Next Week at the York Lit Fest!
Here's a quick list Just to remind you all what's going on next week in the lit fest! Be sure to book tickets before they all go – free events for YSJ students will be in bold!
For more information look here. For tickets look here, and register to see individual events! Hope to see you there!
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VIP Festival Launch: York Stories – At the York Theatre Royal three novelists will discuss setting their novels in York! Check out how York shapes modern literature for just £10 with food and wine included.
Writing and the Natural World – A reading and discussion on writing the natural world with contemporary authors Kathleen Jamie and William Atkins! Catch this event at York St John in Temple hall at 7pm!
Right Here, Write Now – Fancy seeing a performance where you write the script? Come see the comedic hilarity of improvisation, simply give them suggestions to act out and enjoy. Hosted by Paul Birch at the Frigate theatre this event is only £5, a bargain night for comedy.
Michael Portillo – Michael Portillio, former politician now broadcaster, talks about his exciting career in the media, but mostly, there will be talk of trains! This event is held at the National Railway Museum, a great day out for any train lovers!
York Novelists Workshop: From Ideas to Publication – This is a must attend for the creative students! Held at Bennett's Cafe and Bistro see how to transform your ideas into print.
York St John Con – The event we've all been waiting for! Held in Temple Hall the YSJ Con will be filled with great experiences all day including; a Zine Workshop, Poetry and Comics Workshop, and even a Fan Fic Opem Mic. If you fancy sharing your embarrassing Harry Potter fan fiction, give it a go!
Hoglets – An adorable event for children (and their parents) aged 2 to 5, a mixture of songs games and crafts to introduce kids to the theatre, held at the Frigate Theatre.
How NOT to submit your manuscript – Exactly what it says on the box. Three of the UK's leading literary agents will tell you how to get your novel published, as well as how not to! Complete with a Q&A this event is held at the Frigate Theatre, so all unpublished writers should check it out!
Wendy Cope – Come see one of Britain's most popular poets discuss her work and her life. A great event for fans or anyone interested in poetry held at the Grand Opera House.
Bedtime Story – Another one for the kids! Mini Custard Children's Theatre are recounting a wonderful story for children and their tired parents at the Frigate Theatre, be sure to bring a blanket and warm milk!
Arthur Smith plus Support: Mike Barfield – Arthur Smith, playwright (amongst many other things) recounts his life and work and general grumpiness that led him to where he is now. With support from Private Eye Cartoonist Mike Barfield it's sure to be a fun night! Held at the Grand Opera house.
Val McDermid in Conversation – One of the biggest names in Crime Fiction will be in conversation with Festival Director Miles Salter about her work, and crime fiction. A must see for all crime lovers (fiction that is!) as there will be a book signing afterwards! Held at St Peter's School in Clifton.
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Regular readers to this blog can't fail to notice the amount of Scandinavian crime fiction I read. It's my favourite sub-genre but even I occasionally like to have a rest from it. I decided therefore to return to Elizabeth Hand, a writer whose previous novel, Generation Loss, I'd enjoyed. She has created a protagonist, Cass Neary, whose personality leaps off the page: a drug taking, freewheeling photographer who was briefly famous for producing a book featuring images of those who had died on the New York streets. As I don't read blurbs any longer, I plunged straight into the book only to realise that it's set in Finland and Iceland. At least my intentions had been to steer clear of Scandinavia.
Cass Neary, recovering from her involvement in a recent death in Maine, receives a phone call from an Icelandic collector who asks her to authenticate a set of photographs. Taken by a reclusive fashion photographer who resides in Helsinki, they feature a number of images of victims of violent death. Soon after her visit, the photographer and his assistant are found murdered and Cass flees to Iceland on the trail of a former boyfriend, seeking answers about the dark Nordic music scene which may hold the key to the murders.
The greatest strength of Available Dark is the reappearance of Cass Neary. Much as I hate comparisons with Stieg Larsson, in this case, there are some strong similarities between Lisbeth Salander and Cass Neary. However, Cass is not only older, despite the events that overtake her, she never comes across as a victim. When she resorts to drugs to obliterate a crisis it seems both completely in character and a natural thing to do.
Like Generation Loss, the descriptions of the photographs that Cass views are so evocative that the images jump off the page. Descriptions of the Scandinavian landscape are equally successful and, given that I've just returned from a trip to Helsinki, the book brought the orderly and charming city to life. Elizabeth Hand is fast becoming one of my favourite US authors and she is a definite 'must read' for me.
Thanks to Constable and Robinson for my review copy.
I'd not heard of this author before, but am very interested in trying her work following this review. Cass sounds like an extremely memorable character. And the photography angle sounds interesting too. Thanks!
I think you'd like them, Mrs P if you can fit them in your reading schedule…..
Sarah – Thanks for the excellent review as ever. I always like an innovative protagonist, and Cass certainly seems that. And yet, she doesn't seem contrived for the purpose of 'being different,' or shocking the reader. I like that tool. It makes perfect sense as well that a photographer would be a sleuth. I must check out these books!
Great Margot and I'll look forward to the review!
Have never heard of this author, I am intrigued, thank you, great review.
Thanks! I hope you'll try the series.
Definitely sounds interesting. Now I will have to choose between reading a book by Paul Doiron or one by Elizabeth Hand for my Maine crime fiction book (referring back to the first novel by Hand). Both sound good. But I have the one by Doiron so will be reading it in 2014. I hope.
Have you read earlier books by this author?
I've read 'The Poacher's Son' by Doiron and am reading book 2 at the moment which is also very good. I've read two of Hand's books and would recommend both of them.
Yes, it was your recommendation that prompted me to look for The Poacher's Son. So, hope is not long before I get to it.
While I strongly endorse Hand's first book Generation Loss, I could not tolerate the constant sadistic violence in this book. There was no real character development. There was nothing but one brutal act after another, seemingly to me, without reason except psychosis.
I like the main character, but she played second fiddle to the brutality here.
I'll give the author another chance if there is another book in the series, but I would not recommend this book to anyone who despairs at senseless violence.
I thought this was an entry in a contest to see how much brutality could be written about in a Nordic mystery.
Hi Kathy – I remember you saying this book wasn't to your taste. I did think, while I was reading it, that the subject matter wouldn't be to everyone's taste but I didn't find the violence too much in comparison with other writers.
That's ironic for you then isn't it! I like the sound of the photography element in this.
It is Moira. I know nothing about the subject but the descriptions are fascinating.
I have the first book but haven't yet read it. I've seen a couple of reviews/comments around for this one that weren't so positive – different strokes for different folks.
Thanks for this, Sarah. I'd also never heard of Elizabeth Hand but I've now read both her books and found them disturbing in some ways but utterly compelling. The writing is so powerful that while reading both of them my brain couldn't let go and I was living the situations in my dreams. Keep up the great reviews – you can capture the essence of books in a couple of paragraphs.
Thanks Alison. The vote of approval is really appreciated.


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Unapologetic Burlesque is no longer organizing shows.
We are keeping this website alive as a source of tkaronto* QTBIPOC history.
