2017 was a H-E-Double Hockey sticks kind of a year.
We bought a project house in September of 2016 and spent the majority of the year renovating it. It was one of those projects you love to hate as it ate away at our finances, took time away from family and friends, and stole sleep, peace, and energy! But now that it is done, and we live in it, we Love to LOVE it! It has become our home.
I told my sister it was most likely the hardest year of my life. And that was before I heard the word "cancer" come out of my doctor's mouth. I'm going to rewind here a little – and before you start thinking about the "what ifs", the "if onlys", etc – just know I've already thought them all and they get you nowhere – so don't do it. Don't think it, and definitely don't say it 🙂 So let's start at the beginning.
August – while showering I realized that this bump was in my breast. Self-breast exams are so important and how I found my lump. If you've ever had a plugged milk duct, that is exactly what it felt like (which makes sense now!), but I hadn't nursed for over a year and a half so I knew it wasn't that! I figured it would go away by itself, but after about a week I made an appointment and went in to see the doctor. He told me it was likely a fibroadenoma, fairly typical in females my age, and gave me directions to keep an eye on it.
Fast forward to November. The lump had changed size maybe a little, but mostly was starting to hurt, and felt a little different. I still wasn't too concerned about it, but knowing we planned on getting pregnant in 2018, I wanted to have it removed before we did. So I made another appointment with my doctor. Things from there moved quickly.
I had an ultrasound and mammogram the same day, November 21, followed by a breast biopsy a week and a half later. Ryan's grandmother passed away and we attended her funeral the same weekend while anxiously awaiting those results. Monday I called the doctor's office and was told the doctor would like me to come in and see him. I knew then, that the news wasn't good. Ryan rushed home from work and we got the news together December 11.
I have been diagnosed with Stage 2 or 3 (depending on a few more results) Invasive Mammary Ductal Carcinoma. This means that my cancer started in the milk ducts in my breast, and are no longer contained within the ducts. So far, there are no signs of metastasis in the chest wall, lungs, etc, but it may have spread into a lymph node (which would make it stage 3). The tumor is not fed by hormones, as all of the hormone receptors came back negative. This typically means that the cancer is more aggressive. It also means that it cannot be treated with hormonal therapy, and Chemotherapy is THE medical option.
The last month since then has been a whirlwind of traveling, doctors appointments, holidays, and waiting. We've seen specialists in Idaho & Utah, got a second opinion, created a treatment plan, had a CT scan, MRI, and are now just waiting on all the plans to be approved with insurance.
While this is definitely not a trial I would have ever wanted or asked for, I hope that I can remain positive, lively, and MOVE THIS MOUNTAIN! God will help me move this mountain. It is going to be one heck of a climb, but I've always enjoyed hiking, and mountains, sooo here we go on the craziest hiking trip of our life thus far…..


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Jerusalem Gets a Taste of the 1920s with this New Speakeasy
by Sara Toth Stub
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID VAAKNIN
On a central Jerusalem street, unmarked doors open to reveal a parlor straight out of Roaring '20s America, where a bulky two-piece telephone hangs on the wood-paneled wall and jazz music plays softly. An attendant slides open a bookshelf to reveal the Gatsby Cocktail Room, a glitzy speakeasy with gilded mirrors, a sleek black marble bar, and waiters in bow ties serving handcrafted cocktails. "For me, the fascinating thing is that people actually find this place," says manager Libby Tartakovski. "That means they've heard about us."
Gatsby Cocktail Room's intimate interior
Since opening in 2014, Gatsby has not only made a name for itself among savvy locals but also has served as a catalyst for a burgeoning cocktail scene—a surprising addition to a city that, unlike Tel Aviv, is better known for its holy sites than its nightlife. "Jerusalem didn't really have any cocktail bars when we opened, and a lot of people told us this was not going to work, but it worked," says Tartakovski, who uses fresh herbs, seasonal fruits, and local spirits to spice up the classics and offers only-in-Jerusalem creations such as the Gatsby's Local Pride, made with herbal Galliano L'Autentico liqueur, homemade coconut cream, passion fruit, lime, and arak, a Levantine anise-flavored spirit. "I don't think we invented anything, but we have made a buzz. Now more people know about cocktails."
A similar mix of elegance and creativity can be found at Zuta, an intimate new bar connected to chef Yankale Turjeman's 1868 restaurant. With indoor seating among stone walls and a patio surrounded by lush gardens, Zuta features a menu that pairs new creations with trending modern classics, such as the bitters-based Trinidad Sour (a wildly popular drink throughout Israel that was invented by a New York bartender in 2009). Order the Maid in Tunis, which mixes cucumber—a vegetable seen in seemingly every salad in Israel—with lime, fresh mint, and boukha, a North African fig brandy.
Tap & Tail co-owner, Gil Barnea
Tucked in an alley of the busy Machane Yehuda open-air market, Tap & Tail opened in early 2017 in a former butcher's stall. "The idea was to create a more civilized atmosphere—and with style," says co-owner Gil Barnea. The To Be or Not to Be features the semi-mysterious Tubi 60 liqueur, which is made in the northern Israeli city of Haifa with citrus, herbs, spices, flowers, and tree extracts. It's mixed with melon Midori liqueur, lemon, and fresh mint leaves and served in a lightbulb-shaped glass.
Nearby, on the outskirts of the market, Bakshish offers an extensive menu of cocktails served around an ultra-modern square bar with purple and white glass orbs hanging from the ceiling. Patrons sip on creations like Grey Goose vodka stirred with lime, elderflower, lemonade, and freshly snipped basil and rosemary alongside tapas like bruschetta with zatar, honey, and eggplant. "The market is a very authentic and traditional place, but we wanted to bring something new," explains co-owner Ron Ben Yair.
While all these new spots have no doubt created competition for Gatsby, Tartakovski doesn't see it that way. "I would be happy if a few more cocktail bars opened," she says. "I think the city needs it."
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I've put off writing about this for quite some time because I have struggled with it a lot, but I have truly become convicted that self-worth is not worth the wrestle. It is much easier to say than to practice, but we should not be defined by how we value ourselves. Instead, we should remember how Christ values us.
The world engages in a lot of conversation about self-esteem. There are countless books about self-esteem and how to improve it and there are more subtle messages than others. Many Christians, however, miss what I think is a major point: our esteem should not be found in self. It should be found in Christ. The book of Jeremiah calls our heart deceitful - how then can we determine in our own selves our worth? Well, we can't.
There may be times when you, like me, feel worthless, unappreciated or unloved. The amazing thing is that we are worth so much in God's sight. I mean, He sent His Son to die so that we might live forever with Him.
While there is more I could share on this topic, for today's post I wanted to share some encouraging texts. Below, you will find some Bible verses to meditate on when the lie that you are worthless goes through your head. These are great ones to commit to memory for when the devil throws discouragement your way.
What Bible texts bring you comfort when you are feeling worthless? Let me know below!
Lately, I've been adding a gratitude spread to my bullet journal, and even though some days I really have to think hard about what I might be grateful for in a day, it has really helped me be more thankful. There are so many blessings, even when things seem like they're going every which way but well.
What are some of your favourite verses about gratitude and giving thanks?


