As we approach the middle point of the year I find it interesting that some people in business development roles have achieved so much in the first half of the year while others have achieved so little. Why is this? How does this happen? And what is the learning to ensure your organisation is successful in the second half of the year and beyond?
My observation from working with a variety of organisations is that successful business developers replicate success – they undertake the tasks they need to undertake correctly (quality) and then replicate these tasks the required number of times (quantity).
By 'tasks', I mean key business development activities such as phone calls, meetings and writing and presenting proposals. They are able to build rapport, question effectively, explore solutions, close and overcome objections.
In addition, they are clear on their proposition, the needs they can address, the solutions they can provide, their proof points and who to target and why.
As outlined above, there are many opportunities every day, where if you know what to do and have the skills to do it, the more activity you undertake, the more successful you will be. In addition, the more successful you are, greater self confidence is developed which in turn breeds greater motivation.
Worse still, the MORE activity they undertake without experiencing positive results, the LESS confident they become. They will also blow a whole bunch of great prospect leads!
I also observe a lack of urgency in unsuccessful business developers that manifests itself in too little activity and never ending excuses, so even if they are capable of undertaking the required activities, their lack of urgency and resulting lack of activity means they don't get the required results. "We are waiting for…" seems to be a popular excuse. Don't wait, get on with it! You don't need 100% knowledge about a program to start discussing it. You do need ENOUGH knowledge to discuss the opportunity with a degree of confidence.
Why am I discovering this now?
In too many organisations managers are expecting their business developers to achieve something they will simply not achieve based on the competency levels of their team member. I see managers discover in training sessions that their team members after years in the role are unable to execute basic questioning skills or articulate the organisation's proposition – which leads to the question…..what on earth have they been saying in meetings with prospects all those years! The manager should have picked up on these limitations ages ago and addressed them and to be frank, the person should not have been hired in the first place – a more rigorous selection process was required.
The formula for business development success is quality (do it right) multiplied by quantity (repeat it). It is a mantra that should be lived every day by a business development team. You can apply the same formula in the gym, kicking a football and learning the guitar.
1. Identify all your required business development activities.
2. Where required, get training to fill your competency gaps.
3. Keep your activity levels high.
1. Identify all the required competencies in your team to complete the business development activities and check whether team members have them.
By check, I mean watch them present, test their questioning skills, ask them to articulate your proposition – it's the only way you can be sure that person is representing your organisation effectively in a way that will lead to the outcome you are hoping for.
2. Where required, provide them with the required training to fill their competency gaps.


Where's Ramona is an alternative rock / pop punk band from the University of Santo Tomas. Ever since starting out in 2015, the band had seen a steady growth of a small but loyal fanbase predominantly composed of college students. Their intimate rise culminated in the EP launch held in Route 196 on October 19, 2018. Overall, a standard issue career trajectory for a standard issue band.
For all intents and purposes, the EP is a short collection of five middle-of-the-road tracks. "The Reckless Romantic" displays an overall sense of safety, in the sense that every song took little to no risk to write. Flirting with elements of pop punk, the EP had only further watered down an already solute offshoot of punk. Granted, trading in ferocity for comfort had been done effectively in the past (see: the 2000s era of alternative rock and pop punk), and resonates better with the general populace. Aside from better technical skill and production, Where's Ramona fails to stand out from the horde of high-school bands that sound exactly like them.
Digging deeper into the EP proves to be a challenge, since the tracks already give away what little they can offer in the first few listens. "Kiss Me" takes a full minute to formally begin: factor in the useless intro track "Morning", the EP had already gone past the point of being engaging. "Together Soon" slows the momentum down even further with half the time spent stripping back the band's sound, revealing nothing. "Empire" shows a sliver of promise with its energetic intro, but is quickly neutered with pop punk songwriting cliches.
At this point the EP had relied on nothing but surface level sentiment until the song "Tonight". At first glance, the track appears to display more of the same sentiment the previous tracks have displayed. However, a look at the single art on Spotify and some research reveals that the song is actually aimed at the vocalist's grandfather, who had recently passed. The loss of a family member is a sentiment I can relate to. Sadly, the underlying sentiment wasn't enough for me to like the song itself. "Tonight" contains the best guitar riff of the EP, but never rises above the level of mediocrity the other tracks have previously displayed. Summarizing the entire album, the closing track "Universe" outlines all of the uninspired songwriting decisions all the previous tracks have tackled: a dragging intro section, tacky momentum breaks (3:42 being the worst example), and banal lyricism. Perhaps the only inventive passages the band has written in this EP are the lead-in to this track's guitar solo, and the guiitself respectively.
In summary, "The Reckless Romantic" is 21 minutes of inoffensive sound. Give it a try to see if it appeals to you, but I believe that there are better ways to spend your time.


Melbourne City has announced a coaching restructure for the 2018/19 A-League and W-League season with Rado Vidošić taking control of the W-League side.
The former Brisbane Roar men's coach also joined City as the Club's Technical Director.
Vidošić's has extensive experience in men's football which goes back to his days in Queensland but has since go one to be an Assistant Coach at Brisbane Roar, Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory and Wellington Phoenix.
His son, Dario Vidošić, currently plays for Melbourne City.
Former Matildas captain, Melissa Hudson (formerly Barbieri) joins Vidošić as Assistant Coach of the W-League side.
The 38-year-old made 86 appearances for the Matildas and featured in four FIFA World Cups and an Asian Cup victory.
During the 2017/18 season, she came out of retirement to play as an injury-replacement player for Melbourne City.
Hudson is also the former coach of the Heidelberg United women's team in the Victorian NPL before leaving the position a few weeks ago.
The move sees Patrick Kisnorbo, who has been the W-League coach since 2017 and lead them to a title last season, become the assistant coach of A-League side with Tony Vidmar, who sighed a contract extension.
Former Socceroos Zeljko Kalac has signed on as the goalkeeping coach of the men's team.
"At the end of each season, we take stock and consider the talent required to support our development for the season ahead," Director of Football for Melbourne City Michael Petrillo said.
"This series of new and renewed appointments for our men's and women's teams will provide the structure required to support the Club's winning ambitions as we look forward to the 2018-19 season," he added.


At long last, the first episode is up and ready for download. Captain Clyde, an Austin band from the early to mid 2000s is featured. Check them out, as they were one of the main reasons I started Death in Amber. Great band.
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Coming up with a different style every single day definitely isn't easy but boy do I love the challenge. As I'm sure you can imagine the inspiration to do something like that has to come from somewhere. Well, today I want to share with you all where I get my creative inspiration.
1. Creative styles by others – so there aren't a whole lot of naturals that focus on creative updos (at least not that I've found). But there are a few Instagram accounts that I do pull inspiration from. The following ladies are always very innovative and unique with their styles which is right up my ally! There looks always get my creative juices flowing.


