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What is wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe?

Part of Windows Live® Photo Gallery by Microsoft

What is it?

This is the Windows Live Video Camera Auto Play Manager for Windows Live Photo Gallery. Windows Photo Gallery is a photo editing software that is a part of Microsoft's Windows Essentials software suite. Windows Photo Gallery provides management, tagging, and searching capabilities for digital photos. It provides an image viewer that can replace the default OS image viewer, and a photo import tool that can be used to acquire photos from a camera or other removable media.
Description of wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe from Microsoft
Photo Gallery is part of Windows Essentials, a free download that also includes tools for movies, instant messaging, email, social networking, and more. Photo Gallery includes powerful and easy-to-use editing tools that you can use to work on dozens of photos simultaneously. Correct imperfections, adjust color and exposure, fix red eye, and even "fuse" two or more photos (such as different versions of a group shot) into one. And with the auto-editing features, Photo Gallery can even improve the look of your photos for you.
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How is wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe loaded?

Autoplay handler - wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe is typically associtated with identifier name of MSLiveVideoCameraArrivalCaptureWizard with and identifier of SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers\MSLiveVideoCameraArrivalCaptureWizard. Autoplay will scan removable media, when it arrives, looking for media content types (music, graphics, or video). When a removable media arrives, Windows determines what actions to perform by evaluating the content and comparing it to registered handlers for that content. An application will register a handler for Autoplay events associated with a media type.

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About 0.5% of all Boost users have the wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe file.Of the 0.5% of wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe users, 11.1% have disabled it.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Program Files\windows live\photo gallery\wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe

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What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)

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File name: wlxvideocameraautoplaymanager.exe
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation (verified)
Name: Windows Live® Photo Gallery
Description: Windows Live Video Camera Auto Play Manager
Version: 14.0.8117.0416_ship.wlx.w3m3 (ship)
Product version: 14.0.8117.0416
Size: 66.86 KB
Original file name: WLXVideoCameraAutoPlayManager.dll

Digital certificate

Autoplay handler details

Name: MSLiveVideoCameraArrivalCaptureWizard
Command: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\Handlers\MSLiveVideoCameraArrivalCaptureWizard

Image hashes

MD5: 7b3cf2f22b0140e3d1a8275470bdb4d6
SHA-1: 6f8a93b0a5067bfe51a539e28a8beca6277201ce
SHA-256: ca9f7647f85cd6b65bfbd8c5ff8c136593a1fa82c2ead3f7442dfb256373f9a1

PE image details

File packed: No
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Skills assessment and assessing authorities

What is the skills assessment requirement?

To apply for a Points Tested Skilled Migration visa, at time of invitation you must nominate an occupation that is on the relevant skilled occupation lists. You must provide evidence that your skills have been assessed as suitable for your nominated occupation by the relevant assessing authority.

You must provide from the relevant assessing authority a full (permanent) skills assessment which must be used for Points Tested Skilled Migration. The criterion by which an assessing authority undertakes different types of skills assessments is determined by the assessing authority in accordance with relevant professional standards. A skills assessment is only valid until the expiry date specified on the assessment, or when a period of three years from the date of issue has elapsed, whichever occurs first.

Some assessing authorities issue a provisional or subclass 485 skills assessment for recent graduates of Australian educational institutions applying for a subclass 485 visa. The primary difference is that a subclass 485 skills assessment does not require employment in the applicant's occupation at the skilled level unlike a full or permanent skills assessment. A suitable provisional skills assessment issued for subclass 485 is not a suitable skills assessment for a Points Tested Skilled Migration visa.

For doctors, evidence of full registration is a suitable skills assessment for Points Tested Skilled Migration. We will accept one of the following certificates issued by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency as evidence of full registration:

  • full/unconditional/general medical registration
  • conditional specialist registration - this registration allows you to practise only in your particular speciality, with no further training or supervision requirements.

For solicitors, evidence of admission to practice as a lawyer in the relevant Sate/Territory is a suitable skills assessment.

Who can assess your skills

The skilled occupation list (SOL) and consolidated sponsored occupation list (CSOL) provides a complete list of the relevant assessing authority for each occupation on the lists.

It is your responsibility to contact the relevant assessing authority for your nominated occupation and obtain a skills assessment. Each assessing authority has its own assessment procedures, timeframes and charges. You are strongly advised to contact the relevant assessing authority to arrange your skills assessment well before you intend to submit your Expression of Interest in SkillSelect.

How to get your skills assessed

In almost all cases, assessing bodies will require that you have post-secondary, such as university or trade, qualifications in order to receive a positive assessment of your skills.

In a small number of occupations, substantial relevant work experience may be acceptable. Each assessing authority will be able to advise you what the qualification requirements are for the occupations they assess.

Assessing authorities role in finding you employment in Australia

Assessing authorities are responsible for undertaking skills assessments for migration purposes and are not employment agencies. The assessing authorities will not reply to requests for job placement. They cannot give advice on the likely success of your visa application.