Exuberant Unapologetic Thank Yous after our first Halloween showcase. Photo by Hamidah Hemani.
Check out our about page for a goodbye message from the co-creators.
a thank you card from the performers after our first unapologetic burlesque showcase!
*Unapologetic Burlesque has lived its life in tkaronto aka toronto, Indigenous territory and meeting place of many First Nations including the Wendat, Anishnaabe, Haudensaunee, and Mississauguas of New Credit.


"Every year, the beer tax escalator increases the tax on beer by 2% above the rate of inflation, thus adding considerably more pressure on the British pub, the cornerstone of many of our communities."
Short and sweet this one. Here's a link to the petition.


Have you ever a screen like this? I have and it wasn't for a good reason. This lovely display of colors meant I had an issue with my Tin Lizzie quilt machine. If you recall my recent post then you remember that I had struggled with a timing issue on my machine. Thankfully I successfully overcame that. Unfortunately I have run into another road block.
I recently had the privilege of working with a new quilting customer. She asked me to do the stitching on a quilt she was planning to give as a gift. I'll share more about her quilt in a future post. After finishing her quilt I decided to get busy on some of my own. I had seven that were waiting to be quilted. I breezed through two of them then loaded on the third. After working on it for about six hours I decided to call it a day.
The very next morning I went down into my studio to pickup where I left off. I went through the usual routine of turning on my machine then pressed the button to begin stitching. The machine paused for a moment then displayed this message on the screen.
I have gotten messages similar to this when my machine has had a thread jam. Naturally I made the assumption that was the case this time as well. The first thing I did was to check the fly wheel to see if it would move. The fly wheel moved freely so I figured that meant a thread jam was not the issue. While I am thankful that I didn't have to clear the jam and time my machine all over again I was totally baffled as to the cause of the error message.
Since I don't have a local repairman my only option is to leave a message on Tin Lizzie's telephone or send a request for service through their website. I chose to send an electronic message. When I didn't hear anything for 24 hours I sent a message to the person that I bought my machine from to ask for their assistance. I received a reply that indicated they would contact the corporate office to initiate a service request.
Having my longarm quilting machine broken is very upsetting to me. I am totally at the mercy of the corporate office in Utah for service. In the meantime here I sit with a partially quilted project, four more waiting to be quilted and requests from customers for others.
Thank you for listening to me vent again.
This sounds very stressful! I was so lucky you were able to do your beautiful work/magic on mine before your machine started acting up. I hope it gets fixed for you soon and hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
awwwww I hope it is fixed quick! I am always desperate to quilt when I can't!
Sorry you are having this trouble.


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One of the most unusual landscapes in New Mexico, The Bisti Badlands played another planet in Star Gate Universe: Malice.
Though technically The Rockies end near Santa Fe, Red Rock was also the stetting for Rocky Mountain with Errol Flynn and Slim Pickens.
Stunning Red Rock Park hosted many westerns through the years, including Only the Valiant starring Gregory Peck and Ward Bond.
When the Joad's cross into "Arizona" in The Grapes of Wrath, Pyramid Rock in Gallup NM is clearly visible in the background.
The film Dark Blood shot some scenes at Zuni Pueblo. The film was never released due to the death of its star, River Phoenix, during production.
The volcanic plug Cabezon Peak is visible for miles in this area. It also has appeared in My Name is Nobody and the TV show Breaking Bad.
Acoma Sky City sits atop a spectacular 367' high mesa as a protection for its inhabitants. In 1929 the film Red Skin asked permission to build a road to the top. It is still the only existing road to the reach the pueblo today!


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Tobias Wolff Goes to Key West – A Deal Me In Short Story Challenge
To make the Deal Me In Short Story Challenge a little more challenging I've been drawing two cards at once and trying to come up with a way to connect the stories. The Deal Me In Short Story Challenge asks participants to assign one short story to each card in a deck and to draw a card at random on a weekly basis. (I've also limited myself to anthologies in my TBR bookcase as of Dec. 31, 2013 as part of the TBR Triple Dog Dare.)
This time I came up with "Page Two" by John Hersey from his collection Key West Tales and "The Life of the Body" from Tobias Wolff's collection The Night in Question. These two were much easier to connect than last weeks pairing of Tobias Wolff and Isaak Dinesen.
"Page Two" by John Hersey is a collection of crime report items, the sort of thing that used to run behind the front page of small town newspapers as "The Crime Blotter" or something to that effect. Hersey's items are fun. There is a burglar caught walking the streets in the antique Chinese clothes he has stolen who freely confesses asking the arresting officer if he has ever seen such fabulous shoes.
In another, an exhausted thief is found sleeping in one of the twin beds in the guest room because the master bedroom had such a hard mattress and the sofa was much too soft. A third burglar uses a fishing rod to cast his hook through the open glass-louvers of a downstairs sleeping room and steal valuable items without waking the sleeping homeowner. Almost without waking the sleeping homeowner.
While items like this don't make up a plot, they do bring a setting to life. Time was, you could learn a lot about a place from the crime blotter pages in the local newspaper. Mr. Hersey's Key West sounds like a charming town to me.
Tobias Wolff's story "The Life of the Body" could easily have been based on something found on the crime blotter pages. It's setting in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood isn't that far from Key West, in spirit. Both towns are famed for the unusual people who lived there and as being the farthest you can go in one direction without getting very wet.
While Mr. Wolff's story has comical elements, it is much more series than Mr. Hersey's crime blotter collection. "The Life of the Body" is about Wiley who has always led a life of the mind.
He was an English teacher in a private high school. He lived alone. He didn't go to bars much and almost never drank whisky. He liked good wine, knew something about it, but was wary of kn0wing too much. At night, after he'd prepared his classes, he drank wine and read nineteenth-century novels. He didn't like modern fiction, it narcissism, its moral timidity, its silence in the face of great wrongs. Wiley had started teaching to support himself while he wrote his doctoral thesis, and then lost interest in scholarship as he began to sense the power of his position. His students were still young enough not be be captive to the lies the world told about itself; he could make a difference in the way they saw things.
Wiley is the sort of man other men trust around their wives. His best friend Mac is comfortable watching his wife stretch out on the sofa, her head in Wiley's lap while he reads to them. But Wiley has started to feel uneasy about this.
Wiley knew that he was supposed to feel honored by all this faith, but he resented it. Faith had become an imposition. it made light of his capacity for desire. Still, he put up with it because he didn't know what else to do.
One night, after a few too many whiskeys at the local bar, Wiley gives in to desire and makes a drunken pass at a woman he finds attractive named Kathleen. After he finds himself thrown out of the bar for reasons he is too drunk to remember, Wiley waits for Kathleen to go home for the night and follows her up the hill to her apartment. When he tries to talk to her, just to explain that he really isn't like that, her companion beats him to a pulp.
The next day Wiley insists on going in to work, fails to keep his students under control and is sent home. He then starts looking for Kathleen. Since he knows her address and name and that she is a veterinarian, he is able to find her at work hoping to really explain what happened the night before and to ask for another chance.
