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Geomag Panels and Geomag Mechanics #geomag
When it comes to toys Master C and Little Miss C do love something that challenges the old grey matter. Master C's teacher has described him as a child who likes to understand how things work and he's always asking "why" questions to find out exactly why things do the things they do.
LMC is in credibly good at following detailed instructions to build things or make them work, and then retracing her steps sometimes to identify where she might have gone wrong in an original build so that she can rectify a problem herself. Just this holiday she has been teaching herself to code I'm Scratch and then debugging her own code. I'm pretty impressed with her.
These analytical, engineering brains are ones that enjoy being challenged and that's exactly what I was hoping would happen when I presented them both with Geomag to help me review. I was sent both the Geomag Panels and the Geomag Mechanics, and with both having a recommendation did age of 5+ I decided to get Master C two help me with the Geomag Panels and LMC with Geomag Mechanics.
Let's start with describing what Geomag is actually all about. Much as the name suggests Geomag combines geometric shapes with magnets and magnetic forces to create the Geomag Panels range. The set consists of metal ball bearings, rods with magnets at each ends and plastic panels (squares, triangles and pentagons) that can be used to give shapes formed from the rods and ball bearings more rigidity, and also a bright splash of colour. The rods are not perfect cylinders. Instead they have some flat edges which means that the plastic panels can sit inside the shapes and are held in place by these edges. The 192 pieces in the Geomag Panels set means that children have plenty to use in whatever they decide to build with Geomag.
Master C was thrilled to open the box and see so many things to build with. He's had toys before where plastic shapes have magnets in the edges to hold them together, but nothing where the shapes are formed initially from the rods and ball bearings. He found connecting the rods and balls together nice and simple, but struggled a bit with putting the plastic pieces in place. He just didn't quite have the manual dexterity to get them in place himself. He's five years old and a dab hand a Lego and playing with model trains, so I was a bit surprised that he needed help, but I also think that the recommended age of 5+ is right in terms of starting to play with the set, but a child of LMC's age (very nearly 8) seems much more appropriate to get the most out of it.
We tried following the instructions to build one of the structures they featured, but to be honest we both found it a tad tricky and eventually opted for an easier one instead! I did later go back on my own and have a second attempt which was successful, but it does take a fair bit of patience and skill so that you don't end up with some of the magnets pulling other pieces out of shape during the build process.
As soon as LMC started with the Geomag Mechanics I could see how much easier it was for her to understand the need to be sympathetic during the building process so that things weren't pulled out off shape by the magnets. She remembered using something similar in the "construction area" at her infant school so was familiar with the rods and balls concept straight away. She set on with great gusto to build one of the machines in the instruction booklet and just needed a little bit of help interpreting one of the diagrams during the building process.
The Mechanics set also has a "compass rod" in it, so that it repels the other magnets – hence making the models work. LMC didn't realise this at first, so again there was a spot of trial and error to get it to work initially.
With the finished design we then spent quite a while talking about what it did and how it worked, and the magnetic principles behind the model. It fitted really well with a section they had done at school about forces recently and she seemed quite thrilled to be able to put some of the theory from school into practice. Geomag really is excellent for supporting that STEM learning that I'm so keen to make a key part of children's education, both at home and at school.
Geomags were a big hit in this household and I can definitely see them as something that will be played with again and again over the years. I can see Master C learning a huge amount about magnets, forces and shapes through playing with them, and it's already been proven that the mechanics set really supports some of what LMC has been learning in science at school.
The Geomag Panels set contains 192 pieces and has a standard retail price of £90.00. The Geomag Mechanics set contains 86 pieces and has a standard retail price of £35.00. Geomags are available at Smyths and The Entertainer toy shops in person, or you can also buy them online.
Disclaimer: We were sent Geomag Panels and Geomag Mechanics for the purposes of this review. All opinions remain our own. This post contains affiliate links.
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By Steven Brykman, Contributor, CIO |
The UX of liminal (transient) spaces
In other words, the benefits of waiting.
It's nothing new. Liminal experiences are already all around us: from a movie poster at the bus stop to a billboard on the highway, to an inspirational quote at the bottom of a company newsletter, to absolutely everything at the airport (except for the planes). We're already accustomed to seeing stuff in places we don't necessarily expect to see it. They've got TVs in the elevators now, telling us the weather; TVs at the gas pumps, bragging about the specials. They know we're there. They know we're bored. And they know we got nothing better to do than stare at our phones or look around at whatever's hanging on the wall. In short, they got us. We're a captive audience, albeit briefly.
The point is, taking advantage of people stuck waiting for something by providing them content to keep their minds occupied just plain makes sense. Here, we'll take a look at some 'traditional' digital forms of liminal UX, followed by some interesting new ways HTML5 lets us expand upon the idea. And how AR might take these ideas to an extreme in the relatively near future.
App loading states
Waiting for an application to load represents another form of liminal space. The strategy of placing content on mobile app loading screens (upon app launch) has been around as long as the App Store—usually as a vehicle for reinforcing one's brand. Company logo (and occasionally tagline) being the most commonly displayed assets. In the past, I've worked on apps that attempted to use the loading screen as an opportunity to deliver marketing and other messaging as well, with varying degrees of success. The general rule here is: keep it simple. For instance, the Feedly iPhone news reader app displays the message, "Never stop learning," while Duolingo, shows you an interesting fact upon launch—something like, "The number one language studied in Japan is Swedish" (I made that one up). Again: varying degrees of success. Some users like them, some not so much.
Generally speaking, we've opted not to put anything important in this space because the length of time the loading screen will be visible tends to be unpredictable and the greater priority is getting the user into the app. As RandomTed attests in the duolingo forum: "for me they only remain for a flash of a second, and you have to be really quick to read them. I do Duolingo with my son, and when it comes on I start to read it out-loud and usually only get 4 words in before it disappears. We joke about how pointless it is."
This technique is not just limited to mobile apps, however. The desktop version of Slack does the same thing upon app load, usually displaying a tip about how to use the application.
Occasionally the app will pay you a cheeky compliment, like, "You look nice today." Slack even goes one step further and randomly displays custom messages you create yourself. Which is a fun way to celebrate the goofy things your coworkers say. Unfortunately, there's no way to pause the message, so even here it's pretty difficult to read anything longer than a few words.
Navigation menu states
Netflix (at least on 4K AppleTV) provides a sort of background auto-trailer, which is pretty nifty. When you're still navigating through movies, and select a thumbnail for one in the main menu screen, without clicking the thumbnail—and before you're even on that movie's specific menu screen—Netflix starts playing the trailer in the background—full-screen, behind the movie title and the nav thumbnails and everything. Visually, it's very effective. Why force the user to click to view a trailer when it can just start playing in the background?
Paused states
Imagine my surprise at the ingenuity of Amazon Prime Video, when I paused a movie to make some popcorn and was presented with the following:
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There's no reason Amazon should do this, except that it's cool. They literally provide the equivalent of an interactive mini-site that displays the actors' names, what scene they're in, even the music that's playing.
It's called X-Ray for Movies & TV Shows and it's powered by IMDB. Access actor bios, background information, and more. CNET calls the feature "one of Amazon's unsung heroes," and tells us everything we'd want to know about it here.
"The tool instantly provides extra information about what you're seeing on screen at any given time: the names of actors and other shows or movies they've appeared in; the name of whatever music is currently playing; even trivia about a particular scene, location, bit of dialog and so on."