Submitting more than one skills assessment

You can only have one nominated occupation when you lodge your Points Tested Skilled Migration application. Prior to submitting your Expression of Interest you may, however, apply to any number of skills assessing authorities until you obtain a suitable skills assessment. You are unable to change your nominated occupation once you are invited to apply for a Points Tested Skilled Migration visa in SkillSelect.

Evidence to attach to your application

Once you are invited to apply and lodge a valid application you must provide a scanned certified copy of a suitable skills assessment by the relevant assessing authority for your nominated skilled occupation.

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Water Table

Client: Wikiup Hill Learning Center

Location: Toddville, IA

Installed: August, 2013

This exhibit was created to help educate visitors about watershed ecology through engagement with hands-on interactives. Hand pump activated rain clouds create water flow to help demonstrate such concepts as man made vs natural levees, flooding, the role of wetlands, riparian buffer zones, green roofs and permeable parking lots.


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Theater & art

Stage Review

A prom full of pop in ‘Marvelous Wonderettes’

From left: Tess Primack, Laura Graczyk, Lee Harrington, and Brittany Rolfs in Stoneham Theatre’s “The Marvelous Wonderettes.”

Carla Donaghey

From left: Tess Primack, Laura Graczyk, Lee Harrington, and Brittany Rolfs in Stoneham Theatre’s “The Marvelous Wonderettes.”

STONEHAM — When the Crooning Crabcakes have to cancel their performance at the 1958 Springfield High School prom, their last-minute replacement is The Marvelous Wonderettes, a quartet of classmates who perform despite some internal squabbling and personal preoccupations. In the Stoneham Theatre’s pleasant but uninspired summer offering, “The Marvelous Wonderettes,” the prom performance provides an opportunity to showcase pop hits from the 1950s in Act 1. In Act 2, the girls are reunited 10 years later, when they update us on their personal progress through selected pop hits from the 1960s.

Writer Roger Bean hews closely to stereotypes as we get to know the Wonderettes, which includes the ditsy Suzy Simpson (Laura Graczyk), vain Cindy Lou Huffington (Lee Harrington), nerdy Missy Miller (Tess Primack), and tomboy Betty Jean Reynolds (Brittany Rolfs). As the girls work through their numbers, including “Lollipop,” “Allegheny Moon,” and “Dream Lover,” we get a bit of back story: Cindy Lou has stolen Betty Jean’s boyfriend (“Lipstick on Your Collar”), Suzy’s in love with the prom’s lighting guy (“Stupid Cupid”), and Missy has a “Dream Lover,” who happens to be their teacher (“Mr. Lee”). Transitions occur when the girls use a “dream catcher” (a.k.a. “cootie catcher”) to decide who will sing the next song.

The frame is reminiscent of “Forever Plaid,” the show that spoofed the tight harmonies of ’50s boy bands before the Beatles landed. The difference here is that while individually, the performers in “The Marvelous Wonderettes” have powerful singing voices, together they never deliver the distinctive blend that makes such songs as “Mr. Sandman” and “Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight” sound unforgettable. Instead, all four voices lack individual grit and sound like they have not only the same range, but the same tone and quality, with the effect tending toward shrill rather than sweet. When each singer gets a breakout solo, she proves her vocal quality: Graczyk a standout on “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me,” Harrington’s warm voice wrapping around “Maybe,” Primack delivering a lovely “Secret Lover,” and Rolfs raising the roof by belting out “I Only Want to Be With You,” as well as offering some impressive harmonica playing on “Allegheny Moon.”

Director Nick Sulfaro encourages his performers to be broad and brassy when a little subtlety might have suggested more distinctive personalities. The brassiness almost works for “tomboy” Betty Jean, but the rest of the girls just look awkward. The best moment of the show comes when the performers reach out into the audience for a “Mr. Lee.” Their interaction with a game audience member is fun and feels real, which only emphasizes the flat, two-dimensional interactions with each other.

Christopher Ostrom creates the outline of a high school gymnasium complete with crepe paper-covered girders and a glitter ball hanging from a basketball hoop. Music director Jim Rice leads a five-piece band that adequately plays all the notes, but never seems to find a groove. Overall, “The Marvelous Wonderettes” don’t live up to their name, and the bland sameness of the presentation feels like a disservice to those prom queens and song stylists of yesteryear.

Terry Byrne can be reached at
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Martin Walsh tops candidate fund-raising in August

PAC plans to spend $175,200 on pair of TV ads for former union official

State Representative Martin J. Walsh was the top fundraiser in August out of the candidates running for Boston mayor.

Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff/File 2013

State Representative Martin J. Walsh was the top fundraiser in August out of the candidates running for Boston mayor.

State Representative Martin J. Walsh dominated fund-raising in the Boston race for mayor in August, collecting $383,000 — the biggest monthly haul of any of the dozen candidates to date — as an outside group prepares to fund additional television ads on his behalf.

A political action committee called American Working Families is spending $175,200 for two television ads promoting Walsh, its chairman said on Friday. After weeks in which the rival mayoral campaigns sparred over whether they should discourage spending by outside interests — and Councilor John R. Connolly told an advocacy group he did not want $500,000 spent on his behalf — Walsh voiced no reservations about the outside boost.

