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Coptic, The Black Star Line & Joel Orleans have come to an agreement and signed a recording contract worth 200 thousand US dollars. The contract also provides Joel with production, distribution and promotion of his music in the United States and Europe while safeguarding all his copy-writes and royalties.
Coptic who is also a Ghanaian, has won numerous awards for his production skills, including a #1 Billboard award for "I Need a Girl" which features P. Diddy & Usher. Coptic feels that he can mold the great talent that Joel already has into something that can be sold to a worldwide market.
Coptic stressed that even though Joel will keep making records for his Ghanaian fans, he will be making different records for the US that are more suitable to what those fans are used to hearing.
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The Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC) is currently undertaking consultation to consider options for strengthening regulation requirements for currently unregistered health practitioners. The consultation is intended to gather information and views to assist in determining the adequacy of existing protections for consumers, which includes medical treatment from Paramedics.
Paramedics Australasia is closely following the discussions and participating in consultation activities to ensure the voice of paramedics is heard.
The consultation has come in response to an increase in complaints to health departments, registration boards and Health Complaints Entities concerning unregistered health practitioners.
Option 1: No change – rely on existing regulatory and non-regulatory mechanisms.
Option 2: Strengthen self-regulation – a voluntary code of practice.
Option 3: Strengthen health complaint mechanisms – a statutory code of conduct.
The consultation period is open until 15 April 2011. Submissions are invited in response to the AHMAC consultation paper and consultation forums are being held in each State and Territory.


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Department of Maternal and Child Health
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Support MCH
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Assistant to Chair: Julie Theriault
Fall 2019 Course List (PDF)
Spring 2020 Course List (PDF)
Official course descriptions taken from the UNC Course Catalog are below.
Additional courses may be added on a semester basis at the discretion of the department. See the UNC Registrar's Directory of Classes page for more information.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH (MHCH)
MHCH 605. Breastfeeding and Global Health Seminar. 3 Credits.
This survey course will briefly cover the principal topics in this broad field of knowledge, including domestic and global issues.
Grading status: Letter grade.
MHCH 610. Issues in Maternal and Child Health. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor. For students outside the department of MCH who desire a survey of current issues and programs in maternal and child health. Three lecture hours per week.
MHCH 611. Food And Your Life Stages. 3 Credits.
This course covers nutrition during the life cycle. Units include women during preconception, pregnancy, and lactation; infancy; childhood; adolescence; and older adults (65+). Nutrient and energy needs, assessment of nutritional status, and cultural and socioeconomic barriers are discussed for each phase.
Requisites: Prerequisite, NUTR 240.
Grading status: Letter grade
Same as: NUTR 611.
MHCH 625. Injury as a Public Health Problem. 3 Credits.
This course examines unintentional injuries from a public health perspective. The course covers core concepts in injury prevention and control, including the epidemiology of unintentional injury, prevention strategies, behavioral models, child and adolescent injury, messaging framing, the Haddon matrix, and injury surveillance.
Requisites: Corequisite, EPID 600.
Same as: EPID 625, HBEH 625.
MHCH 626. Violence as a Public Health Problem. 3 Credits.
This course covers core concepts in violence prevention and control, including the epidemiology of violence, prevention strategies for inter-personal and intra-personal violence, behavioral models that describe power structures that reinforce personal and societal factors affecting self-harm and violence towards others, and violence directed towards children and adolescents.
Requisites: Prerequisite, EPID 625.
MHCH 664. Globalization and Health. 3 Credits.
Globalization--its economic, environmental, political, technological, institutional, and sociocultural dimensions--historically and currently contributes to beneficial and adverse effects on population, community, and family and individual health.
Same as: HPM 664.
MHCH 665. Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 1 Credit.
Eliminating health disparities is a national goal for improving the health of Americans. Little to no progress has been made on eliminating disparities among racial/ethnic subpopulations compared to the population of the United States. This course treats basic concepts about the origins of and contributing factors for health disparities.
MHCH 680. Global Sexual and Reproductive Health. 1 Credit.
Featuring international experts from UNC-Chapel Hill and Triangle-based nongovernmental organizations, this course will offer a series of lectures, panel discussions, and debates to inform students' critical thinking on key public health issues in global sexual and reproductive health.
MHCH 685. Human Sexuality. 1 Credit.
Through lectures and panel discussions this course will use a life span framework to examine selected aspects of sexual development, including perspectives on sexuality; the physical self; sexual attraction, behavior, and relationships; and the implications of these factors for physical and mental health. No prerequisites; all students are welcome.
MHCH 690. Special Topics in Maternal Health and Child Health. 1-3 Credits.
Special topics in maternal health and child health. Content will vary from semester to semester.
Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics; 12 total credits. 4 total completions.
MHCH 701. Foundations of Maternal and Child Health I. 3 Credits.
This course introduces the major issues affecting the health and well-being of women during the reproductive years, infants, children, and adolescents in domestic and international settings. First semester of a two-semester course. Permission of the instructor for non-majors.
MHCH 702. Foundations of Maternal and Child Health II. 2 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Second part of a two-part course that introduces the major issues affecting the health and well-being of women during the reproductive years, infants, children and adolescents in domestic and international settings. Second semester of a two-semester course.
Requisites: Prerequisite, MHCH 701.
MHCH 704. Critical Review of an Infant Feeding Issue. 3 Credits.
This independent study will include selection of a research area that would allow preparation of a coauthored paper for peer-review publication on an approved subject related to infant and young child feeding and care and associated maternal health and nutrition issues.
MHCH 705. International Family Planning. 3 Credits.
Required preparation, graduate study in MHCH. Permission of the instructor. Analysis of the family planning movement, its policies, operations and research, with emphasis on developing countries. Three lecture hours a week.
MHCH 712. Program Assessment in Maternal and Child Health. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Offers an opportunity for students to explore in greater depth a selected MCH practice topic. Students will learn how to provide consultation about a selected program activity.
MHCH 713. Research Methods in Maternal and Child Health. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. The art and science of MCH research, with an emphasis on applied survey research. Student groups will design and carry out a small study, and present their findings in a poster presentation. Focuses on assessment of MCH population characteristics, secondary data analysis, and the evaluation of MCH programs. A practicum-based course. Three lecture hours per week.
MHCH 713L. Research and Evaluation Methods in Maternal and Child Health Lab. 1 Credit.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. The MHCH 713 lab, which is a companion course to MHCH 713, introduces students to statistical analysis using Stata. One hour and 15 minutes of lab per week.
Requisites: Corequisite, MHCH 713.
MHCH 715. Maternal and Child Health Management. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Students become familiar with organizational processes, management principles, and tools required for effective management of health programs and facilities. A variety of learning techniques will be used. Three lecture hours a week.
MHCH 716. International Family Planning and Reproductive Health. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Course provides overview of critical issues including major theoretical frameworks, patterns and trends over time, and overview of history of family planning and reproductive health policy development. Three lecture hours per week.
MHCH 717. Field Training in Maternal and Child Health. 2-8 Credits.
A faculty-supervised field experience in maternal and child health research, community practice, program planning, and evaluation. Students are supervised on-site by department-approved field instructor. An additional field fee of $350 is assessed. Minimum of six weeks.
MHCH 718. Concurrent Field Training in Maternal and Child Health. 1-5 Credits.
MHCH majors only. An elective, faculty-supervised field experience in maternal and child health research, community practice, program planning, and evaluation. Students are supervised on-site by department-approved field instructor. Students choosing this elective are not exempt from MHCH 717. Variable number of hours.
MHCH 720. Services for Children with Chronic Conditions. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor. This course focuses on the design, organization, and delivery of services for children with special needs and their families, and examines current program development and public policies. Participants analyze the range of services needed by these children.
MHCH 722. Global Maternal and Child Health. 3 Credits.
This course covers the main causes of maternal and under-five morbidity and mortality in developing countries and also the interventions, policies, and research which address these causes. Emphasis is placed on both distal and proximate determinants, measurement and indicators, and conceptual frameworks.
MHCH 723. Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation. 3 Credits.
This course provides the students with the basic concepts and methodologies needed to monitor and evaluate programs of global health programs. Course covers M&E systems; conceptual frameworks/logic models; indicators; information sources; evaluation designs and related topics for health programs in developing country settings. This course is required for the MCFH and GH concentrations.