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Despite checklists, wrong-site surgery still occurs. Why?
Not long ago, two California hospitals were cited by the state for wrong site surgery.
At one hospital, a skin incision was made in the right groin of a patient who was to have had a left orchiectomy. Fortunately the error was discovered, and the skin was closed. The correct testicle was removed. To his credit, the surgeon told the patient and his wife what happened immediately after the operation.
An investigation found that the patient's groin had not been marked. The time out did not prevent the error because the OR team did not verify the operative site as the protocol mandates. In other words, they had gone through the motions.
The hospital was fined $75,000.
The other California case did not turn out as well. Instead of removing a cancerous left kidney, surgeons did a right nephrectomy. The error was not discovered until the pathology report was reviewed. A number of assumptions and misunderstandings contributed to this error for which the hospital was fined $100,000.
Labels: Checklists, Patient Safety, surgeons, Surgery, Wrong-site surgery
University to offer 6-year combined college + law degree
The University of Iowa College of Law has established a new program which will enable students to begin law school after three years of undergraduate study. After six years, the student will have a J.D. degree, and credits earned in the first year of law school will count toward an undergraduate degree.
The school says this is not for everyone, but rather only for the "right" students.
Not only will the right students save a year of college tuition, they will also be able to look for work as Starbucks baristas a year sooner than law school graduates who spend four years getting their undergraduate degrees.
Law school applications are way down.
Law schools start firms in order to employ their graduates.
Labels: Barista, Law school, Lawyers
Patient falls off OR table: System error or human error?
An anesthetized patient fell to the floor headfirst from an operating room table during a laparoscopic appendectomy in Scotland. The table had been tilted into an extreme head down position to facilitate the operation. Fortunately, no injury occurred.
The Edinburgh Evening News account says that there were 10 staff members in the room at the time the case started, but no one had placed a safety restraint on the patient.
A follow -up story noted that the hospital has experienced 11 other major surgical errors in the last year including two instances of wrong-site surgery and a case in which five swabs were left inside a single patient.
An investigation by the hospital noted that the level of situational awareness of the operating room staff was inadequate, and teamwork and communication were poor. In addition, the safety culture within the operating room was described as not highly attuned to patient safety.
The staff was also distracted by mobile phone use and idle chatter.
Instead of addressing the obvious human errors such as failure to place the safety strap, which in US hospitals is clearly the duty of the circulating nurse, the hospital's plan of correction focused on the following typical system-type corrections:
• Compulsory training of 1200 staff. Although there were 10 staff for a laparoscopic appendectomy (in the US there would be 4, nurse, scrub tech, surgeon, anesthesiologist), I doubt that there are 1200 people working in the operating room of this 570-bed hospital. What will those not working in the OR have to gain from compulsory training? I wonder if anyone considered that 10 staff for an appendectomy is far too many, and that's why there was a lot of idle chatter. Six of the staff had nothing to do until the patient needed to be picked up off the floor.
• A ban on talking at key times during operations. This one will be hard to enforce. Who decides what the key times are? I also don't see what it had to do with the incident since tilting the table would not be considered a key time in the case.
• Daily meetings to improve patient safety. Good luck with that. What on earth are they going to discuss at daily meetings to improve patient safety? I predict that those meetings won't take place for more than 3 or 4 weeks.
• Sanctions for staff who fail to meet the new standards. Also be hard to enforce. How will this be judged?
I would have talked with the nursing staff and asked them whose job it was to place the safety strap. If you want to make a system change, why not clearly specify which staff member is responsible for that action? And how about using a checklist?
Five years ago, the Scottish Patient Safety Program recommended using pre-surgery meetings and checklists to protect patients. The investigation showed that in this hospital, checklists were completed about 10% of the time and often not properly. The staff claimed that they didn't have time to do the checklists. Ten people in the room for an appendectomy and no one has time to complete a checklist?
Next I would have asked the anesthesiologist where he was. Usually the job of adjusting the table is his, and the controls are at the head of the bed. He should have noticed the patient was beginning to slide off the table and intervened.
Finally I would have asked the surgeon just how much head down tilt he needed. I have never even come close to having a patient more than about 30 degrees of head down during a laparoscopic appendectomy.
Patient falling from an OR table—human error.
Wrong site surgery—human error.
Leaving foreign objects inside patients—human error.
The OR staff of every hospital counts instruments and swabs. Wrong-site surgery is 100% avoidable. This hospital had a number of appropriate systems in place. The staff simply disregarded them. Creating more meetings and rules that are unlikely to be followed or make a difference will not solve the problem of a staff with a "can't do" attitude.
Labels: Anesthesia, Common sense, Hospitals, Human Error, Patient Safety, surgeons, System Errors, Wrong-site surgery
Study shows paying people to lose weight works. Or does it?
A new study looked at the effect of paying people to lose weight.
The authors randomized 100 people with BMIs ranging from 30 to 39.9 into four groups. Two groups received weight-loss education, one group with and one without payment. The other two groups received education plus behavior modification with again one group receiving financial incentives and the other not. To remain in the study, they were all supposed to have lost 4 pounds per month. Patients in the two financial incentive groups received $20 per month if they met their goal, and those not meeting the goal had to pay $20 per month which was pooled for a lottery among the participants at the end of the study.
A significantly larger percentage of those receiving remuneration completed the study. At the study's endpoint—12 months, the average weight loss for those in the paid groups was about 9 pounds compared to just over 2 pounds for the two unpaid groups. Using a two-way ANOVA, the incentives were estimated to have led to a weight loss of 6.5 pounds, which was statistically significant with a p value < 0.001.
The authors concluded, "Sustained weight loss may be achieved with financial incentives."
The paper was presented at the American College of Cardiology meeting last March and is available only in abstract form.
The study raises some questions.
The paid groups lost less than 1 lb per month. If the subjects were to have lost 4 lbs per month, why didn't they lose a minimum of 48 lbs, which would be 4 lbs x 12 months?
How durable was the weight loss? In other words, after the monetary incentive stopped, did the subjects regain the weight? It is well-known that many people regain weight after they go off their diets.
Does this study actually show that education and behavior modification are not very useful promoting weight loss? Then why should anyone bother?
It's one thing to do a study of 100 people, but if money truly is a good way to get people to lose weight, who is going to pay the millions of obese people in the US?
But here's the real question. How clinically important is a 6 to 9 lb weight loss for someone with a BMI of say 35?
If a man is 5'8" tall and weighs 230 lbs, he has a BMI of 35. If he loses 6 lbs, his BMI drops to 34. Does that decrease his risk for diabetes or hypertension? I think not.
This may be another example of a statistically significant result that is very likely not clinically important.
Labels: Obesity, Research, Statistics, Weight loss
Reality check: Hospital safety scores
Imagine you are sick and live in New York City. Your doctor tells you that you need major surgery. Luckily, you have excellent insurance and can go anywhere in the city for that operation.
Being a good consumer, you decide to check the HospitalSafetyScore.org website, which is sponsored by the Leapfrog Group, a nationally known patient safety organization.
You pull up a handy map of upper Manhattan and the lower Bronx to check the safety scores of hospitals in that area which is near your neighborhood.
A hospital on the Manhattan side (orange arrow) has a safety score of only "C" while over in the Bronx, there is an "A" rated hospital (blue arrow).
It's a no-brainer, right?
Clearly the safer of the two is the one with the "A" rating.
But consider this. The "A" rated hospital is Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, one of 11 hospitals owned and run by the city of New York. It is a teaching hospital. But there is little research going on, and there are no regionally or nationally recognized experts in just about any specialty of medicine or surgery practicing there.
The "C" rated hospital is New York Presbyterian, the main teaching hospital of Columbia University's medical school.
A 2012 patient safety study by Consumer Reports rated Lincoln as the 16th worst hospital for safety in the NY metro area. Presbyterian did not make that list of 30 such hospitals.
Healthgrades rates New York Presbyterian as #5 of 203 hospitals in New York State with 15 5-Star ratings and 11 quality awards. Lincoln was ranked at #88 with 3 5-Star ratings and 1 quality award.
US News & World Report published a list of the 18 best hospitals in the country that made its "Honor Roll." That list included New York Presbyterian at #7, and it was the highest rated hospital in the New York area.
Now which hospital would you choose?
Labels: Healthgrades, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Ratings
Are "safety scalpels" safer than standard scalpels?
A Twitter follower wrote me this: "hospital making me use 'safety scalpel' w/retractable sheath. I've almost cut myself x 2. Do you know of any data about it?"
That got me interested because I like to question things. Was this going to be yet another rule without evidence?
I thought I would have to do an exhaustive search to see if anyone had ever studied the question of whether so-called 'safety scalpels' really are safer than standard scalpels.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a 2013 paper in the Canadian Journal of Surgery which reviewed the literature on the subject. The authors, from the University of British Columbia, found no studies that addressed harm reduction and the use of safety scalpels. A previous paper from Australia in 2009 also found no randomized trials of safety scalpel use.
