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The lovely John Sennett got in touch with me last month about his campaign #iblogbecause, which is designed to raise a bit of positivity and love in the blogging community. He asked me to write a post about the reasons why I blog, and post to the hashtag. You can find John on Twitter @JohnRdToVol, where you can learn about him and his volunteering, or check out the hashtag.
Anyway, it kind of got me thinking: Why do I blog?
It all started with me creating a website for my work as a film maker. To share news about what I had been up to and what I was watching, or what was going on in the world of movies, I added a blog to the site. (If you want to see it, click HERE)
I was writing a lot of reviews, and was asked to write for sites like Film Doctor, Whirligig Cinema and ScreenJabber.com. So I started working as a freelance writer, as a kind of day job, with film making and script writing being my other work.
But I also wanted a place to write about books and other things that I loved. So I started blogging on this blog. What I realised from my Instagram and from friends comments and questions was that lots of people were interested in my style, where I bought things and what makeup or skincare I was using, and I started to share these things in blog posts.
Now I collaborate with brands and people to create content and talk about the things that I love that aren’t strictly film related.
But if you asked me why I blog, I guess my answer would be something more emotional and closer to the heart.
I blog because I love my job, I love attending screenings and living in London. Meeting famous people is pretty cool, working on movies is really fun, and I love to share my friends work. I love my life. I love writing scripts. I love stories.
I wanted to share and connect with people, because I love when my friends ask me to help them choose something to wear or to do their makeup, or ask what they should buy, watch or read. I loved how that made my friends smile or feel good about themselves. And when I post pictures or blog posts, I feel like I’m sharing that motivation and happy feeling with a wider audience.
I guess what a lot of people don’t know from the outside is how hard I worked to get here, to where I am in life now. I love that the blogging community is a really friendly, positive place. It’s exciting to read what other people are doing, or what they’re into, what they love. Sometimes I feel like it’s a kind of frivolous thing to be engaged in, but actually, I think it’s an online platform that allows a lot of people to be themselves without stigma, or to express part of themselves that might not get a huge outlet in other parts of their lives. In the film industry, I express confidence and a professional part of myself, but not the more girly aspect because I used to feel like the male dominated industry would see it as a sign of weakness, for example.
But I think that one of the greatest panaceas for the negative things in life is beauty. That means different things to different people, it can be make up or a dress that makes you feel good, it can be an inspiring story, a beautiful sunset, photos of an exotic destination, someone’s artwork or outpouring of creativity. Whatever inspires you and reminds you that life is beautiful, even if the news is full of ugliness and doom. And those beautiful things are what bloggers write about.
So anyway, that’s why I blog.
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Thanks for sharing, I think your blog is wonderful because it sends positive energy out from a place (the internet) where negativity is abundant. You go girl!
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Christmas comes to Singapore early every year with festivities getting into full swing to get everyone into the holiday mood.
The official light-up ceremony earlier this month transformed the buzzing lifestyle precinct of Orchard Road into a wonderland filled with bright lights, enchanting decorations, irresistible festive buys and endless bustle from holiday makers.
Living up to its billing as “Christmas on A Great Street”, the lights and decorations stay up until January 1, allowing visitors travelling there this week to enjoy the Disney-themed Christmas lights.
This year’s lights feature Mickey Mouse and a whole cast of popular characters and can be admired all along Orchard Road, stretching from Tanglin Mall to Scotts Road and up to Plaza Singapura. The celebrations span four distinct zones across the entire 2.88km stretch, each boasting their own thematic decorations.
Visitors to the Tanglin and Scotts Road zone will be awash in pink with Disney Princess holding court, while the Orchard Road zone sees Mickey and Friends adornments greeting festive revellers. Catch the overhead lights of lovable characters from the popular Disney’s “Frozen: and Disney Pixar’s “Toy Story” movies at the Somerset and Dhoby Ghaut zones respectively.
At Ngee Ann City, Civic Plaza, the Christmas Village is jam-packed with exciting activities, including various games, photo ops with roving Christmas characters, workshops and live performances. If you’re visiting with your little ones, be sure to take a spin on the Duplex Carousel. Also, the STB mascot, Merli, will be making its debut appearance so do look out for Merli and not miss out on this exclusive photo op.
And before you go, be sure to download the Visit Singapore Travel Guide app (available on iOS) and check out the Traveller Essentials page. This handy app will help you get your bearings, navigate Singapore’s bustling streets and gain access to a wealth of maps and city guides.
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Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has come under increasing scrutiny this year as regulators crack down on greenwashing and some politicians target investment style, saying the asset managers behind it are politically motivated.
Even with these controversies, a majority of finance professionals support this methodology and see long-term relevance in it. This could be good news for related exchange-traded funds, including the SPDR Bloomberg SASB Developed Markets Ex US ESG Select ETF (RDMX)the SPDR S&P SmallCap 600 ESG ETF (ESIX)and the SPDR S&P 500 ESG ETF (EFIV)among others.
“A survey of 550 Bloomberg Terminal users found that more than 60% expect ESG to be either integral to running a business or increasingly essential to it. By comparison, around a third of respondents think the strategy that considers environmental, social and governance issues – and impacts around $40 trillion in assets – is just a “ fashion “. according to the news agency.
Of those surveyed, 41% believe ESG will eventually become standard business practice, while a further 20% said related issues will be more critical in the coming years.
Whether or not these trends facilitate the increased adoption of ESG ETFs remains to be seen, but there is continued momentum on this front. Despite the erosion this year of growth stocks – an asset class that pervades equity-based ESG ETFs – advisors and investors continue to allocate capital to these funds.
Bloomberg Terminal’s subscriber survey also indicated that there are notable regional differences in how investment style is perceived, indicating that there is still room for growth in related ETFs. in many of the largest ETF markets in the world.
“European respondents were the most optimistic about the importance of ESG, followed by those surveyed in Asia, with the Americas trailing by around 50%,” according to Bloomberg.
The motivations for adopting the investment style vary but are credible. These include the theory that companies that perform well in these terms are more profitable and fund managers adopt the style at the request of value-driven clients.
“More than half of respondents to Bloomberg Terminal’s reader survey said they are taking ESG action because it’s critical to increasing corporate earnings rather than having a positive impact. society and reduce carbon emissions Some 62% of respondents said they act on ESG at the request of their clients, while around three-fifths said they do so primarily to protect the reputation of their business,” the survey notes.