MHCH 724. Abortion Care and Policy. 2 Credits.
This course will provide an overview of the critical issues in abortion care and policy, both in the US and globally. We will cover the major theoretical frameworks defining abortion care and policy, and the epidemiology of abortion globally and nationally.
This course considers the causes and consequences of traumatic injury within developmental, social, and economic contexts, and dilemma in injury prevention. Injuries associated with transportation, violence, and the home and occupational environments are included. Three lecture hours per week.
Same as: HBEH 725.
MHCH 726. Adolescent Health. 3 Credits.
Topics covered include the epidemiology of health problems, developmental issues, health services, and psychosocial influences on adolescent problem behaviors. Course materials are useful for research generation and practical application. Three seminar hours per week.
MHCH 728. Introduction to Implementation Research and Practice in Maternal, Child and Family Health. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Implementation research and practice addresses the gap between the development of innovations in public health and their delivery in routine practice. Course provides an overview of core theories/methods in implementation research and practice plus implementation determinants and strategies at the intervention, individual, organizational, and policy levels.
MHCH 729. Implementation Science for Global Maternal and Child Health. 3 Credits.
This course is an introduction to implementation science with an emphasis on its application for global MCH. The course will highlight current challenges in global MCH and the role of IS in addressing them.
MHCH 730. Reproductive Health Policy. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor. Participants examine forces that shape social policy relating to reproduction and differential impact of policy based on age and other factors. Focus on global controversies in reproduction/reproductive health services in context of human/women's rights. Three lecture hours a week.
MHCH 732. Gender-Based Violence. 3 Credits.
The MHCH Gender-Based Violence (GBV) course provides a forum for students to explore contemporary issues in GBV from both a research and practice standpoint. Students will be introduced to a myriad of domestic and international GBV issues, from intimate partner violence and campus sexual assault to sex trafficking.
MHCH 735. Clinical Support for Breastfeeding. 3 Credits.
Required preparation, students must have a master's or clinical four-year degree, or be in such a degree program to be enrolled in this course. This clinical course is structured to provide supervised breastfeeding support education in the context of clinical lactation services and public health practice.
MHCH 740. Problems in Maternal and Child Health. 1-3 Credits.
Prerequisites to be arranged with departmental faculty in each individual case. Two to six hours a week.
Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit; may be repeated in the same term for different topics.
MHCH 745. Applied Methods for Health Transformation Implementation in MCH. 1-3 Credits.
This course is designed to integrate the theory, research literature, and evidence-supported practices that promote population health outcomes in MCH. The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) offers opportunities for improving public health systems, health care financing and delivery, and health outcomes for MCH populations.
MHCH 753. Violence Against Women. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Violence against women is examined as a public health problem. Areas investigated include definitional issues, prevalence of the problem, risk factors and outcomes, and community and medical interventions.
MHCH 756. Addressing Health Inequalities in the United States. 3 Credits.
Disparities in morbidity/mortality in sub-populations continue compared to other United States populations. Course explores contributors to inequalities and identifies strategies to counterbalance contributors to correct inequalities using public health resources.
Same as: PUBH 756.
MHCH 757. Special Child Populations. 3 Credits.
Course focuses on two populations that warrant special attention. By examining these populations in one course, students are exposed to a range of contemporary issues that cut across childhood development.
MHCH 760. Breastfeeding, Public Health, and Feminism. 1 Credit.
A transdisciplinary effort to address feminist perspectives and to emphasize the impact that gendered power dynamics and structured social stratification might offer for public health policies, priorities, and approaches related to breastfeeding. A series of public health constructs currently engaged by breastfeeding programs and policies provide a framework for discussion.
Master's or clinical four-year degree required. This two-semester clinical course is structured to provide supervised breastfeeding support education in the context of clinical lactation services and public health practice.
MHCH 766. Clinical Support for Breastfeeding II. 3 Credits.
MHCH 780. Cultural Humility. 1 Credit.
Cultural Humility is part of the required training sequence for second year MPH students in the Global Health concentration. This course is designed to provide students with the skills to work in culturally complex settings and to apply cultural humility when engaging in global health research and practice. GH concentration only.
MHCH 795. Leadership in Maternal and Child Health. 3 Credits.
Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Course is designed to integrate the theory, research literature, and evidence-supported practices related to leadership in maternal and child health. Students will consider each of the twelve core competencies within the spheres of influence that leaders experience as they develop. Students will hear from public health professionals in the field, consider perspectives of various stakeholders and examine/apply new skills.
MHCH 801. Doctoral Research Seminar. 3 Credits.
This seminar explores the origins of and developments in major maternal and child health policies and programs in order to understand their effects on the health of mothers and children.
Requisites: Prerequisites, MHCH 701 and 702.
MHCH 802. Doctoral Teaching Skills Seminar. 1 Credit.
The goal of this 1-credit hour seminar is for participants to examine and apply the strategies and concepts underlying effective teaching in small groups and the lecture hall. Doctoral students will consider the characteristics of effective teaching and explore how to incorporate these characteristics into their own pedagogy.
MHCH 803. Doctoral Research Skills Colloquium. 1 Credit.
Enrollment in the MCH doctoral program or permission of the instructor for nonmajors and master's students. This seminar is the second semester of a one-year research skills colloquium for all new doctoral students. The course addresses research, problem definition, proposal design, and development. One-hour seminar a week.
MHCH 816. Applied Quality Improvement Methods for Healthcare and Public Health. 3 Credits.
The course objective is to develop, implement, and test a solution to improve health care or public health delivery, using a model called the Model for Improvement (or MFI). The model uses three questions to scope the improvement project and four steps, Plan-Do-Check-Act, to implement and test solutions.
Same as: PUBH 716, HPM 716.
MHCH 840. Maternal and Child Health Doctoral Internship. 1 Credit.
Enrollment in MCH doctoral program required. MCH internship to enhance doctoral training in areas of: Section 1: Teaching; Section 2: Practice; and Section 3: Research.
MHCH 851. Reproductive and Perinatal Epidemiology. 3 Credits.
Epidemiology of reproductive and perinatal health outcomes, including infertility, fetal loss, preterm birth, birthweight, congenital malformations, and infant mortality. Includes current knowledge regarding epidemiology of these outcomes and discussion of methodologic issues. Three lecture hours per week.
Requisites: Co-requisites, BIOS 600 and EPID 600; Equivalent experience for students lacking the co-requisites.
Same as: EPID 851.
MHCH 853. Advanced Topics in Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology. 2 Credits.
Critical review of current topics in, and methods for, perinatal and pediatric epidemiology.
Requisites: Prerequisites, EPID 710 and 851; Permission of the instructor for master's level students.
MHCH 859. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH. 3 Credits.
A survey of theoretical models used in MCH research and program development, and how those models are used to guide the formulation of questions, hypothesis testing, and evaluation. Fall.
Requisites: Prerequisites, doctoral students, permission of the instructor.
MHCH 860. Conceptualization, Design, and Measurement. 3 Credits.
The course follows the research process from the formulation of a research question and the design of a research methodology to the addressing of the question through the design of an appropriate analysis strategy. Three lecture hours a week.
Requisites: Prerequisite, MHCH 859; Permission of the instructor for nonmajors and master's students.
MHCH 862. Program Impact Evaluation. 3 Credits.
Required preparation, knowledge of Stata or SAS; proficiency in inferential statistics and multiple regression analysis. Instructor permission required for non-second year MCH doctoral students. Program impact evaluation analytic skills seminar. Topics: selectivity, research designs, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, fixed and random effects, regression discontinuity, matching, and selection models.
MHCH 885. Health Services/Health Policy Research Methods II. 3 Credits.
An introduction to basic research methods central to maternal and child health policy, including an introduction to basic components of the research process such as developing research questions and conceptual models, and overviews of research designs, quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, primary data collection, and secondary data analysis.
MHCH 886. Health Services/Health Policy Research Methods III. 3 Credits.
A modular course covering applications of selected methods covered in 885. Illustrative applications include implementation science, comparative effectiveness research, issues in mixed-method research, feasibility studies, and the translation of research to policy and practice. Applications are framed in terms of issues related to the MCH population.
