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Awesome Gaming Stuff: Fighting Game Vocal Songs
December 16, 2014 December 16, 2014 • by Heidi Kemps • In Game Music, Rad stuff, Retro • 1
So as we're all aware by this point, Street Fighter V is a thing that's coming. From the bits of gameplay footage we've seen so far, there's already a tremendous amount of speculation over what is and isn't in the game. Are parries there? (Probably not.) Is guard crush there? (Definitely.) Are there noodle hats? (Very, very yes.)
SF fans can argue for days about what gameplay systems they do and don't want to see in-game, but there's one thing we can all agree on:
I have literally one request for sf5. I don't care if there's parry,or air combos, or whatever. Only one thing matters. Indestructible.
— Ari Weintraub (@Floejisan) December 5, 2014
Ah yes, Indestructible, aka The Next Door in its Japanese-lyrics incarnation. It seemed like Capcom was trying to attach some big-name Japanese musical acts to its games for a while: Dragon's Dogma had a theme by B'z (actually a remake of a much older song of theirs, which was one of the first J-rock songs I downloaded in my high school MP3 hoarding days), while May'n did a song for the sadly-never-to-see-Western-release EX Troopers. Indestructible was by EXILE, a massive, number-one-hit-producing band consisting of many, many dudes. (I hesitate to call them a "boy band" because the Western concept of the term is very different.) When the time came to release new upgrades for SFIV, however, Indestructible was not included – likely a casualty of a higher-up not wanting to fork over additional royalties to an S-tier Japanese band.
However, the EVO crew somehow managed to secure the rights (and pay the royalties) to use the song again in the 2014 Ultra SFIV Grand Finals intro sequence. Having been in the crowd, I can assure you that people went bonkers at those opening notes, and a massive sing-along ensued. (Of course I joined in, what kind of terrible person do you take me for?) See for yourself in this footage someone else got from the event:
As much as we love Indestructible, however, it's one of a wide variety of vocal songs related to fighting games and fighting game characters, which I touched on a little bit in my look at Virtua Fighter Costomize Clip. It's not even the first song by well-known Japanese singers to be used as a game's opening theme. This doesn't make it any less awesome, of course, but there are lots and lots of other goofy fun fighting game vocal songs out there that we all should sing along to. Let's have a look at some!
Seeing as how I am a massive Sega nerd, the first thing that came to my mind when thinking about vocal fighting game intros was "Jaggy Love," a single by D'Secrets, a group who does not seem to have a plethora of information about them online and who I kinda doubt even exists anymore. It's a pretty cool intro, aside from that amazingly awkward and sudden cut to end the song. And honestly, the song ain't that great, either, but there's something very nostalgic about the mix of music and anime here to me.
An odd episode in the early/mid 32-bit era was Acclaim's brief flirtation with localizing Japanese games for the US. They had some manner of deal with Taito for localizing stuff (the details of which remain a mystery), where they published several early Taito releases for the Saturn and Playstation – mostly shooters and Puzzle Bobble ports. When they decided to localize and release Psychic Force, they advertised it heavily amongst the growing anime fanbase of the mid-90s, emphasizing how they were doing stuff like retaining the original Japanese theme song, "On the Verge of Revival," by Hironobu Kageyama. I have no idea how the game wound up doing for them, but given that the company's localization efforts petered out after a few years, I'm guessing it didn't sell Turok numbers. Well, at least we got No One Can Stop Mr. Domino before it all went south.
Anyway, here's that Psychic Force intro.
So hey, remember when Darkstalkers released on PSOne? The original? It's an odd case because not only was it not-so-secretly ported by Psygnosis instead of Capcom themselves, but it actually released after the sequel hit on Saturn. So, really, why did they bother? Probably a contractual obligation at that point, but I want to imagine it's because they got a totally rad Eikichi Yazawa theme song, "Trouble Man," to go along with it. (It's also the ED for the North American Darkstalkers cartoon series we all prefer to not remember.)
And then there's the all-time classic, the piece that, long before Indestructible hit the scene, was essentially the definitive vocal fighting game song. Does this really need an introduction?
There's so much more to fighting game vocal themes than just intros, though! Can anyone who spent serious time with Street Fighter III Third Strike possibly forget these powerful beats that pounded the true importance of character selection into our consciousness? I think not!
Of course, Third Strike has a few other vocal-infused tracks (Beats in My Head immediately springs to mind), but they're not terribly complex in terms of lyrics. Same story with Capcom vs. SNK 2's much beloved True Love Making and the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 ride-taking anthem. As such, I decided to leave them out of this post. Sorry, guys!
But even if we're not looking at MvC2, let's not forget the vocal theme for Roll from MvC1! (It's also in a couple of other games, like Rockman Battle & Chase and the Japanese version of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.)
Do you remember Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer? If you do, you probably don't want to admit it, but as much as we'd all like to forget those weirdly insectoid Masami Obari character designs, Gowcaizer was a thing that both existed and helped put a nail in Technos's coffin. The Neo Geo CD version of the game, like many Neo CD titles, features remixed redbook tracks, some of which have audio added. The result is stuff like this:
And of course, beyond the in-game stuff, we have the plethora of material that is image and remix albums. It almost feels like cheating at this point to put these in, since they're not technically in-game, but dammit, they're spectacular and we're going to listen to them!
Back in 2003, Capcom commissioned a bunch of well-known Japanese game composers to create new songs for a Street Fighter II remix album, with each musician getting a character's BGM to work with. (Sadly, it was only the original cast of 12, so no potentially awesome Cammy theme remix.) Takenobu Mitsuyoshi got the honors of doing Ryu's track to start off the album, and the result is a thing that's absolutely amazing on so many levels.
I bought this CD on a whim on a trip back to Japan after seeing the names involved, and I distinctly remember waiting for the subway, popping this disc in, and hearing Mitsuyoshi's voice come in for the first time, leading into the crazy, crazy trip that was the entire rest of the song. I knew right then that I had made a wise investment.
But Mitsuyoshi's vocal stylings for fighting games don't stop there! I brought this up briefly before, but he also sang an entire album of Virtua Fighter 3 music remixed with lyrics! Here's one of my favorite tracks from the album, called Virtua Fighter 3 On The Vocal:
Even before that however, he did a vocal version of the theme for the very, very first Virtua Fighter, from the "B-Univ" CD:
Every game we've looked at so far has been a Japanese release, but after the Mortal Kombat album was released and did extremely well, every company with a decently received fighting game was looking to cash in on the fighting game inspired soundtrack craze. Among these was Warner/Atari, who had just released their stop-motion animated prehistoric fighter Primal Rage. The result was All The Rage, an incredible collection of songs about dinosaurs and monkey gods. By "incredible" I mean "hilarious." And by "hilarious" I mean "holy shit I can't believe how awful this is and that it actually got made somehow."
Alas, the fighting game inspired music album boom in the west died almost as soon as it started. Shame too, I was looking forward to the Bloodstorm album with the song about warrior queen Mirage's struggles in the harsh conditions of the Obsel Desert. Never to be…
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Obscure gaming anime: Virtua Fighter Costomize Clip
December 6, 2014 • by Heidi Kemps • 2 Comments
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If you want more Trouble Man, a longer and therefore better version shows up in the credits of the Darkstalkers anime series!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ1ANJLHlSo


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Writing an iPhone app where the User has to log in. There is an HTTPS call to get the person's userid, which is used practically everywhere else in the app, so that either has to be stored in a global variable or a cookie (for sending messages to other users, etc.)
I tried the cookie route, but am having great difficulty storing (and retriving) a user ID in a cookie.
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"MIELE – TRANSIENCE"
Philosophy is often something reserved for classrooms, books, and drunken nights at bars. Yet, Miele's album Transience is an in-depth exploration of a philosophy that bleeds from every note, word, and beat.
An album over four years in the making, Transience is a time-lapse journey through a cavernous mansion of rooms amid centuries of change—in every corner a light is shone on a different facet of experience, through the timeline of existence.
Part historical record, part exercise in the demonstration of life-as-change, Transience is about the existential inevitability of impermanence. According to vocalist and piano player Melissa Lee Nilles, each song is a demonstration of this philosophy told through different experiences. Crafting them into songs is a way to both fight and embrace this inevitability.
"I think that a big part of my lyrical writing style has to do with captured experiences, things that exist and then they don't," Nilles said. "A moment of happiness, a moment of feeling connected with others, or a moment of feeling totally disconnected."
Miele manages to capture this concept of fleeting moments and change throughout the album, in often novel ways.
One of the album's tracks, "Slip Away," expresses this point in its lyrical and musical themes. The first half of the song follows a standard verse-chorus structure, but then moves into a bridge that changes the direction of the song completely. A more linear structure—something that most all of the songs on Transience embody—has the listener start in one place, only to be left in a completely different place by the end.