pretty new at this PLC stuff so really need some help.
the problem being that i need a high resolution, and the only pressures i am interested in is between 4-5bars, the rest i do not need.
now my pressure transducer gives me a current of 20mA at 5 bars and 4 mA at 0bars,and 16mA at 4 bars. i need only the 4-5bar pressure(16-20mA) to be spread over the 12 bits to get a higher resolution.
With some tranducers measuring range can be adjusted with computer/prommer. This would be the easiest solution. Check in data-sheet of transducer, maybe it mentions some protocols like IO-link or says it's programmable.
Another solution is to get an AI module with greater resolution.
so basically this is what i'm doing, designing a leak detection system(by measuring the pressure drop), so basically ill be charging a test piece to a pressure of 5 Bars and sealing it, and then measure the pressure drop, which i calculate not to be more than a few hundred pascals.
so heres my question, i now have a smart pressure transducer which is capable of measuring btw 0-5 bars, i have programmed it so that it gives me an output of 4mA at 4 bars, and 20mA at 5 bars. now while the piece is charging my transducer will be exposed to the 0-4 bar range, my question being while the transducer is exposed to the 0-4 bar range what will its output be, or will there be no output, will this range inflict any damage on my transducer?
you might ask why the 0-4Bar range isn't important , its because it has nothing to do with the part testing, and data aquisition.
You don't have to worry. You transducer will not give 36mA in case you have 10bars on your sensor - it will be restricted to 4-20mA or close to it.
When you set it for range 4-5bars <-> 4-20mA, if pressure drops bellow 4bars, your card will return an undershoot; if rises over 5bars it will return overshoot. You can use these options in your program to ignore the measuring while values are not in proper range.
Check the manual for your analog card (i.e. for your CPU) - it should contain a chapter called "Representation of the analog values of analog input channels" or something like that. You will also need to check FC105 (SCALE function).
Also, don't forget that you will probably need a special device for programming the transducer - best option is to tell your supplier to deliver already programmed transducer for desired range.
If you want to measure a pressure drop of a few hundred Pascal (let's say 200 Pa) with a sensor that ranges from 0 to 5 bar, ithas to be a pretty good sensor.
Altough you scaled the sensorfrom 4..5bar, the accuracy of the sensor still appliesfor the complete range. The accuracy of the sensor you mentioned is 0.25% (from the PDF you mentioned), wich translates in an accuracy of 1250Pa.
Since you want to measure a drop of pressure, I don't think this is going to be a problem. If you want a very precise measurement of the absolutepressure, 1250Pa is the deviation you have to take into account. And I didn't even mention te accuracy of the analog input card used.
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Kalinovka (Chernigov) Orphanage will become a men's asylum by order of the local government in Ukraine. The Happy Homes (located at Kalinovka), where Maya's Hope funds the salaries of caregivers, will become Foster Homes soon in 2016. A family will be living in each home with the children. We will keep you updated as changes take place. You can read more below.
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Sitting in Chicago yesterday, observing low clouds rushing south on a gusty northerly breeze — part of the larger circulation of what was left of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of miles away — my brother John asked something like, "How do hurricanes get started?" I fumbled for a few minutes talking about some of the ingredients that go into a hurricane — warm, warm ocean water, the little atmospheric disturbances that sometimes kick off the big storms, and weak wind shear (vertical winds) that allow the storm's circulation to get moving. But I realized, gee, beyond those haphazard scraps, I don't really know.
The question itself is kind of profound, because a quick look through some online references show that while more and more is understood about the process, even supercomputer-wielding climate scientists can't give a final answer to how the storms start. Obviously, hurricanes get lots of attention from serious science; the lack of complete understanding says a lot about how complex weather processes are.
–Lots of more basic explanations are available, including at How Stuff Works. NASA's kids site has good pages on how hurricanes are created and how they move.
right-angle layouts, the bright stitching of main streets against invisible landscape.
I can guess the names of the bigger towns: Rockford. DeKalb. Galesburg. Iowa City. Cedar Rapids. All maybes. Nothing big enough to suggest Des Moines or Omaha. Then the smaller towns. Some I've passed through, others are just names I've picked up along the way. Dyersville. Grinnell. Ottumwa. Story City. Stanhope. Storm Lake. Then across the invisible Missouri: Grand Island. McCook. Hastings. Ogallala.
But most without any names that I know, though I'd love to learn them. All down there somewhere in that thinning web of settlements as we move west, each town throwing its main-drag strands of light into the dark. Island universes in uncounted numbers.
We drove from Dad's place on the far North Side out toward Joliet, southwest of the city, to find the spot where the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers come together to form the Illinois.
The first 99 percent of the route is straightforward: If you like, you can drive to within a few miles of the spot on Interstate highways. But we got off the expressway and took side roads to follow the dual channels of the Des Plaines and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. The side roads weren't pastoral lanes; we drove past one tank farm and refinery and generating plant after another. Eventually we turned away from the Des Plaines and drove west and south through brand new subdivisions — some half built, some just surveyors' markers outlining streets and lots for homes that will go up next year; one neighborhood with a long curving boulevard of fresh asphalt and a giant new playground and not a single home even under construction yet. We eventually passed through a place called Minooka, which must have been a quiet little crossroads once. We crossed a highway at a strip mall called Mallard Point and drove south about a mile to a T intersection where we met my brother John, his wife, Dawn, and their two kids (Sean and Leah) who had driven over to meet us from my other brother's place).
After wandering around on a couple of country roads, we finally figured out that the road to the confluence depicted on one of our maps was actually the towpath to the old Illinois and Michigan Canal — the link that in the mid-19th century connected Chicago and Lake Michigan and all points east to the Mississippi River and the interior of much of the United States. We hiked down the path for maybe three quarters of a mile, to where the conjoined rivers go through a lock and dam. A little short of the confluence, but close enough for today. Everyone was still smiling on our way back to the cars.
Watching the relentlessly turgid cable news coverage of Hurricane Katrina, I wonder: How long until Mark Burnett, the brain behind CBS's "Survivor" franchise and many other reality TV series, gets into staging programming for natural calamities (or potential calamities) like this? Don't laugh. Roone Arledge made his name in sports television for ABC and wound up taking over the network's news division. The next logical step is to bring Burnett's sense of drama, character, pacing, and production values to set-piece stories. To the extent that Arledge and many others have pushed news toward entertainment — an old development — both producers and consumers long ago started to make this shift.
Of course, most of the people doing electronic news are bad at both journalism and entertainment. So the problem for Burnett would be he'd have to undo much of what news divisions have undertaken to appeal to their audiences: the flimsy veneer of theatrics laid over every square inch of a story like a hurricane. He'd have to find a few good Jeff Probst types to act as team leaders/anchors, and a bunch of adventurous and photogenic amateurs to send to the beaches to get blown all over the place. Maybe he'd set up competitions to decide who gets what storm-coverage assignments: winners of a challenge might get to stay inside a well-fortified four-star hotel while losers would have to ride out the storm on the beach.
As cheesy as this all sounds, it would almost be preferable to watching the news pros knit their brows and search for words to convey what a horrible spectacle nature is unleashing.
Amazing hat. As seen on United Flight 350, Oakland to Chicago earlier today.
On September 4, 1886, the Chicago Tribune critiqued a pamphlet on a now-forgotten political scandal by a now-forgotten writer: ""The pamphlet on the Paine Bribery Case and the United States Senate, by Albert H. Walker, is plainly the effusion of a crank."
"… to publicly characterize the plaintiff as a "crank," and thus to publicly impute to him sundry qualities, aims, and methods highly inconsistent with usefulness and success as a lawyer and author, … plaintiff has been greatly prejudiced in his credit and reputation, and caused to be considered an unreliable and injudicious person, and destitute of those qualities on which the earnings of a lawyer or a serious author depend; and has been greatly vexed and mortified, and has been deprived of divers great earnings which would otherwise have accrued to him in his professional duties, and divers great royalties which otherwise would have been paid to him on sales of his books."
Walker also noted that since President James Garfield's assassination in 1881 at the hands of Charles J. Guiteau — widely described as a crank — "the word … has obtained a definite meaning in this country, and is understood to mean a crack-brained and murderously inclined person, and is so used by the public press."
The court wasn't moved by Walker's entreaty to help him recover his reputation. It granted the Trib's motion to dismiss Walker's claims, resorting to Ogilvie's Imperial Dictionary to support its finding that "the word would seem to have no necessarily defamatory sense." In fact, the court's opinion (Walker v. Tribune, 1887) suggested Walker get a thicker skin: " It is no libel upon a man who has entered the field of authorship to underrate his talents."
Despite the trauma of being called a crank by no less an august organ than the Trib, Walker managed to make a living afterward. His patent textbook went through at least four editions. He lectured on patents at Cornell. And he wrote one of the first books on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, still circulating today.
"The professionalism of the men and women, who quickly responded to this incident, prevented any harm to the more than 9,000 Air Force, Army and Coalition members on and around this installation," said Col. Michael J. Nowak, 407th Air Expeditionary Group commander.
"Security forces personnel flawlessly executed their job in service to the nation and met the challenge of providing force protection of the installation's perimeter," he added.
It's nice that, while war is still hell, the boss takes time out to give the troops a pat on the back for a job well done. I wonder if this is a first in glowing media alerts for well executed killings. I wonder if, in the same spirit of tellin' the folks back home about the job we're doin', Central Command will tell us more about shootings like this one. And this one.
The good news from the Golden State is that Arnold Schwarzenegger's poll numbers are down. Not that that has any huge significance in the cosmos or even in the world of California politics four months from now. It's just nice to see our thumping lumpish bully-boy demagogue — oh, did I say I don't care for his act? — have a rough time selling the rubes on his patent potions for what ails him and his buddies.
The amazing thing in the latest poll results from the Public Policy Institute of California is that Schwarzenegger somehow manages to lag behind Bush in the overall approval rating among adults surveyed: 38 percent approval for the president, 34 percent for the governor. It's a stunning achievement, really, for anyone this side of the BTK killer to trail Bush in a popularity contest.
So, since people don't love Arnold this month, the initiatives he's forcing on the voters by way of a special election in November are all hurting. Specifically: an initiative to increase the time it takes public-school teachers to get tenure from two years to five; a measure to create a special reapportionment panel so the Legislature can't gerrymander things anymore; and new budget rules that would give the governor more power.
But, and this is a big but: Arnold still has two months and change to make people love him again. He's a Hollywood guy. He'll have lots of money to spend on wooing us and convincing us that he's our best friend, and we are our own worst enemies.
So, I'm nearing the three-month mark in this law school job (every day a new record for longevity). It's interesting getting to know the campus again, walking it every day. Interesting to see the students; last time I was up there on an every day basis, I was one of them — a little older than most, actually, but still, within a few years of most of the people in my classes. Now — well, I can hardly ignore the fact pretty much all the students are bracketed by my kids' ages — 18 and going on 26. I don't feel a full lifetime away from who I was the last time I was in class (something to do with a senior thesis, I think; never got finished). But in simple age terms, that's what I am.
That's not what I started out to say, though. What I started out to say was this overheard snippet, a guy to a couple friends walking down Bancroft Way: "Ted had a press conference the other day. He said Longshore's the man." Translation took a couple of seconds: Football season's here, and the fans are talking about it.
P.S. And, a lifetime away or not, Nate Longshore is about as fine a sports name as you'll find occurring in nature.
P.P.S. Pending gridiron excitement: Illinois vs. California in beautiful Memorial Stadium. The last time these squads tilted, the Fighting Illini (caution: politically incorrect) hunted, killed, and skinned the Golden Bears (government notice: extinct hereabouts).
"On the fourth day of the riots, the Americans called in a Black Hawk helicopter, the video showed. The helicopter descended over the camp, the force of its rotor flattening the tents that hadn't already been burned down by the detainees. Bulldozers and 200 heavily armed soldiers encircled the compound. The Shiite prisoners finally gave up, complying with a list of demands that included handing over their weapons: the remaining floorboards and cinderblock rubble.
"Little was left of the camp; it smoldered, smoke mixing with the stench of overturned portable toilets the detainees had used to barricade the entrance. Heaps of garbage, rocks and used tear gas canisters littered the yard.