Currently, the feature requires a live internet connection (obviously) and is available only for selected Prime Video titles on the Prime Video website (HTML5 web player), Amazon Fire TV devices, and on certain Smart TVs, including our LG TV, since it apparently supports HTML5. The feature doesn't appear on our AppleTV 4K.
Interestingly, the menus let you jump to the scene in which a certain actor or song appears. I'm not sure why someone would want to do this, but it's fun and interesting, and probably a precursor to buying stuff.
There's no limit to the potential of this drilling-down technique. At least a decade ago I had the idea to create an app that would let users purchase things they saw on screen. Not just in commercials, but in movies and TV shows as well—articles of clothing actors are wearing, for instance, furniture in a room, the soundtrack album playing in the background. But I couldn't figure out how to make it work. Now the feature seems simple, even inevitable. Perhaps this may eventually be used to supplement commercials. As an alternative to interrupting a show, the product may simply be placed in the scene. Those who are interested can purchase it right from the TV, using their TV remote or mobile device. Case in point: Amazon already lets you purchase songs directly from this menu, so long as they're available on Amazon.
The downside: distraction
While this sort of drilling-down into relevant information makes a lot of sense for games, since a child addicted to Minecraft would be unlikely not to return to a game after checking out some options made available on a pause screen, it remains a lousy choice for someone in the midst of an online purchase, unless options provided included the same item at a lower price, with faster shipping, or with a local pickup option that allowed the user to avoid a shipping charge altogether.
So, from a marketing standpoint, this one is a real balancing act. On the one hand, you always want to offer the user as robust an experience as possible. But on the other hand, you don't want them to get distracted and venture down a deep wormhole, never to return to complete whatever task they were previously in the middle of!
Alexa & Google Home to AR & Google Glass
Consider where all this might be headed. The makers of a voice-activated digital assistant like Alexa or Google Home might suddenly decide their smart speakers should talk when no one else is. Maybe they'll pipe up out of the blue to give us more detail about the items we left in our shopping cart. Maybe they'll let us know when items in our Amazon shopping list decrease in price. Who knows?
And when it comes to AR and the digital layer—well, that's pretty much made for this sort of ancillary information! One would almost expect an AR device like Google Glass to spontaneously provide detailed information about the world around us (as well as enabling us to purchase online anything we can see). This is the logical extension of the premise, so, get ready, folks! Hopefully, we'll be able to turn it off.
Lastly, for those wondering how my Chatbot Law crusade is going, here's a link to the letter my lawyer (and oldest friend) David Neumann and I sent off to Ohio Governor John Kasich and Richard Cordray, Former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I'll let you know as soon as we hear back!
Steven Brykman is a Sr. Digital Strategist and UX Architect at Anexinet/Propelics with a diverse background in writing and humor. He left medical school to become Managing Editor of National Lampoon, formed a design company with his wife, and co-founded Apperian, a Boston-based mobile technology startup.

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Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby (1975/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby (1975/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:29 minutes | 810 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Front cover | © RCA Records
Recorded: 18–28 October 1975, Mediasound, New York
Coney Island Baby is the sixth solo album by Lou Reed, released in January 1976. It is also the title of a song on that album. The name presumably refers to the Excellents' 1962 doo wop song of the same name, and/or a 1924 Les Appleton barbershop music song of the same name. The album features the song "She's My Best Friend", which was originally recorded by Reed's band The Velvet Underground in 1969. The Velvet Underground version of the song was included on the 1985 compilation album VU. The 30th anniversary re-issue of Coney Island Baby includes bonus tracks featuring Reed's Velvet Underground bandmate Doug Yule.
From 1972's Transformer onward, Lou Reed spent most of the '70s playing the druggy decadence card for all it was worth, with increasingly mixed results. But on 1976's Coney Island Baby, Reed's songwriting began to move into warmer, more compassionate territory, and the result was his most approachable album since Loaded. On most of the tracks, Reed stripped his band back down to guitar, bass, and drums, and the results were both leaner and a lot more comfortable than the leaden over-production of Sally Can't Dance or Berlin. "Crazy Feeling," "She's My Best Friend," and "Coney Island Baby" found Reed actually writing recognizable love songs for a change, and while Reed pursued his traditional interest in the underside of the hipster's life on "Charlie's Girl" and "Nobody's Business," he did so with a breezy, freewheeling air that was truly a relief after the lethargic tone of Sally Can't Dance. "Kicks" used an audio-tape collage to generate atmospheric tension that gave its tale of drugs and death a chilling quality that was far more effective than his usual blasé take on the subject, and "Coney Island Baby" was the polar opposite, a song about love and regret that was as sincere and heart-tugging as anything the man has ever recorded. Coney Island Baby sounds casual on the surface, but emotionally it's as compelling as anything Lou Reed released in the 1970s, and proved he could write about real people with recognizable emotions as well as anyone in rock music — something you might not have guessed from most of the solo albums that preceded it. –Mark Deming
1 Crazy Feeling 2:54
2 Charley's Girl 2:34
3 She's My Best Friend 5:58
4 Kicks 6:02
5 A Gift 3:43
6 Ooohhh Baby 3:45
7 Nobody's Business 3:42
8 Coney Island Baby 6:36
Lou Reed – vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, piano
Bob Kulick – lead guitar, slide guitar
Bruce Yaw – acoustic bass, electric bass
Michael Suchorsky – drums
Joanne Vent, Michael Wendroff, Godfrey Diamond – backing vocals
Producers: Lou Reed, Godfrey Diamond
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This past weekend, on a road trip to Canada to see Sarah Harmer perform, I finally had the opportunity to check out Dr. Disc in Hamilton, Ontario. I'd never visited the shop before, but Mark, the owner, was so helpful last year when my wife and I were looking for a Canadian record shop that a) carried the Polaris Prize 10″ Sarah Harmer cover sessions record, and b) was willing to send us that along with a Polaris Prize nominee record (the required purchase for receiving the free SH 10″). We'd tried a few stores who seemed clueless about the release while we were in Canada on vacation, but once we were home, we touched base with Mark who was more than happy to send us the records, and even sent them from the US to save us a little on shipping. He also threw in a Dr. Disc slipmat, which I thought was pretty cool.
My wife had kept in touch with Mark online after that, and so when we knew we were going to be traveling through Hamilton, she touched base and let him know we'd be by the shop. He was warm and welcoming, and hooked us up with some excellent swag — tote bags and t-shirts. It was totally unexpected and so appreciated, and it stood in such stark contrast to the kind of interactions I've had with shops I frequent in the US. I spend a lot of time and a lot of dough at one of my favorite shops, and yet they don't even know my name. People don't believe me when I tell them that Canadian folks are just a lot nicer and friendlier, but this is a prime example right here.
The shop is a good size, with two floors of vinyl and CD bins, plus a room full of turntables and DJ gear. Everything was so clean and organized, which made it easy to find some gems even though we were a little short on time. And the prices were excellent, for both new and used vinyl. I grabbed Alvvays' 2013 self-released album, which has been on my wantlist for ages. I'm a sucker for anything RCMP-related (Royal Canadian Mounted Police), so when my wife discovered a 1970s RCMP band record in the bins, I had to snag that one as well. And I was able to find two Rankin/Bass Christmas albums that I've been wanting for years — "'Twas The Night Before Christmas," and "Frosty's Winter Wonderland." I can't even explain how much I geeked out over finding those.