He has given in to the life of the body at last, but one suspects his story is probably going to end up on page two.
james b chester January 26, 2014 deal me in, john hersey, review, short story, tobias wolff
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It was a lousy wifi connection both at the hotel and the airport so I didn't manage to post anything this morning as I originally planned.
I just wanted to share a few photos of the fantastic buffet tables during the past week. The dinner and breakfast served (we bought half board only) was great with many different choices and varieties.


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Nokia CEO says starts deliveries of top-model N900
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia has started deliveries of its new top-of-the-range model N900, a key product for the world's top phone maker in its battle against rivals iPhone and Blackberry.
Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a speech the company started deliveries of the phone on Tuesday.
The N900 model is Nokia's first phone running Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to gain back ground in the coming years.
Nokia has kept its overall market share stable, close to 40 percent, but it has lost share among more expensive models to the likes of Apple and RIM.
High-end products are important for Nokia because the company has not only lost market share there, but its average selling prices have declined faster than the industry average.
Goldman Sachs has said it expects Nokia's value share -- a measure reflecting average prices and underlying market share -- for phones costing more than $350 to decline to 13 percent this year from 33 percent just two years before.
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The University of Stirling is recruiting participants to be involved in an innovative new study funded by the Abbeyfield Society, called Moving Memories.
Moving Memories is a pilot study, in conjunction with Insightful Moves, about the experience of moving into care or sheltered housing. The study uses film to follow this significant time in their life.
The study will look at how people manage this important transition, particularly what people do when faced with the need to down-size their home and contents. In doing so, what can then be done to enhance the care and support people receive through sharing this knowledge.
Participants invite one of the team into their home, prior to moving, to make a home-movie. In this small film, they are the tour guide of their home and show what they want and what is important to them: the stories behind their favourite things, their hobbies and habits. The participant will then receive a copy for them to keep and share, and seek their permission to share it with future support staff too. The aim is that in sharing this movie, the care, understanding and support they receive will be enhanced.


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Archives Boiling Point
Story and photos by Kate Siberell
Studying weather and climate changeis like watching a pot of water on the stove. Both climate scientists and meteorologists observe the temperature of the stove burner, the temperature of the water, the size of the pot, how much water it contains, and the temperature of air around the pot. Though both look at the same scenario, each is concerned with a different end. Meteorologists focus on where the first bubble will burst. Climate scientists only care that the pot will eventually boil. TV weather casters have long been tagged as climate deniers. Though a large majority of them acknowledge that earth is in the middle of a significant warming trend, only 54 percent of respondents to a 2011 National Science Foundation survey were convinced that humans had anything to do with it.
Some think the planet is on an upward swing in temperature but will undoubtedly cycle down again, while a tiny minority thinks that climate change is a political conspiracy.
Climate change is a large-scale phenomenon with effects that are difficult to predict. The American Meteorological Society says the warming of the earth is unequivocal. Evidence shows increases in average air and ocean temperatures, along with widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising sea levels. In Montana, where weather is notoriously fickle, it seems that most meteorologists look beyond the first bubble while watching the pot.
What Montana TV meteorologists think of climate change:
Russ Thomas, KPAX Missoula.
Russ Thomas graduated with a degree in meteorology in 2000 from Florida State University. He remembers a professor saying meteorologists question climate change the most. Thomas studies weather in detail at KPAX in Missoula. He understands there is more to climate change than the cut and dry, intense warming that's generally perceived.
"It goes in cycles," Thomas said. "There are periods where it's a little bit warmer than usual, and periods where it's a little cooler than usual. And that's something that will continue to be there. We see this slow evolution of the climate getting warmer; it's one of those things that is inevitable… but big picture, I think it's hard to deny that global warming exists."
Mike Rawlins, KRTV Great Falls.
Mike Rawlins works on the weather team at KRTV in Great Falls. He fell in love with weather when he was 8 years old, and used to do pretend weathercasts in his basement. He earned a seal of approval from the National Weather Association in 2011. He is a passionate meteorologist, exemplified by his choice to include updates from Climate Central, an independent organization of scientists and journalists, in his weather coverage.
"I wouldn't call myself a climate researcher, but as a meteorologist it's very clear that climate change is happening. I think there's a lot of research there, and we're seeing more and more people open their eyes to the idea. The huge debate now seems to be whether or not humans are responsible for this change. I think the answer is yes."
Dave Cochran, ABC FOX in Missoula.
Dave Cochran originally wanted to be a commercial airplane pilot, which gives him a very practical approach to weather and climate change. He studied broadcast journalism at what was then the University of Southern Colorado, and worked at numerous stations as a reporter, producer, photojournalist, and anchor. He became good with computers and landed a job as the single weatherman at ABC FOX in Missoula, because he could do it all.
"Everything I've seen from people who are a heck of a lot smarter than I am; I just don't think that you can pump as much pollution into the planet that we have globally, and not see some sort of change," Cochran said. "And I think that a lot of the climate change debate going on right now has very little to do with science. It has more to do with the political anger in America today."
Kate Siberell has a journalism degree from the University of Montana, and strives to surround herself with creative people doing cool things. She plans to travel the world and tell stories in innovative ways.
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Column by Jason Kintzler, illustration by Tiffany Garner Right now in a newsroom somewhere, panic has set in. Mounting financial pressure from a newspaper publisher has...


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Forums / In game politics / LAME!!!
This is lame action from V!!!!
hi, just to let you know that Vengeance come in peace....who are you currently fighting?
the day after that message was send troops started to prepare upon our city's the day after that 2 city's have been captured by V. When we try to contact them now, we get no responds. dishounerable and lame action!
This player doesn't speak for Vengeance if you wish to have any diplomatic relation then message me.Always be alert and never let your guard down just becuase you get a message from a player in a kingdom.
you should keep your members under control!! hes given your kd a worse name, now kick him!
he did that same to me well now hes gonna die for trying to trick me. well i lost nothing though i was smart enough to attack him first.
Can you please let readers of this topic know that i have not taken any cities personally!
I moved into mantrax to gain access to market. I have taken no cities.
no i attacked you cause u were training troops even though i said not to cause u said u were only here for the market and ur city was an armory city then after that u explained to me y u needed troops and i said it was ok for you to ahve ur city back but then i kept and eye pn you and u builded another city i said that u were too much trouble and i went to prep on ur city just in case until ur leader told me we had peace. You said u were felleing threatened so i moved my scout in aneffort to remain in good terms but after a while u made an arm and tried to attack even though u said we were going to let our leader decided wat to do. You r very deceitful after u saw u couldn't take my city you tried to get off and say im moving off im not attacking no more cuae u knew u coulnd't take so now since you do not honor your word im going to kill and this time i warned you.
I am going to try to get this sorted out as I am the king of Vengeance. Would all parties send the the entire messages and goings on as I cannot see what is happening there.
I have the perfect Diplomatic solution to this situation... everyone kill everyone! Before I do it for you.
