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The Sixers were eliminated by Kawhi's famous Game 7 dagger.
Coach Brett Brown's job was reported to be safe for the time being after Philly bowed out to the Raptors in the second round in the most dramatic fashion. It took Embiid's bad health and a last-second shooter's bounce in Game 7 to send the Sixers packing. While it ended the merry run that the team was having, it can't take away from the fact that what we had in Philly this year was a squad to remember.
Keeping aside the Golden State Warriors, the Sixers franchise assembled the most lethal starting lineup in the league talented enough to give any NBA team a run for their money in the postseason. Coach Brown grew a culture in the city and will have the chance of a lifetime to build on it if the lineup stays intact till next year.
Philly finished the regular season with a 51-31(0.622) win-loss record, entering the playoffs as a well-equipped 8th seed looking for a title push. However, one thing led to the other and they found themselves at the receiving end of a heartbreaking Game 7 loss in the East semis.
While the majority of the players stood the test of time, there were a few who didn't quite live up to the hyped expectations. Let's take a look at the three disappointing Philly acts for the 2018-19 season.
#1 Tobias Harris
Tobias Harris was the leading scorer for the Clippers before being traded.
Back in February, Harris was traded to the Sixers along with Boban Marjanovic and Mike Scott. He was averaging a team-high and career-high 20.9 points per game in the 55 games he had played for LA up until that point.
Incorporating Harris into the Philly starting lineup made them intimidating, considering the amount of production each player embodied. However, Harris couldn't quite come anywhere close to his sky-high ceiling during his 27 games in Philadelphia. The 26-year-old averaged 18.9 points, 7.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game during his regular season stint with the team, which is decent but still not as good as we've seen him play.
Despite more attempts from beyond the arc and over 35 minutes of playtime per contest, his conversion dropped to 32% from deep. During the playoffs, his scoring dipped to an uncharacteristic 15.5 ppg over the 12 games before getting eliminated.
Heading into the offseason, the Sixers will have the choice to run it back with Tobias and the same squad or let him go and explore other options.
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Professor Asma Deeb
Asma Deeb is the chief of Paediatric Endocrinology and the chair of research and ethics committee at Shaikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi. She is a clinical professor at the Gulf University, UAE.
Professor Deeb trained in the UK where she obtained an MD degree in growth hormone gene expression in 2002 from the University of Newcastle. She was appointed as a Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Endocrinology at the University of Cambridge between 2001 and 2005. She has a special interest in disorders of sexual differentiation, use of technology in the management of children with diabetes and the genetics of diabetes mellitus.
Professor Deeb has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. In 2019 she was first author of the ISPAD Clinical Practice Consensus Guidelines: Fasting during Ramadan by young people with diabetes, published in Paediatric Diabetes.
Professor Deeb is currently President of the Arab Society of Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (ASPED) and the ASPED representative of the Global Pediatric Endocrinology Association. She is the Chair of Communication of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) and a member of the advisory board of the International Society of the Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD). Professor Deeb has recently hosted the second ASPED conference, and four ASPED/ISPAD postgraduate courses and she has organised four ASPED/ESPE schools.


Big Shoulders Fund has a 30-year history of supporting schools through four key areas: scholarship and student achievement, leadership development, academic programming, and operational improvements. Through our existing scholarship program, we are the largest private k-12 scholarship program in Illinois.
In 2017, Big Shoulders Fund was approved by the state of Illinois as a Scholarship Granting Organization for the new Illinois Tax Credit Scholarship Program, made possible by the Illinois Invest in Kids Act.


Apple's stock price closed at a record high of $143.80 yesterday, and if you have been following the company lately, analysts keep raising their price targets for the iPhone maker. For example, UBS analyst Steven Milunovich, who previously had a $151 price target for Apple stock, now says it could rise to $200 in the next few years, reports CNBC.
So, if you are planning to buy Apple stock, this could be the right moment, if you agree with these analysts. If not, well, there are another 171 days to enjoy the sunshine before bending over the screen of the latest Apple gadget.