This linear structure is something that key song composer and guitarist Joseph Spilsbury said was intentional throughout the album to serve the overall theme of transience.
"I think that there is, in certain songs, a black and white feel playing with intensity, loudness, and chord changes," Spilsbury said. "Something shifts in the song and it changes the mood. Then boom, you're in a different place emotionally."
For "Slip Away," Nilles said the track is about trying to grasp onto a thought that begins to slip like sand through the hands of consciousness. The song opens with these lyrics:
"Scattered horizons/New day,
Am I going to get out of bed,
Or let it slip away,
Slip away/Slip Away/Slip Away…"
"It's about dreaming and the unconscious, and it's about thoughts literally, like a dream, slipping out of your head," Nilles said. "In the waking moments of your day, you're trying to remember your dream. I think everyone knows the transient quality of that dream falling away."
Spilsbury and Nilles both noted how Buddhist philosophy pulses through many of their songs. "Unfiltered" explores eastern thought through the lens of a cigarette, a metaphor for changing experiences:
"Ignite a light/sputtering spark,
Flicker flame/a steady burning glow,
Make you high/make you sigh,
Some combination of natural magic.
Full of dry potential.
Dancing on the sidewalk,
Washed away by the city sweepers,
Time and the rain."
In Buddhist philosophy, impermanence is considered a fact of life while stuck in samsara, or the cycle of death and rebirth. "Unfiltered" explores this idea of death and the ending of things, with a nod to samsara. The recognition of potential in the song is perhaps an expression of desire or suffering, a major component of Buddhist thought.
"It's talking about the process of making a cigarette, or something, and then burning it, and having ashes remain," Nilles said. "It has potential and it just dies out, and there's this moment of existing and burning out. I was latching on to how things can be really short lived with that song."
Mental health, and the deep multitudes to be explored in mental health issues, play prominently throughout Transience. Nilles and Spilsbury both noted how the music has been impacted by their work in mental health as therapists.
"Being a therapist, I learned that a lot of people are very scattered," Nilles said. "Some of my lyrics are scattered, and that's O.K. It's ok to jump around and poke with an idea instead of being really concrete. It's exploring the unconscious material about things."
Dealing with many clients who come from a variety of backgrounds, Spilsbury found inspiration among the maelstrom.
"I run groups at the hospital, so if I have four, six, or eight patients in the day, each person in the group can have a completely different mindset," Spilsbury said.
In turn, the exploration of sometimes violent psychological episodes—something Nilles and Spilsbury experience first-hand—lends itself to songs that encompass vastly different musical and lyrical motifs.
The achievement here is that whirling chordal and melodic changes are crafted together into cohesive wholes, something Spilsbury says is in part due to his background in punk and metal.
"We aren't a metal band, but there's that slight influence," Spilsbury said. "There's always intentionality in our writing."
A Rich Landscape of Textures
All of Transience is expertly mixed and mastered. Rich and complex tones throughout make the album a pleasure for the audiophile, and completely radio-ready for the masses. At once a listening experience for the ear-trained musician and casual consumer alike, Miele has built a truly novel body of work—it's hard not to appreciate the many changing voices of Nilles as she acrobatically delivers searing vocals for the many changing voices of the songs on Transience.
The tones found on Transience are crystal-clear, whether unabashed in clean tones or layered with heavy distortion. This is fitting to Nilles' vocal approach, characterized with an ability to find her own particular space in quickly-changing and surprising turns.
The dynamism of the album is also expertly served by the rhythm section. Cedric Lamour and Ray Cohen—who play drums and bass respectively—developed clever and novel ways of grounding the often scattered collection of compositional motifs rife in Transience.
The Album as Historical Record
According to Nilles and Spilsbury, Miele has gone through many lineup changes throughout the years. With each change, many of the songs on Transience were presented in a new light.
The songs on Transience, according to Spilsbury, have all undergone many transformations before their appearance on the album. Their current representation is a product of capturing them amid a timeline of flux.
"The songs have sounded different throughout the years, and this is our most finalized, best versions of those songs," Spilsbury said.
For Nilles, Transience is an attempt to consolidate the best parts of the band's history and take them to the highest level possible.
"We're trying to put together a couple years worth of material," Nilles said. "Some babies were lost, only to be played at shows."
Transience is in many ways a graduation. The album is a body of work years in the making, completed at a point when Miele found their perfect blend of philosophy, emotional introspection, and pure instrumental and compositional craft. While a markedly independent album—surely at home among the kaleidoscopic variety of indie music epicenter of Cambridge and Boston—the band has accomplished something of true value for the listener.
Equal parts historical record, philosophical exercise, and pure tonal pleasure, Transience is a release that should bring Miele to the fore in the regional music scene. The musically-minded will appreciate songs jam-packed with ear-catching variety, while the casual listener will be entranced by Nilles' emotional and acrobatic vocals, at home in each room the band has built in their latest release.
To say Transience is a great album is an understatement—upon first listen, it's easy to understand that this release could be a turning point not only for Miele, but a call to local music everywhere to get risky, develop a deeper understanding of the listener and, in the end, truly explore the complexities of being human. - Boston Hassle
"PREMIERE: "ANXIOUS GHOST" BY MIELE"
Honey, a sweet, soothing, medicinal substance, is a fitting name for a band formed by two therapists. Lead vocalist Melissa Lee Nilles met guitarist Joseph Spilsbury while they were in graduate school together, and shortly thereafter, Miele was born.
Nilles and Spilsbury chose the Italian word for honey because they both had memories associated with the sticky sweet liquid. Now, it's become inextricable from their band's identity, as fans will bring them honey sticks or bottles, and Nilles and Spilsbury will even drink honey on stage.
Nilles described "Anxious Ghost", a single from their new album Transience, as "a patchwork quilt of experiences about anxiety." Through the song, Nilles hoped to use metaphor to personify anxiety sneaking up on a person or lurking within. The song captures a sort of experience of anxiety, with intense clashes of feelings for the first four minutes. With strong vocals, a steady electric guitar riff, and loud interjections from the drum beat, the band members created an experience that mirrors the act of facing anxiety and falling into the unknown.
After about four minutes, however, there's a shift. The music falls to silence and then picks up again with Nilles' vocals. "Anxious ghost, run around," she sings in a slower and lighter verse, until the song fades out. This is a quieter experience, the rise after the intensity of the fall in the first half. The delicate, intimate outro gives a second to process and let out the feelings that have been bottled up.
Miele self-describes their music as alternative rock out of necessity, but prefers not to be pigeonholed into a specific subsection of music. Instead, the different aesthetics of "Anxious Ghost" lend to Miele's own brand of music therapy.
Through music, Miele hopes to inspire or propel a change in the thoughts and feelings of the listener. Music serves as a way to reach out and connect, and they hope to tap into the universal quality in music "that predates our ability to comprehend our feelings and behavior in therapy."
The album title of Transience is a reference to the exit of a founding member of the band, and strikes a chord with the general transience of music, of mental health, and of life. While the band's make-up may have changed from their early days, they hold on to their focus on the importance of self-care. "Anxious Ghost," then, is music therapy for the mind and soul, sneaking up on the unsuspecting listener but ending on a note that stays sweet as honey.
Listen to the single below, which will be released on April 13th. - Sound Of Boston
"Miele Explores the Human Condition and Offers Sweet, Flowing, Therapeutic Sustenance"
Music, for me, has always been therapeutic, a way to cut through unpleasant, undefinable emotions to get at the underlying truth of a situation and be more in touch with myself. Boston's Miele likely understands this on a deeper level than most, since the band is entirely made up of mental health and special education professionals. Their music focuses heavily on mental health themes, such as in "Anxious Ghost," a single from their upcoming Kickstarter-funded debut full-length album, Transience (out June 22). The song was first premiered at Sound of Boston.
"Anxious Ghost" begins at a frenetic pace and varies between edgy nervous energy and slow yet tightly-wound moodiness. It is the perfect musical expression of an anxiety attack, and feels like both a raging battle and an exploration of the darker mysteries of human existence. The ghost is one's anxiety that haunts the spirit and lingers inside.
Miele formed in 2014, when therapist, keyboardist and lead vocalist Melissa Lee Nilles met fellow therapist and guitarist Joseph Spilsbury in graduate school. Miele, Italian for honey, is an appropriate name for the band, both as an apt description for Nilles' velvety, supple vocals — and because the band is known for drinking the yummy substance from the stage. Their fans even bring them treats.