V comes in peace!! you spoke for your entire kingdom!
i was referring to Mantrax....I had just entered Mantrax and was speaking on behalf of V because I was the only V member there. So if I came in peace then V came in peace.
I'm sorry to hear about your cities taken in Fant.
I was not speaking on behalf of V in Fant. I had no control over our actions there.
If you want a NAP or a CF Darkfaith you should've asked before plopping your cities down right in our area. Now if you would've asked permission to build then we might have had a agreement. We had no NAP or anything with you so we did nothing wrong by taking those cities out. So there was nothing lame about that. Samething goes for him (Coolcat) losing his cities on Mantrax. We had no agreements on Mantrax and he lost his cities where he had no permission to build. Now if you want some kind of NAP/CF/whatever then reply to the message that I sent you Darkfaith.
lol no agreement, so what. V comes to mantrax and say they come in peace, but you take our city's. So don't say thats not a lame action.
and coolcat wtf, fantasia, mantrax, or zeta its just 1 big world we live in now, so if you say V comes in peace, than that means you won't attack us in that world! wathever we are on fantasia or mantrax you just don't attack.
and deadpool, no permission to build? its a free world! we can build wherever we want! Your member said V comes in peace, so you don't attack! and if you didn't know anything about that, you probably don't. keep you members in control! he just gave your kingdom a bad name!
Well Darkfaith the only thing I see that is lame is you for complaining that you got taken out of our core. He said he wouldn't attack you with his and your personal agreement (not our agreement) and he didn't. We had no formal agreements between our kingdoms and another member took you out of the core. Sorry but like you said its a free world then.
lol you really don't get it do you!
Hes didn't say, I come in peace. He said V comes in peace, he spoke for the entire kingdom!!!!!!!! I don't blame you Deadpool, I blame coolcat. He made a mistake, so stop telling that he didn't, because you know what he did is wrong, just admit it.
Oh well I'm not going to spend any more words on it.
You shall make no lame flame, knight ruby, art thee.
LAME is not lame, but good, as you can see.
Men and Elves are partners, can't you see?
All it comes down to is do you stand or do you flee.
Yay! Random poetry about the KD LAME!!!
The Kingdom LAME is not "lame" in the literal sense. It's a cool name with a lame acronym or "tag".
We have just made a breakthrough in the teachings of lame vs not lame and things that sound lame in LAME 101.
You have to admit, the poem was pretty cool. XD I feel bad for the poor nubs stuck on the fail bus. The two guys standing outside are me and Haldir and there you are, Michael, in the white lab-coat a while down.
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As I read about the presidential candidates' stated views, and as I watch the televised debates, I see the battle lines clearly drawn over competing ideologies separating not only individual candidates, but also differentiating political parties in the United States and also throughout the world concerning the structure and purpose of government.
One argument rests on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, a British economist who theorized that economic growth and reduced unemployment can be supported through governmental fiscal policies including spending to stimulate the economy, adjusting interest rates, and placement of certain regulations on market economics.
Another and competing philosophy has come to be known as "neoliberalism," which centers on a market-driven approach to economic and social policy, including such tenets as reducing the size of the national government and granting more control to state and local governments; severely reducing or ending governmental regulation over the private sector; privatization of governmental services, industries, and institutions including education, health care, and social welfare; permanent incorporation of across-the-board non-progressive marginal federal and state tax rates; and possibly most importantly, market driven and unfettered "free market" economics.
These tenets taken together, claim those who favor neoliberal ideas, will ensure the continual growth of the economy while protecting individual autonomy, liberty, and freedom.
During this current presidential year, the lines seem clearly demarcated with the Republicans generally taking more of a neoliberal stance and the Democrats taking more of the Keynesian policies. Though the neoliberal battle cry of "liberty" and "freedom" through "personal responsibility" sounds wonderful on the surface, what are the costs of this alleged "liberty" and "freedom"?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when the upper 10% of families controls approximately 75% percent of the accumulated wealth in 2013 and 85 percent of the stocks and bonds, when the wealth gap between white families and families of color is enormous with the mean net worth of white families standing at $679,000, Latino/a families at $112,000, and black families at $95,000, and the Right's agenda will only increase this enormous imbalance?
And how "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when before the Affordable Healthcare Act, 50 million people in our country went uninsured and their only form of health care was the hospital emergency room, which the remainder of the population paid because our government will not provide a single-payer health care system, but instead, we all must accept the exorbitant profit-motive insurance premium rates of private health care insurers?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when governmental entitlement programs are cut or privatized, thereby eliminating the safety net support systems from our elders, our young people, people with disabilities, people who have suffered hard times, and others struggling to provide life's basics?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when the rights of women to control their bodies have increasingly and incessantly come under attack, and when doctors and others are intimidated and even killed at family planning clinics?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans* people are still denied their basic human and civil rights in many states that are accorded to heterosexual and cisgender people on a daily basis in employment, housing, and public accommodations, and when they are vilified, scapegoated, attacked, and murdered, or when affirmative action programs to improve the chances of people of color and women are branded as nothing more than "reverse discrimination," and steps are taken to abolish these strategies without replacing them with acceptable alternatives? I ask, when will the political Right take the Black Lives Matter Movement seriously?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when conservative politicians push for school vouchers to funnel public money into parochial institutions at the expense of public education, when forces are gathering to reintroduce prayer into the public schools? And how "free" are we as the political and theocratic right tear down the wall separating religion from entering into the affairs of government and push legislation based on their notions of "morality"?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when politicians and business owners attempt to co-opt and decertify labor unions and eliminate collective bargaining?
How "free" are we as the National Rifle Association claims in its literature that "GUNS SAVE LIVES," or when people can own and use assault rifles, and carry concealed firearms into bars, political rallies, and college and university campuses, and when the NRA and its many supporters fight to dismantle governmental regulations further on weapons ownership and use?
How "free" are we as college and university tuition increases and governmental student assistance programs dry up, and students are left with gigantic debts following graduation or are pushed out entirely from the institutions of higher learning?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when the Right passes legislation to build walls, to deport, and to further restrict immigration and social and educational services to young people, and breaks up families?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when some presidential candidates promise to abolish the Consumer Protection Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Education, and other governmental agencies, as the U.S. Congress threatens to privatize our national parks, and to loosen environmental and consumer protections of all kinds, and when mining, oil, and lumber companies lobby to exploit the land further, and when they are granted enormous tax breaks and subsidies?
How "free" are we as individuals and as a collective nation when residents of the U.S., who represent approximately 5 percent of the world's population, according to the Sierra Club's Dave Tilford, "…uses one-third of the world's paper, a quarter of the world's oil, 23 percent of the coal, 27 percent of the aluminum, and 19 percent of the copper. Our per capita use of energy, metals, minerals, forest products, fish, grains, meat, and even fresh water dwarfs that of people living in the developing world"? And in spite of this, some on the Right are calling for further deregulation of environmental standards.
How "free" are we when we deny the youth of our nation their basic civil rights to make many of their own decisions in the guise of "protecting them"?