In their discussion, the authors point out that the introduction of safety scalpels might have the opposite effect on safety due to factors such as personnel not being familiar with how they work and that safety scalpels have never been subjected to rigorous evaluation by failure mode and effects analysis. And they noted that injuries related to the use of safety scalpels have been reported.
Since there is no proof that safety scalpels are effective in reducing injuries, there seems to be no rationale for regulatory agencies or hospitals to mandate their use.
The paper noted that at least 24 different safety scalpels have been developed and approved for use in the United States. An Internet search confirmed that there are at least that many types of safety scalpels on the market.
I attempted to find a specific mandate about scalpels in the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2001 but was unable to do so. If the act says anything about scalpels, perhaps someone could let me know.
Among the issues with safety scalpels are that surgeons complain that they do not have the correct feel, quality or precision of standard scalpels.
The use of devices that allow for safer removal and replacement of scalpel blades may be a better alternative than using safety scalpels.
In 2011, the magazine Outpatient Surgery and the International Sharps Injury Prevention Society surveyed 186 operating room clinicians and found that 60% of respondents were not using safety scalpels at their hospitals. OSHA is not fining many institutions since 95% of those who answered said they had never been fined.
Meanwhile, safety scalpel use is far less than expected. The use of safety scalpels appears to have been based on an unwarranted assumption that safety scalpels are safer.
It is certainly possible that safety scalpels do reduce the incidence of injuries, but it is equally possible that the rate of injuries in the same or even worse with the use of safety scalpels.
As a byproduct of their investigation, the authors mention that the use of hands free passing techniques for sharps, double-gloving and avoidance of using hands as retractors have been shown to be effective in reducing sharps-related injuries.
But not safety scalpels. So why are they being used at all?
Labels: Hospitals, Research, Rules, Safety scalpels, Surgery
Sleep deprivation, surgeons, operations, and outcomes
A new paper found that surgeons who performed elective laparoscopic cholecystectomies after having operated the night before had outcomes similar to those when they were presumably well-rested.
The retrospective study involved 331 surgeons who did 2078 cholecystectomies after operating the night before and 8,312 when not operating the night before. Outcomes both were matched for each surgeon.
Comparing outcomes after operating the night before to not found rates of conversion to open - 2.2% vs. 1.9%, risk of iatrogenic injuries - 0.7% vs. 0.9%, and death - 0.2% vs. 0.1%, respectively. None of those differences were significant.
The abstract concluded, "These findings do not support safety concerns related to surgeons operating the night before performing elective surgery."
This paper is the latest of several that show similar results.
So case closed, right?
As much as I hate to say this, the paper does not prove that sleep deprived surgeons don't have more complications than when they are well rested. What it does prove is that conversion rates, not complication rates, are the same whether the surgeon got adequate sleep the night before or not.
In the paper, which was published in JAMA, the authors said, "Although not always considered a complication, conversion to open cholecystectomy may serve as an aggregate end point for many complications."
I disagree. I know of no previous study confirming that conversion of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy to an open procedure is a marker for complications. Instead, I believe it is a sign of good judgment. The sooner a surgeon recognizes that he can't safely do the procedure laparoscopically, the better off the patient is. A surgeon should never be discouraged from converting a case to open.
The study probably included enough patients to support its conclusion that there is no difference in conversion rates, but it is underpowered to detect a difference in iatrogenic injury rates or mortality because those events are so infrequent. To conclude that there is no difference in iatrogenic injury or mortality rates is what is known in statistical circles as a "Type II error" or failure to reject a false null hypothesis. The two null hypotheses in this situation were that there is no difference in 1) iatrogenic injury or 2) mortality rates when surgeons are rested or not.
In other words, the rates of iatrogenic injuries and deaths may not really be different, but the lack of a difference could simply be due to the fact that there were not enough subjects in the study. Iatrogenic injuries and deaths occur so infrequently with laparoscopic cholecystectomy that a study would need a lot more patients in each group to conclude that sleep is not a factor.
Most media coverage of the paper did not question its findings. Even Atul Gawande was hooked. Yesterday he tweeted "New @jama study of daytime surgery by surgeons who operated during night before: found NO increased complications."
Better studies on the effects of sleep deprivation on surgeon performance are needed before the issue is settled.
Labels: general surgery, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Reporting, Research, sleep deprivation, Statistics, surgeons, Type II error
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After solar flare, massive storm speeds Earthward
A solar flare Sunday triggered an outburst of solar material that should hit Earth Tuesday. The disturbance could lead to voltage swings on some power lines, as well as stronger northern lights.
A solar flare erupts on sun Sunday, triggering a solar storm – the strongest in more than six years – which is already affecting Earth. The brunt of the material from the outburst should hit Earth Tuesday.
By Pete Spotts Staff writer
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An outburst from the sun late Sunday night is bathing Earth in the most powerful solar-radiation storm in six years.
The radiation storm is the first act of an event that will crescendo Tuesday, when the brunt of the outburst – called a coronal-mass ejection – arrives at Earth. It could trigger a disturbance of Earth's magnetic field, leading to voltage swings in long-distance power transmission lines as well as the appearance of the northern lights as far south as New York.
The current radiation storm – rated an S3, or strong, on a scale of 1 to 5 – could damage satellite hardware and present an increased risk of radiation exposure to passengers flying at high altitudes across polar routes, say space-weather specialists. These risks, however, are expected to be manageable.
The outburst, which occurred at 11 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Sunday, marks the second major solar eruption in three days.
Sunday's event began with a moderate solar flare that was "nothing special" on its own, says Doug Biesecker, a solar physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo.
But the flare triggered the release of billions of tons of energetic particles from the sun's atmosphere. This coronal-mass ejection (CME) is hurtling toward Earth at 4 million miles an hour, "by far the fastest CME directed at the Earth during the current solar cycle," Dr. Biesecker says.
CMEs are vast clouds of protons, electrons, as well as heavy atomic nuclei formed in the nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun.
This CME's unusually high speed is accelerating some of its protons to nearly the speed of light, and they are arriving in quantities not seen since May 2005.
The resulting radiation storm could cause some hardware or onboard software glitches for satellite operators. And radio communications at high latitudes, as well as navigation-satellite accuracy for high-precision uses, could suffer some degradation for the duration of the radiation storm.
A geomagnetic storm Tuesday could further affect satellites.
For satellite operators, geomagnetic storms have a Janus-like quality. If strong enough, they can produce voltages on a satellite's exterior that can be powerful enough to arc and cause damage. And the storms can increase the atmosphere's drag on satellites, causing them to lose altitude.
But such storms also can increase drag on space junk that can pose a risk to satellites, sending more of it to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
This week's geomagnetic storm also could bring auroras to viewers farther south than usual.
Biesecker says the storm may reach a level that could render auroras visible as far south as Idaho and New York, and perhaps even Illinois and Oregon if the CME's intensity is large than estimated.
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Notes on video lecture:
Seduction in Boucher's pastoral paintings
Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender
Jeanette Hoorn, The University of Melbourne
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 12, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
flute, together, degenerate, bones, occupation, painting, Mannlich, Favare, vagina, canvas, 1748, comic, pantomime, nobility, Rococo, kissed, oral, landscape, women, Diderot, crude, pendant, refined, veins, conventions, touch, Basket, Pompadour, Lemuel, love, golden, coiffed, dangerous, literature, downfall, XV, sexual
Boucher's pastoral paintings
a pendant pair
two works that were created to be displayed together
hung on either side of a medallion portrait by John Baptist Lemuel of Louis XV
both the paintings and the medallion sculpture are from 1748
the height of King Louis XV's time as king
the epitomize aspects of 18th century French art
defined by its lightness of touch, sense of beauty, its eroticism and connections with themes of love
Louis XV was known as Louis XV The Well Loved
not just by his people but by women
Madame de Pompadour
he had several mistresses, she was the favorite
single most important female patron of the arts in France
her favorite painter was Francois Boucher
first painter of the king
director of the academy of French Painting and Sculpture
group of artists
during the time of Louis XIV came together to establish the rules of painting and sculpture and how artists should be trained
Boucher plays with conventions
a part of Rococo art
relied on skilled users
had learned how to decode painting in connection with their ideals of sociability and behavior
finished in 1748
closely connected to pastoral literature and plays
plays in the 18th century did not only take play in official theaters
also in private theaters of the nobility
worked with Favart
reformed the comic opera