Musically, the band is beholden to no singular style, but instead they honor wherever the personality of the song takes them. At times, it's hard-driving rock with propulsive drums and electric guitar; at other times, the music is slow and dark, melodic and mysterious, with gently picked guitar and piano trickling like a meandering stream. Nilles' vocals travel effortlessly through their many moods — frantic and biting, forceful and determined, melancholy and dreamy, exotic and magical. It is one wild ride through the ebbs and flows of human experience.
The complexity, depth and fast-changing moods of the songs on this ambitious first album makes perfect sense for people who work closely with human emotions. Besides which, any band that has a song titled "Klonopin Automatons" (a standout track in a sea of discoveries) instantly has my heart. They describe the inspiration behind their album thusly: "As a unifying artistic vision for the album, Transience aims to explore the passing of ephemeral experiences such as anxiety, dreams, love affairs, travel, connection, existence, and the creative process."
The band has played Boston-area venues such as the Middle East Downstairs, ONCE Lounge and The Plough and Stars, and they've received airplay on WMFO, WAAF, WEMF and elsewhere. They've also gotten some attention from WBUR, The Boston Globe and Cambridge Day, in their efforts to save Cambridge rehearsal space EMF from closure.
Miele celebrates the release of their debut album on June 22 at The Burren, along with other female-fronted bands Man Trouble and Boketto The Wolf. - Boston Survival Guide
"Miele releases single with an unsettling twist: Its 'Anxious Ghost' can see right through you"
The opening notes of "Anxious Ghost," the single premiered Wednesday by alternative band Miele, could take you anywhere, a pleasant uncertainty that lasts for all of about three seconds.
That's when a second, more urgent guitar kicks in, then drums and vocalist Melissa Lee Nilles, and within 13 seconds it's pretty clear that you won't necessarily like where you're being taken, but everything's going too fast to get out.
Miele brings you first around the corner, where Mistress Misery waits, then hustles you home to safety, which isn't safe at all: It's where Nilles' lyrics reveal another kind of anxiety – the kind comfortable enough to butter your toast before swallowing your soul.
Relax. Miele is made up of mental health and special education pros, and by the far gentler end of the song everything feels pretty okay.
"The way I think about things as a musician, as an artist, as a writer, I like to personify things. And in work I do with clients, I also have people personify emotions or internal experiences," said Nilles, who wrote every song but one on "Transience," the quartet's upcoming full-length, kickstarted album. One inspiration was Ruth Gendler's "The Book of Qualities," where the author imagines characteristics and emotions as though they were people. "In her book, anxiety is also kind of lurking and is something that sneaks into the house. It sneaks up on me too, sometimes when I'm alone."
Bandmates Joseph Spilsbury, Cedric Lamour and Ray Cohen had questions about the lyrics, from the identity of Mistress Misery to the reasoning behind the buttered toast and grungy, organ-layered chorus, which actually slows down for the words: "Now I'm moving at light speed / Just to catch up with me." Nilles also got good response from the impassioned way she calls out when anxieties might appear: turning points when it's not clear what to do, like getting fired or graduating from college. "This is one song where everybody was thinking about lyrics and meaning, though the beginning is a little more straightforward in terms of 'You haven't got a plan / You haven't got a fucking clue' – that's Joe's favorite song lyric that I've ever written, actually, which is funny to me," Nilles said.
Fast and slow at the same time, dark but hopeful, resonant but something of a riddle, the lyrics also contain a section springing from a surprising source:
"All you can do / is choose and follow
Follow through / All you can do"
"The verses were inspired almost completely by 'The Lord of the Rings!' Where Frodo Baggins and Gandalf are talking and Gandalf says something like, 'All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that's given us,'" Nilles said. "I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan."
Given band's background and lyrics, Nilles is used to the idea that fans are more likely to want to talk about emotional health than Middle Earth. "I'm pretty used to having heavy conversations, I have them every day," she said. "So if someone came up to me and said, 'I really like your stuff and have been dealing with anxiety for my whole life,' I'd say, 'Cool, we'll talk about it' … the part of me that works in that field feels like destigmatizing things."
"There was a girl in the audience at our last show at Club Bohemia, below the Cantab Lounge – it was a pretty fun show, and she was screaming her head off after every song, to the point it got a little crazy. It's nice when people give us applause and are really excited, but this was on another level," Nilles said. "I talked with her afterward and she said, 'Yeah, there was something in me that was just super moved by the words and those experiences. Those are things I relate to.' She had performed earlier that night and definitely seemed to be struggling with some performance anxiety. I didn't want to make any assumptions, but she did disclose stuff about that anxiety."
What Miele performed that night "felt validating," she said. "It was not something that made her feel bad, or sad. It was cathartic."
Miele's website is here: mielemusic.com - Cambridge Day
Transience- album- released June 22, 2018
Anxious Ghost- single- released April 13, 2018
Seed Crystal- EP- released August 18, 2016
Miele is a Boston-based rock band that pulls from a diverse drawing board of art rock, psychedelia, soul, grunge, alternative, metal, and funk influences. Formed in 2014, Miele captivates with soaring vocals from multi-faceted frontwoman Melissa Lee Nilles, arpeggiated keyboard melodies, solid and complex drum and bass rhythms, and startling switches between mystical melodies and heavy rock. Miele's members are inspired by their employment in mental health or special education; this interest drives the band to explore the intricacies of the human condition by responding through multi-layered rock compositions. The name "Miele", meaning "honey" in Italian, was chosen as a playful nod to singer Nilles' and guitarist Spilsbury's on-stage honey drinking antics, as well as a representation of the often mellifluous nature of Miele's music.
Miele independently released their first EP Seed Crystal in August 2016 to local acclaim. Lauren Moquin of Allston Pudding wrote, "the lyrical content [of Seed Crystal] ponders the evolution and form of emotion, inspiring the psych/funk sound surrounding it all." Following up their EP debut, Miele released their debut full length album Transience in June 2018. As a unifying artistic vision for the album, Transience aims to explore the passing of ephemeral experiences such as anxiety, dreams, love affairs, travel, connection, existence, and the creative process. Al Gentile of The Boston Hassle wrote in praise, "To say Transience is a great album is an understatement—upon first listen, it's easy to understand that this release could be a turning point not only for Miele, but a call to local music everywhere to get risky, develop a deeper understanding of the listener and, in the end, truly explore the complexities of being human." Since their inception, Miele has been featured in several music publications including Sound of Boston, Allston Pudding, The Boston Hassle, and The Boston Survival Guide, and featured in TV Programs Don't Forget To Rock, Clinical Depression, and Duck Village Stage Sessions. In May 2018, Miele became the subject of major local attention in The Boston Globe, WBUR/NPR, and Cambridge Day due to their activism in the fight to save the EMF rehearsal space in Cambridge.
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Clinical features of late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis
Toru Fukuhara, Mark G. Luciano
BACKGROUND: Although late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis (LIAS) is considered a good indication for endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV), the characteristics of this clinical entity have seldom been reported in the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging era. The authors reviewed their patients with LIAS who were treated by ETV to confirm its clinical features and response to treatment. METHODS: The study group was composed of 31 patients diagnosed with LIAS who were previously untreated. Both anatomic and cine phase-contrast MR studies were used to detect the obstruction of the aqueduct canal. The preoperative symptoms were statistically analyzed in relation to the age of the patients and the degree of preoperative ventriculomegaly. RESULTS: The overall success rate of ETV was 83.9% with mean follow-up duration of 26.2 months. Only two patients had acute onset (within one month) without any predisposing chronic symptoms. The patients with chronic symptoms (longer than 6 months [n = 25]) can be divided into two major groups: a headache group (n = 12) and a normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)-symptom group (n = 11), Two patients had both headaches and NPH symptoms. The patients in the headache group were significantly younger and had smaller ventricles than the patients in the NPH group. With multivariate regression analysis, age independently affected the type of chronic symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: LIAS typically presents with chronic onset, with younger patients tending to have headaches, and older patients tending to have NPH symptoms. ETV is considered the best surgical option, with more than an 80% success rate.
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Fukuhara, T., & Luciano, M. G. (2001). Clinical features of late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis. Surgical neurology, 55(3), 132-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0090-3019(01)00359-7
Clinical features of late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis. / Fukuhara, Toru; Luciano, Mark G.
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Fukuhara, T & Luciano, MG 2001, 'Clinical features of late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis', Surgical neurology, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 132-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0090-3019(01)00359-7
Fukuhara T, Luciano MG. Clinical features of late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis. Surgical neurology. 2001;55(3):132-136. doi: 10.1016/S0090-3019(01)00359-7
Fukuhara, Toru ; Luciano, Mark G. / Clinical features of late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis. In: Surgical neurology. 2001 ; Vol. 55, No. 3. pp. 132-136.
