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Punk'd By The Grand Bargain Fantasy ... Again
Punk'd By A Grand Bargain Fantasy ... Again
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Can the Obama administration just retire the notion of "Grand Bargains" please? That sort of thing simply cannot work when you are dealing with a polarized electorate and an opposition party which has declared all out legislative war. To think they will negotiate in good faith is just ridiculous beyond belief
This article about Rahm's strategy for the climate change legislation is fascinating. I continue to believe these guys get way, way too fine with this stuff and it just won't work against political thugs who are committed using the hard, blunt instrument of obstruction. I don't know what it's going to take for them to get this.
In fact, Rahm, the supposed political genius, played right into their hands:
Dealing with the White House required a one-day-at-a-time, God-grant-me-the-serenity mindset, especially when it came to Rahm Emanuel. The chief of staff was an obstacle to climate action.
When corporate and environmental leaders from the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) went to the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing for a late spring 2009 meeting with Emanuel, they could see that he didn't much care about climate change. What he cared about was winning -- acquiring and maintaining presidential power over an eight-year arc. Climate and energy were agenda items to him, pieces on a legislative chessboard; he was only willing to play them in ways that enhanced Obama's larger objectives. He saw no point in squandering capital on a lost cause. The White House could claim victory if Congress passed a beefy energy bill without a cap -- and never mind that doing so could torpedo Copenhagen and delay serious greenhouse-gas reductions, perhaps for many years. At the USCAP meeting, Emanuel made his views clear: "We want to do this climate bill, but success breeds success," he said. "We need to put points on the board. We only want to do things that are going to be successful. If the climate bill bogs down, we move on. We've got health care." Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) had to move the bill out of committee before the White House would get in the game.
I guess that's supposed to be brilliant. They only want to do things that are successful? Well, yes, although many people would define success as being more that "putting points on the board" when your job is to run the country. (Indeed, what he's admitting to is that he has the mindset of a Wall Street baron --- all that matters is tomorrow's share price. It is very revealing.)
Moreover, even by his own standards, he's an abject failure. "Claiming victory" for passing Republican policies isn't exactly getting them anywhere. And failing to pass policies that will deal with this recession and relieve some of the pain actual citizens are feeling isn't buying them any love from anyone.
Obama's stealth strategy had a fallacy at its core. The strategy assumed it was possible to be stealthy on this issue. It implied that if Obama didn't elevate the issue, the opposition wouldn't elevate it either. But the professional deniers -- PR men and women paid to sow doubt and confusion on the issue -- were getting louder every day. And Obama missed opportunity after opportunity to communicate on the issue.
When Waxman and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) brought the Waxman-Markey bill to the floor, they forced Obama's hand. He began jawboning members, Al Gore worked the phones from Nashville, and Emanuel put aside his misgivings and mounted an effective whip operation. With an impressive last-minute display by Pelosi, the bill passed 219 to 212 -- and then the momentum dissolved in the face of conservative opposition. Obama's stealth strategy failed to take into account the vigor of denialism and opposition to cap-and-trade. It also failed to anticipate that unforeseen cataclysms could make climate legislation even harder to pass in 2010 and beyond than it had been in 2009.
It is a cruel irony that the epic disaster in the Gulf -- a wakeup call to the need to reduce our dependence on oil -- makes it harder to pass a bill that would help us do so. Expanded offshore drilling (and the revenue it would bring) was the chip Obama hoped to use to draw oil-state senators into a grand bargain that would also include subsidies for nuclear power and carbon capture and storage, with a modest carbon cap in return. The oil spill blew up that idea by taking expanded offshore drilling off the table, at least for now. With few chips left, Obama appears to be hoping that public anger over the spill can help drive a new version of the climate bill. Soon, we'll know whether he really means it. Democratic leaders in the Senate have been floating the idea of an energy bill without a carbon cap -- which would be yet another failure of nerve by a group of legislators badly in need of adult supervision. Passing a real climate bill will be excruciatingly difficult. Waiting will only make it harder. It's time for Obama to intervene on the Hill, silence the naysayers inside his own administration, harness the public mood, and make good on his promise to fight.
Rahm seemed to think the Republicans were either irrelevant or could be bought off. What a fatal error. You can say a lot of things about them, but they are always thinking long term and about the Big Picture, however malevolent that long term big picture is. And they realized that Rahm's flaw was that he would do anything to "win," which meant they got to define what that meant --- and then deny it to him anyway.
Everyone believed Rahm's 2006 hype, but they were wrong. He's incompetent. The Republicans knew it and punk'd him -- and the country -- but good.
Update: Here's a tick-tock by McClatchy on the president's action (and inaction) leading up to the decision to expand offshore drilling in the grand bargain. They forgot to mention the meetings where Rahm said it was a big loser and that they had to lick Lindsay Graham's boots until the moment he betrayed them. No article has it all, I'm afraid.


