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Subject: Domestic Violence Conference sponsored by the Dunspaugh-Dalton Community and Educational Well-Being Research Center
Dear SoE colleagues, staff, and community partners,
Please find attached information about the upcoming 12th Annual Latino Alliance Against Domestic Violence Conference sponsored by the Dunspaugh-Dalton Community and Educational Well-Being Research Center, El Centro, and Miami-Dade County. The event features a keynote address by Dean Isaac Prilleltensky and a special presentation of an exciting domestic violence prevention community-based participatory study led by Dr. Rosa Gonzales (UM School of Nursing) in collaboration with a team of community partners, and CEW researchers. Please note that the conference includes a program for children designed to assist parents of young children who would like to make use of this resource while attending the event.
Even though the conference is free of charge, attendees are required to register by visiting the webpage http://theconferences.blogspot.com.
Hoping to see you at the conference,
Etiony Aldarondo, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
Director, Dunspaugh-Dalton Community
& Educational Well-Being (CEW) Research Center
School of Education
University of Miami

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-Press Release, Vance County Schools
Dr. Jennifer Carraway has been selected as the new principal at Clarke Elementary School.
She will begin her new duties with Vance County Schools on July 16.
She joins the district after serving most recently as the principal of Hawley Middle School with Granville County Schools.
“We are extremely excited to have Dr. Carraway join our team,” said Superintendent Anthony Jackson. “Dr. Carraway has a proven track record as an outstanding instructional leader. We look forward to her bringing excellent leadership focused on continuing to achieve positive academic outcomes at Clarke Elementary School.”
Carraway is a Vance County native and a graduate of Southern Vance High School. She received her undergraduate degree in education from Barton College in Wilson. After working in education for 10 years, she earned her master’s degree in School Administration from N.C. State University. She continued her education at N.C. State University and earned her doctorate in 2012.
Carraway comes to our district as a veteran educator with 23 years of experience in public education.
During her career she has served as a teacher, an assistant principal, a principal and a director. Her passion is working with staff and parents to provide students with a quality education.
Carraway was introduced to the staff at Clarke Elementary School during a meeting this morning. She is shown in the accompanying photo as she addresses staff members.
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Following operations spanning two states, Tasmania Police confiscated more than $5.5 million in illicit narcotics and cash.
A narcotics importation and trafficking investigation that began in March this year resulted in the seizure of 3.86 kilos of methylamphetamine and 700 grams of cocaine, valued at more than $4 million.
Police in Tasmania and Queensland seized an additional $1.57 million in cash after conducting a series of car and premises searches.
It’s not the same as the collaboration between the Australian Federal Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was also revealed today and is aimed at Australia’s mafia and illegal motorcycle gangs.
Six people were detained and charged with dealing with the proceeds of crime and trafficking a controlled narcotic.
They’ll appear in Tasmanian court at a later date.
Operation Carnegie was initiated by Tasmania Police’s Crime and Intelligence Command in 2020 with the goal of “further enhancing the coordination of expert resources to investigate crime at all levels in Tasmania,” according to police.
The Australian Federal Police, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, and Queensland Police all assisted with the operation.
The drug investigation was “extremely sophisticated,” according to Assistant Commissioner of Tasmania Police Jonathan Higgins, and it was considered to be the largest illicit drug investigation Tasmanian police had ever performed.
“The results of this investigation show how jurisdictions and partner agencies can work together to combat the menace of organized crime syndicates and the effects of illicit substances in our communities,” Assistant Commissioner Higgins stated.
“Illicit substances have a wide-ranging negative influence on our community, especially in terms of health, law, and order.”
This current operation is an example of a concerted effort by police and other law enforcement agencies to target the supply of illicit substances into our community.
“In Tasmania, criminals involved in the manufacture and distribution of drugs should take note. We’ll find you, examine you, and prosecute you for bringing illegal substances into Tasmania and distributing them.”
Assistant Commissioner Bruce Giles of the Australian Federal Police said the collaboration between federal and state and territory police was a “historic moment” for law enforcement cooperation and would protect the Tasmanian people from further damage.
“The message is clear: If you are trafficking and distributing illicit narcotics in Tasmania or elsewhere in Australia, we will use our law enforcement alliances across Australia to pursue you,” he said.
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In the aftermath of the operation, Queensland Police Crime and Intelligence Command Assistant Commissioner Katherine Innes said law enforcement agencies across the country would continue to collaborate.
“To ensure the successful collapse of these criminal networks, we will continue to share our experience and collaborate with our national and interstate counterparts,” she said.


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Update: See my follow-up post as well — “$0.02 More On the Debt Limit Debate”
I’ve been reading snippets of headlines, articles and news reports about the ongoing debate in Washington DC over raising the debt limit this week, and I think it’s important to publish something about the question because I believe our national debt is a moral issue in which every American has a stake.
Simply put, Congress must pass a bill by August 2nd allowing our government to take on more debt (by raising the debt ceiling) or we will “default” on our current debt. President Obama and the Democrats are arguing that the plan under which the debt limit is increased must include higher taxes on “the rich” and reform the tax code to raise more taxes from businesses.
Republicans, on the other hand, don’t want to raise taxes (saying it will hurt our economy and inhibit the ability of businesses and wealthy individuals to create new jobs) and want to introduce deep cuts in government spending to stabilize America’s long-term deficit.
Both the President/Democrats and Republican leaders are currently in negotiations to work out a compromise. Obama has announced that he will veto any short-term solution to raising the debt limit, preferring an all-or-nothing compromise.
This is a political calculation on his part — an attempt to pressure Republicans into a compromise they would otherwise not accept out of fear that American will default on its debt (people will recall this is a repeat, in some sense, of the fight between the parties over the government shutdown a couple months ago).
What concerns me as a Catholic is the false dichotomy that frequently comes up during this debate. It goes like this:
“America is spending more than it takes in. If America is to balance its balance sheet, it shouldn’t do so on the backs of the poor. Instead, the wealthy should pitch in their fair share.”
This argument is misguided on many levels.
First of all, neither rich people nor poor people got American into debt. The government got us into debt. It is the government that has spent more money than it has, time and time again.
Second, saying that the government must take more money from the wealthy (both businesses and individuals) to take care of the poor presumes that government is the most efficient way to take care of the poor. I disagree. In fact, in my view, the government is about the most inefficient (not to mention most expensive) way to take care of the needy.
On a deeper level, I have a profound problem with the way the debate plays out in the mind of Democrats right now who suggest Americans must prove why they shouldn’t owe more in taxes. Right now Americans have to say either they a) don’t have money to spare for taxes or b) will use their extra money to invest in creating more jobs and giving back to the country in other ways. This is just the reverse of what it should be: the government owes us an explanation for why it should be taking more of our money.
This is how I would like to see the debt ceiling debate conducted: before politicians and the President agree to allow the government to borrow more money, government should come back and demonstrate how it intends to solve our crippling rising debt. The fact that entitlements (constituting the bulk of America’s future debt crisis) remains a sacred cow to democrats makes it difficult for me to see how they can be trusted to right the ship of state.
In fact, even if Democrats successfully implemented the most draconian tax increases they could formulate the added “revenue” would not solve the entitlement crisis. If Republicans, however, were able to introduce the government spending cuts and entitlement reforms they want to see it is actually conceivable that America’s debt situation could be markedly improved.
How are we to understand this debate in Catholic terms? Currently the Catholic Left is fond of saying that we have a moral obligation to provide for the poor, and from that they argue we cannot morally make any cuts or reforms to entitlement programs designed to aid the poor.