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abstract = "BACKGROUND: Although late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis (LIAS) is considered a good indication for endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV), the characteristics of this clinical entity have seldom been reported in the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging era. The authors reviewed their patients with LIAS who were treated by ETV to confirm its clinical features and response to treatment. METHODS: The study group was composed of 31 patients diagnosed with LIAS who were previously untreated. Both anatomic and cine phase-contrast MR studies were used to detect the obstruction of the aqueduct canal. The preoperative symptoms were statistically analyzed in relation to the age of the patients and the degree of preoperative ventriculomegaly. RESULTS: The overall success rate of ETV was 83.9% with mean follow-up duration of 26.2 months. Only two patients had acute onset (within one month) without any predisposing chronic symptoms. The patients with chronic symptoms (longer than 6 months [n = 25]) can be divided into two major groups: a headache group (n = 12) and a normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)-symptom group (n = 11), Two patients had both headaches and NPH symptoms. The patients in the headache group were significantly younger and had smaller ventricles than the patients in the NPH group. With multivariate regression analysis, age independently affected the type of chronic symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: LIAS typically presents with chronic onset, with younger patients tending to have headaches, and older patients tending to have NPH symptoms. ETV is considered the best surgical option, with more than an 80% success rate.",
keywords = "Aqueductal stenosis, Evans index, Hydrocephalus, Third ventriculostomy",
author = "Toru Fukuhara and Luciano, {Mark G.}",
journal = "World Neurosurgery",
T1 - Clinical features of late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis
AU - Fukuhara, Toru
AU - Luciano, Mark G.
N2 - BACKGROUND: Although late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis (LIAS) is considered a good indication for endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV), the characteristics of this clinical entity have seldom been reported in the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging era. The authors reviewed their patients with LIAS who were treated by ETV to confirm its clinical features and response to treatment. METHODS: The study group was composed of 31 patients diagnosed with LIAS who were previously untreated. Both anatomic and cine phase-contrast MR studies were used to detect the obstruction of the aqueduct canal. The preoperative symptoms were statistically analyzed in relation to the age of the patients and the degree of preoperative ventriculomegaly. RESULTS: The overall success rate of ETV was 83.9% with mean follow-up duration of 26.2 months. Only two patients had acute onset (within one month) without any predisposing chronic symptoms. The patients with chronic symptoms (longer than 6 months [n = 25]) can be divided into two major groups: a headache group (n = 12) and a normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)-symptom group (n = 11), Two patients had both headaches and NPH symptoms. The patients in the headache group were significantly younger and had smaller ventricles than the patients in the NPH group. With multivariate regression analysis, age independently affected the type of chronic symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: LIAS typically presents with chronic onset, with younger patients tending to have headaches, and older patients tending to have NPH symptoms. ETV is considered the best surgical option, with more than an 80% success rate.
AB - BACKGROUND: Although late-onset idiopathic aqueductal stenosis (LIAS) is considered a good indication for endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV), the characteristics of this clinical entity have seldom been reported in the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging era. The authors reviewed their patients with LIAS who were treated by ETV to confirm its clinical features and response to treatment. METHODS: The study group was composed of 31 patients diagnosed with LIAS who were previously untreated. Both anatomic and cine phase-contrast MR studies were used to detect the obstruction of the aqueduct canal. The preoperative symptoms were statistically analyzed in relation to the age of the patients and the degree of preoperative ventriculomegaly. RESULTS: The overall success rate of ETV was 83.9% with mean follow-up duration of 26.2 months. Only two patients had acute onset (within one month) without any predisposing chronic symptoms. The patients with chronic symptoms (longer than 6 months [n = 25]) can be divided into two major groups: a headache group (n = 12) and a normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH)-symptom group (n = 11), Two patients had both headaches and NPH symptoms. The patients in the headache group were significantly younger and had smaller ventricles than the patients in the NPH group. With multivariate regression analysis, age independently affected the type of chronic symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: LIAS typically presents with chronic onset, with younger patients tending to have headaches, and older patients tending to have NPH symptoms. ETV is considered the best surgical option, with more than an 80% success rate.
KW - Aqueductal stenosis
KW - Evans index
KW - Hydrocephalus
KW - Third ventriculostomy
JO - World Neurosurgery
JF - World Neurosurgery


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At the conscious level, the ad promotes Patrón Tequila as a distinctive alternative for social gatherings.
The mirror images of the bee logo in the background provide subliminal input. Walking by the billboard — and even when taking the photos — I was not aware of the low-contrast images. Each pair of bees in the pattern form a circle, like the round cork in the bottle. In the bees' wings there are shapes similar to the number "6" and "9" when reversed. Each "6" and "9" is closely engaged with a paisley shape.
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WW's favorite art shows for June 1-7.
Supplement by Emily Bixler. Photo courtesy of the artist.
You might have the urge to pull down Emily Bixler's sculptures off the wall. Using substantial and utilitarian materials like sailing rope, and creating forms from wood and horsehair bristles that evoke hand tools, Bixler's sculptures scream to be held and put to use. But the wood that might otherwise serve as a handle boasts a raw wood edge and a luminous finish. And the rope that could be used to hitch or heave or pull has been wrapped with cotton thread, obscuring its original purpose while retaining the braided undulations of its form, now purely decorative. Don't be fooled into thinking that you have to go to a gallery to see well-curated art; this month, the best sculpture show in town is at a coffee shop. Stumptown Coffee Roasters, 4525 SE Division St., 503-230-7702. Through June 8.
The front gallery of Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art is teeming with life. Cross sections of tree trucks hang on the far wall. Large steel carbon chains wait to be stepped over. A dark form on a white canvas could be a taproot or a dendrite. Artist and designer Brian Borrello uses wholly unnatural materials like fiberglass, epoxy and motor oil to create a series of sculptures and paintings that represent the building blocks of life and make a powerful statement about man's relationship to and effect on the natural world. Jeffrey Thomas Fine Art, 2219 NW Raleigh St., 503-544-3449. Through June 18.
White Box is devoting its three galleries to three different video shows from artists Peter Campus, Julia Oldham and Suzanne Opton. Oldham uses four projections screens to create an immersive environment in which she takes us through a black hole and back out again. Peter Campus' work is meditative in contrast: Two videos of boats tethered to docks depict such little movement that one of them appears, at first, to be a still photograph. But stand in front of it awhile and you will see the subtle movement of the water and the shifting of rope lines, reminding us that video can be quietly observational. Opton films factory workers in India performing the rote "empty gestures" of their jobs—knob turning, lever pulling—in a captivating video about how well our bodies remember. White Box, 24 NW 1st Ave., 503-412-3689. Through June 4.
Ty Ennis' series of grayscale paintings are rough and loose. Images of a heron, a cowboy in shadow and a man skinning a deer are rendered with few assertive brush strokes, conveying worlds with little gesture. With Stupid Man, Ennis set out to make a body of work that would return him to an earlier time—when he first started painting—with fewer materials, expectations and obligations. The simplicity, joy and freedom of that time are evident in the work, folded in with autobiographical references to his life as a new father (think Looney Tunes characters). He successfully uses the visual language and techniques of youth to question the expectations and obligations of adulthood. Nationale, 3360 SE Division St., 503-477-9786. Through June 18.
Due to economic hardship, it is a common practice for parents in the Republic of Moldova (formerly part of the Soviet Union) to leave their children behind while they seek work in other countries. Photographer Andrea Diefenbach follows some of these parents abroad to document their hard labor. Her series Land Ohne Eltern gives us both sides of the heartbreaking story, by showing images of parents alongside intimate portraits of the children back in Moldova who are being raised by family, friends or, in some cases, no one. Blue Sky Gallery, 122 NW 8th Ave., 503-225-0210. Through July 3.
Trace #16 by Shimpei Takeda. Courtesy of the artist.
This might be the first time you see a photo show in which one of the photographers never touched a camera. Newspace's thoughtful exhibition, Reactive Matters, features the work of three photographers about the effect of nuclear energy on our environment. Shimpei Takeda exposes photo-sensitive paper to soil samples from Fukushima, capturing latent images of radioactivity that look like the night sky—his camera nowhere in sight. Abbey Hepner photographs nuclear waste facilities using a vanished processing technique involving uranium that lends an acid-orange cast to her images. Jeremy Bolen buried his film near nuclear reactors before unearthing it to document the surrounding landscapes. The work of these three artists is a powerful testament to conceptual photography. Newspace Center for Photography, 1632 SE 10th Ave., 503-963-1935. Through July 23.
Artist Robert Schlegel and his son Rob Schlegel, a poet, collaborated on a series of visual and textual works on paper. Using dictionary pages as his canvas, the elder Schlegel drew acrylic and charcoal figures against a wordy background that his son scoured for the building blocks of his poems. The resulting work, shown as limited-edition archival prints, shows form interrupted by language and language obscured by form, causing us to look at both more critically and with greater curiosity. Roll-Up Photo Studio + Gallery, 1715 SE Spokane St., 503-267-5835. Through June 30.