took the bawdy and ribald performances of sexuality in pantomime, and connected them with refined codes of sociability that appealed to the nobility
with the idea that the more refined audiences would start coming back to the theater
Favare and Boucher grew up near each other
by the 1740s they were collaborating
Boucher came up with the ideas which he painted which then Favart then turned into plays and performances
Boucher also did costume design and scenic backdrops for pastoral plays
many plays derived from a tradition of pastoral literature that goes back to the 17th century
a salon culture dominated by women and the tastes of women going back to Louis XIV
by Louis XV, women set many of the standards of taste
in the discourse of refined behavior
pastoral plays
familiar songs in the background telling what people were doing
set in a golden age somewhere in a landscape
usually a simple love story between a shepherdess and a shepherd
gives her a flute lesson
girl asleep, young man who delivers a basket of flowers from the shepherd
Favart's wife was often the main lead
but not always as the shepherdess but the shepherd
quite different from many other eras
Portrait: Leçon de flute
these are not real shepherds and shepherdesses that work in the fields
but idealized
wander around the landscape with their sheep and think about nothing but love
the sheep are always perfectly coiffed
the shepherdess is not engaged with her sheep
she is learning a lesson from her shepherd who is attempting to woo her
next to them a fountain of love
connection with aristocratic way of life
the nobility defined themselves by not working
by the mid 18th century, they also had no real military function anymore
they spent a large amount of their time pursuing leisure which was their primary occupation
one aspect of that leisure was the pursuit of love
a highly codified way of wooing a woman
the crudeness of sexuality is turned into something that is highly refined and coded
at the foot of the woman is a crown of flowers
one meaning is that she gives this to her lover when he wins her heart
also an erotic meaning of the vagina
a reference to the male penis
her being taught to play it is a reference to her being taught to perform oral sex
not understood by everyone but only those in a small elite circle
Boucher's conventions on gender
male figure is seated above the female figure
Mannlich, student of Boucher
had students make many drawings which Boucher signed and sold them off
Boucher corrected the way students were painting the female body
the female body should be painted as if it had hardly any bones at all
the idea is that they're curved, soft lines
nothing that's hard or breaks the eye in a way as it moves around the canvas
female has a porcelain white color
male figure has more of a sun- kissed look, more flesh tones
The Mysterious Basket (1748)
female and male are different along the customary markings
the man is not the shepherd but the rustic delivering the basket
man is very masculine
ripples and veins
fleshy and physicality that we don't see with the shepherd
he is crude character
Boucher was often criticized when pastoral scenes were shown in salons
the way these coded meanings were understood, was a kind of pastoral versions of themselves, i.e. the upper echelons of society
when they were shown at general salons they were criticized and seen as dangerous
where art exhibitions take place every two years in Paris
the perfumes of the fish mongers wife mixed with the perfumes with the ladies of the court
showing sexuality as having any consequences
you can learn to play a flute, but there is no suggestion that that can lead to any sort of moral downfall
the male didn't look masculine enough
less friendly critics
founding member of the encyclopedia
didn't like Boucher's work
thought it was moral degenerate
in a later salon, Diderot, says, "when am I going to be rid of these pastorals"
women would come and linger in front of these painters and would not understand that there was a price to be paid for this kind of sexual activity
it was a misinterpretation of signs and symbols meant for certain class of society
Vocabulary:
coif, v. to style or arrange someone's hair ⇒ "When analyzing Boucher's painting Leçon de flute, one must remember that these are not real shepherds and shepherdesses who work in the fields, but idealized shepherds and shepherdesses who wander around the landscape all day with their sheep and think about nothing but love, and therefore the sheep which gather around them in the paintings are always perfectly coiffed."
#########################Madame de Pompadour (1721-1764)
A member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1751
took charge of the king's schedule and was a valued aide and advisor, despite her frail health and many political enemies
secured titles of nobility for herself and her relatives, and built a network of clients and supporters
she was particularly careful not to alienate the Queen, Marie Leszczyńska
she was a major patron of architecture and decorative arts
was a patron of the philosophes of the Enlightenment
contemporary opinion supported by artwork from the time considered her to be beautiful, with her small mouth and oval face enlivened by her wit
her husband was soon infatuated with her and she was celebrated in the fashionable world of Paris
she founded her own salon, at Étiolles, and was joined by many philosophes, among them Voltaire.
in February 1745, she was invited to a royal masked ball at the Palace of Versailles
by March, she was the king's mistress, installed at Versailles in an apartment directly above his
by May, the official separation between her and her husband was pronounced
on 14 September, she was formally introduced to the court by the king's cousin, the Princess de Conti, and she quickly mastered the highly mannered court etiquette
she and Louis XV ended their sexual relationship after 1750, but remained intimate friends
Louis XV was devoted to her until her death from tuberculosis in 1764 at the age of forty-two
Voltaire wrote of her death: "I am very sad at the death of Madame de Pompadour. I was indebted to her and I mourn her out of gratitude. It seems absurd that while an ancient pen-pusher, hardly able to walk, should still be alive, a beautiful woman, in the midst of a splendid career, should die at the age of forty-two."
#########################François Boucher (1703-1770)
French painter, draughtsman and etcher who worked in the Rococo style, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes
perhaps the most celebrated painter and decorative artist of the 18th century
painted several portraits of his patroness, Madame de Pompadour
a native of Paris, Boucher was the son of a lesser known painter Nicolas Boucher
at his death, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style
"Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it."
Spelling Corrections:
eschelons ⇒ echelons
porcelin ⇒ porcelain
pasturals ⇒ pastorals
Ideas and Concepts:
François Boucher's conventions of gender in painting, via tonight's Sexing the Canvas class: "Christian Mannlich, a student of Boucher, tells us that Boucher often corrected the way his students painted the female body. He told them that the female body should be painted as if it hardly had any bones at all. The idea is that female bodies are curved and have soft lines. Nothing that's hard or breaks the eye in any way should interfere as the eyes moves around the canvas."
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The concept of retreat gives a chance to step outside the normal routine of life, making space for an encounter with God away from the usual distractions and pressures.
Sometimes daily devotions, Bible study or prayer activities can be enough to help people escape the everyday and spend some quality time with God. At others, though, attending a specific event or setting aside a day or time for retreat or quiet can be particularly useful.
The items shared through this page will help you to explore retreat and quiet day possibilities, encouraging you to try something new as you seek to deepen your sense of spirituality and, in so doing, your relationship with God.
My usual experience of retreat is to have lots of 'empty' space for prayer and personal reflection in a quiet, sedentary place, though there may be opportunity for some gentle meditative walking. There is usually some teaching on Christian spirituality and personal growth with the accompaniment of a guide. There will be opportunity for daily worship, prayer and sacrament with some time spent alone, some shared silence, perhaps even non-speaking meal times with contemplative music. There will be opportunity in the quiet, steady rhythm of the day to confront personal weaknesses and insecurities as well as to identify more clearly strengths and gifts and graces. This has been, for me, the way to listen for the active, comforting and commissioning Word of God.
Read more: When is a retreat not a retreat?
I began my training for ministry in an Anglican college. All of the Church of England candidates had a six day retreat before ordination, isolated from world, friends and families. Some of them weren't very happy about it, especially those with children, but it seemed to me to be a proper and deeply spiritual way to prepare for ordination. The URC doesn't arrange a pre-ordination retreat (though it should!), preferring instead to organise a leavers' conference which at that time was almost totally practical covering such topics as stipends, conditions of service, sickness, pensions and Retired Minister's Housing Scheme etc. All this has been very useful over the years but not attending a pre-ordination retreat felt to be a bit of a deprivation so I found myself my first Spiritual Director to guide me through my final six months of freedom.
The 'Pearls of Life' form an ecumenical rosary that comes from Lund in Sweden.
They were created to be an aid for all Christians to deepen their journey with God. The beads are in a circle and, in times of prayer and reflection, you work your way around each pearl, starting and finishing with the same pearl, namely the large gold bead which symbolizes God, who is our beginning, our end and everything beyond. The rosary contains different coloured beads which signify identity, baptism, the desert, serenity, silence, love, mystery, night and resurrection.
At the end of May 2011, ten of us arrived at the Windermere centre for a course under the wider Windermere umbrella of 'Adventures in Faith' but with the specific title 'Spiritual Direction'. At the beginning there was uneasiness about the words 'Spiritual Direction'. They are not Reformed, too hierarchical, individualistic…The list went on.
We came with diverse expectations and needs: some had come because they were already formally or informally giving individual spiritual guidance and were pleased (and surprised) to be able to share and learn more in a URC setting. Some came because they had experienced spiritual direction (usually from an Anglican or Roman Catholic) and wanted to explore it in a URC context. Some came in personal need of such guidance. The group included an Anglican, a Methodist and a Congregationalist.