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MICAIAH (Heb. מִיכָיְהוּ; in ii Chron. 18:14, Micah , Heb. מִיכָה), son of Imlah, prophet who foretold the death of *Ahab (i Kings 22:7–28). Before embarking on the campaign of Ramoth-Gilead, Ahab and his ally *Jehosaphat king of Judah consulted prophets who unanimously prophesied: "Go up; for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king" (22:6; cf. 22:12). When Micaiah was called, he at first expressed the view of the other prophets, but only in an ironic mockery, and when the king adjured him to speak "nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord," he described two visions he had had: one, of the Israelites scattered over the hills like sheep without a shepherd, which the Lord explained to mean, "these have no master, let every one of them return to his house in peace"; and one, of a meeting of the heavenly council at which it was decided that Ahab should be lured to his death in battle at Ramoth-Gilead by a spirit of falsehood in the mouths of his prophets. Micaiah, who firmly repeated the prediction that the king would not return home alive, was then imprisoned for the duration of the campaign.
It appears that Micaiah was known as a prophet even before this, and the king of Israel says of him "I detest him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil" (22:8). It thus appears that Micaiah was not one of the court prophets, who as a rule acquiesced and encouraged the king. However, he did not bear animosity toward the king and tried, in his prophecy, to prevent his death and the defeat of Israel. His personality was distinguished by prophetic independence and a firm, uncompromising stand not only against the king and his ministers but against all the 400 prophets gathered in the king's court, who in his opinion were not merely false prophets, but became messengers of falsehood through a divine temptation. He was not a rebuking prophet and was not eager to prophesy as were the messenger-prophets. Nor is there any proof that he was one of the prophets who advised the people, like Elisha. His prophecy was similar to that of the classical prophets in his obdurate and unusual stand and his readiness to suffer and be tortured for the sake of truth.
From a political point of view, too, Micaiah differed from the other prophets who in their extreme nationalism were violently anti-Aramean and urged the king to fight against Aram without compromise (i Kings 20:22).
[Samuel Abramsky]
In the Aggadah
In the Aggadah, Micaiah is identified with the anonymous prophet who "came near unto Ahab" and foretold the destruction of the Aramean army (i Kings 20:13; sor 20, p. 52). Later, when he predicted the death of Ahab in battle, the false prophet Zedekiah b. Chenaanah challenged his prophecy, claiming that Elijah had previously prophesied that the dogs would lick Ahab's blood in the field of Naboth, and he would not therefore be slain on a battlefield three days' journey from there. However, both prophecies were fulfilled. Ahab fell in Ramoth-Gilead, but his blood was licked by the dogs in Samaria, when they washed the slain king's chariot there (i Kings 22:28; Jos., Ant. 8:15, 4).
J.A. Montgomery, The Book of Kings (icc, 1951), 335–41; B. Oppenheimer, in: Sefer Urbach (1955), 89–93. in the aggadah: Ginzberg, Legends, index; for further bibliography see *Prophecy.
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Why do lenders ask for compensating balances?
Why do borrowers agree to a compensating balance?
How is a compensating balance calculated?
An example of a compensating balance arrangement
Accounting for a compensating balance
A compensating balance is a balance that must be kept with a lender in order for a borrower to qualify for a line of credit or instalment loan. Effectively it acts as collateral and thus compensates the lender for the risk of making the loan.
A compensating balance effectively changes the risk versus reward balance in favour of the lender. The lender pays a reduced amount to the borrower, but receives interest on the full amount of the loan.
Some borrowers may have no real choice. Businesses have to build up a credit history, just like private individuals. And as with private individuals, this process takes time. What's more, it can be set back as a result of both misguided decisions and unforeseen circumstances.
Some borrowers may agree to leave a compensating balance because it provides them with a better overall deal. In short, even though they have to pay interest on the compensating balance, the lower interest rate they receive makes this worthwhile.
Some borrowers may accidentally end up agreeing to a compensating balance because they did not read, or fully understand their loan agreement. This highlights the importance of making sure that you really understand a contract before you sign it. If necessary, get a professional to explain it to you.
There are two main ways of calculating a compensating balance. These are the average balance arrangement and the minimum fixed balance arrangement. The former tends to be used for lines of credit and the latter for instalment loans.
The average balance arrangement requires a borrower to ensure that they maintain a minimum average balance over an agreed period. This is usually 30 days. The borrower, therefore, has the flexibility to use the whole line of credit for part of this period. They must, however, ensure that the money is repaid within the agreed time frame.
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Old strikes are getting remixed.
Besides fighting your way through the Dreadnaught, there's still plenty new places that the Taken can crawl out of in Destiny: The Taken King.
In Destiny: The Taken King the new enemy foes can show up in three of the older Strikes: Dust Palace, Undying Mind, and Cerberus Vae.
The Taken will randomly show up during the Strikes and try to overwhelm your Fireteam. In the screenshot above, Taken spawned where normally you would fight Valus Ta'aurc's tank in the Cerberus Vae Strike Mission — effectively switching up the entire boss encounter.
There are other various changes in this particular Strike as well. Before you get to the main boss door, you may find a spot to plant a beacon. Here, your Ghost will summon a turret to help you annihilate the Cabal or Taken in front of you. Though, even with the remixes, the bosses in the Strike remain the same.
Bungie also remixed Strikes for more tactical choices and more action, making Strikes less time consuming. Also, if you decide to take on Strike playlists in Destiny: The Taken King, you will improve your loot chances by staying in the playlist rotation.
Have you found any Exotics or other odd gear in Destiny: The Taken King? Let us know in the comments.
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Prezi ist ab heute "Prezi Classic" – es lebe "Prezi Next"!
In terms of creativity theory James Victore has absolutely hit the mark with this short and inspiring video. Via Nerdcore.
…finally. I'm looking forward to work with the team and I am excited to be the first Independent Prezi Expert based in Prague and in the Czech Republic for that matter! Get in touch!


The inequality has great utility because it can be applied to any probability distribution in which the mean and variance are defined. But first, let us review the Empirical Rule.
What is a Galton Board?
The following figure is a graphical presentation of these rules.
Chebyshev's Theorem: The proportion of any distribution that lies within k standard deviations of the mean is at least 1 – (1/k2), where k is any positive number larger than 1. This theorem applies to all distributions of data.
OK; so basically Chebyshev's theorem states that 75% of your data will lie within 2 standard deviations of the mean and that 89% of your data will lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean.
And, I believe that this theorem is much more precise than the Empirical Rule, which assumes normality and can be off.
This was so cool and the context was awesome; very helpful.


Erin Macdonald has a PhD in astrophysics and currently works as a technical consultant both in engineering and for the entertainment industry and hosts an online series on the science of sci-fi called "Dr Erin Explains the Universe." She loves teaching the public about space science, and can be found throughout the year speaking at sci-fi conventions across the United States. Erin is a tattooed sci-fi geek, self-appointed member of Slytherin House and graduate of Starfleet Academy. Follow her on Twitter @drerinmac.


