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Discover the remarkable true story of a small town that welcomed the world. Winner of 4 Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, Come From Away has taken the West End by storm.
Playing to nightly standing ovations at London's Phoenix Theatre, Come From Away also continues sold-out, record-breaking engagements on Broadway, across the USA and in Canada.
This joyous new musical shares the incredible real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who were grounded in Canada during the wake of 9/11, and the small Newfoundland community that invited these 'come from aways' into their lives. As uneasiness turned into trust and music soared into the night, gratitude grew into friendships and their stories became a celebration of hope, humanity and unity. Awarded the Tony® for Best Direction of a Musical, Christopher Ashley's production guides audiences through a colourful and spirited cast of characters, brought to life by Olivier Award winning writing team Irene Sankoff and David Hein.
£1.75 restoration levy (collected on behalf of the theatre) appears as part of the face value.
BOOKING PERIOD: Until 18 December 2021
PERFORMANCE TIMES: Monday to Saturday at 7:30pm, Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2:30pm.
RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes with no interval
AGE RESTRICTION: Recommended for ages 10 and older.
VENUE: Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0JP, UK
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A reply to my critics
connection between Emersonian perfectionism and the "remarriage comedies" of the 1930s and 1940s . Rather than demonstrating moral improvement, the film reveals the dangers and pleasures involved in the representation of the instability of erotic relations. It warns, I argue, against thinking that we can learn to democratize by watching a representation of democracy, however artful
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/ideological and critical/unpopular film. Initially, it might seem to be an odd example to draw on because it is not a film, nor does it obviously fall into the genre of a "comedy of remarriage." It is, however, a "filmlike" television show and one in which remarriage plays an important part. Attending to the theme of remarriage helps illuminate the central themes of the show. Is the
it. The "remarriage comedies" to which Mr. Cavell draws our attention, and the intention of which you wish to contest, are thus presentations of the achievement of a "meet and happy" marriage. They show us perfected marriage, not in the sense of the best of the best, but in the sense of having become more of a true marriage. There is no Platonic agathon here
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ameliorative spirit of perfectionism found in Cavell's comedies of remarriage, and especially in The Philadelphia Story , is a dangerous supplement that degrades viewers to a state of animalian existence incapable of presenting and admitting vistas to one another. In the movie theater, Dienstag affirms, "We relax into the comfort of a prehuman isolation only to enjoy the spectacle
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autobiographical writing. Fifteen years her senior, Ada Reeve (1874–1966), who had also spent a substantial proportion of her career working as a Gaiety Girl and in musical comedy, titled her late autobiography Take It for a Fact (Reeve, 1954), with a similar pointed reference to her sense of agency and 18	The social and theatrical realm authority in the writing of her own professional life story. Reeve, with a characteristic lack of charm, orders us to read her reminiscences as a 'record' of fact, even though they were written in a moment of almost desperate nostalgia
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by Discover Montenegro March 24, 2016
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) survives in Montenegro in small numbers (estimated at some 125 individuals in 2000). Not surprisingly, its distribution is limited mostly to the remotest mountain areas of the north and east. Encounters between humans and bears are very rare. The grey wolf (Canis lupus) is also said to inhabit some of the more remote mountain areas, but again, sightings are rare.
Since its reappearance in the 1960s–70s, there have been scattered sightings of the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), although it is established in greater numbers over the Albanian border. Unfortunately, the population of this rare mammal appears to be in decline in the Balkans. Other mammals include wild boar (Sus scrofa), red deer (Cervus elaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), pine martin (Martes martes), forest dormouse (Dryomys nitedula) and common dormouse (Glis glis).
The nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes), known locally as poskok, is found in the Dinaric Alps, including Montenegro. Its venom is highly poisonous. Adult specimens are typically less than 60cm in length, but may sometimes grow to 90cm. A subspecies found in Montenegro (Vipera ammodytes meridionalis) is smaller. Nose-horned vipers are either light grey or brownish copper, with a dark black zigzag pattern along the back, and are recognizable by the prominent soft horn at the end of their snout.
They prefer dry, rocky hillsides, but may also be found under low bushes or around dry stone walls, and even on rock faces. The common viper, or adder (Vipera berus), known locally as šarka or šarulja, is also found, together with the subspecies Vipera berus bosniensis. (It is perhaps worth mentioning that both the nose-horned Viper and the common viper also occur in other, more frequently visited parts of Europe. For example, the former is found in northern Italy, while the latter is also found in the UK.) Another species of viper, Orsini's viper (Vipera ursinii), is considerably more docile. Other species of snake include the large whip snake (Coluber caspius), Balkan whip snake (Coluber gemonensis), Dahl's whip snake (Coluber najadum) and the cat snake (Telescopus fallax). A number of lizards are common, including the Balkan green lizard (Lacerta trilineata), which grows up to 40cm in length, green lizard (Lacerta viridis), Mosor rock lizard (Lacerta mosorensis), Balkan wall lizard (Podarcis taurica), Dalmatian algyroides (Algyroides nigropunctatus), sharp-snouted rock lizard (Lacerta oxycephala) and Turkish gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus). The alpine newt (Triturus alpestris) is found in lakes in the Montenegrin highlands, including an endemic subspecies (Triturus alpestris serdarus), the distribution of which is limited to Zminičko jezero, a lake on the northern flanks of Sinjajevina. A subspecies of alpine salamander (Salamandra atra prenjensis) is found along the Albanian border, in Kučka krajina. Other species of amphibian include the brilliantly spotted fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra), Balkan crested newt (Triturus marmoratus) and Balkan stream frog (Rana graeca).
Skadarsko jezero, with its five ornithological reserves (Manastirska tapija, Grmozur, Omerova gorica, Crni zar and Pančevo oko), is one of the largest and most important ornithological sanctuaries in Europe, and an important stop on winter migration routes. Not surprisingly, it contains the greatest concentration of birdlife in Montenegro, some 270 species, a number of them quite rare. Numbers fell steadily from 250,000 in 1999 to a mere 34,000 in 2006, which was thought to be due to human pressure but numbers have rinse again, c.108,000 in 2007 and close to 150,000 in 2008. It is possible that many are now wintering at salt flats around Ulcinj instead. Species you may find at Skadarsko Jezero or on the coast include the great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), pygmy cormorant (Phalacrocorax pymeus), glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus), shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) and the rare Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus). In the mountains, some of the rare or more unusual species include the black grouse (Tetrao tetrix), cappercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), rock partridge (Alectoris graeca), goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), Lanner falcon (Falco biarmicus), griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), golden eagle (Aquilla chrysaetos), short-toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus), eagle owl (Bubo bubo), alpine wwift (Alpus melba), horned lark (Eremophila alpestris), alpine accentor (Prunella collaris), blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius), wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) and the common crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), known locally as krstokljun. Other more common species include the common buzzard (Buteo buteo), snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis), rock nuthatch (Sitta neumayer), sombre tit (Parus cinctus) and alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus).
It is considered that the diversity of marine fish fauna of the Adriatic sea comprise 117 registered families but with low level of endemism. To date, 742 marine fish species have been registered in Montenegro which represents 70% of species registered in Mediterranean. Skadarsko jezero is among the most important areas that are inhabited by the freshwater fish, where 40 species of fish, including species that migrate from marine to freshwater ecosystem, like eel (Anguilla Anguilla), shad (Alossa falax nilotica) etc.