I wish we'd had more time to spend in the shop, because I'm sure I would have come home with a huge stack of records. But I was more than happy with my finds, and it was great to meet one of the nicest record shop owners around. Mark, thanks for the swag and the kindness, and for having a really excellent store. Congratulations on 25 years!


When setting out to establish a brand for a new company, one of the first key elements to tackle is the logo. And while a logo is not the entire brand of a company, it is one of the most important pieces. A logo should be used consistently as a signature on just about everything a company produces: product labels, marketing materials, advertising and websites. And don't forget other, less obvious places such as invoices, e-mail signatures, avatars and shipping labels. Anytime a company is communicating with customers or potential customers is an opportunity to reinforce the name and brand — take advantage of it!
A good logo has flexibility. It is easy to read at any size and works well in black and white, as well as color. It should also say a bit about the company image through the design: is it classic and clean cut? Modern and edgy? Stylish and fashion-forward? Don't expect the logo to say too much (that's what the rest of the collateral and messaging is for), but do be sure it reflects the overall spirit of the company at a glance.


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The Reflex (Flex Flex Flex)!
Stevie G stopped in to talk career moves & situational professional friendships with Cody & Donovan on Season 10, Episode 2 of the long-running 'Reflex Blue Show'.
Steve G. takes another spin around the mic on 36point.com's "Reflex Blue" show.
As usual, I love being asked to banter and expound as a guest of the best little design podcast around. The topic of conversation this particular episode centered around the thought of design professionals making the migration to the instructional and educational side of the table. Of course there were jokes and laughs galore. Enjoy the listen here, or float to 36point to get your fill.


I've had this blog post written for some time but due to an ongoing legal case I've held back it's publication. That case has now been concluded (successfully) so it's time for this to be in the public domain and may go some way to explain a few things when it comes to the policing of hunts.
I have long suspected that there was a high ranking police officer within our local hunt – The Oakley. In the past their supporters would often brag about it and claim it was down to this person that no action was ever taken against the hunt. You may remember I've blogged about this several times in the past and thought I was getting closer to revealing who this was. Each time my lines of inquiry came up short, sometimes I was well wide of the mark but that was largely due to information I was supplied which turned out to be inaccurate. (See here & here.) My suspicions initially arose when multiple police units would attend the hunt as well as air support which would stay on scene for a significant amount of time and at significant expense to the tax payer so it was easy to assume that only someone with some serious clout could authorise these kind of resources to be deployed and potentially leave other parts of the county dangerously low in policing.
A incident from February 2015 during a visit to the Oakley Hunt. A helicopter was also present on the day. A fox was actually chased between these police cars.
I had never really given up trying to identify the person behind this, although due to one thing and another it had be pushed to the back burner and we seemed to be making progress in our dealings with Bedfordshire Police.
The Oakley's opening meet of the season is always traditionally held at a venue called the Dower House in Melchbourne, Bedfordshire. The location is in the same village as the Oakley Kennels and in the heart of their country and support. This location has recently opened its doors as a business for hosting weddings. Their website is here.
Quite a posh looking venue.
Now I seem to remember someone mentioning the owner as being a "Jason" and as this was now a registered business I popped over to companies house and did a search to see who indeed owned the business. Sure enough a Jason Gordon was listed as a Director, along with a female who I assumed was his wife, Alexandra Gordon.
Screen shot from Companies House listing.
Now the logical next step was to do a quick Google search for Jason Gordon to see what popped up. Needless to say I think I'd found my man.
So in essence he works for the service that polices the police and was definitely an acting officer when the incidents of the multiple attending units took place. His role at that time was head of the Serious Crime Office for the tri-force area, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. This guy had some serious clout and ironically also worked for the professional standards department!
Now bells were ringing loudly in my head, this guy looked very familiar and I recollected a couple of incidents from the past where we were treated exceptionally badly by the police present on the day. He was present at at least one of these but referred to himself 'Jim'. Jason Gordon was known to his friends as Jim. So not only was Jim hosting the hunt as his house but it would seem he was a regular rider and someone of some influence not only with the police but also within the hunt. Further investigation revealed he was also listed as a master of the Oakley, from 1996-98 and again between 2004-06 which was incidentally the transition period when the ban on hunting with hounds came in.
Jim Gordon at the Oakley Kennels last March.
If you look at the photo above you'll notice the police vehicle in the background parked in the Oakley kennels. Had Jim been speaking to the officers present and using his previous position to influence they way they behaved? A couple of seasons ago a previous Master of the Oakley, Guy Napier was less an than impressed with the violent behaviour of the thugs that followed the Oakley and did their dirty work. This included assaulting monitors/sabs, theft of their equipment and preventing them from accessing public rights of way. However Mr Napier was clear he didn't want the hunt to be associated with these people and in his defence they were instructed not to attend further Oakley meets. Unfortunately Mr Napier left the Oakley the following season and now the thugs have been welcomed back even though some now have multiple convictions for assault.
I think it would be safe to assume that Mr Gordon (given his connections) would be well aware of the violent record of these people and willingly accepts them and their behaviour provided they are of service to the hunt. Here you can see Jim (with a female) once again riding with the Oakley. In front of him on the left hand image is Kelvin Pestel, hunt supporter and well known thug who is often present and likes to target female sabs in particular. Despite any protestations to the contrary, Mr Gordon is no doubt linked to them and accepts their thuggish actions.
So the implications seem fairly clear. Have we had a previously high ranking police officer and member of professional standards department bending the rules to suit his dirty little hobby and also wasting large sums of public money at the same time? Was he still using this influence to his advantage with local policing and was he advising the hunt on the best way to carry on hunting while remaining free from prosecution? The Oakley openly hunt and make no pretense of laying a trail or using any other exemptions. The image below was taken during one of their hunts last season, a day when Jim was once again riding with the hunt.
We have built a good working relationship recently with Bedfordshire police with meetings and open discussions regarding hunting and the policing of, and I don't believe any of the officers we met with were aware of this situation. If they were they certainly didn't make it known to me. To say there was (and maybe still is) a conflict of interest here is an understatement and while people like Jason "Jim" Gordon are riding with hunts its easy to see why so little action against them takes place.
Although the HMIC is an independent body you may with to write to them and ask a few questions. They can be contacted here (Link). Should this man be part of an organisation whose role is described below? I don't think so.
"Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) independently assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of police forces and fire & rescue services – in the public interest.
It's been quite a crazy couple of weeks, I'd had little time to put fingers to keyboard so it's about time I caught up and updated you all whats been going on in the world of animal protection.
Without doubt the biggest recent story was the unprovoked attack by Fitzwilliam Hunt supporters on our Friends North Cambs Hunt Sabs. They'd been sabbing with us earlier in the day and we'd done a fine job on the Oakley but after they left us they popped by to find out what the Fitzwilliam were up to. It made national news and was the lead item on the ITV Anglia television news complete with interview of the driver involved. If you haven't seen the video footage I've included it below. I was happy to help our comrades to edit and put the footage together for them.
As you can see it's revealing footage and the assailants are clearly out to cause serious harm to non-violent activists. It once again shows the levels these people will stoop to in defence of their sick pastime. As I understand it the driver of the pimped up Land Rover handed himself in to police the following day. All the others have been identified and their identities passed on to the authorities however at the time of writing I'm unaware of any arrests or charges made. I'm well aware of the time it takes to investigate crimes and the need for due diligence however I'm fairly sure had the roles been reversed several doors would have been kicked in some time ago. We can only hope that a proper investigation follows and those responsible held to account for their dangerous and violent actions.