I counter: there’s nothing moral about wasting money and endangering the common good of all Americans by following policies which are demonstrably failing to provide aid for the poor in a sustainable way.
We see this debate played out in miniature in an exchange between Archbishop Nienstedt of Minneapolis-Saint Paul and State Senator David Hann (R-MN). I must make clear that I have enormous respect for Abp. Neinstedt – especially for his brave stand for marriage, the family, and the dignity of unborn human life. On this fiscal question, however, I find myself more sympathetic to the arguments of Sen. Hann (this report was filed by Minnesota Public Radio – which is financed by tax dollars, I realize):
Sen. David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, is criticizing Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt for calling on Gov. Mark Dayton and the GOP-controlled Legislature to “not rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to those living in poverty.”
In a letter to Dayton, Nienstedt said “increasing the depth and breadth of poverty is bad fiscal policy and bad economic policy.”
Dayton and GOP legislative leaders are at an impasse over the best way to craft a two year budget. Dayton wants to raise income taxes on Minnesota’s top earners to erase part of a $5 billion projected budget deficit. Republicans say the deficit can be erased without a tax increase.
… “I was extremely disappointed to learn you endorse the socialist fiction that it is a moral necessity to take the property of the “wealthy” under the assumption that those resources are better used by politicians and bureaucrats than by the individuals who earn them. You speak of hopes the governor will create justice by adopting a budget that “does not rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services.” Although not said explicitly, I take your statement to mean the proposed legislative budget does that.”
… “Certainly we need to be charitable to the neediest among us. Are government programs charitable? Is a pathway to human dignity found in creating dependence on government and suggesting to people that their lives would be better but for the “greedy rich” not being willing to pay their fair share?”
… “It would seem to me the Church has a large task in correcting the moral deficits of our citizens,” Hann wrote. “Telling people they have the moral claim on someone else’s property is wrong and certainly doesn’t help in that work. What the Legislature has tried to do is what you, and every individual and organization in the state tries to do: Do the best we can with what we have.”
[Hann concluded his letter by quoting Catholic theologian R.R. Reno who said, “A Christian who hopes to follow the teachings of Jesus needs to reckon with a singular fact about American poverty: Its deepest and most debilitating deficits are moral, not financial: the most serious deprivations are cultural not economic.”]
I don’t want to see the comment box devolve into an argument about who is right in the exchange above (Abp. Neinstedt or Sen. Hann). Rather I’m interested in finding out which moral vision of the economy, debt and taxes is more compelling when viewed in the light of Catholic social teaching. I believe if you asked Abp. Neinstedt he would be the first to say that the Church does not speak definitively on contingent issues such as budgets, it rather proposes solutions for the Church’s storehouse of teaching and experience.
To recap my view: when it comes to raising the national debt ceiling without making real reforms to the government programs that are causing the national debt to skyrocket in the first place, I think that’s reckless. Putting a band-aid on these problems by raising taxes on the wealthy in a vain hope that government will spend their money more wisely than they would also seems foolhardy to me.
That’s my two cents. What’s yours?


Haley defends Israel, threatens UNHRC
UNSC renews UNIFIL's mandate in southern LebanonUnder pressure from US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, the UN Security Council renewed the UNIFIL mandate in Lebanon. France had opposed the extension in the past. However, it seems that America's stance on the matter softened Paris' opposition.
The UN Security Council has approved the extension of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force's mandate in southern Lebanon for another year. The proposal was advanced by the Israeli mission to the UN and with the support of US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.
The decision to renew the mandate also included some changes regarding the international force. UNIFIL's presence in southern Lebanon will be significantly increased and the international force will be required to expand its activities by entering villages and towns when investigating Hezbollah's violations of UN resolutions. In addition, UNIFIL has been instructed that it needs to submit more reports regarding its missions and all Hezbollah violations need to be reported immediately.
In the past, France had opposed the mandate's extension. However, it seems that the US-led pressure softened the country’s opposition.
During her visit to Israel in June, Haley witnessed an argument between Deputy IDF Chief of General Staff Aviv Kochavi and UNIFIL Commander Michael Beary regarding the international force’s methods of dealing with Hezbollah. During her tour of the Israeli-Lebanese border, Haley observed an IDF drill that was being conducted and asked the UNIFIL commander if changes need to be made in order to deal with the situation along the border better in light of Hezbollah’s growing strength. Beary told Haley that the situation is calm and that there is no need to make any changes to UNIFIL’s strategy.
However, Kochavi told Haley that the IDF believes that changes need to be made in order to enable UNIFIL to deal with Hezbollah effectively. Kochavi said that at the moment, UNIFIL does not enter the villages and towns where Hezbollah is located. The senior IDF officer also said that Hezbollah is currently violating UN resolutions but UNIFIL cannot confront the terror group because of the international force’s current directives.
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The Ireland Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced that Peter Glynne has stepped into the role of President.
In this new position, which is a two-year appointment, Peter will be leading the Chapter’s board of 16 directors and will represent the project management profession across Ireland. As part of this, he will lead programmes and oversee initiatives that will engage young people, create a sense of community within the profession, and promote innovation in project management through technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
For the past eight years, Peter has been involved with the Ireland Chapter of PMI, previously holding the roles of Vice President and Director of Marketing. He brings over 25 years’ experience to his new position as President, having led volunteer groups in project management professional bodies across Ireland and the UK for two decades and managed complex change programmes as part of his roles within PwC, Deloitte, Microsoft Consulting and Auxilion.
He also holds a master’s degree in Project Management from the University of Limerick and qualified from the Chartered Governance Institute of UK and Ireland. During his time as President-Elect of the Ireland Chapter of PMI, Peter authored a book entitled “Benefits Led Change: Maximising Value”.
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Jackie Fagan, outgoing President of the PMI Ireland Chapter, said: “I am confident that the Irish PMI Chapter is in good hands with Peter as its new President. His years of experience inside and outside the Institute make him the ideal successor and I look forward to working with him to help the organisation continue to grow and progress in the coming years.”
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The Great Neck Plaza Village board of trustees will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, May 6 at 8 p.m., to consider a draft report and recommendations of Level G Associates, LLC, a parking consultant firm, with regard to the village’s on-street parking meters and lots. Gerard Giosa, a principal of Level G Associates, will be present at the May 6 meeting to outline their draft findings and recommendations, which are posted on-line and available on the village’s website at www.greatneckplaza.net. Copies of the report will also be available at Village Hall.
Giosa has extensive experience in downtown business districts and has performed diverse parking and transportation assignments, including the following Long Island communities: Rockville Centre, Garden City, Roslyn, Oyster Bay, Long Beach, Patchogue and Bay Shore, among others. Level G Associates was engaged by the Village of Great Neck Plaza to investigate the village’s various parking spaces and to develop strategies designed to improve parking conditions and the parking experience in the downtown. Stated Plaza Mayor Jean Celender: “With Mr. Giosa and his firm’s vast knowledge of parking management strategies, the Board felt hiring a parking expert to advise the board on ways to improve metered parking opportunities was a prudent course of action. We are looking to achieve greater turnover of our metered parking spaces and enable shoppers and visitors to more easily find accessible parking spaces.”
All interested residents, business owners and others are encouraged to review the draft report available on-line, or at Village Hall and to come learn about Level G Associates’ study and recommendations and to provide input to the village board on May 6. Come learn about Level G’s findings and conclusions about parking in downtown Great Neck Plaza and their recommendations to the mayor and board of trustees. For more information on the Level G Associates study, visit: www.greatneckplaza.net, Items of Interest, or contact Brian Hetey, mayor’s assistant at 516-482-4500.