MHCH 890. Special Topics in Maternal and Child Health. 1-3 Credits.
Special topics in Maternal and Child Health for graduate students only. Content will vary semester to semester.
Repeat rules: May be repeated for credit. 3 total credits. 3 total completions.
MHCH 992. Master's (Non-Thesis). 3 Credits.
MHCH 994. Doctoral Research and Dissertation. 3 Credits.
Maternal and Child Health Research
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Northern California /
Something Sinister Under the Surface of Lake Elizabeth
Lake Elizabeth is a man-made lake which can be found in Fremont, California.
The lake itself is eighty-three acres and relatively shallow as far as lakes go and the area around it is calm and beguiling.
It seems like the sort of place where it'd be nice to take the kids on a day-trip, feed the geese and maybe get your feet wet, and you might be right on the surface.
Photo credit left: flickr/buffdawgus right: flickr/fringedivision
Updated 9/19/2019 – Venturing out at night can be traumatic, however, due to the presence of an unlikely pair of ghosts which inhabit the area.
1 A Mysterious Drowning
2 Dark Secrets
3 Susan the Sinister
A Mysterious Drowning
Local psychics and townsfolk here talk about the drowned woman in hushed tones, don't expect people to be forthcoming with the information.
Lake Elizabeth was established as part of a larger project in 1968, and it claimed its first victim less than a year later.
No one is quite sure how the young woman drowned, all that's known is that her body was found floating.
There were no marks of foul play available for the forensics of the day and no one who lived there seemed to know her.
There's multiple claims for her story, the most likely of which is that she committed suicide.
Photo credit: flickr/comemyway
Some allude to something darker and more complex.
The idea that she may have been drowned as part of a ritual sacrifice is a prominent theory although it's rarely discussed openly.
What is known is that the woman can be seen on certain nights when the moon is shadowed by clouds and the clock has run past midnight.
The spectral apparition often walks the eastern bank of the lake or is seen on the small island contained within.
She doesn't interact with anyone, but those who've witnessed her appearance and remained instead of fleeing report that she often simply walks back into the lake, arms spread wide and white dress flowing in the wind until she disappears in the waters.
Susan the Sinister
Photo credit: flickr/fringedivision
The details here are lost in history, but what is known is that after the Civil War a shocking photograph of a child was taken.
Many believe this child to have been the source of a second haunting in the area, which has produced some chilling effects.
The girl's name is generally given as Susan, although some have used other names.
What remains is this: she was an evil little thing, prone to abusing animals and manipulating those around her.
After she poisoned a neighbor's dog, the man took things into his own hands and killed her in a fit of rage.
She was buried in the area which would later become Lake Elizabeth.
There was no further mention of her until the lake was built.
Shortly afterward, they say, animals began to disappear at a frightening rate in the surrounding area with no obvious culprit.
Some reported hearing chilling giggles emerging from the shadows.
Recently a few people have reported seeing a spectral form wandering the area, a small girl with angry eyes and a dark, psychotic laugh.
What ill this bodes for Lake Elizabeth and the surrounding area remains to be seen, but it would seem that after the disturbance of the burial site this ghost is becoming more and more active.
Lake Elizabeth might seem to be an idyllic body of water, but if the rumors are to be believed even this man-made lake harbors some dark secrets.
If you're looking to observe these ghosts, it's best to go at night to increase your chances of a sighting.
Caution must be used in the event you encounter Susan, if she is linked with the dead animals she may just be able to have a very real effect on a human as well.
True Horror: Beware Angry Spirits At This Richmond Swimming Pool
Paranormal Lies: They'll Tell You Not to Be Afraid At This Berkeley Park
Your Truest Nightmare: Demons Crave Companionship At This Nortonville Hill
Supernatural Child Checks into the Yosemite View Lodge in El Portal


Nothing is perfect. Certainly not when you're planning an event. There is so much preparation that must be done, it becomes impossible to coordinate all the tasks without making any mistakes that can cost you in an attendee's experience and satisfaction. For you, not to over-do or under-do your event planning, here are reminders of common mistakes to avoid when planning an event.
Problem: We oftentimes end up forgetting the big picture, nitpicking on the smallest things that aren't as important in the long run. This leads to unconsciously overlooking what the initial goals set were and getting carried away faster than you think. Solution: Set yourself reminders of what is important to achieve. Having a dashboard that shows the progress of your event planning and highlighting the key tasks to complete can help understand what is crucial when making decisions and taking a step further in the managing of events.
Problem: A person can be given instructions, yet still fail to complete the task. This happens more often when miscommunication occurs. Unpredictable and repetitive tasks are accomplished. This can lead to inefficiency as time is potentially wasted and not used for better purposes. For example, one staff left to pick-up the equipment. However, the equipment rental store already planned on delivering the equipment to the venue. The employee could have put his time somewhere else and avoided the whole trip. Solution: Setting chat rooms or grouping people in social media/project tools together can help deliver the message to the whole team. If urgent and priority information must be delivered, mass emailing all the vital information can be a solution to ensure everyone is on the same page especially for the actual event day. Moreover, having consistent meetings and a debrief before the event occurs can lessen the loss of information.
Problem: What we believe is best for us, may be worsening for us. This is the case when we try to take everything upon ourselves for an event. We believe that we know what is best and can do it even better even if it creates more stress and responsibility. However, this can lead to you feeling more stress and unable to finish the required task on time. Solution: Instead of taking on so many tasks, try recruiting the right people or give the minor tasks to people you trust to complete them. Slowly, if they accomplished these assignments, perhaps bigger roles can be given to them. It's not easy but remember in order for you to focus on the must-dos, delegating tasks can be helpful. In addition, rather than being a one person team, making a two-person team can already improve the stress and lessen the workload. In other words, an assistant can be the peanut butter to your jelly when times get hard.
Problem: Delaying one thing after another creates an unwanted domino effect where a late venue booking, can lead to a rushed and delayed event release, which that can lead to an insufficient promotion and as a result lead to an unsuccessful event. Solution: Scheduling soft and hard deadlines can help ensure that each step is done in a timely matter in case of a delay, there is still time to catch up with the tardiness.
Problem: Juggling too many activities at once can create conflict in the time schedule. Be realistic in what you can offer and provide attendees. It is crucial to remember to add enough setup time, interval time and clean-up time to avoid rushing the event at any moment. Solution: Prepare a nicely planned out schedule with lots of flexibilities. You must be flexible as unpredictable events can occur. Try using a scheduler that can view all time conflicts, room conflicts and an overview of all activities to adjust the schedule in real-time when changes are necessary.
Problem: It is a natural behavior for humans to remember things and to forget things, as much as we wish everyone can remember everything, that's a false reality. As an organizer, we must follow-up on orders made, bookings and on everyone's process to avoid unprepared cancellation, or payments due to be collected. We want to make sure that a sponsor or a third person is on the same page to avoid future miscommunication or conflict. Solution: One word: Reminders. Set yourself notes to remember and to also send follow-ups on changes made to a venue, sponsorship package or even for an order. It's good to let a partner or provider know what you are planning. At last, It's never easy trusting others for work that can be done by yourself as we know what is best. Although this common habits can seem like nothing to you, it can cause a big fuss when you are taking more than what you can handle on your plate. Perhaps, with a little assistance from an event planner tool such as Grenadine Event Planner, you don't need to hastily give responsibility to someone you might not fully trust but can count on this program to send you reminder and reports when necessary. By avoiding these mistakes, you can achieve a close-to-perfect event where the gist of the possible negative outcomes is avoided.


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The Melvins channel Black Flag.
Shove the Sunshine State where the sun don't shine.
Fear, Emptiness, Decibel: the Melvins' Stoner Witch Inducted Into The Hall of Fame!
You wanted it! You got it!!!
And the results are pretty cool.
How does Hill follow the late Joey LaCaze's shoes?
Noooo, it's not Dale Crover.
Escuchar Los Melvins' Tres Cabrones Ahora!
Sí, todo este artículo es en español.
Sounds like he did Joey LaCaze proud.
Eyehategod Announce New Shows — But Who Will Play Drums?