Speaking of being held to account self styled and appointed hunt steward Shaun Stacey was sentenced at Northants Magistrates Court last week for multiple assaults on sabs on separate occasions. Now Mr Stacey and I are well known to each other. He's threatened me on many occasions and also mentioned my partner in doing so. Of course this kind of thing only stiffens my resolve but it was nice to see him have the embarrassment of having to wear a tag for 4 months, get a £1010 fine and a community order. Only the presence of Stephen Welford the Countryside Alliance go to lawyer at the hearing prevented a more serious sentence. Amusingly he's apparently physically incapable of carrying out community order work (fit enough go assault people though) so has to undergo 10 sessions of compassion therapy. Judging by his continued defiance on Facebook I'd suggest he may need a few more. Word is he's also on disability benefit, I wonder if that would be affected by the money he receives from the hunts which employ his thuggery services? Further to that he's also in court next week to answer yet more charges so there is the possibility that there could be more bad news for Mr Stacey.
Another interesting point to note was how quickly his so called friends and fellow stewards dropped him, denying he was part of their group. Just a couple of weeks ago while in discussion with one of them (which I recorded on video) their sentiment was very clear, "he's nothing to do with any of us". Must be nice to be popular.
The fact that the CA are now endorsing this kind of violence (they would generally wash their hands of this kind of thing in the past) once again stinks of desperation on their part. Tim Bonner likes to continually bang on about masked sabs but the simple fact is the only ones relying on violence and intimidation are the pro-hunt side and now they seem to be openly supporting and defending it. They truly are an insidious organisation but are catastrophically missing the point to all this. The British Public overwhelmingly support the ban on hunting and bad PR like this should be roundly condemned. Their silence and indeed open support only furthers the interests of those who opposed them.
Finally here's an interesting images taken only last Saturday on the Tyringham Estate in Buckinghamshire.
It's Thames Valley Police attending an Oakley Hunt meet on the estate. They were called by us as they openly hunted and caused havoc in the villages nearby as hounds ran riot causing mayhem to road users and the villagers alike.
The woman on the horse speaking to the Officers is Oakley Hunt Master Caroline Evans from Wooton Green. The woman on foot is Lucy Hill, land owner and and owner of local Estate Agents Micheal Graham. Here's the info from Companies House.
It would seem that the officers who attended believed that no offence has taken place as no foxes had been killed (mainly due to us saving them). Therefore one has to ask; if someone was walking down the street with a firearm on display acting in a hostile manner would the officers refuse to act until that person shot someone? Of course not. One of our sabs proceeded to explain the relevant laws to the officers but as usual they didn't seem at all interested and left shortly afterwards, no doubt suckered in by the complete bag of lies told to them by Evans and Hill.
So perhaps if you're looking to sell your home it's probably a good idea to avoid this particular agents bearing in mind that not only do they host the Oakley but also the Northants Mink Hounds who hunt both Mink and Otter in the nearby river in the summer months along with the shooting interests on the estate. They are, by any definition, huge enablers of wildlife abuse.
Old Timmy and his cronies at the so called Countryside Alliance may think they have the bragging rights over the recent National Trust vote on trail hunting because they think they won. The truth is, they lost.
It's emerging that many members didn't receive their voting forms and the whole legality of the voting system is being called into question but even if you ignore these anomalies the simple fact is without the discretionary votes of the pro-hunt NT board the outcome would have been very different indeed. The margin was close, 299 votes from a total of over 60,000. The NT may think they have dealt with the situation for now but it's certainly not going away and have probably made a rod for their own back.
They will now have to show they are serious about the new rules regarding trail hunting, no animal based scents, no terrier men and publishing dates and locations of all hunt meets on NT land. Of course now the hunts and CA are asking for those conditions to be changed but, if they truly believe they are going to be legally trail hunting what would they have to hide? We all know the real reasons and make no bones about it, the NT will be held to account over the licensing and conditions. They will be scrutinised very closely indeed and as it stands no hunt has made any application for licenses to hunt on NT land. We'll see what happens next.
Moving on from that an interesting situation arose yesterday after a sab colleague of mine reminded me of the poster from the Oakley Hunt summer show.
We decided to do a little digging on the main sponsor – Green Energy UK (plc). This lead to some interesting findings which we thought the public should be aware of and in turn published the statement this statement on the Beds & Bucks Hunt Sabs Facebook page (see here). We also published links on Twitter for maximum exposure. Needless to say your average consumer doesn't like being lied to regarding claims of being ethical but also supporting fox hunting. Lots of bad reviews were left on the company's Facebook page and tweets were rolling in thick and fast. Finally Green Energy issued a statement and the B&B responded accordingly (see here). At this time Green Energy were actively removing the all the bad reviews in an attempt to save face. Their statement was clearly 2 fingers up to the consumers, they weren't going to budge on their position and their support of the Oakley no matter how they tried to spin it however they severely underestimated the indignation of the people and aligning themselves with a blood sports lobbying group (the so called CA) was a huge mistake.
This only fanned the flames and people power took hold. They were flooded with more complaints and bad reviews until they were finally backed into a corner and once again had to issue another statement to which B&B responded once more (see here). We're in no doubt that the ethos of the people in charge (including the husband of Oakley Hunt master Lady Lydia Thompson, Sir Peter Thompson) will not have changed and they are no doubt still pro hunt, however we have shown that the general public won't stand for lies and that hunting is pretty much universally hated by everyone except the wildlife killers themselves.
It will also show other companies that supporting blood sports is bad for business and they risk losing customers. Just like Theresa May found out in the general election, blood sports are political and financial poison. Those that support them are finding themselves increasingly isolated. There's more than one way to skin the proverbial cat. We'll sab them in the fields and we'll hit these organisations financially as well. We'll pursue every possible avenue and make life as difficult as possible until the inevitable outcome is reached.


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ON THE RESEARCH OF SAMUEL BOGUMIL LINDE'S PRIVATE BOOK COLLECTION (Z badan nad ksiegozbiorem prywatnym Samuela Bogumila Lindego)
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The inventory of Samuel Bogumil Linde's possessions taken in September 1847 after his death included books: 1024 works in 1328 volumes. The inventory did not include a detailed list of books, just a general number of works and volumes in eleven language groups and their value. All the books from the inventory were sold. Some of them (260 works in 289 volumes) were purchased by the Library of the University of Warsaw and catalogued in 1855. The author undertook the effort of identifying the books from Linde's private collection shelved till today in the University Library in Warsaw. Linde did not mark his books and left no traces of having read them, therefore the only indication that a particular book comes from his collection is the price, corresponding to the entry in the inventory from 1855, written in pencil on the cover, inside the cover or on the title page. The author succeeded in identifying 125 works, i.e. 48.1% of the books entered in the inventory in 1855, which constitutes 12.2% of the books entered in the inventory taken after Linde's death. S.B. Linde collected book ever since his university days in Leipzig. He worked for 40 years in libraries, heading them (Jozef Maksymilian Ossolinski's library, the library in the Lyceum in Warsaw, Public Library at the University of Warsaw) and treated their collections as his own. He acquired books for his private library, buying them, also in subscription, and receiving as gifts, frequently with printed or handwritten dedications. A Russian historian, Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin, for several years offered to buy Linde's library, mainly the manuscript of 'Comparative Dictionary of Slavic Languages'.