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Controlling the charge state of organic molecule quantum dots in a 2-D nanoarray
(Nanowerk News) A Monash University experimental study ("Electric Field Control of Molecular Charge State in a Single-Component 2D Organic Nanoarray") has fabricated a self-assembled, carbon-based nanofilm where the charge state (ie, electronically neutral or positive) can be controlled at the level of individual molecules, on a length scale of around one nanometre.
The atomically-thin nanofilm consists of an ordered two-dimensional (2D) array of molecules which behave as 'zero dimensional' entities called quantum dots (QDs).
This system has exciting implications for fields such as computer memory, light-emitting devices and quantum computing.
The School of Physics and Astronomy study shows that a single-component, self-assembled 2D array of the organic (carbon-based) molecule dicyanoanthracene (DCA) can be synthesised on a metal, such that the charge state of each molecule can be controlled individually via an applied electric field.
Scanning tunneling microscope images of DCA on Ag(111). (click on image to enlarge)
"This discovery would enable the fabrication of 2D arrays of individually addressable (switchable) quantum dots from the bottom-up, via self-assembly, says lead author Dhaneesh Kumar.
"We would be able to achieve densities tens of times larger than state-of-the-art, top-down synthesised inorganic systems."
Quantum dots: tiny, 'zero-dimensional' powerhouses
Quantum dots are extremely small – about one nanometre across (ie, a millionth of a millimetre).
Because their size is similar to the wavelength of electrons, their electronic properties are radically different to conventional materials.
In quantum dots, the motion of electrons is constrained by this extremely small scale, resulting in discrete electronic quantum energy levels.
Effectively, they behave as 'zero-dimensional' (0D) objects, where the degree of occupancy (filled or empty) of their quantised electronic states determines the charge (in this study, neutral or negative) of the quantum dot.
Ordered arrays of charge-controllable quantum dots can find application in computing memory as well as light-emitting devices (eg, low-energy TV or smartphone screens).
Arrays of quantum dots are conventionally synthesised from inorganic materials via top-down fabrication approaches. However, using such 'top-down' approaches, it can be challenging to achieve arrays with large densities and high homogeneity (in terms of quantum-dot size and spacing).
Because of their tunability and self-assembling capability, using organic (carbon-based) molecules as nano-sized building blocks can be particularly useful for the fabrication of functional nanomaterials, in particular well-defined scalable ensembles of quantum dots.
The researchers synthesised a homogeneous, single-component, self-assembled 2D array of the organic molecule dicyanoanthracene on a metal surface.
Theoretically-calculated energetically favorable adsorption geometries of DCA on Ag(111)
The study was led by Monash University's Faculty of Science, with support by theory from the Monash Faculty of Engineering.
This atomic-scale structural and electronic properties of this nanoscale array were studied experimentally via low-temperature scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) (School of Physics and Astronomy, under Dr Agustin Schiffrin). Theoretical studies using density functional theory supported the experimental findings (Department of Material Science and Engineering, under A/Prof Nikhil Medhekar).
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) images of a self-assembled 2D nanoarray of carbon-based quantum dots. An applied electric field individually controls the molecular QDs charge state.
The researchers found that the charge of individual DCA molecules in the self-assembled 2D array can be controlled (switched from neutral to negative and vice versa) by an applied electric field. This charge state electric-field-control is enabled by an effective tunneling barrier between molecule and surface (resulting from limited metal-adsorbate interactions) and a significant DCA electron affinity.
Subtle, site-dependent variations of the molecular adsorption geometry were found to give rise to significant variations in the susceptibility for electric-field-induced charging.
Source: Monash University


Hailing from Trinidad & Tobago, 10 Cane Rum is produced by Moët Hennessy (also the producers of Veuve Clicquot, Belvedere and Moët & Chandon) and is a relatively young product, being available to the public from 2005 and considered the first in-house developed brand by Moët Hennessy (instead of being traditionally aquired). Although not steeped in history like other rums, 10 Cane has been creating quite a stir, winning a range of awards at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition including one double gold, two gold, and two silver medals and faring well in international spirit ratings.
The real question though that is on most consumers minds is why is it called 10 Cane?
Well traditionally, sugar cane stalks are harvested in bundles of 10. Additionally, it takes 10 sugar cane stalks to make one bottle of 10 Cane Rum. Simple! 10 Cane also uses first press cane juice which is the purest, most flavorful juice extracted from hand-harvested Trinidadian sugar cane. After the cane is hand-harvested, it is taken to the nearby distillery where it is gently pressed. The sugar cane juice is then fermented for 5 days in stainless steel tanks to allow for slow development of the aromas. The fermented sugar cane juice is then distilled twice in small batches in French pot stills ensuring optimal yet gentle extraction of the sugar cane aromas. Aged for one year in vintage French oak barrels, the sugar distillate is blended with a touch of extra old Trinidadian rum, which is to add complexity and versatility.
On the nose, 10 Cane releases hints of fresh floral aromas with a small hint of pear. The palate emphasises the presence of the pear and mixes well with vanilla and spice. It's smooth as it makes its way around your mouth and gives off a soft kick in the after-taste of citrus flavours.
Shake all the ingredients together and strain into a chilled Martini glass.
Blend and serve in a margarita glass. Garnish with a slice of orange.
Two great ideas to ask your bartender for, or even create at home!
Following last month's successful visit from the award-winning Cooley Distillery (https://drinksenthusiast.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/irish-whiskey-tasting-at-kro-2/) they now welcome the Scottish independent Compass Box to the table to present their portfolio of Scotch whisky delights.
This must-go-to event will take place Wednesday 5th October from 7.30pm and will cost £20 per head.
I swung by Corks Out in Timperley today to have a chat with their new General Manager Karim about all things wine and spirits. After pondering whether Chase should have kept their Marmalade vodka packaging clear or in their current orange bottle, Karim moved our attention to some open bottles of rum that he had available and out came Ron Barceló Imperial, XM Royal Rum and XM Guyano Rum VXO!
It released heavy hints of toffee on the nose, with some intermittent hits of spice to compliment whilst on the palate, it was rather smooth with a slight sweetness of vanilla and caramel. The flavours of dry fruits is also detected, although the caramel and vanilla are the dominant forces. It finishes well with a lingering after-taste of caramel.
The smells and aromas of orange mix with the tropical fruits of carambola and grapefruit to give you a rather mouth-watering scent. Upon taste, a very sweet mix of vanilla and toffee which gave a rather creamy texture on the palate. Hints of citrus came through but my sweet-tooth was enjoying the long after-taste.
I also sampled Expre Espresso Liqueur, which unfortunately I can't put into words how much I didn't like it. I try to write the positives of everything I try but not being a coffee fan anyway, it was a little too intense and over-powering on taste. I would stick with Kahlua or Tia Maria, because I don't think you will be seeing Expre Espresso Liqueur around for too long.
I'm rather lucky at the moment because my selection of wine on my wine rack is rather varied. An Italian Amarone lies next to a Tapiz Torrentes from Argentina and a favourite of mine, Chablis Premier Cru. But recently I cracked open a bottle of Estampilla de Genio Sauvignon Blanc (12.5%) from Chile, a wine that made the list at Casa Tapas Bar & Grill.
It gives a pale citrus green colour once poured and aromas of citrus and lime dominate the senses. A slight floral scent lingers behind that gives a rather 'clean' smell. On taste, the palate enjoys a short, crisp citrus flavour that mellows out with hints of herbs being pushed through upon after-taste. The finish is a rather well-balanced white wine which would go well with a range of sea food dishes like Calamari or King Prawns.
I'm a sucker for Chilean and Argentinian wines at the moment, with the Estampilla de Genio range (a Merlot is also available) being a contributing factor when I was first offered the chance to sample. This is a great wine to have on both your wine list and your wine rack at home, although unfortunately it's not widely available to the public.