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Had a dream last night and I have been feeling it hump my brain all day. I wonder if we are born as a little teacup candle. We have a little light, given by God, as a pilot light for our soul. It rests on the little saucer, the human form we are given to use and utilize. The light gets encouraged and discouraged throughout our lives. We have the winds of stinking foul breath telling us we are not worthy. We have the driving rains of discontent. We have soft fresh breezes of God’s whisper. We have the spring sprinkle of Grace. They all have the chance to fortify or destroy, depending on our reaction to them.
My dream saw the teacup and an intense desire to become a firelight. It feared the wind and rain and began to build walls around itself. The saucer became a dish. As the fear grew, metal planks were laid across the top. They were hinged to the edge on one end and stretched past the middle of the cup. Side by side they were placed, around the circumference. The loose ends stacked upon each other creating a ragged mountain in the middle.
I dreamt there was a sea of these cups, each protecting itself from the others. I saw the occasional flicker of light before a child had finished the isolation project. I heard the winds, felt the rains. I watched as cup after cup was sealed shut. I then noticed a small unassuming man in the far corner of the room. He wore overalls and had a ring of keys. A ring is an understatement, it was a hula hoop. We wore it around his neck, tucked under one arm. The hoop was filled with keys of all sorts and sizes. He would mount one cup and deftly set to work at the hinges. He would rummage through the keys, insert and turn. The metal bar would lift off the stack and fling open. The man would grin, shuffle to the right, and repeat the procedure. Bar after bar would open, cup after cup would be completed.
I ambled over and peered inside an open cup. There was no longer a candle present. Instead it was a galaxy of stars. It was infinity and beyond. I felt as though it would never end, and I would never end. I felt myself pulled into the eternity. As I stared at the Holy Fire I was seeing, the universe sized soul, I began to make out something in the distance. I saw a little girl, holding a candle. She stared at the stars around her and grinned.
We are that teacup light. As we grow as a child we respond to the, “No”. We shrivel from exploration and mirth. We grow up trying to please and set an identity that reflects are parents desires. The cup forms. For some it cradles, others it protects. And for some it limits. Into adolescence and then adult hood, we hear judgement and condemnation. We fear. We feel the emotions that we were protected against. We venture out into a world of closed off tins, hoping to share light with someone else. When we hurt, when we fear, we add protective bars across the top. We close ourself off.
Jesus is that man in the overalls. He delights in showing us the right key to begin the process of opening our life coffins. Freed from the hurt and pain, we fling off the rods. Each one opens. When we have been closed and opened again, our experience allows us to take part in eternity. We attract others. We glow with the Firelight we dreamed we could be. We shine like God dreamt we could be.


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Message to the people who are moaning about the amount of Zaha Hadid stuff on dezeen: nobody is forcing you to visit this site! Give us a break! Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. Zaha is on a roll right now and we're not going to turn down quality material and exclusives just to placate a handful of conspiracy theorists.
For everyone else: the Serpentine Gallery in London is due to announce today that the summer pavilion designed by Snøhetta is going to be delayed by a few weeks, so this temporary structure by Hadid will be erected so the gallery can continue with its events programme this summer.
Oh and by the way, we believe in freedom of speech and we're happy to publish comments dissing what we do on dezeen; but people who use foul language or make nasty insinuations can just f*** off. Get a life will you. Or set up your own blog.
Press release from the Serpentine Pavilion below:
Serpentine Gallery Press Release
12 June 2007
Serpentine Gallery commissions Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher installation for Kensington Gardens
12 July – 21 July 2007
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, Partner at Zaha Hadid Architect’s will design a temporary installation on the occasion of the Gallery’s world-renowned fundraiser The Summer Party, which will take place on 11 July. It will be sited on the lawn next to the Gallery where it will remain for a period of one week.
The installation is designed as an open air space, 5.5 meters in height that consists of three identical fabric structures or parasols arrayed around a central point. Each parasol develops sculpturally from a small articulated base to a large cantilevered diamond shape. Taking inspiration from complex natural geometries such as flower petals and leaves the three parasols overlap to create the installation’s main conceptual feature: complex symmetry, interweaving all-the-while without touching, allowing air, light and sound to travel through narrow gaps in a state that is both open and likewise tending toward closure. Raised on a low platform located within an open field flanked by a row of trees just South of the Serpentine Gallery, the installation is free standing and accessible from all sides.
Zaha Hadid is an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture. Best known for her seminal built works (Vitra Fire Station, Bergisel Ski-Jump in Innsbruck, the Strasbourg Tram Station, the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the BMW Central Building in Leipzig and the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg) her central concerns involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research.
An aspect of Hadid's vision is her interest in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and geology as she integrates natural topography and human-made systems that lead her to experiment with cutting-edge technologies. Her current projects include: the Architecture Foundation in London, the Aquatic Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi, the Signature Towers in Dubai, opera houses in Dubai and China, the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Sardinia, private residences in Moscow and the USA, as well as major master-planning projects in Bilbao, Istanbul, Singapore and the Middle East.
Zaha Hadid was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2004. Her work has received global recognition from the Mies van der Rohe Foundation of European Architecture, the American Institute of Architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Academy of Arts, the International Olympic Committee for Design, the Austrian Commission for Science & Art and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
Patrik Schumacher is a partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and has been a senior designer on a series of major projects like the Centre of Contemporary Art and Architecture in Rome and the Central Building for the BMW factory in Leipzig. He is registered with the Architect’s Registration Board, and is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.


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Mark Edwards’ fourth psychological thriller, Follow You Home, is out today. Available as a Kindle book, paperback or audiobook, you can get it from Amazon stores worldwide.
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down. But after a perfect start, an encounter with a young couple on a night train forces Daniel and Laura to cut their dream trip short and flee home.
Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what happened that night. But as they try to fit into their old lives again, they realise they are in terrible danger—and that their nightmare is just beginning…
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California boat fire: Truth Aquatics suspends all operations amid investigation
The operator of the Conception dive boat, which burned in a Labor Day fire that killed 34 people, announced Tuesday it was suspending all operations as the investigation into the deadly blaze continued.
The company has come under scrutiny since the fire, with the FBI and other agencies spending several days searching its Santa Barbara offices and at least one of its other boats. Despite the intense inspections, U.S. Coast Guard officials say there are no restrictions on Truth Aquatics operating its vessels.
“With the continued calls and request for tours, we want to announce that we are officially suspending all operations of our Truth Aquatic fleet for a to-be-determined amount of time,” Truth Aquatics said in an Instagram post. “Right now we feel it’s important [to] dedicate our entire efforts to make our boats models of new regulations that we will continue to work on with the NTSB and Coast Guard.”
The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report found that the entire crew was asleep before the blaze was discovered, and the Conception did not have a roaming night watchman, as required by the U.S. Coast Guard for vessel certification.
The NTSB investigation is continuing, and it’s possible investigators could return to inspect the salvaged vessel, a board spokesman said.
Those who died in the inferno were sleeping below deck and could not escape the flames. Crew members above deck were able to jump overboard to safety.
Federal investigators last week concluded their examination of the charred wreckage, but officials said Friday that the investigation into the origins and cause of the blaze was far from over.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives completed a painstaking examination of the burned-out Conception, which was hauled to a Ventura County dock from the ocean floor on Sept. 12.