So I would then ask, do we as individuals and as a nation have any responsibility and obligation to protect and to support people from falling off the ledge of circumstance to their harm or death because they simply cannot "pull themselves up by their boot straps." Actually, have you ever tried to pull yourself up by your boot straps? If you have, you know that by doing this, you literally fall on your face!
Can we begin, for example, to view health care not as a privilege for those who can afford it, but rather, see it as a human right? Can we begin to perceive the actual crack in this beautiful notion but unmet reality of meritocracy, and respond in common purpose and sense of community to help lift those who are in need of assistance?
I was extremely encouraged last year as I witnessed news reports of a horrendous traffic accident between an automobile driver and a motor cyclist, which resulted in the cyclist being thrust under the burning car. A group of stunned bystanders immediately and without hesitation turned into courageous upstanders by joining in unison, with flames raging around them, to turn the car on its end ensuring that others could pull the young cyclist to safety, thereby saving his life and the life of the automobile driver.
I hope that as residents of our country, we will use this incident as an analogy to come together in unity to work as hard as we can to pull our country and its people to safety according to their needs and abilities. I argue that government has a vital place in this.


I've had my head under the parapet this last week, not daring to raise it above the no-man's land of international football. Finally it's safe to go over the top with only three days till the Arsenal play again.
I don't know about you, but for me it feels like it's the close season already, and it has done for weeks. Yes, we've got third or fourth to play for, but all the talk at the moment is not of that, but of how we can improve next season, who we might sign, and who we might sell.
We've even got the players thinking to their nice breaks – well, Fabregas has been anyway – and in a way, who can blame them? The players who were in their world cup squads have had next to no break since summer 2005, so it's only natural. He's played over 40 games this season, a lot for a 19-year-old.
Just a thing: when there was a rumour of a takeover in September '06 the board was mighty quick to quell it by releasing a statement.
Now the rumours are back with something verging on a vengeance, with the price of shares going up faster than gas bills and the trading of them going on willy nilly, so it's nice to see the board quell the rumours again. Ah, hold on a tic. Where's the denial this time?
The silence is as good an indicator as any that something is afoot. There's plenty of time to chew this one over when something concrete happens, but suffice to say I'm not in favour.
More about it in today's Telegraph.


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Storage Technology: Then & Today, and the Trend
Computer storage systems have seen a massive evolution and transformation over the last 100 years or so. These changes have been dramatic in relation to the size, price and the access speed of storage. These changes have been possible due to the rapid advances in technology, which was initially slow and took years to evolve but later in the last decade it accelerated due to rapid innovations and concerted/ collaborative efforts of the industry giants. These technology advances have revolutionized the way companies, businesses and consumers use storage technologies today – from the most ubiquitous smart phone devices and personal computers all the way to businesses which now have come to rely more on cloud storage services.
In this article we try to capture the evolution of storage technologies over the years and examine the fundamental technical reason that has accelerated storage evolution over the last decade.
Storage evolution over the last 70 years
(Relative to size, capacity and price)
The table below highlights the trends in storage. Initially, the advances in technology were slow, mostly led by IBM in the 60s and 70s in the Megabyte revolution. In the 80s and 90s other companies jumped on the storage bandwagon and started the Gigabyte revolution soon to be followed by the Terabyte revolution. Today there are many physical form factors of storage devices from the traditional mechanical hard disk drives (HDD) to non-volatile memory (NVM) or solid-state devices (SSD); however, the fastest and most dynamic revolution is occurring in the cloud.
Storage technology evolution over the last 100 years
(Another view)
There is another view of understanding the evolution of storage technology as well. The diagram below is a pictorial representation of the other view how storage technologies have evolved over the last 100 years.
The fastest growing storage technology today
Today, most storage systems use some or the other form of a mechanical device for storage which is otherwise known as 'hard disk drives' (HDD). HDDs are the dominant technology for several reasons such as very high recording density per platter, more than one platter per HDD, higher rotational speeds up to 15000 RPM for enterprise class drives, and reduced costs due to economies of scale. However, they do have inherent disadvantages for the following reasons – further recording density increase has hit the limits of the physical space, increasing the rotational speed of the platter increases the cost exponentially, and being a mechanical device it is bound to physically fail due to all the moving parts. A single HDD with a single platter at 15000 RPM can at most deliver a transfer speed of 100MB/s for sequential block reads, and for the random reads for the same configuration, transfer speed drops down to as low as 10MB/s
Given the inherent limitations of mechanical storage devices and the rapid drop in prices of non-volatile memory (NVM), NVM is the next revolution in storage. It is found in almost all mobile devices and now continues to replace mechanical devices across the board. There are several reasons for this – they are now cost competitive with HDDs per terabyte of storage capacity and this price parity will continue to erode in favor of NVM in the coming years; NVM technology is far more reliable in the longer term because it has no moving parts; NVM is over 100 times faster than HDD and has similar transfer speeds for both sequential and random reads/ writes unlike HDDs; and micro-second read/ write latency compared to milli-second latency for HDDs.
Companies like Intel and Samsung have now developed NVM technologies that are 3 dimensional – it means increased storage density per cubic measure of volume without any performance degradation.
The first system implementations of NVM were found to be SSDs that use the serial ATA protocol or SATA. The reason behind this is very simple. They achieve a 100-fold increase in transfer speeds relative to HDD immediately, without changing the upper level small computer systems interface (SCSI) protocol. The SCSI protocol is over 4 decades old and is used by all I/O protocols such as fiber channel etc. All major operating systems also support the SCSI protocol. So for the industry's quick gain, it was easy to replace the HDD with an NVM based SSD.
The next disruption was soon born because the SCSI protocol and its associated software stack were very heavy as far as execution time was concerned. The SCSI protocol overhead directly impacted latency of reads and writes which is detrimental to high performance applications such as high frequency trading, small transactions in banking, and numerous database applications for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Thus, an industry working group was formed to address the latency problem associated with the SCSI proto col. The industry came up with a new protocol which takes advantage of the native speed of NVM. They completely eliminated the SCSI protocol to define a new protocol called NVMe (Non-Volatile-Memory Express). In this protocol, the NVM device is directly attached to the I/O PCI express bus – and hence the extension 'e' in NVM. This eliminates the need to have the traditional hardware and firmware that resides in a host bus adapter (HBA) along with HBA itself. The following diagram illustrates this concept.
Latest NVM highlights
PCIe Gen1 is 2.5gbps per lane per direction. Today's SSDs pack Gen3x2 or Gen3x4 (8Gbps x 2 or 4 lanes = upto 32Gbps) bandwidth in a very tiny M.2 gumstick form-factor.
3-D NAND and 3D-Xpoint NAND, DRAM-bandwidth at flash-economies, very low-latency flash (20us IO read/ write) latency compared to 200us latency for enterprise flash.
New form-factor coming to pack TB of capacity – 'ruler' form factor from Intel.
NVMe enables performance scaling with the increase in capacity – traditionally denser HDD did not bring any performance improvement.
NVMe over TCP enables low-cost SAN deployment compared to Infiniband, RoCE, iWarp or FC.