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La Thébaïde (en grec ancien  / ) est un poème épique perdu de la Grèce antique. Son auteur est inconnu, même si le nom d'Homère est parfois avancé. Elle raconte l'histoire de la guerre des Sept Chefs, et est considérée comme une partie du Cycle thébain. Seuls quelques fragments du texte original nous sont parvenus.

Postérité
La Thébaïde influence de nombreux auteurs antiques, grecs et latins. Sans quitter le genre épique, plusieurs autres Thébaïdes sont composées dans l'Antiquité. La mieux connue est la Thébaïde de Stace, épopée latine composée au . Mais les événements relatés par la Thébaïde sont aussi employés dans d'autres genres poétiques, notamment la tragédie grecque, par des auteurs comme Eschyle, qui relate la défense de Thèbes dans Les Sept contre Thèbes.

Bibliographie
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Littérature grecque archaïque
Épopée du cycle thébain
Mythologie grecque dans la littérature antique
Œuvre littéraire perdue
Homère

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\section{Introduction}

The lowest part of the spectrum of the QCD Dirac operator encodes important
physical information concerning the low energy behavior of strongly
interacting systems.  In the so called epsilon regime of the low temperature
phase the statistics of the lowest Dirac operator eigenvalues is described by
chiral random matrix theory (RMT). This is a well established fact supported
by analytic calculations in the corresponding low energy sigma model as well
as extensive numerical lattice studies (see e.g.\ \cite{Verbaarschot:2000dy}
for a summary of results and a list of original references). In contrast,
above the finite temperature transition ($T_c$) there is no generally accepted
statistical description of the low end of the Dirac spectrum. Since in this
regime there is no first principles analytic information available, to a first
approximation the Dirac operator here can be regarded as a large fluctuating
random matrix, with its size going to infinity in the thermodynamic limit.

From this perspective there are two possible types of fundamentally different
extreme behavior the statistics of the lowest part of the spectrum can follow.
If typical fluctuations cannot mix eigenmodes nearby in the spectrum,
eigenmodes have to be localized, the corresponding eigenvalues are expected to
be statistically independent and follow essentially Poisson statistics. If on
the other hand, nearby eigenmodes in the spectrum can easily mix, they
necessarily become delocalized and the spectrum is expected to obey random
matrix statistics. Lattice simulations can decide which scenario is realized
in nature.

Above $T_c$ chiral symmetry is restored and the density of eigenvalues of $D$,
the order parameter of chiral symmetry breaking, vanishes. Random matrix
theory has specific predictions for the eigenvalue statistics around such
a ``soft edge'' \cite{Forrester}. Lattice simulations, however, failed to
reproduce the RMT predictions for the spectral statistics at
the spectrum edge \cite{Farchioni:1999ws,Damgaard:2000cx}. On the other hand,
bulk random matrix statistics for full Dirac spectra above $T_c$ were verified
previously \cite{Pullirsch:1998ke}. Based on lattice simulations around the
critical temperature, Ref.\ \cite{GarciaGarcia:2006gr} suggested that
around the chiral transition at $T_c$ a gradual change of eigenvalue
statistics at the edge occurs from RMT towards Poisson. Very recently, however,
Ref.\ \cite{Gavai:2008xe} argued that although low Dirac eigenmodes are
localized, localization appears to be a finite volume artifact disappearing in
the thermodynamic limit. If true, this would suggest RMT statistics for
eigenvalues at the spectrum edge. Lattice results obtained so far are thus
rather controversial.

In the present paper we provide some explanations for these apparent
controversies and draw a clear picture of the eigenvalue statistics above
$T_c$. The new ingredient in our analysis is that we study the eigenvalue
statistics separately in different regions of the spectrum starting with the
lowest eigenvalues and going upwards. Our main result is that the lowest part
of the spectrum consists of localized, independent eigenmodes obeying Poisson
statistics. Eigenmodes higher up in the spectrum gradually become more
delocalized and at the same time the eigenvalue statistics crosses over to
the bulk random matrix statistics that was previously seen in lattice
simulations. The phenomenon we report here is analogous to Anderson
localization in conducting crystalline solids with disorder. In that case
disorder can render electronic states at the band edge localized and
non-conducting while states deep in the band can still remain conducting and
delocalized.

\section{Simulation details}

We performed simulations of the quenched $SU(2)$ gauge theory at a temperature
well above the critical temperature. Here the Polyakov loop $Z(2)$ symmetry is
spontaneously broken and for the quenched theory the two $Z(2)$ sectors are
equivalent. In contrast, the Dirac spectrum is known to depend strongly on the
Polyakov loop sector through the lowest Matsubara mode
\cite{Bilgici:2009tx}. It is in fact the combination of the Polyakov sector and
the antiperiodic quark boundary condition (b.c.) in the time direction that
determines the lowest part of the Dirac spectrum. If this combination
corresponds effectively to periodic b.c.\ (no twist), the spectral density
does not vanish at zero. If on the other hand, the combined effective b.c.\ is
antiperiodic (a twist of $-1$), the spectral density vanishes at zero and
there might even be a gap in the spectrum there.

In the presence of light dynamical quarks with antiperiodic b.c.\ the small
modes in the twisted sector would suppress the determinant and only the
positive Polyakov loop sector survives for large volumes. This is how the
fermion action breaks the Polyakov loop $Z(2)$ symmetry above $T_c$
\cite{Kovacs:2008sc}. For this reason we used for our study only
configurations in the positive Polyakov loop sector to mimic the most
important effect of dynamical quarks on the Dirac spectrum.

We analyzed spectra of both the staggered and the overlap Dirac operator on
$N_t=4$ and $N_t=6$ configurations with spatial volumes between $12^3-48^3$,
all at the same physical temperature $T=2.6T_c$. The configurations were
generated with the Wilson gauge action at $\beta=2.60$ and $2.725$. The
staggered and the overlap Dirac operator gave qualitatively similar results
and both data sets support our main findings. More details of this study can
be found in \cite{Kovacs:2009zj} for the overlap and in \cite{Kovacs:2010wx}
for the staggered Dirac operator.  In the following we shall present some
results with both types of lattice Dirac operator.