Experts have worked to piece together the remains of the dive boat, and parts of the vessel were sent to high-tech laboratories. Authorities also have scoured the seabed for missing pieces.
But a month after the fire — the deadliest boat fire in modern California history — authorities still have not determined the cause of the blaze, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation. Sources say, however, a forensic examination is likely to reveal the origin.
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Director: Tom Gormican
Starring: Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Imogen Poots
Release Date (US): 31st Jan, 2014
Company: Focus Features
“It’s 02:18 in the morning in the middle of February. I’ve been sitting on a park bench for almost four hours. It’s fucking freezing.” – Jason
That Awkward Moment labels itself as a “rom-com for guys”, centring around three twenty-something best friends negotiating the trials and tribulations of dating in NYC. When Mikey (Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station) gets cheated on, playboys Daniel (Miles Teller, The Spectacular Now) and Jason (Zac Efron, Bad Neighbours) decide to stay single, and get their friend back in the game. However, the boys’ fear of commitment soon comes back to bite them, as they each find themselves falling for someone.
The unique selling point about this movie has always been that it’s a “bro-mantic comedy” that guys can enjoy as much as girls. Despite the ridiculous name, for the most part, this is pretty true. First-time director Tom Gormican’s script portrays a pretty accurate depiction of the mindset of a young (horny) man, and their struggles with commitment. And while the tale is a little outlandish, it is possible to relate to the protagonists.
The highlights of the story are the interactions the three boys themselves, whose scenes together show great chemistry, and some genuinely hilarious man-child antics. While the romance plots are generic, they are also reasonably sweet and easy to get on board with. The character of Ellie (Imogen Poots, Need For Speed), in particular, helps to balance all of the testosterone on display, which can, at times, go a little overboard.
“I love the way she laughs. I love the way we fit together in bed because we’re the same height and our crotches line up perfectly.“ – Daniel
A large part of this movie’s quality comes from its talented quartet of rising stars. Efron, already a household name, adds a little more depth than usual to his character here – who, although douchey, slowly becomes a likeable but flawed protagonist. Additionally he works well alongside Poots in their entertaining, if a little clichéd, romance arc. Poots herself exudes confidence in her role, but is overshadowed a little by the three leads.
The standout performances, however, are from Jordan and Teller. Both actors look like genuine talents, and, while they aren’t going to win anything for this, expect them to land some Oscar buzz in the coming years. Jordan is great as the relatable ‘everyman’ here, and is the least obnoxious of the three. Teller claims the lion’s share of the laughs, but also shows versatility – able to go from being an arrogant douche, to sharing some heartfelt scenes with co-star Mackenzie Davis (Halt And Catch Fire) in an instant.
Direction & Tone
This is by no means an exceptional film, but Gormican still turns in a decent finished product. There is very little emotional depth or meaning to it all, but this does help to reinforce the movie’s light, fun, breezy tone. A lot of critics may call it superficial, and the often-arrogant protagonists may not sit well with some (potentially older) viewers. However, in the end, the movie ends up being more heart-warming than anything else.
- “Come here man” – Daniel; “Do not hug me with no pants on” – Mikey; “You’re right. Respect” – Daniel. What? I like dumb, funny movies…
- This movie unites Jordan and Teller for the first time before they appear alongside one another in Josh Trank’s The Fantastic Four reboot. As far as chemistry goes, things are looking pretty good
- The 5-year old inside me already couldn’t help but chuckle every time I wrote the word ‘Poots’. Apparently her full name is Imogen Gay Poots. Ehehehehe…
- I imagine this’ll be one of the more positive reviews you’ll see for this movie, which has received a mixed reception from the critics. That’s likely due to the fact that (a) I’m young enough to feel I can relate to it and (b) I’m stupid enough to feel I can relate to it
It’s not deep, the story is nothing new, and the ‘bro-mantic’ concept does eventually tire out, but it’s to the actors’ great credit that these potentially off-putting characters end-up being both likeable and incredibly entertaining.
Result: “Quite Good”


The Spiral, also known as 66 Hudson Boulevard, is a 66-floor skyscraper under construction in Hudson Yards, Manhattan, New York City. The project was announced in 2016 by real estate developer Tishman Speyer as a 1,041-foot (317 m) skyscraper with 2.85 million square feet (265,000 m2) and 66 floors. The tower is being designed by Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group, which also designed the nearby West 57.
The Spiral will be located on 34th Street between Hudson Boulevard and Tenth Avenue. When completed, The Spiral will join other developments made possible by rezoning, including Hudson Yards, 3 Hudson Boulevard and Manhattan West. A distinguishing feature of the building is that each floor will have outdoor gardens that will spiral around the building.
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Halloween Hold ‘Em 8 was played at the Gilroy Senior Center on Saturday Oct. 27 as part of the ongoing series of Texas Hold ‘Em events put on by the City of Gilroy Recreation Department.
These recreational events, made up of four-person teams, have raised more than $15,000 for senior, teen and youth programs within the City of Gilroy in the past eight years. This year’s event drew a record 90 players on nine tables.
Melinda Smith of Stella’s Stars won the over-all title after five hours of play. Jeff House earned the men’s title, as well as captaining team champion ‘Poop Deck’ along with Daniel Steingrimsson, Nate Levine and Ken Linde.
Super Showdown 8 will be held on Saturday Feb. 2, 2013. Further information is available at 408-846-0460.


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The power of touch
For many, the sense of touch is purely physical. Not for Professor Anne Cranny-Francis.
The Director of the Transforming Cultures Research Centre, and self-confessed sci-fi buff, argues touch enables a powerful connection between humans and the environment and is one of the most important processes we use to validate our knowledge and understanding of the world.
Five years ago, Cranny-Francis received an Australian Research Council grant to explore the meaning of touch. Her research initially focused on haptics, or touch-based technologies, which include the touchpad on a smartphone and processes like virtual surgery - where doctors practice surgical procedures without the need for an actual patient, instead using gloves or tools that allow them to physically feel the difference in the simulated organs or tissues.
In mid-2006, Cranny-Francis became intrigued by the emergence of smart-fabric technologies. She particularly wanted to understand how such developments would change the way humans perceive touch.
“Smart fabrics work by touching you as opposed to you touching it. For example, you could be wearing a dress embedded with technology which reacts to touch by giving you a hug. In a world where this level of technology is becoming common, I firstly wanted to know what ‘touch’ meant, and secondly, whether this meaning changed over time.”
Cranny-Francis has also investigated how art makes use of the sense of touch and how humans use this to experience art. She explains the double connotation with touch - not only do we reach out and touch but we receive the touch back from the object or person we’re touching.
“I wanted to understand why people feel the need to touch the art they were looking at. I believe we do it to validate what we see and to create a connection with the work. This is why museums are trying to incorporate hands-on galleries - when a person touches an object they feel a connection that is far more intimate and engaging than just looking at it in a glass cabinet.”
To further explore her theories, in 2009, Cranny-Francis curated an exhibition titled The Sense of Touch, which explored the significance of touch in both technology and art. Until 29 July, UTS will be hosting the second iteration of the exhibition - Touch Too. The academic’s latest installation includes new works from the permanent UTS Art Collection and explores the intimate relationship between touching, knowing and being.
Touch Too uses various mediums - like sound, painting, film and design - to further investigate the sense and meaning of touch. Cranny-Francis hopes the exhibition inspires people to start thinking of touch as not just a physical capability, but something that tells us about ourselves as human beings.