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8 Movies Announced Forever Ago That We're Still Waiting To Be Made
Any day now.
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Making a movie is no quick and easy task, especially when the production suffers some serious setbacks, such as money issues, rewrites, casting changes, or just your everyday film disputes.
But after a company announces a film — especially a film adaptation of a book — fans usually end up counting down the days (or years) until they can see the finished product on the big screen. Unfortunately, these eight movies have hit pitfall after pitfall and may never actually get made.
Of course, there's always hope. It took Ryan Reynolds 11 years to get Deadpool off the ground and into movie theaters, and look how well that turned out.
Zombieland 2
After the success of Zombieland in 2009, there's been talk of a sequel ever since. On February 16, 2011, Rhett Reese, who co-wrote Zombieland, tweeted out, "Don't believe all the articles. We will be returning to Zombieland." Around this time, star Woody Harrelson told Total Film he was ambivalent about doing a sequel to horror-comedy. "I don't feel like a sequels guy."
In September 2014, Deadline reported Sony Pictures hired Dave Callaham to pen the sequel and Ruben Fleischer will return to direct.
This past Saturday (February 20), the podcast The Q&A interviewed Reese and Paul Wernick about Deadpool, of which they co-wrote the script. Reese revealed, "It's actually still in development over at Sony. They've had a couple writers take a crack at it. We're still exec producers and we're guiding and helping where we can ... I think it has to be right. I think all the actors and Reuben all feel like there's no reason to do it again if we're not getting it exactly right."
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Based on the Erik Larson book of the same name, this movie's been in development for over 10 years. Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are attached to the project.
The book tells the true story of America's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes, who murdered TONS of people during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. DiCaprio will, of course, play Holmes, but the matter of when he'll play him is still up in the air.
Deadline reported back in August 2015 that Paramount won the bidding war for the book, but updates about the film have since been silent.
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John Green's beloved novel isn't having the smoothest transition to the big screen. Like The Devil in the White City, Looking for Alaska has been in development for over 10 years. A recent setback is probably the most heartbreaking one: Paramount Pictures doesn't want Green involved with the project. (Full Disclosure: MTV and Paramount Pictures are both owned by Viacom.)
Back in June 2015, Green proudly announced on Twitter the movie found its director, Rebecca Thomas, and he went so far as to write, "IT IS REALLY HAPPENING," blatantly addressing the ridiculously long process of bringing this film to life. But the movie hit a major setback in September due to "casting woes." With that, plus the recent Green news, we'll be lucky if our grandchildren ever get to see this movie made.
Based on Neil Gaiman's DC/Vertigo comic series of the same name, the film is slated to be directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and produced by David Goyer. While it doesn't seem to have been in development for as long as other films, it's still been in the making several years now.
In October 2015, Goyer told Collider a mysterious writer was coming in to work on a new draft. Since then, silence.
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The newest adaptation of Stephen King's horror book involving kids terrified by a killer clown was confirmed in December 2014, as was news of Cary Fukunaga taking on the role as director. Plus, It will be divided into two movies, not one.
In May 2015, it was announced The Maze Runner actor Will Poulter would play Pennywise the Clown. Nothing else was announced until recently. Collider learned a few days ago that the film "will hopefully be shooting later this year" and will be rated R (as it should be, because kids die, and clowns are scary AF).
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Based on Patrick Ness's dystopian young adult trilogy, Chaos Walking was acquired by Lionsgate (the same folks who did a little thing called The Hunger Games), and Robert Zemeckis was in negotiations to direct the movie back in September 2013.
Almost a year later, Jamie Linden, screenwriter of films such as Dear John and Money Monster, was set to write the screenplay. Charlie Kaufman originally wrote the adapted screenplay, but it sounds like Lionsgate is switching writers.
That's it. That's all the info out there. Linden's writing credit isn't even on his IMDb page yet. If things keep moving at a snail's pace, looks like Ness will have time to write three more big-hit trilogies before we see the first Chaos Walking movie get made.
Kill Bill: Vol. 3
Quentin Tarantino told MTV News we'd have to wait a whopping 10 years before he'd explore the next chapter in the Kill Bill series. That was back in 2005; it's now 2016, Quentin. Let's do the math here.
Uma Thurman liked the early ideas Tarantino shared with her, but any progression on the film seems to have hit a brick wall. And to twist the knife in further, Tarantino said in an interview with What The Flick?! that Kill Bill: Vol. 3 remains a "possibility," but he should probably stop saying it's "a probability." Welp.
MTV News even wrote up a list of reasons we need this movie to happen. Hear our cries, Quentin!
Life Size 2
Life Size debuted 16 years ago this year. In January 2014, star Tyra Banks confirmed a sequel was happening, and in December 2015, she announced she'd reprise her role as the doll-turned-human, Eve.
Nothing more's been said about the project since then — of course, it's only been a couple of months — but I feel like we've been waiting for this movie forever. Guess we'll just having to sing "Be A Star" until more news drops.


Paris-based sales agent MaxSaidel has picked up world rights on Chilean veteran Miguel Littin's latestfeature, La Ultima Luna.
Sales will be handled out ofSaidel's newly-renamed V!S, formerly Vision International. Saidel is alsogeneral manager of Spanish sales consortium Latido, specialising in Latinofilms.
Set between Palestine andChile and shot in Arabic and Hebrew, La Ultima Luna tells thebittersweet tale of a Palestinian man forced to leave his homeland and relocateto Latin America. The film premieres in Chile next month and is likely to debutinternationally in a Latin American festival.
Also on V!S's slate is the BigChill-like French comedy Couples (Avant Qu'il Ne Soit Trop Tard)starring Emilie Dequenne (The Bridge Of San Luis Rey) and FredericDiefenthal (Taxi 3).


