the most we have ever raised. It was more than double the amount that was raised last year!
Thank you so much for giving to HeartReach!
This past September at our yearly banquet Bob Reccord delivered a very powerful and informative message that all life is important in the eyes of God. We had over 260 people attend this year and received nothing but positive responses to the message of hope that pregnancy centers like our self bring to today's society. With California's unemployment rate being over 12%, Bob was still able to make a difference at this fundraising banquet. He helped in raising $75,000 and connecting us with 10 possible new volunteers, multiple businesses who are willing to do fundraisers for us in the year to come and many pastors who have decided to commit to our vital ministry for life. Thank you Bob for a job well done.
I have had the privilege of being involved with Carolina Pregnancy Center for many years. Our largest source of support has been from our annual banquet. We have had excellent speakers over the years from all across America. We recently had Bob Reccord as the speaker for our banquet. He was the most effective speaker that we have ever had. I have been to every one of the banquets and He was outstanding. He connected with the people. He had great content and we had the best financial response in our history by far. This happened while we are in the midst of an economic crisis. Bob is a close friend and I knew He would do a good job, but it went far beyond even my expectations. God used him in a great way that evening.
If you are looking for someone that will challenge your people, get them excited about making commitments, cause them to leave excited about what the Lord has done, Bob Reccord can certainly do for you what He did for us.
It is with great excitement that I endorse Dr. Bob Reccord as your speaker for your next crisis pregnancy center fundraiser. I knew that the Lord was bringing His man to us when Dr. Reccord called me months before our banquet to see how he and his wife Cheryl could pray for our banquet and for me personally. It was so refreshing to hear their heart for our ministry at Carolina Pregnancy Center. They wanted specific things to pray about for us. They also wanted to know everything about CPC and even stories so he could make his presentation as personal as possible.
From the moment that he began to speak my first reaction was WOW! It was apparent to everyone that Dr. Reccord was anointed for this night! He spoke with great power but also with tender compassion, especially for women and men who had experienced past abortions. He also used humor and a power point to convery his message. For a visual learner this was a wonderful tool. But it was his own story that touched the hearts of all who attended.
Yet, when it is all said and done, unless you can raise money, you just have a nice evening with good food and fellowship. Dr. Reccord hit it out of the park for Carolina Pregnancy Center! The Lord used him to raise the MOST money that we have EVER done at a banquet! It was not high pressure. His approach was such that people were happy to give! We have not heard one negative comment from the 1000 people in attendance!
I would strongly urge you to invite Dr. Reccord to come to your banquet and communicate his message of life to your donors. He and Cheryl will be a delight and refreshment to your hearts.
In the 16 years I have served with ComfortCare, I have never had the speaker's wife pray with me during the appeal. Bob and Cheryl are the real deal, genuine, caring servants of the Lord. Countless banquet attendees remarked that Bob was the best speaker we ever had. Bob is an outstanding public speaker, but more importantly, he is an ambassador of the Lord Jesus Christ. When Bob gave the appeal, many of our donors remarked that they felt the Holy Spirit leading them to double and in some cases triple their original gift amount.
I highly recommend Bob as a guest speaker for any Christian or pro-life fundraising event. The Lord blessed our ministry financially and in eternal ways in the hearts of every man and woman in attendance. Cheryl and Bob gave us a wealth of knowledge, feedback, and experience for how to make our events even more successful. They partnered with us and gave over 150% effort. I would be glad to answer any questions or to discuss this further and would welcome the opportunity to bless Bob and Cheryl back for all they have ministered to me, my family, and this ministry.
As an Executive Director for a Pregnancy Care Center, I realize the balance that we strive for at our Fund Raising banquet. If you are like me, you want someone who can bring a passionate, personal message along with a professional impact upon the social issues brought about by abortion. We look for someone who is working to make a difference as well as someone who has a personal story. Dr. Bob Reccord brings both to the ministry of Pregnancy Care Centers. Besides, he just "gets" where we live on a daily basis within our Centers where we battle a society determined to distort or ignore our message and the church that is all too frequently too apathetic to listen. I heartily recommend Dr. Bob to raise the church's awareness as well as the funds to support the ministry.