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'Better Call Saul' season 3 sets up Mike and Gus' 'Breaking Bad' relationship
By Miles Surrey
You wouldn't mistake Mike Ehrmantraut for an upstanding citizen in Better Call Saul, but at the same time, he's certainly not aligned with the man we meet in Breaking Bad. Obviously, one of the biggest reasons for that is the Mike we're introduced to in Better Call Saul isn't yet working under the drug kingpin (and Los Pollos Hermanos owner) Gus Fring.
That's finally changing in the third episode of season 3, "Sunk Costs," which sees the first face-to-face between the two characters after a lengthy, convoluted game of cat and mouse (mostly involving a gas cap) to start the season. As the previous episode left off, we see Mike answer a flip phone left in the middle of the road. Fring's on the other end, hoping to have a conversation where no guns are drawn.
The Mike-Gus showdown is an interesting one. They're both testing the waters as two very different people with a similar goal: Take down Hector Salamanca. Mike's solution — evidenced by season 2's finale — is more immediate: Assassinate him. Fring, however, wants the play the long game for reasons unknown to Mike (Breaking Bad fans will know why, since Hector killed Fring's business partner and presumed lover). Fring offers an interesting analysis of Mike's motivations, which has been a recurring theme in the stories of Saul Goodman and Walter White. It's mostly driven by male ego, rather than rationality.
"You had let it go," Fring tells him. "You'd taken his money. Your family was no longer in danger, and yet still you robbed his truck. Shouldn't that have settled the matter? Most men would've walked away."
Most men, yes, but not the ones in the Breaking Bad universe, constantly driven by the idea of not living up to their own masculinity — like Walter White not allowing other people to pay for his cancer treatment and descending into the power-hungry Heisenberg, or here, Mike not willing to let Hector's threats to his family slide even after getting a shitload of money. This is to Fring's advantage, however, as he now has a new enforcer who's already proving his worth.
Fring's pretty badass for rocking an all-black look in New Mexico's sweltering heat Source: Michele K. Short/AMC
Mike achieves this in episode 3 by screwing over Hector's illegal border operation — naturally, in a very elaborate (and perhaps unnecessarily complicated) sequence of events. It starts with Mike going across the border and getting a small amount of cocaine from a local doctor. He then stuffs the pouch of cocaine into a sneaker, which he ties with another one and throws the pair onto a cable tower on a rural patch of desert.
He waits for Hector's men to arrive. As in season 2, Hector's men are in a Regalo Helado ice cream truck. They park the truck close to the hanging shoes and step out, where it's revealed that they have a spot to store their guns before crossing onto the American side of the U.S.-Mexican border. Mike startles the two men by firing his rifle into the air several times. Eventually, the men presume it's hunters — they're safe.
Most viewers might've assumed he was going to shoot the men, but the sight of Mike brandishing a sniper rifle — especially when he was about to kill Hector with that same gun in the season 2 finale — is a particularly clever red herring. The gunshots into the sky distract the men from Mike shooting the sneaker filled with cocaine. As the truck slowly drives away, the cocaine sprinkles across it. That makes it pretty easy for American border patrol to apprehend the men, no doubt pissing off Hector in the process.
Mike's approach also leaves little room for evidence that anyone was responsible for planting the cocaine on the truck, which falls in line with Fring's "cautious man" mantra. Based on what we've seen — and what we know from Breaking Bad — this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
At least Mike no longer has to use this damn trackerSource: Michele K. Short/AMC
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The nightclub — a landmark at the corner of Black Cat and Franklin roads — appears to have shut its doors in late spring in preparation for condemnation. Efforts to reach building owner Barry Tassler for comment were unsuccessful.
The amount filed in the court order granting possession of the property to ACHD was $536,000 plus relocation expenses. However, negotiations are ongoing and the Kit Kat Klub proprietors are asking for more, Quintana says.
Describing the nightclub as iconic might be a stretch, but it certainly has a long, storied past.