In Which Jeff Walker Called Us Posers!!!
This week's top stories and playlist includes Sylosis, Carcass, The Faceless, Mötley Crüe, and more.
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January 11, 2019 / 11:02 AM / 6 months ago
Infosys raises revenue guidance, but third-quarter profit misses estimate
Arnab Paul, Sankalp Phartiyal
BENGALURU/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Infosys Ltd, India's second-biggest IT services company, on Friday raised its revenue growth forecast on the back of robust demand for its core services as well as its latest digital offerings from its Western clients.
FILE PHOTO - The logo of Infosys is pictured inside the company's headquarters in Bengaluru, April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa/File Photo
Bengaluru-headquartered Infosys upped its revenue growth guidance to 8.5-9 percent in constant currency terms for the fiscal year ending March 2019, from 6-8 percent previously.
The company has a healthy pipeline of projects and deal wins across all its segments, Chief Executive Salil Parikh told a news conference.
"Our segments are doing well, both of our main digital and core services are doing well and that's giving us some confidence for the guidance for revenue," Parikh said.
For the quarter to the end of December, Infosys reported a 29.6 percent fall in net profit to 36.09 billion rupees ($512 million). That compared with the 41.31 billion rupees average of 25 analyst estimates compiled by Refinitiv Eikon.
A year earlier, Infosys made a profit of 51.29 billion rupees, helped by tax benefits from the company's deal with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, it said in a statement here
On Thursday, Infosys' bigger rival Tata Consultancy Services Ltd reported a record quarterly profit for October-December.
Infosys said revenue from operations in the quarter rose 20.3 percent year-on-year to 214 billion rupees in what is usually a seasonally weak period for Indian IT firms due to a long holiday season in the West.
The company's operating margin declined 110 basis points to 22.6 percent even though it retained the margin guidance in the band of 22-24 percent.
Infosys said it was "no longer highly probable" that the sale of its units Kallidus & Skava and Panaya would be completed by the end of March.
Total expenses in the quarter surged over 26 percent to 170.21 billion rupees, which included an additional depreciation and amortization charge of $12 million and a reduction of $65 million in the carrying value for its Skava units.
It also approved a buyback of shares worth 82.60 billion rupees as part of its capital allocation policy.
($1 = 70.4960 Indian rupees)
Reporting by Arnab Paul and Krishna V Kurup in Bengaluru; Editing by Mark Potter and Keith Weir


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'The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons' (US 2014): Book Excerpt
By Live Science Staff published 7 June 14
Book cover, "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons" (Little, Brown and Co., 2014) . (Image credit: Little, Brown and Co.)
Sam Kean, author of "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons" (Little, Brown and Co., 2014), contributed this excerpt to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Neurosurgery and the understanding of the brain have their roots in long past observations of anatomy and behavior.
In his book "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery," author Sam Kean explores the history and the science that ultimately paved the path for modern neuroscience.
Sam Kean, science writer and author. (Image credit: Voss Studio.)
Below is an excerpt from the book, which accompanies this essay by Kean describing the work.
Chapter excerpted from the book "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons" by Sam Kean. Copyright © 2014 by Sam Kean. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company.
The Dueling Neurosurgeons
The world would have looked stunningly, alarmingly bright to the king of France, then suddenly dark. During the charge, little light penetrated the cocoon of his helmet. Darkness was safety. But when the visor was wrenched open, the sunlight punched his eyes, a slap as sharp as a hostage would feel the moment the bag was torn off his head. In his last split second of normal life, Henri's eyes might have registered a glimpse of the scene in front of him — the glint of sand kicked up by his horse's hooves; the throbbing white ribbons wrapped around his lance; the glare off the armor of his charging opponent. As soon as he was clobbered, everything dimmed. Just a handful of doctors in the world in 1559 could have foreseen the damage already diffusing through his skull. But even these men had never worked on a case so important. And over the next eleven days, until King Henri was past danger, most of the great themes of the next four centuries of neuroscience would play themselves out in the microcosm of his brain.
The unlikely king, unlikely queen, and unlikely royal mistress were celebrating a supposed end to violence that day. Queen Catherine looked like royalty itself in a gown of silk interwoven with gold fibers, but she'd actually grown up an orphan. As a fourteen-year-old in 1533, she'd watched helplessly as her family, the Medici of Florence, negotiated her marriage to an unpromising prince of France. She'd then endured a decade of barrenness with Henri before saving her life by squeezing out two heirs. And throughout it all, she'd had to endure the rivalry of her cousin Diane. Diane de Poitiers had been married to a man forty years her senior until just before Catherine's arrival in Paris. When he died, Diane donned black and white (French mourning colors) in perpetuity, a show of piety. Yet this thirty-five-year-old beauty lost no time in turning cougar on the fifteen-year-old Prince Henri, first enslaving him with sex, then parlaying this hold over him into real political power, much to the queen's disgust.
Le Roi, Henri II, had never been groomed for the throne; he'd become heir apparent only when his handsomer and more charming older brother died after a game of tennis. Henri furthermore had a tough early reign. Paranoid about Protestant spies, he'd started chopping off the tongues of "Lutheran scum" and burning them at the stake, making himself hated throughout France. He'd also prolonged a series of stupefyingly complex wars with Spain over Italian territories, bankrupting the realm. By the late 1550s Henri owed forty-three million livres to creditors — over twice his yearly income — with some loans at 16 percent interest.
So in 1559 Henri abruptly brought peace to France. He signed a treaty with Spain, and although many (including Catherine) fumed over Henri's giving away Italy, he stopped the ruinous military campaigns. Two important clauses in the treaty established alliances through marriages — an immediate wedding for Henri and Catherine's fourteen-year-old daughter to the king of Spain, and a second for Henri's spinster sister to an Italian duke.
To celebrate the marriages, Henri organized a five-day jousting tournament. He had to borrow two million livres more, but workmen spent May and June ripping up cobblestones and packing down sand near Henri's palace in Paris to make a jousting list. (Protestants awaiting punishment in nearby dungeons could hear the clamor in their cells.) A few weeks before the tournament, carpenters erected some rickety timber galleries for royal guests and draped them with standards and banners. On the day of, peasants climbed onto rooftops to point and holler. On the third day of festivities, a Friday, June 30, Henri himself decided to joust. Despite the heat he wore fifty pounds of gold-plated armor adorned with Diane's colors, mostly black-and-white swirls.
Whatever his faults, Henri looked regal upon a horse, and he entered the list on a handsome, chestnut-colored steed. During his first run he unmanned (which is to say, unhorsed) his future brother-in-law with a blow from his lance; a short while later he unmanned a local duke, knocking him onto his arse as well. When young, Henri had had a reputation as a brooding sort, but he was in high spirits that day, and arranged for a third and final joust against a powerful young Scotsman, Gabriel Montgomery. The king and Montgomery put perhaps a hundred yards between them, and when a trumpet sounded, they took off. They clashed — and Henri got his bell rung. Montgomery bludgeoned him just below the neck, and Henri lost a stirrup and nearly careened off his horse
Embarrassed, the king wheeled around and announced that "we" would tilt with Montgomery again — a bad idea for any number of reasons. It violated the laws of chivalry, as he'd already jousted the maximum three times. It also spooked his court.
Catherine had dreamed the night before of Henri lying facedown in blood, and two of her astrologers had already prophesied the king's doom. (One of them, Nostradamus, had written a quatrain four years earlier that read, "The young lion overcomes the old / on the field of war in single combat. / He pierces his eyes in a cage of gold. / Two wounds one, then dies a cruel death.") Unnerved, Catherine sent a messenger to warn Henri off.
Finally, Henri had been suffering from vertigo and headaches recently, and his attendants found him shaken after his latest joust. Cruelly, though, a blow to the head can cloud someone's judgment when he needs it most, and like a linebacker or boxer of today, Henri insisted on jousting again. Montgomery demurred, and the crowd watched in embarrassment as Henri berated him and challenged him — on his allegiance, before God — to tilt again.