Other SPDR ETFs include the SPDR Bloomberg SASB Emerging Markets ESG Select ETF (REMG)the SPDR Bloomberg SASB Corporate Bond ESG Select ETF (RBND)the SPDR MSCI US Gender Diversity ETF (SHE)and the ETF SPDR MSCI USA Climate Paris Aligned (NZUS).
For more news, information and analysis, visit the ESG channel.
Learn more at ETFtrends.com.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.


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One of the pre-eminent practitioners of 'live-looping', Zach Deputy’s one-man show weaves a tapestry of instrumentation and voices in an ever-evolving, improvised arrangement that is ultimately based on a composition but allowed to breathe with the audience.
Zach Deputy’s show transforms clubs and open fields alike into sweaty dance parties for fans of R&B, soul, jam, Caribbean music and electronica.
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Ali Lightfoot speaks with Betty Palik, a producer for the documentary film "Rocksteady – The Roots of Reggae." This documentary tells the story of the Rocksteady era which was from 1966 to 1969 in Jamaica and considered by music experts to be the golden age of Jamaican music. A blend of ska, soul and R&B, Rocksteady developed the rhythms, prominent bass line, beautiful vocals and socially conscious lyrics that became Reggae.


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So, I've just created a blog on a whim. I don' t actually follow any blogs. I spend my spare time reading the New York times (OK, I admit, there are blogs there, and I am particularly intrigued with the mommy blog), my email, or occasionally a novel. Or maybe I am cooking a desert, or even watching the daily show or loading ready run videos. We don't have a TV- I used to feel a bit superior about this- I mean, I have better things to do. But now its all available online, and sometimes we watch things. I don't have a face book account even though my mother just got one. Who has time for that? Who would want to read anything about me anyway? That's why this blog is an experiment. Will anyone read it?
Why did I decide to this? I just spent half an hour composing a letter to my 16 month old toddler recording a snapshot of his life. Its only the second letter I've written to him, but I felt that his status was worth recording- and might actually be interesting. It is to me- in fact its my whole life right now, and much to my surprise, very fulfilling. I thought having a child would be worthwhile but probably difficult and not often pleasant- I thought it would be like my two years in the peace corps or my two years teaching high school science to ninth graders. I was so wrong. I absolutely love raising my child. All the time. Even when he's in a bad mood; even when I didn't get enough sleep for his first 9 months (OK, I'm still slightly sleep deprived). It is so so much better for me than I expected. I am very lucky.
I've put myself in the slow lane- having my first/only child at age 36, happily staying at home while my husband pursues tenure at a small college in the midwest. Someday, I suppose I will want to go back to work- which is another reason for starting the blog. Someday, I suppose, I will want to reconnect with the world wider than this small midwestern village. Why not start now with a blog?

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Tiffani V. Coleman is an Executive Assistant at Hamilton Place Strategies. Her responsibilities include supporting the firm’s founder, Tony Fratto, and the broader Operations team for both the New York City and Washington, D.C. offices.
Before joining HPS, Tiffani worked as a General Manager and Administrative Executive Assistant at MML public relations for various beauty and lifestyle brands, where she led business operations, internship programming, and company events for their Los Angeles and New York City offices. Prior to that, she worked as a Studio Coordinator and Administrative Executive at Diane von Furstenberg, where she restructured recruiting and onboarding methods, ameliorating the company culture and core values. Tiffani additionally served as the company’s docent and brand ambassador.
Tiffani graduated from the Connecticut School of Broadcasting, where she earned a degree in Communications and Media Arts and a certificate in Radio, Television Broadcasting, and Digital Media. Additionally, Tiffani was an editing & post-production intern at NBC Universal and a freelance voiceover artist for motivational speaking endeavors.
Tiffani is originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, and is the youngest of two siblings. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and practicing ballet.

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WorkForce Software’s global breaking news.
As Australia better supports aged care, workforce-management solutions can help the healthcare sector remain compliant and properly rostered.
65% of Employers Focus More on Employee Experience in 2021 Than Two Years Ago | IT Brief New Zealand
Employers are focusing more on employee experience, largely because of the challenges highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to a new report released by WorkForce Software, almost two-thirds (65%) of organisations put a greater focus on the employee experience in 2021 than two years ago.
Less than 1% of enterprise software spends are for solutions that serve deskless workers. That needs to change to engage frontline staff.
Successful organisations support positive employee experiences. Here’s how management can build trust and provide purpose for employees.
Hourly employees’ expectations are on the rise, and employers need to meet them to keep workers engaged and avoid churn.
WorkForce Software’s report “The State of Human Experience in the Workplace” gives three key recommendations to help companies plan an employee experience strategy.
WorkForce Software CEO Mike Morini on why leaders need to listen to employees and provide the necessary tools to return to work safely.
WorkForce Software’s Nick Bailey on how HR professionals are using AI systems to build more engaged, productive and efficient workplaces.
Companies Implementing Workforce Management Solutions to Capture Employee Experiences | Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Employee experience strategy is primarily driven by the increase in remote work, according to research by WorkForce Software and SAPinsider.
Working women have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Here’s what employers can do to accelerate women’s workforce reentry.

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May 19, 2020
Molex announced recently that it has joined the SPE (Single Pair Ethernet) Industrial Partner Network, which brings together industry leading companies to promote and support adoption of SPE technology as the basis for rapid growth of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things).
“IIoT and Industry 4.0 are driving new standards in wired connectivity for smart factories, which require fast and reliable data transmission from devices to the cloud. At the same time, demand is on the rise for compact, space-saving and lighter weight industrial infrastructure,” said Johann Ried, global product manager, Molex.
SPE technology addresses these trends by utilizing one twisted pair copper wires to transmit data at distances up to 1,000 meters – thereby delivering greater speed, miniaturization and design flexibility in industrial automation applications. Based on industry standard IEC 63171-6, industrial SPE solutions are in accordance with IEEE 802.3 for uniform Ethernet transmission standards. This standardization makes it possible for the first time to use Ethernet to process data from industrial devices to gain more efficient and seamless integration into existing Ethernet infrastructures.
Being a member of the innovative SPE Industrial Partner Network also enables Molex to fortify its innovative Industrial Automation Solution 4.0 (IAS4.0). Molex’s IAS4.0 is an end-to-end solution from sensors to analytics to enterprise applications. This includes simple to complex devices such as controllers, gateways and IO modules as well as platforms to develop cloud-based applications.