"The relationship between the senses, how they reinforce each other or translate from one sensory experience into another, is just fascinating,” says Cranny-Francis. In Touch Too, Amanda Robins’ paintings are incredibly sensual - she manages to create a sense of tactility, visually.
“I’ve also included Steel Cello/Bow Chime by David Chapman and Adrian Palka in the exhibition as I want people to think of sound as a multi-sensory experience that includes touch. We only hear because the small bones in our ears vibrate and touch each other.”
Filmmaker and Director of the Sydney Underground Film Festival Stefan Popescu is delighted to be exhibiting two multimedia works in Touch Too.
Both Repressions and Broken LCDs are examples of art which have been manipulated by Popescu.
He says, there is a real juxtaposition of meaning in the works - touch can be both physical and ethereal or sensual and brutal at the same time.
“With Repressions, I physically affected the films by burning and scratching the films then captured the resulting effect digitally. The idea for Broken LCDs came when someone accidentally sat on my laptop - the resulting image on the broken screen was just exquisite. All these LCDs have a story about how they were broken; several had been knocked over, one was hit by a basketball and one has slightly darker undertones - it was broken during a domestic violence situation and there is a very subtle reference to that in the film on that particular screen.”
Popescu has observed how people, especially women, are drawn to touch Broken LCDs, and in doing so have created more cracks on the screens. That connection between art and the individual is crucial for both Popescu ‘the artist’ and Popescu ‘the human’.
“Touch Too embodies a lot of what I researched for my own work. It seems to me that we as humans are empathising less and I think people focus on the sense of touch less than they used to. I know people see very different things in my work - if I’m really honest with myself I think I’ve learnt the most about my own work by observing others engaging with it and being touched by it.”
Other works in the exhibition include wearable technology such as Twenty121’s Fauxy the Fake Fur With Feelings, Meredith Brice’s Embedded - a display of recycled materials which explore the manipulation of texture - and Munkki, a traditional Finnish rug designed by Uhra-Beata Simberg-Ehrstrom, from the permanent UTS Art Collection.
Unlike some sci-fi buffs, Cranny-Francis isn’t too concerned about the development of touch-based technologies; she doubts they will have a negative effect on society or that there will be a Terminator-style rise of the machines. There does, however, need to be an acknowledgement that our understanding of the world will never be the same again.
“I believe if we could jump into a TARDIS-like time machine and go back to 1801, we’d have changed so much that we probably wouldn’t even recognise ourselves. This change is just something we’ve been experiencing over centuries and will continue to do into the future.”
“Fundamentally, touch is about connection. As these technologies develop, we need to realise there will be a change in our perception of touch and therefore our connection with the world and each other. As a result, we become human in a slightly different way.
Touch Too will be on display in the Tower foyer until 29 July, 2011.
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Pratap Challa, MD, MS and David L. Epstein, MD, MMM
Miotics, or more appropriately termed muscarinic (cholinergic-acting) agonists, have been used in the treatment of the glaucomas for more than 100 years. This is the first class of medications used to treat glaucoma, and they remain an important glaucoma therapy for both open-angle and angle-closure glaucomas. It is noteworthy that our understanding and discrimination between open-angle and angle-closure glaucomas have been widely recognized for only the past 60 or 70 years. (Paul Chandler was an important voice in teaching this differentiation.) Cholinergic-acting agonists are miotics, but this effect on the pupil is of significance only in the acute treatment of angle-closure glaucoma due to pupillary block. For the chronic treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the side effects of pupillary miosis and accommodation can be bothersome for many patients and can lead to discontinuation of these medications. Some of the discussion in this chapter is of more historical than clinical relevance because the practice patterns of medical care have shifted over time. It is intrinsic, however, to understand the history of miotics as it relates to glaucoma therapy and to recognize the continuing role that this group of medications has in patient care.
Miotics are classified as weak (eg, pilocarpine or carbachol) or strong (eg, echothiophate iodide). The former refers to direct-acting acetylcholine-mimicking drugs that bind directly to the receptor site, whereas the latter refer to indirect-acting (acetylcholinesterase) enzyme inhibitor drugs that allow the endogenous normal transmitter, acetylcholine, to accumulate at the receptor site.
In acute angle-closure glaucoma, the miotic effect of pilocarpine, the most commonly used agent, may decrease pupillary block at the level of the pupil by this miotic action on the usually semidilated pupil. But probably just as important is the drug acting to constrict the iris out of the angle and to increase iris tension that in turn helps resist the increased pressure in the posterior chamber found in pupillary block. At the level of the pupil, these cholinergic drugs may increase pupillary block if there is excessive miosis (the pupil is more closely apposed to the convex forward crystalline lens) and if the cholinergic effect on the ciliary muscle results in ciliary muscle contraction and release of zonular tension that can allow the crystalline lens to move forward to the pupil and thus actually increase pupillary block. On occasion, patients with underlying POAG thus can develop a superimposed angle-closure component from the use of miotic therapy. Hence, gonioscopy should be repeated in patients who have POAG and are taking miotic therapy.
In patients with POAG or with chronic forms of (noninflammatory) secondary open-angle glaucoma, such as exfoliation, the mechanism of intraocular pressure (IOP) lowering by miotics has nothing to do with the pupillary effect. It is due to the contraction of the longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle that inserts on the scleral spur. The latter is adjacent to, and receives also the insertion of, the trabecular meshwork (TM). The IOP-lowering effect of miotics is due almost exclusively to the outflow effect produced by mechanical traction by the longitudinal ciliary muscle onto the scleral spur. Anatomically, cholinergic therapy alters the spaces within the TM and makes them more open or wide and increases the number of pores in the inner wall of Schlemm’s canal.1 Experimentally, when the ciliary muscle is disinserted from the scleral spur, cholinergic drugs do not improve outflow.2 (The latter observation also might have potential relevance to the clinical conditions of cyclodialysis or angle recession, although likely the overall circumferential extent of these conditions might be an important determinant of cholinergic drug efficacy.)
|Secondary angle-closure glaucomas||Worsens angle closure by shallowing anterior chamber (miotics produce forward movement of lens-iris diaphragm)|
|Status post-vitreoretinal surgery|
|Status post-panretinal photocoagulation or retinal cryopexy|
|Status post-central retinal vein occlusion (acute)|
|Secondary to sulfa drugs|
|Associated with ciliary body swelling|
|Uveitic glaucoma||Increases inflammation, may paradoxically increase IOP|
|Neovascular glaucoma||Increases inflammation, may produce hyphema, ineffective|
|Trauma (recent, with inflammation)||Increases inflammation, increases ciliary spasm and pain|
Some have described small effects of cholinergic-acting drugs on reducing aqueous humor formation or a potential direct effect on the TM. These proposed alternative actions deserve further evaluation, but the existing data strongly indicate that the effects of these muscarinic drugs on outflow are mainly mechanical from longitudinal ciliary muscle contraction. The latter action likely produces few adverse effects, except perhaps for the risk of mechanical traction on attachments to the ora serrata potentially leading to detachment of the retina. Macular hole formation has also been associated with cholinergic therapy, and therefore, all patients should have a careful retinal examination both before and after initiation of these medications. Unfortunately, it is not (yet) possible to have drugs that exert cholinergic effects on only this longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle (although some have argued that aceclidine exerts a preferential effect on the longitudinal muscle).3 Furthermore, the necessary accompanying contraction of the circular and other portions of the ciliary muscle from cholinergic-acting drugs leads to relaxation of zonular tension, increased axial lens diameter, and forward movement of the lens-iris diaphragm. This then produces accommodation and the commonly unacceptable symptoms of visual blurring and myopia. In young patients, myopia-producing effects are frequently intolerable.