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This centuries old capital guards the slender waterway between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and is the doorway between the East and West. Visitors can explore remnants of Byzantine Constantinople in the Sultanahmet district, where you will have the chance to see ancient splendors, such as the Haghia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and Topkapi Palace. At night the city boast a lively nightclub scene and excellent Turkish dining options that may include cultural entertainment and dancing. Istanbul also features splendid shopping malls, boutiques, and hand crafted items can be found all over the city.
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Visitors come to Kusadasi for beaches and nearby ruins of Ephesus. The major attraction is the archaeological site of ancient Ephesus, considered to be most important in Turkey. The history of this ancient city dates back to 10th century BC; many remarkable structures seen today are result of an excavation and restoration program. Along a white marble road grooved by ancient chariot wheels, the two-story Library of Celsus presents a striking sight. There are temples, houses of noblemen, and community buildings lining ancient streets. Nestled in the mountainside is a 25,000-seat amphitheater, still used for performances during Festival of Culture and Art. Bible buffs may know Ephesus as inspiration for St. Paul's Epistle to Ephesians and the site of one of the first seven churches of Asia Minor. Treasures are kept in the Seljuk Archaeological Museum. Among the better-known ancient sites near Kusadasi are ancient Miletus and Dydima. Remains include a well-preserved Roman theater at Miletus and Dydima's sacred temple of Apollo.
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Mykonos's many captivating attributes make it one of the most celebrated Greek holiday islands. Its main village is a colorful maze of narrow streets lined with white-washed houses, many with bright blue doors and shutters. As an attractive backdrop, famous windmills are lined up like toy soldiers on the hillside, vestiges of a time when wind power was used to grind grain. Mykonos has churches and chapels scattered about the island; quite a number of them are located right in town. Radiant flowers spill over white-washed walls and shady courtyards. In addition to swimming, sunning, water-skiing and surfing, visitors find endless shopping opportunities. Artists have relied on Mykonos' beautiful setting to inspire them. The most photographed site is the Paraportiani, a cluster of white-washed churches resting below windmills. Mykonos's museums include an Archaeological Museum, which houses relics from the Trojan War, a Folk Art Museum and a Maritime Museum. The best beaches are Aghios Stephanos, Psarou, Kalafatis, Onros, Panormos and Elia.
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Valletta is the capital of Malta. This remarkable fortified city with its massive bastions followed the most advanced Renaissance ideas in town planning, with streets laid straight on a grid looking over the Grand Harbour. Outside the 'City Gate' is the famous Triton Fountain. 'City Gate' has public buses and vendors selling soft drinks and all sorts of traditional fresh Maltese bread and sweets. Freedom Square shows an extraordinary capital with buildings of fine architecture of different tastes and styles ranging from the Mannerism to Baroque to Rococo to Neoclassicism. Valletta is a fascinating city for wandering around looking at what used to be the Knight's own cathedrals and Auberges. The city's backbone is Republic Street, which runs straight through the city center to Fort St. Elmo. Valletta has several narrow, steep side streets decorated with traditional Maltese pastel colored balconies and a statue on almost every street corner. There are plenty of shops, cafes, and restaurants to choose from.
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As the Chair of the AAMS Nominations Committee, I'm pleased to announce that the election of representatives for the 2018 – 2020 term on the AAMS board has come to a close, and we would like to introduce our newly elected board members! Regions 3, 4 and two Director At-Large Seats were up for election. The board members will be sworn into office during the AAMS Membership Meeting at the 2018 AMTC in Phoenix, Arizona.
Sherri Dean, BSN, MHA has been elected as AAMS Region 3 Director. Sherri, a first time AAMS Board member, is the Regional Director for Strategic Growth for PHI Air Medical, L.L.C. She has over 10 years' experience as a leader in the medical transport industry. She is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, as well as other associations. Sherri's commitment to improve safety will benefit the AAMS Board mission.
Deborah Boudreaux, MSN, RN, LP, CCRN, CMTE, C-NPT was re-elected as AAMS Region 4 Director. Debbie is the Assistant Vice President of Nursing at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, TX. She is an active member of Nurses Executive Council, President of Texas AAMS, and Chair of AAMS KIDS SIG. Debbie also serves as the Vice Chair on the AAMS Executive Committee. Debbie's passion to better the industry will continue to add to the AAMS Board.
René Borghese, MSN, RN, CMTE, was re-elected to one of the AAMS Director At-Large Positions. René is the Administrative Director for Duke University Hospital Life Flight in Durham, NC. She serves as the Treasurer on the AAMS Executive Committee and sits on the MedEvac Foundation International Board of Trustees. René's background, along with her leadership skills, will continue to be a great asset to the AAMS Board and its continued growth.
Christopher Hall, B.S., FP-C, CMTE, has been re-elected to the AAMS Board as the second AAMS Director At-Large position. Chris is the Manager of Government Affairs and Industry Relations for PHI Air Medical, L.L.C. in Phoenix, AZ. He is currently serving as Chair for the AAMS Membership Committee and AAMS Education and Standards Committee. Chris' dedication to the medical transport industry will continue to add value to the AAMS Board.
I would like to thank all of the candidates that stepped forward and their continued interest in AAMS,. If I may answer any questions for you regarding the election process please contact me directly at devans@stars.ca or at (403) 516-4218.


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Bully frontwoman and mastermind Alicia Bognanno knows how to write songs that are as cathartic as they are explosive. It's a skill that translates masterfully live – moments of repose give way to fuzzy guitars wailing and vocals that alternate between sickly sweetness and guttural screams. Their sold-out show at the Great Scott on November 12th demonstrated the band's full ability to those eagerly waiting in anticipation. The first set of the night belonged to Brooklyn based Aye Nako. As self-described, the band is "black, queer, trans and poor, and sing about white supremacy, trauma and child sexual abuse." There is no divorcing the band from that statement – their music deals with a lot of the heavy experiences they have had, and it's a gorgeous thing to get to be blasted by. This night wasn't about finding solace – it's about actively confronting pain, and there weren't many moments in their set that you were excused from that reality. Sharp drumming and unrelenting guitars drove the band, with small breaks for spotlighting poignant lyricism. Even if you haven't had the direct experience of Aye Nako and aren't the audience the band is seeking, you are able to get a sliver of the pain and celebration that drives them with a single listen. Experiencing this band is demanding as it is fulfilling – and it's particularly wonderful to see that as an opener for a band that dwells in a similar space but brings in less of the societal. While there is no doubt that the band has considerable performing and writing talent, it was a much looser sound than what would follow.
What differentiates Bully from almost any other band is how stark and clean they keep their mix. It's a testament to Bognanno's deft hand at the soundboard, but surprisingly their live show loses none of that precision. There are some small differences between the recorded and live execution, primarily in the mixing, but it was a testament to the band's playing abilities that such a faithful translation could occur. Bognanno's voice proved to be as exceptionally masterful as well – with such a light and deft vocal execution, it would be easy to lose the singer in the mix, or for her to take on a different tonal quality live, but the switch never happened. This could be attributed to the sparser guitar parts throughout verses, but the mastery was there nonetheless. You have to admire the calculation and energy with which Bognanno steers her ship. The crowd ate up the band's presence and threw it back at them. Bully's shows continue to bring the energy of collapsing star – fragility and power coming alive and dying in the same moment.


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On Saturday, April 13, the Ultimate Fighting Championship held UFC 236 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. As is always the case, the energy at a live mixed martial arts event was evident through the broadcast and a large part of the hype leading up to a bout can be the fighter's walkout.