Church building now available for your use. This stand alone building is comprised of approximately 1100 SF on the main level with pulpit area, room for 16 pews, baptismal pool, office area, two bathroom facilities, along with the full basement that could be used for gatherings or storage which also includes a kitchen area. Included with the building are the Church pews, piano, baptismal pool, ceiling fans and wall ac units. In the past, parking has been available at an adjacent lot which is owned by another local Church. All that is missing now is your congregation. Property conveyed in as-is condition. Tenant pays electric, gas, heat, water, sewer, insurance along with any & all township required inspections or certifications.


We get hands on with a new breed of digital signage media player from AOpen.
Specialist point of sale and technology distributor Goodson is to enter the booming digital signage market in New Zealand.
This week Goodson Imports, along with Google for Work and AOPEN Australia, is hosting a Commercial Chrome Devices intro session in Auckland.


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Friday, February 16th, 2018 at 12:36pm.
As many of you might already know, Joelle and I have recently made the very large decision to start a new adventure together. We were married in Halifax nearly 18 months ago and since that time, we've had a feeling that one day we would call Halifax our home. A place nearer Joelle's family in New Brunswick and my grandparents in England. That day it appears, has come much sooner than we first imagined. It is with mixed emotions, that we are saying good bye to Fort McMurray.
We want to make it extremely clear that this decision does not come because we doubt strength of our city to recover economically and from the disaster of the fire. We are leaving to pursue a new challenge and to be closer to those who will need us more, day by day.
Friday, December 8th, 2017 at 9:14am.
Friday, October 6th, 2017 at 10:29am.
What is RMS and why do we have it?
May was the busiest month in over two years, but was it short lived?
Tuesday, July 11th, 2017 at 8:59am.
The equally short answer is yes, it was. Since our slump started in 2015, we would usually see two months in the year where sales were stronger than the rest. I had anticipated the same this year, but June fell substantially short of May numbers. In fact, sales dropped by 30%. This almost certainly means we will not see a recovery in prices this year (not that we really expected that, anyway).
Fort McMurray Housing Market Update - Will May be the busiest month this year to date?
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017 at 11:22am.
May has nearly come and gone! For obvious reasons, we aren't able to compare activity this month to May last year. What I can tell you is that sales continue to show signs of strength, possibly gaining in momentum for the next month or so. Currently there have been 51 firm sales in May with a further 44 conditionally under offer. These numbers mean that May will almost certainly be the busiest month this year to date.
Thursday, April 20th, 2017 at 10:55am.
What is the Fort McMurray real estate market doing in April?
Thursday, April 20th, 2017 at 10:25am.
What's happening to the mobile home market in Fort McMurray?
The mobile sector is showing signs of improvement from last year but there is still a lot of pressure on the sector. We have fewer homes on the market this year and sales are definitely higher. Last February for example, only one mobile sold in comparison to 12 this year. However, with 83 listings and at the current rate, it would take 10+ months for everything to sell. Anything above six months is considered a buyers market.
Conclusion: An improvement? Absolutely. But pressure remains and prices will likely continue to reflect the high competition between sellers.
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Thursday, April 20th, 2017 at 9:55am.
What's happening to the condo market in Fort McMurray?
While 2017 sales have outpaced those in 2016, the condominium market is still lacking activity moving into spring. Sales increased fairly dramatically in February which could be because of companies buying condos to house their employees for the rebuild. However, since that time, sales have slowed again. Average prices crept up in March because of the increased activity in February but it looks as though that will be short lived.
Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 at 10:22am.
Whats happening to the single family homes in Fort McMurray?
We've seen a 28% increase in sales the first three months of 2017 in comparison to last year and it looks to continue. We already have 31 firm sales in April which is what we saw in the entire month last year. On top of that, we have 31 homes currently under offer which means we'll likely break past 60 sales again. The number of homes on the market has increased from last year by 9% but with the higher number of sales, our months of inventory has fallen from 16 to 8 which is a marked improvement.
Average listing prices fell to their lowest levels in November and have slowly been creeping up since that point.
We've got ten days left in March with 42 firm sales already and 19 pending (under offer). It looks like we are going to get close to March 2015 sales numbers which is great to see. More interesting than that, we are already at 119 sales for the year. In 2015 we saw 129 sales over the same period so it looks like the balancing of our market is continuing. We haven't felt the Spring rush yet but it could be just around the corner!