“Our collaboration with the SPE Industrial Partner Network strengthens our commitment to advancing SPE as a future infrastructure solution for IIoT and shaping our vision for Industrial IAS4.0,” Ried concluded.


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People traveling from Kurdistan should test negative for Covid-19: Iran
Iranians wearing protective face masks against the coronavirus walk in a crowded area of the capital Tehran, Iran, March 30, 2021. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo
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SULAIMANI – People traveling to Iran from the Kurdistan Region should submit a negative Covid-19 test prior to the departure, said Haji Omaran International Border Point on Saturday (July 10).
“The Iranian state will not allow any citizen or tourist to visit Iran without submitting the Covid-19 test,” the border point said in a statement
Kurdistan Region has four official border crossings with Iran; Haji Omaran in Erbil, Parwezkhan, bashmakh and Sairanban in Sulaimani and many unofficial ones.
On February 25, Iran halted travel to and from Iraq including the Kurdistan Region through the border crossings to combat exponential surges in COVID-19 cases in the country. Since then, the travel ban has been extended several times.
The newly imposed condition on travelers by Iran comes after a spike in the number of coronavirus cases in the Kurdistan Region.
On Friday (July 9), the Kurdistan Region logged 1,007 new coronavirus cases, 3 deaths, and 798 recoveries.
Overall, there have been 193,270 officially logged cases. 179,461 have recovered and 4,528 have died.


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Middle Mountain Trail is a quiet dirt road located in the middle of nowhere in Virginia, with nothing but trees surrounding it. But, according to some Grand Theft Auto fans, it might be a clue connected to GTA VI, the long-rumoured sequel to one of the best selling games of all time.
Late last week, Rockstar dropped a small teaser for the next GTA Online update. There wasn’t much in the teaser, but eagle-eyed fans spotted what appeared to be GPS coordinates at the bottom of the video.
When they punched the numbers into Google Maps, they got a dirt road that seems to be forming the same shape as VI, the Roman numeral for 6.
GTA fans on Reddit and Twitter quickly began freaking out. Was this a hint about GTA 6, a clue left by Rockstar for dedicated fans to find? Or is it just a coincidence?
Kotaku contacted Rockstar about the coordinates, but did not hear back in time for publication.
Fans are trying to piece together this strange mystery by themselves. Many are convinced that the shape of the road is too perfect to be a random coincidence. I’ll admit, it’s very strange how much the road looks like VI. Furthermore, Rockstar knows how dedicated its fans can be; it would be strange for the developer to just add some random numbers to a teaser without some reason behind it.
All that said, would Rockstar really use a teaser for a GTA Online update to tease GTA 6? Also, what is actually being teased? It seems unlikely the next GTA game will be set in a version of the Virginia backwoods. It’s possible that Rockstar is just trolling GTA fans desperate for information about GTA 6.
I’m usually pretty quick to dismiss folks hunting for clues to GTA VI in everything Rockstar releases, as often they amount to nothing. But I’m not sure if I can totally write off this weird clue.
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Published by : PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS
July - September 2008
Effects of dexamethasone in primary intracerebral
hemorrhage in the South West of Iran
Sharafadinzadeh N1, Baghebanian SM2,
Pipelzadeh M 3,
Moravej Ale Ali A4, Ghanavati P5
Objective: Previous study revealed the value of dexamethasone in the treatment of vasogenic edema associated with brain tumor and abscess. However there are poor documented studies about its usefulness in primary intracerebral hemorrhage. In this study we evaluated dexamethasone effects in primary intracerebral hemorrhage.
Methodology: In a double blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial we evaluated 200 intracerebral hemorrhage cases between 40 to 80 years old whom were admitted at Golestan Hospital (Ahwaz, IR) between March 2002 And March 2003. They were divided in two groups; dexamethasone (N=100) and placebo (N=100). Then mortality, GI bleeding, fever, electrolytes disturbances, hypertension and hyperglycemic status were analyzed in two groups. Ethical considerations were employed and subjects were followed by appropriate statistical methods for 21 days to assess the major outcomes.
Results: Mortality was much higher in the dexamethasone group; Dexamethasone group (49.3%) and placebo (23.4%) and also fever was higher seen in the dexamethasone group; dexamethasone group (40.2%) and placebo group (24.7%) but there was not any significant statistical difference between two groups as regards other complications.
Conclusion: Dexamethasone is widely used for cerebral edema associated conditions but in this study we saw that it’s complications in intracerebral hemorrhage such as increasing fever and mortality are significantly higher. Hence it use for treatment of primary intracerebral hemorrhage should be reconsidered.
KEYWORD: Primary intracerebral hemorrhage, Dexamethasone, Complication.
Pak J Med Sci July - September 2008 Vol. 24 No. 4 502-505
How to cite this article:
Sharafadinzadeh N, Baghebanian SM, Pipelzadeh M, Moravej-Ale A, Ghanavati P. Effects of dexamethasone in primary intracerebral hemorrhage in the South West of Iran. Pak J Med Sci 2008;24(4):502-5.
1. Naser Sharafadinzadeh, MD,
Assistant Professor of Neurology,
2. Seyed Mohammad Baghebanian, MD,
Resident of Neurology
3. Mohamad Pipelzadeh, MD,
4. Armaghan Moravej Ale Ali, MD,
5. Parvin Ghanavati, MS,
Clinical Research Center,
1-5: Golestan Hospital,
Ahwaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences,
Ahwaz – Iran.
Dr. Naser Sharafadinzadeh
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences
. Email: email@example.com
* Received for Publication: October 20, 2007
* Accepted: June 8, 2008
Glucocorticoids dramatically and rapidly (in hours) begin to reduce the focal and general signs of brain edema around Tumors. It may be due to direct normalizing effect on endothelial cell function and permeability that is useful for vasogenic brain edema. Brain edema is classified into three major categories; vasogenic, cellular, and interstitial. In vasogenic and cellular edema attention has focused on the role of free radicals (i.e., super oxide, hydroxyl radicals, singlet oxygen, and nitric oxide) and on the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acids especially Arachidonic acid on cell membranes. However, steroids have not been shown to be therapeutically useful in hypoxia or ischemia in brain with edema and cellular damage is more important than brain edema in these conditions.1 Early enthusiastic report of benefits obtained with cortisone therapy for "apoplectic stroke" and dexamethasone for acute stroke led to usage of corticosteroids for treating or prevention of acute cerebral edema accompanying stroke.2,3 Later, however randomized clinical trial found no benefit from corticosteroids in the treatment of cerebral infarction.2,4 However, there is a similar controversy over the benefit of corticosteroids in treating primary supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage that remains unresolved. Theoretically, the short term usage of dexamethasone is justified because it lessens the damaging effect of cerebral edema by decreasing intracranial pressure and strengthening the blood-brain barrier as well as counteracting the "stress" situation associated with cerebral hemorrhage. Two studies in year 1973 and 1983 on patients with intra cerebral hemorrhage didn’t show beneficial effects of dexamethasone. In our study we evaluated treatment responses of dexamethasone in cases with intracerebral hemorrhage.