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Netanyahu Breaches Regulations by Dodging Opposition Questions in Knesset
Lawmakers requested prime minister's attendance on January 9 but his office asked for postponement; new date set for January 30.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the weekly cabinet meeting, January 22, 2017.Credit: Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu breached regulations earlier this month when he failed to appear in front of fellow lawmakers, despite being summoned by the opposition to answer questions in the Knesset.
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According to the rules, the premier or another minister must appear on the date they are summoned. The opposition called Netanyahu to appear on January 9, providing him with two weeks' notice. However, the Prime Minister's Office said Netanyahu could not attend and asked for a postponement, which the regulations do not allow.
In response to a letter from opposition coordinator MK Merav Michaeli (Zionist Union), Knesset legal adviser Eyal Yinon criticized Netanyahu for not appearing, but nevertheless permitted a postponement until January 30.
The prime minister's bureau said there had been a misunderstanding about the date.
Michaeli said in response: "The prime minister's attempts to escape his duty to answer lawmakers' questions were unsuccessful. It's good that the Knesset legal adviser put him in his place, and that Netanyahu will arrive in a week to give us answers."


A notorious jihadi fighting in Syria for ISIS has called on Islamic State supporters to mug drunken revellers and send the money to the terror group.
In a warped Christmas appeal, former Morrisons security guard Omar Hussain, 28, urged militants to steal money and mobile phones to fund global terrorism.
In a rambling message using the mobile phone app Kik, Hussain – dubbed the 'Supermarket jihadi' – says: 'The time of year is coming again where getting ghaneemah [war booty] from the kuffar [non-believers] couldn't b any easier. Christmas time the kuffar are loaded with money.
He says victims will not be able to call police because their mobile phones will have gone and they will also be too drunk to remember their assailant's features.
Hussain, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, had further exchanges on Kik with a Mail on Sunday reporter, who asked him if Raqqa – the terror group's de facto capital in Syria – was under siege from Kurdish fighters, as reported in the world's media.
Hussain said: 'Lol [laugh out loud] raqqa is not under siege. Where did u get that from?' He said he was ready to become a martyr if Raqqa was attacked.


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Rats and Sparrows, Poplar and Ragweed: Traverse City versus Nature
October 1, 2017 Richard Fidler	Leave a comment
Close to the railroad trestle across the Boardman River at Eighth Street, a large patch of ragweed grows tall, some plants reaching five feet high. It covers disturbed ground with a dense tangle of leaves and stems, never gracing the landscape with a hint of color. Not particular to good soil or poor, it grows wherever the soil has been disturbed, only reaching gigantic proportions under the best conditions. Though an annual, it comes up year after year unless attention is paid to its control.
Green ragweed, growing near Boardman River and Eighth Street, Traverse City, September 2017. Image courtesy of the author.
Ragweed will eventually go away as other plants move in to squeeze it out, but its retreat is often slow and uneven. Uprooting the plant gets rid of it for a scant year or two, but as long as the ground is bare of other plants, it will come back. The only real solution is to seed an area with something more desirable- grass or shrubs, for example. That, of course, involves a plan, disciplined labor, and money for seed. In the past Traverse City applied a simpler remedy: paying children to eradicate ragweed. While spreading wealth among the youth, it never quite did the job. Ragweed flourishes now as it always has.
With the building of the homes, railroads, farms, docks, and factories that replaced the great pine forests of the Traverse area came the pests that survive and thrive on the leavings of humankind: spilled grain from a mill, garbage left beside a house, a dump sited near residences, the river with its flowing cargo of waste and dead fish, horse manure that nourished clouds of floes. Rat and sparrows, locusts and flies- even unwanted plants like ragweed- arrived in our town and, like their fellow human immigrants, settled down to make decent homes for themselves. Seeing no future in the Old World, Norway rats fled to America, obtaining free transportation aboard boats shipping seed corn and food to the New World. Invited by certain misguided individuals who missed the birds of Europe, house sparrows were set free on the East Coast of the United States in 1852. It did not take them long to find Traverse City for it is noted in a Record-Eagle article of 1923 that a bounty of two cents was offered for every sparrow carcass brought in to the examiners.
Firearm control of animals was not confined to sparrows. Rats brought a richer reward than sparrows to young marksmen: ten cents per rat, the tail being sufficient evidence of a corpse. Of course, a wiser, and less violent approach would have been to make food unavailable to rodents and birds, but that simple idea would require time to take root in people's consciousness. After all, shooting pests provides a certain satisfaction since success is easily measured by body counts, while eliminating food sources does not carry the same panache. Besides, the hunter's instinct is never far from the surface in small towns of the American Middle West.
Undeserving of compassion, these hapless creatures were classified as "vermin" and were hated because they spread disease and filth about the city. More than the threat to public health they posed was the appearance of poverty and ugliness. They represented an insult to the civilization of a fine city: Traverse City, Michigan. To affronted townspeople, the only good sparrow was a dead sparrow; the only good rat was a dead rat.
The Record-Eagle joined the battle against vermin in 1924. Fresh from victories over the rat populations of Manistee and Muskegon, one Helen Caldwell became the field general for a local rat extermination campaign. Beneath a picture of Caldwell, the newspaper waxed poetic about the campaign:
Rodents and such were gathering fast,
When through the village street they passed
A youth [Caldwell] whose banner bore that strange device,
"Rat Poison!"
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And he it was who firstly learned,
The power behind those magic words,
And he took her to the paper place,
Where the Record-Eagle entered the race
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Then to the mayor she hied her way,
And with him also she had her say,
Which was and is and will be, too
The board of health sat on the case,
And a smile beamed over Doc Holliday's face,
As he decreed for the city's pests
Witherite, Barium carbonate, BaCO3; Hexham, Northumberland, U.K.; Collection of the Institute of Mineralogy, University Tübingen, 2009.
Barium carbonate was the poison of choice. It was to be mixed with meat, cheese, cereals and cake- even fresh fruit like bananas and cantaloupe (apparently, rat insisted on a smorgasbord of delicacies). Care would be taken to keep the poison bait away from pets (and children, one would presume). In case an accident should occur, the sufferer should ingest Rochelle or Epson salts as an emetic.
The mayor of Traverse City, James T. Milliken, issued a proclamation in support of the rat extermination program:
Inasmuch as every person in the city is supporting two rats at a cost of $1.82 each and inasmuch as this expense can be eliminated, it is with considerable enthusiasm that I endorse the rat extermination campaign which is now being waged in Traverse City.
In endorsing this campaign I also designate the dates from July 31 to August 9 as "Rat Killing Week" and urge every citizen, including every boy and every girl, to join this movement and make Traverse City a ratless city.
With such publicity, the campaign could not but succeed. A week into the campaign the Record-Eagle reported, "Traverse City's rat population has decreased by leaps and bounds almost overnight, the rats in their poison throes, leaping and bounding out into the open air to die by the dozens." The mayor's call to the boys and girls had brought in ample evidence of rat slaughter: rat tails by the dozens were turned over to the local Rotary Club and prizes and rewards were distributed to the children. The sales of barium carbonate had gone through the roof at local druggists and there was heavy traffic in rat traps in hardware stores around the area. Everyone agreed that, if the City was not entirely "rat-free," at lease a dent had been made in the rat population. Miss Caldwell would carve another notch in her belt as she left town.
Rats were not the only pestilence afflicting the City. In some years grasshoppers increased beyond the bounds of human tolerance, their numbers soaring as they fed in scrub land that replaced the pine and hardwood forests that occupied the land in the nineteenth century. Authorities did not mess around in doing them in: Arsenic was the designated poison. To this day, land close to the City is contaminated with arsenic residue, a substance deemed so toxic by the EPA that severe restrictions have been placed upon its use.