On the other hand, many presbyopic patients achieve a reestablishment of their near point, and if the accompanying miosis does not adversely affect their visual function (by cutting down light entering the eye, especially at night) and there are not excessive problems with the required frequency of drug administration or ocular irritation, many patients accept this therapy. Like miosis, the effect on accommodation is not part of the IOP-lowering mechanism (and, therefore, is not necessary for efficacy). The therapeutic efficacy is due to the contraction of the longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle, which is mechanically connected to the TM via the scleral spur.
Another effect of this class of medications is that contraction of the ciliary muscle may obliterate some of the extracellular spaces available for uveoscleral outflow and thus cause a decrease in outflow by this unconventional outflow pathway.4,5 In general, this effect is of little importance when treating glaucoma in most patients, except in rare individuals who are primarily dependent on the unconventional outflow pathway. Such individuals have exhibited a paradoxical rise in IOP.6 However, pilocarpine does not appear to inhibit the increased uveoscleral outflow effects produced by prostaglandin analogs, suggesting that the biochemical changes induced by them are not affected by the mechanical effects of miotics.7
Considering the effect of miotics on anterior chamber depth and its mechanism of action, it does not come as a surprise that there are several forms of glaucoma that are not amenable to miotic therapy or are worsened by it (Table 13-1). Forms of angle-closure glaucoma in which axial shallowing, such as malignant glaucoma or that following an acute central retinal vein occlusion, are worsened by miotics. Additionally, neovascular and inflammatory forms of secondary angle-closure glaucoma are not amenable to miotic treatment.
Miotics have many ocular side effects that should be considered before and after initiating therapy (Table 13-2).
VISUAL SIDE EFFECTS OF MIOTICS
In patients with early cataractous lens changes, especially those close to the visual axis, miotic therapy can be visually disabling. In such patients who are well controlled on miotic therapy but have visual disability, the substitution by other medications or laser trabeculoplasty should be considered. The patient’s objective and subjective vision should be assessed when miotic therapy has been stopped for a few days, if possible. Less desirable is to assess this after pupillary dilation (which unfortunately itself, likely due to light scattering and spherical aberration, may make cataract symptoms worse). It is useful to ask patients about their visual function in the morning before putting their miotic drops in, for this may offer a clue as to the role of the miotics in the visual disability. In patients with early cataract formation, a substitution strategy for miotic therapy is often effective in delaying the need for cataract surgery and thus allowing longer time for the glaucoma status to be evaluated (eg, time often can help answer the question whether cataract surgery alone or, in fact, combined cataract and filtration surgery is required).
OCULAR SIDE EFFECTS OF MIOTICS
In addition to the effects of miosis and accommodation (which by allowing the crystalline lens to move forward might have adverse effects beyond the visual, eg, pupillary block and susceptibility to malignant glaucoma-type syndromes), cholinergic-acting drugs appear to increase vascular permeability and perhaps thereby induce some type of proinflammatory predisposition in certain eyes. These drugs should not be used in inflammatory glaucoma and, in fact, may cause paradoxical effects on IOP. One of the rules discussed previously is that if a patient with presumed POAG is placed on a miotic and demonstrates an increase in IOP, gonioscopy should be repeated (as always when there is an increase in IOP) with the suspicion of an induced angle-closure component or an accentuated occult inflammatory trabeculitis. Furthermore, chronic miotic therapy can influence surgical considerations by creating small pupil problems and suspected increased iris rigidity. These eyes are also more injected and frequently have a greater propensity for postoperative inflammation and sustained breakdown of the blood-aqueous barrier. Filtration surgery patients often have greater subconjunctival inflammation and potential scarring at the filtration site. Thus, there is this clinical sense, that perhaps has been somewhat overstated, that chronic miotic therapy is not good for the eye.
The authors share this gestalt. It also must be stated that glaucoma itself is probably not good for the eye and that nearly all medications (and their preservatives) increase ocular injection. If miotics can reasonably control the IOP in patients with various forms of open-angle glaucoma, then the risk/benefit considerations indicate that this therapy should not be avoided. We are dealing again with the humbling realization that all of our treatments for glaucoma are nonspecific and have potential downsides. Many patients appreciate the induced near point visual side effects and the pinhole effect on overall visual acuity from the miosis (except at night). Yet, there is legitimacy to the dissatisfaction that clinicians feel with the use of long-term cholinergic therapy.
David L. Epstein, MD, MMM
Acetylcholine, which is commonly released at cholinergic nerve terminals in the eye, is normally inactivated by the enzyme acetylcholinesterase. Inhibitors of the latter enzyme allow acetylcholine to accumulate at the receptor site and thus produce a cholinergic miotic effect of long duration. Such acetylcholinesterase enzyme inhibitors have been used as systemic nerve gases or insecticides (where presumably they are lethal as a result of sustained cholinergic stimulation).1 It is remarkable that such agents in dilute concentrations have found use topically as anti-glaucoma agents. With respect for the ocular cholinergic side effects, such cholinesterase inhibitor therapy can be very effective, particularly in pseudophakic or aphakic eyes. This observation, on the one hand, makes one wonder whether all of our current glaucoma therapy is not, in fact, applied toxicology, but on the other hand teaches us the importance of dose-response relationships and therapeutic indexes in the development of all new glaucoma medications (or for any disease). Any drug at a high-enough dosage can have substantial side effects. When we screen for new drugs, we commonly use high concentrations, looking for large effects because they are easier to detect initially.
One wonders how many potentially useful drugs may have been missed because of such screening techniques. The first attempts to study topical cholinesterase inhibitor therapy to the eyes of rabbits produced a lethal result!
1. Rengstorff RH. Vision and ocular changes following accidental exposure to organophosphates. J Appl Toxicol. 1994;14:115-118.
Systemic Side Effects
Systemic side effects from cholinergic agents (except for the use of cholinesterase inhibitors; see the following section “Cholinesterase Inhibitors”) are uncommon. The most frequently seen systemic side effects are gastrointestinal, which seem to be a direct cholinergic effect and likely result from the drug reaching the alimentary channels directly through luminal connections from the throat. The latter derives from the topical drug reaching the nasolacrimal duct. Often, this symptom responds well to punctal occlusion (or gentle eyelid closure). Theoretically, this cholinergic symptom could result also from systemic absorption (that would obviously not be responsive to punctal occlusion strategies), and despite the efficacy of punctal occlusion diminishing this symptom, such systemic absorption might be more involved than first appreciated. Rarely, cholinergic bladder symptoms have been observed from topical miotic therapy and cerebral influences that are frequently viewed positively by the rare patient who believes that they are so affected. The latter has been observed more with the use of cholinesterase inhibitors than with short-acting miotics in our experience. Certain cholinergic therapies may positively slightly influence mental function in Alzheimer’s disease.8 Regardless, the bottom line for the clinician is that one should be alert to the possibility of systemic cholinergic symptoms in patients on topical cholinergic therapy to the eye, especially the cholinesterase inhibitors, although these are decidedly uncommon.
The short-acting miotics are cholinergic-acting drugs that mimic and theoretically might compete at the receptor with endogenously released acetylcholine, which is the usual transmitter at cholinergic sites in the eye. Such potential competition of cholinergic drugs with acetylcholine for the receptor, while theoretically possible, does not occur from a practical clinical point of view. Cholinesterase inhibitors and cholinergic drugs are not negatively interactive on IOP9; in fact, in some small minority of patients, there is slight additivity.