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Ast: Austen Awosika - 7
FULLERTON, Calif. – The Cal State Fullerton men's basketball team returns home for a single game against the Portland Pilots on Saturday at 6 p.m. PT, the second leg of a doubleheader in Titan Gym as the women's team plays at 2 p.m.
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• Cal State Fullerton is squaring off against the Pilots for the fourth straight year after winning both at Portland in 2017 and at Titan Gym in 2016.
• Senior guard Kyle Allman, Jr., Allman is tops on the team and second in the league in points per game at 18.1. He's fourth on the squad in assists and tied a career-high against Wake Forest (Nov. 16) with eight helpers. The Brooklyn native has scored has scored 10+ in 31 of his last 32 games. Allman has scored 30+ six times over the course of this season and last season.
• Senior guard Khalil Ahmad, the Nov. 19 Big West Player of the Week, is second on the team and fourth in the Big West in scoring at 17.2 points per game. He had a strong showing at the Myrtle Beach Invitational as he earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team. Over the three-game tournament he averaged 25.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 steals, including a 40-point outburst against Monmouth. He's also third in the league in steals per game at 1.75.
• Ahmad became the 24th Titan in program history to score 1,000 points in a career after scoring 31 at UC Davis (Feb. 10, 2018). He has totaled 1,355 points in his career, the eighth-best mark in the program. Allman joined him in the 1K Club on Feb. 28 when he scored 23 points at CSUN (Feb. 16, 2018). He sits 1,301 points for his career, No. 11 all-time.
• Junior forward Jackson Rowe has been doing a bit of everything on the floor. He is averaging 9.7 points, 6.6 rebounds, 0.83 blocks and 1.0 steals per game. He leads the team in both rebounds and blocks, and had a career-high four rejections against Monmouth (Nov. 18). He's shooting an impressive 57.0% (45-79) from the field this year, the No. 2 mark in the league. Rowe has played 294 minutes for the Titans this year and the team has out-scored the opponent by 39 points (+5.31 per 40 minutes) in that timeframe, the best mark on the team of those who play regularly.
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Away Record: 3-2
Neutral Record: 1-3
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First Meeting: 12/29/78 vs. Portland (Billings, Montana), L, 105-85
Last Meeting: 12/06/17 at Portland, W, 76-66
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Head coach Terry Porter and his Portland Pilots are 7-7 on the year.
Marcus Shaver Jr. leads the team in scoring at 14.5 points per game followed by Josh McSwiggan at 14.1 and JoJo Walker at 13.5.
The Pilots are 17th in the country in total free throw attempts this season at 317 (22.6 per game).
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Per KenPom, the Titans have the No. 4 ranked strength of schedule in the country. The squad has played just three non-conference home games and Portland is the final home non-conference matchup before the team plays at Washington on Jan. 1.
For CSF, junior guard Austen Awosika is fourth on the team in scoring (7.7 points per game), first in assists (3.5 per game), tied for first in blocks (10 total, 0.83 per game), third in steals (1.0 per game) and second in rebounding (5.2 per game). He led the team in the category last year and is tops on the team again this year in assist percentage (an estimate of the percentage of teammate field goals assisted while on the floor) at 20.8%.
PIECING IT ALL TOGETHER
The Titans are still early in the season and have dealt with key players missing some games early on but the Titans have found success with the quintet of Kyle Allman, Jr., Austen Awosika, Khalil Ahmad, Jamal Smith and Jackson Rowe. In 33:26 on the floor together, that group has a plus/minus of +27, scoring 75 points and allowing 48. Allman, Awosika, Ahmad, Rowe and sophomore forward Johnny Wang are +22 in 35:34 on the floor.
UPDATING THE RECORD BOOKS
In addition to Khalil Ahmad and Kyle Allman, Jr. climbing the rankings of all-time points as a Titan, the duo added their names to the list of individual scoring performances in a single game this season. Ahmad scored 40 points against Monmouth (Nov. 18) and had a historic day, setting career highs in points (40), field goals made (13, on just 22 shots) and three-point field goals made (8). He is just the fifth Titan to ever score 40 points or more in a game, joining Bobby Brown, Tre' Coggins, Josh Akognon and Kyle Allman, Jr. Ahmad's 40 points was the highest point total ever in a men's basketball game at the HTC Center, breaking the previous record of 36 set by Quinton Wood on Dec. 13, 2013.
Allman scored 38 points at Hofstra (Nov. 21), tied for the seventh-best scoring performance in a single game in program history and just two points off his career-high. He knocked down a career-high eight three-point field goals, improving on his previous best of five.
Allman now has four of the top 30 scoring performances in CSF history while Ahmad has two.
ONLY TWO NEW FACES
The Titans just two newcomers to the squad this season in freshman guard Wayne Arnold and forward Amel Kuljuhovic. Arnold prepped at Dominguez High School in Compton while Kuljuhovic is a transfer from Lake Land College. Arnold is a high-level shooter he showed against West Coast Baptist when he scored 23 points to lead all scorers, including four three-point field goals. He is averaging 4.3 points and 12.7 minutes per game. Kuljuhovic has the size to work down low but can also stretch the defense with his jump shot. He is averaging 3.0 points and 2.9 rebounds in 10.1 minutes per game. He scored 7 points and hauled in 7 rebounds at San Francisco (Dec. 16).
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Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Holds Steady Near $23K; Gemini's Job Cuts Continue
FTX's FTT token was up 8% for the day. Equities closed higher.
In at least its third round of layoffs since June, crypto exchange Gemini is shedding another 10% of its staff, according to an internal message viewed by The Information.
This article originally appeared in Crypto Markets Today, CoinDesk's daily newsletter diving into what happened in today's crypto markets. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.
Gemini has been swept up in the bankruptcy of crypto lender Genesis Global Capital and has been unable to pay out funds to its Earn account holders. Gemini's founders, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, have engaged in a Twitter war with Digital Currency Group, the parent company of Genesis, over the $900 million owed to Earn customers. (DCG is also the parent company of CoinDesk.)
"It was our hope to avoid further reductions after this summer, however, persistent negative macroeconomic conditions and unprecedented fraud perpetuated by bad actors in our industry have left us with no other choice but to revise our outlook and further reduce headcount," wrote Cameron Winklevoss, the president and co-founder of Gemini, in the internal message.
Gemini had previously cut 10% of its staff in June, followed by more layoffs in July, according to TechCrunch. Gemini's headcount was down overall from 1,100 at the start of 2022 to between 650 and 700 people near the end of the year, according to The Information.
Many large crypto companies, including Coinbase, Crypto.com, Blockchain.com and ConsenSys, have cut staff in recent weeks amid the ongoing crypto winter. CoinDesk estimates nearly 27,000 jobs have been lost across the industry since April of last year.
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The promoter sought to expand and diversify the product range of the business focusing on the farming sector. The promoter had requests from farmers asking him to manufacture double concrete drinking troughs. These types of large drinking troughs are mainly requested by dairy farmers. The largest troughs, which are easily available on the market, are 45 gallon, whereas the dairy farmers are requesting 300-400 gallon capacity drinking troughs.
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Sixth Recipient Nasty Reader Award: Unnecessary Carnage Solpugid dies agonizing death - What's That Bug?
I killed this bug (sorry, I was afraid!) in my garage tonight and was so creeped out I've got the heebie-jeebies! I have no idea what it is, can you please tell me? It has large jaws and is appx 3/4 to one inch long.
This harmless Solpugid looks like its final moments were horrific. Solpugids are fierce predators, but they have no venom and will not harm humans. Cockroaches and other undesirable household intruders are common prey for this formidable hunter.
After we supplied Creeped Out with the above answer, Creeped Out had the wherewithal to submit the following tirade. Seems Creeped Out didn't read the release on our form which gives us the right to post images and letters to the website and to use them in other authorized What's That Bug publications. Nowhere in our response did we libel (slander is uttered aloud, and thankfully we have never spoken to her) Creeped Out's reputation, and we stand by our statement that the final moments of the Solpugid's life were horrific. We are very happy we don't live in Colorado Springs as we might run into Creeped Out and her nasty temper by getting some cosmetic dental work done (info we gleaned from her email address which we will withhold from publication). Just imagine the horror and potential pain if she ever took her wrath out on someone's teeth? Read on and see just how nasty some readers can get after getting free information on the internet.
That was a ridiculous way you used my submission. I would have never given you permission to use my submission if I had known what a wack-job you were. Need you be so melodramatic about a bug (which by the way there are trillions of?!) You do not have my permission to use anymore information of mine including this email! I will be sure not to recommend your site to any of my friends for fear you will slander them too on the web. Sorry I even ASKED you for help.
I just have to comment on creeped out's nasty email. The entire point of this website and the reason why so many of us bug lovers are so grateful for it is to educate those who may not appreciate the insect kingdom for the amazing necessity it is. Those who are so inclined to "squish" first and ask questions later may think twice had they had known that the poor little Solpugid wouldn't have even been in their garage if it weren't for a food source… like COCKROACHES. Whether "There are trillions of them" or not it is just as easy to remove them without killing them or actually be thankful for how beneficial they are. I believe the correct spelling is "whacked out"…AND people in glass houses….
Creeped Out is correct. Our original response to her was a brief two word answer which we sometimes do in an effort to answer as many requests as possible. Then we spend more time crafting responses that we plan to post. We do not feel sorry that after supplying a brief correct identification, the burden of further research was placed on the querant.
It seems I am not the only one with a bad temper judging from your response. Your words were completely unnecessary and unrelated to bugs or your website. I apologized in my initial email to begin with and only became insulted by the way you presented my situation.
I apologize for killing the "solpugid" and I am sorry that I became angry. I didn't think that this was the first photo of a dead bug you would have seen so I apologize for not being more sensitive to your passion.
For the record, we no longer email Creeped Out directly, as feel compelled to keep all lines of communication totally transparent and public. Also, for the record, though we consider What's That Bug? to be an insect identification website, we do not shy away from relating the insect world to the grander scheme of things. We have maintained from Day 1 that we are not scientists, but artists, and as such, we reserve the right to dialog in whatever way we see fit and to not fear letting our freaky flag fly.
I was so intrigued by Creeped Out's diatribe and backstory that I thought I'd let you know there are calm, reasonable people in Colorado as well. Also, I need a bug identified. I'm so sorry I don't have a photo; I'm too scared of them, and I only see a couple a day. It doesn't look anything like the photo attached, which I had to do for the form to work. They are 1 1/2″ or so long, black but iridescent (blue or green in sunlight), have a small middle section (thorax?) , very narrow "waist" and a long, skinny back end. They buzz when they fly. I'm scared because I thought I saw one flying away from biting my son; I just need to know how vigilant to be about them! If you can refer me to a lineup, I'm sure I could pick one out, and if I get a picture I'll write again. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks for your support regarding our latest Nasty Reader Award. Your insects sound like some kind of wasp, perhaps a Cricket Hunter Wasp in the genus Chlorion, or a Blue Mud Wasp, Chalbion californicum, or some other Thread-Waisted Wasp in the family Sphecidae. All of them may be viewed on BugGuide, but our money is on the Blue Mud Wasp.
I know this is quite an old post, but I just discovered it. The line "Need you be so melodramatic about a bug (which by the way there are trillions of?!)" really upset me. Flocks of passenger pigeons used to blot out the sun for hours at a time as they flew over, but that didn't stop humans from driving them to extinction in a few hundred years.
Thank you for your perspective. We frequently received comments on older postings.
I know this is a really late post, but we were blessed with a heroic solpugid. We live in the rural desert and have 14 cats, 12 of whom were born and raised in a feral colony nearby. When bugs come into the house, we generally catch them and take them outside. The feral cats, though, see them as prime prey and attack, even the black widow spiders. We have tried to discourage them to no avail. One night one of the largest solpugids I have seen was spotted by our Persian about 4″ up a wall. The cat went over, put his nose on it, and got quite a pinch! Since then, he and all the other cats have been much less aggressive toward bugs in general. By the way, I don't know why none of them ever got bit by a black widow. I know of 2 adult females the cats found in the pantry, caught, and dragged into the kitchen.
We find it fascinating that one cat being bitten has caused all the cats to shun bugs.