In a double blind randomized placebo- controlled clinical trial we evaluated 200 intracerebral hemorrhage cases between 40 to 80 years old who were admitted at Golestan Hospital (Ahwaz, IR) between March 2002 and March 2003. They were divided in two groups; dexamethasone (N=100) and placebo (N=100). Their diagnosis was confirmed by computerized axial tomography. Secondary intracerebral hemorrhage cases were excluded .
Exclusion criteria: A documented arteriovenous malformation, a bleeding disorder, ingestion of anticoagulant drugs, history of peptic ulcer, clinically apparent infection or a neoplasm. Mortality, GI bleeding, fever, electrolytes disturbances, hypertension and hyperglycemic status were analyzed in two groups. Cases were followed up for 21 days to assess the major outcomes. Patients received intravenous injections of either dexamethasone or placebo (saline) for Ten days. A period of ten days was chosen because to it is the time during which cerebral edema most likely occurred; the peak duration being three to five days after acute event. In the dexamethasone group they received 10mg dexamethasone initially, followed by 5mg every six hours for six days, then 5 mg every 12 hours for two days and 5mg for last two days. In the placebo group, injections of saline were given from ampoules filled with colorless solution indistinguishable from dexamethasone. GI bleeding was checked by nasogasteric tube and rectal examination. Patients who died before 48 hours were excluded from the study. SPSS 11 software and chi-square test ant T test was used for data analyzing.
Mortality was much higher in the dexamethasone group; Dexamethasone group (49.3%) and placebo (23.4%) so there was a significant difference between them. (P<0.05) (Chart-1) and also fever was higher seen in the dexamethasone group; dexamethasone group (40.2%) and placebo group (24.7%) so there was a significant difference between two groups (P<0.05) but there was no significant statistical difference between two groups as regards other complications. (Chart-2 & Table-I)
Dexamethasone is widely used for cerebral edema associated conditions. Very few applications have been supported by the results of controlled clinical trials.5 Several studies have denied the benefit of dexamethasone for severe head injury.6 Dexamethasone is useful for edema surrounding tumors, in which a clinical response is definite although it is temporary. In the other conditions such as the vasogenic and cytotoxic edema of cerebral infarction, no benefit has been demonstrated. Even if cerebral edema were important, it seems unlikely that this condition would be improved by dexamethasone, which seems to act against vasogenic cerebral edema rather than the mixed vasogenic and cytotoxic (hypoxic) pattern that is more seen in intracerebral hemorrhage. An increased incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding, infection and exacerbation of diabetic mellitus has been suggested in previous studies of corticosteroid treatment in patients with stroke and neurosurgical conditions.7-9 The selected regimen of dexamethasone that was used in this study was because it is currently used for reducing peritumoral edema and it seems reasonable in view of what was known of the pharmacologic features of dexamethasone. But we were unable to confirm any beneficial results with the use of dexamethasone in the treatment of primary intracerebral hemorrhage. Fever in patients with primary intracerebral hemorrhage has many causes: A-Infectious Causes (1- Aspiration Pneumonia, 2- UTI, 3- Phlebitis, 4- Sinusitis, 5-Parotidities and 6-Oral&dental problems…) B-Dehydration C-Central fever D-Resolve intracranial hematoma. Our results show dexamethasone can increase risk of infections and fever significantly. We therefore conclude that dexamethasone offers no beneficial effects while it also increases the hazard of infection and mortality.
1. Rowland LP. Merritt’s neurology 10th ed. 2000;286-7.
2. Russek Hi, Russeek As, Zohman Bl. Cortisone in immediate therapy of apoplectic stroke. JAMA 1955;159:102-5.
3. Norris JW, Hachinski VC. High dose steroid treatment in cerebral infarction. BMJ 1986;292:21-3.
4. Mulley G, Wilcox RG. Mitchell JRA. Dexamethasone in acute stroke. BMJ 1978;2:994-6.
5. Nelson SR, Dick AR. Steroids in the treatment of brain edema. In: Azarnoff Dl, ed. Steroid therapy. philadelphia: W.B. 1975;313-24.
6. Gudeman SK, Miller JD, Becker DP. Failure of high – dose steroid therapy to influence intracranial pressure in patients with severe head injury. J Neurosurgery 1979;51:301-6.
7. Gebel JM, Broderick JP. Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Neurologic clinic 2000;18(2):419-38.
8. Bradley WJ, Daroff RB, Fenichel GM. Neurology in clinical practice 3rd ed. 2000;1551.
9. Norris JW. Steroid therapy in acute cerebral infarction. Arch Neurol 1976;33:69-71.
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OK Go, This American Life Team For Unique Music App Magic
Guest post by Andy Cush of Evolver.fm.
At first glance, This American Life and OK Go don’t have much in common. The former is a talk radio show known for its funny and touching stories about human connection, and the latter is a rock band known for its sugary hooks and music videos about dancing on treadmills.
A closer look reveals a certain kind of commonality. Each operates in a format that might strike some as old-fashioned in 2012 — the hour-long terrestrial radio program, and the four-piece rock and roll band — but strives to find new listeners by engaging current technology – This American Life’s podcasts and fantastic mobile app, and OK Go’s viral videos par excellence.
In that light, the pair’s upcoming collaboration on the unique music app pictured above makes a lot of sense.
Here’s how this will go down. OK Go will perform during This American Life’s live broadcast event Thursday evening, which takes place at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and will be broadcast live to over 500 movie theaters in the U.S. and Canada. Attendees of the show, both in person and via satellite broadcast, are asked to download a free iOS/Android app to be used as an interactive element during OK Go’s performance. Details about how exactly this audience interaction will go down are scant, but the folks at This American Life are calling it “a moment of iPhone/Android magic” on their blog (we reached out to the show for comment but have not heard back as of publishing time).