Significant systemic absorption of a topical ocular drug can occur. Therefore, it is not surprising that this happens also with cholinesterase inhibitors. The clinician should be alert to the potential for gastrointestinal, urological, or cerebral cholinergic side effects, although these are uncommon. However, what is common with the use of topical acetylcholinesterase inhibitors is the inhibition of cholinesterase activity in the blood.10 For some forms of general anesthesia, certain agents such as succinylcholine are used and require the blood enzyme for inactivation. Therefore, anesthesiology consultation should be obtained preoperatively, and the anesthesiologist should be informed ahead of time to flag the chart as to the use of topical cholinesterase inhibitors. It may require several months of cessation of such ocular therapy for blood levels of cholinesterase to return to normal. Fortunately, many alternatives exist in the choice of general anesthesia, but the anesthesiologist needs to know ahead of time about the use of this type of medication in patients who have glaucoma.
Potential Retinal Complications
Presumably because the ciliary muscle sends extensions of its tendon to the ora serrata, there is the potential for retinal complications with use of these cholinergic agents as a result of mechanical tension from the muscle’s contraction.
As part of the routine of a full ophthalmologic evaluation of the glaucoma patient, indirect ophthalmoscopy should be performed, with special attention to the retinal periphery looking for preexisting retinal pathology that might be adversely affected by the mechanical actions of miotics. As part of the routine follow-up of patients with glaucoma, the pupil is periodically dilated not only to examine the optic nerve head but also to reexamine the retina.
Patients receiving miotics are told of potential symptoms including flashes, floaters, and curtains. Although rare, retinal tears can occur with weak miotic therapy (eg, pilocarpine).11 In fact, posterior vitreous detachment may occur more commonly after even weak miotic therapy than is often appreciated. It would make sense, and clinically seems to be the case, that the risk goes up with increasing concentration of miotic and, therefore, with use of the stronger miotics (ie, cholinesterase inhibitors).
The potential for such rare side effects is perhaps another reason why the miotics are no longer the drug of first choice for POAG. But, as discussed, even with these general cholinergic effects on the eye, these agents are still effective medications. As with all glaucoma medications, they have risk/benefit considerations that need to be appreciated by the clinician and discussed with the patient ahead of time.
Whether patients with previous retinal detachment and successful repair should be treated with strong miotics is an interesting question that requires retina specialist consultation. Retina specialists have given their approval provided they are satisfied with the result of the retinal surgery. Thus, although these strong miotics should still be a drug of last resort, we have used them effectively in such patients. Such patients need continuing evaluation by a retina colleague.
For patients with a predisposition to retinal detachment, whether due to significant myopia or identified retinal thinning, avoid these stronger miotics unless absolutely necessary. Again, retinal consultation is strongly advised, and only the weakest effective solution should be used.
STRATEGIES IN CHOICE/USE OF MIOTICS
Pilocarpine is the usual first choice of cholinergic eye drop therapy. Several preparations differ only in the choice of salt, buffer, preservatives, or other constituents added for comfort. Strengths of pilocarpine range from 0.5% to 6%. Some glaucoma clinicians have argued that the maximally effective concentration may occur at concentrations less than 4%, whereas others have argued that 6% is probably the top of the dose-response curve. There is individual variability, but we believe that for most patients, except those with heavily pigmented irides, 4% is likely the clinically meaningful top of the dose-response curve and that lesser concentrations are not. Also, although 6% concentration may be slightly more effective in certain heavily pigmented non-White eyes, for practical purposes, 4% pilocarpine is still the highest concentration used, except perhaps for individuals with severe glaucoma.
Even in patients in whom it is anticipated that higher strengths of pilocarpine will be required, one should still start with low strengths of 0.5% or 1% to allow the patient to adapt to the anticipated initial ciliary spasm. Headaches and brow aches due to miotics are common, and the clinician should spend time explaining this to the patient (eg, the drug makes the muscle next to the drain contract and open the spaces, and like any muscle that has not been used fully, some initial cramping [“Charlie horse”] is to be anticipated). These symptoms should abate after the first few days. The patient should be told to call if they do not or if there are any other symptoms, such as flashes and floaters.
It is also very useful for the clinician to assess the IOP-lowering efficacy of 1% pilocarpine. Sometimes, there is a surprisingly large IOP effect. In fact, many years ago, a pilocarpine drop test for glaucoma was described in which a large decrease in IOP was anticipated in patients with true glaucoma. It is not certain in the era of this pilocarpine drop test whether all forms of chronic angle closure were well differentiated from open-angle glaucoma, and there is likely great individual variability, regardless, in IOP reduction in POAG patients from miotics. The clinical point is that some patients with POAG are very responsive to lower strengths of pilocarpine. It is not possible to predict what strength of pilocarpine will be required in the individual patient. In some cases of POAG, perhaps just a slight mechanical widening of whatever the critical space is in the outflow pathway is enough,1 at least initially, to substantially improve the outflow of aqueous humor from the eye. One of the major problems with pilocarpine and short-acting cholinergic-acting agonists is the short duration of drug effect. This necessitates a need for frequent instillation, usually 4 times a day for pilocarpine, which represents medication every 6 hours. Patients do not have to wake up at night after 6 hours of sleep to instill the drop, but it is surprising how many patients, in fact, do this due to inadequate initial instruction! However, while the patient is awake, the drops should be spaced as far apart as possible, approximately every 6 hours. There is the possibility of an IOP spike after 6 hours of sleep. Patients should administer the morning drop soon after awakening.
Clinically, some patients behave as if the maximum IOP effect from pilocarpine lasts only 4 hours, and we have seen some clinicians with good documentation therefore prescribe pilocarpine drops 6 times a day! We as clinicians need to appreciate how disruptive frequent drop regimens are to a patient’s lifestyle. In fact, most patients do not adhere to a 4-times-daily dosage regimen.12,13 For such patients with an apparent shorter time of clinical efficacy from cholinergic therapy, one should consider a higher strength of the drug—up to 6%, or perhaps, more reasonably, the use of pilocarpine ointment at night supplemented with pilocarpine drops during the day.
David L. Epstein, MD, MMM
Compliance is a real issue for the frequent dosing regimen required with weak miotic therapy. Kass and others have documented the surprising magnitude of this problem in glaucoma therapy with the use of a special electronic monitoring eye bottle.1–4 But the clinician, by simple means, can also sometimes gain insight into this issue in patients who are using miotics. Examination and recording of pupil size is an important part of the eye examination. For example, although the degree of miosis induced by these agents may be variable among different individuals, it should be consistent within the same patient. One often finds that the pupil is somewhat larger at a subsequent visit, and it takes specific physician probing to uncover the fact that the patient (who usually wants to actually please the glaucoma clinician) failed to take the medication, at least on the day of the visit. One patient told us that she did not want to hurt her physician’s feelings by telling him that she could not take her medication routinely! It goes without saying that, given the short duration of IOP effect from such therapy, failure to take the medication on the day of examination will cause an unexpectedly higher IOP. Some patients, unless counseled otherwise, routinely will omit their drops on the day of examination for a variety of reasons that reflect miscommunication (eg, “the doctor puts in his own drops at the visit” or “it interferes with the examination”).
Patients on miotic therapy (truly, all patients with glaucoma) need specific instructions about these issues and about inquiry into actual medication usage. Poor compliance is a common cause of fluctuating IOP. We are aware of cases in which the clinician prescribed a miotic, but the patient, due to confusion, did not take it, and this was not picked up by the office personnel until a referral consultation was arranged, at which time it was observed that the pupil was not miotic! Thus, the recording of the pupil size is an important part of the glaucoma examination.