I'm banned from riding motorcycles for eight months after my spinal lumbar fusion surgery. Robin has the same operation affecting twice as many vertebrae and less than four weeks later she's climbing a ladder to decorate her 2013 Christmas tree while no one else is home with her.
I suppose the Christmas tree is considered a worthy risk.
It is a gorgeous tree. It looks like one you would find in the front window at the original Macy's or Tiffany's. And she pulls it off year after year with a totally different color scheme. This year I was expecting so much less after we had a fire in the shop where the decorations and ornaments were stored on top of her having four vertebrae fused in mid November.
I think the woman should start a seasonal consulting business doing trees in businesses and homes. $500.00 labor not including ornament and tree costs would be a great deal to get a tree to look this spectacular.
While we wait I inserted a pic of her 2010 tree.
Bear with me, folks. I know I said as soon as we reach five comments, but I just realized that I have no decent pictures of it here at the office. I asked my photographer back at home to send me a couple, but evidently her $700.00 camera is unable to compensate for the Percocet she is currently on.
She keeps sending me grainy, out-of-focus photos of it via text messaging.
As soon as she sends me a good one, or I get home to take one with my trusty old DSLR, I'll get it posted.
But the pic is coming as soon as it hits my in box.
Was anxious …. The crystal crosses are a very elegant touch!
Please sweet cousin may I see the beautiful tree? POST IT POST IT POST IT POST IT or I'm coming down there to see it for myself.
Have couple friends that make really good money decorating people's houses for the different holidays.
I think you should send me a pic privately since I'm the first one who commented.