Printmaker Alyson Provax is interested in "how we approach that which we do not know." In Out There, Wolff Gallery's second exhibition, Provax uses monotype, collage and the experimental letterpress techniques she is known for to explore the mysteries of the universe. In one piece, the artist prints the phrase "I felt the sound more than heard it," and repeats it diagonally across the paper, like a mechanical glitch that conveys the faded echo of someone's story about a UFO encounter. Wolff Gallery, 618 NW Glisan St., Suite R1, 971-413-1340. Through July 3.


Since 1985, the best choice when it comes to renting a car or motorbike in Samos is Savvas Rentals. During all these years of running our business, we have offered our services to thousands of people from all around the world, who come to Samos for their holidays. Savvas, the owner and manager of the business, has no customers, only friends who return year after year.
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What is the best treatment for DID?
Psychotherapy is the primary treatment for dissociative disorders. This form of therapy, also known as talk therapy, counseling or psychosocial therapy, involves talking about your disorder and related issues with a mental health professional.
How can you tell if someone has did?
SYMPTOMS OF DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
General memory problems.
Depersonalisation.
Derealisation.
Posttraumatic flashbacks.
Somatoform symptoms.
Trance.
Child voices.
Two or more voices or parts that converse, argue, or struggle.
What does Osdd mean?
Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (Type 1) / Other Specified Dissociative Disorders (Type 1) The other type of complex dissociative disorder which First Person Plural focuses on is known as Type 1 Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (DDNOS) or Type 1 Other Specified Dissociative Disorder (OSDD).
What is shutdown dissociation?
The Shutdown Dissociation Scale (Shut-D) is a semi-structured interview, it was first published in 2011 to assess dissociative responses caused by reminders of traumatic stress .[1] The Shut-D Scale assesses biological symptoms associated with freeze, fight/flight, fright, and flag/faint responses, and is based on the …
Why my parents are my hero?
So my hero is my parents. My parents are really important to me because they are the ones who helped me with problems, homework, taught me things that I don't know and things about life, taught me things that I shouldn't do and things that I should do in life. So these are my hero, and they will always be with me.
At what age can you be diagnosed with DID?
The typical patient who is diagnosed with DID is a woman, about age 30. A retrospective review of that patient's history typically will reveal onset of dissociative symptoms at ages 5 to 10, with emergence of alters at about the age of 6.
Is it bad to dissociate?
Too much dissociating can slow or prevent recovery from the impact of trauma or PTSD. Dissociation can become a problem in itself. Blanking out interferes with doing well at school. It can lead to passively going along in risky situations.
What does dissociation look like?
When a person experiences dissociation, it may look like: Daydreaming, spacing out, or eyes glazed over. Acting different, or using a different tone of voice or different gestures. Suddenly switching between emotions or reactions to an event, such as appearing frightened and timid, then becoming bombastic and violent.
What does SID stand for?
SID Society for Information Display
SID Sports Information Director
SID Security Identifier
SID Special Improvement District
What causes DIDS?
A history of trauma is a key feature of dissociative identity disorder. About 90% of the cases of DID involve some history of abuse. The trauma often involves severe emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse. It might also be linked to accidents, natural disasters, and war.
What is the full form mother?
Mother is an English word, not an acronym. It is a noun which specifies a woman who is in relation to a child, to whom she has given birth. As we already state that it is not an acronym so it does not have any full form but many people create their own full form to show their creativity, love and respect for mother.
Did vs Osdd?
OSDD is the combination of DDNOS 1a and DDNOS 1b, meaning that OSDD is a similar diagnosis to DID except that the individual has less intense symptomatology regarding either amnesia or identity separation. OSDD was officially adopted in the DSM-V, which was published in 2013.
What is did short for?
~1.5–2% of people. Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder (MPD), is a mental disorder characterized by the maintenance of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states.
Is split personality a real thing?
Can people actually have "multiple personalities" or a "split personality"? Dissociative identity disorder involves a lack of connection among a person's sense of identity, memory and consciousness. People with this disorder do not have more than one personality but rather less than one personality.
What is the full form of did?
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Can Did be cured?
While there's no "cure" for dissociative identity disorder, long-term treatment can be helpful, if the patient stays committed. Effective treatment includes: Psychotherapy: Also called talk therapy, the therapy is designed to work through whatever triggered and triggers the DID.
How do I know if I am dissociating?
Some of the symptoms of dissociation include the following. You may forget about certain time periods, events and personal information. Feeling disconnected from your own body. Feeling disconnected from the world around you.
Is dissociation a mental illness?
Dissociation is a mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. Dissociative disorders include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, depersonalisation disorder and dissociative identity disorder.
What makes a father a hero?
A father wants the best for his child. Whatever the circumstances, a father will always want what's best for his child. And a father will make sure the child gets it regardless of the price he has to pay for it. This quality makes a father his child's most adored hero!
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Actually, website designing is very significant to diverse kinds of business enterprises these days. These corporate websites are utilized not only in establishing business presence but businessmen can also utilized these sites as publicity, communication tool, product launches and many more. Should you want to have that effective and beautiful websites, then it is suggested that you own beautiful and effective websites. Keep in mind that impressive look attracts lots of customers towards your website. This can only be made possible by hiring a reputable web design consultant. The moment you decide to hire one, it is advised that you consider the factors showcased below.
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No one will be turned away from My Mercy Why won't My children understand this? If they are genuinely repentant and desire to come and live with Me on the New Earth, where Heaven and Earth become one, why don't they ask for forgiveness? No one will be turned away from My Just Mercy if they show remorse. Yet, so caught up in their pursuit of selfish goals, they fail to grasp the consequences.
Let Me guide you to Paradise Through this prophet and the Book of Truth, I plead with you, once more, out of My precious Love for you all, turn to Me, now, before time runs out. Let Me hold you in My Arms. Let My Love flow through you in mind, body and soul. Open your hearts and let Me guide you to My Paradise, on Earth. where you will enjoy eternal life. Why would you wish to choose the other doomed path to nowhere, when the Truth has been revealed?
I will fight to win you all back I died for all of you and I will fight to win you all back to Me, despite the darkness of evil in the world, up to the very last moment.


One Pumpkin is a sustainability advisory offering a range of services, all underpinned by straightforward and effective advice. It is run by Georgina Stevens in conjunction with other specialists in the sustainability field.
Georgina has worked in sustainability for 14 years, and has worked on every side of the fence including environmental consultancies, social and environmental NGOs, and private and public companies including Virgin and M&S, advising and implementing sustainability strategies. She has developed sustainability programmes across a wide range of sectors, including retail, aviation, tourism, telecoms, finance, electronic goods, consumer goods and music. More here.
One Pumpkin works with a number of other experts in the field who can be brought in to work on relevant projects. For example, we work with several engineering firms who can provide energy, water and waste auditing and expertise. We also work alongside specialist sustainability communications agencies where a complete solution is needed, who can support development of on and offline creative campaigns.
In 2006 Georgina was carrying out sustainability audits on a large group of hotels in the Caribbean. The auditing was pretty straightforward; looking at their energy and fuel usage, their water and chemical deployment, their employment records and their procurement practices, amongst other things. However, the litmus test as to whether any business has succeeded at embedding sustainability is whether employees can talk lucidly about why these issues are important to them.
At one particular hotel, as Georgina chatted to their receptionist, a local farmer came to the desk. He was carrying one pumpkin, which the receptionist promptly bought from him. Later that day whilst eating pumpkin soup in the restaurant (bearing in mind a large proportion of the food used by big hotels in the Caribbean is imported from the US), Georgina decided that this was how simple sustainability could and should be. And so the name stuck.


Obituary for Donald E Evans | Family Care Services, Inc.
Columbiana- Donald E. Evans, age 91, of Columbiana, died on Friday, February 1, 2019 at the Hospice House of Poland.
He was born on February 4, 1927 in Mineral Ridge, a son of the late Howard and Hulda Hooley Evans.
Don was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbiana and was a veteran of the United States Army having served during WW II. He was a graduate of Columbiana High School where he was inducted into the Columbiana Athletic Hall of Fame. He received his bachelor's degree from Mount Union and his master's degree in education from Youngstown State. Don had worked as a licensed insurance agent and manager as well as a junior high school science teacher for 30 years retiring in 1990 from the Salem Schools. He was a member of the Benjamin Firestone Post #290, American Legion in Columbiana and the "Monday Night Golf League" at Valley Golf Course, Columbiana. Don enjoyed woodworking, golfing and oil painting. Mostly, Don will be remembered as a man who enjoyed spending time with his family.