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Antarctica is a continent surrounding the Earth's South Pole. It is the coldest place on earth and is almost entirely covered by ice. It is not to be confused with the arctic, which is located near the Earth's North Pole. Antarctica was discovered in late January 1820. For more details see the article on the History of Antarctica.
1 Map
2 Territorial claims
5 Additional topics
See also: World map
Territorial claims
Anartica has no government or centralized authority. It has never been formally colonized, though in the 20th century several nations, often those within close proximity to the continant, made territorial claims. This claims have little pratical relevance but continue be observed by cartographers.
Argentine: 25°W to 74°W; Overlaps Chilean and British Claims; Claimed in 1943.
Australian: 160°E to 142°E and 136°E to 45°E; Claimed in 1933, see Australian Antarctic Territory.
Brazilian: 28°W to 53°W; Overlaps Argentine, British and Chilean Claims; Zone of Interest Designated: 1986
Chilean: 53°W to 90°W; Overlaps Argentine and British Claims; Claimed in 1940, see Chilean Antarctic Territory.
French: 142°E to 136°E; Claimed: 1924.
New Zealand: 150°W to 160°E; Claimed: 1923, see Ross Dependency.
Norwegian: 45°E to 20°E (Queen Maud Land) and Peter I Island; Claimed: 1938.
British: 20°W to 80°W; Overlaps Argentine and Chilean Claims; Claimed: 1908.
See:British Antarctic Territory, List of Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory, List of High Commissioners of the British Antarctic Territory and List of Administrators of the British Antarctic Territory
Old claims:
German: 20°E to 10°W; Overlapped Norwegian claim; Claimed: 1939-1945.
South African: xxx°y to xxx°y; Claimed: 1963-1994.
Most countries that have observation or study facilities in Antarctica (see above) have such stations present within their claimed territory, though this is not always the case. The Antarctic Treaty defers these claims and most other nations do not recognize them. No other nations have made claims themselves, although the United States and Russia assert the right to do so. No formal claims have been made in the sector between 90 degrees west and 150 degrees west.
Typical for Antarctica are gigantic table-top icebergs. The continent is surrounded by a large pack ice zone, in which one of the most remarkable ecosystems of the planet developed, based on the Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. It is the food of whales, penguins, fish, sealss and many birds.
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Antarctica has no permanent residents, but a number of governments maintain permanent research stations on the continent. Many of the stations are staffed around the year. These include:
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole (U.S. Antarctic Program)
Casey, Vincennes Bay (Australian Antarctic Division)
Davis Princess Elizabeth Land (Australian Antarctic Division)
Halley Research Station (75°35' S, 26°34' W) British Antarctic Survey
Rothera Research Station (67°34' S, 68°08' W) British Antarctic Survey
McMurdo Station, Ross Island (U.S.)
Macquarie Island (Australian Antarctic Division)
Mawson, Mac Robertson Land (Australian Antarctic Division)
Scott Base, Ross Island (New Zealand)
Rothera (67S, 68W) British Antarctic Survey
SANAE (South African National Antarctic Expeditions), on the Fimbul Coastal Ice Shelf in Queen Maud Land
Bernardp O'Higgins Station, Antarctic Peninsula, Chilean Army.
Eduardo Frei Montalva Station and Villa Las Estrellas, King George Island, Chilean Air Force.
For a more details see Demographics of Antarctica
Climate of Antarctica
History of Antarctica
Geography of Antarctica
Demographics of Antarctica
Government of Antarctica
Economy of Antarctica
Communications in Antarctica
Transportation in Antarctica
Military of Antarctica
Biology of Antarctica
Antarctica is also one of the eight ecozones put forward by Miklos Udvardy.
Map of the ecozones
iceberg gallery
Library of Congress Portals on the World - Antarctica
Ecozones
Nearctic | Palearctic | Afrotropic | Indomalaya | Australasia | Neotropic | Oceania | Antarctic
Antarctic biomes
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(this chapter 2 of the CC Beetle Chronicles picks up from the 1946 CC) Invasive species can impart devastating effects when the indigenous species haven't evolved the proper defenses. Two little black Beetles stowed away on a ship bound for the US in 1949. There wasn't anything remarkable about them that would suggest their future impact on revolutionizing the largest automobile market in the world. But like a pair of termites, they multiplied and steadily chewed their way through the framework of an industry that thought itself invincible. Eventually, the Bugs got forced out by other small foreign critters, but when the hollowed-out Fortress Detroit finally crashed into smithereens, the Beetles' teeth marks could be seen everywhere.
American soldiers who had been exposed to the quirks and pleasures of European cars during WW2 developed an appetite for exotic automotive pets. Some even had direct contact with VWs, as many Kübelwagen were captured and put to good use by American GIs, once the valve-adjustment ritual was mastered.
A free-for-all import market in the US boomed starting shortly after the war. Everything on the automotive menu from Abarth to Zundapp was on offer. Austin was once the biggest-selling import. VW was just another obscure brand amongst dozens fighting for its share of the world's biggest market. It was not totally unlike the Chinese market of recent times.
But a turning point came in 1955. It suddenly became painfully obvious to many early import buyers that while three and four year-old VW's were still happily putting along, their DKWs, Goliaths, Simcas, Lloyds and dozens of other exotic foreigners were dying. Or at least the functional equivalent: sitting for weeks in their fly-by-night dealers' one-bay garages awaiting parts supposedly on a tramp freighter somewhere in the Atlantic. The VW design was already almost twenty years old, and well de-bugged in the fields of combat. Material and build quality were superb. A sudden and immediate VW tidal shift was underway.
Humans by nature (and American perhaps a bit more so) are faddists, and sometimes our enthusiasm for a new group-identify slips all the way into cultism. Mid-fifties Beetle drivers waved religiously to each other. That degree of auto-reinforcement has happened only a few times since: the early days of the Honda Civic and the Prius, as well as a few others.
Like many cultists, pioneering VW adopters blissfully ignored all the shortcomings: no trunk to speak of, a cramped back seat, tippy handling at the limit, and as much power on tap as heat on a cold morning.
But the Volkwagen's similarities under the skin (as well as even the skin itself) to the highly-regarded Porsche 356 were all-too obvious to those with a sporting bend. Ferry Porsche's stance in this picture is symbolic to say the least.
During the great sports car boom of the fifties, the VW was taken into the cult as a four-passenger Porsche that just needed a bit of tuning or a Judson supercharger to make it worthy of its designer's name. Dial in a bit of negative camber in the rear suspension like this one, pump up the tires, cover the front end with newspapers to protect the nice new paint, and go racing. It's not like it's liable to break under full throttle.
Subtle annual improvements was all it took to keep Americans smiling and waving. Here's a vintage ad explaining just how one of them came into being. Not surprisingly, it's hardly truthful, but then that's advertising.
But Volkswagen had a plan. Their ads were lying; they were thinking very big, not small. Because demand suddenly far outstripped supply, VW coerced ("you vill do it ziss way") dealers to do three key things if they wanted to see any more cars: sell the little buggers at full list price, invest in state of the art showrooms and facilities, and hire competent staff. A no-haggle price and a nice dealership experience: sound familiar? Not to Americans at the time. Most of the dealers complied happily, all the way to the bank. The rest became Renault or Simca dealers. The VW gold rush was underway.
But the driving experience was most un-Detroit of all. Thirty six (30 net) horsepower, about the same as a well-fed riding mower today, engendered patience. What it delivered, it did so rock-steady: Thirty-two miles per gallon, always. Top speed: sixty-eight, exactly (upped to seventy-two when the 40 hp came along in 1961). If that was down a mile or two on level ground, you knew it was time for a tune-up. And it would happily run wide-open at sixty-eight for a good 100k miles straight, as long as it had been maintained adequately. And then one swapped in a rebuilt engine – in forty-five minutes. That was one of the keys to the VW's success.
VW sales increased like the national debt: by the mid sixties, a half million a year were being snapped up at full MSRP in the US. VW dealerships were typically some of the most profitable ones. We were making Germany the envy of the rest of Europe, and shattering Detroit's hegemony of the market. That story has been told on these pages all to well. Turns out the real threat to the US in the fifties and sixties wasn't Communism; it was the industrious little Bugs munching away in the walls of our biggest industry.
Interesting how the third pic shows the bug lined up between a Dauphine and a Morris Minor – direct competitors.
VWs put Mrs. JPC and her four siblings through college. Her father had started out selling cars, and even had a Saab franchise for a time in the early 1960s. Then he started a repair shop that specialized in VWs. VWOA was vigilant, even suing him to prevent him from using the words Volkswagen or VW in his company name, but it didn't matter. For those who wanted to get a VW fixed at somewhere other than the dealer, that was the place. The Mrs has lots of stories, and lots of seat miles in the humble Bug.
By the time I was really paying attention to cars in the early to mid 1960s in the upper midwest, VWs were the only imports that were really seen with much frequency. Sure, there would be the MGs and Triumphs, and the rare Metropolitan, but the Bug was everywhere.
In a way, the Bug was like the early Mustang, that knew no demographic boundaries. Young couples starting out with no money, or established doctors or lawyers who liked the little car's attributes of quality and value. About the time I was starting to come under the spell of these, prices of nice ones started moving up. Here in rust country, a clean VW is worth a good bit of money.
Your featured black beetle is an exact duplicate, including the white walls, that my grandfather purchased brand new from a very small VW dealership in Kingston, MA called Babbit Motors, on Rt. 3a. Long gone now. The one thing that I remember was my grandfather's non-mechanical leanings….. many an occasion he would start from a dead stop in 3rd gear. Somehow it never stalled. On very hot days he would pick me up from a day at the beach, God, those red vinyl seats where hot… my legs where more red when I got home. Lasted until my brother hit a telephone pole in '66. The spare tire/wheel saved his life.
What's that decal in the left-rear window?
Since none of them ever came with a tachometer, what was the RPM at 68 MPH?
3400, peak hp was actually at 3700. These speeds are pretty much the same as contemporary six cylinder US cars.
At 68 mph I'd assume any modern car engine (except the smallest ones) would be turning about 1800-2400 rpm, thanks to low gearing.
By contemporary, I meant 1950's. The Mopar flathead six peaked at 3600rpm. With typical tire sizes and axle ratios, theoretical top speeds approached 80. Real world was closer to the VW.
I don't know of any other car where the owners think engine swaps are regular maintenance.
Ever owned an Olds diesel?
It isn't regular maintenance. However in the 1950s most American cars were well done before 100k and hauled off to the scrapyard.
When a VW reached that point, it was more likely to have a new engine swapped in because of the ease of doing so.
It's funny the crap people say about aircooled Volkswagens and yet, at least here in the south, if you see a 1970's or older car being driven it's typically one of three things, a Ford pickup, Mustang or a Beetle.
Regular only to the extent one wanted to keep driving indefinitely. Most other cars back then were so worn out all over after 100k miles, that it wasn't very motivating to have your engine rebuilt. Not so much so in the case of the VW, which was still very solid after that, That's why folks bothered with the VW.
I'm sure there were exceptions and earlier failures, but from direct experience with at least three VWs, a properly maintained and driven original VW engine would run at least 100k miles (often more) before needing an overhaul. That was the generally accepted rule of thumb.
Try to find another import brand from the 50s or 60s for which that also applied, with the exception of Mercedes or Peugeot. Most crapped out much sooner.
And plenty of American cars were challenged to go that distance too.
A friend of mine bought a '62 Beetle from the original owners. The 40hp actually made it to 215k when he pulled it out. It had crank endplay like you wouldn't believe and probably put out about 15hp but it still ran when he pulled it out.
my '57 VW, which I paid $65 for in 1969, was last seen by me in 1971 when the guy I sold it to took it away to take the engine out of it to put into his T1 Transporter.
I had a '69 Beetle in 1975. That SOB did not last past 50,000 miles. It ate up all my money. Never again!!
"Toyopests," huh? I see what you did!
Speaking as someone who learned how to drive stick in a '66 fastback, I am loving VW week.
Beetle, Civic and Prius, I've been a happy acolyte of all three. I wouldn't say it was faddism, each was a major milestone that delivered real value way ahead of its time.
I'm curious as to whether there was anything more than organic sales share increase going on regarding the 1955 turning point mentioned, or was there a particular event that increased sales?
In Australia I think a major driver of early VW sales was their success in the Redex and other round-Australia trials. These were 8-10,000 mile or more events that would run for weeks over some pretty harsh terrain which really punished cars. The first was held in 1953, and a VW won in 1955 by which time a decent portion of fields were VWs. They gained a reputation for toughness that would have contributed to a lot of sales.
Paul, you are older than myself so I'll defer to your opinion that the VW dealer experience was at one time, far back in the annals of history, wonderful. However, I'm pretty sure that ended at some point in the last 40 years because the consensus these days, based on empirical evidence and my own personal/family experience, is that VW dealers are pond scum. I for one wholeheartedly believe this to be the case.
As a kid my dad had old vw's because they were cheap to run and buy back then – this was the 1970s and 80's. He regularly drove a 1956, and for years he had a 57 sunroof in the garage – this had no title. In about 1983, he bought a 1963 that he started driving more regularly, until he hit a deer. The body crumpled, so he then placed the body of the 57 on the 63 and it ran like that until the 1990's. Later that also received the 1500 from a third beetle.
The purists out there will hate this compilation of VW parts, but the doner vehicles weren't worth much. He has since sold the 56 and 57 (and 68, 69, 70) but he still has two in the garage that, while in pieces, are out of the elements – a 67 that has a lot of body rot, and a 54 that is needing a complete restoration. His daily driver now? A Hyundai.
Hmm, I wonder if those wide white walls marked the beginning of the broughamification of VW beetle?
Saw an immaculate 1300 Beetle yesterday in white stickered as a 68 but 67 by US indications(probably local assembly) when I return home it will appear on the cohort.
If you look directly above the dealer add on the same page, they have ranch style homes for $16,800 and Cape Code style homes for $15,900 in Monroe, Conn. The current home owners probably pay this amount each year in property/school taxes alone.
I see the entire interior has been re done some years ago , the original headliner was far more complicated .
In 1955 the millionth Beetle was made , in 1975 I bought a '55 DeLuxe # 117 (folding sun roof) Beetle that had the millionth engine in it , I was impressed but no one else seemed to be , I left it in the car when I sold it a few years later , I wonder where it is now ? .
Well you did it ~ got me to buy one last Beetle before I die .
I've gotten it running well and reliably on the 36HP engine and it easily tops 75 MPH on the freeway as long as it's flat and no wind =8-) .
I don't think I'll paint it but interior re trimming most definitely .