I heard Bob Reccord speak at the CareNet Conference in Nashville, TN a few years ago and immediately knew that we needed to have him as a keynote speaker for our banquet. In God's perfect timing, Bob addressed a gathering of our faithful supporters on April 3, 2008. I have never seen a speaker reach out to our attendees as Bob did. He was in the lobby of the banquet hall before the doors even opened chatting with our supporters. In his speech, he so clearly articulated why Americans should be involved in pro-life work, ending with a moving personal story about struggles he has faced in his own life. He spoke with such conviction and passion. It was as though he had been working with us in the trenches day in and day out. There is no doubt that everyone in attendance left the banquet knowing that Dr. Robert Reccord passionately supported the work of the Lowcountry Pregnancy Center.
Dr. Reccord was truly one of the best banquet speaker's we have ever had. His passion for our cause was so obvious. It was as though he worked side by side with us at the pregnancy center each day. He did a great job mingling with our supporters before and after the event. Dr. Reccord gave the Financial Challenge for us and he did it in a manner that caught our supporter's attention while also stretching their faith. We raised more funds per person than we have with any other speaker ($64 more per person) and this increase per person is the largest that we have ever had! I would highly recommend Dr. Reccord as a speaker at any event. In fact, we hope to have him back in a few years!
Dr. Bob Reccord's presentation at our fundraising banquet covered all the bases. He informed us about life issues in an engaging way. He challenged us with atrocities from history when too many were silent or did nothing. He finished us off with his personal heart touching story. Many of our guests said this was our best banquet ever and we agree! This banquet also brought in more funds than any previous banquet!
These are just a few of the comments I received following Dr. Bob Reccord's address for our fund raising banquet. As an executive director I am thoroughly impressed with the genuine concern Dr. Reccord expressed for our ministry. He and his wife combed through the crowd before the banquet meeting, greeting, and making connections with my attendees. He then referred to those personal connections during the presentation which made it more intimate for our banquet guests. What a rare treasure for a banquet speaker in my experience of over twenty-five banquets.
Dr. Reccord's pro-life message is riveting. His years of ministry experience and his personal testimony of God's intervention is icing on the cake. He did a fantastic job of marrying his Christ-centered pro-life message to the local ministry of our pregnancy center. Of course, I believe this marriage stirred donors to provide the greatest financial outcome for a fund raising event for our center. I wholeheartedly encourage pro-life ministries to invite Dr. Reccord as a keynote speaker for a fund-raising event you will not soon forget.
Thanks again for speaking at LifeCare's Evening of Celebration banquet. We are still receiving comments: "Awesome speaker." "Phenomenal!" "This is your best banquet yet!" "Thrilling!" "He had my complete attention." Our guests and volunteers, whose ages range from 12 years to 75 years, are still talking about the LifeCare banquet, April 28, 2007! Your genuine encouragement and passion for our ministry to mothers, babies, families, touched us deeply. EVERY life IS Made To Count, and you spoke this truth so beautifully. Thank you so much!
Rarely do I have the opportunity to pass along a recommendation in which I feel so strongly. If you are looking for a speaker at your fund-raising event this coming year or beyond, Bob would provide a compelling story and effective challenge to support your work.
As you know, my heart is to minister to women and families. I am so blessed to offer others the encouragement of God's promises of hope, healing, wholeness, protection and love that I have received in Christ. Bob shares a similar passion for life and for encouraging all of us to understand that our lives were made to count. Bob is a gifted speaker, author and businessman. He's led one of the world's largest mission agencies encouraging men and women to live a life of passion.
Bob Reccord is one of the most effective speakers I've had the pleasure of hearing. His personal story of adoption will move his audience to action as he touches their hearts and spirits. This year he has spoken to over 125,000 men at Promise Keepers events across the nation. As we are all on the same team concerning abortion, adoption, post-abortive healing, and abstinence, I highly recommend Bob Reccord if you are looking for a speaker that will touch lives and make an impact for the future of your ministry to women and their families.
Bob Reccord was our keynote speaker for this year's fundraising banquet. He has a unique ability to speak directly to the issue that we're all about--not just around the issue. That's a hard thing to do. After the event, we were flooded with positive comments from those in attendance. God used Bob Reccord's message coupled with our program to provide an overwhelming response both financially and through other support for our center. We highly recommend Bob Reccord.