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Electronic health data are now being collected, coded, and processed by numerous organizations on a massive scale for disparate purposes. The FDA Mini-Sentinel program, for example, which focuses on medical product safety, has access to the health records of more than 125 million people, and Medicaid MAX administrative claims data, which are approximately six terabytes in size, contain billions of historical records of every payment made on behalf of millions of fee-for-service Medicaid beneficiaries in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia. This immense data set has been analyzed in many contexts, including by the Department of Justice in its investigations of manufacturer conduct regarding promotional practices. Longitudinal, patient-specific data of this type provide insights into the extent of off-label prescribing for particular medical conditions and of comorbid conditions and patient drug use history at the moment when the decision to prescribe a drug off-label was made by the physician. A big data set of this type can often be very helpful in identifying larger trends in off-label prescribing and offers a more robust body of evidence than smaller, cross-sectional physician surveys.
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Estimates of the total size of big data in health care vary considerably and range into the hundreds of exabytes. One exabyte is equivalent to 1,000 petabytes; one petabyte is equivalent to 1,000 terabytes; and one terabyte is equivalent to 1,000 gigabytes.
Access to this type of large database can also shed new light on the cost-effectiveness of particular health treatments over time. This can be valuable in studies examining rare diseases, specific treatments, or particular patient subgroups, where access to a large overall patient population is necessary to ensure that the sample sizes are sufficient to draw statistically meaningful inferences.
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The combination of clinical and financial records across multiple databases makes it possible to track patterns of disease prevalence in entire populations and pioneer new approaches to predictive modeling. It can also magnify existing data concerns (e.g., privacy, quality of care) and liability issues.
Predictive analytic models, some of which are already in use, have the potential to allow clinicians to make medical decisions based on the outputs of algorithms that process EHR systems in real time across multiple health information exchanges. A patient's medical information can be entered into a predictive analytic system that is designed to identify patient risks and recommend treatments based on available resources.
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Today, more than 80 percent of U.S. hospitals have adopted some form of EHR. Within a single hospital, multiple petabytes of data are often divided between structured data (e.g., medication information) and unstructured data (e.g., clinical notes) organized in mixed systems. There is significant variation from hospital to hospital, however, in the successful use of advanced health IT capabilities to improve the quality and cost of care.
Mr. Greenberg explains: "At the scale of big data, formal statistical signals are often superseded by assessments of clinical or economic importance. This is due to the fact that evaluations based on extremely large numbers of observations will likely be statistically significant in most circumstances." He adds: "This increases the importance of expert judgment in big data analysis. Because health care data are often highly specific to the field – think of medical terminology, practice variation both by region as well as over time, and non-uniform data recording – the ability to draw meaningful conclusions requires analytical expertise supported by a diversity of health outcomes research experience."
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Three Suns, courtesy galerie Art : Concept, Paris.
Quel rapport y a-t-il entre un homme perdu dans le «whiteout», un kangourou albinos, une rocket-car et une table entourée de chaises? C'est la question que peut se poser le visiteur en parcourant la très belle exposition du photographe belge Geert Goiris que lui consacre le Credac d'Ivry, niché dans le ventre de la spectaculaire architecture brutaliste érigée en 1975 par Jean Renaudie.
Geert Goiris arpente aux confins du monde des territoires vierges de toute présence humaine et regarde notre société depuis ces frontières. Son travail ne documente pas les géographies traversées, mais fixe les expériences d'instabilités provoquées par la perte de repères. Dans le texte de présentation de l'exposition du Credac, il dit: «Je suis attiré par le fait de me tenir en équilibre sur le bord du visible, là où les sens ne sont plus fiables. Se trouver dans un voile blanc de brume, c'est un peu comme être enterré vivant. Ce qui m 'intéresse c'est de survivre à ces expériences et d'en transmettre un témoignage (…) Le terme de «réalisme traumatique» renvoie à un état mental indiquant un point de rupture, où le tangible et la fiction fusionnent dans une sorte de micro-mystère, où le familier revêt une présence étrangère».
For english readers see on the next page Geert Goiris interview and the followed link about his concept of traumatic realism.
Geert Goiris est né en 1971 à Bornem (Belgique), il vit à Anvers et enseigne à la Hogeschool Sint-Lukas de Bruxelles. Les galeries Art : Concept en France, et Catherine Bastide en Belgique représentent son travail.
Ecologist place 2006, courtesy galerie Art : Concept, Paris.
For the exhibition at le Credac you invested the whole space, could you explain your idea/concept?
The title 'imagine there's no countries' is an appeal to our (social) imagination. It proposes a redefinition of the way we look at land and territory.
I used the whole space of Le Credac to unfold a loose association of (mainly landscape) images taken at very different times and places. There is no information given where these photos were taken: no documentary or didactic claim is being made. So the viewer is led on a promenade along different landscape-types: volcanic areas, dry deserts, places scarred by manmade traces, and regions that have nearly never been touched by humans. I seek out these existing, and real sites, who, at the same time posses an imaginary quality. The prints are quite large and detailed, this indicates that these are not manufactured or altered situations. At the same time the confusion stays, and nearly all the images remain ambigious. The photographs are not obscure: everything is visible, 'readable', but we don't seem to come to a conclusive understanding. The sites seem more like backgrounds from fiction movies then to belong to actual countries or regions.
The point I would like to make is both political (obviously, imagining there are no countries distorts our understanding of the existing order) and aesthetical: so many places exist in our heads. These spots belong to us somehow, and no governement can take them away from us. I believe that photography can be generous and offer us a similar refuge. By presenting these archetypes, I hope to transport the exhibited works into the realm of the imaginary.
From the series Slowfast, courtesy galerie Art : Concept, Paris.
You said in the statement that you can't share the experience of being in a Whiteout through the exhibition. I found that very interesting because many contemporary art exhibitions propose to the viewer experiences that we can't do in real life anymore. Could you tell us more about your choice?
I am under the impression that people have always been looking for new and unreachable experiences in art. Already since antiquity, audiences took part in odysea, quests and adventures. Travel has been a metaphor for growth and personal development for a long time. Working as a photographer, one eventually gets confronted with the crisis of representation: the separation of experience and artefact is something I encounter regularly.
And it stimulated me to start on Whiteout: for this series I set out to photograph a phenomenon that I knew beforehand to be nearly unphotographable. To reach out for the unreachable is an attitude that I would like to communicate. So the whole exhibition can be seen as an inward journey, without explicit autobiographical references or statements. What I aim to bring accross is a something restless and unstable.
With an empirical temperament I want to live through these limit-experiences and see if (and how) it changes me. What I really want to communicate is an altered perception. This is much more crucial then to show how a particular part of Antarctica looks like.
Maybe it is not so relevant to find out what exactly caused my perception to shift, so my aim is not to recreate the sensation of being in a Whiteout. This is far beyond the capacities of photography.
I admire artists who work directly at the foundations: with light and perception itself, (James Turrell for example). But for the moment I move much more within the constrants of the medium itself.
Digital manipulation appears for many in the art world as the ultimate practice in the way that photography is pushed to its limits, nevertheless the analog seems to be crucial in your work, why?
There is conservative reflex at play here. For me analog and digital photography are two different things. Which is not to say that one is more valuable than the other. It just means that I find the approach and results very different. I was trained as a photographer before the digital 'revolution' happened, and I feel more comfortable working with film and anxiously waiting for the results from the lab. The instant viewing possibilities of digital photography are really a valuable tool for many applications, but it often obstructs me in getting what I want.
In an overly simplistic way I link digital photography with a design process: one sets out with a plan that is followed as closely as possible to obtain results, and often images that are only approximations to the desired result are rejected. My method is much more based on revelation of things I wasn't looking for in the first place: trial and error can sometimes lead to unexpected results which are valuable in their own right. From modernity on, visual art has embraced the mistake, the fault and the unintenional. in photography as well this plays an important role for me.
It seems problematic and historically unjust that analogue photography is presented as nearly redundant: as if the technology itself is outdated. This is simply not true.
A possible definition of photography as a medium where objects write themselves with light, has a great, nearly magical appeal to me. The transmuation of light into matter continues to fascinate me. And retaining a real object (the negative or original slide film) after this almost alchemic process appeals to me much more then obtaining a set of data who mutate constantly depending on the software implied unto them. It seems funny to talk about an 'original' in a medium that was intended for, and has served well for endless reproduction, but to me it makes a difference to travel to the other side of the globe, expose a sheet of film, develop it, and return with the same coated piece of plastic to an exhibition space to project it. This 'original' travelled with me and was there at the moment of exposure, and it captured the particular light conditions. So If I put it into a projector to recreate the light conditions, it comes close to a frottage, or peeling of the skin after a sunburn: it is a physical proof of light changing things.
Suspension 2006, courtesy galerie Art : Concept, Paris.
When I saw the exhibition, I had the feeling that you see things as if they were sculptures. Could you tell more about this relation?
Coldness, or the intensity of blinding light are sensations one woudn't easily attribute to a two-dimensional medium like photography. But touch is a sense that seems strangely connected to photography. Viewing can be understood as a sophisticated mode of touching. Often, when I circle around an object I want to photograph, I become very aware of the gravity of this object: mass, volume and surface can be perceived from a distance, and photography is a matter of touching from a distance.
Another factor is that I often look for isolated objects: anomalies within their surroundings, and as soon as this object is separated from its environment, its sculptural qualities become very noticable. It is like creating a visual plinth for the object: separating it, and lifting it out of its immediate context. I guess many of the sculptural properties arise rom this separation of object and its background: one becomes very aware of the spatial orientation of the main subject.
Rather then to document interesting forms within the sculptural canon, I am interested in forms that seemingly arise from themselves: the lines that motorbikes have drawn across a suburban landscape, or the eroded paths wanderers have left behind in a fragile mountainpass. In the image Blue Key, I photographed an Ovoo: a shamanistic shrine in Mongolia where passers-by leave something behind when they pass. This accumulation of random things (whatever the travellers were carrying and could leave behind), organised around a stack of stones in the middle of a barren desert, is an example of an organically growing sculpture arising out of itself, with no other ambition then to mark itself. Photographing the leftovers of this ritual is a manifestation of form where the function is no longer obvious, a possible definition of sculpture.
Blue Key 2003, courtesy galerie Art : Concept, Paris.
L'exposition Imagine there's no countries se tient jusqu'au 8 novembre 2009 au Credac , le 5 novembre une visite de l'exposition est organisée en présence de l'artiste.