I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving spending time with friends & family! I sure had an awesome few days off of school & work! I got a hair cut, had a dermatologist appointment & even got to catch up with my best friend over breakfast on Saturday! I spent five wonderful nights at my parents house in McKinney & got back to Lubbock Sunday evening. Here are some fun pictures from my visit with family & our Thanksgiving celebration!
Unfortunately, after such a great week I came home to find out that my house had been broken into while my roommate & I were away. Womp womp womp. Huge bummer!
My roommate got home first & texted me about it while I was still on the road. A few of our things were taken, our house was a wreck, & my feelings were hurt. I don't know how else to describe what I felt when I found out. I felt violated. I felt hurt. I was super bummed out. It's a weird feeling to know something like that happened & there is nothing you can do to change it. I've had a rough time sleeping the past few nights which is tough, not to mention I'm starting to get sick.
Even though it stinks & I'm frustrated about the whole situation, God has taught me two very important things over the past few days. First it's been cool to realize how God is still God in every situation. He is still concerned with the details & still has His hand on everything. For example, I feel extremely blessed that I didn't get home first. My roommate walked in to see the house in shambles & I had a few hours to prepare myself to see what had happened. Also, my roommate Josefine doesn't have a car, so I'm incredibly thankful that she wasn't there when it happened! If she had been there they might not have known & that would have been an entirely different experience. The Lord is really teaching me how He is constantly working in our lives & how He is still orchestrating the details, things that seem minute but turn out to be very important.
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The second thing I feel like the Lord has taught me is, ironically, thankfulness. I just feel blessed to have a roof over my head, food in my fridge, & a cozy warm bed to sleep in. Those things aren't rights, they are privileges & after having my house broken into, I'm even more aware of that. I am blessed to have a car to drive & clothes to wear. Although we are now transitioning out of the season of Thanksgiving & into the season of Christmas, I find it so important not to allow the heart of thankfulness to leave us. I think more than anything this season should be an extension of thanks with an addition of selflessness!
My challenge to you is this: For the next month or so, try your best to focus on doing things for others. Not with an attitude of pride but with an attitude of service. We are so blessed in this country with so many freedoms & a lot of privileges so I pray that we might be able to reflect on the blessings in our own lives so that we can focus on being a part of the betterment of others' lives!
Happy Wednesday & welcome to the Christmas season!


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After my sheet mask, I added moisturizer, eye cream, neck cream, then finished with my Sulwhasoo Radiance Energy Mask, which you've also heard about before. Triple winner - minus the technical difficulties with the Manefit mask.
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Sasha Chislenko and his friend Vanessa came up to visit this weekend, and last night we rented the movie Gattaca, which I had not seen before. I recall some talk a while back on the list about it, mostly concern with the Big Brotherly aspects of the police investigating the murder in the movie, sucking up DNA evidence everywhere. However, I found that the most important part of the movie, which was incredibly uplifting, was the story of Vincent, who exceeded the limits imposed by his supposed genetic destiny and society, and that he was able through his example, to teach those around him about what true potential is all about.