The app features three large, brightly colored buttons, each of which activates a bell sound at a different pitch. Fiddle around with the buttons long enough, and their colors will change, giving you a new set of pitches to play with. It’s not going to blow anyone’s mind on its own, but we can imagine the effect could be pretty impressive when lots of these are going off at once in the same room using some sort of synchronization.
To that end, we guess there will be cues during OK Go’s performance that direct audience members to play the bell sounds. Beyond that, we’re stumped. Will it be a controlled interaction, involving pressing specific buttons at specific moments, or a free-for-all? And what is the “key role” that This American Life promises to those audience members without smartphones? Will there be synchronized dancing???
Even before we know all the details, we like this idea because, with a simple interaction, it will make the audience a part of the show in a way that goes way beyond pulling out a lighter or singing along. Between this and holographic Tupac (which was a pretty impressive technological feat, regardless of whether or not it was in good taste and/or actually a hologram), we’re excited about the ways music apps large and small continue to infiltrate the live performance space.
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To the Editor:
I write to vilify the current board of selectmen in East Kingston who have demonstrated such incompetence and irresponsibility that it defies belief. In my 25 years as a selectman, planning board chairman, and trust fund trustee for our Town, I can safely state that the last several boards have been our worst since 1994. The current board has shown itself to lack any true understanding of what good leadership and management entail. They have created such a toxic environment in the Town Office that they have driven out the most competent Town Office Administrator this town has seen in a generation, as well as her assistant.
In the best of times, the Office Administrator’s job is a challenge. To make matters worse, two of the current selectmen have heaped unwarranted abuse and criticism on the two office employees, bringing them to tears in the process. They themselves have failed to learn the true complexity and broad scope of the work the employees have had to do on a daily basis. It appears these selectmen have yet to learn how to be selectmen, and it is obvious they haven’t even tried.
These are not the ravings of a curmudgeon. I have listened to and closely watched the conduct of Town business in the recent several years, and as a trust fund trustee, had to resort to using the blunt end of the law to get the select board to do its job. Today we need a new select board.
To my knowledge there is no clear mechanism in New Hampshire to recall an incompetent, abusive, or irresponsible selectman. Our recourse is to vote them out. Short of that, convince them to resign. I put it to the two current, dysfunctional East Kingston selectmen that they owe our Town the courtesy of stepping down to make room for competent and knowledgeable leadership.
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In the final volume in the Sisters Grimm series, Sabrina, Daphne, and the rest of the Grimms and their friends must face off against the Master to decide the fate of Ferryport Landing—and the world. When Mirror fails to escape the barrier using Granny Relda's body, he turns to his plan B: killing all the Grimms so that the magical barrier collapses. In the meantime, Sabrina has gathered the other magic mirrors as advisors on how to deal with their mortal enemy. They tell her to join forces with the Scarlet Hand against Mirror, in exchange for offering all the citizens of Ferryport Landing their freedom. This final chapter is the end of the road for several beloved characters, but the conclusion is sure to satisfy devoted fans of the series.
Michael Buckley is the author of the successful Sisters Grimm and NERDS series. He is also the author of the Undertow trilogy. He lives in New York City.; Peter Ferguson is an illustrator of picture books, comic books, and novels. He lives in Montreal, Canada.
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How Does Diabetes Affect Vision?
Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects 29 million Americans. Uncontrolled blood sugar can cause a host of complications including diabetic retinopathy, a disease characterized by leaking blood vessels and reduced blood supply in the eyes. When the retina does not receive enough oxygen, new blood vessels form on the iris, and this can interfere with normal eye drainage and lead to increased internal eye pressure.
What is Neovascular Glaucoma?
Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause dangerous spikes in eye pressure resulting in damage to the optic nerve. Neovascular glaucoma is an aggressive form of glaucoma that develops when abnormal blood vessels grow on the iris and obstruct the eye’s drainage canals. When internal eye fluid gets trapped inside the eye due to blocked drainage canals, eye pressure can increase to dangerous levels.
Neovascular glaucoma is a secondary condition that develops from other complications. The most common identifiable cause of neovascular glaucoma is unmanaged diabetes, although neovascular glaucoma can also occur from vascular disease, injury or inflammation.
Neovascular Glaucoma Treatment and Prevention
The best way to prevent neovascular glaucoma due to diabetes is to control your blood sugar. You can make some healthy lifestyle changes to keep your blood sugar within the proper range. This includes exercising regularly, eating a healthy diet, maintaining your ideal blood pressure and body weight and visiting your doctor.
If you have neovascular glaucoma and treatment is necessary, your ophthalmologist will discuss your options. There are medications that can reduce the number of abnormal blood vessels. There are also surgical options including an implant that helps drain fluid out of the eye and a laser procedure that eliminates the abnormal blood vessels that obstruct the flow of fluid from the eye.
Frequent Eye Exams Preserve Healthy Vision
November is National Diabetes Month, so schedule a comprehensive eye exam with your ophthalmologist to monitor your eye health. Most eye exams include a glaucoma test called tonometry, which measures the pressure inside your eye. Your eye doctor can also dilate your pupils to look at your retina, optic nerve and retinal blood vessels.
Talk to your doctor and ophthalmologist about specific ways to effectively manage your diabetes and maintain healthy vision. You may have to visit your doctors more frequently, but this may be necessary to monitor your condition.
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A 13-partner coalition of public and private organizations has secured $600,000 over five years from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service for a unique regional project in Lafayette County. The project provides cost-sharing and technical assistance to help farmers implement conservation practices on their land, primarily within the Pecatonica River watershed.
The group of partners is working with two large farmer networks that already exist in the watershed, formed through Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s Agricultural Enterprise Area program.
The Pecatonica AEA and Southwest Lead Mine Region AEA are two adjacent areas covering eastern and southern Lafayette County. With a total of 226 landowners who initially petitioned to form the two AEAs, the region was in a particularly strong position to pull resources together to fund on-the-farm projects.
Dana Lawrence, outreach specialist for Southwest Badger RC&D Council, is one of the project’s lead coordinators working directly with the farmers. A former NRCS technician and native of Lafayette County, Lawrence knows the land well and is experienced with helping farmers improve their operation using conservation practices.
“One of the challenges I’ve embraced is finding new landowners that haven’t participated in any USDA programs, or reaching out to people that haven’t been involved in 20 years for whatever reason,” said Lawrence. “I help them get into the system so they’re eligible to use the money that’s available.”