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Friday's show (S10E06) - preliminary thoughts
Thread: Friday's show (S10E06) - preliminary thoughts
I hated every second the YouTube/Instagram stoners were on the screen. I kept saying, "Who wrote this garbage?" and "How could actors actually act this garbage?" One thing I do agree on — Dannoying was very restrained in this show compared to most previous ones.
The driverless car business was equally stupid. The guys behind this racket supposedly had lots of cars — someone says "these drug dealers got a warehouse full of these puppies." Cars are not cheap, and I suspect neither is the fancy equipment that is installed in them so they can drive driverless. Yet these entrepreneurs are using these cars for $400 drug transactions? This is really not a viable business plan, especially when one of your cars gets cornered by the cops and another flies off a cliff and blows up!
Julia, the geeky girl, was suspected of giving the code for the driverless cars to the bad guys, but it turns out it was really her father — "these dealers … strong-armed him into it." So did the father (who was never established as a geeky type) just download the code and give it to the bad guys? It seems highly unlikely to me that he would have been involved in programming the cars, considering Julia says that up until recently when he turned up "clean and sober," he was not living a exemplary lifestyle (exact details are not revealed). Even downloading the info might have been taxing. When I told a friend of mine about this plot line, she said, "If that guy [the father] is a lush or doper, he probably can't operate a microwave, let alone program a driverless car"!
Here is my review of the show:
http://fiveohomepage.com/2010-log10.htm#6
I agree mostly with your review on this one, but overall I didn't hate the episode as much as you. It deserves at least 1.5 stars, in my opinion.
Right at the beginning, I laughed at these expensive driverless cars being used for $400 drug transactions. Why didn't the writers simply craft it around the cars being used for completing big time drug deals? That would have been a far more interesting angle, and would have made more sense, as such cars would prevent both law enforcement busts and drug-deal-gone-bad violence.
The entire setup of the second car was laughable. The whole purpose of the setup for for Five-Zero to do a fake drug deal and then surreptitiously follow the car to its source. Instead, McGarrett follows the car way too closely, gets spotted, and then they go on an inexplicable chase of the car, which clearly wasn't going "home" at that point. Not surprisingly, the operators of the vehicle purposely ran it off a cliff! Wouldn't it have been smarter to follow this car by air, or at least tail it in a more restrained manner?
The side plot of the two YouTube stars "Scooter and Skeez" was predictably annoying. The entire premise where they rode along with Tani and Quinn to do an HPD recruitment video was poorly conceived, and it's unlikely they would have been taken into a crime scene under active investigation. It made even less sense because they were recruiting for HPD, and not Five-Zero, so shouldn't they have ridden along in a patrol car or something?
Noelani is shown to be a fan of Scooter and Skeez, but I found that unlikely based upon both her age and personality. The actress is 39 (and presumably her character is near that age), and Scooter and Skeez's channel is clearly aimed at teens and college-aged kids. While there are popular YouTube channels with hosts as annoying and immature as Scooter and Skeez, their audience is almost entire comprised of young people.
I also agree that the ending of the driverless car story was stupid. In fact, the entire story didn't make sense once they explained everything. It would have been much better if the woman had cooperated with the drug dealers under threat of her father being murdered, and then when she saw they were about to kill him anyway when they knew the police were onto them, she used one of the cars to kill the bad guys. The way they actually did the whole thing was convoluted and nonsensical.
Friday's show (S10E02) reviewed
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S09E19 (Friday's show) reviewed