What songs were the soundtrack for the fans at State Farm Arena?
A heavy dose of Nipsey Hussle, the Crenshaw rapper who was gunned down in Los Angeles on Sunday, March 31, and many more were all part of the soundtrack for the night.
A full list of walkout songs from the UFC 236 championship doubleheader can be seen below.


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Anu's story begins with a pulse. She's 12 years old, holding her grandmother's wrist, feeling the heartbeat's rhythm—bounding or thready, slow or fast. "I was so taken by how much you could learn from touching someone, feeling the rhythm of their life, literally," she recalls. Now a cardiologist at Mount Sinai, Anu Lala, MD, cares for patients with heart failure. Her work often places her at the border between life and death, which has challenged her to think deeply about questions both clinical and spiritual. In this conversation, Dr. Lala reflects on what she's learned about uncertainty, healing, purpose, and what it means to live a good life.
Anu Lala, MD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), and Population Health Science and Policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also Deputy Editor of the Journal of Cardiac Failure.
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I think when you align yourself with what is, then there's room for acceptance to flow in. And when you accept what is, then you recognize the opportunities in that given situation.
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From the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, this is Road to Resilience, a podcast about facing adversity. I'm Jon Earle. My guest today is Dr. Anu Lala. She's a cardiologist here at Mount Sinai. She works with patients who are suffering from heart failure, which is not a term that she likes, and we'll talk about that. But the reason why I wanted to have her on is because in addition to being a great doctor, she's also a master at guiding patients through what can be one of the scariest, most uncertain times in their life. These are patients who, like I said, have a heart that's not functioning properly, that are sometimes waiting for transplants for months on end. And Dr. Lala brings this incredible warm, very spiritually informed sensibility to her practice. And so in our conversation, she shares things that I think are really relevant for anybody—thoughts on living in uncertainty, thoughts on purpose, the things that working at the precipice of life and death as she does bring into very clear focus. So it's a beautiful conversation, I really enjoyed having it, and I think you're going to really enjoy listening to it. So put yourself in a quiet place if you can, close your eyes, and listen. Dr. Anu Lala, welcome to Road to Resilience.
Thank you so much for having me. It's exciting.
So I want to start out with a question that I'm going to borrow from a favorite podcast of mine called On Being. In the beginning of every episode, Krista Tippett, the host, asks her guests about the spiritual background that they have. So I'm just wondering what was the sort of spirituality that you grew up with?
Thanks so much for asking. I think my spiritual upbringing has a lot to do with where I am today. I grew up in a Hindu household. I consider myself Hindu. But what I loved about how our parents raised us was from the very beginning, we were taught that all religions say the same thing in different ways. And I also went to a school, it's called the Swami Vivekananda Vidyapith. Swami Vivekananda was a great philosopher, spiritual teacher, who also emphasized the universality of religion and really had more of a focus on spirituality than on rituals and belief systems. And so I thought that that was so empowering. I know it's a long answer to your question, but that's my spiritual background or upbringing.
The idea that we're all connected, that we're all similar inside, is very much integrated into your work—this is now jumping ahead a little bit—as a cardiologist here. Can you talk about that connection?
I've thought a lot about this. I think about what is it that enables a connection between two people and particularly in the vulnerable space of where a patient is coming to a physician with a problem or with a challenge. And I think the connection that is afforded is based on empathy. There's a distinction between feeling sorry for the other person or for the patient who's going through a particular ordeal or faced with a particular disease process, and recognizing the oneness in human suffering and joy. And so I think that empathy is so critical. And what underlies that empathy is the recognition that we are all ultimately the same.
You told me something fascinating when we spoke earlier and it's that a heart from any patient regardless of their background, can sustain life in the heart of a patient from a completely different background—different gender, different ethnic background. That blew my mind. I mean, the heart has no shortage of spiritual connotations, but that is a very powerful one.
Yeah, absolutely. I was just going to say that. If that's not a direct manifestation of oneness, then I don't know what is. And I remember so distinctly being in training, I was in Boston and I went for my first heart transplant surgery to observe, and without disclosing the actual information, I just remember how the heart that was being given to this particular individual was of the opposite gender, a completely different race, completely different languages spoken. And yet she woke up the next day full of life, really, restored. And I think that is just the most profound example of oneness and how we're just the same.
When did you realize that you wanted to be a healer? Not just be a doctor, but do the work of a doctor?
I don't know if I thought about it that way, quite frankly. I loved the idea of serving as an instrument to heal. And I first knew that I wanted to do this, I think, when I was a young kid. My father is a cardiologist, and my grandmother was visiting from India. I think I was 12 years old at the time, and she actually had a heart attack in our living room. And she emphatically stated that she did not want to go to the hospital under any circumstances. She was in her eighties. And so my father said, "Okay, we'll manage you at home." And so he brought an EKG machine home. He brought aspirin. He brought morphine. And we stayed with her all night. I watched her have nausea and pain, and my father kind of employed us to be a part of the process. And I remember distinctly being told to feel for her pulse. I had my fingers on her wrist, feeling her pulse, and that has become a ritual, if you will, in terms of how I see patients and how I practice. So anyone who walks into my clinic, the first thing I do is sit down once they're comfortable, ask how they are, and then as I'm asking how they are, I put my hands on their wrists and feel for their pulse. And I think what I was so taken by at that time was the rhythm and how much you could get out of that, of touching someone there, feeling their pulse, feeling the rhythm of their life, literally, and the nature and the quality of that pulse. And from that experience on, I knew I wanted to be a doctor and I also knew I wanted to do cardiology.
What do you feel for when you feel a patient's pulse?
The first part of it is just touching the patient, skin to skin.
What does that do?
I think it almost enables a sort of immediate connection. It almost breaks barriers. And I know it's challenging to talk about skin-to-skin connection in COVID times, but it just—whatever walls are up, it kind of brings them down immediately. And so I sit in front of the patient, I put my fingers on both of their wrists and I look at them in their eyes and then ask them about—it could be superficial conversation, but it's a connection that's established. And then what I'm feeling for is the nature of that pulse, the strength of it, whether it's bounding or whether it's weak, whether it's slow or whether it's fast, whether it's thready or whether it's coming up against my fingertips. It's hard to articulate, but I've now developed a sense of understanding the circulation and also their state of mind, their physiological state at that time.
We talked a little bit about the heart as myth and metaphor, but it's also an incredible physical organ. Tell us about that.
What I love about the heart is how many functions it performs. So it's not only a pump responsible for literally pumping blood to the rest of the body, but it also has an electrical system that governs how it pumps and provides the rhythm for the body. It's literally your body's pacemaker. I love that there's physics involved and fluid mechanics involved and valves opening and closing. And this almost sounds silly, but I love how the color of the blood changes from one chamber to the next, so you have deoxygenated or blue blood coming to the heart seeking restoration, if you will, with oxygen and nutrients, and so the heart pumps that blood to the lungs only to be within a microsecond receiving blood from the lungs that's now bright red and full of oxygen and nutrients. And then it sends it out to the rest of the body. And I think it's such a beautiful representation of being energy-depleted and then being energy-repleted all in one beat. And so I just love how multifaceted the heart is.
I'm stuck on that image of the blue blood coming in and the bright red blood going out. It's like—listeners can't see this, but there are Buddhas and there are Hindu images and there are all sorts of spiritual images in here. And there's also a heart, and the heart fits right in given what we're talking about and given the heart's function as a restorative organ. How would you describe your philosophy of the doctor-patient relationship? Because I know that's very important to you.