Those who attended Amazing Grace Adoptions Annual Fundraising Banquet on October 26, 2006 were powerfully moved to hear the powerful testimony of Dr. Bob Reccord. His testimony affirmed God's beautiful plan of adoption. Bob Reccord challenged each attendee to trust God in their giving to support the ministry of placing children in Christian families. This years giving significantly exceeded any previous year…to God be the glory! One couple in attendance stated that they loved hearing Bob Reccord and were so happy to see his excitement as he delivered his testimony.
The compliments just haven't stopped coming. Your message touched so many hearts. I would whole-heartedly recommend you o any pregnancy resource center who is looking for a speaker to inspire and motivate the audience. I believe that the impact of your words will be remembered for a lifetime. Thanks you for being obedient to God by making yourself available to this ministry.


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Diagnosis: Spontaneous Superficial Venous Aneurysm
A venous aneurysm is a localized dilatation of the venous intima, media, and adventitia that is adjacent to a venous structure with a normal diameter.1 Venous aneurysms are typically not associated with significant comorbidities; however, thrombosis and pulmonary embolism may occur.2-4
Arterial aneurysms are defined as permanent, localized dilatation more than one and a half times the size of the diameter of a contiguous normal artery; however, the definition of a venous aneurysm—including the transition point from a dilatation to an aneurysm—is imprecise.5 For instance, researchers have previously suggested one and a half to three times the normal vein diameter as cutoffs for venous aneurysms.6,7
Venous aneurysms can be categorized as superficial or deep. Superficial venous aneurysms may present in the cephalic and basilic systems of the upper extremities and saphenous system in the lower extremities.7 Deep lesions typically present in the femoral system.7 Compared to superficial venous aneurysms, deep venous aneurysms have a higher association with thromboembolism.2
The incidence and prevalence of venous aneurysms remain unclear. In a single-center, retrospective analysis of almost 2,000 patients registered in a vascular surgery service over a period of 22 years, 30 (>1.5%) patients were found to have venous aneurysms.8 Among those 30 patients, nine (>0.45%) had superficial venous aneurysms. Another single-center study of 366 patients found 65 superficial saphenous vein aneurysms in 43 patients (11.7%).1 Additionally, there is no age or gender predilection for venous aneurysms.8
Superficial venous aneurysms present as soft, compressible, nonpulsatile, mobile, subcutaneous nodules with a size that is dependent on position (Figures 1 and 2). When a lesion on the upper extremity is raised above the level of the heart, the nodule may flatten or decrease in size (Figure 3). Jugular venous aneurysms may increase in size with the Valsalva maneuver.
Microscopic examination of a venous aneurysm will show focal dilatation involving all three major layers of the venous wall. Additionally, there may be a loss of elastic fibers, hyalinization of the intima, the presence of inflammatory lymphocytes, and, in rare instances, thrombus formation.9 However, a biopsy is not required to establish the diagnosis.
Superficial venous aneurysm, based on its presentation and location, may mimic subcutaneous soft tissue tumors, other vascular lesions, or hernias. The differential diagnosis for a subcutaneous venous aneurysm includes angiokeratoma, arterial aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation, blue nevus, lipoma, varicocele, venous lakes, venous malformation, and venous pseudoaneurysm.7
Venous aneurysms can be congenital or acquired. Congenital venous aneurysms have been associated with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, which is a rare condition affecting vascular development.10 Acquired venous aneurysms are typically secondary to degenerative changes, infection, trauma, or venous insufficiency.9 In addition, superficial venous aneurysms of the saphenous vein are more common in men with high body-mass indices.1
Evaluation for superficial venous aneurysms may include a venous duplex ultrasound study to assess for size, shape, and the presence of thrombi; magnetic resonance imaging or computerized tomography (CT) may also be used as additional work-up studies.7 A potential venous aneurysm should be assessed in relationship to the normal diameter of the contiguous, normal vein. An ultrasound study would reveal an easily compressible, well-defined, heterogeneously echoic mass connecting into a normal venous structure with a lack of pulsation.11 CT scan to assess superficial venous aneurysm of upper extremities is not commonly performed; however, it would show homogeneous enhancement.11
Compared to abdominal or thoracic venous aneurysms, superficial lesions in the extremities are unlikely to rupture; therefore, surgery should be considered for a superficial venous aneurysm if a lesion is growing, disfiguring, or painful.12 If a patient is asymptomatic, then venous aneurysms can be clinically monitored. Patients should be advised to return for additional evaluation and possible treatment if there is an increase in size, pain, edema, overlying skin changes, or symptoms particularly suggestive of a serious thromboembolic event such as pulmonary or paradoxical embolism.