What a pleasure it was being in the lovely home of Richard and Andrea Kimball listening to Richard's fine music played on his magnificent nine foot Steinway grand on a beautiful Sunday morning - a concert which was one of several that took place over the course of a recent weekend in Warwick as part of the first annual Warwick Valley Jazz Festival.
When Richard approached me about writing a review of his solo concert, I was touched - Richard had been a friend of my late father, also a jazz pianist, and as a music student many years ago, at my father's suggestion I interviewed Richard and heard him play at the River Cafe in New York where he has had a steady solo piano gig since the 1970's. He was very kind and gracious then and remains so today.
Because he has had a longstanding solo piano gig, Richard has developed a style of playing as a soloist that fills up the musical space: he has an orchestral way of playing, both hands moving freely around the entire width of the piano creating a wide range of sound. And he is a wonderful jazz pianist, versatile in the vocabulary and the many styles of jazz piano - he swings, he bops, plays the blues, plays great bass lines, he plays stride, beautifully developed solos, and uses an abundance of interesting chords and voicings. And he renders the music of the American songbook with great sensitivity and love.
Unique to Richard's music is the inventive use of classical forms and techniques combined with the language of jazz harmony and improvisation. An exciting fusion of the two is present. He has found a distinctive style in their confluence; and it is interesting to note that both call upon the musical imagination in similar ways - the search for the right sound to express a musical idea or feeling. And speaking of feeling, Richard's music is highly personal - one senses that he is expressing his own feelings in the music. It is filled with sensuality and tenderness, ardor and intensity, great love and beauty; it is dynamic and constantly transforming, always gracefully, artfully. He is the consummate romantic - the music expressing a kaleidoscope of emotion, tension and release.
In the pieces that Richard played for us on Sunday we heard some very powerful stories: In Make Hay While the Sun Shines and Chaconne for My Sons, two pieces joined together by the perspective of a father growing older and the love he feels for his two sons, the first begins with a composed introduction using a 20th century classical idea/sound, and moves into several styles/rhythms from the jazz and Brazilian musical traditions, all of it improvised. The second is a chaconne which is a classical formal device using a repeated eight bar harmonic progression. Here Richard's choice of chords is from the jazz vocabulary and they are very tender - he weaves beautiful melodic lines over and around them with the texture changing frequently - at one point introducing a beautiful, singing bass line which is doubled in his voice, and at another point, employing a rhythmic accompaniment figure that has been used for centuries in classical music which somehow seems to express longing and nostalgia.
In Anna Maria - Piece Within a Piece, a jazz ballad by the great Wayne Shorter written about Shorter's wife who died in a tragic airplane accident, Richard creates a piece within a piece using thematic material of the original song and a smaller, more intimate treatment which represents the unborn child of Anna Maria. What a brilliant and passionate way of expressing this poignant story. In the arrangement, Richard uses the Fender Rhodes (an electric keyboard made popular during the seventies) with which he creates a variety of colors and textures. At one point a sustained tremolo is played in the right hand on the piano against a gorgeous arpeggiated bass line on the Rhodes, such a haunting sound. The piece ends with a quotation from Erik Satie's Gymnopedie #1 which also serves as transition material to the next piece.
And the concert ends with a marvelous rendition of Leonard Bernstein's Some other Time sung by the lovely, crystalline voice of Jody Weatherstone, and assisted by the esteemed bassist, John Arbo and the "classic" jazz drummer, Milt Mezzroh. Alas, much more writing is required to describe the musical tour de force that this concert truly was.


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O Recolhimento do Ferro é um antigo edifício religioso de assistência (recolhimento), localizado na freguesia da Sé, Porto, tendo em anexo a Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio.

História
Foi fundado no século XV na zona da Sé, à entrada da Rua Escura. Funcionava como um albergue de prostitutas e mulheres abandonadas. Tinha uma capela pegada, que ostentava na frontaria o ano de 1681 que corresponde a uma remodelação, dado que a capela era provavelmente mais antiga. Era ocupada pelos meninos do coro da Catedral, mas quando eles abandonaram o pequeno prédio, este foi ocupado por mulheres sem recursos e viúvas pobres. Em 1681, o anexo onde se recolhiam as mulheres é alvo de obras e é criado o Recolhimento do Ferro.

A capela chamava-se Capela de Nossa Senhora do Ferro porque tinha um ferro atravessado de lado a lado da porta, supostamente mandado colocar devido a um privilégio concedido por um dos nossos primeiros reis: o condenado que saísse da Cadeia do Aljube e por ali passasse para ser enforcado e conseguisse chegar a tocar no ferro já não seria executado. É sabido que os condenados tinham que passar diante da capela. Não consta que algum condenado tenha evitado a morte por beneficiar do privilégio. Posteriormente, foi também conhecida por Capela de São Sebastião, por causa de uma imagem do santo protector contra a peste que foi ali guardada pela Diocese no fim do século XVIII, após a demolição da Porta de S. Sebastião, uma das quatro portas da Muralha Primitiva do Porto. Em 1854, com a epidemia de cólera-mórbus, sabe-se que os moradores da Sé invocaram a protecção de São Sebastião e escaparam "milagrosamente", passando a comemorar ao santo todos os anos, a 20 de Janeiro.

Nos começos do século XVIII pensou-se em remodelar e melhorar as instalações. Mas a ideia não foi por diante. Em frente, na rua de S. Sebastião, do Aljube, era possível ver o que se passava no interior do recolhimento, pelo que o novo recolhimento seria construído nas Escadas do Codeçal em terrenos que uma senhora D. Josefa Maria doara por escritura de 17 de Março de 1729. A doadora impôs por condição que o recolhimento tomasse por padroeira Santa Maria Madalena, por recolher prostitutas que desejassem abandonar a "velha profissão", bem como mulheres casadas e de família com o avalo dos maridos. Hoje chega a dizer-se, erradamente, que aqui eram enclausuradas as adulteras pelos seus maridos. Aqui as internadas viviam modestamente, sustentando-se "com o produto do seu trabalho" Observavam regras muito rígidas. As regentes da instituição eram eleitas por todas as internas mas os estatutos não permitiam a realização de festas para festejar a eleição da dita regente.

No século XIX o edificio foi abandonado por causa das Invasões Francesas e das Lutas Liberais. Extinto, ficou abandonado. Nos anos 30 do século XX, os rebentamentos de explosivos para a abertura do Túnel da Ribeira abalaram-no, tendo sido restaurado e sendo hoje propriedade da Junta de Freguesia da Sé, que lá instalou o seu centro social e cultural.

Referências

Património edificado no Porto
São Nicolau (Porto)
Religião no Porto

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Following on from last month's tutorial on Recreating Lith Grain, I'm going to show you how to recreate another darkroom effect in Photoshop. The effect were're recreating, diffusing the image, was created by placing something between the enlarger lens and the photographic paper, normally this was a black stocking. Quite how someone came up with this effect I don't know and what the stocking was doing in the darkroom too has never been explained.
Firstly duplicate the background layer Cmd J (Mac) Ctrl J (PC) or drag the background layer over the new layer icon.
You can adjust the opacity of the top image if you wish at the stage or leave it as it is/ You can always go back to the opacity after the next stage if you wish.
Add a Hue Saturation adjustment layer. Tick the Colorize box and set a tone and saturation to suit the mood of your image and you are done.
You have done really awesome job, excellent tutorial it is. Thanks a lot for sharing with us !!