NVMe allows dual-ported drives providing high-availability (same PCIe connector for either gen3/ gen4x4 or 2 separate gen3/ gen4x2 links); and same connector can connect a native SATA drive as well.
Further evolutions in NVMe – Non-Volatile Memory Express Over Fabric (NVMe-o-F)
Restricting NVMe inside the box, server chassis has implications for scaling a storage system. Network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) do not have scaling issues. These are field proven technologies for large enterprises with each having advantages and disadvantages in certain type of applications. NVMe-o-F is now about to change the dominance of NAS and SAN storage networks. Several competing technologies are now defining new protocols to replace FC and NAS in enterprise and cloud environments. These are iWarp, FC and RoCE. These technologies intend to use existing ethernet and fiber channel networks to deploy NVMe outside the server chassis. TCP/ IP is also a very old protocol that runs over existing ethernet infrastructure and they too are in the process of extending NVMe outside the server chassis. It is only a matter of time when all storage (green field projects) adopt NVMe-o-F as the preferred storage technology. The following diagram illustrates NVMe-o-F in a CCTV surveillance application.
Data security and data protection
Data security has to do with unauthorized access to data whereas data protection has to do with computer component failure. Both these needs are to be considered as important, and must live together 'components' with interrelated recovery policies. As this subject is too vast for discussion, we highlight the main points here:
Data growth: Sufficient policies must be in place to handle future growth.
Cyberattack growth: This phenomenon is bound to increase so this also needs to be considered in an overall security policy.
Cost of data breaches: Must act as a powerful incentive to have a strong security policy and mechanism in place as these breaches can become very expensive.
Increasing data value: All the more reason to prevent data breaches by having a solid security policy.
Storage vulnerabilities are inherent in storage systems. They include the following:
Lack of encryption: Data must be encrypted both in transit and at rest.
Cloud storage: Understand the security offerings by cloud storage providers. All these features come at a cost.
Incomplete data destruction: All efforts and methods must be implemented to ensure the total destruction of data when it is no longer needed.
Lack of physical security: This is one of the most common causes of data breaches and is often overlooked. Policies and procedures must be put in place to address this issue as critical data breaches are done by human beings.
Eight data security best practices
Write and enforce data security policies that include data security models.
Implement role-based access control and use multi-factor authentication where appropriate.
Encrypt data in transit and at rest.
Deploy a data loss prevention solution.
Surround your storage devices with strong network security measures.
Protect user devices with appropriate endpoint security.
Provide storage redundancy with RAID and other technologies.
Use a secure backup and recovery solution.
On-Site Training: An Inescapable Requirement of Security Operations


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Sneak Peek: Kamie Says This Catfish Case Is 'A Very Dangerous Thing'
The matter at hand is urgent -- but why?
Jordana Ossad 01/02/2020
Jalissa and Red have been in a relationship for six years, so why do they need the help of sleuths Nev and Kamie?
In an extended sneak peek of Catfish, returning on January 8, the MTV mystery specialists are trying to crack the truth regarding the long-distance lovers. But first, how did the case get to this point? Well, according to Red's pal Janae (who wrote to Nev and Kamie), her friend is "totally getting Catfished."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wXt9ZoxHI
"[Jalissa is] a woman she's never met or Factetimed with, but after six years she refuses to see it," Nev reveals via Janae.
But why does Kamie declare "this is a very dangerous thing" -- and why must she and Nev act quickly to resolve the matter at hand? Watch the video, and do not miss the premiere of Catfish on Wednesday at 8/7c!


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Tag: Pays de la Loire
Saumur (Western Loire), France June 2021
Saumur is an ancient town of some 27,000 people on the Loire River in Western France in the area historically known as Anjou. It's a pretty town, overlooked by the very prominent Chateau de Saumur, and built almost entirely of an attractive cream coloured stone (Tuffeau) which was mined here throughout the Middle Ages. The miles of caves resulting from that mining have since been converted for wine storage (the renowned Saumur wines and especially Cremant de Loire) and mushrooms (80% of France's button mushrooms are grown in these caves).
Saumur from L'Ile d'Offard
We arrived fairly late in the day and, after parking up at the Flower Camp Site which sits on the L'Ile d'Offard in the middle of the Loire River, walked across the Pont Cessart for a quick look at the old town and something to eat. We found somewhere on the Place de Saint Pierre and spent a delightful evening eating French tapas and drinking Cremant de Loire.
We were parked up some 10 minutes walk from the centre of the old town
Enjoyed a tapas meal and some local beer and wines on Place on Place de Saint Pierre.
To be honest the local beer was not up to much and I soon switched to wine
The next day was about exploring the town and my first destination was the Chateau de Saumur fortress which dominates so much of the town. It was first built in the 9th century to deter Norman invaders and considerably developed over the next hundreds of years (particularly by the English King, Henry II) but it's current fairytale shape and style is 15th century and down to Louis I and Louis II of Anjou who wanted rather more of a palace than a fortress. Up close the chateau is not as impressive as when seen from a distance with many of the walls crumbling and in need of repair. The good news is that it is happening. The place was crawling with stonemasons hard at work. I arrived too early in the morning to go into the chateau which is now a museum.
The Chateau could be seen from the campsite swimming pool
Much of the outside of the Chateau is in need of repair but that is happening
Views from the Chateau and the official (panoramic) viewpoint were not especially interesting
A significant military presence is evident across Saumur. France lost almost all of it's cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars and a decision was made to rebuild that arm of the military in and around Saumur with the establishment of the Ecole Nationale d'Equitation. The Cavalry Academy is now home to the Cadre Noir, an elite corps of black clad cavalry instructors who have made up the teaching staff at the school since 1828. During the Summer months the Cadre Noir put on a series of ballet like galas to showcase the skills of horses and riders and the riders have often taken gold in eventing, dressage and jumping at the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, Covid put has paid to any such gala this Summer.
With cavalry having long given way to tanks it is perhaps not surprising that Saumur is also home to the Musee des Blindes which is one of the largest tank museums in the world with 800+ armoured vehicles (200 of which are driven in a military tattoo every July). I suspect that too will be cancelled this year.
With Saumur being home to Cremant de Loire (currently Vanya's favourite tipple) it was inevitable that Vanya and I would want to go on a local wine tour and tasting session. We were spoilt for choice here with so many producers based alongside of each other on the Rue d'Ackerman. We finally settled on the Langlois Chateau and we were not disappointed. Between us we have previously partaken of many wine tours and tasting sessions but none as enjoyable and as informative as the one at the Langlois Chateau. It was a private tour, just the two of us, and; it involved going back into a classroom to learn more about grapes, bloom & sediment and; our walking some of the their 3 kilometres of caves and; well, it was simply brilliant. We learned so much of real interest. And the wine? Vanya now has a new favourite Cremant and we have a case of it in the back of the Van.
Langlois-Chateau
When I say "classroom", I mean "classroom"
Langlois-Chateau is a relatively small family owned wine producer but they still work 3km of caves
"Here comes the best bit"
I walked more than 15 miles of the town that first day (getting a little lost more than once) and there is so much more I could write about but we need to move on to our next destination so I will quickly write about our last night in Saumur and leave it at that.