He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Kay Martin Evans whom he married on August 5, 1951; two daughters, Melissa (John) Bloor of Lisbon and Jennifer (Steve) Barnes of St. Cloud, MN. and two sons, Dr. Mark (Joy) Evans of North Lima and Dr. D. Matthew (Brenda) Evans of Bristol, RI. Also surviving are ten grandchildren, Corey, Jacob, Nathan and Michael Evans, Brian Barnes, Teri Medure, Erin Donkin, Katie Boswell, Allison Leggett and Emily Barnes, as well as twelve great grandchildren.
Don was preceded in death by a sister, Betty Mae Maxwell and a brother, Dr. H. David Evans of LaGrange, KY.
The family will receive friends on Wednesday, February 6, 2019 from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Columbiana.
A memorial service will be held on Wednesday, at the church at 12:00 p.m. with Pastor Fritz Nelson officiating.
Burial will be at the Columbiana Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to either the First Presbyterian Church of Columbiana or Hospice of the Valley.


"Founded in 1971, members of the Kiwanis Club of Plano are no strangers to giving back to the community. For the past few years, club members have partnered with A Christian Food Pantry to deliver food directly to seniors in need.
A Christian Food Pantry and Thrift Store opened in east Plano in April 2011 to serve food-insecure Collin County families. The pantry partners with North Texas Food Bank, so food costs are 5 cents per meal.
Overwhelmed with the amount of patrons in its small location, founder Walt Webking relocated the pantry to a larger location at 1116 Dobie Drive last month.
Webking prides his pantry, which is set up like a farmer's market, in allowing patrons to select which item of food they need.
Cook said most of the people who come to the pantry are from the 75074 ZIP code, but anyone from Collin County is welcome.


My source lies in Switzerland in the Saint-Gothard massif from where I flow to the Mediterranean. My course stretches 810 kilometres, including 72 km through Lake Geneva and 522 km in France. If I add that my discharge is impressive, capable of reaching 1,800 m3/s, can you guess who I am? The most powerful French river: the Rhone! Since Antiquity I have been an important trade and communication route before also becoming a great artery for producing energy in the 20th century. Impetuous, I often break my banks and cause severe damage. Men wanted to tame and channel me from the outset. Now they watch over me to preserve the wealth of biodiversity I harbour and develop my various uses, so that I continue to serve and enhance the territories I cross.
I was born 55 million years ago, with the creation of the Rhone Valley: a huge gash caused by a division in the earth's crust. Following marine, river and lagoon episodes, it was when the Mediterranean Sea dried up 6 million years ago that I finally forged my bed. My final metamorphosis occurred in the 19th century due to a change in the climate (the end of the Little Ice Age) linked to a modification of the socioeconomic environment (the rural exodus and the deliberate reforestation of the mountains) and a technological revolution (human beings henceforth had the technical means to control me with the structures they build).
In Gallo-Roman times, I and my little sister the Saone formed one of the busiest corridors of the Roman Empire after the Nile. In the Middle Ages, I was used to transport salt, metals, wood and cereals.
For long untameable, my great floods ravaged everything around me in 1840 and in 1856. Initially, men decided to carry out works to protect themselves from my fury, but also to make me navigable. Starting from 1884, the head engineers of the Rhone, Jacquet and Girardon, developed regularisation systems composed of spur dikes, levees, breakwaters, etc. In the 1950s these works were joined by hydroelectricity development schemes consisting of a dam, a hydropower plant, a lock and dikes built by CNR, the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône.
A new chapter started about twenty years ago with attention given to studying my waters and restoring my natural courses.
CNR has developed the Rhone Valley since 1934 and has grown around the concession to exploit the Rhone in the framework of three missions entrusted to it by the State: electricity production, developing river transport and irrigating the surrounding farmland. It has built and operates 19 run-of-the-river hydropower plants and it manages 27,000 ha of river and land that include more than 100 preserved natural sites.
Endowed with the original status of a joint stock company in the public interest, CNR cultivates balance between economic profitability and the collective interest, private and public capital, investment and the redistribution of profits. In particular, it has carried out missions in the general interest since 2004 in association with the State and the actors of the Rhone Valley, to redistribute the value generated by the river to the territories.
Hydroelectricity production along my French course varies according to my daily and seasonal discharges. However, it amounts to an annual average of 14 900 GWh generated by 19 heads exploited by dams and hydropower plants. In association with other plants, especially those in the Alps, we provide 93% of renewable electricity, making France Europe's leading producer in this sector.
The dominant position of my basin in electricity production is reinforced by high voltage power lines that follow the valley and interconnect the different production sites.
The Saone and I have always formed a major corridor that links Northern Europe with the Mediterranean, providing a superb trade route. During the 19th century, the arrival of the railway led to a decline in my use.
I had to wait until the structures built by CNR opened me up to receive wide gauge barges along 330 km, between Lyon and the Mediterranean, and give a new boost to river traffic in the Rhone Valley. Today, 18 industrial and port sites form a network along the valley and Port de Lyon handles 12 million tonnes of goods a year.
Thanks to 40 water intakes I irrigate 120,000 hectares of crops for a total irrigable surface area of 190,000 hectares. 50% of the withdrawals of water from my tributaries and my surface water are used to improve the productivity of the crops that cover the land on either side of my banks. In Drôme, the region's leading agricultural department, 80% of the water used to irrigate the farmland there comes from the river Isere and from me.
Agriculture in the Rhone Valley is diverse in terms of farm size and crop diversity, but it must now face major challenges: those of adapting to better manage ever decreasing water resources, and improving energy performance while ensuring sufficient good quality production.
Besides agriculture, I'm needed by other sectors such as nuclear energy since my water is used to cool the reactors of nuclear power plants, and for chemical and petrochemical and cement production plants.
After decades spent taming me, human beings now also want to exploit my touristic advantages. My banks have been developed to allow strollers, cyclists and roller skaters to enjoy the scenery. Canoeists, swimmers, jousters and pleasure boaters also benefit from my water. The ViaRhôna, a cycle track that links Lake Geneva with the Mediterranean, allows cyclists to discover the territories I cross at their own pace.
An increasing number of tourists also discover the beauty of my landscapes on cruises. A large number of landing stages have been built to receive these new river cruise liners that ploy my waters.
Straddling two countries, I'm not immune to cross-border tensions, emphasised by climate change whose impacts have been poorly evaluated by most of the actors involved. A legal framework must still be found to regulate the strong independence of both countries regarding my water. The aim is to build a genuine framework, beyond occasional collaborations, that takes into account all the stakes in play. However, exemplary collaboration have been already been organised for several years to manage sediment transport along my course.
The political will to build a global and interregional management project has emerged due to the considerable importance of my many uses and the need for solidarity between stakeholders both upstream and downstream. This process was accelerated by the severe floods of 2002 and 2003 which gave rise to the Rhone Plan. Although it was initially confined to a strategy for preventing floods, the need to extend it to other issues rapidly became apparent. The second Rhone Plan has been drawn up for the period 2015-2020.
Ensure the long-term economic development of this strategic territory.
The plan is organised according to six thematic sections: heritage and culture, the prevention of flood risks, water quality, resources and biodiversity, energy, river transport, and tourism.
Despite all the efforts made to use my resources and profit from my touristic charms, I'm not spared from the impacts of climate change. They affect my discharge, the temperature of my waters and exacerbate extreme events (low flows and severe floods).
For example, in 2017, a year of severe drought, my average discharge fell by 30% in comparison to that recorded over the last twenty years. Ice melt is another of the phenomena that particularly weaken me. The specialists that examine my future state estimate that in winter snow will remain only at higher alpine altitudes, and that greater evaporation will decrease my annual discharge and aggravate the low summer flows of many rivers. From now to 2050, I will have structurally less water, from -10% to – 40%. These climatic effects will obviously lead to tension between my users.
Danger, beware of water pollution!
Industrial activities are developing all around me, large towns are growing, while intensive farming and the closeness of major roads undermine my strength.
The presence of different substances has been identified, especially downstream of Lyon. Thanks to my capacity to dilute, the contamination observed mainly resides in the sediments and relatively little in the water. However, effects have been detected in living organisms.
Hello, I invite you to visit the following page, on the Initiatives for the Future of Great Rivers (IFGR) website :Rhone https://www.initiativesrivers.org/rivers/rhone/ Best regards.


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May 27, 2021 By James Sloane
Evolving our beliefs about productivity and creativity in response to burnout
Habanero introduces rest and flow Fridays
Research study: COVID-19 and the employee experience
Burnout is a hot topic right now. It's not a new phenomenon, but suddenly we've all hit the wall, and everyone's talking about it – from the Harvard Business Review to social science researcher Brené Brown. Gallup, who has been measuring employee sentiment about work life for decades, is seeing data that shows a separation of engagement and wellbeing for the first time.