One Eternal Day: "The one thing we cannot do is redraw the map..."
.... To oversimplify, progressives believe religion primarily (but not exclusively) concerns what man says about God, while conservatives believe religion primarily (but not exclusively) concerns what God says about man.
The lines are not clearly drawn, and can't be. Doctrine and theology does change, even under conservatives, while progressives really do take some religious truths as axiomatic. The crucial difference, as I see it, is that conservatives (or, if you prefer as I do, the small-o orthodox) believe that there is an objective, real, transcendent order that exists outside of us and prior to us, and truth claims are usually claims about it, and how we must relate to it. Any changes in what has been received or thought must be accomplished through valid authorities within the interpretive community. If the authorities try to stretch the tradition too far too fast, they risk schism.
...I would genuinely like to believe that Christians are free to decide what they like about homosexuality. It would make my gay friends think better of me, and it would make my professional life easier in many ways. But as a matter of intellectual integrity, I can't rationalize away the prohibition within Christianity (nor can I rationalize away Biblical ethics binding heterosexual conduct).
I often think that progressive Christians judge us orthodox Christians to be bigots because they assume that we read Scripture and relate to Tradition in the same way that they do. For orthodox believers, Scripture and Tradition are like maps; if you don't follow them, you won't get where you are supposed to go. Maps are only a representation of the real world, it is true, but we have to hew as close to what we have been given as we can. The one thing we cannot do is redraw the map to make it take us where we wish to go, because we judge it to be a more pleasant place.