Participating farmers in the area not only gain access to the available NRCS funding, but also have access to the pool of resources from the 13-partner coalition. This can be especially helpful for farmers who are interested in taking advantage of the tax credits offered through DATCP’s Agriculture Enterprise Area program, but are struggling to meet state soil and water conservation standards.
“The two biggest practices we’ve been installing are pollinator habitats and cover crops,” said Lawrence. “These practices go directly onto a farmer’s property and payment is either a flat rate or cost-share assistance.”
For many farm operations, this financial assistance is crucial. Like much of southwestern Wisconsin, Lafayette County has been hit especially hard by the six-year low in dairy prices. What used to be the heart of small family dairy farms is seeing a shift towards consolidation and row crops. And with any transition, the changes can be hard on the communities and the land.
“Where there used to be eleven dairy farms on our road, there’s three now,” said Peter Cernek, a dairy farmer near the village of Gratiot. “And the land is the same way. We’re in the middle of a couple of farmers managing at least 5,000 acres. When land comes up for rent, there’s a lot of competition for it.”
Cernek’s property has been in his family since 1972 and he current manages 110 dairy cows. With over 10 years’ experience with cover crops and no-till, Cernek was asked to host a conservation field day in early Oct. to discuss his experience with soil health, in conjunction with the regional partnership.
Cernek agreed to host a field day, in part because how much he learned from one he attended a few years ago. What stuck out to him the most was how disruptive tillage can be to the natural cycles of the soil.
“If the soil is a house where all these different organisms live in, and you come in with a chisel plow and rip it all up, it would be like a tornado tore up your house and you had to keep living in it,” Cernek recalled as his biggest takeaway. “It takes a lot of time to rebuild that structure.”
After a decade of no-till, Cernek has noticed a significant improvement in his soil health.
“When we used to till and would go out to check seed placement, once in a while we’d find an earthworm. Now when we check for seed placement, you find earthworms quicker than you find corn,” said Cernek.
In addition to building up organic matter in the soil, cover crop and minimal to no-tilling are excellent methods of improving rain water absorption in fields, which is a trending issue for the region. Top soil runoff poses a significant challenge for the Pecatonica River watershed, as high phosphorous and nitrate levels have put the river on the impaired waters list.
Pat Leonard, another small dairy farmer near Blanchardville who also hosted a field day with the partnership in October, underscored that the year of heavy rains have compounded the runoff issues in the watershed.
“If you want to talk about water quality, just look at the river in the last month — how much topsoil ran off and how long it will take to replace an inch of topsoil,” said Leonard. “When the county has to come out and plow the topsoil off the road, there’s a problem.”
Leonard grew up on a dairy farm and manages about 50 dairy cows on his operation. Leonard has worked closely with USDA-NRCS and Lafayette County Land Conservation Department to install best-management practices on his property since 1989, including a barnyard system, pasture fencing, a dry dam and an access road, to name a few.
“They want to do [these projects] so they work for you,” said Leonard, noting that every farmer is different and operations have to figure out what works best for them. “Successful people put successful people around them. And that’s how I look at how I farm — whether it’s my crops, my veterinarian, my nutritionist, or my practices.”
The Lafayette County Regional Partnership Program is currently seeking landowners who are interested in the financial and technical assistance to install these practices on their operations. To get involved, contact Dana Lawrence at 608-776-3836 or www.swbadger.org.
Additional public field days and educational events are currently being planned for the upcoming year. For more information about the program, visit DATCP’s Lafayette County Agricultural Enterprise Area Water Quality Project webpage here: https://datcp.wi.gov/Pages/Programs_Services/RCPPLafayette.aspx.

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Pharmacogenomic Variants May Influence the Urinary Excretion of Novel Kidney Injury Biomarkers in Patients Receiving Cisplatin.
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Lead, calcium uptake, and related genetic variants in association with renal cell carcinoma risk in a cohort of male Finnish smokers.
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Get ready for a 3D camera in your new iPhone
The technology is expected to turn iPhones into pocket-sized augmented reality machines.
It's a good time to be a fan of iPhones.
Now comes word that there will be a 3D camera built into it as well. The technology appears to come from two of the four Israeli companies that Apple has acquired since 2011.
In 2013, Apple took the reins at PrimeSense, a 3D sensing company founded by entrepreneur Aviad Maizels, an alumnus of the Technion Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science, both in Israel. The MIT Technology Review named it one of the world's 10 most important technologies. And in 2014, Apple acquired the Israel-based LinX Computational Imaging company, which builds smarter cameras for phones.
"Apple is in Israel because the engineering talent and the brilliance of the people are incredible," said Apple CEO Tim Cook of the country that is also home to 6,000 iPhone app developers. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty)
A 3D camera could be used to add augmented reality functionality to the phone. As opposed to virtual reality where you are completely transported to a new environment, augmented reality layers virtual items on top of actual places. The classic example of this is Pokemon Go. When you’re playing it on your phone, you see the sidewalk or field or building in front of you, and then Pokemon characters appear alongside them. Cameras with various lenses allow this to happen. A fully integrated built-in 3D camera would not only create a Pokemon Go on steroids, but would allow for augmented reality features all across the phone.
The Cupertino-based company is going all out with plans for their new iPhone, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.
The new iPhones are partly being developed in Israel, Apple's largest R&D facility outside of the U.S. Recent news headlines have reported that Apple has 1,000 engineers working on the new phone at the 180,000-square-foot building in the city of Herzliya near the Mediterranean metropolis of Tel Aviv.
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Ban Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals from IPL: SC to BCCI
Supreme Court proposes to suspend IPL franchises CSK and RR from upcoming IPL 7; Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar agrees to replace N Srinivasan as interim president of the BCCI
New Delhi: Former India captain and legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar said Thursday he was ready to become interim president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as proposed by the Supreme Court.
A panel of judges also said the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals -- the two teams at the centre of an ongoing probe into illegal betting and match-fixing -- should be barred from the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) beginning next month.
MS Dhoni, captain of Chennai Super Kings
"In the place of Srinivasan, we propose to appoint an experienced cricket player like Sunil Gavaskar to replace him and function as BCCI president," Justice A.K. Patnaik said at a hearing in New Delhi.
"We are not removing anyone now, but Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals will not be allowed to participate in the IPL which commences on April 16," added Patnaik, who is head of the two-judge panel.