At Habanero, we've been having a lot of conversations with organizations about the challenges they are experiencing, and we know burnout is at the top of everyone's list. We began a journey to learn more about burnout – for our clients and ourselves.
We polled leaders from a variety of industries including construction and development, financial and professional services, retail and wholesale organizations, tourism, health care and regulatory organizations, technology and insurance to understand what they're most concerned about. Resoundingly, the answer was burnout:
61% of our respondents ranked it as a burning issue.
39% said it was a bit of a worry.
Not a single person said it wasn't a concern in their organization.
Some teams said they are "running on empty" and experiencing "pandemic fatigue."
And the truth is we're feeling it too. It doesn't show up for everyone in the same way, or to the same extent, but it's there. A few weeks ago, we ran a burnout-focused pulse survey, and the results were concerning: the majority of Habs indicated that they were either experiencing burnout or at risk of burnout.
In response, we took a fast-paced approach to co-create a solution to support Habs through this challenging time and test out a new kind of relationship with our work. In this post, we'll share what we learned about burnout and how we engaged our employees to co-create solutions designed to address the impact of burnout on their work and lives.
The Mayo Clinic describes burnout as "a special type of work-related stress – a state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity." It's characterized by three related and specific conditions of a person's feelings about work:
Exhaustion – feeling overwhelmed and wiped out
Cynicism – the belief that your efforts don't matter
Inefficacy – feeling unproductive
Burnout is an organizational problem that often inspires individual-level interventions, but if the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we can't solve burnout with self-care. Research shows burnout has six main causes:
Unsustainable workload
Perceived lack of control
Insufficient rewards for effort
Lack of a supportive community
Lack of fairness
Mismatched values and skills
What is the pandemic burnout effect?
We are still living the effects right now, so it's difficult to be completely objective about why burnout is so prevalent in this moment. We have some pretty good hunches, though, and we believe that most of it is because all the rules in the stress-processing game have changed.
As we learned in our COVID study, the increased uncertainty and stress in our lives in general has depleted our reserves for coping with all stressors; our surge capacity has been depleted. Burnout existed before the pandemic, but when COVID showed up and threatened our safety, all the rules of the work-stress game changed overnight. Restrictions on our social interactions, increased isolation, blurred boundaries between work and rest, and the mental and physiological effects of digital-mediated interactions all add up, and they've handicapped us all from being able to process stress. Work has always been stressful and some of the most engaging work is sometimes the most stressful because we care so much about it. The difference is that before the pandemic we processed our stress regularly. We oscillated between work and rest, focus time and idle time, face time and screen time. The pandemic has put us off our stress-management game.
When the work space and work hours blend into personal space and personal time, feeling overwhelmed by work is amplified because it feels like I never "left" work. Even when I am not bothered or stressed about work, work doesn't seem to have left my mind as I haven't left my work space.
Pulse survey participant
Recognizing the problem of burnout at Habanero
At Habanero, we embraced working from home long before it became a mandatory measure. We have a strong culture, where employees are engaged and connected, so we were starting from a good place. Over the course of the year, we planned virtual meetups and happy hours, an awesome holiday party and a creative and fun 25th birthday celebration for our company, all over Microsoft Teams.
For the most part, things have been pretty great, but even we're not immune to burnout. As the pandemic has worn on, the topic of burnout kept bubbling up, surfacing in quick check-ins and coaching calls. We had all been learning about burnout together, so we were aware what the symptoms might be. We knew we needed to do a quick pulse on some of the conditions of burnout to see where we were really at. Using a self-assessment tool as inspiration, we crafted our own pulse survey specific to burnout capacity that asked employees to respond to these five statements:
I feel that the work I have been doing is important and valuable.
I have fun, enjoyable moments.
I am often pulled back into work by email notifications outside of when I want to be working.
Lately, I mostly work days and/or weeks that are too long.
I feel productive.
We knew that it wouldn't provide a comprehensive assessment of the existence of burnout at Habanero; nor was it an assessment of general wellbeing. It was specifically designed to capture a quick snapshot of data that would indicate if the risk factors for burnout were present.
When our team considered what we might do if people were burnt out, I thought, 'At least we'll know. I'm not certain what we'll do until we see the results, but we will have to be prepared to do something pretty quickly.'
James Sloane, Director, Employee Experience
We had a high response rate for the pulse survey (84%), so we had confidence in the representation of results, which showed that:
About a third of Habs were showing strong signs of being at risk for burnout.
Another third were showing some moderate signs of burnout.
The remaining third indicated low concern for burnout but were not completely unaffected.
We collectively needed to change some things fairly urgently about how we manage workload.
Employees at risk of burnout reported feeling overwhelmed by work most of the time. They also felt that they were working days and/or weeks that were too long. They were more likely to feel that they lacked appropriate control over their workload and that they weren't as productive as usual.
Burnout is complex, like depression, and unique to the person experiencing it. That, coupled with the fact that our pulse survey was anonymous means that our data can't determine specifically who is at risk. However, we noticed a stark difference in scores depending on employee tenure. This data seemed to indicate that "veteran Habs" were not as at risk for burnout, and "new Habs" were at high risk. Employees who have only been with us for four years or less indicated a risk of burnout in every question asked besides the purpose question (number one in the list above). It's reasonable to imagine that being relatively new to a job, a culture and community generally comes with feelings of higher uncertainty in your employee experience. Longer tenure Habs still experience the stress, but they may find more stability in established relationships and feel less concerned about job performance, for example. The data that we have collected to date does not tell us why this short-tenure demographic is at higher risk, but it does give us insight into our next set of questions to ask. This is an important and ongoing area of inquiry for us.
Habanero prides itself as being a purpose-driven organization. We share a strong sense that the reason we exist is to bring life to work and help people and organizations thrive, so it was very encouraging, but not surprising, to see that our sense of purpose was hanging on in healthy territory. The purpose-related statement ("I feel that the work I have been doing is important and valuable") scored well, regardless of age, tenure or other factors. We asked this because one of the three main things around burnout is loss of connection to the meaning of your work. It's the cynicism that what you're doing is useless. Regardless of demographic, that didn't show up for us, and Habs still think their work is meaningful.
The evidence was clear: we needed to act quickly to address the risk of burnout. Many people shared in their comments that they were making personal changes to improve things and they were feeling hopeful that adjusting their personal norms around work would help. However, we knew that the risk to people's health wouldn't get better without some collective action and new structure to help us all change our work patterns. We felt a lot of genuine enthusiasm to change some things about the way we work.
At Habanero, we use agile methodology to manage our organizational priorities, because it empowers us to be responsive and pivot or change course to achieve the best results. Our employee experience team broke down the burnout symptoms we were seeing and brainstormed what we could do to quickly begin to address these issues, with full support from leadership to make some changes. These ideas became the jumping off point for engaging everyone in the organization in a mini-hackathon. Our aim was to work together to zero in on the most meaningful interventions, which we could test using a sense-and-respond approach.
Co-creating change
We hosted a session with all Habs to share what we know about burnout, the Hab pulse survey findings, our plan to co-create a solution and the ideas we'd brainstormed. We're lucky that all our employees are super-smart, passionate people who understand employee experience design. We wanted to free the unique perspectives of the whole team to work on the ideas, but we also wanted to provide them with some starting points for inspiration.
Everyone got together in designated teams made up of a mix of people with shorter and longer tenures. Each team took on a different solution idea and for each intervention explored:
The employee experience problem
What we'd need to make the change successful
Who would be impacted
What obstacles we might encounter
The value that would be created
What the solution would look like in practice
We worked together online in small groups during our workshop, then spent an additional week soaking in and refining our ideas. We met for a second time so teams could share their work back to the group, pitch their ideas and vote for their preferred solution. Voting on each solution offered visibility around the process. Not everyone agreed on the final results, but we all understood how we arrived at them, so any next steps are rooted in a clear understanding of the "why" behind them.
The result was six concrete solutions aimed at tackling burnout that we could experiment with as a company right away. Tallying the votes, we determined the first solution to test was something we're calling "rest and flow Fridays," an idea to create space for more rest and flow by taking alternating Fridays off. Other teams worked on employee experience interventions that will mean tweaks to our tools, technology, process and culture. We have some exciting new ideas about how to elevate our communication, collaboration and recognition game, for example, and we've captured those in a backlog to work on over the next term. Our priority experiment became rest and flow Fridays.