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'I was gobsmacked by the filth'
Leyla Sanai
When hospital consultant Leyla Sanai became a patient herself, she was shocked by the state of Britain's wards - and not in the least surprised to catch a superbug
Tue 21 Jan 2003 11.24 EST
Imagine staying in a budget hotel. No, a really cheap hotel. Now think of what your reaction would be if you walked into the en suite bathroom and found a pile of faecally stained paper knickers and a blood-soaked bandage. It would, of course, be totally unacceptable.
Now here's the paradox. What is unthinkable in a hotel for fit, healthy people happens on a daily basis in hospitals caring for the sick. Those most at risk of infection are subjected to the filthiest conditions. If we saw sights like that in the third world, our stomachs would heave. But somehow, we've become accustomed to it in the good old NHS.
As a former hospital consultant, I'm well aware of the causes of infection. Having been a patient more than 40 times in the past two years (with a rare condition called scleroderma), I have also gained insight into why it has become so common. When you've had an operation, you recuperate on the ward for up to three weeks, and so there is a chance to scrutinise hygiene on a daily basis. The basic cleaning standards that I saw were enough to make Alexander Fleming turn in his grave.
Fleming developed penicillin, and over-use of the multitude of other antibiotics that have been developed in the following decades has contributed to the rise of hospital superbugs: by treating self-limiting infections with unnecessary antibiotics, the mutation of bacteria into resistant forms is encouraged. These resistant forms, immune to most antibiotics in the pharmacological armoury, are the cause of the MRSA epidemic.
But far more important than the over-use of antibiotics is the neglect of basic hygiene. A survey a few weeks ago found that 40% of Scottish hospital wards do not have enough nurses. Those in the rest of the UK fare little better. Overstretched staff run from bed to bed, and in the frenzy of a busy acute medical or surgical ward, often fail to wash their hands between patients. Doctors also un wittingly spread infection - a recent survey found that only a tiny minority of doctors clean their stethoscope between patients, thereby spreading bacteria from the skin of one patient to the next.
However, the truly gobsmacking revelation I had as a patient was the total neglect of ward cleaning. In the olden days, matron would cause hearts to quake when she scrutinised the area under beds, and ran her finger along ledges, inspecting for dust. Nowadays, in all the hospitals I was in, with the notable exception of the Royal Free in London, there was an appalling lack of any form of ward cleaning. The hospitals had obviously spent their cleaning money on perky little uniforms for the cleaners and didn't have enough left to supply enough domestic staff to wear them or for basic detergents.
Each day, a weary cleaner would appear, her knackered face at odds with the smart, pert yellow nylon dress. Her bucket contained a puddle of black water and she was armed with a balding, grimy mop. Her duties consisted of "cleaning" up to six wards of 40 patients in a few hours, which gave her minutes to attend to each room. Consequently, the cleaning of each room consisted solely of emptying the dustbin and half-heartedly running the tap in the sink for a minute. The mop was used only in the visible areas of the ward - the corridors down which managers and visiting MPs stride. She never changed the fetid water in her bucket, or added detergent to it. The areas where hygiene was truly important - the rooms on the wards where patients slept, and, most importantly, the bathrooms - received scant attention.
During my first admission, 18 months ago, I was moved between six wards in three weeks. I was isolated because I picked up an MRSA infection from the hospital, so each time, I was in a single room with its own bathroom. Not once, in three weeks, did a cleaner bring the mop into the bathroom, nor did it happen on any of the subsequent 40 or so admissions. As an experiment, in one room I occupied for a few weeks, I kicked a pubic hair from the previous occupant into a corner of the bathroom. It remained there. In four of the six rooms I was moved into on my first admission, a nasty surprise from the previous occupant awaited me in the adjoining bathroom - faecally soiled incontipads, a blood-stained theatre gown, old used dressings smeared with pus, and a filthy toilet bowl.
When I was transferred from the high-dependency unit (the only pristine ward) to the acute surgical ward, the previous occupant of my new room was being wheeled out on her bed as I was being trundled in. I was on the verge of asking why I was being moved in without the room being cleaned first, but bit my tongue in case I alienated the overworked nursing staff. When one thrust the grubby thermometer by the bed, used by the previous occupant, under my arm without so much as a rinse and then placed it straight back in its container, again with no cleaning, I felt distinctly queasy. Share and share alike is all very well, but not with armpit sweat.
When I contracted MRSA in a wound on my toes, I knew exactly where it came from - the filthy shower floor, which was never cleaned during my stay. My toes, affected by poor circulation, were bandaged all the time except for the half-hour it took to have my daily shower. The source therefore had to be the shower floor. The MRSA infection was particularly annoying since this was the same time as the national press reported that MRSA was killed by simple detergents. Basic cleaning with disinfectants would have killed the bugs lurking in the wards.
My subsequent experience of hospital rooms with several beds, and shared bathrooms, has been the same. Toilets are left containing full urine bowls, faecally stained pads, blood and soiled dressings. A cleaner comes in once a day, merely to empty the bins, but infected waste from the ensuing 24 hours mounts up until the following day.
A few weeks ago, a 52-year-old woman died from a hospital superbug at Monklands hospital in Airdrie, coinciding with the findings of a fivefold increase in deaths from MRSA over a five-year period. This has thrown the topic of superbugs back into the limelight. Martha Devlin contracted MRSA after surgery last September, but the superbug mutated further to become GISA - Glycopeptide-Intermediate Staphylococcus Aureus - a strain resistant even to the few drugs used to treat MRSA.
Some patients who have been infected with MRSA are now suing the hospitals where the infection occurred. This is the case with Tony Field, in Birmingham. His lawyer has 92 similar cases on his books. It is, quite rightly, becoming unacceptable to the public to be infected with potentially lethal bacteria while in for routine surgery or medical conditions. Sadly, nowadays the only thing that makes hospital trusts change their ways is the prospect of financial penalties or bad publicity, so this may be the only way to force them to clean their wards properly. It is too late for the many patients who have died from such infections - such as Troy Eames, a 23-year-old undergoing a simple operation for an ingrowing toenail - but if further avoidable deaths can be prevented, it will be a victory for patient groups.
One of the main problems is that hospitals concentrate on areas that they know will be analysed by the government watchdogs, such as waiting times for day surgery. By spending vast sums on waiting-list initiatives (extra routine lists on non-urgent cases, such as varicose veins, carried out at weekends and after hours in order to cut waiting lists), they are neglecting vitally important areas that are not seen as being easily judged. No wonder 60% of doctors, polled several weeks ago by the British Medical Association News Review, said that they had first-hand experience of politically motivated goals distorting clinical priorities. The 300 or so current targets in the NHS have also led to a massive rise in the number of administrators, often on salaries of about £60,000, using up resources that would otherwise go to patient care. It was reported two weeks ago that there are now more managers in the NHS in England and Wales than there are beds - 211,650 managers compared with 199,670 beds.
There is also a bovine short- termism in the attitude of hospital trusts to spending. It is this myopic concentration on balancing the books, with no thought of long-term expense, that leads to them scrimping on basics, such as detergent, while eventually frittering millions away on the sequelae of the ensuing poor hygiene, in the form of expensive antibiotics. A bottle of detergent costs less than £1, while hospital-acquired infection costs the NHS between £1bn and £2bn a year.
Hospital infection: counting the cost
· More than 300,000 patients a year acquire an infection while in hospital.
· Around 5,000 patients are killed each year as a direct result of hospital-acquired infection.
· Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a variant of a common bacterium, Staphylococcus Aureus, which has mutated - changed in structure - and become resistant to commonly used antibiotics.
· MRSA is mentioned as a contributory cause of death in 25% of death certificates issued in hospitals.
· MRSA is killed by common detergents; if wards were cleaned thoroughly, MRSA would not thrive.
· A two-week course of antibiotics for MRSA costs £500 per patient.
· A hospital bed for an extra two weeks while treating that patient costs about £7,000.
· The United Kingdom spends more than £1bn in treating hospital- acquired infection - if all patients were treated, the cost would soar to over £2bn.
· In the European Union, only Malta has a worse record on hospital- acquired infection than the UK.
· Dr Leyla Sanai was a consultant anaesthetist at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow before retiring on ill health grounds.