\section{Localization of small modes}

At first we directly measured the localization of the eigenmodes in different
regions of the low end of the spectrum. Instead of the most commonly used
quantity, the inverse participation ratio (IPR), we used the quantity
     %
\begin{equation}
 {\cal V}_\psi = \left[ \sum_x (\psi^\dagger \psi(x))^2 \right]^{-1}
\end{equation}
     %
for characterizing the localization of the normalized eigenmode $\psi$. ${\cal
  V}_\psi$ can be thought of as an approximate measure of the four-volume
occupied by the eigenmode. This can be seen by considering an idealized
eigenmode that is constant in a given subvolume $v$ of the total volume $V$
and zero elsewhere. We assume that at very high temperatures the eigenmodes
are maximally spread in the (short) time direction and define a length scale
     %
\begin{equation}
 d_\psi = \left[ \frac{{\cal V}_\psi}{N_t} \right]^{1/3}
\end{equation}
     %
measuring the linear spatial extension of the eigenmode $\psi$.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.6\columnwidth,keepaspectratio]{em_size.eps}
\caption{\label{fig:em_size} The average linear extension (in lattice units)
  of staggered eigenvectors, $d_\psi$, as a function of the corresponding
  eigenvalues. The different symbols correspond to spatial box sizes
  $N_s=16,24,32,48$. All the ensembles have $N_t=4$.}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

In Fig.\ \ref{fig:em_size} we plot how the average linear size of eigenmodes
change as we go upwards in the spectrum starting from the lowest modes. It is
apparent that in the lowest part of the spectrum the eigenmodes are very
localized and their size is independent of the box size. Higher up in the
spectrum the eigenmodes spread out and they start to be constrained by the
finite box. There is a rather sharp transition point between the two types of
behavior, analogous to the mobility edge separating conducting and
non-conducting electron states in disordered conductors.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.6\columnwidth,keepaspectratio]{evsvolume24.eps}
 \caption{\label{fig:evsvolume24} The cumulative volume fill fraction for the
   $24^3\times 4$ staggered ensemble. The unfolded level spacing distribution
   will be computed separately in the four shaded spectral regions marked by
   (a)-(d) (see Fig.\ 4).}
\end{center}
  \vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure}

Besides spatial localization, the other quantity affecting the mixing of
nearby modes in the spectrum, is their density. These two effects together
determine how much spatial overlap nearby modes in the spectrum typically
have.  A useful quantity reflecting this can be defined by summing the
participation ratios of all modes up to a given point $\lambda$ in the
spectrum. We call this the {\em volume fill fraction} (VFF). It is
essentially the fraction of the total four-volume occupied by modes up to a
given eigenvalue $\lambda$. In Fig.\ \ref{fig:evsvolume24} we show this as a
function of the eigenvalue $\lambda$. In the lowest part of the spectrum where
the spectral density is small and modes are localized, the VFF is much less
than unity allowing for eigenmodes to occur without substantial spatial
overlap. If the eigenmodes are really produced in independent subvolumes the
level statistics is expected to be Poissonian. In contrast, higher up in the
spectrum the VFF becomes much bigger than unity and eigenmodes there must
overlap. Here the eigenvalue statistics is expected to be described by random
matrix theory.

There are several ways of explicitly checking these expectations on lattice
Dirac spectra. The Poisson and random matrix statistics pertain to two
different universal ways the eigenvalue fluctuations can be correlated locally
in the spectrum. An additional, non-universal feature of the spectrum is the
spectral density $\rho(\lambda)$. In the case of the overlap operator the
spectral density of the low modes is numerically found to be well described by
a simple power law $\rho(\lambda)=C\lambda^\alpha$. Using this and assuming
statistically independent spectral fluctuations for the lowest eigenvalues
(Poisson statistics) we can derive detailed predictions for the distribution
of the lowest first, second, etc.\ eigenvalues and their dependence on the
spatial volume of the lattice. As an illustration, in
Fig.\ \ref{fig:fitsmallest_two} we compare the spatial volume dependence of
the lowest two eigenvalues with the analytic predictions based on Poisson
statistics and the power law spectral density. The solid line is a
two-parameter fit of this analytic form to the average lowest eigenvalue. The
dashed line is a parameter-free prediction for the average of the second
smallest using the already fitted parameters. Both the fit and the
parameter-free prediction describe the data correctly, suggesting that the
smallest two eigenvalues indeed obey Poisson statistics.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.6\columnwidth,keepaspectratio]{fitsmallest_two.eps}
 \caption{\label{fig:fitsmallest_two} The volume dependence of the smallest
   two eigenvalues of the overlap Dirac operator for $N_t=4$ and Wilson
   $\beta=2.6$. The solid line is a two parameter fit ($\alpha, C$) to the
   analytic prediction based on Poisson statistics and power law spectral
   density. The dashed curve is not a fit, it is the prediction for the second
   smallest eigenvalue based on the already fitted values of $\alpha$ and $C$.
 }
\end{center}
 \vspace{-5mm}
\end{figure}

For the staggered Dirac operator we did not find a simple analytic description
of the spectral density, but we had much more eigenvalues per
configuration. This allowed us to compute the so called unfolded level spacing
distribution. Unfolding is a standard way in random matrix theory to locally
rescale the spectrum in order to get rid of the dependence on the
non-universal spectral density. If the eigenvalues are statistically
independent, after unfolding the levels are described by a simple
Poisson distribution with exponentially distributed level spacings. If on the
other hand, the original spectrum follows random matrix statistics, the
distribution of the unfolded level spacings is described by the so called
Wigner surmise of the given random matrix ensemble
\cite{Verbaarschot:2000dy}. In the case of the staggered Dirac operator the
corresponding ensemble is the chiral symplectic ensemble.

In Fig.\ \ref{fig:ks_levsp} we show the unfolded level spacing distribution of
the eigenvalues in four different regimes of the spectrum. Also shown in each
figure is the universal (parameter-free) prediction based on Poisson and
random matrix statistics respectively. It is apparent that the lowest part of
the spectrum obeys Poisson statistics and that going up in the spectrum this
gradually crosses over to random matrix statistics.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\includegraphics[width=0.38\columnwidth,
                       keepaspectratio]{ks_levsp_0.00-0.18.eps} &
\includegraphics[width=0.38\columnwidth,
                       keepaspectratio]{ks_levsp_0.22-0.24.eps} \\[5mm]
\includegraphics[width=0.38\columnwidth,
                       keepaspectratio]{ks_levsp_0.245-0.255.eps} &
\includegraphics[width=0.38\columnwidth,
                       keepaspectratio]{ks_levsp_0.28-0.297.eps}
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{fig:ks_levsp} The panels show the unfolded level spacing
  distribution in different regions of the spectrum. The labeling (a)-(d)
  corresponds to the regions indicated in Fig.\ 2
  with the shaded areas. The curved lines are the exponential
  distribution and the Wigner surmise.}
\end{center}
 \vspace{-5mm}
\end{figure}

An important question is whether this phenomenon survives the thermodynamic
and the continuum limit. When scaling up the spatial volume one expects that
the number of ``modes of a given statistics'' scales proportionally to the
volume. This can be most simply checked for the eigenvalues of intermediate
statistics. In Fig.\ \ref{fig:levsp_scale}(a) we plotted the level spacing
distribution of eigenvalues 10-20 in a spatial volume of $24^3$ and that of
the scaled up percentage of eigenvalues 24-47 in a volume of $32^3$. The
distributions on the two volumes appear to be the same intermediate
distribution demonstrating that the number of eigenvalues of the same
statistics scales with the volume.