Our Patient
After the completion of his clinical evaluation, our patient was reassured of the benign nature of his superficial venous aneurysm. Given his asymptomatic findings, the patient decided against a surgical excision of his lesion. He will be periodically observed for potential complications.
Venous aneurysms are typically benign vascular lesions that occur in both men and women with or without a history of trauma in the site of occurrence. Superficial venous aneurysms are diagnosed clinically and appear as a soft, mobile, nonpulsatile subcutaneous nodule that change in appearance depending on position. Ultrasound imaging may be used to assess the lesion and to look for concerning features such as the presence of a thrombus. Potential complications of both deep and superficial venous aneurysms include pulmonary embolism. Asymptomatic superficial venous aneurysms may be managed conservatively with observation; symptomatic or cosmetically concerning lesions can be removed surgically.
Ms Kim is a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA. Dr Cohen is an adjunct professor of dermatology at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, CA, and a dermatologist at San Diego Family Dermatology in National City, CA.
Disclosures: The authors report no relevant financial relationships.
1. Pascarella L, Al-Tuwaijri M, Bergan JJ, Mekenas LM. Lower extremity superficial venous aneurysms. Ann Vasc Surg. 2005;19(1):69-73. doi:10.1007/s10016-004-0135-1
2. Gabrielli R, Rosati MS, Siani A, Irace L. Management of symptomatic venous aneurysm. ScientificWorldJournal. 2012;2012:386478. doi:10.1100/2012/386478
3. Rendón-Elías FG, Albores-Figueroa R, Arrazolo-Ortega LS, Torres-Alcalá F, Hernández-Sánchez M, Gómez-Danés LH. Thrombosed great saphenous vein aneurysm accompanied by venous thrombosis. Medicina Universitaria. 2015;17(67):97-101. doi:10.1016/j.rmu.2015.02.002
4. Pandey V, Wolfe JHN. Superficial femoral vein aneurysm with massive pulmonary embolism. J R Soc Med. 2003;96(9):460-461. doi:10.1258/jrsm.96.9.460
5. Perrin M. Venous aneurysms. Phlebolymphology. 2006;13(3):172-176.
6. Chen SI, Clouse WD, Bowser AN, Rasmussen TE. Superficial venous aneurysms of the small saphenous vein. J Vasc Surg. 2009;50(3):644-647. doi:10.1016/j.jvs.2009.04.025
7. McKesey J, Cohen PR. Spontaneous venous aneurysm: report of a non-traumatic superficial venous aneurysm on the distal arm. Cureus. 2018;10(5):e2641. doi:10.7759/cureus.2641
8. Gillespie DL, Villavicencio JL, Gallagher C, et al. Presentation and management of venous aneurysms. J Vasc Surg. 1997;26(5):845-852. doi:10.1016/s0741-5214(97)70099-5
9. Schatz IJ, Fine G. Venous aneurysms. N Engl J Med. 1962;266:1310-1312. doi:10.1056/NEJM196206212662505
10. Sivakumaran Y, Duara R, Vasudevan TM. Superficial femoral venous aneurysm in a patient with Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome: the femoral hernia mimic. Ann Vasc Surg. 2019;57:274.e15-274.e18. doi:10.1016/j.avsg.2018.09.028
11. Lee HY, Lee W, Cho YK, Chung JW, Park JH. Superficial venous aneurysm: reports of 3 cases and literature review. J Ultrasound Med. 2006;25(6):771-776. doi:10.7863/jum.2006.25.6.771
12. Calligaro KD, Ahmad S, Dandora R, et al. Venous aneurysms: surgical indications and review of the literature. Surgery. 1995;117(1):1-6. doi:10.1016/s0039-6060(05)80222-3


Recall 107603 started on 11/07/2014 by MFR effecting 5,650 units.
Summary: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain model year 2014 Toyota Camry, Camry HV, Avalon, and Avalon HV vehicles equipped with 16-inch and 17-inch rims. In the affected vehicles, the left-side front suspension lower arm may have been incorrectly manufactured. As a result, the left side lower arm may not have enough clamping surface area for one of the bolts that secures the lower arm to the lower ball joint.
Consequence: Because of the insufficient clamping force, the lower arm may separate from the ball joint, increasing the risk of a crash.
Remedy: Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will replace the left side lower arm, free of charge. The recall began on December 12, 2014. Owners may contact Toyota customer service at 1-800-331-4331.
Recall 105242 started on 09/19/2014 by MFR effecting 15,872 units.
Recall 99770 started on 10/17/2013 by MFR effecting 9,795 units.
Summary: Toyota Motor Engineering & manufacturing North America, Inc. (Toyota) is recalling certain model year 2013-2014 Camry and Camry HV, model year 2013 Avalon and Avalon HV and model year 2014 Corolla vehicles. In the affected vehicles, the windshield wiper switch assembly may short circuit. As such, these vehicles fail to conform to the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, No. 104, "Windshield Wiping and Washing Systems."
Consequence: A short circuit could cause inoperative windshield wipers, reducing driver visibility and increasing the risk of a crash.


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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Appoints Valerie Cassel Oliver Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has appointed Valerie Cassel Oliver as its new curator of modern and contemporary art. Upon assuming her position on July 7, Cassel Oliver will oversee the museum's collection of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on acquiring works by African American and African-diasporic artists.
Cassel Oliver joins the VFMA following a 16-year tenure at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, where she served as senior curator. During that time Cassel Oliver helped curate a number of successful touring exhibits including Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art (2012) and Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image (2008). Cassel Oliver also previously co-curated the 2000 Whitney Biennial, worked as director of the Visiting Artists Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was a program specialist in charge of administering grants for the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C.
"Valerie is one of the most dynamic and respected contemporary curators in her field," Alex Nyerges, the VFMA's director, said in a statement. "She brings an impressive network of contacts from across the arts community, and she has an established record of organizing exhibitions that explore topical themes that resonate with viewers."
In the same statement, Cassel Oliver said, "There are artists from myriad social and cultural backgrounds who are not fully represented in today's art world, and we need to ensure their stories are part of the rich narratives we bring to life in our museum. I bring a perspective of inclusivity, and I want to create a context that engages a public that can see itself reflected in the museum. Doing so allows the discussions around art to be broader and only serves to make the entire field stronger."
Valerie Cassel Oliver


Prince Harry kicked off his first official visit to Australia at Sydney's impressive city harbour.
The Prince attended a special event to celebrate a hundred years since the original Royal Australian Navy fleet arrived at the harbour.
Hundreds of thousands of Aussies turned out to see the Prince and the huge fleet of around 40 warships.
The warships taking part are from the U.S., China, Britain, Brunei, Micronesia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, Spain, Thailand and Tonga.


Waltham, Mass. — September 28, 2011 — The Massachusetts Medical Society today released its 2011 Physician Workforce Study showing critical and severe physician shortages in eight specialties, a sixth consecutive year of shortages of primary care physicians, and physicians' concerns about participating in global payments and accountable care organizations.
The study also confirmed once again that the state faces difficulty in recruiting and retaining physicians and that the fear of being sued has a pervasive, negative influence on the practice of medicine by causing physicians to alter or limit their practice.
The 2011 study is the Society's 10th annual comprehensive look at the physician workforce in Massachusetts and includes responses from 1,071 practicing physicians. Among the topics surveyed were the labor supply of physicians by specialties; physician recruitment and retention; satisfaction with the profession and practice environment; willingness to participate in global payment programs and accountable care organizations; opinions of the U.S. health care system; and the impact of professional liability concerns on the practice of medicine.
To download complete '2011 Patient Access to Health Care Study', click here.
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AUA Group of the former Agrigento Province: over 170 measures in 2019
The activity of Group 3 of the Environment Sector of the Free Consortium of Agrigento has been further enhanced, which defines the Single Environmental Authorization provisions.
In fact, the AUA Group menu has been updated on the institutional home page with the insertion of regulatory references, forms and contacts of the staff assigned to the group that issues A.U.A. This is an activity carried out pursuant to Presidential Decree no. 59 of 3 March 2013 for the simplification of administrative requirements in environmental matters, and which in 2019 led to the adoption of 174 administrative measures for companies that requested it, a further increase compared to 2018.
The AUA, whose competence is attributed by the same Presidential Decree 59/2013 to the Free Consortia (ex Provinces) simplifies the process for the issue of seven authorizations for small and medium-sized enterprises and owners of plants not subject to the Integrated Authorization regulation Environmental (AIA), which at an earlier stage had to be requested separately. The AUAs have been issued to companies in various production sectors (processing of agricultural, dairy and fish products, oil mills and oil mills, wine factories, crushing of aggregates, tourist structures and hotels, various craft activities, fuel depots, and others), and have the purpose of ascertaining the regularity of the plants that have filed for the fundamental title for starting production activities. The measures concerned all the qualifications identified by Presidential Decree 59/2013 (Art.3, paragraph 1), in particular the authorization for discharges, the use of vegetation waters of the mills and wastewater coming from zootechnical companies for irrigation uses , the authorization for atmospheric emissions, the use of sludge deriving from the purification processes in agriculture and the communications regarding waste. A rearrangement was also given to the internal organization of Group 3, strengthened to enhance the internal professional figures in order to support coordination between the subjects competent in the environmental field (Regional Department of Territory and Environment, ARPA, UTA Agrigento, Police Commands Municipalities) and the One-Stop Shops for the Production Activities of the Municipalities for the release of the final provision.
Recall that the A.U.A. it has a duration of 15 years, and the relative request must be submitted electronically to the Free Municipal Consortium of Agrigento through the Single Desk for Productive Activities of the Municipalities in which the company that applied for the issue of the title insists or will insist or the qualifications referred to in Presidential Decree 59/2013.
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Details of appliqués on shams. Colors include blue, loden, gold and red. Fabric is our Peasant Linen, Oatmeal.
Pillow is our Irish Linen. Shah Rose appliqués is red, sage and loden. The layout is horizontal on a lumbar pillow.
Small bathroom curtain fabric is Enzyme Washed Linen. Applique colors are forest, blue and dark red. Includes 1" brass rings.
Classic colors - cream, gold forest and dark red on handkerchief linen natural curtains. Fabric is our Handkerchief Linen, Natural.
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Custom design combing the stencils Small Rose as a border on each side of the Rose Medallion on our Linen/Cotton Light Blocking roller shade fabric. Stencil colors are dark red, antique gold and loden.
Custom design using the colors loden, gold, red and blue on a standard sized sham.
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Variety of the Small Aster stenciled on to a variety of curtains of different shapes, sizes and fabrics. Seen here on Handkerchief Linens Oyster and Natural. Stencil colors are red, blue, gold, sage and forest.
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Group of three Coffee Bean Flower stencil on Classic Cotton, Dove. Our client wanted to group the flower, centering on roller shade at different heights. Colors used are cream, gold, forest and dark red.
Curtain fabric is Peasant Linen, Oyster. Colors for Water Lily Border are forest, sage and gold.
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Roller shade fabric is our Bungalow Cloth in oatmeal. Stencil colors are loden, terra cotta and antique gold.
Roller shade in our Light Blocking, White fabric with the Traditional scalloped edge with the matching gimp.
Small Rose Border in terra cotta, loden and antique gold. Roller shade fabric is Light Blocking Muslin.
Adding the finishing touches with embroidered detail to the leaves and gold flower pods of a custom designed table runner using gingko leaves.
Roller shade fabric is our linen cotton regular fabric. Stencil is Iris Border #2.
Pleated cafe curtain with 1" brass rings. Fabric is Handkerchief Linen, Natural.
A client wanted to add a little color to their Muslin Light Blocking roller shades. The stencil color is teal.
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Colors used for stencil are antique gold, wedgwood, sage and dark red.
New color added to the roller shade metal pull collection called Old Black.


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New imaging technique helps predict how vision recovers after brain tumor removal
Human visual pathway (including the optic chiasm, tracts, and radiations) revealed by MRI. This subject has a large pituitary tumor (in red) causing compression. These tumors caused demyelination of the vision pathways and vision loss, but surgery to remove the tumor leads to remarkably rapid remyelination and vision recovery. Credit: David A. Paul/University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Understanding recovery process could have implications for many different injuries of the central nervous system
An interdisciplinary team of University neuroscientists and neurosurgeons has used a new imaging technique to show how the human brain heals itself in just a few weeks following surgical removal of a brain tumor.
In a study featured on the cover of the current issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine, the team found that recovery of vision in patients with pituitary tumors is predicted by the integrity of myelin—the insulation that wraps around connections between neurons—in the optic nerves.
"Before the study, we weren't able to tell patients how much, if at all, they would recover their vision after surgery," explained David Paul, an M.D. candidate in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, and first author of the study.
When pituitary tumors grow large, they can compress the optic chiasm, the intersection of the nerves that connect visual input from the eyes to the brain. Nerve compression can lead to vision loss, which usually improves after these tumors are surgically removed.
Paul and his colleagues used a technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to show how changes in a particular bundle of nerve fibers relate to vision changes in these patients.
"DTI measures how water spreads in tissue," explained Bradford Mahon, assistant professor in the Department Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Department of Neurosurgery, and senior author of the study. "The myelin insulation normally prevents water from spreading within the nerves, which would cause the nerves to malfunction."
Illustration shows direction of water movement, perpendicular (radial) and parallel (axial) to bundle of nerve fibers. Credit: David A. Paul/University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Paul described myelin damage by analogy to an insulated copper cable. In the human brain, DTI can measure the "leakiness of the insulation," or how well myelin constrains the flow of water in brain tissue.
One DTI-based measurement, called radial diffusivity, can be used as an indicator of myelin insulation; an increase in this measure means there is less insulation to restrict the movement of water within a nerve. In their study, the researchers found that inadequate insulation resulted in poorer visual ability in patients.
Paul said this particular patient population is unique because unlike other diseases such as stroke, trauma or multiple sclerosis, these patients have a problem that can be treated by surgery and the effect of the tumor on the brain is the same every time. Every pituitary tumor that grows large enough will compress the optic chiasm in more or less the same place, and removal of the tumor is often followed by a recovery of visual abilities.
"These patients grant us a unique opportunity to understand human brain repair because the surgery is minimally invasive and patients recover very quickly after surgery," said Edward Vates, director of the Pituitary Program in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and co-author of the study.
The measurements established in the study provide a new way to measure the structural integrity of nerve fibers, and may ultimately be applicable across the full range of brain diseases and injuries.
"There's a lot of variability in how people recover from brain injuries," said Mahon. "Anything we can learn about patients who go on to make a good recovery may help us to promote recovery from brain injury of any cause." He added that the visual system is the best understood circuitry in the human brain, and his lab has developed very precise ways of studying vision before and after surgery.
"If we can develop our prognostic methods in the context of the early visual pathway, then we can apply the same types of models to more complex systems in the brain, like language recovery after a stroke," said Mahon.
"This kind of research will create novel treatments to fix broken nervous systems," said Bradford Berk, director of the new University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute. "Harnessing new technologies to help us understand how the brain repairs itself and restores function, and how we can accelerate that process will be one of the keys to restoring neurological function in a wide range of conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, stroke, and traumatic brain injury."
Additional researchers on the study are Elon Gaffin-Cahn, Eric B. Hintz, Giscard J. Adeclat, and Zoë R. Williams from the University of Rochester/University of Rochester School of Medicine, and Tong Zhu from the University of Michigan Medical Center.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Eye Institute, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Science supported the study. David Paul received additional support from the CTSI Pre-Doctoral Training Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Tags: Bradford Mahon, brain injury, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry, tumor, University of Rochester Neurorestoration Institute, vision
Monique Patenaude and David Barnstone
monique.patenaude@rochester.edu
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