Our beloved pets are not above medical problems. Like humans, they may have allergies and may acquire diseases or illnesses such as cancer. Certain pets are prone to cancer, especially in dogs. German Shepherd Dogs (GSDs) are a well-known and favorite breed that are excellent guard and family dogs and are great with both children and adults. However, German Shepherds are prone to cancer and rank high on the disease scale. There are some things you can do and watch, though, to help protect your Shepherd and assist them to live a long and happy life.
Trouble eating, drinking or swallowing. It could also include lack of appetite and disinterest in food.
Labored breathing and problems voiding or urinating.
Cancer can be detected in the early stages to offer your pet a better chance of recovery. Detecting cancer early offers your dog the best chance at survival and seems to be the most preventative course of action. There are many ways to see if your German Shepherd has, or could potentially have cancer. Annual blood tests and x-rays are a good idea; or if there is a greater chance of disease, get biopsies be done as well. These procedures added to your annual vet visit may be an efficient and preventative form of cancer treatment.
It is also significant to note that testicular and ovarian cancers can be avoided if your German Shepherd is neutered or spayed, preferably while they are still young.
A cancer diagnosis does not mean a death sentence. Modern medicine, including veterinary medicine, has vastly improved, and efficient treatment methods exist. Each dog is different and is affected by cancer differently as well. Tailored treatment and customised plans can be created to suit your German Shepherd and its treatment needs. Treatment can include radiation, chemotherapy, hyperthermia, cryosurgery, immune-therapy, surgery, or a combination of these methods.
Holistic methods can be used as well with natural remedies that help your dog in a well-rounded experience. Holistic methods combine physical and emotional assistance during treatment to help your pet's physical healing while also keeping them happy. You can communicate to your vet to see what is best for your GSD.
German Shepherds are amazing family pets. They can endure the hugs of children and greet their adult owners with wagging tails every day. Although German Shepherds are prone to cancer, their chances of survival have increased over the years, particularly if caught early. The best method of prevention is consistent, quality care and vet visits. Monitoring for cancer is effective and can allow the disease to be detected early and quickly. It will allow for treatment to be administered and can help fight and get rid of the disease.
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We lost our sweet Sadie Lady two months ago on her 9th birthday. She was diagnosed with a mass on her spleen that had ruptured and was bleeding into her abdomen. I read all warning signs and she had none … she played ball and was active until the day before she died. She ate and did all the things she had always done. It was a shock and we are definitely not over it. We are looking to get a GSD pup and I am scouring the internet for preventive measures and diet to ensure … or at least do the best we can … to give this baby the best shot possible.
German Shepherds were so over bred for so long with no regard their health, that they are prone to so many ailments. They are also prone to allergies, hip dysplasia, and degenerative diseases.
Hi, Mila. I'm so happy to see you here. I hope Baymax will live a long and healthy life with you. He's such a beautiful dog. My Star lasted 14 years, but not without a great amount of hardship towards the end. All the best, Mia.


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Brace yourselves for heartbreak, as Rob is forced to confront the fact that a movie he enjoyed on MST3K may not actually be very good. Deadpan acting and bizarre soundtrack choices are discussed at length, and Jim has a distressingly plausible theory as to who this movie was for. Plus: How much did Rob like the Melting Man's bone gloves? The answer will surprise you.


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Airplane Art – British Airways Boeing 777-300ER taking off from Heathrow Airport
It's Sunday again, so it must be time for some more airplane art.
This week, we have a British Airways Boeing 777-300ER taking off from its home base of London Heathrow, as it heads off to its next long-haul destination
British Airways currently operate a fleet of 15 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in its long-haul fleet, with an additional aircraft to be delivered.
The airline operates a mixture of Airbus and Boeing equipment in its fleet, including the Airbus A350-1000, Airbus A380, Boeing 777-200ER, Boeing 787-8, Boeing 787-9 and Boeing 787-10. These are supported by an all-Airbus narrow-body fleet.
The aircraft depicted this week – G-STBJ – joined the British Airways fleet in February 2014. It has remained with the airline since then, connecting people and cargo around the world. It has remained rather active during this time, visiting destinations such as Hong Kong, Lagos, Singapore and Shanghai.
More airplane art next week!
Photographers Notes
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF24-105 f4 IS L Series Lens
Settings ISO 500, 105mm 1/640th at f10
Shot in August 2016
Shot from the tarmac of London Heathrow Airport (near Terminal 3) as part of American Airlines AAviation Day. Tower Tour is here.
Why those speeds? It helps with low light conditions, whilst getting a shot like this too
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can you people show me that how can i accomplish that...
Thank a lot for your time.

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Basically you can call this method with BOOL YES when you begin editing the textfiled & with BOOL no when you end editing.
You just need to track which textfield is editing based on that you can adjust shifting (eg  85 here)

A: An alternative approach could be to use a UITableView. Then most of the controls are ready. But you can also make it all happen by yourself.
First put your UITextfields on a separate UIView. Make that UIView an outlet en link it properly. That way you can easily move the textfields up with an animation.
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Work at Home FAQ™Do I need a separate email address for Mystery Shopping?
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I just started Mystery Shopping…got your training program…love it! And I was wondering if I really need a separate email address to do mystery shopping with. I already have so many, it just seems like a hassle!
Y'know, it's totally up to you if you want to use another email address specifically for mystery shopping. I guess it depends on what you use the others for.
For me, personally, I like to keep it separate from even my business account simply because I get SO many job offers. I average around 100-150 job offers per day, and when I'm not actively shopping, those add up really quickly. It would drive me absolutely crazy to have those emails mixed in with anything else I did.
You, however, may not mind as much. It also really depends on how many companies you're planning on signing on with. If you're only going to work for a few, you may not get enough job offers to have your email clogged.
Just remember, if you do start growing your mystery shopping business and decide to get a separate email later, you'll have to go through the arduous task of changing your profile with all of the companies you first signed on with! For me, it's better just to start with a fresh account…but you'll be able to figure out what works for you once you get rolling.