The bench asked the Board to give its response by tomorrow on its proposals after which it will pass an interim order. The bench also proposed to pass an order barring India Cements officials from getting involved with the functioning of BCCI after senior counsel Harish Salve, appearing for Cricket Association of Bihar, pointed out that many such officials are at present part of BCCI team.
Salve also raised questions on the conduct of captain of Indian Cricket Team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is also vice president of India Cements, saying that he is guilty of corrupt practices.
The proposals came two days after the same court urged Srinivasan to stand down as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to enable a "fair" investigation into allegations surrounding last year's IPL.
The bench is looking at a damning report it commissioned into wrongdoing in last year's edition of the annual Twenty20 tournament.
Released in February, the report concluded that Srinivasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan could be guilty of illegal betting on IPL games.
Srinivasan is regarded as the most powerful man in world cricket and is due to take over in July as head of the International Cricket Council.
"There is nothing that you can do if the Supreme Court -- the highest court -- asks you to do something, that's it," the retired opening batsman, who is now a television commentator, told the NDTV network .
"The fact that I am contracted to the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) to do TV commentary has to be put on record. After that if the honourable Supreme Court tells you to do something, then of course ... if they ask me to do something, I will do it.
"As an opening batsman, you must be ready for all kinds of challenges. I will do everything to the best of my abilities. If the highest court is reposing this faith in me, I'll be very happy to do what they ask me to do."
Gavaskar's comments came after judges proposed he take over on an interim basis as president of the BCCI from Srinivasan who has so far defied their calls to stand down during a probe into illegal betting.
While part of the investigation revolves around Srinivasan's son-in-law, the 64-year-old Gavaskar said the BCCI president must be regarded as "innocent till proven guilty".
"I cannot pass an opinion on what Supreme Court feels as I am not a legal man," he added.


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Devotees of Runaway gear are standing in line outside 212 W. Main Street in Durham. It’s the morning of Saturday, April 2, and Gabriel Eng-Goetz and Justin Laidlaw are ceremoniously unlocking their first brick-and-mortar store. After selling their wares online, in boutiques, and in pop-up shops for several years, the small company known for its “Durm” shirts and stickers is ready to stake its claim downtown.
“We’ve been in here the last month trying to figure out what items we were going to put in and what atmosphere we wanted to create,” says Laidlaw, Runaway’s twenty-five-year-old media director. “All the elements of Runaway and Durham are here.”
The store, right next to 21c Museum Hotel, fills a small corner of the Trust Building, which became one of Durham’s first skyscrapers when it was built in 1905. It’s fitting that a brand built on the city’s past would find a home in a historic building. There’s a neon sign in the window and local art on the walls. Among the T-shirts, hats, and socks on the shelves is a new collection created for the opening, including shirts emblazoned with Durham landmarks, bulls, and leaves that say “Durham Grown.”
Eng-Goetz, Runaway’s thirty-year-old creative director, founded the company five years ago. He describes the Runaway aesthetic as “hood chic, comfortable and stylish, with a street edge.” At the opening, he and Laidlaw are both wearing their own supply, which looks like it was made for themand, in a way, it was.
Eng-Goetz and Laidlaw are cool and soft-spoken, even as they talk about achieving world domination. Still, they seem somewhat surprised that they own a store. Customers, some of them friends, trickle in throughout the morning. One can’t decide between a tank top featuring kissing fish and another with “Durm” on a bull silhouette. Others wander in to check out the clothes, meet the owners, or chat with Raj Bunnag, whose art is the first to be displayed in the store, which doubles as a gallery.
“The vibe has been great, with a large array of people, both long-standing fans of the brand and newcomers,” Eng-Goetz says. “It’s great to showcase our stuff in a space that we fully curated, and interact with our audience in a way that’s like, ‘Welcome to our new home.’”
At five p.m., the hoopla moves down the street for a party at Ninth Street Bakery. The crowd spills onto the patio and into the parking lot, drinking beer, petting dogs, and nodding along to DJ sets. Wool E. Bull is firing Runaway shirts out of a T-shirt cannon. (The company will design the Durham Bulls’ uniforms for a game on June 9.) As the evening air grows chilly, some people pull on Durm sweatshirts, celebrating a company that grew out of the inextricable link between its founders’ struggles with their own identities and a strong identification with their native city.
Durm written across a bull, Durm in the shape of a train, Durm in block letters representing the Durham flag, Durm on a floral pattern. You’ve seen the shirts, hoodies, hats, and bumper stickers everywhere, even if you don’t own one. They’ve become an omnipresent sign of local pride. Not everyone sporting them has lived in Durham for very long. But for Eng-Goetz, who coined the spelling when he launched Runaway in 2011, the brand is very personal.
“The whole campaign behind Durm is a very hyper-localized type of movement,” he says. “This is a local pronunciation of the word, for people who have grown up here. I just hope people see it’s coming from a very real place.”
Born and raised in Durham, Eng-Goetz left to study art at Syracuse University, but moved back after he graduated and started making clothes for himself and friends.
“Growing up as a mixed-race person in the South, I had a lot of questions about identity, and I found that art was a great way for me to explore that and figure things out,” he says. “Soon I saw that [the clothing] was speaking to other people.”
Laidlaw also grew up in Durham, in a predominately white neighborhood, before attending Winston-Salem State and North Carolina Central University, both historically black institutions.
“I didn’t really have the black identity a lot of people might associate with me, so I went through a lot of similar issues as a kid and into my adult life,” he says. “I felt like Runaway was an opportunity for me to explore those same identity issues.”
Runaway strives to represent a community of people with unusual careers, talents, and backgroundspeople who are “running away from convention,” in the words of one of the company’s mantras. Beyond the Durm line, which makes up about a third of Runaway’s currently available stock, you’ll find lots of darker iconography, heavy on skullssome of it also locally focused, including the N.C. state seal cast in skeletons and a “City of Medicine” T-shirt with a caduceus surrounded by alcohol, condoms, and drugs.
Another Runaway mantra is, “Say it like you’re from here.” But the changing nature of Durham makes it difficult to say what, exactly, convention is, and who is from here.
Is “Durm” a wealthy mainstream city of new transplants or an edgy underground one populated by longtime locals? Eng-Goetz fondly remembers participating in a pre-revitalization art show in an abandoned building that’s now a hair salon. He founded Runaway for people who remember the city the way he doesas a scrappy, self-sufficient place where people were creative by necessity.