1. Kass MA, Meltzer DW, Gordon M, Cooper D, Goldberg J. Compliance with topical pilocarpine treatment. Am J Ophthalmol. 1986;101:515-523.
2. Kass MA, Gordon M, Meltzer DW. Can ophthalmologists correctly identify patients defaulting from pilocarpine therapy? Am J Ophthalmol. 1986;101:524-530.
3. Kass MA, Gordon M, Morley RE Jr, Meltzer DW, Goldberg JJ. Compliance with topical timolol treatment. Am J Ophthalmol. 1987;103:188-193.
4. Budenz DL. A clinician’s guide to the assessment and management of nonadherence in glaucoma. Ophthalmology. 2009;116(suppl 11):S43-S47.

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ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH says that it plans to present two new products at K 2019, taking place in Dusseldorf, Germany, from 16–24 October 2019.
This includes the company’s SOMOS RDF modular resin drying system which is designed for stationary use without a central dry air generator. The system consists of autonomously operating units which can be combined into a variable overall system with central visualization and control.
Another premiere at K 2019 is a high-speed retrofit for ProTec's long fiber thermoplastic (LFT) pultrusion lines. This retrofit can help boost the production speed of existing manufacturing lines for long fiber reinforced thermoplastic pellets from 30 m/min to 50 m/min, the company said.
This story uses material from ProTec, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.


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In this gallery you will find the best abstract photography prints from my collection. One of the challenges of nature photography is being keenly aware of your surroundings at all times, as the fine details and intimate patterns of nature are everywhere. Inconspicuous scenes that are easily overlooked can become grand works of contemporary wall art when approached creatively.
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Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice
is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one
might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether
shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Houston,
the San Felipe St / W LOOP S neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it
looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Notable & Unique: People
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the
San Felipe St / W LOOP S neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children
living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation
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San Felipe St / W LOOP S community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In addition, one of the most interesting things about the San Felipe St / W LOOP S
neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live
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households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research
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99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, do you like to read, write, and learn? Are you curious about the world? If
so, this neighborhood may be a good fit for you. NeighborhoodScout's research
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San Felipe St / W LOOP S neighborhood have earned at least a bachelor's
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Notable & Unique: Diversity
Did you know that the San Felipe St / W LOOP S neighborhood has more
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this neighborhood's residents have South American ancestry and 1.3% have Romanian ancestry.
San Felipe St / W LOOP S is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily
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Notable & Unique: Migration / Stability
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world,
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In the San Felipe St / W LOOP S neighborhood, a greater proportion of
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found in 95.3% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood,
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What is also interesting to note, is that the San Felipe St / W LOOP S
neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country
(45.8%) than are found in 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Notable & Unique: Modes of Transportation
In the San Felipe St / W LOOP S neighborhood, walking to work is a real
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In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the San Felipe St / W LOOP S neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 95.1% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 99.2% of all neighborhoods in America.
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I always make apple crisp in the fall. However, I’ve seen references to other apple desserts: crumbles, cobbler, brown betty. Are they all the same dessert with different names or are they different in name and recipe?
They are not the same, although they’re similar. What they have in common is that they’re all an easy way to enjoy apples (or other fruits and berries) without making pastry. Lots of otherwise confident cooks avoid making pastry, and these preparations don’t require it. Other benefits to these rustic dishes are that they can be made with ingredients usually kept on hand, and in some cases use up ingredients that might otherwise go to waste.
There are actually a few more you didn’t mention – grunts, slumps, pandowdy, and charlottes, which are French. Here’s what’s what.
Crisps and crumbles (the British name for crisps) have a topping made like pie dough without the final step. That is, you mix together flour, sometimes oatmeal, sugar, a touch of salt, and optionally some spices like cinnamon, cloves, or ginger. Then you cut in butter as if making pastry. You can add chopped nuts at this point, too. However, this is where you stop. This streusel-type topping is sprinkled over the fruit before baking. It crisps up as it bakes and provides a nice crunchy topping that contrasts with the cooked fruit.
Cobblers are fruit baked with a biscuit topping. Usually the biscuits are made according to the drop method, which contains more moisture than the rolled-out method, and the dough is dropped by spoonfuls onto the fruit. Supposedly the name comes from the appearance of the dollops of dough, which are said to look like cobblestones.
Slumps and grunts (picturesque names, yes?) are cobblers which are cooked on the stove top rather than in the oven. The dough is steamed, not baked, which makes it a dumpling, not a biscuit. When served, it’s scooped out of the pan and inverted so the fruit is on top. This can be a bit more difficult technique, as dumplings will be soggy if not properly cooked. If you don’t have an oven, however, you can still have dessert.
Pandowdy can be made with either pastry or biscuit dough, is baked, and either during or after baking has the topping broken up roughly into chunks with a fork so that the fruit juices can bubble through. The name comes from the dowdy appearance this gives.
Charlottes are baked in a mold lined with buttered stale bread slices. This is filled with fruit, topped with another layer of stale bread, and baked. Because charlottes are solid enough to be turned out of the mold for serving, if you’re artistic you can make some fanciful designs with the bread slices for a very pretty presentation.
Brown betty, my least favorite, also calls for stale bread, but in crumb form rather than sliced. Buttered bread crumbs are layered with fruit, and the entire betty is topped with another layer of crumbs. It’s more pudding-like in consistency. The taste is good, but I prefer the contrast of the cooked fruit with a dough or other crisp topping.
These homey treats are usually served for dessert and are all the better for a topping of vanilla ice cream (for the less sweet ones) or heavy cream, either plain or whipped, for the sweeter ones. And of course, like pie, they’re equally enjoyable for breakfast.


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You can spread this Boerum Hill charmer’s butter on a shoe and it would likely taste good. Thankfully, Buttermilk Channel chef Ryan Angulo employs soft slabs of the house-made spread—folded with dark, salty ribbons of Rhode Island algae—to crown plump fillets of oily, briny fish instead. Load the tasty provisions onto the accompanying slices of Bien Cuit’s excellent, crusty rye ficelle. $10.
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"All Superhawk 200 jets will be grounded until we find out the cause of the crash. This is an anticipatory measure, since we do not want this to happen again," he said at the State Palace here on Tuesday.
Sufaat added that the Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee of the Indonesian Air Force was still investigating the cause of the crash.
"We cannot estimate how long this investigation will take, since there are many things that need to be investigated. However, I believe this was not caused by human error," he stated.
"There might be something wrong with the jet`s engine because the aviator will not eject himself out of the jet without any reason. I think he faced some engine trouble, so he decided to get out of the aircraft," Sufaat noted.
He said the Indonesian Air Force had two squadrons of Superhawk 200, with as many as 32 aircraft.
"Many of those jets were purchased in 1994," Safaat added.
The Superhawk 200 was made in the UK in 1980. It was reportedly the single-seat ground-attack version that crashed.
"The jet crash happened during the preparatory training for `Angkasa Yudha`," Safaat stated.
"In fact, the Air Force planned to conduct war simulation on October 23 in Tanjung Pandan, Belitung, by deploying all types of fighter aircraft, such as F16 and Sukhoi, as well as Superhawk 200," he explained.
"However, now, we will not use the Hawk until we find out the cause of the crash," Safaat added. (Y012/INE/BSR/A014)