We had the good fortune to be in Saumur during the evening that France were playing Switzerland in the first knockout stage of the European Championship Finals. That being so we found a small bar, La Verriere, showing the match out on the main square in the centre of town and ordered an early meal so as to gain the best seats. We had a fantastic evening. France lost but there were sufficient goals (3-3 after extra time and then the match went to penalties) to keep the neutral supporters well entertained and the atmosphere was electric. Oh and the food and wine was great.
An early meal before the football game
It was a late, late but great night
Author DJmotortouringPosted on July 1, 2021 September 6, 2022 Categories FranceTags Pays de la LoireLeave a comment on Saumur (Western Loire), France June 2021


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In process: an interactive book commissioned by a local museum, to engage viewers of an upcoming book arts exhibition!
The book is a flag book, investigating color interactions, with text potentially added by the viewer/participants/co-creators.
The covers are made of book board, resurfaced with torn and crumpled pieces of unique "brown paper bag" colored folders, of limited quantity, using neutral pH Lineco adhesive .
or white…can be seen. The cover colors and composition will change, depending on which cards are used.
Within, untorn and uncrumpled pieces of the same file folders are folded into pockets, edges glued together with a UHU acid free glue stick, one edge stitched with linen thread, and the other side glued to the book's concertina spine.
The accordion spine is made of watercolor paper, resurfaced on the back with pieces of torn and singed rice paper. The edge of each fold is covered with the same folder material as the covers, and the inside of the spine.
The flag page pockets will have the same size and shape windows cut out of them, all aligning with the front and back cover windows, so that anyone can add and subtract file cards, changing the color balance and composition of the cover and contents.
In this way, the viewers can become true creative participants and co-creators of the piece, creating chromatic interactions and meditations through their own actions…interactions with it!
One of the ways it does that is to provide programming for building residents, which includes arts/crafts workshops. I have been gifted with the opportunity to lead several workshops, and this one was a blast. Both adults and children were able to complete a unique Flag Book, and had fun doing so while learning skills and techniques in the process, end expressing themselves creatively. What could be better?!
The black cover makes the letter's in Mario's name pop!
This young Angel artist is adding all sorts of adornment to her Flag book creation.
Michael, recently turned five, who started out drawing, added layers of color, texture and mixed media to his book!
Michael's book just vibrates with movement, action and vitality!
His Mom, Lynn, said, "I think I may be enjoying it more than he is. When you do projects with your children, it's just fun!" We agreed that adults, especially Moms, certainly deserve to have fun too!
Blue and orange, complimentary colors (opposite each other on the color wheel), contrast with pink and purple, which have red in common! Flag book color schemes are infinite!
Samantha's Mom embellished both the powerful red and black front and back covers of her book using a variety of materials, and tied it all together with silver cord!
This is the kind of experience that a teaching artist lives for. Here's to more and more of them!
I continue to play with the "French Link" stitch I recently learned. The best way to learn and skill is to do…so inspired by some special upcoming birthdays, I went to town with color, ribbons, and, of course, the "x" -like French link stitch!
Using "Eco-fi" felt (made of recycled plastic bottles, no less) in brilliant colors. The pink and green pop, in complimentary fashion. I hope the heart is seen as coming together, not breaking apart. This book was made for an eight year old girl!
The French link stitch over ribbons, using hemp cord.The knotting below and above the French linking gives the effect of a chain stitch, though each knot is independent of the others.
The flowing ribbons are folded in half, the loop pushed through a slit in the cover, and the ends then pulled tight through the loop.
The theme here is outer space, based on the ribbons, hopefully the polka dots elicit the feeling of planets roiling about in space. The red and black color scheme is meant to be positive, powerful and masculine, with a bit of white to soften the effect.
The shape of the ribbon ends brings a sense of flags and heraldry to the piece, while the imagery on the ribbons remains playful. This book was created for a six year old boy (after all!), who is fascinated with space.
Designed for a spirited three year old girl, this book sports pink, purple. polka dots, and pastels. It's green ties are made from shiny cord, knotted at each end.
The connecting ribbons are woven through two slits on both covers, with the end of each folded under and glued down. The polk-dotted ribbon glued to the page is the same colors, but a different scale then the connectors. it is fun to play with scale!
The extra slits for the ribbon create a pattern, and add an extra bit of zip to the cover design.
This work isn't only pure love, it is sheer delight and great fun. Of course there are challenges and ups and down in the process, but the result is arresting and gratifying to the soul. Link On!


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Wideline prepares for heart surgery with Dr. David Adams during the Mitral Foundation's October Children's Valve Project medical mission to the Dominican Republic.
Meet Wideline
Even in the best of times, the trip from Eliana Sainvil's village to Port-au-Prince takes a day of hard driving over bad roads. But when her rattletrap taxi rounded a bend to encounter a smoldering roadblock of burning tires, Eliana knew her journey was about to become much harder, and more dangerous.
Under a sudden hail of protestors' thrown rocks, her driver braked hard, shoved the car into reverse, and retreated up the road. But for Eliana, who was traveling with her gravely ill 15-year-old daughter Wideline, waiting until the road reopened wasn't an option. If they didn't make it to Port-au-Prince within 24 hours, they would miss their ride to the Dominican Republic for Wideline's emergency heart surgery.
Dr. Adams and the team operate during the Mitral Foundation Children's Valve Project medical mission to the Dominican Republic.
We're getting out, Eliana told the driver.
A few minutes later, with one arm supporting Wideline and the other steadying a suitcase atop her head, Eliana began helping her daughter through the plumes of acrid smoke, ducking the occasional rock and hoping that nearby gunfire didn't get any closer.
"I was very, very afraid," Wideline said.
Given Haiti's widespread civil unrest – a reaction to endemic corruption and gross inequality – Eliana felt she couldn't trust anyone. Only her faith and the three dollars she had pocketed from selling the last of her goats would see them through to safety. "All I kept thinking about," Eliana said, "was that, when the doctors would see Wideline, they'd be able to take care of her."
Wideline poses with a heart pillow after her successful mitral valve repair surgery.
After several of hours limping down the road, Eliana flagged down a passing driver who demanded the last of her money to ferry them to their rendezvous in Port-au-Prince. There, a social worker from the Haiti Cardiac Alliance – a nonprofit that works to match young Haitians suffering cardiac problems with appropriate medical care abroad – packed them into a battered van with four other patients, their parents and with two armed guards, for the first leg of their 200-mile trip to the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo.
Wideline's journey had been a long one in more ways than one. Doctors had actually diagnosed her rheumatic heart disease five years earlier, but the Haiti Cardiac Alliance has a rolling waiting list of more than 400 indigent patients. This, coupled with the challenge of matching Wideline with a qualified surgical team abroad, had meant years of delay, even as her condition deteriorated. With time running out, her surgery was now or never.