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Posted on December 26, 2022 by Dr. L. Golbe
Two full weeks since my last post – holiday activities, don't you know, starting on December 21 with a solstice party at the home of an eccentric friend. I see that my blog viewership has declined precipitously in the past week, so I'm happy that you all have better things to do at holiday time than to read about PSP. Don't we all wish that the disease itself would take a few days off, too?
My re-emergent thought is about the famous "hummingbird sign." On an MRI scan in the sagittal plane – that's as if you sliced someone down the middle and looked at the cut surface – the brainstem sort of looks like a side view of a hummingbird.
In the MRIs above, the nose is on the left. In the lower images, the arrows stop just short of the indicated structures so as not to obscure them. Note the progressively thinner, sleeker midbrain (the hummingbird's head and beak) with retention of the plump pons (the belly, which is plumper than than that of a real hummingbird).
Now here's the issue. The appearance of the hummingbird sign isn't as closely related to PSP as has been implied by many. There are just too many false positives and false negatives.
The false positives mostly occur in people with normal-pressure hydrocephalus, a condition where the fluid-filled spaces in the brain (the "ventricles") enlarge because of an obstruction in the re-absorption of the fluid into the bloodstream. This stretches the fibers adjacent to the ventricles, impairing control of gait, cognition and the bladder. It also presses down on the midbrain, producing the hummingbird sign. Then there are those individuals with corticobasal degeneration where the features resemble PSP ("CBS-PSP"). They can also have a hummingbird sign.
The false negatives occur in the first couple of years after the initial symptoms. They also occur if the MRI is mis-aligned on the brain or the head is a little rotated, producing an allegedly midline cut that's actually a couple of millimeters to one side. That means that the thinnest part of the midbrain, which is in the midline, isn't shown in the image.
You should also know that the hummingbird sign isn't just about a thin midbrain. A normal pons is also part of the sign. That's because in multiple system atrophy and a few rarer disorders, both the midbrain and pons become thinner. But in PSP, it's mostly the midbrain that does so.
I think that in the next year or two, a test of the tau protein in spinal fluid, blood or a tiny punch biopsy of skin will provide a much more accurate diagnosis of PSP than the hummingbird sign. Soon thereafter we will probably have a PET technique that does the same. Then, clinical treatment trials can be accomplished faster because they won't have to compensate for the statistical noise produced by participants with a false positive diagnosis. In fact, all sorts of research on PSP will become much more powerful if people without PSP can be excluded.
All my best for the New Year.
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Mail-order diagnosis
You may have noticed that I've been bullish on the ability of ordinary MRI scans to help diagnose PSP. Now there's an on-line, automated resource to allow anyone anywhere to upload MRI images and receive an answer – for free.
We've known for over a decade that very careful, standardized measurement of the size of various parts of the brain can track the progression of PSP over the 1-year course of treatment trial better than the PSP Rating Scale or any other "bedside" measure. But more recently, MRI has been found to be highly useful in the differential diagnosis of PSP – that is, telling PSP from normal aging, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other conditions.
For an excellent, technical, open-access review of simple MRI measurements in the diagnosis of PSP, click here. The leading authors are Dr. Aldo Quattrone and his son Dr. Andrea Quattrone at Universita Magna Graecia in Catanzaro, Italy, who pioneered most of the discoveries described.
Such MRI-based measurements use only routinely obtained images like those from your local radiologist. But actually doing the measurements requires some experience. The Catanzaro group has created a Web portal onto which anyone can upload de-identified MRI images from a CD. An answer returns in a few days. The site is https://mrpi.unicz.it/.
The black-and-white images below show the inputs into the automated algorithm. Sorry if these close-up brain images look like abstract expressionism. The drawings here may help orient you.
MRI images A and B are sagittal (A is in the midline and B is a few mm to one side), images C and D are in the coronal plane and image E is in the horizontal (or axial) plane.
from: Quattrone, et al. Brain Science, 2022.
A: midbrain area (upper outline; Amb) and pons area (lower outline; Apons) (In PSP, atrophy of the midbrain is marked but atrophy of the pons is mild.)
B: middle cerebellar peduncle diameter (This atrophies only a little in PSP.)
C: superior cerebellar peduncle diameter in a slice parallel to the midline ("parasagittal" slice; This atrophies moderately in PSP.)
D: third ventricle diameter (averaging the diameters of the front, middle and back thirds) (This enlarges markedly in PSP.)
E: maximum distance between anterior horns of lateral ventricles (This atrophies moderately in PSP.)
The number derived from these measurements is called the magnetic resonance parkinsonism index (MRPI). Its value is (Apons/Amb) x (B/C). Values above 13.88 indicate PSP-RS with 89% sensitivity*, 95% specificity* and 94% accuracy*. This works best in separating PSP-Richardson syndrome from Parkinson's disease.
The MRPI 2.0 is (MRPI) x (D/E). This works better than the original MRPI in separating PSP-Parkinson and other non-Richardson PSP variants from Parkinson's disease. Values above 2.70 indicate PSP with 86% sensitivity, 92% specificity and 90% accuracy.
*Sensitivity is the fraction of people with the disease who have a positive test.
Specificity is the fraction of people without the disease who have a negative test.
Accuracy is the fraction of people with an accurate test, whether positive or negative.
In this case, "the disease" means PSP and "without the disease" means PD, some other disease or no disease.
The really valuable part is that this technique works well even in early, mild cases, where a diagnosis could not be made by other means. In a few studies, such patients were followed for years until they showed more definitive signs, which were then used to validate the initial, image-based diagnoses.
This technique has not been shown effective in differentiating PSP-P from multiple system atrophy of the parkinsonian type (MSA-P), which is a common dilemma for movement disorder specialists seeing a patient with mild symptoms. But the MRPI and MRPI 2.0 could be combined with other supplementary tests such as supine and standing blood pressure (usually abnormal in MSA-P, normal in PSP) and still-experimental tests such as blood levels of tau, phosphorylated tau and neurofilament light chain (all elevated in PSP, not in MSA) to refine its abilities.
Another important caveat: Sometimes PSP can be mimicked by rare cases of common diseases like Alzheimer's or dementia with Lewy bodies, or by some rare diseases like corticobasal degeneration, frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism, or pallidopontonigral degeneration. There haven't yet been enough patients with those things subjected to the MRPI or MRPI 2.0 to prove those formulas able to separate those conditions from PSP. After all, the MRI only looks for atrophy of certain brain structures, regardless of whether that atrophy is related to tau aggregation or something else.
Bottom line: As my medical students don't appreciate hearing, no diagnostic test short of autopsy is ever going to be definitive on its own. Any test will have to be combined with old-fashioned history and exam and with other imaging, fluids or physiological tests. Knowing which of those to choose for a given patient and how to interpret the results will keep humble, human neuro-diagnosticians in business for a while longer.
In my next post: another on-line tool for the diagnosis of PSP.
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Posted on July 6, 2022 by Dr. L. Golbe
A chance re-encounter
A 2019 article I came across this week dragged me back into blog posting after a month-long break (sorry, fans — I have no excuse). I remember seeing the paper at the time but blew it off as mere confirmation of previous publications. But it actually may provide a way to diagnose PSP years before symptoms appear.
The problem is a familiar one
As you know from my constant harping on the subject, what we really need are two things: a way to diagnose PSP in its earliest stages, preferably before it causes any disabling symptoms (or any symptoms at all); and a way to prevent the disease process from progressing further than that. In official lingo: a marker and neuroprotection.
All sorts of marker proposals are showing promise: leading the pack right now are tests of blood or spinal fluid for neurofilament light chain or tau, PET scans for tau, and various MRI techniques. Two of the more distant contenders are smartphone-based eye movement measurements and skin biopsies for tau aggregates. The problem is to differentiate very early PSP from normal aging and from competing diagnostic possibilities such as Parkinson's, MSA and dementia with Lewy bodies.
Get out your rulers
MRI measurements of the volume of the cerebrum is a very sensitive way to track the progression of PSP and is used in drug trials routinely to compare the rate of brain loss in the treatment group to that in the placebo group. But it doesn't work for diagnosing the disease in the first place. For that, you need to image a part of the brain that, unlike the cerebrum, is involved early in the course of the disease. It also has to be easy to image using standard MRI machines. The dorsal midbrain does both.
As an internal comparator, the study also measured the size of the pons, which is the segment of brainstem just below the midbrain. It atrophies little in PSP. For both measures, they used the area in square centimeters of the structure on a mid-sagittal MRI cut (one that slices the head perfectly into left and right halves). See the image below.
MRI in the mid-sagittal plane, with nose at left of each. The left image shows the dorsal midbrain and the right, the pons. a radiologist drew the outlines by hand with a mouse. The MRI machine's software calculates the area with each outline in square centimeters. (From Cui et al BMC Neurology 2020)
Now, while the dorsal midbrain is where vertical eye movement, the hallmark of PSP, is situated, it's not where PSP starts. That happens in subthalamic nucleus, the globus pallidus and the substantia nigra. But the dorsal midbrain gets involved soon enough, is much easier to image than those things, and is consistently involved in the classic form of PSP, Richardson syndrome.
History is not bunk
So, with that as background, Dr. Jong Hyeon Ahn and colleagues from six university hospitals in South Korea found 27 patients with PSP with brain MRIs not only after their PSP symptoms began, but also before they began. The scans had been performed for non-PSP symptoms such as transient dizziness, fainting, suspected stroke, or headache. In fact, the article says that elderly South Koreans often request — and receive — brain MRIs as part of their routine checkups. (Who knew?) The MRIs were routine, with none of the standardization across radiology sites that are commonplace in multi-center drug studies. In other words, these were "real world" MRIs.
The pre-symptomatic MRIs were performed an average of 28 months (range: 12-48 months) before PSP symptoms began and the researchers pored over their records to make sure there were no symptoms at the time suggestive of PSP. They rejected MRIs done within 12 months of symptom onset to further reduce the chance that the symptoms prompting the scan were part of PSP.
They compared these pre-symptomatic MRIs to the same patients' post-onset MRIs and to those of 27 patients with Parkinson's and another 27 with no known brain disorder. The 27 with PSP all had the classic PSP-Richardson syndrome, where the vertical eye movement problem is more prominent than in the less common PSP subtypes.
I few paragraphs ago, I mentioned that the pons was also measured. In some diseases, both the midbrain and pons atrophy together, but only in PSP is the midbrain affected far worse. So they divided the areas of the pons by that of the midbrain, expecting that ratio to be higher in PSP than in competing diagnostic possibilities.
The graph below compares the four subject groups by their pons area, midbrain area and pons/midbrain ratio. There's some overlap between groups, but the averages (the means) differ both for the midbrain alone and for the pons/midbrain ratio. The horizontal bars with asterisks indicate a statistically significant difference between the means of two groups at the ends of the bar. The pons alone showed no differences, as expected, but the midbrain alone did show a difference and the pons/midbrain ratio did even better than that.
Areas of dorsal midbrain and pons as measured on mid-sagittal MRI. The horizontal brackets with asterisks indicate statistically significant differences between groups. P=pons, M=midbrain, RS=Richardson's syndrome, PD=Parkinson's disease (from Ahn et al Park Rel Dis 2022)
Those differences weren't just at the level of the group means, which would be scientifically interesting but close to useless for patient care. For the pons/midbrain ratio, the accuracy (the fraction of subjects correctly classified by the test) for pre-symptomatic PSP vs PD was 89% and for pre-symptomatic PSP vs controls, it was 93%. A more critical statistic from the standpoint of avoiding false positives is the specificity, which for the pons/midbrain measurement comparing PSP and PD, was an amazing 100%. It was the same for the PSP vs controls.
Receiver operating curves showing the trade-off between the sensitivity and specificity of the midbrain area (blue) with pons/midbrain ratio (green) in distinguishing patients with PSP from those with Parkinson's disease (left two graphs) or controls (right two graphs). The two upper graphs compare pre-symptomatic PSP with PD or controls. The two bottom scans compare post-onset PSP with PD or controls. (From Ahn et al. Park Rel Disord 2022)
Now — for the green eyeshades
A strength of the study is that all the pre-symptomatic MRIs were more than 1 year before symptoms began. Any shorter than that would raise questions of whether very subtle PSP features might have been present. Another strength is that the MRIs were performed on ordinary machines available in any radiology office.
One caveat is that all 27 PSP patients had the PSP-Richardson form, and the findings may not apply to PSP-Parkinsonism or the other atypical forms. Another is that the patients were alive and not autopsy-confirmed in their diagnoses and a third is that the neurological evaluations had been performed by general neurologists rather than by movement disorder specialists.
The take-home
So, we await confirmation by other researchers with larger subject numbers and comparisons of PSP with MSA and DLB. We also need to standardize the measurement of the pons and midbrain areas to strengthen the real-world diagnostic value of this painless, harmless and apparently highly accurate test. Coupling this test with other simple ones may create an even more accurate diagnostic battery.
This could be a keeper. Then all we'll need is a way to keep everyone pre-symptomatic.
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Get out those rulers
Posted on May 11, 2022 by Dr. L. Golbe
Everyone with a suspected diagnosis of PSP should have a brain MRI. It can find more-readily-treated things such as strokes, tumors or normal-pressure hydrocephalus. But the MRI is not all that useful in differentiating PSP in its early, diagnostically-uncertain, stages from other neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's, MSA, Alzheimer's, CBD, dementia with Lewy bodies, and the several forms of FTD. Even the famous hummingbird sign of PSP doesn't appear until the middle stages of the disease, by which time a neurologist can make the diagnosis by history and physical exam anyway. Besides, any disorder that causes atrophy of the midbrain will produce a hummingbird sign.
But now, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have used an automated system to measure the degree of atrophy of several areas of brain as seen on MRI. The system, called "FreeSurfer," is in standard use in research requiring MRI measurements. The lead author was Ignacio Illán-Gaia and the senior author was Adam Boxer. All of their 326 subjects had been evaluated at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center between 1994 and 2019. The diagnosis in each case was later established at autopsy – a major scientific strength of this study. Autopsy showed PSP in 68, CBD in 44, various forms of FTD in 144, Alzheimer's in 45, and PD, MSA or DLB in only 11.
The four brain areas chosen for analysis were all previously known to atrophy in PSP: cerebral cortex, midbrain, pons and superior cerebellar peduncle. (The midbrain and pons are in the brainstem and the SCP is one of three tracts connecting the cerebellum to the rest of the brain.) They used not only the size of each, but also a previously reported index called the "magnetic resonance parkinsonism index" (MRPI), a formula involving the size of the midbrain, pons, SCP and middle cerebellar peduncle. (See note below for details.) The MRPI does very well in distinguishing PSP from PD, but has not been adequately evaluated against all possible alternative diagnoses. Actually, an updated version called "MRPI 2.0" can distinguish PSP from MSA because it takes into account atrophy of the thalamus, but it's too new to have an automated version, so this project satisfied itself with the MRPI.
The result was that the MRPI showed an excellent ability to distinguish PSP from the other diseases as a group. The area under the receiver operating curve (AUROC; see my previous post for an explanation) was excellent: 0.90 of a possible 1.00. But the AUROC for distinguishing PSP from CBD was only moderate at 0.83. A more sophisticated statistical analysis, a "multiple logistic regression model" (MLRM), worked even better, distinguishing PSP from the others with a superb AUROC of 0.98. The CBD- vs-others comparison also benefited from the MLRM, rising to 0.86.
To put the AUROC into more-relatable terms: The AUROC of 0.98 in this case corresponds to an "accuracy" of 95%. That means that the MLRM got the diagnosis correct (i.e., PSP or not PSP) in 95% of patients. But that simple calculation can be misleading, which is why the AUROC is used by researchers.
As mentioned above, the total number of patients with PD, DLB and MSA was only 11. That's because the study was performed at a memory center, not a movement center. While the MRPI has proven its utility in distinguishing PSP from PD, the same can't be said for the PSP vs DLB or the PSP vs MSA comparisons. So we need more work with a statistically robust number of patients with DLB and MSA.
For an admittedly biased assessment of the importance of this study, here's Dr. Illán-Gaia in emailed comments in response to my request for a couple of quotable blurbs:
Our study demonstrates in a large autopsy-proven cohort that combining a set of cortical and subcortical measures of cerebral atrophy could represent a powerful diagnostic tool. These measures can be obtained with a simple MRI and could be combined with other biomarkers to improve the diagnosis of patients with PSP or CBD.
More work needs to be done to ensure the translation of our method to clinical practice and we are now working to validate our results in other large multicenter studies.
The MRPI is calculated as follows: (area of pons on mid-sagittal section / area of midbrain on midsagittal section) X (diameter of middle cerebellar peduncle on parasagittal section / diameter of superior cerebellar peduncle on coronal section).
The MRPI 2.0 multiplies the MRPI by the (maximum width of the third ventricle / maximum width of the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles).
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TRAGIC UPDATE: IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT WESLEY WATTS HAS BEEN FOUND DECEASED. PRAYERS FOR HIS FAMILY, ESPECIALLY OVER THIS HOLIDAY SEASON! A LINKED ARTICLE BELOW HAS BEEN PROVIDED.
Since anyone has last seen or heard from him.
Wesley Watts was last heard from on November 5, 2018 in Monticello, Mississippi. Wesley has multiple tattoos. Wesley Watts is a Caucasian male. He is 34 years old. Wesley is described as 5'9″ tall and 180 pounds. His hair is blond and his eyes are hazel. It is unknown what Wesley was wearing when he was last seen. It is unknown what Wesley was doing when he was last seen, who last saw him, or if he took any personal belongings with him. Nor is it known what transportation he was using or if it's characteristic of him to leave without warning. Information is very limited in his case.
Wesley Watts has been missing for 19 days. A holiday came and went without him being seen with his family. Sadly, my Internet searches have produced one bulletin, press release, or article done on his behalf. If any of these exist, Internet search engines have buried them. But social media brings up many results, and those doing the posting need answers. Do you have any information concerning the whereabouts of Wesley Watts? Do you have any information concerning the person (s) involved in his disappearance?
If you have seen Wesley or have any information on his whereabouts, please contact Monticello Police Department (601) 587-7732 or Lawrence County Sheriff's Office (601) 587-2961. If you see Wesley Watts, call 9-1-1 immediately!
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De Bedelaar is de naam van een landgoed ten westen van Haelen. Het landgoed meet 38 ha.