Animals seen as predators of game birds and sport fish were dealt with sternly. Crows in particular were targeted as a nuisance since they attached young ruffed grouse whenever opportunity presented itself. Consequently, in one year (1937) 2100 of them were killed by teams of marksmen composed of members of the local Dog and Sportsman Club. Mergansers, (diving ducks) were shot in large numbers on the Bay and inland lakes because of their appetite for fish. Even fish were not immune from human prejudices: it was reported that a half ton of dogfish (bowfin) were speared in Lake Leelanau in 1930. There were called "obnoxious" by the perpetrators, presumably because they were not good to eat and competed with more desirable fish for food.
Tree root destroying underground pipe. Image courtesy of A1 Sewer.
Animals were not alone in suffering punishment for getting in the way of human desires. Poplar trees were condemned within the City limits in the early twenties. Their crime? Their roots readily invaded sewage lines, sometimes causing unsanitary back-ups into people's basements. Dr. A.G. Holliday, city health officer, insisted on strict enforcement of an existing anti-poplar ordinance after the City was forced to expend 200 to 500 dollars for the clearing of the roots from the sewers, an expense that would not be tolerated. It was noted in the paper that some citizens- in particular certain residents living on Sixth Street- would not suffer gladly this insult to their poplars. It is not known if their trees received a reprieve from the death penalty.
Casual observation about town nowadays reveals a plentiful growth of poplars of several varieties. Perhaps the vicious nature of the plant has cooled- or else city sewer system pipes are impervious to their probing roots. In any case, poplars have gained a small measure of respect- at least from some property owners.
Ragweed was another "planta non grata". With its abundant pollen, it was known to cause hay fever, a problem back in the twenties as now. Northern Michigan was considered to be haven from the noxious weed. Hay fever sufferers flocked here in summer to find relief from the sneezing and runny nose they experienced in Illinois, Ohio, and Southern Michigan. In 1929 the City quickly went through its ragweed control budget of one hundred dollars in dealing out direct payments to children who would get ten cents for every hundred plants they brought in. Later, in the early fifties, movie tickets were distributed for armloads of ragweed which were carefully weighed to determine the number of tickets earned. On Occassion children who had allowed their plants to dry at home overnight were disappointed at the low weight totals of the wilted plants. It did not take long for them to understand that fresh ragweed weighed more.
The battle agains pests has hardly abated. In recent years Gypsy moths were subjected to airborne application of the bacterial spray Thuricide, that treatment saving the city's ancient oaks and maples. Skunks invaded one city neighborhood shortly afterwards and began a miniature city of their own. Only a trapping program thwarted their plans for domination.
Invasive plants have marched into town, one species after another. Purple loosestrife was poised to cover every wetland until beetles were brought in to bring it under control. Baby's breath, an escaped garden dweller, threatened to take over abandoned land especially by the railroad tracks. Autumn olive and buckthorn covered many acres inside and outside the city. Finally, an eight-foot high grass, Phragmites (aka, the common reed), has been recently sentenced to die through applications of topical poison. It cannot be allowed to take root upon the shores of lakes, river, and the Bay or else it will crowd out the natives.
There is a pattern of our responses to Nature's assaults. At first, we call in the Army, Navy, and Air Force and give the battle all we've got. After time and expense, we back off, wondering if we cannot co-exist. Finally, we forget there ever was a problem and regard the pest as another somewhat disreputable member of the neighborhood. Maybe that should have been our approach from the beginning: acceptance of the pest's right to exist, while denying it free rein to raise havoc. Respect within firmly set bounds. For that matter, it's not a bad plan for humans. After all, we are an invasive species, too.
"Rats and Sparrows, Poplar and Ragweed: Traverse City versus Nature," was originally published in Richard Fidler's book, Gateways to Grand Traverse Past, recently republished under Mission Point Press in July 2017. Gateways is for sale at Horizon Books, Traverse City, and on Amazon.
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Midge Swarms
We have all seen them, but we haven't given them names: a swarm of tiny insects flying in a crowded formation often looking like a column. Certainly, it is much taller than wide, its width usually not more than a foot or two at most, its height often taller than we are. Our fear is that the insects will bite us, or, at the very least, we might inhale them. Unlike birds and bats, we do not relish them either for flavor or for nourishment. We steer clear of them and go about our business.
Magnified photograph of midge emerging from chrysalis. Image courtesy of http://www.abundantnature.com/
Midge swarms form in summer and early fall. The insects comprising them do not bite, though that passivity is often not enough to keep humans from spraying poisons on them. They transform from aquatic larvae, tiny forms resembling segmented worms, ready to mate upon emerging from their pupal cases, but not ready to eat since they do not possess the required mouthparts. So it is they do not harm us.
Most members of the swarm are male: they seek to mate with females that pass through the mass of flying insects. Upon being fertilized, the female will set about to lay eggs in the waters of ponds and ditches. Several broods are produced during the year with the last overwintering in mud underneath the ice.
"Midge Swarm near Cass Street Bridge," Richard Fidler, pen and ink drawing.
According to Donald W. Stokes, author of A Guide to Observing Insect Lives, midge swarms are often found close to water, often above prominent features called "swarm markers." These can be patches of light or dark on the ground, or high points such as the upthrust branches of a shrub or tree—or even the top of your own head! A shiny black piece of plastic will attract a certain species, if one wishes to try an experiment.
Swarms may form in the morning, evening, or even mid-day, depending on the species. Considering that the insects do not live for more than a couple of days, the observer cannot count on a week of entertainment. New broods, though, will prolong the joy of avid midge watchers.
Stokes notes that, in a wind, the midges face in one direction and move forward to the limit of the swarm marker and back, the effect making it look like the entire swarm is dancing. The resulting shimmy captures the interest of naturalists everywhere. Unsurprisingly—given their awareness of nature, the Japanese haiku poets have written about the swarms (which they call "mosquito (or midge)) columns:
Across the mosquito columns
Hangs the floating bridge
Of my dreams.
–Kikaku
The mosquito columns,
Big and thick
As of a palace
Is visible through a hole
In the pillar of mosquitoes
(translations courtesy of R. H. Blythe)
The poets often portray the fleeting lives of mosquitoes (midges) as emblematic of the fleeting existence of things we imagine to be great and eternal, things like palaces and the Capitol (Kyoto). That is what we should take away from our experiences with midge swarms: the beauty and wonder of ephemeral things that live out lives unnoticed by us all.
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Horsehair worms: A Nightmare of Grasshoppers and Crickets
In late summer in puddles, bird baths, pools, and even wet grass a long, thin writhing worm can sometimes be found, often coiling in extravagant knots, that behavior explaining one of its names, the gordian worm. As some readers may remember from school, Alexander the Great was confronted with the Gordian knot, having been told whoever untied it would rule the known world. After a few futile attempts he simply took out his sword and whacked it in two, presumably showing his contempt for that story.
Horsehair worms are harmless to humans… but not crickets. Image courtesy of Anders Lennver, https://flic.kr/p/56JJfs.
Perhaps not as intricate as the real Gordian knot, the Gordian worm nevertheless displays a formidable tangle, its length sometimes stretching to 36 inches or more. It may be iridescent white if it has recently appeared, but rapidly turns a dark brown as time passes. For this reason—it takes on a more horsey hue–it is given another name, horsehair worm, perhaps in the mistaken belief that it originates from horses come to drink at watering troughs. In fact, it is associated not with horses at all, but with beetles, crickets, and grasshoppers.