At 5 p.m. they lined up. Some eyewitnesses later claimed that an attendant fastened the king's visor improperly. Others said that Henri wiped his brow and, in his fog, forgot to refasten the visor. Still others insisted that he cocked it up, in spite. Regardless, this time Henri didn't wait for the trumpet before charging. During a joust, a low timber fence separated the combatants, and they charged each other left shoulder to left shoulder, shield hand to shield hand. They held their fourteen-foot wooden lances in their right arms and had to angle them across their bodies to strike. A proper blow therefore not only jolted but twisted the opponent, and the force often broke the lance. Sure enough, the king's lance shattered when it met Montgomery, and Montgomery's lance exploded into splinters when it struck the king just below the neck. Both men jerked, and the courtiers in hose and doublets, the women adorned with ostrich feathers, the peasants hanging on the eaves, all of them whooped at the teeth-rattling blow.
The action, though, was not over. Given the commotion, no one quite knows what happened next. Perhaps Montgomery's broken shaft buckled upward like an uppercut, or perhaps a splinter of wood leapt up like shrapnel. But somewhere in the melee, something knocked open the king's gold-plated visor.
Now, many contemporaries blamed Montgomery for what happened next, because the moment his lance splintered he should have flung it aside. But the brain can react only so quickly to stimulus — a few tenths of a second at best — and a brain fogged from jousting would have responded more slowly still. Besides, Montgomery had an awful momentum, and even as the crowd's roar lingered, his horse took another gallop. An instant later the jagged lance butt in his hand struck the king dead between his eyebrows. It raked across his naked face, wrenching his skull sideways and digging into his right eye. He pierces his eyes in a cage of gold.
But Nostradamus spoke of two wounds, and a second, deeper wound, to Henri's brain, proved worse. Compared to those of most mammals, the four lobes of the human brain are grotesquely swollen. And while our skulls provide some good protection, the very hardness of the cranial bones also poses a threat, especially since the skull is surprisingly jagged on the inside, full of edges and ridges. What's more, the brain actually floats semi-freely inside the skull; it's attached to the body really only at the bottom, near the stalk of the brainstem. We do have cerebrospinal fluid between the skull and brain to buoy and cushion it, but the fluid can absorb only so much energy.
During impact, then, the brain can actually slide counter to the skull's motion and slam into its bones at high speed. As the butt of Montgomery's lance struck home, Henri would have felt both a blow and a twist, like a mean hook to the jaw. The blow likely sent a small shock wave through his brain, a ripple of trauma. The rotational force was likely even worse, since torque stresses the brain unequally at different points, tearing at its soft seams and opening up thousands of microhemorrhages. Henri, an expert equestrian, nevertheless kept his saddle after the impact: the muscle-memory circuits in his brain kept him balanced and kept his thighs squeezing the horse. But on a deeper level, the twist and the blow tore open millions of neurons, allowing neurotransmitters to leak out and flood the brain. This would have caused untold numbers of other neurons to fire in panic, a surge of electrical activity reminiscent of a mini-seizure. Although few men of science believed in such things, at least one doctor in Paris knew that Henri had suffered a mammoth concussion.
After the clash, Montgomery yanked his horse's reins and whirled to see what he'd done. Henri had slumped down onto the neck of his Turkish steed, a horse forevermore known as Malheureux, unlucky. But however unlucky, Malheureux was disciplined, and when it felt its reins slacken upon Henri's collapse, it kept galloping. The now unconscious king bobbed on his horse's back as if keeping time, his visor clanging down on the shards of wood protruding from his eye.
The two greatest doctors in Europe would soon converge on the king, but before they could do so, courtiers and sycophants of all stripes poured out of the stands toward Henri, each one craning for a glimpse and calculating whether his fortunes would rise or fall if Le Roi died. To most observers the entire French monarchy now looked as rickety as the timber grandstands. The dauphin (the heir apparent) was a frail, milquetoast boy of fifteen; he fainted at the mere sight of Henri's injury. The shaky truce between Catherine and Diane depended entirely on Henri's living, as did the false peace between other political factions. The two royal weddings, not to mention the peace of Europe, threatened to unravel as well.
Eased down from his horse, Henri lay stunned. Montgomery pushed to the front of the crowd to beg, somewhat incongruously, that the king both forgive him and also cut off his head and hands. Upon surfacing to consciousness, the king instead absolved him, without beheading or behanding. Henri drifted in and out after that, and finally insisted on rising and walking (albeit with support) up the palace steps to his bedroom. His physicians set about removing a four-inch splinter from his eye, but had to leave many smaller ones in place.
Among those doctors attending the king was Ambroise Paré. A thin, prim man, Paré served as royal surgeon — a job less prestigious than it sounds. The son of a cabinetmaker, Paré hailed from a village in north France, where he'd trained as a "barber-surgeon."
In short, barber-surgeons cut things, which differentiated them from proper physicians. He might start his day at 6 a.m. shaving beards and trimming periwigs, then amputate a gangrenous leg after lunch. In the early 1200s, the Catholic church had declared that no proper Christians, including physicians, could shed blood; physicians therefore looked down upon surgeons as butchers. Early in his career Paré had stood below even most surgeons because he spoke no Latin. Nor could he afford his licensure fee, so he became a battlefield surgeon at twenty-six, joining the army as a ragtag follower with no rank or regular salary. Injured soldiers paid what they could, be it casks of wine, horses, a half crown, or (sometimes) diamonds. Paré took to soldiering like a house afire, hobnobbing with generals by day and getting drunk with lower-ranked officers at night. Over the next thirty years he worked in seventeen campaigns across Europe.
But he made his first important discovery while a tyro. Most doctors in the early 1500s considered gunpowder poisonous, and cauterized any bullet wound, however slight, by dousing it with boiling elderberry oil. To his mortification, Paré ran out of elderberry oil one night after a battle. Begging their forgiveness, he patched up his patients' wounds with a paste of egg yolk, rose water, and turpentine instead. He expected every one of these "untreated" soldiers to die, but they were fine the next morning. In fact they were thriving compared to those treated with boiling oil, who writhed in pain. Paré realized he'd effectively run an experiment, with astounding results, since his trial group had fared much better than his controls.
That morning changed Paré's entire outlook on medicine. He refused to use boiling oil ever again, and set about perfecting his egg/turpentine paste instead. (Over the years the recipe changed somewhat, and eventually included earthworms and dead puppies.) On a deeper level, that morning taught Paré to experiment and to observe results for himself, no matter what ancient authorities said. It was a symbolic conversion, really: by abandoning boiling oil — with all its medieval overtones — Paré effectively abandoned a medieval mentality that accepted medical advice on faith.
As is evident from his case reports, Paré lived in an era of near-cartoonish violence: one day might find him treating a twelve-year-old girl mauled by the king's pet lion; the next might find him literally standing on a duke's face, to get enough leverage to yank a broken spearhead out. But Paré handled it all with aplomb, and his willingness to experiment made him an innovative surgeon. He developed a new drill-and-saw contraption to "trepan" the skull — that is, open a hole in the bones and relieve pressure on the brain, whether from inflammation or fluid buildup. He also developed tests to distinguish — in particularly gory head wounds — between fat, which was harmless to scrape away, and oozing bits of fatty brain tissue, which weren't. (In short, fat floats on water, brain sinks; fat liquefies in a frying pan, brain shrivels.) When describing a patient's recovery, Paré usually pooh-poohed his own role: "I treated him, God healed him," he famously said. But his many near resurrections earned Paré quite a reputation, and Henri eventually appointed him "surgeon to the king."
Despite his expertise with head wounds, Paré still stood below the king's physicians in the medical hierarchy, and he deferred to them in the busy hours after the jousting disaster. The physicians force-fed Henri a potion of rhubarb and charred Egyptian mummy (a treatment Paré rolled his eyes at in private), and they opened the king's veins to bleed him, even as he bled spontaneously from his colon. The English ambassador noted the king had a "very evil rest" that first night, but most of the attending doctors remained optimistic that he'd suffered little damage beyond his right eye. And in fact, when the king surfaced into consciousness the next morning, he seemed to have his wits about him.