To assess what happens in the continuum limit, in
Fig.\ \ref{fig:levsp_scale}(b) we show level spacing statistics for the same
physical temperature and three-volume with two different lattice spacings
corresponding to $N_t=4$ and $N_t=6$. For both cases we plotted the
statistics based on eigenvalues 10-20. Although the difference in lattice
volumes in lattice units is more than a factor of 3, the two distributions
seem to be identical. This shows that the number of eigenvalues with a given
statistics depends on the physical volume, not on the volume in lattice
units. The lowest, Poisson distributed modes might thus be associated with some
physical objects in the gauge field background, the physical density of which is
constant in the continuum limit.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\includegraphics[width=0.38\columnwidth,keepaspectratio]{levsp_volscale.eps}
 &
\includegraphics[width=0.38\columnwidth,keepaspectratio]{levsp_cont.eps}
\end{tabular}
\caption{\label{fig:levsp_scale} The unfolded level spacing distribution for
  two different spatial volumes at fixed $N_t$ (a) and for two different
  $N_t$'s at fixed physical temperature and physical volumes (b). }
\end{center}
   \vspace{-5mm}
\end{figure}

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'The Best of Me': Film Review
Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden play star-crossed lovers in a Louisiana-set adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel
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When bad things happen to good people in The Best of Me, they're not tests of character but proof of it. Purposeful patterns drive every aspect of the feature, the latest screen adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. They're spelled out in conversation and voiceover narration, and readily decodable in the golden-hued visuals that proclaim the purity of true love.
The Louisiana-set romance stars Michelle Monaghan and James Marsden as a couple who are reunited unexpectedly — but not accidentally — 20 years after their high-school love story's abrupt end. Though their characters may overcome diversity with grace, the likable actors face a monumental challenge in the form of often risible dialogue and desperately melodramatic situations. Their unforced performances notwithstanding, the story is too heavily engineered to be believable or involving. Word of mouth could dent the wide release's built-in date-movie appeal.
The Bottom Line A heavily engineered romance that announces every fateful twist
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Marsden plays low-key lone wolf Dawson Cole, an oil rig worker whose brush with mortality leads him to reassess his life. His heroics after an explosion rocks an offshore rig are topped only by the miracle (doctor's assessment) of his own survival. Thrown into the water, he floats in a Christ-like pose and has a vision of Amanda Collier, the only girl he's ever loved. In short measure, they're back in their hometown, reunited by the destiny that guides them, and by an estate lawyer who summons them to the reading of a friend's will.
But first they gaze, separately, at the same stars, Amanda (Monaghan) in her suburban Baton Rouge backyard, where she coexists with one of those clearly wrong, conveniently dismissible movie mates (Sebastian Arcelus).
An extended flashback traces the trajectory from meet-cute to undying love between the teenage Dawson and Amanda, kids from opposite sides of the tracks played by Luke Bracey and Liana Liberato. The inevitable running-and-laughing montage will be matched later by the older couple's eating-and-laughing montage.
The young actors have definite chemistry, but the lack of physical resemblance between the characters' younger and older selves proves distracting. Paul Walker, who was slated to play Dawson at the time of his death, would have been no closer a physical fit for Bracey, who's charismatic and gets more than a few beefcake moments, and who comes off as one of the world's oldest teenagers.
It could be argued that living with his monstrous redneck father (Sean Bridgers) and henchman brothers (Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, with mullets) has made Dawson appear older than his years. Smart and earnest, he's such a good guy that he doesn't know how to flirt, as the dialogue both demonstrates and informs us. Liberato's Amanda is the (gentle, tasteful) aggressor, right up to their beautiful First Time Together and even after the self-sacrificing Dawson tries to distance her from the web of violence that is his inheritance.
Amanda wears circa-2012 fashions in the 1992 scenes, which, with their art-directed division between what's wholesome and what's not, feel like they could be unfolding in 1952. As the man who becomes Dawson's surrogate father and the story's ultimate string-puller, Gerald McRaney is warm and gruff, lending a bit of much-needed emotional ballast to the hand-of-fate manipulations.
With their characters set in narrative stone in those earlier sequences, Marsden and Monaghan are left to play out the story's increasingly far-fetched plot turns. Every dramatic twist is telegraphed so clearly that only onscreen titles announcing them would be more obvious. As scripted by J. Mills Goodloe and Will Fetters, moments that are meant to be big announce themselves and fizzle, as in the utterly unconvincing scene where Amanda's father (Jon Tenney) attempts to buy off Dawson.
Director Michael Hoffman (The Last Station) doesn't push his actors or the pace, opting for a sense of structure that suits the material. So too does the honeyed light of cinematographer Oliver Stapleton's widescreen lensing, which emphasizes the lead actors' beauty and captures something slightly wild and almost dreamy in the Louisiana locations, with their lush green backwoods and moss-hung oaks. Aaron Zigman's score provides reassuring downhome uplift — perhaps a necessary element in a tale of impossible, perfect love, where everything happens for a reason and is as it should be, even when it's terrible.
Production companies: Relativity Media, Di Novi Pictures, Nicholas Sparks Prods.
Cast: Michelle Monaghan, James Marsden, Luke Bracey, Liana Liberato, Gerald McRaney, Caroline Goodall, Sebastian Arcelus, Jon Tenney, Sean Bridgers
Director: Michael Hoffman
Screenwriters: J. Mills Goodloe, Will Fetters
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MDISS Launches Network of Security Testing Labs for Medical Devices
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The Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium (MDISS) has launched the first of more than a dozen planned security testing labs for medical devices. The new MDISS World Health Information Security Testing Lab (WHISTL) will focus on vetting complex multi-vendor, multi-device critical-care environments, such as hospital intensive care units and emergency rooms.
Further, the WHISTL facilities will comprise a federated network of medical device security testing labs, independently owned and operated by MDISS-member organizations including healthcare delivery organizations, medical device manufacturers, universities and technology companies. Each WHISTL facility will launch and operate under a shared set of standard operating procedures.
The goal, MDISS officials say, is to help organizations work together to more effectively address the public health challenges arising from cybersecurity issues emergent in complex, multivendor networks of medical devices.
While such security "proving grounds" aren't new to enterprise IT, WHISTL is the first network of labs specifically designed around the needs of medical device researchers, healthcare IT professionals, and hospital clinical engineering leaders. By the end of 2017, MDISS WHISTL facilities will open in New York, Indiana, Tennessee, and California, as well as in the United Kingdom, Israel, Finland, and Singapore.
Enabling MDISS members to test devices in both physical and virtual environments, WHISTL facilities will focus on identifying and mitigating medical device vulnerabilities, sharing solutions and best practices, and device security education and awareness. Newly uncovered vulnerabilities will be responsibly reported to medical device manufacturers and to the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (NH-ISAC)-MDISS Medical Device Vulnerability Program for Evaluation and Response.
"WHISTL will provide much-needed insight from actual developers and users of medical devices, which will result in increased relevant and actionable information sharing and situational awareness for all stakeholders in healthcare," says Denise Anderson, president of NH-ISAC. "NH-ISAC looks forward to partnering with MDISS on this important effort for the community.
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"Our new WHISTL facility enables us to run medical devices through tougher, more realistic test regimes," he adds. "Hidden vulnerabilities surface more quickly, and that helps us build more responsive standard operating procedures."
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Петър Аладжов е български икономист и банкер, доктор.

Биография
Роден е в Търново на 25 септември 1908 г. Баща му Христо Аладжов е занаятчия и търговец, а майка му Теофана Мичурин е дъщеря на Петър Мичурин – участник в Руско-турската война от 1877 – 1878 г. Постъпва в Основно училище "Митрополит Панарет". След това започва да учи в Търговската гимназия в Търново. Като ученик става турист в юношеския туристически съюз "Царевец". След като завършва е стажант в търновския клон на Българска търговска банка. Заминава за Прага, където продължава образованието си. Става член на студентската организация "Българска седянка", която обхваща 470 младежи и е най-старото българско академично дружество в чужбина. Той се включва активно в организационния живот, избран е за касиер на организацията, а после и за неин председател. След завръщането си в България постъпва на работа в търновския клон на Българска търговска банка, а по-късно е и неин директор. В края на 1930-те и началото на 1940-те години е преместен в София, където му е възложено от Управителния съвет да отговаря за сделките с чужда валута и борсовите операции на банката. Същевременно защитава докторска дисертация на тема "Чуждите капитали в България".