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This thesis is about the measurement of health care output and the relationship between health care outcomes, physician practice patterns and individual physician characteristics within a very specific and particular health care sector, the health care sector on the Islands of Malta.
Chapter 2 focuses on the appropriateness of introducing a Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) casemix classification system on Maltese data. A number of tests are applied to gauge the ability of Grouper software to capture the heterogeneity between the obtained DRG groups and the degree of homogeneity gained in explaining resource use from the grouping of cases by DRG categories. This serves to provide a measure of health care 'output' whilst providing a tool to help describe and manage resource use. Chapter 3 of this thesis explores differences in the expected relationship between volume and competing risk outcomes and whether this relationship varies in view of different consultant job contract conditions. Finally, Chapter 4 of this thesis studies the behaviour of individual consultants working in the context of the specific incentives and work practices of the Maltese health care system. The role of the specific consultant job contract type is investigated to explain heterogeneity arising among treatment practice patterns over two specific periods related to the patients' stay at the hospital: the first two days of hospital stay and their remaining stay.


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Ashanti Regional NADMO Boss Denies Illegal Logging Story
Saying He Is Only A Visionary Leader
By James Appiakorang Jnr, || Kumasi
The Ashanti Regional Director of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) Mr. Kwabena Nsenkyire has denied reports that his outfit escorted illegal lumbers from Tepa to Kumasi.
It is unfortunate he noted, that some people would plot to pull him down when he has clear conscience and doing what will prevent the loss of lives instead of waiting for disasters to occur before acting.
Reacting to the allegation which has filled the nooks and crannies of social media since last week, Mr. Nsenkyire explained that the lumbers were donated to him by some well-meaning elders at Manso to be used in roofing some school blocks and the District Educational Office.
Showing an official letter from his office to the Regional Director of the Forestry Commission for the auctioned lumber, the NADMO regional boss said there was no way he could have gone for them for his personal gains or aided some people to perpetuate that illegality.
He also denied allegations that his official pick-up vehicle was escorting three trucks saying theirs was only one.
The lumber, as we gathered, was part of some auctioned products by the Forestry Commission and duly paid for by some Elders of the Amansie West District, who in turn donated it to NADMO to save their children and teachers from any mishap.
"So we had an auctioned movement authorization form signed by Mr. Yabenne, and our car had to follow the truck to Kumasi". He stressed.
For now, he said, the lumbers are in his official house while they prepare the list of schools it would be distributed to.
"As a visionary leader as I am, I will not wait till there is a disaster before I take action, but people will not understand me", he boasted.


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Low COVID-19 tests and vaccination
IFP Editorial: The vaccination rates in the hill districts of Manipur are much lower as compared to the valley districts and the national average.
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In view of the fresh waves of the pandemic in several countries, including Europe, the Union Health Ministry has sounded the alarm for continued aggressive testing and vaccination with a new vigour. Yet, several states are lagging behind in both fronts and the state of Manipur is included in both. A few days back, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya had a virtual meeting to review the progress and planning of COVID-19 vaccination in Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Puducherry where the first dose coverage is less than 70 per cent. The first dose coverage in Meghalaya was 56.7 per cent, Manipur 54.2 per cent, Nagaland 49 per cent and Puducherry 65.7 per cent then, quoting government data updated. The aim is to encourage vaccination there. According to officials, around 82 per cent of the eligible population in India have received the first dose of anti-Covid vaccine while around 43 per cent have been fully inoculated.
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The total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 116.50 crore just before the meeting. Afterwards, the Union Health Ministry has written to 13 states and Union territories, including West Bengal, Kerala, Maharashtra and Punjab, expressing concerns over declining weekly testing rates and spiking positivity rates in some districts. In a letter to Nagaland, Sikkim, Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Ladakh, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan stressed on maintaining high testing rates given the recent increase in travelling due to events like marriages, festivals and vacations that have recently concluded or are underway. The cumulative doses administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive has exceeded 119.38 crore. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 2020, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16. It went past 60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.
Meanwhile, Manipur's vaccination rate still remains low. Chief Minister N Biren Singh announced a target of achieving 100 percent vaccination for Covid 19 in the state by Christmas and he had sought the help and co-operation of the Church, village chiefs or headmen and hill based civil society organisations. But, the percentage of overall vaccination rate in the state is far from satisfactory. For the first dose, the overall percentage of vaccination has slightly increased from 54.08 per cent on 18 November to just 54.42 per cent on 24 November, while for the second dose it has moved from 34.93 per cent to 36.25 per cent. In the hills, the districts of Kangpokpi, Ukhrul and Senapati are still lagging far behind the other districts and the vaccination percentage in these districts practically remains still. The vaccination rates in the hill districts are much lower as compared to the valley districts and the national average. For the state, the number of doses administered as on Wednesday was 12,73,906 for the first dose and 8,48,592 for the second dose. In comparison to the valley districts, the other hill districts except for Churachandpur and Chandel are lagging behind in vaccination. On the other hand, the cumulative number of tests carried out in the state so far is 14,11,090 of which 1,25,070 were found positive. But, these include repeat tests for people who had to travel outside or otherwise. And in the last few weeks, the number of tests carried out per day has significantly come down to 1500-2000. The state Health department needs to explain this.
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A must-see online show at Schaller gallery!
Unfortunately, I was invited to do this show but couldn't fit it into my schedule. My bad.
Wonderful floral imagery and wonderful pots. Check it out when you have a few minutes to browse the collection!