But Henri soon had to face the fact that Catherine had effectively seized control of France. He asked after Montgomery, and frowned to learn that the Scotsman, not trusting Catherine, had already fled. Henri called out for his mistress, but Catherine had stationed soldiers at the palace door to bar Diane's entrance. Perhaps most startlingly, Henri learned that Catherine had ordered the decapitation of four criminals — then bade Henri's doctors to experiment on their heads with Montgomery's broken lance stump, to devise a strategy for treatment.
Meanwhile, a messenger on horseback was sprinting northeast through forest and field to Brussels, bound for the court of Philip II, the king of Spain. (Confusingly, Spanish kings lived in northern Europe, in conquered territory.) Although the recent peace treaty had secured Philip's marriage to Henri's daughter, Philip hadn't deigned to attend his own wedding in Paris, explaining that "kings of Spain do not run after brides." (Philip sent a proxy, a duke, to stand in at the ceremony instead. To legally "consummate" the marriage, the duke approached the princess's bedchamber that night, removed his boot and hose, and slipped his foot beneath the bedcovers to caress the girl's naked thigh. There was much ribald speculation in Paris about whether this satisfied her.) Despite his haughtiness toward Henri's family, Philip wanted Henri to live, and soon after the messenger arrived, Philip roused his best physician, the one man in Europe whose expertise with the brain rivaled Paré's.
As a teenager in Flanders, Andreas Vesalius had dissected moles, mice, cats, dogs, and whatever other animals he could snare. But animal dismemberment couldn't quite sate him, and before long he began pursuing his real passion, human dissection. He began robbing graves at midnight, sometimes fighting wild dogs over scraps. He also let himself get locked outside the city walls at night to rob skeletons from the gallows, clambering up thirty-foot gibbets to cut down swaying pickpockets and murderers, counting himself lucky if crows hadn't refashioned their anatomies too much already. He smuggled the cadavers back into the city beneath his garments, then stored them in his bedroom for weeks, to linger over their dissections like a cannibal gourmand over a meal. He delighted in clutching every organ, too, even crushing them between his fingers to see what oozed out.
However creepy, his obsession revolutionized science. Vesalius eventually enrolled in medical school, and like everyone else in the previous thirteen centuries, his medical training basically consisted of memorizing the works of Galen, a physician born in AD 129. Human dissection was taboo back then, but luckily for him, Galen served as a doctor for Roman gladiators, which was just about the best training possible for an anatomist: gladiator wounds could get pretty gnarly, and he probably saw more human innards than anyone alive then. He soon founded a school of anatomy, and his work was so innovative and all-encompassing that he stunted the field, since his small-minded followers couldn't evolve past him. By the Renaissance, the birth pangs of a new science of anatomy had begun, but most "anatomists" still cut into the body as little as possible. Anatomy lectures were similarly a joke: they mostly consisted of an expert sitting on a throne and reciting Galen aloud while, beneath him, a lowly barber hacked open animals and held their greasy entrails up. Anatomy was theory, not practice.
Vesalius — a swarthy man with a virile black beard — adored Galen, but after immersing himself in human flesh, he began to notice discrepancies between the gospel of Galen and the evidence on the dissecting table. At first Vesalius refused to believe his own eyes, and told himself that he must have cut into some anomalous bodies. He even entertained the theory that the human body had changed since Galen's time, possibly because men now wore tight trousers instead of togas. Eventually, though, Vesalius admitted he was grasping, and that, however unthinkable it seemed, Galen had erred.
Around 1540 he compiled a list of two hundred howlers, and determined from them that Galen had supplemented his gladiatorial work by dissecting sheep, apes, oxen, and goats, and then extrapolated to humans. This bestiary left human beings with extra lobes on the liver, a two-chambered heart, and fleshy "horns" on the uterus, among other mutations. Galen's shortcomings became glaringly obvious when Vesalius probed the brain. Galen had dissected mostly cow brains, cow brains being large and abundant in the butcher stalls of Rome. Unfortunately for Galen, humans have vastly more complex brains than cows, and for thirteen hundred years, physicians were left trying to explain how the brain worked based on a faulty notion of how it was put together.
Vesalius vowed to reform the science of anatomy. He began calling out, even exposing, prominent "anatomists" who never bothered dissecting bodies themselves. (About one, Vesalius sneered that he'd never seen the man with knife in hand, except when carving mutton at dinner.) More important, Vesalius reached a wider audience by composing one of the cherished works of Western civilization, "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" (On the Fabric of the Human Body).
Beyond the few crude diagrams in other books, this was the first anatomy text to include realistic drawings of the human form. And what drawings these were. Vesalius sought out the best local artist to illustrate his magnum opus, and since he was working in Padua then, this happened to be Titian, whose school of artists soon brought Vesalius's vision of the human form to life. Unlike in modern textbooks, the bodies in Fabrica don't lie flat and lifeless on a table. They rise and strut and pose like classical statues. Some do a veritable striptease with their flesh, peeling back layer after layer to reveal their inner organs and organic essence. In darker scenes, bodies sway from ropes or clasp their hands together in agonized prayer. One skeleton digs his own grave; another contemplates a skull, alas-poor-Yorick-like. Titian's apprentices labored over even the backgrounds of the pictures, planting the cavorting cadavers in the lovely, rolling landscapes near Padua. As in that era's painting and sculpture, the realism was unsurpassed, making Fabrica one of the greatest marriages of art and science ever produced. Pictures in the book's seventh and crowning volume, on the brain and related structures, distinguished scores of important details for the first time. Other anatomists had passed their eyes over the brain, but in a literal sense Vesalius, like a great artist, was the first person to really see it.
Ever obsessive, Vesalius agonized over every detail of Fabrica, including what paper and font to use, and he crossed the Alps from Italy to Switzerland to oversee its printing. For the first bound copy, he found another artist to hand-paint the drawings and, after cladding the book in purple silk velvet, carried it farther north and presented it to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. It was June 1543, and in a remarkable coincidence, Nicolaus Copernicus had published "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" a week before. But whereas "On the Revolutions," written by a seventy-year-old astronomer, demoted human beings from the center of the cosmos, Fabrica, written by a twenty-eight-year-old anatomist, elevated us, celebrating us as architectural marvels. This near-pagan glorification of the body didn't please everyone, not even some anatomists, who vilified Vesalius and demanded that he retract every criticism of Galen. (Vesalius's former mentor smeared him as Vesanus, Latin for "madman," with a pithy anatomical pun attached to its posterior.) Being ignorant of medical matters, Charles V adored Fabrica and promoted Vesalius to court physician.
By 1559, though, Charles had died, and Vesalius found himself serving in the court of Charles's son, the cold and remote Philip. He spent most days treating nobles for gout and VD and bowel obstructions, with little time for original work. So when word of Henri's disastrous joust arrived, Vesalius jumped, dashing down to Paris on a relay of mail carriages, covering two hundred miles in forty-eight hours.
He soon met Paré, and modern neuroscientists sometimes bite their knuckles at the thought of this encounter — two titans, meeting at last! They'd actually almost met before, in 1544, near Saint-Dizier, when the army Vesalius was serving with laid siege to Paré's army. This time around, any "combat" would be mano a mano, and these two proud and ambitious men likely circled each other, sizing the other up. But they had little time to waste in posturing. If contemporary sketches are accurate, the king's bedchamber had deteriorated into a zoo. Dogs ran about, apothecaries chopped up herbs and mummy bits at the foot of the bed, and courtiers circled like vultures, interrupting Henri's rest. Henri lay on a four-poster bed with sumptuous blankets and a nude bust perched above the headboard. Case notes report that his face had swelled grotesquely, and his neck had stiffened like old French bread. His left eye could still see, but the lance had blinded the right and exposed the bone around the socket; the pus-stained bandage there surely clashed with the silk pillows.