But as young professionals are moving to Durham in droves, charmed by its historic vestiges even as they spur downtown’s transformation, Runaway gets to have it both ways. Thirty-something parents at baseball games wear the brand, as do Duke students, hip-hop artists, and teenage skaters. Some proudly wear the Durm logo, embracing the city they’re from or the one they just moved to; others opt for Runaway’s edgier designs, which are more reflective of Eng-Goetz’s personal taste.
Selling clothes is only part of Runaway’s vision. Eng-Goetz and Laidlaw also want to highlight unconventional voices among the Triangle’s artists, musicians, and other creative types.
One of their projects is a documentary series called The Runaways, where Durham filmmaker Ned Phillips sheds light on local characters like burlesque dancer Miss Bliss, skateboarder Tahir Troublefield, and Joe Miller of the Baxter arcade bar in Chapel Hill. The series can be viewed on Runaway’s website, along with interviews with artists, articles about local musicians, and recaps of events.
“It’s always interesting to learn what drives passionate people,” Phillips says. “Runaway has always been about blazing your own trail and doing it with style, and I think the people featured in the docs are doing just that.”
Runaway also applies its brand to “underground, makeshift events” that don’t attract mainstream attention but are nonetheless selling points of Durham, such as the Raund Haus experimental beat showcase at The Shed.
“We see that as something that probably won’t get major press, but is essential to the type of scene people talk about in the Triangle,” Laidlaw says. “We have a lot of coffee shops, we have cool hotelsa lot of cities have things like that. But these more unique outlets that people are starting to create are the things we want to highlight.”
That’s the idea behind Runaway’s gallery, too, which Eng-Goetz says favors art that pushes boundaries and questions social norms, rather than just providing ambiance while you shop for a Durm shirt. Bunnag, the first featured artist, is a Durham-based printmaker and research fellow at Supergraphic whose intricate work features skulls, skeletons, and commentary on the “war on drugs.”
“He’s the perfect person to debut in the gallery,” Eng-Goetz says. “He’s this Thai dude with dreadshe’s not your typical character you see in North Carolina, but very much embodies the Durham spirit.”
Runaway will collaborate with each of its featured artists on a T-shirt design. The idea is to “bring fine art to the streets” and make it more accessible, giving people who can’t afford to buy a painting from a gallery the chance to own a piece of local art for $26, the price of any Runaway T-shirt. Bunnag’s design features a meticulously drawn skeleton warrior, dragons, and a macabre take on Runaway’s logo, which depicts a rabbit and a boy with his belongings in a kerchief on a stick.
“I feel like [Runaway] is something bigger than just streetwear,” Bunnag says. “It’s something that the Durham community is proud to be a part of. Through this collaboration, I hope to show that our art scene is much more than just landscapes and stuff that looks good over your couch. We make art that has a message and a meaning.”
Though Runaway’s vision is more ambitious than skyline T-shirts, that’s what jump-started its mass appeal. Diverse customers and inclusive projects aside, Eng-Goetz and Laidlaw have taken on the role of commodifying the city’s identity, name, and history, to create an image of Durham street culture that people can buy in to. Building their brand on Durham’s name didn’t require any legal wrangling, though Runaway has issued cease-and-desist letters to imitators.
In some ways, Runaway aims to re-create the gritty aura of an earlier Durham by positing itself as an underground enclave while relying on mainstream appeal to support it. For some, “Durm” connotes the city that Eng-Goetz has in mind. For others, it represents only New Durham. And others still can’t afford a $26 T-shirt, which makes the brand more accessible to the well-off people flooding into Durham than to those who helped create the city Runaway is selling, and who are now being pushed out.
If there’s a contradiction, Runaway’s spokesmen aren’t fazed by it. In fact, they welcome it.
“We have a business model that works,” Laidlaw says. “Art is of the highest importance, but for us to sustain what we want to do, there has to be a model that’s scalable.”
“Anyone the brand speaks to is welcomed with open arms,” Eng-Goetz adds, “whether it’s the grandma buying organic vegetables at the farmers market or your sixteen-year-old skater at the skate park. As long as our intentions are authentic, and it speaks to the people buying it, then I’m all about it.”
And there’s the hope that someone who buys a Durm shirt will then be drawn into Runaway’s other projects. Maybe that person will watch the documentaries, support the underserved artists they highlight, or learn about Durham’s history.
It’s an optimistic, if somewhat vague missionone not out of place in a city undergoing its own identity crisis, as new luxury condos and skyscrapers jostle with new underground art spaces and venues. While the Triangle’s art scene is already much more than wall-ready landscapes, Runaway does seem well poised to lead people to dig a little deeper and explore the unconventional.
Since the store opened, Runaway has hired two more employees, doubling its staff to four. The next step might be to spread into other parts of North Carolina, and then other states and countries.
“There are other places in the world where people feel conflicted and want to find an outlet to do something against the grain,” Laidlaw says. “We want to push the art, the media, the clothingand we want to give Durham an opportunity to have its time in the national and international spotlight.”
For now, though, they continue to conquer their home turf one T-shirt at a time, with a steady flow of customers in the store in the weeks since it’s been open.
At Bunnag’s Third Friday reception on April 15, the store is packed, just like on opening day, with a diverse crowd: middle-aged women making the gallery rounds, teenagers with skateboards and backpacks, young professionals, and fans and friends already decked out in Runaway. Eng-Goetz and Laidlaw greet them all with a wave and a grin. Bunnag stands in the corner talking to people about his work while others buy clothes, drink beer, and study the art. Downtown gleams outside the window, as confused, perhaps, about its identity as Runaway’s founders once were about theirs. As the city continues to develop, the shop is there to sell its loyal following, and passersby alike, a piece of Durmwhatever that means to them.
This article appeared in print with the headline “Naming Rights”


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Having contributed to the development of symbioses through various projects, including the Miljø++ project (2016-2020), which is now in its second phase as Miljø++ 2.0 (2020-2028), the port is ready to bed these into commercial and industrial activities in the area.
Nearby Aalborg Portland, which is Denmark’s biggest carbon dioxide emitter, is developing a process that will capture carbon dioxide from cement production, so that the gas can potentially be used in the production of e-methanol in PtX plants. The concept shows an example of the symbioses approach where materials defined as a waste product produced by one process, is a valuable resource or commodity in another.
In Aalborg we’re practising what we preach, to deliver green growth, without greenwashing.
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