"The general state of health infrastructure in Haiti is poor," said Owen Robinson, Executive Director of the Haiti Cardiac Alliance. "It's never been at a sufficient level, especially in a specialty like cardiology. There's a lack of training, a lack of hospital beds, and supply chain problems in terms of getting medicine. And then there's the bureaucracy of passports and visas. We have one or two patients die a week, just waiting."
Fortunately, on this particular day, the trip to Santo Domingo went smoothly – including the border crossing, which each patient had to make on the back of a roaring motorbike.
Two days later, Wideline lay on a gurney in Santo Domingo's CEDIMAT hospital, waiting for her turn in the operating room. Paradoxically, the most dangerous part of her odyssey was about to begin: the surgery itself.
Over the next six hours, doctors would cut open her chest, reroute her blood through a heart-lung machine, stop her heart from beating, repair or replace multiple valves, zap the heart back into action, and then sew her shut again – all while preventing any number of possible complications or deadly infections. For an adult, this is hard surgery. For a sick child, it's exceptionally risky.
Fortunately, the surgeon leading Wideline's operation was Dr. David Adams, President of the Mitral Foundation and Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, and one of the top mitral valve surgeons in the world.
But even Dr. Adams, along with CEDIMAT's chief pediatric surgeon, Dr. Juan Leon, were shocked by what they discovered when the surgical team actually opened her chest: heart anatomy so distorted by disease that in thousands of heart surgeries, they had never seen anything like it.
"Nobody in her condition makes it this long," Dr. Adams said. "She's at the very end of her compensatory curve, and is truly dying from her valve disease. So the pressure's really on today. There's no gimme here."
Such difficult cases, of course, were the reason Dr. Adams and his team had flown more 1,500 miles from New York on this medical mission – to tackle exceptionally complex repairs that most surgeons would deem impossible, let alone perform free of charge on children with a high risk of mortality.
"There are only a few cardiac surgeons in the world who can do this successfully," Dr. Adams said. "That's why it's so critical that we not just save these sick kids, but also train more surgeons in advanced repair techniques." This is especially in the Caribbean, a region with a high incidence of rheumatic fever and generally poor medical infrastructure.
Dr. Adams and Dr. Leon, collaborating with a combined team of about 20, worked nonstop to give Wideline a second chance at life – step by step, cut by cut, suture by suture. For the young girl, anesthetized and sustained on the very edge of life and death, any surgical mistake could prove fatal.
Wideline sits up smiling days after her mitral valve repair surgery.
In the operating room, every minute is important, because the longer a patient remains under anesthesia and the more time their blood must being oxygenated and pumped by the bypass machine, the greater the risk that they will suffer life-threatening complications. Despite this urgency, doctors can't afford to rush, because such complex procedures demand the utmost precision.
"It doesn't matter if you've done a procedure 10,000 times – you have to get it exactly right, today," Dr. Adams said. "And in a child's heart, you have to be especially careful. Just a millimeter's difference can make the difference."
As the hours passed and Wideline's surgery progressed, the mood in the operating room slowly shifted. The tense silence of early concentration slowly gave way to a murmur of relaxed conversation. The beeps and whir of the life support machines were joined by crooning country music from Dr. Adams' iPhone. Meanwhile, talk about Wideline turned from survival to recovery, and how the team could transform head-cam footage of the operation into training video.
"Given her condition, she showed unbelievable heart," Dr. Adams said, afterward "She's going to be fine." Indeed, the very next day, with support from her mother on one side and a nurse on the other, Wideline actually took a slow walk around the intensive care unit.
Still weak but smiling widely when Dr. Adams stopped by her bedside to check in, Wideline thanked him for saving her. So did her mom. "God is in the first position, but doctors are in the second position," Eliana said. "I am so happy she got the surgery, and that the doctors knew what they were doing."
Within a week, if all went well on the return journey, Wideline would be back at home and, within a few weeks, back in school for the first time in a year. The rest of her fellow patients –including six from Haiti and two from the Dominican Republic – were also up and walking within a day of surgery, and due to leave the hospital within 72 hours.
"These kids were sick for many years," Dr. Leon said. "It's so great to see them after surgery, coming back to life."
Collectively, these operations – conducted over two days – marked the third round of surgery for the Children's Valve Project, which aims to fix 100 children's hearts in the next several years, all while honing local surgical expertise in valve repair.
As Dr. Leon notes, valve repair takes time to master. "Because every patient is different, it's not something you can learn in just a couple of surgeries," he said. But "working beside Dr. Adams, you get so much information that you can't get from books, or see in videos. He will explain every single step, point out the different formations, and how to read and successfully repair the valve."
Dr. Adams and the Children's Valve Project are already planning the next round of surgeries at CEDIMAT, with support from Every Heartbeat Matters – a philanthropic initiative led by Edwards Lifesciences to educate, screen and treat 1.5 million underserved people fighting heart valve disease around the world, the Haiti Cardiac Alliance, the David Ortiz Children's Fund, the Mount Sinai Health System, the Mitral Foundation, and individual donors.
"Just look at these kids. We're making a difference," Dr. Adams said. "This is God's work."
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Television: Thank Your Lucky Stars
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The Beatles rehearsed and recorded their seventh contribution to the television show Thank Your Lucky Stars at Teddington Studios on this day. It was screened on ITV the following Saturday, 21 November 1964, from 5.50pm.
The group mimed to four songs: 'I Feel Fine', 'She's A Woman', 'I'm A Loser' and 'Rock And Roll Music'. There was no studio audience present.
Despite their numerous previous appearances on the show, by November 1964 The Beatles were so famous that it was a coup for the producers to have them even mime for an edition. In recognition of this, the show was renamed Lucky Stars Special.
Afterwards, John Lennon and Ringo Starr went to the Flamingo Club in London's Soho to see Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames perform. Paul McCartney and George Harrison went to their respective homes.
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The Seahawks started off the season with a complete shut out against the St. Louis Rams on Sunday September 13th. The game started off with so many turnovers, creating excitement in Seattle. Qwest field was full of noise and held up to its claim as the "loudest stadium" for the most false starts and delayed plays. The Seahawks turned the ball over three times in their first four possessions, which were two Hasselbeck interceptions and a Burleson fumble, also got a 14-point swing when a Rams return of a blocked field goal for a touchdown was nullified because they had 12 men on the field. Victory was sweet for the Seahawks until game two came around against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday September 20th at the 49ers Candlestick Park stadium. Everything that could go wrong went wrong for the Seachickens, eh hem sorry Seahawks. However, the Seahawks have an extended injury list which did not help them to take on the 49ers Frank Gore, who truly had an amazing game. Gore, San Francisco's rampaging running back, had 80- and 79-yard touchdown runs as part of his 207-yard outing as the 49ers slapped the Seahawks with a 23-10 loss. Each long run came against a Seahawks' defense that was stacked in an eight-man front to stop him. Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck suffered another hard blow to his already injured back, he removed himself from the game and is still on the injured list putting the pressure on Seneca Wallace to pull his weight in the next games until he can return. Hopefully the Seahawks can make headway in today's game against the Chicago Bears. Get better Hasselbeck and Tatupu!