Given modern knowledge of brain trauma, we can surmise that Henri had a metallic taste in his mouth. Worst of all he could no doubt feel some dim black thundercloud, a massive headache, throbbing in the back of his skull. In his lucid moments, Henri gamely conducted state business, dispatching letters, arranging for his sister's marriage to proceed, even condemning some Lutheran scum. But as his brain swelled and the headache spread, he grew confused, and his vision came and went. He slept fitfully, and asked repeatedly for soothing music, which was never denied him, and for Diane, who was. Miraculously, Paré and Vesalius found no fractures on Henri's skull, not even a hairline crack. (Since ancient times, doctors had a few ways of searching for cracks. They might dab ink on the top of the head and watch whether it seeped through, or they might thwack the skull with a stick and listen, since cracked and intact skulls sound different, much like cracked and intact bells do.) Many court physicians rejoiced at this news and proclaimed that Henri would therefore live: Like most doctors then, they believed that the brain could not suffer any serious damage in the absence of a skull fracture, much like an egg yolk can't be damaged without the shell being cracked. (Some jurisdictions didn't even recognize a blow to the head as murder unless it broke the skull.) And admittedly, skull fractures did look bloody awful, much more sickening than nonfractures, so the reasoning made some sense.
Vesalius and Paré reasoned differently. Upon meeting the king, Vesalius produced a white cloth and asked Henri to bite down on it. Rather irreverently, he then ripped it from the royal mandible. Henri's body convulsed, his hands shot to his head, he howled in pain. You can imagine the sound of a dozen swords being unsheathed at this affront, but the stunt convinced Vesalius that Henri would die. The author of Fabrica knew better than anyone how delicate the brain is — you can scoop it with a spoon, like ripe avocado — and long experience told him that people with pain so intense usually didn't survive.
For his part Paré drew on battlefield experience. Not infrequently a soldier beaned by a shell or cannonball would betray no external symptoms — he might not even bleed. But his mind would wax and wane, and his brain would soon shut down. To probe this mystery, Paré would perform a quick autopsy. Autopsies were rare and usually illegal back then, but such laws were relaxed on the battlefield. And when Paré did his furtive autopsies, he often found swollen and bruised and sometimes even dead tissue inside these brains — signs of a controversial new diagnosis called a concussion. Paré had also seen cases where the head took a blow on one side but the brain damage was concentrated on the opposite side — a so-called contrecoup injury.
These were, in fact, often the deadliest injuries. So in a prediction to outdo even Nostradamus, Paré suggested that Henri's brain had suffered a mortal contrecoup concussion, with damage localized in the back. Each man drew on different expertise in judging the king a goner, but they both disregarded the ancient imperative about gory head injuries necessarily being the worst. Instead of focusing on fractures and blood loss, they focused on the brain alone. As for actual treatments, they discussed trepanning the king's skull to remove any excess fluids and "corrupted" blood, but the risks outweighed the benefits, and they gave the idea up. In the meantime they examined the heads of the decapitated criminals. History doesn't record the exact methodology here — whether someone fixed each head inside a vise to provide a stable target, or perhaps strung the noggins up like piñatas to swing at — but Montgomery's lance stump got quite a workout battering their mugs. It was a macabre mix of medieval brutality and modern experimental savvy, and Paré and Vesalius eagerly examined the targets for clues. Alas, the heads offered little inspiration for treatment.
The two men could have learned a lot more by simply observing the king, whose suffering foreshadowed many great discoveries over the next four centuries of neuroscience. Henri continued to drift in and out of coherence, limning the borders of the unconscious. He suffered from seizures and temporary paralysis, two then-mysterious afflictions. Strangely, the paralysis or seizures would derange only half of his body at any one time, a clear hint (in retrospect) that the brain controls the body's halves independently. Henri's vision also went in and out, a clue that the back of the brain (where Paré expected to find the contrecoup damage) controls our sense of sight. Worst of all, Henri's headache kept widening, which told Paré that his brain was swelling and that blood vessels inside the skull had ruptured. As we know today, inflammation and fluid pressure can crush brain cells, destroying the switches and circuits that run the body and mind. This explains why brain injuries can be lethal even if the skull suffers no fracture. Skull fractures can in fact save people's lives, by giving the swollen brain or pools of blood room to expand into. The history of neuroscience has proved the brain amazingly resilient, but one thing it cannot stand is pressure, and the secondary effects of trauma, like swelling, often prove more deadly than the initial blow.
King Henri II of France finally succumbed to an intracranial hemorrhage at 1 p.m. on July 10. Queen Catherine ordered every church to say six requiem masses daily and ordered all church bells — which had been bleating for the king — silenced. Amidst this sudden, sinister quiet, Vesalius and Paré began their famous autopsy. To cut open a king — to even suggest such a thing — was bold. In that era, anatomists might open someone up for one of two reasons, a public lecture or an autopsy. Both activities had a stink of the disreputable about them. By the mid-1500s a few cities, especially in Italy, had relaxed the old prohibition on dissections for teaching purposes, but only barely: authorities might allow one per year (usually in winter, to prevent spoilage), and then only of criminals, since an official sentence of "death and dissection" would wring a little more posthumous punishment out of the rogue. Most kingdoms limited autopsies to suspected cases of poisoning, infanticide, or other heinous acts. And in some cases, an "autopsy" did not require actually cutting open the body.
Why Catherine gave in to Paré and Vesalius and permitted a full, invasive autopsy of Henri isn't clear, since everyone knew who had killed him and how, but history remains grateful she did. Vesalius had laid out the proper steps for opening the skull in Fabrica.
This usually involved lopping the head off to make examining the brain easier, but out of deference to the king, he merely elevated the chin in this case, by placing a wooden block beneath the royal nape. Someone grabbed a fistful of the king's graying hair to steady the skull, while someone else (presumably Vesalius, the expert dissector) began sawing an inch above the eyebrows. After circling the head and removing the skull vault, he encountered the thin membranes (the meninges) surrounding the brain. In Fabrica, Vesalius suggested that students nick the meninges with their thumbnails and unwrap them. He then encouraged students to plunge their fingers in and squeeze and fondle every fold: dissection was as much a tactile as a visual pleasure for him. But with Henri, Vesalius restrained himself once again — probably in part because Henri's brain didn't look all that appetizing. The front and sides looked normal, but in the rear — antipodal to the blow — Vesalius and Paré found pools of blackened fluids beneath the meninges, like blisters about to burst. The brain itself had also yellowed and putrefied back there, a pus-like mass that measured one thumb's width across by two thumbs' widths high.
Equally important, they found that the wooden shards from Montgomery's lance had never penetrated the brain.
It's not always clear what Vesalius and Paré understood, in modern terms, of how brain-damage kills. In their reports, they often lapsed into talk of imbalanced humors and "animal spirits" escaping Henri's body. They knew nothing of neurons or localization. And the shards from Montgomery's lance probably led to an infection that weakened Henri and hastened his death — a complication they couldn't have grasped. But the duo understood well enough that the "commotion" and "corruption" in the back of Henri's brain, along with the resultant pooling of blood, had ultimately killed him. Trauma to the brain alone, they determined, could be deadly, even without a skull fracture. And in proving this, they vastly outdid the mutterings of that old phony, Nostradamus. Nostradamus had bloviated about lions and cages of gold. Vesalius and Paré had predicted what sort of damage they'd find inside Henri's brain and exactly where they'd find it — and find it they did. They proved science the superior clairvoyant.
The fallout from Henri's death poisoned most everything he loved. After him, French kings were forbidden from jousting, for their own protection. Diane de Poitiers had to surrender the jewels and estates and place at court she'd earned as Henri's mistress. The new French king, the frail François II, died just seventeen months later, after contracting an earache while hunting. The next king in line, Charles IX, was ten years old, so Catherine assumed power as regent — putting an Italian, a Medici, in charge of France.
Henri's death had actually crushed Catherine: despite his shabby treatment of her, she loved him. (She even swapped her original royal symbol, a rainbow, for a broken lance.) But her policies over the next few years betrayed his hopes for peace and precipitated decades of civil war between Catholic Royalists and Protestants. These wars reached their nadir with the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in August 1572, which Catherine likely engineered. Although intended as a surgical strike against key Protestant leaders, the killing fed on itself, and mobs spread across the countryside, butchering thousands; historians call it less a day of massacre than a season. One Protestant targeted was none other than Gabriel Montgomery, who, while in exile after manslaughtering Henri, had renounced Catholicism. After the St. Bart's massacre Montgomery fled to England, but he returned the next year to battle the royalists, capturing Normandy and threatening to conquer all of northern France. A lengthy pursuit ended with royalist troops capturing him in 1574, and Catherine had the pleasure of seeing the man she still blamed for her husband's death quartered and then beheaded.