So the first thing is really being able to establish that human connection. Like I said, shutting the barriers and the layers and just connecting human to human, recognizing that this is a human experience, confronting disease and illness is a human experience. And so I think that's really important to me. And I'm not going to lie, I mean, there are times where you get caught up in the roles that we play—I'm a physician, you're a patient—but the most satisfying and fulfilling encounters are the ones where we shed those roles and recognize the humanness of our connection. And then it's about empowering patients and their families to accept what is, which is the hardest part. Anyone who's told that their heart is not functioning, or that they need a new heart—it's devastating news. And the human inclination is to resist it or not want to accept it or feel self-pity or feel unlucky. All of these things are completely normal. And if I could do one thing, it's my prayer and hope that I can help patients accept what is. And that requires giving them information in a way that's not debilitating. So that's the first part of it. And then once we accept—
Wait, what does that mean? What does it mean to give a patient information in a way that's not debilitating. How do you do that?
I don't know [laughs]. I think when you align yourself with what is, then there's room for acceptance to flow in. And when you accept what is, then you recognize the opportunities in that given situation. So I know I'm being vague, but I'm obviously a heart transplant physician and a heart function doctor, so I have young patients. I have a young patient who just celebrated Father's Day four months out from his heart transplant with his two little boys. And he was told at the age of 38 that his heart was not functioning and that he would need a new heart. And he stayed in hospital for three months waiting for that new heart. And then once he had the surgery, he had challenges and bumps along the road. Before he could go home it was another several weeks. And so each day was about providing information in an objective way and then moving towards acceptance. And so when I say that I provide information or I try to provide information in a non-debilitating way, I like to try and focus on what is working rather than what is not working.
So with this particular patient who I became very close with, we would start the day off with, let's talk about all the things that are working. So your brain is working. We're having this conversation right now. You can see, you can hear, you can taste, you can smell. Your lungs are working, you're not on oxygen. Your kidneys are working. You're making a lot of urine in response to the medicine that we're giving you.
Really going down the list!
Oh, yeah! Your limbs are working. You're able to write and communicate with your family. You're able to walk, your bowels are moving. Your liver is working. And then, yeah, your heart is not functioning well, and that's why we need to replace it. But when you contextualize it like that, I'm not sugar-coating anything by any means, but I am hopefully allowing for recognition of all the things that are working. And I think that's true of life. When you only focus on what's not working out in your life, then you feel like, oh, woe is me. Why me? Pity party sort of situation. But when you try and shift your attention to what is working and have gratitude for what is working, I think it allows for more acceptance for the challenge that you're faced with.
Yeah, it strikes me that anybody could get up first thing in the morning and go through their bodily systems and say, well, this is working, this is working, this is working. Maybe not a bad idea.
It's an amazing idea. I wish I could do it more often. It's easier to say these things when you're confronted with someone else seeking your guidance. But I think if we could do that, I mean, some of the most effective meditation practices are exactly that, right? Focusing on the breath, the fact that you're able to breathe is pretty amazing.
Language is important to you. Not saying "heart failure." Why is that?
Yeah, thank you so much for bringing that up. That's something I feel so passionately about. The word "heart failure" or the term "heart failure" is just—I talk a lot about empowerment and not wanting to give patients information in a way that's debilitating. That's a perfect example. By opening up and telling patients, particularly young ones, "You have heart failure." I can't imagine a more devastating diagnosis. Because the word "failure" is perhaps the most negative word in the English language. And so I think we do patients a disservice by using that term. So I and others in the community are really, really trying hard to change the language we use to focus on function rather than—I honestly can't even say it [laughs], "failure," because that implies the end of the road. It implies that there's not a lot of options left. It implies that it's time to be hopeless, quite frankly. And I think when we talk about function, we can talk about the entire timeline. We can talk about prevention. We can talk about maintenance of health, preservation of function, restoration of function, and replacement of function if and when necessary. But I think it just opens up how we can speak about the patient's particular problem. And I can tell you, I had another patient, also a young father, a successful entrepreneur, had everything going for him, and was told that he had heart failure. And he said, "Just don't tell me that. I don't want to hear it. I can't accept that." He goes, "I don't fail at things in life." And that really struck me.
Well, what came to mind for me is that "failure" is also a moral term. You talk about the failure of a body, the failure of a heart. It's kind of like, "Oh. What did I do wrong?"
Right. What did I do wrong? Or why me? And so I immediately connected with this other patient about function. And he was like, "Yeah, that really sits with me. Let's do that." I also like the word "function" because it's not just the heart. It's how you function as a human being as well. And they go hand in hand.
That seems to get to something else I want to ask you, which is about the "why." That heart function has to do also with the functioning of the person with their heart and what they want to do.
That's right. That's so right. When I am trying to present options for therapy or next steps to a patient, for me it's really, really important to understand what their "why" is. What's their motivation? And that might sound very trite and almost silly, you know, what's your motivation to live? Some patients are like, "What do you mean? Of course I want to live!" And so obviously you ask it in a more finessed and sensitive way. And so it's more so, well, what do you enjoy doing? What's an ideal day for you?
It's almost like, what's your heart for?
Yeah. Right. What makes you tick so to speak? I had a patient recently who I met in the CCU who did not want to hear about a machine to take over for her heart.
The CCU?
I'm sorry, the cardiac care unit. And she didn't want to hear about a machine to take over the function of her heart, called an LVAD. She said, "Oh, absolutely not. That's not for me." And I said, "What's an ideal day for you?" She said, "Well, taking my grandson to the park." I said, "Well, how do you take him to the park? You can barely walk. You know, your heart is weak, and you feel so short of breath and tired." And she says, "Yeah, we go slowly. He holds my hand. And he tells me about his day at school. And then I sit on the park bench and he plays on the playground, but he keeps checking in with me. And then we slowly walk home. And to me, that's the ideal time. I don't think about any problems during that time. I feel like life is full." And that was so telling to me. And I said, "It sounds like you would like to keep doing that." And I said to her, "Well, what if I told you that having an LVAD, having this machine to take over your heart, would allow you to keep doing that. And maybe even more." And with that a window opened where there was a wall in terms of hearing about this option and what the machine was like. And then there was, "Well, tell me a little bit more about this machine. What would it be like? What does it involve?" And so that's just an example of when you get to the patient's "why," you can help offer ways to continue. And that's not always the case. It's not. And there's tremendous dignity in allowing a patient to transition to end of life as well. But first understanding the "why," I think, is critical.
We talked a little bit about uncertainty. You deal with a lot of patients who are in a very uncertain situation, who don't know what today or what tomorrow is going to bring. How do you guide them?
I wish we all had guidance on that. I think uncertainty is the most—at least for me, honestly, that's a big challenge that I face in my everyday life. When you have children, you have loved ones, career things, and you wonder what's going to happen. You want to know the outcome of a journey before it starts. But it's particularly relevant, as you bring up, in cases of disease or illness. I'm faced with it all the time. All the time. I just had another patient who said, "Well, is this definitely going to happen tomorrow? Am I definitely going to get a heart? Am I definitely going to have it within three months? Am I definitely going to survive for 10 years after I get a new heart?" And all of these questions, I always say, "I don't know for sure. Nothing is certain. But what I can tell you are statistics. I can share with you what we've learned over the years. But what we do have is this moment right now, and what I know right now." And the more that we shift our focus to the present moment, the more we're aligned, as you mentioned, with the present moment, the more there's acceptance. And the biggest word that I use and that I think is so profoundly powerful is "surrender." I always say this. I mean, any one of my patients that you speak to will tell you I say, "All we can do is surrender." What we can do is provide you with the knowledge, with the information. We can, thank god, here at Sinai we have the ability to provide every possible therapeutic option. But we don't ultimately have full control over the result of what happens, and that's the case with anything in life. And so when you surrender to the present moment, you accept what it is for what it is. I think there's empowerment in that. And there is peace in that. And if I can help a patient see that and even remind myself of that, then I think that's beautiful.