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Heidi Stevens
Column: Elliot Page's trans announcement makes me grateful to be raising kids in 2020, flawed and chaotic as it may be
By Heidi Stevens
Elliot Page, the Oscar-nominated actor of "Juno", "Inception" and "The Umbrella Academy," came out as transgender Tuesday in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans community in Hollywood. (Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
I am grateful to be raising kids in this moment in time — flawed and chaotic and brutal as it is — because of people like Elliot Page, whose courage compelled him to live an authentic, full life and light the way for others to do the same.
Page is the Oscar-nominated star of 2007′s "Juno," who also appears in "X-Men: The Last Stand," "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and the recent Netflix series "The Umbrella Academy." On Tuesday, he came out as transgender.
"I feel lucky to be writing this," Page, 33, said in a statement shared on Twitter. "To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life. I feel overwhelming gratitude for the incredible people who have supported me along this journey."
It wasn't so long ago that a person — celebrity or not — would go to great, painful lengths to hide this sort of truth: How they identify. Who they love. To do otherwise would have been career suicide. To do otherwise would invite the sort of ostracizing and isolation and shame that makes actual suicide feel like a welcome escape to some.
We're not altogether past that time; Page referenced as much in his note.
"My joy is real, but it is also fragile," he wrote. "The truth is, despite feeling profoundly happy right now and knowing how much privilege I carry, I am also scared. I'm scared of the invasiveness, the hate, the 'jokes' and of violence. To be clear, I am not trying to dampen a moment that is joyous and one that I celebrate, but I want to address the full picture.
"The statistics are staggering. The discrimination towards trans people is rife, insidious and cruel, resulting in horrific consequences," he continued. "In 2020 alone, it has been reported that at least 40 transgender people have been murdered, the majority of which were Black and Latinx trans women."
Transgender youth have significantly higher rates of suicidal ideation and attempts compared to cisgender youth. In 2019, crisis intervention organization The Trevor Project found almost one-third of transgender youth reported being a victim of sexual violence, and more than half reported periods of depression.
We're a long way from full, enthusiastic inclusivity for people on the LGBTQ spectrum. But we get a little closer to inclusion as the norm every time someone says out loud, however large their platform, "This is who I am."
Page knows the risks. He knows both the comfort and the confines of keeping the truth a secret. And he spoke up anyway. We witnessed similar courage from Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union's daughter, Zaya, over the past year.
Their courage makes the world an incrementally better, safer, more welcoming place for all of our children. For all of us.
My kids don't know a different reality. When George Michael — singer of my household's favorite Christmas song — died at age 53 on Christmas Day four years ago, I tried to explain to them how Michael had to hide his sexuality for most of his life for fear of backlash that would sabotage his pop music career. It made no sense to them. It should make no sense to any of us.
I'm grateful to the brave souls who risk their lives and endure the backlash to nudge us closer to a day when no one has to hide or suffer in silence about something as inherent as their identity.
I'm grateful when these conversations happen publicly, so my kids and I can witness the world evolving in real time. Page's statement was met with some derision. But it was also met with an outpouring of love and support and affirmation so loud and heartfelt that it left the critics looking about as relevant as rotary phones.
And his impact on the LGBTQ community, I believe, will continue to ripple out for years to come.
Research shows LGBTQ youth with even one accepting, supportive adult are 40% less likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year. I have to believe joyful, confident, clear-eyed coming out announcements like Page's will help bring more adults around from trepidation to that all-important support.
Page closed his statement this way: "I love that I am trans. And I love that I am queer. And the more I hold myself close and fully embrace who I am, the more I dream, the more my heart grows and the more I thrive. To all trans people who deal with harassment, self-loathing, abuse and the threat of violence every day: I see you, I love you and I will do everything I can to change this world for the better."
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His wife, Emma Portner, wrote this on her Instagram page: "Elliot's existence is a gift in and of itself. Shine on sweet E. Love you so much."
A lot about life is complicated and awful right now. This is not. This is love. And truth. And brave people showing us how to embrace both. I'm grateful.
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Controlled tooth movement to correct an iatrogenic problem
This case report describes the treatment of a 9-year old boy, who had his maxillary central incisors extruded by noncontrolled elastic mechanics to close a diastema. The article describes the consequences of this movement and how the problem was solved with controlled intrusion.
Broadbent first described the "ugly duckling stage" of dental development in the literature. Proffit and Fields reported that this stage is characterized by diastemas in the maxillary arch. The central diastema tends to close as the lateral incisors erupt, but the diastema can persist even after eruption is complete. This situation occurs so frequently that it is considered normal. For this reason, the mixed dentition can be a difficult time for children, their parents, and the orthodontist; as the child's permanent teeth erupt, his or her smile is not as esthetic as it was during the deciduous dentition. Parents often worry about dental spacing, and the orthodontist must explain that this unesthetic period is normal and is not to be treated at that time.
Unfortunately, not every dentist is familiar with this stage and the correct way to handle the situation; as a result, the patient can suffer the consequences. This case report describes this type of situation and the orthodontic treatment necessary to overcome a serious problem.
Diagnosis and etiology
A 9-year-old boy came to the orthodontic clinic at Rio de Janeiro State University in Brazil complaining that his maxillary central incisors were extruded. He had a straight profile and good facial proportions. The clinical examination showed that he was in the mixed dentition, with a Class I molar relationship and crossbite of the maxillary lateral incisors, the right deciduous canine, and the right deciduous first molar. The midline was shifted 2 mm to the left in both arches. There was an overjet of 3 mm and a mild curve of Spee.
But the most significant anomaly was the extreme extrusion of the maxillary central incisors with advanced gingival recession around these teeth ( Fig 1 ). His mother mentioned that he previously had a wide gap between those teeth, and she took him to a dentist who recommended placing a rubber band around the 2 teeth to close this space. The elastic disappeared every night, and the dentist told him to put another in its place. The mother suspected that something was not right and decided to ask for a second opinion.
Pretreatment intraoral photograph of a 9-year-old boy with extruded central incisors.
At this point, the central incisors had extruded about 6 mm and were extremely mobile. He had gingival hyperplasia, bleeding on probing, and deep pockets around the incisors. The elastics kept disappearing, because they were sliding up along the periodontal ligament space and gradually extracting the teeth. A panoramic radiograph showed the presence of all permanent teeth. An anterior periapical radiograph showed significant loss of bone around the central incisors, and the roots of the central incisors were in contact ( Fig 2 ).
Periapical radiograph before treatment.
Treatment objectives
The long-term prognosis for the central incisors was poor, but we decided to maintain these teeth as long as possible. So, the treatment objectives at this first stage were to remove the elastics from beneath the gingiva, intrude the central incisors, and align their roots to improve the bone support in this area.
Treatment alternatives
An alternative treatment plan—extracting the central incisors by extruding them slowly to bring bone with the teeth and thereby improve the bone defect—was ruled out. The patient would need to wait several years before permanent restoration with implants would be possible.
Treatment progress
The central incisors were splinted, and a surgical procedure was used to remove the elastics ( Fig 3 ). When the flap was elevated, the bone loss, mainly on the facial side, was evident. During surgery, no scaling was performed on the roots to maintain any remnants of the periodontal ligament. Only superficial cleaning was performed to avoid damaging the cementum and, we hoped, allow future replacement of the fibers of the periodontal ligament. The inflammatory tissue was removed, and the flap was repositioned. A rigid oral hygiene program was adopted.
Postsurgery with the splint set.
When the periodontal health had improved, brackets were bonded to the 2 central incisors, and bands were cemented on the maxillary first molars. A utility 0.019 × 0.025-in stainless steel archwire was used to intrude the incisors. After 6 months, both central incisors had been intruded to normal positions, and their mobility had decreased significantly. However, the roots were still in close proximity. At that time, we stopped the intrusion mechanics and placed another segmented 0.019 × 0.025-in archwire on the central incisors with small artistic bends to tip the roots distally and create space between them ( Fig 4 ). Two months later, the radiograph showed a small space between the roots with bone formation in the area ( Fig 5 ).
Torturous path of an elastic gap band: Interdisciplinary approach to orthodontic treatment for a young patient who lost both maxillary central incisors after do-it-yourself treatment
Posterior crossbite in the deciduous dentition period, its relation with sucking habits, irregular orofacial functions, and otolaryngological findings
Premolar transplantation to replace a missing central incisor
Orthodontic treatment of an ankylosed maxillary central incisor through single-tooth osteotomy by using interdental space regained from microimplant anchorage
MCQs in orthodontics, with explanatory answers and references
Question about relapse of corrected deepbites
Orthodontically induced eruption of a horizontally impacted maxillary central incisor
Tags: American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Volume 139 Issue 2
Apr 13, 2017 | Posted by drzezo in Orthodontics | Comments Off on Controlled tooth movement to correct an iatrogenic problem