Experiment one: rest and flow Fridays
Habs recognized that we need focus time to work productively, and we also need appropriate rest and recovery to maintain and optimize productivity. Many of our clients, communities and society still consider the 5-day, 40-hour work week the norm, rel="noopener noreferrer" but many others, like Microsoft Japan, are making rel="noopener noreferrer" changes that challenge these historical standards. Several studies have shown that productivity can be maintained and even increase with a shorter work week. We believe we can be more productive during the week if we have a longer rest on the weekends and if we set aside time to allow ourselves to get into a flow state in our work. One week, a Hab will have Friday off to rest; the next Friday, they'll enjoy a quieter day with more focus time for working (and no meetings!). We'll still be able to provide great service to our clients when they expect and need us, and by having employees alternate Fridays, we set up a new rhythm of rest and flow.
Finding your bespoke solution
It's tempting to assume that if people are burned out, it just means they're exhausted and need a day off, but we know from the research that the conditions for burnout are multifaceted. Burnout is also about feeling like you're not productive and that your work doesn't matter. Rest alone won't fix those underlying feelings. From our pulse survey, we knew that our employees still find meaning in their work, so it makes sense that our solutions focused on addressing productivity and exhaustion.
For other organizations, both the symptoms and causes of burnout may be very different. Rest and flow Fridays is a solution designed by and for our people. We don't yet know how it will impact our risk of burnout, but we're confident that it's a solid place to start, because it's a solution that came from a process of empathetic listening, collective sense making and solution ideation. Now we've created our prototype and the next step is to validate the results with our employees. It's a process we use every day with our clients to help them solve complex culture, technology and employee experience challenges.
James Sloane
Director, Employee Experience
James Sloane is a designer, and he's also Habanero's Director of Employee Experience. He began work life as a product designer and since then has applied a design-thinking, user-centred approach to every complex situation and opportunity he finds. For James, designing exceptional workplace experiences is so meaningful because it's about helping people thrive where they spend most of their time: at work. James believes meaningful workplace experiences happen when we design the conditions for each of us to feel safe being ourselves, continuously grow, and do purposeful work.
Prior to his role as Director of Employee Experience, James was a senior experience consultant helping our clients thrive at work. He has worked on several projects working with teams to design employee portals, collaboration solutions, and cultural transformations. He especially loves strategy work and making sense of the fuzzy front-end of complex problems. James holds a Masters of Environmental Design from the University of Calgary and a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta. Outside of work, James values his time with family and friends, coaching youth soccer, and anything creative.
jsloane@habaneroconsulting.com
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Als Synchronsprecherin lieh Mariage unter anderem Oona Laurence, Mackenzie Foy und Lulu Wilson ihre Stimme. Außerdem war sie in Filmen wie Pirates of the Caribbean – Fremde Gezeiten, Mad Max: Fury Road und Mustang zu hören. Darüber hinaus lieh sie Heidi in der gleichnamigen Zeichentrickserie von 2015 ihre Stimme.

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 Oona Laurence in Southpaw, Bad Moms, Bad Moms 2 und Die Verführten
 Mackenzie Foy in Interstellar und Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise
 Emilia Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean – Fremde Gezeiten und Brimstone
 Lulu Wilson in Erlöse uns von dem Bösen und Annabelle 2
 Coco Jack Gillies in Mad Max: Fury Road
 Sophia Lillis in Es und Es Kapitel 2
 Morgan Lily in 2012
 Ella Anderson in Schloss aus Glas
 Emma Rose Lima in Bambi 2 – Der Herr der Wälder
 Güneş Nezihe Şensoy in Mustang
 Heidi in Heidi
 Pili Groyne in Das brandneue Testament
 Rebecca Emilie Sattrup in Die Hüterin der Wahrheit – Dinas Bestimmung
 Rebecca Emilie Sattrup in Die Hüterin der Wahrheit 2: Dina und die schwarze Magie
 Hina Amano in Weathering With You – Das Mädchen, das die Sonne berührte
 Kyliegh Curran in Doctor Sleeps Erwachen
 Storm Reid in Der Unsichtbare
 Filo in The Rising of the Shield Hero
 Millie Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes
 Thomasin McKenzie in Last Night in Soho
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The episode is titled "All Dogs Go To Heaven," and things get pretty wild when Dean and Sam face dangerous skinwalkers, and mass murders. We'll also get some more details about Sam's soul while Dean and Sam are knee-deep in Crowley's business, and not surprisingly, Dean isn't too keen on the idea of working with a demon.
In the clip, Dean discusses with Sam the job Crowley has given them, and gets frustrated when Sam agrees to go along with Crowley's master plan. Sam, of course, says he knows Dean doesn't trust him, but he's still Dean's brother, and is determined to make things right. "Look, this is a crap situation, I get it, but Dean, I'm still me. Same melon, same memories. I still like the same music. I still think about Susie Eiser." That peeked Dean's attention. "Biology class Susie Eiser?' asked Dean. Yep, that's the one Sam says. "Can you blame me?" Okay, Sam still remembers how to get to Dean.
All this assumes, of course, that Crowley really does own Sam's soul, which still is in doubt. Demons have been known to lie, you know, and while Crowley does have the ambition and desire to take over hell, it really isn't a sure thing that he has the power to do so. After all, Bobby got out of his pact with Crowley and I doubt Bobby ever would have been able to get out of a deal with the devil himself.
In the promo, Crowley tells Dean if they 'bag' Crowley an Alpha, he'll give little Sammy's soul back. Really? Remember demons lie! And if finding Sam's soul in the story arc for this season, we wouldn't see it returned this soon. More likely we'll find out who else is involved in all this. Got to think Raphael is still out there somewhere.
We also hear Dean saying, "I have done some shady stuff, but I am not doing this". What 'this' is, is the question as right after we see Dean with a sniper rifle targeting people… hopefully shapeshifters. I just hope we don't see anyone shooting pets, but I suspect we will think a lot differently about family dogs after this episode. Kind of what "I Believe the Children Are Our Future" did to the tooth fairy.
IT'S A DOG'S LIFE; Dean and Sam investigate what seems to be a werewolf killing but turns out to be a skinwalker (guest star Andrew Rothenberg) posing as a family dog who is taking revenge on his owner's enemies. After capturing the dog, he turns human and tells Sam and Dean that an Alpha skinwalker has created many sleeper cells that will rise on his command and kill their families. The only way to stop the mass murders is to find and kill the Alpha. Written by CW Publicity. Phil Sgriccia directed the episode and it was written by Adam Glass, neither new to Supernatural.
The cast (IMDB) includes: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Mark Sheppard, Andrew Rothenberg (Skinwalker/ Family dog), Arien Boey (Aieden Duren), Gavin Burr (Spot the dog), Fraser Corbett (Sparky), Taras Kostyuk (Spike the man), and James Ralph (Cujo).
CW didn't release any photos for this episode but there were some behind-the-scene photos I found.
Premiere Talent Management's Photos - Clients on Set has these posted on their Facebook page.
The preview clip and trailer videos for the episode are below.
And Canada's Space channel released their promo and preview clip. If you haven't seen them, both are below.
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If you think this is a post that I am going to preach to you all the things that you should do when you cannot sleep – well, you would be very wrong. Instead, I am going to be real with you. I am going to tell you all the reasons why I cannot sleep, in the hope that somehow, schadenfreude, will make you feel better about yourself and take some form of pity on me and my sleeplessness.
It all started when I forgot to go to the pharmacy and pick up my prescription. My medication eases my pain and helps me to get to sleep. But I was lazy, I wanted to watch Shane Dawson's Youtube series and couldn't be arsed going out. One night with no meds won't hurt! I am tired anyway. Nope – brain and body did not like that one and have protested since 10pm when it knew the pharmacy was shut.
One of the cats is on heat. Yes, I know, she needs spaying. But I've been a bit preoccupied with staying out of hospital and then keeping one of my other cats alive due to low potassium levels and a £600 vet bill to get her done. So, with her being on heat, and calling, it makes for oh, so, peaceful sleep.
Said cat peed on my bed because I shut her in my room for 10 mins while I moved the male cat out the way. Not just on the bed, the duvet cover as well, soaked through. I have cleaned it all up but now the bed is soaked and cold.
I have lost my V5 document to the car, but I know where it is – if you know what I mean. But that is driving me mad.
I have a head full of projects and WordPress shortcodes, the only thing to do was to come on here and get some of it out of my head. It's not helping – in fact it is sending me down the rabbit hole.
I am addicted to a mobile game and ran out of hearts.
I drank coffee at 4am.
I also said I would be out for work meetings in the morning – bearing in mind the people who I had arranged to meet with are probably getting up around about now so they can open up the Community Hub Cafe for breakfast – I doubt I will be human enough to attend and may just communicate via email, or snoring.
Tell me why you are having problems sleeping!


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