Do you ever get emotional with your patients?
Oh gosh, yeah. Sometimes yes. Sometimes no. Sometimes I surprise myself with how not, you know, tearful I'll be in a given situation. And then there are other times where it happens out of nowhere. We had a patient now over a year and a half ago who was young and had a heart transplant when he was a child and then was confronted with needing another heart transplant at the age of 23. And there were a lot of ethical discussions about this, and he had a particularly challenging situation from a physiologic standpoint. And what was amazing for me as a learning experience is we got to work with the pediatric side of things and see how—. They were so involved in taking care of him for all these years, and even though he was officially on the adult side, in many ways he had spent a lot of his childhood in the hospital. And so we worked with his pediatrician, we worked with an art therapist, and what struck me and what changed me was how they spoke to their patients. Because they constantly asked this particular patient if he would be okay with talking about next steps. And so what I witnessed with them was that they were always empowering. They were always putting the ball in the patient's court. I can just remember everything about this particular encounter where the therapist said, "You remember when I told you that we might get to a point where we really need to talk about next steps and that we might be running out of options?" And I remember him saying, "Yes." And then she said, "I think we're at that point now." And he just kind of stayed quiet. And she said, "Do you want to hear about what those next steps might look like?" And to me, in the moment, it was like what do you mean? We have to tell him what the next steps will look like.
Oh, I see the difference.
So what if he says, "No"? We can't just walk out of the room. But it was about empowering him to guide next steps. And I thought it was so beautifully done. And I think we can learn so much from how the pediatric folks do that. And so I've sort of incorporated that into my conversations with patients as well.
You do a lot of listening.
I think we try to, yeah.
You mentioned to me in a previous conversation that you will listen to patients who've died and come back to life, if you will. Can you share anything that you've heard that has stuck with you?
Yeah, I mean, to some people it will sound almost voodoo-esque, but what I have come to say and believe is anything is possible. And so I remain open to what patients want to share. I judge less and less and less, and that's my prayer for me as a physician, as a healer, as a person, is to be void of judgment. Because they've seen things that I haven't. They've experienced things that I haven't. And so I've had many patients who have quote-unquote "died and come back to life"—cardiac arrest, their heart stops for several seconds, minutes, sometimes longer, and then they're here alive to tell the story. And I've heard a variety of stories. One woman in particular comes to mind who's a psychologist and a therapist, who, while she was waiting for her heart, was actually continuing therapy for her clients, if you can imagine, while she was in the hospital. And she had a very difficult experience where her heart stopped. And I spoke to her the next day and she was actually well and fine, remarkably, and she became emotional. And she said, "You know, I literally remember waking up screaming, saying, 'No, I'm not ready to go. It's not my time.'" And she goes, "And I think because I said it so forcefully and it came from such a deep place I think I'm here today to talk to you about it." And I told her, I said, "I believe you." I believe it because we hear all kinds of stories like that all the time. So, you know, I think if anything this just makes us so humble. There's so much we don't know. We think we know so much, right, especially doctors. We go to medical school then we do residency then we do fellowship and—
Anu, we're surrounded by your diplomas, literally, on three walls. To your point.
Right and so you get to this point where you think you know it. And I think this field in particular teaches us that there is just so much we don't know both physiologically, but also spiritually. I think initially when I started out, I would be afraid to tell patients and families I didn't know the answer. And now I find so much power in that. When they ask certain questions, I say, "I don't know. But we can figure it out together, or we can try and find answers to that." Because I think that lends so much more credence to what I do know. And I've found, surprisingly or not surprisingly, that it allows for more trust because they know when I say I know something, I actually, at least I think I know it. Whereas when I say I don't, I'm being honest and upfront with the fact that I don't. And I think it's really important to relay that to patients and families.
Very unfortunately I want to bring it down to a more practical plane by asking you what are some things that you do to cope with the stress of your work?
One thing that came to me that I think is actually so cool and so profound is that if you look at the heart as an organ, it's responsible for pumping blood and oxygen and nutrients to the rest of the body and to perfuse organs, your brain, all your organs, your kidney, your gut, et cetera. But it needs its own nutrients. It needs its own source of energy. And for that it has these arteries or these vessels that are reserved for itself, to provide nutrients, blood oxygen to itself so it can continue providing for the rest of the body. And if you think about it, what is a heart attack? A heart attack is when one of those arteries called the coronary artery is blocked. And so the heart muscle doesn't get perfusion or oxygen or blood or nutrients, however you want to look at it, because there's an obstruction or a blockage. And so part of that muscle function then dies. And I think for us as providers or clinicians or physicians, it's kind of the same thing. You have to take care of yourself while you take care of others. And in fact, unless you do that, you're not going to be able to provide for others or serve others in any meaningful capacity. What I hope we will see with time is a greater emphasis on that. More and more now we talk about physician wellness and wellbeing, but it's not just hip and cool to talk about, it's real. And that analogy to me is actually so profound and it's kind of the same thing. So I have realized that I need maintenance, I need restoration. And so for me it's about—any kind of workout generally does it, whether it's running or yoga, or even just a high-intensity Orangetheory workout. Anything that really gets me going in terms of getting my heart rate up is really, really helpful for me. I think spending time in meditation is helpful and writing, writing in my journal is helpful. I think there's a distinction between doing things that you love and enjoy— nothing is better for me than spending time with my children and my husband and my family—but you have to recognize that while that's amazing, it may not necessarily be nurturing to you. And there's a distinction. And I'm slowly starting to realize that and trying to devote designated time to nurture myself.
You have a copy of the Bhagavad Gita in front of you, the sacred text. Was there something that you wanted to share from it?
|No other than, you know, we have all of these texts, these spiritual books, and we're all ultimately seeking joy and peace. Ultimately that's what we want. We want to feel heard and seen. And we want to feel peaceful, tranquil and joyous inside. I think that's a pretty much universal human desire. And what strikes me is no matter what texts you read or what podcasts you listen to, it's all about really aligning yourself with the present moment and recognizing the beauty of what is. Like, I'm here with you now—it makes me want to cry because it's amazing. We're connecting on a different level and we're in good health and we're enjoying a beautiful conversation. And so this moment is perfect as it is. It's whole and complete. And I say this thing to my children before they sleep, there's a Sanskrit shloka or mantra, if you will, that says, it basically is purnamadah, and everything is about wholeness. And so what we say after that is, "All is perfect, whole and complete. You are perfect, whole and complete. I am perfect, whole and complete. And this moment is perfect, whole and complete."
Thank you so much, Dr. Lala, for taking this time.
Dr. Anu Lala is a heart function cardiologist here at Mount Sinai. Thank you again, Dr. Lala, for that conversation. Road to Resilience is a production of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. It's made by me, Nicci Cheatham, and our warmhearted executive producer, Lucia Lee. From all of us here, thank you so much for listening, and we'll see you next time.
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