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Arts and humanities Europe 1300 - 1800 Northern Europe 16th century Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels
Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels
David, the Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor
Gossaert, Saint Luke Painting the Madonna
Van Orley and de Pannemaker, The Last Supper
Pieter Aertsen, Meat Stall
Bruegel, the Dutch Proverbs
Bruegel, Tower of Babel
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow (Winter)
Practice: Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Peasant Wedding
Reliquary bust of a companion of Saint Ursula
Cranach and Altdorfer
Arts and humanities·Europe 1300 - 1800·Northern Europe 16th century·Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels
(lighthearted music) Male Voiceover: Art so often focuses on the lives of kings, of biblical figures, of saints and martyrs, but what about everyday people? What about most of us? Female Voiceover: Well, that's exactly what we get to see, thanks to Bruegel, who is known as the peasant painter. We're seeing a peasant wedding from the late 16th century. Male Vocieover: There's so much to look at here. There's so many people crowded into this barn-like space. You can see huge walls of hay that are being stored in the background, and in front of that, a long table with, well, the wedding party. Female Voiceover: This is a new type of painting. This is a genre painting, a scene of everyday life; and this is a subject that begins to be painted in the 16th century because the protestant reformation has happened. Male Voiceover: So, the artist traditional patron, the church and people buying art for the church, has disappeared, and so now the artist are looking for different subjects, and we have the birth of landscape painting, genre. We see still life beginning to develop. This new array of options of possibilities, but of course, patronage is still coming from the wealthy. This is a culture that was based on trade and manufacturing; and it would have been those that had made a significant amount of money that would have then gone to artists and said, "Paint me a painting about our world." Female Voiceover: So, there is something really appealing about a monumental painting of peasants celebrating life, enjoying each others' company, and celebrating a wedding. Male Voiceover: You use the world monumental a moment ago, and that's such a perfect word for this painting. Bruegel paints in a style that feels monumental. the figures are solid, they seem like the salt of the earth; everything about this painting has the feeling of warm roughness. Female Voiceover: It's important to think about that in relationship to the culture of Antwerp and Brussels, where Bruegel worked, those were big cities, that, as you said, were really wealthy; but what Bruegel is showing us here, and what his patrons wanted to see, was a much simpler life. Male Voiceover: Let's do exactly what the artist is inviviting us to do; let's walk in. Female Voiceover: There's a lot of feasting and drinking. A lot of drinking, especially. We see the figure on the lower left, he's pouring out the drink that's being enjoyed. Male Voiceover: My guess is that's beer. This is Flanders, which is now Belgium, and they made great beer; and it makes sense because that's a drink made from grain, the very material that is so much a part of the life of these peasants. They're growing it, they're harvesting it, and here, they'ere participating in a wedding on the thrashing floor. My eye first goes to that tray that's being carried by those two waiters, when they seem to be bringing in some sort of porridge or pudding in the earthenware bowls. If you look a little bit past that, you can see a man in a red cap who's picking up those bowls and seems to be passing them down the table. Female Voiceover: Carelessly, because one looks like it's about to the food is about to slip out of the bowl. Male Voiceover: True. We might look under his hand and see that there's a knife, there's a cutting board, there's a loaf of bread, and then we might go to the right. There we see, seated in a high-back chair, the notary, the legal observer of the wedding. To his left we can see a Franciscan speaking to a man, who's elegantly dressed, and really stands out. That would probably be the land-owner, the noble whose land all of these peasants work. Female Voiceover: The artist is really drawing our attention to the star of the wedding, the star of any wedding, the bride, who forms the top of a pyramid between these two figures in the foreground that you were describing. She sits in front of a green cloth, this was the tradition, below a crown and also wearing a crown; and she sits very modestly and demurely, not partaking in eating and drinking. All part of the way peasants celebrated weddings in the 16th century. Male Voiceover: Scholars have done research, and determined that Bruegel is quite accurate in his representation. He's trying to get right how these rituals were enacted, and so the idea that the bride would stay very passive with her hands folded, not eating, not speaking, under that crown made of paper. Female Voiceover: Nuptials. Definitely nuptials, is apparently quite accurate, and so it is this glimpse, not only for us now in a later era, but even for the city patrons. Female Voiceover: When we think about that kind of anthropologist, few maybe sometimes may think about a view that's very distant, but I don't feel that with Bruegel. I feel a sense of sympathy with these figures, a sense of shared humanity, and I think that's what makes him a great painter, is that we look at the faces, and they feel like people we might know or recognize. Male Voiceover: I really love the lower left corner of the painting. This little boy whose face is almost completely obscured by his hat, although he's been dressed up. He's got that wonderful peacock feather in his cap, and he's making sure that he doesn't miss any drop of that pudding. Female Voicoever: Then that figure who pours the beer is very graceful in his movements. Male Voiceover: Beautifully foreshortened rendering of the face. This is almost drawing as well as painting. All the way at the far end of the table, there's another lovely little vignette that shows a woman with a small child seated next to her, who's happily eating, and she seems to be looking up, holding her stein, saying, "Would you fill this up for me?" Female Voiceover: "Hey, would you mind getting me something else to drink?" There's also the figure who's playing the bagpipes, who's watching the food come in. It's just a really lovely glimpse into life in the 16th century, painted with a sense of warmth and generosity. Male Voiceover: We can inhabit this world with them, in just a wonderfully intimate way. (lighthearted music)
Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow