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Tue, April 30, 2019
#DisneyParksLIVE: Watch the Replay of the Disney Junior Live Stream from Disney California Adventure Park
by Gabriel Gibaldi, Public Relations Director
Our live stream welcoming Fancy Nancy has concluded – but the good news is that you can watch a replay of the stream right now!
Disney Junior's animated family comedy "Fancy Nancy" follows six-year-old Nancy, whose imagination and enthusiasm for all that is exquisite transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary – from her vast vocabulary to her creative and elaborate attire. Nancy uses ingenuity and resourcefulness to exemplify that even if life doesn't always go as planned, it's important to make the most of each day and encourage others to do the same. "Fancy Nancy" airs weekdays on Disney Channel and daily on Disney Junior, and is also available in the DisneyNOW app.
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Will she be in the park going forward after May 3 ?
Angela on April 30, 2019 at 7:32 pm
Yes, you can meet Fancy Nancy in Disney California Adventure park starting today!
Gabriel Gibaldi on May 3, 2019 at 3:15 pm
A Holiday Gift for You and Yours – 'The Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade' Airs on ABC Dec. 25
Wed, December 1, 2021 Disneyland Resort
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Fri, November 19, 2021
ABC and Disney Parks Announce a Flurry of Stars and Magical Surprises for Holiday Specials


The below description will tell you more about different types of slot machines games.
The first version of slot machines that actually requires skill as an ingredient to winning, come along with magnificent sound effects. The player must bring the reels to a halt in a colorful atmosphere of bells, whistles and flashing lights. Stopping the reel automatically on the winning symbol is impossible as the reel gradually slows down - intuition is a decisive criterion at this type of slot machines games. Besides the skills, players from all around the world (highly popular on the Asian market) must be lucky in order to master this game.
Video slot machines are the latest trend in this industry. They are so popular that since their appearance (1985), every modern casino had to have them. Contrary to analog models, video slot machines can run up to 50 lines and other side games for pure fun. Random number generators determine the symbols that aim to provide good entertainment for players. This revolutionary system is more reliable: IT experts can run many tests that are meant to ensure a fair play.
The "one arm bandits" are non-video slot machines, containing 3 to 5 reels. The random number generator is replaced by a mechanical system that activates the reel with the symbols on it. The idea according to which the reel slots can be manipulated is only a part of the folklore. There has been only one attempt and the designer was banned from every existing casino. These standard slots are the best definition for slot machines, especially if there are free slot machine games.
So, what exactly makes Multiplier Slot Machines so different out the many variants of slot machines games? Players receive specific payouts for every symbol and the number of coins multiplies the payout. Suppose the machine pays 5 coins for 3 lemons, you could win 15 coins after placing 3 coins. There is no penalty for not playing maximum coins, so those who want to play one coin at a time, should look for a multiplier machine. With the "multiplier" term on them, you just can't miss it!
Based on the same principle as the former type, bonus multiplier slots offer a bonus when hitting the jackpot. Players get paid 1,000 for one coin, 2,000 for two coins and 10,000 for maximum coins with 3 7's. The maximum bet is not subject to the multiplier rule; therefore players should evaluate their chances.
If standard slot machines offer 3 reels, these offer more than one line of play. With each coin activating a certain line, chances are that you won't receive any money if you miss the proper line in case of a jackpot.


The elopement wedding is becoming increasingly popular, as couples come to Niagara Falls from all over the world to be married. Witnesses are provided to you AT NO EXTRA COST and we will even take photos and/or video for you as a complimentary service (with your camera). Should you require us to take the photos with our camera, we can do so for a minimal charge and email them to you following the ceremony. We do, however, recommend hiring a professional photographer who can document your special day. With no family or friends present, it is important to create this long lasting memory by having photos taken.


Keywords: Thin films, WC, Monte Carlo method, metropolis algorithm, stress-strain curves.
The aim of this paper is to study the mechanical behavior of a system composed by substrate-coating using simulation methods. The contact stresses and the elastic deformation were analyzed by applying a normal load to the surface of the system consisting of a tungsten carbide (WC) thin film, which is used as a wear resistant material and a stainless steel substrate. The analysis is based on Monte Carlo simulations using the Metropolis algorithm. The phenomenon was simulated from a fcc face-centered crystalline structure, for both, the coating and the substrate, assuming that the uniaxial strain is taken in the z-axis. Results were obtained for different values of normal applied load to the surface of the coating, obtaining the Strain-stress curves. From this curve, the Young´s modulus was obtained with a value of 600 Gpa, similar to the reports.


Today in Masonic History Joshua Barney is Born in 1759.
Joshua Barney was an American naval officer during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
Barney was born in Baltimore, Province of Maryland on July 6th, 1759..
Barney began serving in the Continental Navy in February 1776. He would first serve on the Hornet as a master's mate or non-commissioned officer. On the Hornet he would take part in the attack on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. He would later serve aboard the Wasp and the Andrew Doria. On board the Andrew Doria he took a preeminent part in the defense of the Delaware River.
During Barney's service during the Revolutionary War he was taken prisoner several times. One time being imprisoned in Old Mill Prison in Plymouth, Devon, England. He escaped from prison and recounted the escape in a book he wrote entitled The Memoirs of Commodore Barney which was published in Boston in 1832 after his passing.
In 1782, Barney was put in command of the ship Hyder Ally. With that ship he was able to to capture the HMS General Monk, a vastly superior ship. Barney took command of General Monk and sailed it to France with dispatches for Benjamin Franklin. He returned to the Americas with news that peace had been declared.
After the war, Barney joined the French Navy. There he was given command of a squadron.
At the beginning of the War of 1812, Barney was coming from an unsuccessful career as a privateer. He joined the United States Navy as a Captain and was given the responsibility of defending Chesapeake Bay. He authored a plan for the defense of the Bay, which was approved by the Secretary of the Navy. He used shallow draft barges loaded with guns to annoy and attack British vessels and then retreat with them to shallow waters.
In 1814, Barney and his flotilla were pursued by several British ships and were forced to retreat up the Patuxent River. The British ships with their deeper drafts were unable to follow. The British ships in frustration began burning towns and farms along the river.
Barney led his sailors and marines in the Battle of Bladensburg in defense of the Nations Capitol. The battle was unique because it was one of only two times that a president, this time President James Madison, would use his authority as Commander-in-Chief on the battle field. The only other time was President George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion. Barney and the rest of the troops defending the Capitol were forced to fall back before getting cut off. The British would go on to burn the Capitol and the White House. Barney was wounded in the Battle.
On December 10th, 1818, Barney while en route to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania passed away from the wound he received in the war. The bullet could not be removed from the wound he received at the Battle of Bladensburg.
Barney was a member of the Lodge of the Nine Sisters, in Paris France.


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PSG coach Tuchel anxious for signings before transfer window closes
Issued on: 01/10/2020 - 15:22 Modified: 01/10/2020 - 15:20
Paris Saint-Germain coach Thomas Tuchel claims his side cannot be expected to go on another run to the Champions League final unless new signings are made before Monday's transfer deadline.
"We will do everything we possibly can and we will never accept excuses but we have to face up to the reality and that is that we have lost players," Tuchel told reporters ahead of PSG's Ligue 1 meeting with Angers on Friday.
PSG won every domestic trophy available in France last season before going on to reach the Champions League final for the first time, losing narrowly to Bayern Munich in Lisbon in August.
However, since the end of last season they have seen captain Thiago Silva, Edinson Cavani, right-back Thomas Meunier, striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and defensive starlet Tanguy Kouassi depart, amongst others.
Apart from making Mauro Icardi's loan move from Inter Milan into a permanent transfer, the only new arrival is right-back Alessandro Florenzi, recruited on loan from Roma.
Tuchel said: "If we stay like this we can't speak about having the same objectives. Perhaps we can do it but we can't ask for the same things from such a reduced squad when we will have to fight with teams like Manchester City, Liverpool and Atletico Madrid, who have all been very strong in the transfer market."
"In a season like this, with players who will be playing a lot for their national teams, with the coronavirus, without a pre-season, with a schedule like we have, I am worried that we will pay the price in October, November, December and January," added the German.
PSG lost their first two games of the new Ligue 1 campaign. However they have since won three in a row and will be fancied to extend that run at home to Angers, even if Angel Di Maria begins a four-match ban and left-back Juan Bernat is a long-term absentee with a knee injury.
Neymar is available after escaping punishment following allegations of racist and homophobic abuse in an ill-tempered defeat by Marseille last month.
The French league's disciplinary committee ruled on Wednesday that it did not have sufficient proof to take action against the Brazilian or Marseille defender Alvaro Gonzalez, who Neymar had accused of calling him a "monkey".
Friday's game, which will be played before a maximum of 1,000 spectators due to tightened coronavirus restrictions in Paris, is PSG's last before the international break.
However, their schedule is set to get very busy from the middle of this month, with the Champions League group stage starting on October 20.
Player to watch: Lucas Paqueta
Brazil midfielder Paqueta, 23, this week joined Lyon from AC Milan on a five-year deal for a fee of 20 million euros ($23.4m).
Paqueta, capped 11 times by Brazil, joined Milan from Flamengo in January last year but failed to properly settle at San Siro.
Amid ongoing speculation that Houssem Aouar and Memphis Depay will leave Lyon before Monday's transfer deadline, Paqueta could make his Ligue 1 debut when his new team host bitter rivals Marseille on Sunday.
3 - PSG have lost just three times at home in 73 Ligue 1 games over the last five seasons.
13 - Rennes top the table with 13 points ahead of the weekend. It is their best ever start to a top-flight season.
100 - Lyon and Marseille meet for the 100th time in France's top flight. The game has become one of the great rivalries in Ligue 1 in recent years.
Fixtures (kick-offs GMT)
Paris Saint-Germain v Angers (1900)
Lens v Saint-Etienne (1500), Nice v Nantes (1900)
Montpellier v Nimes (1100), Bordeaux v Dijon, Brest v Monaco, Metz v Lorient, Strasbourg v Lille (all 1300), Rennes v Reims (1500), Lyon v Marseille (1900)

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FutureSake Dialogues- Schools & Sustainable Cities
FutureSake Dialogues - Schools & Sustainable Cities is a discussion hosted by Worldview Education in association with UN-Habitat commemorating World Cities Day with a renowned group of education leaders, educators and experts from across the academia, NGOs, government agencies and the media.
Schools converge large, diverse and powerful communities and also large tracts of land in congested cities. They hold immense power and are perfectly positioned to catalyse a solution-driven generation by virtue of the resources that they bring together within their ecosystem. Schools can reimagine themselves to be a microcosm of a smart city. We envision "Schools to be the Primary Engines of Positive Change" for building Sustainable, Liveable and Loveable Cities of Tomorrow. The clarion call for change has been the loudest from young city folk and so there isn't a better time for them to step in and be at the forefront of shaping the future of their cities, and for educators, the world over to tap into and amplify this great unifier by equipping Gen-Z with the necessary capacity to adapt!
The Worldview Story- Harnessing the Power of the Gen-Z
Worldview Education is an experiential learning platform based in India & Singapore that has been championing for transformative leadership for over a decade now, facilitating the transformation of Gen-Z into Gen-S - a Generation of Solvers. Worldview's mission is to develop leaders who will positively influence the society around them. Worldview's initiatives revolve around an attitude of problem-solving focused on issues that have been carefully woven out of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) relevant to the current times such as Global Citizenship, Urban Sustainability, Environment Conservation, Technology & Universal Wellness. Through its various initiatives and programs, Worldview have engaged over 35000 students hailing from 500+ schools across 25 countries.
Rosa Suriñach Frígola, Advocacy, Outreach and Partnerships Coordinator, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat);
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Q: Guessing a number, true or false? Python I want to assign something a value and then try and get someone to guess that value. I have tried something along the lines of this but I can't seem to get it to work...:
   foo = 1
   guessfoo = input('Guess my number: ')
   if foo == guessfoo:
       print('Well done, You guessed it!')
   if foo != guessfoo:
       print('haha, fail.')

Why doesn't this work? And how should I be doing it? I am a beginner at this, please help!

A: With python version 3 :
input() returns a 'str' (string) object. A string compares to an integer returns False :
1 == '1'
False

You must cast your input like that :
guessfoo = int(input('Guess my number: '))

Don't forget to try...except if the result of the input cannot be casted into an int.
Full example code :
try:
    foo = 1
    guessfoo = int(input('Guess my number: '))
    if foo == guessfoo:
        print('Well done, You guessed it!')
    else:
        print('haha, fail.')
except ValueError:
    # cannot cast your input
    pass

EDIT:
With python version 2 :
Thanks for this comment :

In previous versions, input would eval the string, so if the user typed in 1, input returned an int.

Ouput or your original code:
$ python2 test.py
Guess my number: 1
Well done, You guessed it!

A: Currently you have no condition to stop the loop. You're just printing stuff. Put a break after you guessed the number, or set loop to a different value than 1.

A: Because integers (foo) aren't strings (result of input()).
If you think that Python behaves like PHP or Perl then you are wrong
1 is something completely different than '1'.
You have to either convert the string using int(..) to an int or check against 'foo'
as a string.

A: import random

try:
    inp = raw_input   # Python 2.x
except NameError:
    inp = input       # Python 3.x

foo = random.randint(1,10)
while True:
    guess = int(inp('Guess my number: '))
    if guess < foo:
        print('Too low!')
    elif guess > foo:
        print('Too high!')
    else:
        print('You got it!')
        break

A: It looks like the first problem will be an infinite loop, since the condition you're checking each iteration will always be true with the above code.  When you loop, you need to make sure you change something that will bring loop closer to that condition. As a start, your code should look like this:
loop = 1
while loop == 1:
   foo = 1
   guessfoo = input('Guess my number: ')
   if foo == guessfoo:
       print('Well done, You guessed it!')
       loop = 0
   if foo != guessfoo:
       print('Oh no, try again')

This will cause the loop to finish executing if the number is actually guessed.
The next problem is that input returns a String, so the check to see if the entered number is equal to the expected number will always fail.  In python, use the int() function to convert a string to a number, so that line looks like:
guessfoo = int(input('Guess my number: '))

At this point, you should have a decently-working loop.  However, there are a few things you could do to make your code simpler.  Here are some suggestions,  starting with the simplest tweaks and moving to cleaner code.
The first step could be to use if...else to make sure only one condition is executed, and you only have to check the value of foo once.  If the condition is true, the first branch is executed; if it fails, execution proceeds to the else block.
loop = 1
while loop == 1:
   foo = 1
   guessfoo = int(input('Guess my number: '))
   if foo == guessfoo:
       print('Well done, You guessed it!')
       loop = 0
   else:
       print('Oh no, try again')

This works, but we can also move the check for a correct result in the condition of the loop.  This way, the program only loops until the number is displayed:
foo = 1
guessfoo = 0

while foo != guessfoo:
    guessfoo = int( input( 'Guess my number: ' )

    if guessfoo != foo:
        print( 'Oh no, try again' )

print( 'Well done, You guessed it!' )

Now the success message will only be displayed when foo == guessfoo.  This loop is a bit clearer and simpler.
As a beginner, you've chosen a great place to ask for help!  Welcome to StackOverflow!

A: Also, should you be using two different if's?
shouldn't it be something more like
if foo == guessfoo:
   print('Well done, you guessed it!')
else:
   print('haha, fail.')

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Kaiser father and son take to the trails for K300 race weekend
Krysti Shallenberger, Alaska's Energy Desk - Bethel
Bethel's Pete Kaiser is victorious in the 2019 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, securing his first win Wednesday, March 13. (Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media photo)
Bethel is gearing up for a big sled dog racing weekend as top-tier mushers from around the state arrive to compete in the Kuskowkim 300. Each year, the K300 Race Committee puts on its three big races during one big weekend, including its signature K300 race, the Bogus Creek 150, and the Akiak Dash.
Meanwhile, a familiar face will be headed out on the trail: Ron Kaiser, the father of reigning Iditarod Champion Pete Kaiser.
A year ago, Ron and Janet Kaiser sat in their kitchen, recalling four decades of sled dog racing. Pete Kaiser, their son, was eying a possible fifth consecutive K300 win at the time, but had yet to win his first Iditarod. At that time, Ron was a little impatient for a victory.
"And you know, it's been a while. It's been 10 Iditarods coming up, and I'm ready any time if he wants to do it," Ron said in 2019.
Pete didn't get his fifth K300 trophy, but he did get his first Iditarod victory come March.
In some ways, nothing has changed. Father and son are out on the tundra training sled dogs for the races that have defined so much of their lives. Pete's handler for the past three years returned to his homeland in Norway, so it was Ron who volunteered to help out.
"I wanted him to be as strong as with his team in defending his champion, and you know, maybe he could pull off another Kusko victory too would be great," Ron said.
This year, Ron is running the Bogus Creek 150. It's a faster race than the signature Kuskokwim 300, which Ron has also raced before. For the Bogus, sled dog teams typically run between 12 and 13 miles an hour instead of the mellower 10-mile-per-hour pace for longer distances. Ron is also getting used to being back on a sled. Most of his training this year has been behind a snowmachine, but the last couple of practice runs were on a sled.
"I was a little sore the first time, the second time not too bad. So yeah, I'm ready to go," Ron said.
Helping him out is long-time friend Rick Hanson. The last time Ron raced the Bogus was in 2015, the same year that Pete won his first Kuskokwim 300. Ron placed third in the Bogus that year. So far, the biggest challenge has been getting used to Pete's dogs.
"A lot of them look alike, for one thing. I know his dogs that he's had a long time, but I'm learning their names," Ron said.
He said that Pete has trained them so well that they will respond to a different driver on the sled. Even though Ron is running the Bogus to help Pete train his dogs, he says not to count him out.
"Would I love to win the Bogus? I would love to win the Bogus if I can," Ron said.
But his primary goal is to keep Pete's dogs in shape and ready for his 12th Iditarod run, and hopefully his second Iditarod championship.
The Kuskokwim 300 and Bogus 150 races will start on Friday, January 17. The Akiak Dash's mass start is scheduled to start on January 18.
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Home > Experts Urge Obama Administration Review U.S. Cluster Munitions Policy and Support New Global Treaty
Experts Urge Obama Administration Review U.S. Cluster Munitions Policy and Support New Global Treaty
Contact: Jeff Abramson, 202-463-8270 x109; Daryl Kimball, 202-463-8270 x107
(Washington, D.C.): President-elect Obama's national security team will have to grapple with a number of issues, including U.S. policy on certain types of conventional munitions that harm civilians. An early decision will be how to respond to the new Convention on Cluster Munitions, which 100 or more world leaders are expected to sign beginning tomorrow in Oslo.
The new international treaty, which may enter into force as soon as six months after the signing ceremony, will ban the use of weapons that have indiscriminately killed and maimed thousands of noncombatants and continue to pose a hazard today, in some cases more than 30 years after their initial use. The Bush administration has opposed the treaty despite the commitment of the United Kingdom and most other NATO allies to adopt the convention, to discontinue use of cluster munitions, and to destroy their stockpiles.
"Obama's new national security team has the opportunity to shift U.S. policy on these and other important humanitarian and security issues,"said Jeff Abramson, conventional weapons analyst with the Arms Control Association.
"The president-elect has indicated a willingness to support international initiatives to limit harm to civilians caused by conventional weapons. As president, Obama can begin by reexaming recent Defense Department decisions on cluster munitions with an eye toward signing the convention in 2009 and bringing the United States inline with the new global consensus," Abramson urged.
Answers to frequently asked questions on cluster munitions are available at http://www.armscontrol.org/pressroom/CCMFAQ.
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This post is by Bath SETsquared mentor Martin Coulthard. You can contact Martin at https://www.numerable.io/contact/ or meet him at our First Tuesday session in April.
Do your eyes glaze over when you are faced with tables of numbers in financial reports?
Mine do. I've sat in hundreds of board meetings - for my own companies, businesses I've invested in and others where I've been a non-executive director. In each meeting there is a pile of tabular financial reports, with the occasional graph. We talk through them to work out what is going on, what caused it and what we can do about it. I'm sure we've often missed key points and haven't always made the best decisions. There must be a better way.
Your accounts hold some of your company's most valuable data, and should guide how you manage your business. If you are on top of your accounts you are more likely to avoid financial problems - such as running out of cash, the most common cause of business failure.
My startup Numerable Software is developing an innovative cloud system that instantly turns data from Xero into interactive, graphical presentations and reports, to effectively tell the story behind the numbers. It will save time preparing for board meetings and make those meetings more productive, so directors can see trends, risks and opportunities, and make better decisions.
We particularly want to help entrepreneurs who don't have a financial background get to grips with their accounts.
We are still shaping our product, so we'd love to talk to you about how you prepare and use your accounts information.
If you'd like to help us create a world-leading solution, or just learn more about what we are doing, please contact me at https://www.numerable.io/contact/.
I'll be talking about all of this at the First Tuesday event on 10th April in the Innovation Centre, so I hope to see you there.


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2014, c. 1 (Bill C-16)
Sioux Valley Dakota Nation Governance Act
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Northwest Territories Devolution Act
2014, c. 5 (Bill C-9)
First Nations Elections Act
Not Criminally Responsible Reform Act
2014, c. 7 (Bill C-462)
Disability Tax Credit Promoters Restrictions Act
Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (mischief relating to war memorials)
2014, c. 10 (Bill C-444)
An Act to amend the Criminal Code (personating peace officer or public officer)
2014, c. 11 (Bill C-34)
Tla'amin Final Agreement Act
Fair Elections Act
2014, c. 13 (Bill C-5)
Offshore Health and Safety Act
Canada–Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the National Defence Act (criminal organization recruitment)
Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation Act
An Act to change the names of certain electoral districts and to amend the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act
An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Corrections and Conditional Release Act (restrictions on offenders)
An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Tackling Contraband Tobacco Act
Protecting Canadians from Unsafe Drugs Act (Vanessa's Law)
National Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Heritage Day Act
Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act
Canada–Korea Economic Growth and Prosperity Act
Safeguarding Canada's Seas and Skies Act
2014, c. 30 (Bill S-213)
Lincoln Alexander Day Act
Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act
Combating Counterfeit Products Act
National Health and Fitness Day Act
2014, c. 35 (Bill S-5)
Nááts'ihch'oh National Park Reserve Act
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The average home owner's first thought when you mention the term remodeling their kitchen and bath is to "Tear out and Replace" the room.Since kitchens and baths are the rooms that usually have the most hard surfaces these are where the largest challenges and expenses occur.
Complete or Conventional Remodeling involves messy tear out of not only the fixtures but also removal of the floors, beams, walls, then rebuilding the rooms from scratch using new materials. The benefits to these options are many, but because of the mess, daily lack of privacy, inconvenience and cost, this is not a viable option for most of us. Has your bathtub and tile lost its shine? Have you found them increasingly difficult to keep clean? Or are the colors outdated? We can help! We can reglaze your porcelain or fiberglass bathtub right in place in just a few hours. The same can even be done with your ceramic tile. And we can change the color to almost any color of your choice. The new finish is very glossy and extremely hard, giving it a beautiful appearance and making the cleaning so much easier.
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Fortunately there is an affordable way to renew your kitchens and bathrooms without all the hassles, cost and inconveniences of conventional remodeling. This is also known as refinishing, resurfacing or reglazing. The concept and procedure have actually been around for about 50 years but is still mostly not known about to the average homeowner. The final product is a durable, modern looking finish with a five year warranty coverage. Your friends will think you spent a small fortune on a new bathroom.
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In 2005 a young woman named Sophia Mirza became the first person in the UK whose death was directly attributed to complications of ME. Her death attracted a lot of media attention as her family and some ME advocacy groups attributed it to inappropriate treatment. Mirza's medical team believed that she was suffering from a mental disorder and that the physical symptoms she experienced had a psychosomathic cause. According to her family, this made her condition worse and ultimately led to her death.
Even though ME received a lot of media attention following Mirza's death in 2005, a recent survey reveals that the UK public is largely unfamiliar with this potentially fatal condition. Many people have never heard of it, while only a minority knew what ME stands for, its main symptoms, treatment options, etc. ME advocacy groups therefore emphasise the need for more awareness raising campaigns. By increasing the public awareness of the condition and the suffering it causes, ME patients will not only feel less stigmatised but they are also more likely to get proper treatment.
Unfortunately, the condition continues to be surrounded by controversy, especially when it comes to severity of its symptoms and their origin. To make things worse, there is no agreement within the medical community about virtually anything as some health experts continue to view ME as a psychosomathic or mental condition. As a result, they recommend psychiatric treatment which has been shown very dangerous and in case of Sophia Mirza, fatal.
The medical community can't even agree on how to call ME. In addition to myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME, the condition is often also referred to as chronic fatigue syndrome or CFS. The latter is strongly opposed by both the patients and a growing part of the medical community because it suggests that it is not 'real' medical condition. And as long as it is not perceived and recognised as such, ME patients will face a number of obstacles in accessing health care and social security.


A survey of the history and cultures of the French Caribbean from the colonial era to the present.
Describe the broad historical development of French Caribbean culture from the colonial era to the present.
Identify major movements and important people in the literature, plastic arts, and music of French Caribbean culture.
Identify linguistic and dialectal particularities of French Caribbean culture in broad terms.
Read French historical and anthropological treatments of the French Caribbean, and literary works from the region written in French, and summarize these works in appropriate written French.
Identify the main points and/or summarize the basic argument of authentic video recordings in French in appropriate written French.
Use spoken French to describe and evaluate a limited selection of cultural artifacts from the French Caribbean within their historical and cultural context in an organized and comprehensible manner to their peers.


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ELECTORS AND ELECTIONS Chapter 105
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F.S. 105.08
105.08 Campaign contribution and expense; reporting.—
(1) A candidate for judicial office or the office of school board member may accept contributions and may incur only such expenses as are authorized by law. Each such candidate shall keep an accurate record of his or her contributions and expenses, and shall file reports pursuant to chapter 106.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or chapter 106, a candidate for retention as a justice or a judge who has not received any contribution or made any expenditure may file a sworn statement at the time of qualifying that he or she does not anticipate receiving contributions or making expenditures in connection with the candidacy for retention to office. Such candidate shall file a final report pursuant to s. 106.141, within 90 days following the general election for which the candidate's name appeared on the ballot for retention. Any such candidate for retention to judicial office who, after filing a statement pursuant to this subsection, receives any contribution or makes any expenditure in connection with the candidacy for retention shall immediately file a statement to that effect with the qualifying officer and shall begin filing reports as an opposed candidate pursuant to s. 106.07.
History.—s. 8, ch. 71-49; s. 38, ch. 77-175; s. 3, ch. 89-152; s. 634, ch. 95-147; s. 8, ch. 99-326; s. 6, ch. 99-355.


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Wenham é uma vila localizada no condado de Essex no estado estadounidense de Massachusetts. No Censo de 2010 tinha uma população de 4.875 habitantes e uma densidade populacional de 231,18 pessoas por km².

Geografia
Wenham encontra-se localizado nas coordenadas . Segundo o Departamento do Censo dos Estados Unidos, Wenham tem uma superfície total de 21.09 km², da qual 19.84 km² correspondem a terra firme e (5.91%) 1.25 km² é água.

Demografia
Segundo o censo de 2010, tinha 4.875 pessoas residindo em Wenham. A densidade populacional era de 231,18 hab./km². Dos 4.875 habitantes, Wenham estava composto pelo 95.82% brancos, o 0.62% eram afroamericanos, o 0.12% eram amerindios, o 1.68% eram asiáticos, o 0.08% eram insulares do Pacífico, o 0.8% eram de outras raças e o 0.88% pertenciam a duas ou mais raças. Do total da população o 1.95% eram hispanos ou latinos de qualquer raça.

Vilas de Massachusetts
Localidades do condado de Essex (Massachusetts)

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News > Head Office > 2016 > Jul > 12th > The Game Fair 2016
The Game Fair 2016
Friday 29 – Sunday 31 July
The CPSA will be exhibiting at The Game Fair at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire on Gunmakers Row and as part of The Shooting Line from July 29-31. Bringing our expert skills and knowledge, there will be the opportunity for the whole family to interact and take part in a range of activities.
We will be running a 'Have a Go' Clayline stand, where anyone can come and shoot some clays under the guidance of our CPSA qualified instructors. The Clayline will feature 5 stands and can be enjoyed by everyone – whether young, old, novice or future top shot. Additionally, there will also be the chance to come and try the Akkar Triple Barrel shotgun.
Ross Elgie will be among the Team England Shooters on hand over the three days to offer some advice and inspiration to the future generations of shooters.
On top of this there will be two competitions taking place throughout the weekend. The Champion of Champions takes place on Saturday July 30 and is made up of the top Sporting Shooter from each County. The competition will see each contestant shoot a qualifying round, with the top ten coming back for a semi-final, before the top 5 compete in a shoot off to decide the winner.
The inspiring Colts Challenge will be held on the Sunday. The competition features the top ten young (under 16) English Sporting shooters divided into two semi-final sets of 5, with the top 5 then selected for a shoot-off. This is a unique opportunity for any thriving amateurs and young shots to see their peers in action.
If all this gets you hooked, there will be CPSA staff on hand across the weekend to chat to about the memberships we offer, renewing your membership and the chance to enter a competition or two. So whether you are new to the sport, or an existing CPSA member attending The Game Fair, come down and say 'Hello!'
CPSA members can purchase their discounted tickets for The Game Fair by following this link.
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Merge "Adds flavor API tests"
+        """Delete a flavor for tempest cleanup.
+        :param flavor_id: The flavor ID to delete.
+            LOG.info("Flavor %s is already gone. "
+    """Test the flavor object API."""
+        """Setup resources needed by the tests."""
+        """Tests flavor create and basic show APIs.
+        * Create a fully populated flavor.
+        """Tests flavor list API and field filtering.
+        * Create three flavors.
+        * Validates that non-admin accounts cannot list the flavors.
+        * List the flavors using the default sort order.
+        * List the flavors using descending sort order.
+        * List the flavors using ascending sort order.
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Tim Murton's Twilight Zoo, a unique collection of lantern sculptures, has been decorating the streets of Elora, during the month of October, for almost two decades. Visitors started coming to Elora from all over Southern Ontario to see the display and, as popularity grew, other organizations started adding themed events, leading to the the name "Monster Month in Elora".
In 2007, Julie Denneny added an event called "Monster March", a non-motorized parade through downtown Elora where families (including pets) are encouraged to dress up in their favourite costumes and participate. The March has become an increasingly popular event on the 2nd last Saturday of October each year.
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IER was part of a consortium, led by 3s in Austria, that assessed the ways in which vocational education and training is changing across Europe in response to a number of factors. The study was commissioned by Cedefop. IER's role, under the initial direction of Terence Hogarth and Lynn Gambin and subsequently by Alan Brown, was that of identifying the way in which external factors – such as the economy – have shaped the characteristics of VET in EU Member States. All project outputs are available from the following link.


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Change in Chicago: Dr. Welby on the Witness Stand
May, 15, 2017 | 17 Comments
Editorial Note: This is part three in the Change in Chicago series covering the Dolin trial and its implications. Like part 1 it is written by Johanna Ryan – The Dolin Verdict and Playing Go.
By twenty-first century American standards, Stu Dolin's medical care was close to ideal. That's a hard idea to swallow, given what happened to him in the end, but it's true. The real paradox is why it wasn't enough to save him – and how his doctor became a victim as well.
In June 2010, while taking a generic version of the antidepressant Paxil, Dolin jumped in front of an oncoming subway train in downtown Chicago. His family was convinced that the medication had caused his suicide. Last month, a federal jury agreed. They found GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) liable for Dolin's death, and awarded $3 million to his widow Wendy – two million for her own loss, and one million for Stu Dolin's own suffering in his last week of life.
Few people succeed in suing the drug company when a loved one dies from the effects of his medication. It's far more common to sue the prescribing doctor. Plenty of lawyers are willing to take on a malpractice insurer with limited loyalty to the doctor, and a lively interest in a reasonable settlement. To face off against a multinational corporation with an unlimited war chest, which will fight like hell for the reputation of its product, is something else entirely.
An even bigger barrier is something called the Learned Intermediary Doctrine. Under American law, drug companies have no obligation to level with you, the patient, about the potential hazards of the drug. Their only obligation is to tell your doctor about those risks. He or she is then expected to function as a "learned intermediary" – a sort of educated bodyguard who will tell you what you need to know, in language you can understand, and see to it that no harm comes to you. The drug's official label (that enormous, technical document folded up and stuffed into the drug package) is written with your doctor, not you, in mind.
But what if that official label does not tell the whole truth about the drug's hazards? That was the situation faced by Martin Sachman, M.D., Stu Dolin's family doctor, who became a key witness in the Dolin lawsuit.
Marcus Welby M.D. – the old-school family doctor
That's not Martin Sachman in the picture at the top of today's blog – it's Robert Young in the title role of Marcus Welby, M.D., the popular prime-time TV drama from the 1970's. To most of us, Dr. Welby represents the family doctor we wish we could have – the one our parents had in the good old days. He was a settled presence in the neighborhood; he'd known you and your family for years. You could go to him for advice on just about anything, and you tended to trust what he told you.
For Dolin, Marty Sachman was that kind of doctor. Since about 2005, Sachman has had what's known as a "concierge" practice. For an annual fee of about $2,000 (over and above their usual insurance costs), patients can get something close to a Marcus Welby level of care from a doctor of this type. They can be reached on weekends, may even make house calls from time to time, and you're almost never limited to a ten-minute appointment.
Sachman had been Stu Dolin's doctor for at least ten years. He was also a close personal friend. (That's unusual enough these days that attorneys rushed to assure the jury there was nothing "unethical" about it. A generation or two ago it was fairly common, especially in small towns.) Often, faced with a difficult medical decision, there's one question we really want to ask the doctor: Would you give the same advice to a loved one or a best friend, if they were in my shoes? Mostly, we don't have the nerve to ask. Stu Dolin was lucky enough to know the answer would be yes.
A Job For A General Practitioner
Most family doctors take that Learned Intermediary business fairly seriously. It's one reason why they refrain from handling "specialty" drugs for complex or serious conditions, which may require expert management. Chemotherapy for cancer; biologic drugs for Crohn's disease, MS and other autoimmune disorders – those are best left to specialists.
When he began practicing medicine in the 1980's, Sachman explained, antidepressants were in that category. The older ones were more problematic, with more side effects, and were reserved for people with relatively severe symptoms. Rather than try to treat such patients himself, he'd refer them to a psychiatrist.
This changed when Paxil, Prozac and the other SSRI drugs came out in the early 1990's. They were depicted as being safe enough to be handled by general practitioners, and a reasonable option for patients whose troubles didn't warrant seeing a psychiatrist. By the mid-2000's, this had become the first-line option for dealing with both depression and anxiety.
As Dr. Sachman saw it, if a patient had mild to moderate depression in response to some trouble or stress in his life that was a "reactive" depression for which he could prescribe SSRI's. If they had serious problems with sleep and appetite, a slowed-down or unusually agitated appearance, and an inability to function in daily life, that was true "clinical depression," and they should see a psychiatrist.
Dr. Sachman knew Stu Dolin well, and the anxiety he complained of in June 2010 did not alarm him. Stu was just going through "one of his stress periods, on account of his work responsibilities. He seemed to be getting through it like he did the other times." Dr. Sachman's diagnosis was situational anxiety. A drug like Paxil could help people get through a rough period like this. The condition was fairly benign—and like the overwhelming majority of his colleagues, he considered Paxil to be a fairly benign drug.
A "Warning Label" that failed to warn
By 2010, the official label for Paxil gave physicians no reason to doubt that assessment – at least for adult patients. It warned that any antidepressant could trigger agitation and suicidal impulses in children and youth up to the age of 24. However, it also stated that "short-term studies did not show an increase in the risk of suicidality with antidepressants compared to placebo in adults beyond age 24," and showed lowered suicidality in those over 65.
The warning added two more crucial sentences:
"Depression and certain other psychiatric disorders are themselves associated with increases in the risk of suicide. Patients of all ages who are started on antidepressant therapy should be monitored appropriately and observed closely for clinical worsening, suicidality or unusual changes in behavior."
As psychiatrist Joseph Glenmullen told the jury, this label effectively blinded doctors to the risks faced by adults: "What this tells me as a practicing psychiatrist is that if I'm treating a 57-year-old patient, and I put them on Paxil, Paxil couldn't make them worse. Paxil couldn't make them suicidal." If they did feel worse, said Glenmullen, "it would be, and it says explicitly, their depression or other underlying psychiatric condition."
Worst of all, he said, "if the patient gets worse and it might be the drug, what do you do? You take them off the drug to see. If they get worse and it couldn't be the drug but it's the depression, what do you do? You increase the drug, which is going to worsen the risk. So it's very dangerous."
The regulatory history of Paxil and the other SSRI's was almost Byzantine. For years they carried no warnings of a risk for suicide. In 2004, after thousands of troubling reports, a Black Box warning was finally issued for children and adolescents. A number of medical experts felt the warning should apply with equal urgency to adults.
However, in 2007, the FDA decided on a uniform warning for all antidepressants, old and new. This was the "24 and under" label attached to both brand-name and generic Paxil in 2010. This suited GSK just fine. The FDA invited the company to discuss whether additional warnings were needed for Paxil, but GSK never took them up on it.
More importantly, it never fully shared with the FDA—and still less with doctors in the community—what it knew about the real risks of its product. In fact, GSK had known since 1989 that its drug could trigger akathisia, an agonizing combination of physical restlessness and emotional turmoil that could lead to suicide. The risk applied to both teenagers and adults; at least twenty suicides had occurred in patients on Paxil in clinical trials, the majority of them in people over age thirty.
A Doctor Taken Hostage
Thanks to GSK, that information never reached Marty Sachman. If it had, he testified, he would never have prescribed Paxil for Stu Dolin. There were plenty of other options—other drugs, and non-drug strategies – for treating situational anxiety. Because of the warning label, he said, he had never prescribed Paxil to a patient under 25; the benefits didn't seem worth the risk. He had a few adult patients who seemed to do well on Paxil; if they had been on it for several years and wanted to continue, he would refill it. However, in the seven years since Stu Dolin's death he had not written a single new Paxil script: "I don't trust the labeling," he said. "I don't trust the company, to be honest."
Marty Sachman's anguish—and his sense of betrayal—was apparent to everyone in the courtroom. Physicians like himself, he said, "rely on truth and honesty from pharmaceutical companies, and to falsify information or hold back information is totally criminal. How can we treat people effectively and safely if we can't depend on that?" They couldn't. Instead, he had prescribed a drug, and a patient had died. That alone would have been traumatic for any honest doctor; that the patient was his best friend made it devastating. It was not like being a Learned Intermediary; it was more like being a hostage.
So what about the average Joe?
Dr. Sachman never got the chance for a follow-up visit with Stu Dolin; within six days of starting Paxil, he was dead. If he had, it's just possible he could have spotted his longtime patient's real problem. Maybe even stopped the Paxil. We'll never know.
In 2010, the year Stu Dolin died, doctors wrote 259 million antidepressant prescriptions. For most patients, who don't have access to anyone remotely resembling Dr. Welby, the situation is even scarier. They may get a script for an SSRI in a ten-minute encounter with an overworked stranger, based on a checklist left in the waiting room so that every patient can be "screened" for depression. The potential number of doctors taken hostage – and patients tossed overboard – is hard to imagine.
I have to think genial old Marcus Welby, M.D. wouldn't stand for it. What about us?
We had quite a 'nice' almost Marcus Welby-type GP in 2001. We'd known him a bit over the years. He was pleasant and conscientious and we felt lucky to have him. Ditto others in his Practice. But that feeling of safety and relaxed trust in the relationships ended abruptly when the wind changed ie after our son Olly had Seroxat prescribed for him.
As Olly changed and what was clearly AKATHISIA set in, this GP lectured us over the phone about being the cause of Olly's problems because we'd listened to his concerns and believed him. We were over involved and over protective, it couldn't be the drug, blow the PIL, it had to be us. Family on Olly's dad's side, and Olly's brother and wife-to-be pitched in too, also rubbishing our concerns. (All families have issues – ours was that Olly was very much brighter than all the others, had achieved amazing academic results whilst remaining a delightful unassuming person, and there was a lot of silly jealousy flying around. One dares to suppose that they were rather pleased to see him floundering at last, the golden boy no longer glittering out front). Sad to say, once you manifest AKATHISIA and no one wants to connect it with Seroxat, you are stuffed.
It was the end of our son's Uni career, and the end of our feeling of safety with our GPs. We went on, genuflecting to them in their superiority and trying to keep these tigers from swishing their tails but things were never the same. They never quite will be. Our son died, yes, but worse than the dying was the torment, leading up to it over the years, of not being correctly diagnosed, and not being believed. And still, I guess, certain family members will never really 'get it' because they are still brown nosing and genuflecting to their godlike doctors, having let their common sense fly away just because these medics are medics, or Marcus Welbys, who know best of course.
Thanks again, Johanna, for an interesting addition to your former points concerning the Dolin Trial. Has this trial and its result opened up conversations far and wide in your area I wonder? I find it so frustrating that, here in the UK, there hasn't been any mention whatsoever in the news – neither TV/radio nor newspapers ( not to my knowledge anyway). Is this simply because of big business pressures leading to fear of reprisals or does it have more to do with a general apathy, leading to a decision of not bothering to share information which will only concern a section of society?
I had expected that the outcome – that GSK were responsible, or, if that didn't stick, then it was the FDA that were at fault – would have been welcomed far and wide. At last, the prescriber was not being blamed and neither was the patient. It wasn't the patient's mental state that was at fault and neither was it life's circumstances that created the downfall. No – it was the lack of information from the pharmaceutical company or it was the lack of information sharing. The blame was directed at the top – and there it stayed. A story worth sharing surely?
Upon reading the verdict, I got in touch with the niece of mine who is a statistician at Liverpool Uni., wondering what they made of this result. She had no idea that such a trial was in progress, never mind knowing the verdict! I couldn't believe it. I really thought that it would have been of interest to such people – actually, she was really interested and went on to find out all about it – people who deal with medical stats. day in and day out to know what goes on in the pharma world, obviously, I was wrong!
I have to say, I've been quite encouraged that the case got as much press coverage as it did! Which was one round, for one day or so. To use it as a springboard for challenging people's manufactured assumptions about SSRI's will take a lot of time and effort.
Several people have told me, for instance, that they don't see how this could have happened, as these drugs take three or four weeks to have any effect at all, at all. It's one of those things "everybody knows" that just ain't so — and probably convinces a lot of people who feel worse on SSRI's that it's their own illness at work.
One thing it taught me was to deepen my cynicism about "independent" "non-commercial" outlets like National Public Radio. Every other news outlet in town referred to the drug as PAXIL in their coverage. Only NPR, in its two-line throwaway coverage, called it "paroxetine." Very sensitive … to SOMEBODY's needs!
Glad it got some coverage anyway Johanna. Hope you've framed some of them for posterity – ready for the day when ALL believe what we know to be true. You can produce them, at that time, and proudly declare "I know 'cos I was there". As for the argument of can/can't cause difficulties in the first few weeks of ingesting – it's my belief that they can cause havoc within HOURS, never mind weeks, for some unfortunate individuals. Paroxetine – Paxil – Seroxat – whatever the name, each small tablet contains the same destructive element which destroys the lives of many users.
Everything that you say regarding GP issues are quite understandable, Heather, considering the consequences of his prescribing on your family. Having said that, maybe we do need to consider the GP's situation in this – as seen at the Dolin trial, the GP was not given the whole truth regarding the akathisia/ suicide link, therefore he was not held responsible. My feeling, like yours, is that he jolly well SHOULD have known – but, not having ever walked in his shoes, I do feel that my feelings are probably a reaction to an experience rather than a considered opinion. Throughout his fifteen years since being given that prescription for Seroxat, Shane has remained adamant that his GP did what he considered to be BEST SUITED for Shane's needs AT THAT TIME and won't have any criticism of his GP's decision. I accept that opinion but do feel that GPs should be better prepared for an adverse reaction should one manifest itself. There is, by now, enough information out there for every GP to be totally aware of the POSSIBILITY of a reaction; whether that is likely to happen very rarely or not should have no bearing whatsoever on their acquisition of the facts. They MUST take responsibility for each and every patient that they treat surely?
Dealing with Ro- Accutane is slightly different in some ways. Handing out prescriptions for antidepressants, in anyone's book, is tricky. Handing out prescriptions for an acne cure – what can possibly go wrong? We know that the truth of the Ro Accutane story is far from simple. Where both the Seroxat and Ro-Accutane stories are so similar is that the possible complications ARE KNOWN and are being DISMISSED – it seems, since some patients must be sacrificed for the sanity of the others. So unfair. There again, aren't we living in a 'democracy' where many are 'sacrificed' in everyday life for the 'sanity' of others? If only the issues of everyday UK life were changed, maybe then we would have a better chance of changing attitudes towards the realities of Seroxat, Ro-Accutane and all the other problematic products.
We amazingly seem to blindly accept 'collateral damage' – the deaths of some for the cure of others. Like with vaccines. But with Roaccutane, so MANY are dying, after lives filled with torment, and the traumatised parents are left in disbelief after each death. "We tried so hard" they protest, "but in the end, all in vain."
As you say Mary, all they did was take a medically pushed-on them course of pills for acne. So some of us just cannot accept these collateral deaths any more. Some go on fighting (like us) but never seeing the wind change. Some curl up with a bottle of gin and hope it will all go away, and who can blame them? Some even end their own lives too. The system is corrupt and wrong. But who's going to change it, and how?
Interesting 'Details' about the 'Doctor' in a Paroxetine Suicide ..
'Dr. Breggin testified that the negligent prescription of the antidepressant Paxil (paroxetine) caused Mr. Mazella's condition to deteriorate, ultimately causing or contributing to his suicide. In addition, Dr. Breggin testified that Dr. Beals abandoned the patient, further causing or contributing to the tragic outcome.'
Paxil Suicide Retrial Settled by Defendants
In 2014, psychiatrist Peter Breggin was the medical expert in a case involving a Paxil-induced suicide and helped the surviving family win the malpractice suit. The case was recently overturned on a technical issue and resumed last Monday, resulting in a settlement the following day.
Click here to read Dr. Breggin's description of the case, report to the judge, and 37 accompanying scientific articles.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/05/paxil-suicide-retrial-settled-defendants/
What your doctor may not know …
http://breggin.com/joseph-mazella-vs-william-beals-md/
Would Stu Dolin have been any safer if he'd gotten his meds from a "specialist" in psychiatry, rather than a mere GP? I don't think so.
It's hard to say, of course. Only one professional helper had a chance to see him after he began taking Paxil – his counselor, Ms. Reed, the night before he died. He said he felt like he was having a nervous breakdown, and she was alarmed at how agitated he seemed. She called him the next morning to urge him to see Dr. Sachman, but it was too late.
If anyone could have "rescued" Stu, I think it would have been one of these two people who actually knew him well, and could recognize that this was different from his usual complaints. True, doctors and counselors across the board have been miseducated about the risks of these drugs – Marty Sachman would be the first to admit he had far too much confidence in their safety. Thanks to GSK.
But I think the average psychiatrist has more misplaced faith in SSRIs than any non-specialist. They would have been more likely to decide they had a serious mental illness on their hands, and raise the dose of Paxil in just the disastrous fashion predicted by Joseph Glenmullen. Or added a second drug to the mix. Psychiatrists feel more confident in doing these things than do non-specialists …
They also would have chided Marty Sachman for using out-of-date terms like "reactive depression" and "situational anxiety." Psychiatrists seem to have abolished the distinction between distress that comes on in response to tough times in life, and a constitutional mental disorder. It's all the same disease entity – and since this was Stu's third or fourth spell of being "a bundle of nerves" in response to high-pressure work demands, they would have recommended lifetime medication for sure. Sigh.
Mary, I take your point about GPs, and I take Shane's on board too. However, I think there is a current fashion for brushing aside the opinions of loving parents when they express concern about their offspring. Don't let us be in any doubt, most parents love all their children deeply, and when they see them in distress, they'll do all they can to help. It's a natural response, but so often 'tough-minded' health care professionals castigate this caring attitude as overbearing and unacceptable. So they exclude them and turn their backs when concerned parents report adverse behaviour, observed as medication-induced, by their loved ones. This is SO terrifying for any loving parent with an ounce of empathy. The loved one, already struggling with worry about their condition and possibly in the grips of AKATHISIA, now hear that their parents are likely their problem (never the medication of course…) so they feel weak for having confided in them, and thus another anchor point has been kicked away. This is frankly madness. It causes terror in the parents, caught between a rock and a hard place. The parents end up almost as sick as the offspring.
So, if a GP can stop reverting to this idea of blaming the parents, like an automatic reflex response to every young person's mental health unwellness, maybe the oiled wheels would begin to turn more smoothly and more youngsters would keep anchored to at least one certainty – that they are LOVED beyond all belief by those who brought them into this world, who gloried in the joy of seeing them growing up, and only ever want the best for them. So, GPs need to listen up and take notice of this, please.
Change in Chicago: Dr. W…… on the Witness Stand ..
"It summed up the attitude of many doctors to the condition that he made his speciality. But it also encapsulated a widespread belief about mental illness: it wasn't real like physical illness. It did not involve cells and cancers, it dealt with chimeras.
"Neurologists used to say to me: 'You seem like a nice enough chap, why are you doing psychiatry? None of your patients get better.'
That was rich coming from neurologists. But it was also not true. We have very good outcome rates. It was simply factually wrong."
Now, as Professor Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, he is in a position to do something about it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/simon-wessely-if-we-treated-people-with-diabetes-the-way-we-treat-those-with-depression-there-would-9924174.html
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The W. Pickles Lecture
A new kind of doctor
http://gphealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2017/05/RCGP-William-Pickles-Lecture-A-new-kind-of-doctor..pdf
Simon Wessely Retweeted
Clare Gerada @ClareGerada May 19
My William Pickles lecture given last week to my profession http://gphealth.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2017/05/RCGP-William-Pickles-Lecture-A-new-kind-of-doctor..pdf …
Betrayed by the Doctors
SCANDAL BY NUMBERS
– 2-4 weeks is the maximum time that bonzodiazepines should be prescribed
– 250,000 UK people are prescribed the drugs for more than six months
– 6-18 months is the time is takes to see the effects of withdrawal symptoms
– 800,000 people have wrongly been prescribed ant-depressants long-term
Betrayed by the doctors who turned us into DRUG ADDICTS: How a nation of patients became hooked on prescription pills
Fiona French was given prescriptions for benzodiazepine drugs to treat epilepsy
The social scientist from Edinburgh sound herself on the medicine for 40 years
Here, she describes the struggle to come off them – and her fight with addiction
By John Naish for the Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4531548/Betrayed-doctors-turned-DRUG-ADDICTS.html
Paul Flynn, a Labour MP and vice-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Drug Policy Reform, adds: 'The history of politicians' broken promises for action on these drugs is so bad it threatens to give cynical opportunism a bad name.'
I am not first to tell that SSRI ruined my life. The worst thing is permanent blunting of all possible emotions and personality. This started when after going cold turkey from 1 year long venlafaxine, I felt extremely emotional. Because fear of depression rebound I went to doctor and he prescribed escitalopram. After just few hours I felt significant blunting of emotions. It was bearable then. however, overnight, after second dose blunting was very brutal. I suddenly felt like my whole personality dissociated, lost emotional/mental drive and feeling of any emotions. My speech and ability to self-express became extremely poor. I just couldn't feel any drive to make complicated sentences and even simple actions. I ceased all my activity, including communicating/meeting friends, watching movies, listening music, using computer, do sports and my hobbies ( DIY, Guitar, Motorcycle). I stopped caring about hygiene. I was just sitting on chair and staring at wall. After 1 one week my parents took me to neurological unit. Then I told all of them about what happened. The young doctor initially diagnosed me with frontal lobe syndrome and told me SSRI might be culprit because there are case reports in children/adolescent ( I was `19yo), but he wasn't sure. Also sent me to take MRI. However, next day two older came in and they said that SSRI can't do this and It's something else. They moved me to psychiatric clinic. Then drugged me heavily. My speech became only "Yes or No" or other single words or nothing at all. They kept me in this state for two weeks and then lowered/changed meds. I returned to an earlier state, the same as first day in a unit. Two weeks after they discharged me and told that I have negative symptoms of schizophrenia. They also said I could have at some point psychosis but It went unnoticed
One year later I still have a symptoms. I am very disabled socially, have no ability to work/study and live only from social benefits. Also suffer from insomnia ( my ability to feel tiredness is somehow blunted) and lack of sexual desire. Doctors keep telling that what happened to me is schizophrenia but I don't believe them.The feeling of emotional blunting is the same as when I was taking venlafaxine it differs only (extremely) in severity. In rare moments of improvements I want to kill myself because I can emotionally processes what happened to me.
Hope someone takes into consideration how looks like the worst possible outcome from medicating depression. This is the only place when I can speak about it, everywhere else my comments have been deleted by moderation or just downvoted
Ove says:
Markus, your history mimics mine. I've been over and over it a thousand times since I learned about the hidden truths of SSRI's. There is no humanly possible way for the patient, you and me, to halt what happens. The very essence of being blunted by your pharmaceuticals prevents you from making rational sense of what is happening to you.
And I grew up as a very rational and cautious young man who was always trusted by my surroundings. Whatever the situation, it was unheard of for me to make a down right irresponsible decision.
But since my very first pill of SSRI I just "gave up", nothing was important anymore.
Today, almost 20 years on and despite knowing what the drug does to me, I can't stop it. I tried to taper, but at a quarter dose I got so overwhelmed by emotions that I saw no other way than to go back on higher doses.
I litteraly walk around with 20 years of bad decisions and "un-cried" tears bottled up inside me.
There is a whole lot of people facing problems like ours.
I have no advice to give, but educate yourself and read Healy's blog for inspiration.
Ove, Sweden, 2017
Markus, thank you so much for describing so graphically how you feel, having been on Venlafaxine and later Escilatopram. It has made certain things much clearer to me and my husband.
Our son, in the last three years of his life, was on these two meds, one after another, but in the reverse order to you. And he tried to explain to us how he felt, but at some times he could hardly talk, in the sense that he said he couldn't think or find words, and worst of all was the emotional blunting, the deadness in his heart, which was always there. He did have some outwardly happy times and put on a good act for his friends, but he told just us (and maybe a few others, I don't know) how lost and confused he felt, and the worst thing was, he died believing that what he felt was his own fault, some personal mental weakness that he hadn't managed to conquer. He really believed this. GPs and various psychiatrists who he had met fleetingly at different points in his life after he first began to suffer low mood (having been prescribed RoAccutane) all denied that medications like the acne drug and then Seroxat SSRI and then a cocktail of others in 2002/3, could do this. 'It had to be his own psyche which needed effort on his part' etc. And boy, did he put in effort. He never stopped trying to 'sort himself out' as he was made to feel he should. His worst blunting came in 2010/11 when the Escilatopram began. In the last 6 months he was alive, in 2012 he was taken off that and put on Venlafaxine. Then eventually told to stop that at once by a Home Treatment Team Lead psychiatrist 'as he was not depressed'. By then he'd got OCD suicidal thoughts. On stopping, he had the most horrendous withdrawal symptoms and AKATHISIA, but was told by this same worm of a psychiatrist that if he didn't effectively pull his socks up, he would carry on leading a life of crippling OCD and misery. But he gave him Olanzapine (for some reason, whilst telling him, well, and shaming him in front of us and the Home Treatment Team, that he was not suffering depression and his expressed wish to die was just attention-seeking behaviour! No one ever admitted in 11 years that it was the drugs they'd prescribed for him, not he. We could see at the beginning in 2001 that it was and tentatively dared to suggest that to the GP but were shot down in flames for being delusional and talking rubbish. Our brave son lost the regard of the rest of his immediate close family, except for us. He was isolated and felt rejected by them. They too probably didn't accept it was the drugs that made him change into a withdrawn person. He did end his life, but how tragic that was and how awful, because we now know from people like you, what was REALLY happening to him, and we could have helped SO much more and challenged that worm psychiatrist with some authority and knowledge. Not a day passes that I don't wish desperately that he had found this RxISK Blog and Dr Healy in time, and understood himself at last, with a great sigh of relief. Wherever he is now, he will of course realise all this, but too late for us to have the joy of his company here for the rest of our lives.
So Markus, thank you for what you have explained. He let those inept irresponsible doctors cause his death really, and in so doing, they ruined our lives and our hopes too. They were of course made able to do this by the mad inventions and lust for profits of Big Pharma. Don't let them send you on your way too. Life is precious and there must be a way to get back to a more enjoyable one, and escape this drug damage. So much attention is being directed to it now, and people are beginning to admit what's been going on. If ever there was a time to hold on with hope, it's surely now. I wish Olly had been able to read what you've written, and write back. I think it could have made all the difference for him. Too late for him,but not for others. Thank you, and keep writing.
How FDA Avoided Finding Adult Antidepressant Suicidality
Furthermore, even in the rotten-apple adult studies, despite the drug company's manipulations, Paxil (paroxetine) turned out to be causally associated with increased suicidality in depressed adults in an internal FDA review of the data. As a result, in 2006 the FDA then forced the maker of Paxil, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), to write a "Dear Doctor" letter to all healthcare providers confirming the Paxil/suicidality causal link in adults.
https://www.madinamerica.com/2017/05/how-fda-avoided-finding-adult-antidepressant-suicidality/
In April 2006, the FDA also made the drug company put a warning in its Full Prescribing Information (label or package insert) about the risk of Paxil causing suicidality in adults with depression; but GSK convinced them to drop it in subsequent years. The warning appeared in the Physician's Desk Reference (PDR) only once in 2007.
Peter Breggin, MD
About 10 years ago, my active and very productive 84 year old father had his stomach removed due to stomach cancer. Worse case scenario presented to him was that he would not be able to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner the way he had in the past. He lived for 4 more years. He was put on Reglan and left on it until I came home and recognized a Parkinson's shuffle and terrible akathisia. He looked like a man trying to crawl out of his own skin. He also had not been able to swallow since soon after the surgery. Once we stopped the Reglan he was able to swallow and sleep although he was up and down every 2-4 hours night and day for the rest of his life. Unfortunately he was kept on many other drugs, including antidepressants and never had another productive day in his life and went on to develop a dementia that fortunately brought out his sweet disposition. I worked as an NICU nurse for 40 years and many of our infants were put on Reglan. Because it was prescribed to promote faster emptying of the stomach I always assumed that worked locally on the GI tract. Now having seen the terrible extrapyramidal side effects it has, I have to wonder how many feeding problems were actually made worse by this drug. In my opinion it should be taken off the market.


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The catch-up coffee: Monday, May 7, 2018
News by Lindsay M. and Matt S.
Welcome to Digitally Downloaded's regular catch-up news feature. With each issue we will bring you the best news that you may have missed. Grab the biggest mug you've got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!
Panty problems and the world's end: Punch Line is coming!
By Lindsay M., News Editor
PQube has announced that it will be bringing Punch Line, based on the anime of the same name and developed by 5pb., to North America (rest of the world too, please?) this summer. Here's the official announcement trailer:
Yuuta Iridatsu has a, um, interesting problem. You see, he's quite a normal teenager, except he faints whenever he sees girl's panties. It happens more than you'd think. But as the result of a traumatic bus incident, Yuuta's soul has been yanked from his body and he is stuck in a ghostly form… and his panty problem gets worse. If he sees too many, he gets too excited and faints as usual — except now when it happens, an asteroid will hit Earth and destroy the entire planet. In his ghostly form, Yuuta is able to travel through time and is able to go back, again and again, to the time before the bus incident in an attempt to prevent it and understand what happened to him.
PQube is bringing the game to PlayStation 4 and PS Vita, as in Japan, but also to PC via Steam. The game is written by Kotaro Uchikoshi, of the Zero Escape Trilogy.
A whole bunch of Touhou stuff was just announced
By Matt S., Editor-in-Chief
Touhou is an interesting, genre-leaping franchise of games that are related in just about everything but how they play. We're talking bullet hells through 3D fighting games, mystery dungeon titles and plenty more besides... and a new wave of Touhou action has been announced - whether there's a western release or not remains to be seen, but NISA has been quite good in recent years in bringing most of them out in English.
Touhou Genso Wanderer: Lotus Labyrinth is a mystery dungeon title. The previous example of that genre within the Tensou universe was really good, and this one will be getting a Switch release, which is just perfect as far as we're concerned.
Then there's a title called Yoiyami Dancers for PlayStation 4, and an action RPG called Touhou Genso Kikou: Lost Alchemy that will be getting a PS4 and Nintendo Switch release. At this stage we don't have much more in terms of details on any of these games, but for the most part Touhou titles are good fun, so we have high hopes for these too.
Spike Chunsoft reviving Conception as an anime
Do you remember Conception? Yeah, me neither. But now that I know about it my curiousity is certainly piqued. The original game, Conception: Ore no Kodomo wo Undekure!, was released only in Japan for PSP six years ago; however, its sequel was released worldwide and is available on the PlayStation 4 and Vita. Nick reviewed Conception II for us, and you'll definitely want to check it out.
Conception's protagonist is Itsuki, whose cousin confesses she is pregnant to him on his graduation day. As it always does in this situation, a gate of light appears and the two are brought into Granvania. It's a strange world, filled with Stars and Impurities. Well, moreso with Impurities — and that's why Itsuki is there. It is believed that he is the only one that can produce Star Children, the only ones capable of fighting the Impurities. And unless he does, he can never return home.
The anime will start airing in Japan this November, so we've got some time to at least play the sequel before it arrives!
Smoke And Sacrifice is out on May 31 for Switch and PC
Coming first to PC and Switch, and then later on in the year to other platforms, Smoke And Sacrifice is an open world survival RPG, with a hand-drawn aesthetic. It's a stunning looking game, that's for use.
From the press release: Sachi's home is the one tiny patch of fertile land which remains in an icy wasteland of a world. Her farming community thrives thanks to their devotion to the blazing Sun Tree, which replaces the lost light of the failed sun. After sacrificing her firstborn child to the Sun Tree, Sachi discovers a darker secret beneath the aura of priestly benevolence. Will she discover the truth hidden in the secret underworld, or perish in its swirling, deadly smoke?
These games are, of course, dime a dozen among indies these days, but we're hoping that the grim, downbeat atmosphere and tone of this particular game helps it to stand out. We won't have to wait long to play it, that's for sure!


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Get well soon Dynamo, you're one of our own
When Tottenham Hotspur scored their third goal at Turf Moor in December, the fans sang for their hat-trick hero: "Harry Kane, he's one of our own". As chief executive of Burnley FC I was disappointed to lose that day. But I understand the Spurs fans' pride in a player who many see as being like them – he grew up close to White Hart Lane and always supported the club.
I feel a similar sense of pride in my home city, Bradford. Bradford City FC, where I worked for seven years, might not have a player to match Harry Kane just now. But a world-famous illusionist is one of our own. Dynamo, who entertains millions with his amazing magic, grew up here and always talks up Bradford. In June 2016, he backed our bid to host the Great Exhibition of the North and spoke about Bradford's positive impact on his career.
Dynamo has faced his share of adversity. Slightly-built and shy as a child, he was bullied and suffered from Crohn's disease. Magic was an escape – he would stay inside for hours and practice tricks. His confidence grew as he developed a unique style of magic. After recovering from a spell in hospital with Crohn's disease, he decided to give magic everything he had. Trick by trick, show by show, he worked his way up and became a superstar.
Like his fans around the world, I was sorry to learn that Dynamo is currently unwell. This month, he opened up about the toll that Crohn's disease is having on his health and his ability to perform magic. But there was no self-pity from this young man. He vowed to get better and to put his efforts into helping refugee children who had fled war-torn Syria while recovering. He is also diversifying by learning new tricks and adapting how he performs.
Diversification and innovation are crucial in business. As chairman of the Bradford Economic Partnership, I know that we must be willing to adapt and change ways of working. According to the Centre for Cities' Cities Outlook 2018 report, 24 per cent of current jobs in Bradford are in occupations that are likely to shrink by 2030. Just 10 per cent of current jobs are in occupations that are likely to grow. The Economic Strategy for Bradford District 2018-2030 sets out how the city can reposition itself in the global economy by drawing on our enterprising and growing population, supporting innovative businesses and our knowledge institutions, building public and private partnerships and the regeneration of our towns and cities.
Attracting and supporting entrepreneurs to set up in Bradford is crucial. Entrepreneurs identify a talent, product or service which will sell and build it at scale. I see Dynamo as an entrepreneur as well as an entertainer. When starting out, he identified his talent but needed help to get going. He visited the Prince's Trust charity, got advice and inspiration and – crucially – a small grant which he used to make a DVD to showcase his talents. It was a shrewd marketing investment. He built scale by uploading films of his magic to the internet.
The UK could be doing more to encourage enterprise. Bradford is trying – the council has set up Industrial Centres of Excellence (ICE), which help young people gain qualifications, skills and experience that they need and which local businesses want. The curriculum is up-to-date and relevant having been jointly developed by schools, colleges and local businesses.
The Prince's Trust also does its bit. Its Mosaic Enterprise Challenge links teams of students aged 11 to 16 with mentors to compete with other schools in running a business. In March, Bradford's Dixons Kings Academy won the Yorkshire Regional Final of the 2018 challenge. The school won the regional finals in 2016 and 2017. The national final is on May 16; I hope it's third time lucky.
I wish Dynamo a speedy recovery. I remember when he performed magic tricks for Bradford City fans queuing up for tickets to the Capital One Cup semi-final against Aston Villa in December 2012. He appeared out of nowhere to entertain the fans, but I wasn't surprised – after all, he's one of our own.
Dave Baldwin is chairman of the Bradford Economic Partnership and chief executive of Burnley FC.


Global ECG equipment market was valued at over USD 4.0 billion in 2014 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 5.9% over the next seven years. Key growth contributing factors of the ECG device market include high incidence rate of heart diseases necessitating the need for continuous monitoring, funding to hospitals to improve patient care, and industry players' focus on innovating error-free and improved workflow capabilities devices.
According to the WHO, in 2012, around 17.5 million people died due to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) representing 31% of global deaths. In addition to this, the CDC statistics states that every year around 610,000 people die from heart diseases. The coronary heart disease alone costs over USD 109 billion every year.
The change from acute intervention in the medical profession to preventive care has supported the growth of ECG diagnostic care market significantly. Hence, early diagnosis for targeted treatment is the need of the hour, which the ECG device can help with. In February 2015, doctors and paramedics staff in Roseville introduced a state-of-the-art 12-lead ECG, and the designed device is anticipated to save patients' time in receiving the treatment from the time he is admitted.
Apart from the shift in trend for preventive care and technology advancement, many industry players and organizations are funding in order to improve patient care through faster diagnosis. In March 2014, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield announced to grant USD 120,000 to Mohawk Valley Heart Institute to speed up diagnosis of individuals experiencing heart attacks. The funding includes seven 12-lead ECG software and modems in ambulances.
In terms of product, monitoring equipment dominated the ECG equipment market with revenue of over USD 2,400 million in 2014. The technological advancements with low power circuit enabled the development of better, accurate, and portable devices. Technology advancements in monitoring devices with wireless technologies, algorithms, and enhanced connectivity capabilities have increased the demand for this segment.
The monitoring devices facilitate connectivity, enabling hospital information system to be networked across various locations for real-time patient information and quick diagnosis. In April 2014, AliveCor received approval from the FDA for over-the-counter use. This customized ECG offers monitoring, data collection, and sending the data to a family doctor or buying consultation at a minimal price over USD 12.0.
In January 2014, researchers at Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) concluded that next level of heart rhythm monitoring was ZIO Patch. The new iRhythm technology was better than bulky holter monitoring as the data of two weeks was collected and analyzed.
North America ECG device market accounted for about 42% revenue share in 2014. This is attributed to technology innovations and increased funding for researches. In August 2015, InfoBionic, the U.S. based firm along with Safeguard Scientists raised USD 8 million to commercialize Mome Kardia. Mome Kardia is a remote patient monitoring system based on cloud technology that can be worn around the neck.
Moreover, industry players in North America are expanding their presence in other developing nations to capture major market share. For instance, in October 2015, iNeedMD Holdings, Inc. signed a distribution agreement with Clifton Africa Ltd. The one-year distribution agreement is worth USD 1.5 million.
Europe follows North America owing to the technological breakthrough such as insertable cardiac monitors. In February 2014, Medtronic launched its FDA approved Reveal LINQ. The upgraded version of Reveal XT offers patient heart monitoring for three years with 20% more data memory than its previous version.
Asia-Pacific is expected to witness the fastest growth with a CAGR of 7.3% from 2015 to 2022. Aging population and increasing incidences of cardiovascular diseases across Asia are the major reasons for the booming industry. In September 2015, Miracor Medical launched PiCSO Impulse System in Asia with distribution support from Medical Technology Est.
Key players with significant ECG equipment market share include GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Schiller AG, Nihon Kohden, CardioComm Solutions, Inc., and Johnson & Johnson. In May 2015, CardioComm Solutions, Inc. launched HeartCheck PEN. This Bluetooth wireless connectivity pen could be connected for data acquisition with Android and Apple smartphones. In addition, in March 2015, Philips launched Efficia ECG100, a cost-effective cardiograph helps in improving patient care and reducing healthcare costs. Technological advancements along with a shift in trend for preventive care are expected to make this industry lucrative over the forecast period.


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