Horsehair worms are common parasites of those insects. One summer long ago I participated in an informal survey of the grasshopper population to determine the rate of infection. Upon examination fully one grasshopper out of twenty harbored the tightly coiled worm, a death sentence for it as sure as the dissecting scissors that exposed its fellow traveler.
One question about the worm is unanswered: how do the parasites know when the insect is close to water? If it emerges in a dry hot place, it will surely shrivel in the sun. Somehow it must induce thirst in the grasshopper, driving it to approach water to drink. Does it control its host zombie-style, depriving it of its own grasshopper consciousness? Perhaps—and the image is strangely disturbing.
A single horsehair worm displays its characteristic tangle. Image courtesy of Sara Viernum, https://flic.kr/p/dj6A4M.
Upon emerging from its host the horsehair worm spends time in or near its body of water, eventually finding a relatively warm place to spend the winter. As waters warm in spring, the female worm sheds as many as 27 million eggs into the water, many of which are fertilized by the male as he passes over them. The young larvae creep along the bottom of their watery homes, seeking passage to the body of a cricket, grasshopper or beetle. The lucky ones hitch a ride in an aquatic insect, a larval cranefly, black fly, or dragonfly, perhaps. They form cysts within the those insects, wait for them to transform into adult winged forms, and ride out of the aquatic environment to a terrestrial one, a place where their host insects dwell. Leaving their "transportation host" after a rain or on a dewy morning, they wait for a hapless grasshopper or cricket passer-by. If good fortune allows them to be taken into the insect's body, they bore through the animal's gut and take up residence in the abdomen of its body, thereby completing its life cycle.
We should not hate horsehair worms. If they destroy one out of every twenty grasshoppers, surely they must save untold numbers of plants from being consumed by voracious insects. Even if their life cycle is not pretty, they provide a service for us. Even superficially repulsive wriggling worms have their place in Nature.
Richard Fidler is co-editor of Grand Traverse Journal.
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Don't Kill 'Em: Nuptial Flights of Ants
The voice on the other end was animated: "Come over now! They've got wings and they are swarming!"
I knew what she was talking about because I had discussed the subject previously. Ants were beginning their nuptial flights.
"I'll be right over! See what you can do to keep them from flying!" I answered with unrestrained emotion.
"A spoonful of sugar? A dead beetle carcass? I don't know what to do!" she wailed, enjoying the conversational gambit. I took no time to reply and jumped into the car with my camera.
My friend met me in her driveway when I arrived and led me to the scene. There they were: tens of small winged forms with two or three larger winged ones mingled among them. Some tiny workers, wingless bit players in the drama, milled around as if uncertain what to do.
My camera is not the best and my skills as a photographer are unremarkable, but I set it on macro, focused, and shot five times without a flash. The best ones appear in this account.
Can you find two large, winged virgin queens? Image courtesy of the author.
The word "nuptial" has to do with marriage, but that term has to be stretched to encompass the nuptial flights of ants. Males—the drones—finally emerge from the depths after having been taken care of the entire season long. No doubt some female humans can relate to that scenario. At the same time, a number of virgin queens were similarly readied for this day, the day they would be inseminated and fly off to found a new colony. It is a "marriage" in name only.
When the day length is right—late summer as a rule—and when conditions of humidity and sunlight somehow satisfy senses of the colony, the nuptial flight begins.
One-by-one the females depart, the males flying up with them. No doubt a chemical exuded by them induce the males to fly upwards, towards the light. However, the drones do not necessarily inseminate the colony's virgin queens: after all, that would be incest since all members of the colony have the same DNA. Under the best scenario, males from another colony would mate with them far away from the home colony.
The mating of ants takes place quickly and without ceremony. After separating, the "lucky" male flies away to die as his food reserves run out. He has served his purpose, and no longer receives the attention of his colony.
Activity declines after the queens depart. Image courtesy of the author.
Meanwhile, the queen continues her flight, carrying the sperm in an internal packet which she will use over her entire reproductive life (several years to as many as 23). If she avoids interactions with predacious insects, birds, and car windshields, she will settle down and remove her wings through a deft motion of her body. Then she will seek to dig a burrow and lay her first eggs. It is the only "manual labor" she will have to perform because newly hatched workers will take over the mundane tasks of gathering food, carrying out the garbage, and taking care of new workers as well as the new princes and princesses of the next generation.
By the way, the new potential queens differ not at all from the workers: they only receive special food that grants them royalty. In a sense, it is like the transformation of a frog into a prince, since in each case a lowly, unprepossessing creature becomes something wonderful. Males, on the other hand, differ significantly from females: they have only one set of chromosomes (as opposed to two sets in the females). No doubt they, like human males with only one X chromosome, suffer certain genetic diseases more frequently than the females that surround them.
Winged ants cause psychological trauma in some persons. They grab insecticides and spray until the ground is littered with insect carcasses. I don't know if this account of ant reproduction will score any points with those who regard the only good insect as a dead insect, but I hope it might suggest that the winged forms are temporary and cause no harm. They do not eat our food, nor do they sting or bite.
It is not too late to see winged ants. In their book Journey to the Ants, E.O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler describe the scene of a common ant that enacts nuptial flights during September:
The slaughter of failed reproductive hopefuls can be seen all over the eastern United States at the end of each summer, when the "Labor Day ant," Lasius neoniger, attempts colony reproduction. The species is one of the dominant insects of city sidewalks and lawns, open fields, golf courses, and country roadsides. The dumpy little brown workers build inconspicuous crater mounds, piles of excavated soil that encircle the entrance holes, causing the nests to look a bit like miniature volcanic calderas. Emerging from the nests, the workers forage over the ground, in among the grass tussocks, and up onto low grasses and shrubs in search of dead insects and nectar. For a few hours each year, however, this routine is abandoned and activity around the anthills changes drastically. In the last few days of August or the first two weeks of September—around Labor Day—at five o'clock on a sunny afternoon, if rain has recently fallen and if the air is still and warm and humid, vast swarms of virgin queens and males emerge from Lasius neoniger nests and fly upward. For an hour or two the air is filled with the winged ants, meeting and copulating while still aloft. Many end up splattered on windshields. Birds, dragonflies, robber flies, and other airborne predators also scythe through the airborne ranks. Some individuals stray far out over lakes, doomed to alight on water and drown. As twilight approaches the orgy ends, and the last of the survivors flutter to the ground. The queens scrape off their wings and search for a place to dig their earthen nest. Few will get far on this final journey…
Most winged forms die without our help. Insecticides are superfluous. Besides, why would anyone want to do away with a major natural spectacle?
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The Earliest Butterfly of Spring: The Mourning Cloak
March 1, 2015 Richard Fidler	1 Comment
Mourning Cloak Butterfly, image courtesy Andy Reago and Chrissy McClarren, https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildreturn/.
It is a sunny day in March, the temperature hitting close to sixty degrees and I am out hunting for Mourning Cloak butterflies. The drifts of snow still covering the north slopes and hollows do not discourage me because I know their habits: they emerge early in spring–earlier than any other butterfly–seeking sweetness in damaged trees leaking sap as well as mates to continue their life cycle. Up ahead among the hardwood trunks of beech and maple I see a dark flutter—Mourning Cloaks, two of them flying in a tight spiral, a mating dance. I raise my hands to the sky for a moment as an expression of joy at my discovery. As I do, another Mourning Cloak I had missed in my concentration upon the first pair draws close and boldly lands upon the sleeve of my jacket. It flexes his wings once or twice and I beam with joy: What an intelligent and friendly animal this is! We bask in each other's company.