Geschiedenis
Dit landgoed kreeg bekendheid door toedoen van de paleontoloog Eugène Dubois, ontdekker van de Homo erectus. Vanaf 1902 kreeg hij belangstelling voor de kleigroeven te Tegelen en liet daar opgravingen uitvoeren. Op het landgoed De Bedelaar wilde hij een reconstructie inrichten van het landschap zoals dat er bij Tegelen ooit uitgezien moest hebben. Het heidegebied werd in bos veranderd, er werden tal van exotische zaden ingevoerd en ook het ven werd door hem voedselrijk gemaakt en van exotische waterplanten voorzien.

Op het landgoed richtte hij aanvankelijk een houten huisje op, maar in 1910 kwam er een stenen villa met achthoekige toren, waarin zich de werkkamer van Dubois bevond. In 1931 werd de toren verhoogd en als vleermuisverblijf ingericht. In 1939 werd nog een extra verdieping op het huis geplaatst.

Reeds in 1916 bouwde Dubois een houten vleermuistoren naar Amerikaans model. Dit is tegenwoordig een rijksmonument. In 1937 liet hij bovendien een vijftien meter hoge stenen toren bouwen, de Uilentoren. Deze werd verwarmd via een stookkanaal om uilen en vleermuizen in de winter een aangename temperatuur te bezorgen. De toren werd in 2011 gerestaureerd. De bedoeling van dergelijke torens was om insecten respectievelijk knaagdieren op biologische wijze te bestrijden.

In 1940 stierf Dubois. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd de toren nog gebruikt als schuilplaats voor onderduikers. Na de oorlog werd het een rusthuis voor beambten van de Staatsmijnen, waartoe de villa werd uitgebreid. In de jaren '70 van de 20e eeuw werd het gekocht door de Zusters van Heythuysen, welke in 1993 weer vertrokken. Daarna was er leegstand, vervolgens was het ook groepshotel en vergaderaccommodatie. In 2008 kwam de villa aan de Stichting Wonen Limburg en werd het een beschermde woonvoorziening voor mensen met een psychiatrische achtergrond.

Legende
Laar, of loar in het Limburgs, betekent: vennetje in een bosachtig gebied. Om te verwijzen naar de plek waar het landgoed was gelegen, werd verwezen naar deze 'loar': 'Beej de loar', ofwel, bij de laar. Zo kwam het landgoed aan de naam Bedelaar.
De herkomst van deze naam was zeer onbekend, zodat zich hierover een legende vormde. Ooit zou hier een kasteel hebben gestaan. Op een avond kwam een bedelaar langs, die echter op een uiterst hardvochtige wijze de deur werd gewezen. Daarop vervloekte de bedelaar het huis en zijn bewoners. Toen nu de torenklok 12 uur 's-nachts sloeg, verzonk het kasteel met zijn bewoners in het moeras. Daar ligt nu het ven: Groote Bedelaar. Er is ook nog een kleiner ven, Kleine Bedelaar geheten.

Trivia
Op het landgoed werd op 4 april 1980 een wapenvondst gedaan, die wordt toegeschreven aan een geheim stay-behindnetwerk gelinkt aan Operatie Gladio.

Bedelaar
Geografie van Leudal

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Anti-Semitic posters with swastikas appeared on several Cornell University buildings and on a statue of Ezra Cornell on Monday morning, imploring students to "Join the white gang" and advertising an apparent hate group that seems to be in its infancy or non-existent.
"Just say no to Jewish lies!" screamed the large, black-and-white posters plastered onto several University buildings. They promoted a "Solar Cross Society," of which there are no mentions on the internet.
"Whoever is responsible for these fliers is hiding under the cover of anonymity, having posted them overnight," President Martha E. Pollack said in a statement on Monday afternoon after Cornell spokespeople refused to comment on the postings for four hours.
An anti-Semitic posting on a statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad. The posting was removed later on Monday morning.
The posters follow a series of incidents that have roiled Cornell and made students and parents concerned about the campus climate. The most serious of those incidents occurred in September when a black student said he was beaten and called the N-word by a group of white men. One student was charged with assault in that case.
Later in September, students at a West Campus residence hall were "stunned" when someone submitted the N-Word to an online poll. And in October, a student posted an anti-Semitic joke on a shared Google Doc that referenced the Holocaust.
In response to the recent incidents at Cornell, Pollack announced in September that she would convene a presidential task force to examine and address "persistent problems of bigotry and intolerance at Cornell," she said in a statement.
Pollack said that a final report of findings will be released on May 1.
Over 18 months ago in March 2016, a group claiming to be made up of Cornell students started a Facebook page called Union of White Cornell Students.
The group released an open letter to the Cornell community and said they were planning on releasing a set of demands and hosting a march. However the group did not seem to do either, and its Facebook page has not been updated since March 30, 2016.
At the time, Pollack served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at University of Michigan during a time when the campus faced a series of hateful attacks.
In 2016, posters promoting white supremacy from an Alt-Right website were found around the Michigan campus. Anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim posters were found around campus throughout fall, with incidents occurring in September, October and November that year.
As a response to the series of incidents the university issued a statement to students to "speak out against the behaviors." Pollack's signature is listed as second on this statement.
Notably, the November statement was clear that the administration [did] "not seek to suppress political speech or ongoing debate of key issues," but that they were asking "everyone to reject hate and bigotry and to provide personal support," the statement read.
The students' event at 4:30 on Wednesday, when organizers hope to be joined by University faculty and administrators, is in response to the plastering of anti-Semitic posters.


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