В началото на 1943 г. е назначен от министър-председателя Богдан Филов за върховен комисар на Комисариата на военновременното стопанство. Неговата задача е да съгласува всички дейности, чрез които се направлява и ръководи военновременната икономика, като приоритет се дава на селското стопанство.

След Деветосептемврийския преврат на 13 октомври 1944 г. е арестуван от милицията. Отведен е в Дирекция на Народната милиция, там е и Пловдивския митрополит Кирил. След шестмесечни разпити съпроводени с унижения и изтезания, е преместен в Софийския централен затвор. След заседание на "Народния съд" на 18 април 1945 г. е освободен. Същевременно апартаментът му е конфискуван. Живее при секретарката си Екатерина Петрова, която става по-късно негова съпруга.

Отново започва работа в Българска търговска банка, където възстановява банковите контакти с чужбина. Командирован е от министър-председателя Кимон Георгиев в Белград, Букурещ, Рим, Милано, Цюрих и Женева. В Женева осъществява важна среща със застрахователната компания "Лойд", представлявайки интересите на българските застрахователни компании "България" и "Балкан". На 27 декември 1947 г. банката е национализирана, а заедно със семейството си е изселен в с. Церово. След среща с членът на ЦК на БКП Тодор Павлов му е даден паспорт за Германия, като условието е след това и семейстовто му да получи разрешение за пътуване в чужбина. Заедно с главния директор на външното предприятие "Булет" заминава за Мюнхен. Там са сключени договори за голям износ от България. Семейството му не получава разрешение за излизане от България и той остава в Германия. За събиране на семейството се включват висши немски държавни служители, а в знак на протест министърът на прехраната на Германия спира вноса на български стоки. В крайна сметка е разрешено на семейството му да замине за Германия.

В Германия ръководи фирмата "БАФАГ", която се занимава с внос-износ на хранителни стоки, вина, текстил и др. Тя е и със собствена банка. Създадени са представителства във Франция, Италия, Полша, Турция, Гърция, Китай и Аржентина. През 1982 г. лично е поканен от американския президент Джералд Форд да участва в световния форум на Американския институт по предприемачество в Колорадо. В средата на ноември 1990 г. е поканен от президента Жельо Желев да посети България.

През 1990 г. дарява 200 000 дойче марки за изграждане на паметник на Стефан Стамболов във Велико Търново. Паметникът е издигнат в началото на занаятчийската Самоводска чаршия.
Част от нумизматичната си колекция дарява на Регионалния исторически музей във Велико Търново. На 15 март 2001 г. е избран за почетен гражданин на Велико Търново "за неговите изключителни постижения в областта на световната икономика".

Негова дъщеря е доктор Теофана фон Саксен.

Умира през 2004 г.

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Български икономисти
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Българи в Германия
Репресирани от комунистическия режим в България


Satellites designed to document our planet over time provide us with valuable information about the impact of human activity, natural disasters and climate change. The Landsat Program has changed the way we look at our planet. An entire new field for scientific study and practical applications had emerged: remote sensing.
Today, the Landsat program has accumulated over 1.7 million scenes and over 630 terabytes of data (one terabyte is equivalent to 109 DVD movies). The archive grows by over 320 gigabytes every day.
The Future of Operational Land Imaging Working Group is leading an effort to develop a long-term plan to achieve technical, financial, and managerial stability for operational land imaging in accord with the goals and objectives of the U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System.
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15 December. Online application (SøknadsWeb) opens 1 November.
European Chamber Music Master (ECMAster) is a new prestigious two-year programme that provides established chamber music ensembles the opportunity for intensive chamber music studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music and up to six other leading European institutions. The programme is developed by the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) with assistance from ERASMUS+.
The programme has a joint programme description and structure that applies to all institutions. Students will experience training in chamber music to a professional level, develop their knowledge of the repertoire, refine their artistic and technical skills on their principal instrument and their ability to convey musical expression as an ensemble musician. The students complete their entire master's programme as part of the ensemble.
All ECMAster students spend semesters 1 and 4 at NMH and semesters 2 and 3 at two different host institutions. Is this way students will benefit from the expertise of at least three institutions, as well as gaining access to a European chamber music network through ECMA.
The European Chamber Music Master is a part of the Master of Music Performance Programme at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
ECMA is an association of European music universities, conservatoires and festivals in the field of chamber music. Within the ECMA-programme, the partner institutions host regular sessions throughout the year in different places all over Europe. Renowned tutors work intensively with selected young professional ensembles who are receiving on-going training and additional creative impulses through lectures, round tables and interdisciplinary workshops. The annual ECMA session takes place at NMH the week after easter.
Students exchanging in to the Norwegian Academy of Music in Semester 2 will take one major course of 20 ECTS credit and two complementary courses (5 ETCS credits). The topic Chamber music and ECMA IP (20 ETCS) focuses on developing the ensembles artistic and technical skills both on their principal instrument and as an ensemble. Contemporary music and commission work (5ETCS credits) will teach students to collaborate with composers as well as strengthen contemporary music interpretation skills. The socially responsive musician (5 ETCS credits) will teach students to reflect on their role as a musician in a relation to the public and the society around them.
ECMAster students will be integrated into the school activities, taking classes alongside students on other programmes and participating in concerts, workshops and masterclasses with students in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.Training will be provided by NMH teachers and international visitors. ECMaster students will be encouraged to rehearse, perform and record throughout the semester.
Bachelor's degree in Music or equivalent qualification (as recognized by the Norwegian Academy of Music) with a minimum of 80 ETCS-credits in Music Performance subjects. Applicants must be member of an established ensemble, and all ensemble members must apply at the same time and to the same institution. All applicants must meet the formal admission requirements. Entrance examinations will be held for eligible applicants. The qualifying level of performance demonstrated at the audition must at minimum be equivalent to the graduation requirements of the four-year Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music.
Ensembles in the last category will need specific approval by the home institution and the host institutions. These ensembles must have a minimum of three and a maximum of five musicians. Larger ensembles may be accepted, by agreement of the home institution and both host institutions, and approval from the Programme Board.
Contact your programme coordinator if you have any questions about the academic content of your study programme.


I wrote my goals out this month, they have changed again since last year. I've accepted that it's okay to change it. Its okay to let go of somethings, to bring in the new. Its okay that you can't do everything, because it will allow you to focus in and do extraordinary things. So thats what I was able to do today, to type out my 2012 goals and turn it into a butterfly. Because whatever it is, it is already transforming and happening..


Born and raised in Edmonton, Susan first completed her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Alberta before attending the Western College of Veterinary Medecine in Saskatchewan and graduating in 2012. In addition to her training at the college, Susan has also received additional training in verterinary ophthalmology at Cornell University, small animal surgery at the Animal Medical Center in New York, and neurology and dermatology at Western Veterinary Specialists in Vancouver. She previously worked at two other small animal clinics in Alberta, one of which focused extensively on Veterinary Dentistry.
Susan's love and compassion for animals started at a young age where her earliest memories were those of the stray alley cats she would befriend and hide in her room. Susan is passionate about educating clients and believes strongly in preventative medicine. She believes that veterinary medecine is not only about caring for pets but also involves educating and caring for their humans.
Susan has joined the Currents Veterinary family after returning from maternity leave and looks forward to her future here. Outside of work she enjoys playing a variety of sports, pumping iron at the gym, sewing, cooking, and chasing around her giggly son.