Mourning Cloaks overwinter as adults, crawling into warm spaces underneath bark or stones, close to soil that remains unfrozen all year long. Among the earliest wildflowers, the Spring Beauties and the Hepatica, they dance in the sunlight, ready to mate, lay eggs, and die, thereby completing their life cycle within a calendar year. The eggs, laid upon host plants poplar and willow, hatch into dark spiky caterpillars, creatures one would hardly guess would change into a splendid adult butterfly.
The adult is mostly a uniform purple-black, a muted yellow border on its wings with a row of blue dots inside of that. Having lived a year already, its wings might appear battered and faded, not furnished with the glowing colors it showed upon its emergence from its pupal case.
This butterfly, like many others, is territorial, males often proclaiming their rights by lighting on the highest object around, understory trees, for example, or hands outstretched in joy at having found Mourning Cloaks in the first days of spring. Or, then again, with that behavior they might be proving they are especially intelligent and friendly insects!
I have found Mourning Cloaks in Northern Michigan hardwoods–consisting of beech, sugar maple, white ash, black cherry–in the months of March, April, and May. They disappear for much of the summer as eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars transform into butterflies, and butterflies "sleep" during the hottest summer months, aestivation the term given to this period of dormancy. In late summer and early fall they appear again, the new adults, seeking nectar and food to get them through our long, cold winters.
Sharp-lobed Hepatica, one of the earliest spring flowers, adored by Mourning Cloak's and people alike. Image courtesy of Jason Sturner, https://www.flickr.com/photos/50352333@N06/.
The Mourning Cloak is the animal equivalent of Spring Beauty, Trailing Arbutus, and Hepatica, the first wildflowers to appear in spring. We welcome it as we do those flowers, the earliest sign that warmth is returning to the world. Whether you visit the woods for morels or for wildflowers, keep an eye out for these butterflies. And if you hold your hands up, you just might get one to land on you.


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Viagra Boys "Street Worms"
November 1, 2018 · by thesoulofaclown	· in Album review, Reviews.	·
It seems that recently there has been a string of bands who are being hailed as bringing a modern punk sound. To be honest, the likes of Idles and Sleaford Mob have left us relatively unimpressed. Viagra Boys have come along with a similar line of press and resultant expectation. So, do they actually deliver?
From opener "Down In The Basement", it seems immediately obvious that it's a definite yes. The song itself is the kind of raucous start to the album that we just love. It's really hard to pigeon hole the band's sound as, in some ways, it's all over the place. "Slow Learner" is a mix of electro sounds that also has a 70's vibe but with an eighties feel. Whilst "Just Like You" is a brooding and menacing song. It should be a bit of a mess but instead sounds brilliant.
None of that is to say that the band don't know their way around a tune. "Sports" is probably the best Iggy Pop song not actually released by the great man himself. Together with the brilliant rock cacophony of "Shrimp Shack" and "Frogstrap" these are the songs that we'd expect to get picked up by music stations like 6Music (with some lyric editing!).
"Worms" offers up a slight respite as it takes a slower, darker tone and has a very Nick Cave feel to it. Fittingly the album then ends with the intense electro rock beat of "Amphetanarchy", a title that feels very apt for this track and indeed the whole album.
This certainly isn't an easy listening, background music type album. It's an album that will challenge your musical senses. Like the original punk sound there is a raucous and experimental nature to the sounds. It can, at times, make for 'difficult' listening as your brain tries to cope with the intense sound. It's an album that will grab you and intrigue you. It certainly sounds like something new, which is pretty rare these days. Being both unique and inspiring, it's a release you must check out.
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After receiving disaster relief assistance from Tzu Chi, many chose to help others in return. Some joined our fundraising efforts and began spreading Dharma Master Cheng Yen's Bamboo Bank spirit. Others chose to help their communities by volunteering. The caring response of those who were helped, was an example of the never-ending cycle of love in action.
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Some care recipients, such as husband and wife Harold and Jacqueline Samarod, began joining Tzu Chi volunteers to assist others in need.
Aid recipients were touched and inspired by the bamboo bank story, and gave back to help others willingly.
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One year after the Hurricane, Tzu Chi volunteers joined the "Light the Shore" event hosted by the Staten Island Interfaith and Long Term Recovery Group, to commemorate the losses during Sandy and how people of different ethnic backgrounds and religions united after the disaster.
Volunteers were pleasantly surprised and grateful to see aid recipients return their bamboo banks full, contributing to the never-ending cycle of love.
It's not just the matter of giving back to a charity that took care of me. It's about whatever else that comes with it. It's a kind of amazing experience that you gave people.
Following Tzu Chi USA's disaster relief response to Hurricane Sandy, Tzu Chi Foundation was named Member of the Year at the 21st National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD) Conference in 2013. Our volunteers were also recognized as Champions of Change at the White House, and received a Recognition Award from the New York Senate.
Ariel Creamer, founder of Survivors Silver Lining and a fellow winner of the White House Champion of Change award, was also a Tzu Chi aid recipient after Sandy destroyed her home.
Tzu Chi continuously distributes financial assistance to care recipients in our communities. Some local volunteers who helped out during the Sandy disaster relief mission later joined Tzu Chi USA as volunteers, and benefited from Tzu Chi's other programs too.
Palwasha Syar was a volunteer translator for Tzu Chi's Sandy relief distribution at the Shorefront Y (Coney Island, Brooklyn) in 2013. Two years later, Palwasha is now a 2-time Tzu Chi College Scholarship recipient.
I got this from the scholarship ceremony, and knowing that all the scholarship money I get is from donations, I would love to help other students too.
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In the heart of the private Kapama reserve in South Africa, Camp Jabulani is not only an homage to the elephant, but also a refuge for the traveller, a place where people in search of something authentic, something wholesome and restorative come to rest and reawaken. And part of this journey is the role played by food. A role that Executive Chef, Dylan Frost takes on and executes with great heart.
Discover more from Camp Jabulani's Executive Chef in our Q&A with him below and follow him on Instagram here.
My very first memory of cooking was when I was in Scotland, visiting my mother for a holiday. My mother use to cook for the guests in the hotel that she was working at, and I helped her make breakfast the one morning. It was a fun experience for me as I was only 12 years old.
2. What five things has working at Camp Jabulani taught you about yourself, life and love?
Camp Jabulani has taught me that the smallest and simplest things in life count and can make a massive difference in a guest's life.
I have also learnt the importance of working as a team.
Camp Jabulani has taught me that I am capable of doing amazing things.
I have truly learnt that I really love cooking and that I will never stop.
It has taught me the true meaning of love, since it's where I met my wife. I am the luckiest man ever.
3. How did your path lead you to Camp Jabulani?
I had been working at the Plettenberg Hotel for some time and thought that it was time for a change of scenery. I was looking at jobs in the lodge industry in order to change from the hotel scene and I was fortunate enough to receive the opportunity to work here, in the wilderness of Kapama.
4. How do you bring a taste of the land to your dishes?
I like to stick to the simple elements but also add a twist, by using our local venisons, whether it be Springbok shanks or Kudu loins. These proteins are able to tell a story just by the way they look and taste on a plate.
5. How would you describe the kind of cuisine at Camp Jabulani and the motivation behind it?
Camp Jabulani cuisine is a fusion between South African and French cuisine. I keep the lunches more bistro style and the dinners have a rustic fine dining feel. We also have a lapa for boma evenings, which is always a lovely surprise for the guests, as it includes traditional South African dishes.
6. What inspires you day to day – in life and work?
Trying new dishes and foods inspires me. And I love watching the guests expressions after they try a dish that I've been working on for a while.
7. Where do you source most of your produce from?
We are fortunate enough to have wonderful suppliers closeby in Nelspruit and in Hoedspruit. We have access to the freshest of herbs from just around the corner, and we get the best cuts of meats from suppliers that we have been working with for ages and have built a fantastic relationship with.
8. What are some of your favourite local ingredients and dishes?
I am a massive fan of using the weirdest ingredient and trying new ingredients. I have recently sourced samphire here and it has brought life to some of our fish dishes, giving you that experience of eating at the ocean but in the middle of the bush. I love the Monk fish dish that we create here.
9. What are some of the unique requests you've had from guests when it comes to food and dining?
I have had some really weird but interesting requests before. I remember a group of guests staying in the villa. They wanted to have a pizza night and one of the young ladies requested a pizza with pistachios, goats cheese and honey. I had never tasted it before, but I can now definitely recommend it.
10. What do you enjoy most about living and working at Camp Jabulani and what makes the camp so special?
I really find that working with this amazing team plays a massive role in making the time here well spent. I am very fortunate to have a great team behind me as well, but the best part of working here is that we get to work with the Camp Jabulani herd of elephants. Even in the hardest times you can always count on the elephants to brighten up your day and bring a smile to your face.


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2007 Washington Wizards Summary
Playoff Performance
Lost Eastern Conference 1st Rd
Playoff Record: 0-4 (.000)
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Wizards 0-4 Cavaliers
Players Used
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41-41 (.500)
Schedule and results...
7º in Eastern Conference
2º in Southeast Division
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Longest Streaks
Winning Streak: 5 games
Losing Streak: 6 games
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28.4 ppg
Rebounds:
Antawn Jamison
8.0 rpg
6.0 apg
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Caron Butler
2.1 spg
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Antonio Daniels
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Letter writer wonders how Sooke can be fixed, claiming the town is broken
Now that Evan Parliament has resigned as CAO, is it appropriate for the citizens of Sooke to sit back, breathe a sigh of relief, and declare all is right with the world? Evan Parliament was not the problem. He was a symptom of the problem. Since incorporation, Sooke has travelled like a ship without a master, with a crew that at times operates without adequate direction, and at other times, with an agenda foist upon them by elected and unelected persons.
Anyone who thinks that Evan Parliament acted on his own, and that no blame attaches elsewhere, should give their head a shake. The most trusted position in our hallowed halls is that of Director of Finance. It appears when one searches the records, that former Director of Finance, Dave Devana, was complicit with Evan Parliament in a scheme to finance their trip to China, using the District of Sooke Visa cards, creating an account receivable in each name, and paying the debt over a number of months, in effect using the taxpayers of Sooke as bankers for their caper.
Records clearly show that in July of 2009, both Parliament and Devana used DOS credit cards to forward $2,182.49 each, to the group in San Jose, who were the trip organizers. The use of DOS credit cards for personal expenditures is not allowed. This trip was not a business venture, but billed as a holiday. There is no record of any approval by the council of the day, for these two to set up an account, use the district funds to bankroll their trip, and pay the monies back over a period of months. It always comes down to the same questions: Who knew? What did they know? When did they know it?
There is no doubt that governance in Sooke is in disarray. It is hard to do an exact count, but staff turnover in this town is astounding. We will now be hiring our third CAO. We have had four Directors of Finance, and have just appointed our fifth. We have had at least five Directors of Engineering, and so many Directors of Planning it is impossible to count. The end result is an endless number of studies, plans, consultants reports, etc., gathering dust on shelves. There are untold dollars involved in these documents, and there is no doubt that under proper direction, our own residents could have done the job as volunteers, and done it with our community in mind.
Our town is broken and there is enough blame to go around. Some of it belongs to those of us who go to the ballot box and leave our brains at home. Some of it belongs to those who sit at the council table and vote without understanding the issues, or vote to satisfy a personal agenda, rather than consider the good of the community.
Without a doubt, much of it belongs to those who have done the hiring. It is not possible to hire efficiently, unless one understands the requirements of the position and how municipalities should work.
Gail Hall
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So much for a 2012 release, huh? Looks like fans of the Metal Gear Solid series (As well as Xbox and PC gamers who have long been waiting) can finally rejoice as the release date of Metal Gear Solid: Rising has been confirmed to be on November 1, 2011! Yup that's two weeks before the other third-person perspective stealth-action game, Assassin's Creed Revelations… and a week before everyone's favorite (or not) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 comes out.
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Klinisk prövning på Refractory Angina: Neovasc Reducer
Eur Heart J 2002; 23:355. Trehan N, Mishra Y, Mehta Y, Jangid DR. Interest in the management of refractory angina has increased recently as a result of an ever growing prevalence of the condition due to several causes, and the availability of new pharmacological agents for the treatment of angina pectoris. Although Refractory Angina has a low mortality rate, patients are at a higher risk of suffering heart attacks and this could worsen the condition. Treatments for Refractory Angina This is a condition that cannot be ignored and various treatments are tried out to help provide relief. 2020-01-13 · Coronary sinus reducer stent for the treatment of chronic refractory angina pectoris: a prospective, open-label, multicenter, safety feasibility first-in-man study J Am Coll Cardiol , 49 ( 2007 ) , pp. 1783 - 1789 The angina service Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust has a specialist multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, headed by Dr Ranil De Silva, who are dedicated to the investigation and treatment of patients with complex coronary disease and refractory angina.
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1 The mainstays of treatment of coronary vasospasm are nitroglycerine and calcium channel antagonists; however, responses to treatment can be variable, as also reflected in "Refractory Angina" is the term used to describe these patients, and is characterized by myocardial ischemia and chronic, disabling stable angina despite conventional forms of treatment. Patients with refractory angina are no longer responsive to optimal medical therapy for angina (treatment with at least two classes of drug at maximally The aim of this study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of the two most commonly practiced temporary sympathectomy techniques in the treatment of chronic refractory angina. Fifty-nine consecutive refractory angina patients commencing outpatient temporary sympathectomy from November 1, 2000 to November 1, 2002, were prospectively audited for duration of pain relief and procedural 2005-05-11 · Refractory angina pectoris is defined as Canadian Cardiovascular Society class III or IV angina, where there is marked limitation of ordinary physical activity or inability to perform ordinary physical activity without discomfort, with an objective evidence of myocardial ischemia and persistence of symptoms despite optimal medical therapy, life style modification treatments, and Cardiac SW therapy is a novel approach that might play an important role in the treatment of patients with refractory angina. It seems to reduce the symptoms and to improve the quality of life. As it is a noninvasive therapy and no significant adverse effects have been reported with its use, it emerges as an attractive option for these patients. Coronary sinus narrowing for the treatment of refractory angina A multi-center prospective open-label clinical study (The REDUCER-I study) DOI: 10.4244/EIJ-D-20-00873. Patients with refractory angina are becoming more and more common, I don't know why is that happening.
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Samtliga erhöll sotalol för kontroll av anginasymtom (medeldos 160 mg/dag). Nattel S, Hadjis T, Talajic M. The treatment of atrial fibrillation: an evaluation of Efficacy and safety of sotalol in patients with refractory atrial Efficacy and Safety Study of bb2121 Versus Standard Regimens in Subjects With Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM) - BB2121-MM-003. enhanced external counterpulsation treatment - a qualitative study of patients with refractory angina pectoris European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 17, opportunistic microorganisms in oral cavity after treatment for oral cancer.
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Our aim was to systematically review all studies that reported non-invasive interventions for refractory angina and report on their effectiveness and safety. Methods We performed a literature search of six databases and a grey Refractory angina pectoris has become an increasingly challenging problem in clinical practice. Several forms of treatment have been tried, but results emerging from clinical studies suggest that spinal cord stimulation and enhanced external counterpulsation present the most favourable risk/cost to benefit profile. 2020-08-13 · Another potential treatment for refractory angina is the coronary sinus reducer (CSR). It is an hourglass-shaped stent inserted by a balloon catheter and causes the narrowing of the coronary sinus. The coronary sinus reducer is inserted percutaneously through one of the jugular veins while the patient is under local anesthesia.
The prevalence of refractory angina pectoris in the United States has been estimated to be 1.8 million, with an incidence of approximately 50,000 to 100,000 each year. 2021-04-17 The incidence of refractory angina is variable depending on the definition, but it is estimated to affect 5% of patients with chronic coronary heart disease.
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This allows us to review the We will review 2020-06-04 · Background Refractory angina can have a significant effect on quality of life. Non-invasive interventions have been suggested but there are few guidelines on management. Our aim was to systematically review all studies that reported non-invasive interventions for refractory angina and report on their effectiveness and safety. Methods We performed a literature search of six databases and a grey Refractory angina pectoris has become an increasingly challenging problem in clinical practice.
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The coronary sinus reducer is inserted percutaneously through one of the jugular veins while the patient is under local anesthesia. Emerging treatment options for refractory angina pectoris: ranolazine, shock wave treatment, and cell-based therapies. Gennari M(1), Gambini E, Bassetti B(2), Capogrossi M(3), Pompilio G(4). Coronary Sinus Reducer Stent for the Treatment of Chronic Refractory Angina Pectoris: A Prospective, Open-Label, Multicenter, Safety Feasibility, First-in-Man Study.
Abstract : Refractory angina pectoris has been defined as severe angina pectoris due to coronary artery disease which cannot be controlled by conventional .com/heart-valve-bovine-tissue-tmvi-coronary-sinus-reduction/management to the Neovasc Reducer, a medical device for the treatment of refractory angina, patients with refractory angina pectoris. Heart 1999;82:89-92. 33. Cook AW, Oygar A, Baggenstos P,. Pacheco S, Kleriga E. Vascular disease of extremities. av J Hirsh · 2001 · Citerat av 599 — Aspirin, heparin, or both to treat acute unstable angina. or alteplase in reduction of myocardial ischaemia in refractory unstable angina.
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Predictors of treatment benefits after enhanced external counterpulsation in patients with refractory angina pectoris Clinical Cardiology, 44(2), 160-167. coronary artery disease: the Task Force on the management of stable coronary artery stimulation in the treatment of refractory angina: systematic review and. Abstract : Refractory angina pectoris has been defined as severe angina pectoris due to coronary artery disease which cannot be controlled by conventional .com/heart-valve-bovine-tissue-tmvi-coronary-sinus-reduction/management to the Neovasc Reducer, a medical device for the treatment of refractory angina, patients with refractory angina pectoris. Heart 1999;82:89-92. 33. Cook AW, Oygar A, Baggenstos P,. Pacheco S, Kleriga E. Vascular disease of extremities.
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Abstract A growing number of patients, particularly those with advanced, chronic coronary artery disease, experience symptoms of angina that are refractory to treatment with β-blockers, calcium-channel blockers, and long-acting nitrates, despite revascularization. An estimated 300,000 to 900,000 patients in the United States have refractory angina, and 25,000 to 75,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. This review focuses on treatment strategies for refractory angina and includes the mechanism of action and clinical trial data for each strategy. Treatment There are many options for angina treatment, including lifestyle changes, medications, angioplasty and stenting, or coronary bypass surgery. The goals of treatment are to reduce the frequency and severity of your symptoms and to lower your risk of a heart attack and death. Refractory angina (RA) is conventionally defined as a chronic condition (≥3 months in duration) characterised by angina in the setting of coronary artery disease (CAD), which cannot be controlled by a combination of optimal medical therapy, angioplasty or bypass surgery, and where reversible myocardial ischaemia has been clinically established to be the cause of the symptoms.
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New Stone Age: Should We Expect Total Destruction of Ukrainian Infrastructure?
On October 10, well-known idioms "Monday is a hard day", "morning does not start with coffee", "what's with the face?" enriched with a mass of new meanings, especially on the territory of the globe of Ukraine. Although it was worth waiting for an answer for the Crimean bridge, and the fascist command brazenly declared that it was ready, in reality it turned out to be one big surprise.
But what was it single doomsday or the beginning of a long and destructive "end of the world"?
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Against the background of the crumpled beginning of the NWO, enemy propaganda was happy to draw parallels between it and the Finnish war of 1939-1940. - however, in such a way, as if the USSR lost that war. In fact, as we remember, after the first serious setbacks, local retreats and "cauldrons", the revealed shortcomings in planning and organization were eliminated, the Finnish army was defeated by the reassembled Soviet one, and political the objectives of the operation have been achieved.
Are we seeing something similar now? As if yes, in any case, General Surovikin entered the post of commander of the NMD really harshly. The main question now is how the air campaign to "pump" fascist Ukraine into the Stone Age will continue to develop, whether such a goal is set at all or not.
In the political binding of the operation on October 10, as always, there were disagreements. On the one hand, Putin declared it precisely as an act of retaliation for the terrorist attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russian civilians and infrastructure facilities, which will follow each subsequent such attack. On the other hand, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Medvedev added on his own behalf (in an interview with the military commissar Friedrichson and on his own Telegram channel) that it would be worthwhile to focus on the physical destruction of the Kyiv terrorists and the "complete dismantling of the Ukrainian regime." Finally, our Foreign Ministry, in the person of Zakharova, denied Medvedev, stating that the overthrow of Zelensky and his party lord is not included in the plans.
As usual, we will know reality if we follow not our mouths, but our hands. So far (including the early morning of October 11, when new attacks against energy objects were recorded), the bulk of the strikes have been directed at those economic goal value. Moreover, the strikes were still of a sparing nature, in particular, critical and almost irreplaceable nodal substations with a voltage of 750 kV and distribution substations of nuclear power plants were not destroyed. The associated casualties are minimal (on the morning of October 11, the Ukrainian side announced 19 dead and 105 wounded).
Of the purely fascist facilities, only the headquarters of the SBU was attacked, and, as they say, the attack was very successful - in the sense that it significantly reduced the population of the Gestapo. Although their losses are not publicly announced, one should expect that if the Ukrainian side suddenly announces "multiple civilian casualties" in one or several allegedly destroyed buildings, then dead ghouls from the SBU will act as "killed civilians".
Judging by the hysterical cries of the Ukrainian Goebbels, demanding from the "allies" some kind of ultimatums to Putin, the enemy is not going to give up his terrorist methods due to the new shelling of Donetsk and the villages of the Belgorod and Kursk regions (otherwise: habit is second nature). Consequently, infrastructure attacks from the Russian side will also have to continue, regardless of what concept - Putin's or Medvedev's - underlies them. If the deputy chairman's point of view on "destruction and dismantling" is not just his personal, but applied, then soon we will see strikes on the "locations" of Zelensky, Zaluzhny and other main cannibals, aimed at eliminating not only themselves, but also other personnel of the central bodies Kyiv regime.
In general, if we ignore the context (which differs very significantly), the practice of using long-range weapons by Russian troops is very reminiscent of another famous war - Vietnam. During it, the Americans for many years tried to "grind all the gooks" in the contact zone with air strikes, practically without affecting the North Vietnamese rear for fear of losses and escalation. When "on the ground" it came to the actual military defeat and the withdrawal of American troops, a large-scale operation Linebaker II was launched to create "more advantageous negotiating positions". In just 12 days, with small losses of their own, the Americans managed to almost completely disable the energy and transport infrastructure of the entire country. The object air defense of the DRV did not cope with its task, being simply unable to repel raids of such a scale, the Soviet Union did not directly intervene.
Although the pro-American puppet regime of South Vietnam was soon defeated anyway, it was Linebaker II that delayed its collapse by as much as two years. If the Americans had carried out an operation of a similar scale, for example, in 1967-68, then the course and outcome of the war could have been completely different.
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In the context of the NMD, the "planned" dragging out of the campaign still had more advantages for Russia than for our enemies: during the time that they were beating Ukraine, all of Europe, with the help of the American masters, managed to skin itself - and this, of course, is good. But now, on the eve of winter and the horror of it that has already gripped the "white gentlemen", it makes sense not to limit the pace (and methods) of the destruction of the Nazis.
After the first shock from the attacks on October 10, the quite expected reaction of the West followed in the form of an intensification of arms supplies; and not only in words. In particular, visiting Odessa on October 2, German Defense Minister Lambrecht promised the transfer of one battery of the IRIS-T air defense system to the Armed Forces of Ukraine "by the end of the year", and last night there were reports that this battery of four launchers was either leaving, or already reached the Ukrainian border. The 16 NASAMS complexes promised by the Americans are also likely to arrive earlier than they could in a "calmer" environment.
And although the Europeans are unlikely to go for a further weakening of their own air defense for the sake of transferring weapons to Ukraine (unless they pour out a few more barreled anti-aircraft guns), even 20 additional air defense systems will significantly complicate the life of our pilots and (to a lesser extent) rocket scientists. And the point is not in some outstanding characteristics of Western complexes, roughly corresponding to the Soviet "Buks", but in the fact that they are corny "fresh" - therefore, they will work with fewer failures. In addition, given the almost open participation in battles on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of entire units of foreign troops, it can be expected that the air defense systems will arrive with calculations, that is, they will be ready for action immediately.
The own forces of the object air defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during yesterday's strikes showed themselves very poorly, primarily due to poor condition equipment. At least a few "sour" anti-aircraft missiles "shot down" nearby buildings, including residential buildings, instead of air targets. Perhaps the expected poor state of Ukrainian air defense is one of the reasons why the first strikes were not directed against it, but immediately against infrastructure targets. It is also possible that the calculation is made on the fact that now the enemy will begin to pull together all the available air defense systems to the objects that survived the first day of the air offensive, where they will be destroyed in batches.
As for the "opportunities for a retaliatory strike", I am still sure that Kyiv will not wait for the notorious ATACMS missiles. due to their scarcity in Uncle Sam's own arsenals and foreign warplanes, too. The supply of additional self-propelled artillery and Western-style heavy armored vehicles is also in question: although the French promise additional CAESARs, and the Germans chipped in for a couple of Czech Zuzana self-propelled guns, they simply physically don't have "extra" tanks. Even the "new" models of light armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, recently seen at the fronts, the French VAB armored personnel carriers, the Finnish XA-180, the MaxxPro armored vehicles promised by the Americans in the last tranche, are exactly what "what I don't want", the vehicles removed from service with native armies.
True, the air offensive of the Russian forces gives the Nazis additional opportunities for nuclear provocationwhich they will almost certainly resort to if the situation becomes desperate. Against the backdrop of how the Russian VPR has seriously raised rates, against the backdrop of new suspicious incidents in Europe (yesterday, an underwater electrical cable to the already famous Bronholm Islands, and on October 8, railway communication in Northern Germany was limited due to broken communication cables) fear of full scale escalation in the West, it jumped sharply, and not only in the "bottom", but also in the "top". Imitation of a nuclear accident "provoked by Russia" may seem to Zelensky and the party lord the last way to beg something else from the "allies".
And this is another reason why it is worth listening to Medvedev and "dismantling" these individuals from the surface of the planet as soon as possible.
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Vladimir Tuzakov (Vladimir Tuzakov) 11 October 2022 16: 07
Having said A, it is necessary to say B. If Ukraine has begun to cut off electricity, it will continue to the end. Only in this way is it possible to finish the CBO with little bloodshed. There is no other way. So put the squeeze on, if they don't squeeze it again, and with half-hearted decisions (beneficial to the enemies of the Slavs), so in our Russian Federation the fifth column definitely runs everything ..
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Teacher (Wise) 11 October 2022 16: 29
How many young healthy male Russians have died and been maimed. They are still being called. and this is the best gene pool of the nation. We risk the future of Russia, and you care about the comfort of geeks from the Slavs. They won't die. Those are the rats. Finish off!
You still do not understand that the vile Anglo-Saxons pitted Ukraine against Russia with a long strategy. That's who in the Russian Federation allowed such a state and the later necessary bloodshed, a separate question for the FSB, but only there it is possible that the same ones are in the service.
And there are traitors (FSB). How many Kamaz vehicles with money were taken out of the apartments of colonels and generals? How much is left?
Our, our children's future is in danger. Putin, if he is real, should create a body with the broadest powers, a kind of accounting chamber, to monitor the top and middle staff of law enforcement agencies for compliance with spending and monetary allowances. Find loyal people, they are. If with a firm hand, the result will be.
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isofat (isofat) 11 October 2022 17: 29
Anglo-Saxons themselves Sorosov и Kissingers divorced, there now everyone is in debt and no one likes them.
(Isofat) Reply. It seems that the Anglo-Saxons are ruled by the main Jewish financial clans (All the latest prime ministers of England with Jewish blood, with the exception of two ladies, and the US presidents are Jews Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.). That is why Soros and Kissinger are breeding the world, both the British and the Americans, with their cunning game.
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steelmaker 11 October 2022 20: 50
New Stone Age:
You read and rejoice, and then you turned on the Internet and thought: "Are they lying to us?" Ukrainian bloggers are all online: YouTube, Telegram - everything works. Everywhere they squeal and spread the video. So there is light and the Internet. That's when our commanders shut their mouths, then I believe that everything is serious. And so, let them hang noodles on the ears of the pioneers, or tell Putin such a fairy tale at night.
steelmaker, don't worry.
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Rinat (Rinat) 12 October 2022 06: 23
I will assume that there will be no total destruction of civilian infrastructure throughout Ukraine. But it will be enough to feel in your own skin all the "charms" of her absence, as people in the Donbass felt it.
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Kapany3 12 October 2022 07: 40
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Well, as if the IVS did just that, only the motives were different.
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Sergey Latyshev (Serge) 12 October 2022 16: 39
I remember that they wrote about the Taliban and ISIS (both banned in the Russian Federation) that they blow everything up and lead the Arab East into the Stone Age ....
And now the 1s are already officially coming to Moscow, and right in the headlines of our own articles about us:
"New Stone Age: Should We Expect Total Destruction of Ukrainian Infrastructure"
Lepota... time takes a turn and returns to us...
The Taliban (students, students in translation) and the artificially created ISIS (similar to the British with the participation of Saudi Wahhabis) should not be confused, these are two big differences. The Taliban government already differs little from the Iranian one based on Islam. An interesting headline, doubts about the continuation of the operation to de-electrify Ukraine. If there are doubts, then in addition, doubts about a quick victory over Ukraine.
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