As for the scientists, Paré had treated François II on his deathbed in 1560. The boy's earache had led to a buildup of fluid on the brain, but once again Paré declined to trepan a king of France. No one quite knows why he refused, and nasty rumors have always circulated that Paré (à la Hamlet) slipped poison into the young king's ear, probably at Catherine's request, so she could reign as regent. But there's another reason Paré did not perform emergency neurosurgery. The risks involved with trepanning were high, and he knew he would likely incur the blame for any mishap. That was doubly true since Paré had converted to Protestantism by this time, and therefore — far from being someone that Catherine would entrust with a murder — actually held a precarious position in Her Majesty's government. Indeed, Paré barely survived the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre a dozen years later.
Nevertheless, during the intervals of peace in Paris, Paré thrived. He wrote a handbook for military surgeons and an anatomy textbook that plagiarized Vesalius. (Paré didn't see this as a big deal, calling his appropriation "as harmless as the lighting of one candle from the flame of another.") He also campaigned against mummies and unicorn horns and other bogus cures. Most important, Henri's autopsy inspired Paré to write a book about head wounds. It called attention to the danger of contrecoup injuries and pooling fluids, and it continued the vital work of pairing specific brain injuries with specific symptoms — the modus operandi of neuroscience for the next four centuries. The world's finest surgeon spent his twilight in Paris, having served four kings, and he died in his bed in one of his five houses.
Vesalius met a nastier end. Within a month of Henri's autopsy, King Philip quit cold Brussels for sunny Spain. Vesalius followed, and soon wished he hadn't. There are two competing stories about what finally drove Vesalius from Spain. The less likely story says that Vesalius got a little too anxious to start the autopsy of a noblewoman one night — and found her heart still beating when he cut her open. Her family supposedly called in the Inquisition, and Vesalius saved his neck only by agreeing to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
The second story, while probably more truthful, is even stranger. The Spanish heir apparent, Don Carlos, called the Infante, was a weak and febrile boy. No one had much sympathy for him, however, since he was also a psychopath. Born with teeth, he delighted in gnashing his nursemaids' nipples until they bled and became infected, and he spent much of his childhood roasting animals alive. By his teenage years he'd moved on to deflowering young girls. One night in 1562 the Infante tore down the stairs to snatch a maiden he'd spied, but karma tripped him. He somersaulted and smashed his noggin at the bottom of the staircase, lying there bleeding for some time. Spanish doctors failed to cure the prince, so Philip sent Vesalius. Vesalius found a tiny but deep red wound at the base of the prince's skull, and he suggested trepanation to alleviate pressure. The Spanish doctors, spiteful at a foreigner's interference, refused. Instead, they allowed the local townsfolk to dig up the desiccated, century- old corpse of Friar Diego, a cook at a local monastery and a reputed miracle-worker.
The townsfolk then entered the Infante's bedchamber to slip Diego beneath the boy's sheets — and the boy, who was more or less out of his wits by then, snuggled up to and began dreaming of visits from the friar. A few days later he'd improved little, and Vesalius finally prevailed upon the other doctors to puncture the skull near the eye socket and drain some pus. The Infante recovered within a week after this, but the doctors and townsfolk universally credited Diego, who was later canonized for Vesalius's miracle. The whole farce disgusted Vesalius and convinced him to quit Spain. So he arranged a holy pilgrimage to escape. He first visited Padua, where he'd produced Fabrica, and arranged to get his old job as professor back. Nevertheless, perhaps feeling guilty about using a pilgrimage as a ruse, Vesalius continued to the Holy Land, landing at Jaffa in the summer of 1564. He visited Jerusalem and the plains of Jericho, and sailed back satisfied, but he never reached Padua. He'd booked passage on a cut-rate tourist ship with inadequate supplies, and when storms ravaged the vessel on the return voyage, passengers began expiring from a lack of victuals and fresh water. Like something out of Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa, corpses were being heaved overboard, and for once in his life the sight of dead bodies spooked Andreas Vesalius.
He went half mad, and scrambled ashore as soon as the ship staggered to Zakynthos, an island in what's now western Greece. According to different accounts, he either died at the gates of Zante, a port city, or crawled to a filthy inn where the locals, wary of the plague, let him die alone. Either way, it was an anticlimactic death. There was no autopsy to determine what had killed him. In the end, about the only person, place, or thing to gain from Henri's death was the incipient field of neuroscience. On a basic level,
Henri's autopsy confirmed beyond a doubt that contrecoup injuries existed, and that the brain could suffer trauma even if the skull remained undamaged. It's a lesson, sadly, we're still relearning today. Rope-a-dope boxers and quarterbacks and hockey enforcers continue to shake off concussions on the theory of no blood, no harm. But each concussion effectively softens up the brain and ups the chances of more concussions. After multiple blows, neurons start to die and spongy holes open up; people's personalities then disintegrate, leaving them depressed, diminished, suicidal. Four centuries have passed, but macho modern athletes might as well trade pads for armor and go joust with Henri.
On a deeper level, Henri's death helped inaugurate a new approach to neuroscience. You can't call Vesalius and Paré modern: Each revered Galen along with Hippocrates and the rest of the Greek medical chorus. But each of them also evolved past the ancients, by emphasizing experiments and observation. Vesalius bequeathed a new map of the brain, Paré new diagnoses and surgical techniques; and while Henri's was not the first autopsy, in terms of prestige — prestige of both the patient and the practitioners — it was the summa of early medical science.
The treatment of royals often defined what became standard care for everyone else, and after Henri's death, autopsies started to spread throughout Europe. This expansion made it easier to correlate specific brain damage with altered behavior, and with every new autopsy, neuroscientists learned to pinpoint people's symptoms more precisely.
Soon scientists even moved beyond the brain's gross anatomy, into a realm that Paré and Vesalius never dreamed of, the microscopic. Like physicists drilling down into the fundamental particles of the universe, neuroscientists began to drill down, down, down into the fundamental matter of the brain, parsing it into tissues and cells and axons and synapses before finally arriving at the brain's basic currency, its neurotransmitters.
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Jones Lang LaSalle's Capital Markets experts completed the sale of Eleven North, a rare Class A, institutionally owned apartment community; and HFF arranges the sale of, and financing for, a 1,447-unit Camden portfolio.
Nashville, Tenn.—On behalf of Tribridge/Stonehenge Investment and The Carlyle Group, Jones Lang LaSalle's Capital Markets experts announced that the firm has closed the sale of Eleven North—a rare Class AA, institutionally owned apartment complex for $58.75 million in Nashville. The luxury apartment community is located in The Gulch, one of Nashville's fastest growing "Live, Work, Play" communities. Mesirow Financial purchased the four-story, 302-unit luxury asset for roughly $195,000 per unit.
Senior Vice President Vince Lefler, along with Managing Directors Derrick Bloom and David Gutting, led the Jones Lang LaSalle team on this transaction.
Eleven North boasts a best-in-class amenity package, including a saltwater resort-style pool with adjoining spa, outdoor grilling area with a fire pit and cabana tents, state-of-the-art fitness center, rooftop lounge with viewing terrace and billiards, lounge with flat screen TVs and karaoke system, chef's kitchen, cyber café, tanning bed, bike racks, electric car charging stations, and a pet park.
Individual apartments feature granite countertops, satin nickel finishes, black EnergyStar kitchen appliances, full-size washer and dryer, pre-wiring for surround sound, ceramic tile, faux hardwood flooring and a garden-sized tub. It is located between Church and Charlotte streets directly across from Northwestern Mutual's new 35-acre Lifestyle Center to include such retail as Target, Ikea and Publix. PNC bank was the construction lender on the development.
The Gulch is located in the heart of approximately 100,000 jobs, largely dominated by the medical and entertainment industry and Vanderbilt University. It is a leading-edge neighborhood defined as the first LEED-certified community in the Southeast. It is also a premier designation for entertainment with its trendy restaurants, music venues and rich culture of country music.
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The HFF investment sales team representing the sellers was led by Executive Managing Director Matthew Lawton and Managing Directors Sean Fogarty and Marty O'Connell. The HFF debt team was led by Managing Director Matt Schoenfeldt.
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