Instead, Walsh advisers said that about three-quarters of his contributions have come from individual supporters rather than interest groups and that his growing financial support demonstrates momentum.

“People are excited. I think it shows some traction,” said Joyce Linehan, a Walsh political consultant.

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The other leaders in the race for campaign cash continued to run strong, too. Connolly came in second, as he did in July, with his campaign reporting contributions of $245,077 in August. Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley raised about $152,000, followed by City Councilor Michael Ross, who received approximately $126,248.

Final campaign finance data for August will be posted to the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance website in the coming days, but several leading campaigns were able to report their estimated contributions to the Globe in advance of the Aug. 31 deadline.

Twelve candidates are running in the Sept. 24 preliminary election for mayor. The two leading vote-getters will face off in the final election on Nov. 5.

While Walsh’s monthly fund-raising surged, he has less cash on hand — about $700,000 — than Conley, who is sitting on a war chest of $1.125 million. Connolly has about $589,000 left, and Ross’s campaign reported $435,000 cash on hand.

Walsh, a former laborer and union official, rankled some of his rivals by benefiting from significant support from unions. In August alone, union contributions boosted his campaign by at least $93,000 — more than some of his rivals in the race for mayor collected from all their donors in a month.

Unlike individuals, who can donate only $500 per election cycle in city races, unions can contribute up to $15,500 to a candidate.

That led some rival campaigns to point out the disparity and urge Walsh to forgo union money.

“We’re proud that Dan has raised over $800,000 in individual, itemized, publicly reported contributions and we call on Marty Walsh to level the playing field and disavow special interest money and sign the people’s pledge,” said Mike Sherry, a Conley spokesman.

City Councilor and mayoral candidate Rob Consalvo has pushed his fellow candidates to sign a “Boston pledge” agreeing to discourage campaign spending by outside groups.

Based on the People’s Pledge forged by US Senate candidates Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown in 2012, the pledge would discourage PACs from spending for candidates by requiring each candidate to match any outside spending with a contribution to The One Fund Boston, which benefits victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Conley recently agreed to a similar pledge, and Connolly said he did not want Stand for Children, an educational advocacy group that endorsed him, to spend $500,000 on campaigning for him.

Independent expenditures from advocacy groups and political action committees help supplement spending and advertising by the campaigns.

But the chairman of American Working Families that is now backing Walsh blasted such pledges.

“At this point asking an organization to abide by a campaign pledge that limits their right to permissible political speech is arbitrary, unfair, and politically motivated,” Bud Jackson said in a statement. “It reinforces that these pledges are unsustainable gimmicks that can be manipulated, timed, and exploited for political purposes.”

His organization plans to air two 30-second TV ads for Walsh beginning next week.

One of the ads shows diverse constituents in a variety of workplaces and Boston streetscapes saying, “We are Boston.” The other focuses on one woman who says she “wouldn’t have this job if it weren’t for Marty Walsh,” and credits him for creating a union program that recruits women and minorities for trade jobs.

American Working Families, which backs progressive public policy, describes itself on its website as dedicated to “fighting back against the war on working people.”

Consalvo spokesman Kevin Franck countered: “I would expect that a super PAC from outside Virginia would think limiting outside money in the mayor’s race is a bad idea. But the voters of Boston think they should decide who the next mayor is.”

Another super PAC called Working Families reported spending more than $230,600 to benefit Walsh’s campaign. Stand for Children reported spending more than $8,800 for Connolly’s campaign, which also benefited from about $50,000 from a second education advocacy group called Democrats for Education Reform.

Consalvo reported raising $117,000 in August — all from individuals, Franck noted — leaving his campaign with about $56,000 in cash on hand. Nonprofit executive John Barros reported $40,548 for the month of August and just under $70,000 cash on hand for the campaign. Other campaigns were not able to report their numbers for the month.

Stephanie Ebbert can be reached at Follow her on Twitter @stephanieebbert.
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Atlanta Games’ venues left some lessons for Boston

The Olympic stadium became a home for the Atlanta Braves.

Barry Chin/Globe staff/file

The Olympic stadium became a home for the Atlanta Braves.

ATLANTA — The aquatic center where American swimmer Amy Van Dyken won four Olympic gold medals is noisy with amateur divers bouncing off clattering springboards, before a national competition.

Across town, at the stadium where the palsied hands of Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic torch in 1996, the hometown Atlanta Braves are looking for back-to-back wins, before 26,000 fans.

Twenty miles outside the city, however, scraggly weeds grow thigh-high on the abandoned court where tennis stars Andre Agassi and Lindsay Davenport each earned gold for the United States.

These and a dozen other former Olympic venues scattered across Greater Atlanta hold lessons for Boston — of what worked and what can go wrong — as the city flirts with a bid for the 2024 Summer Games.

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Olympics are measured by their legacies, which along with the gold medal moments can include leftover sports venues that become white elephants once the Olympic flame is put out.

“In every city you went — Montreal, Seoul — there was a big empty stadium sitting there,” said Dick Yarbrough, a managing director for the 1996 Games, recalling Atlanta’s Olympic preparations. “We built things for their afterlives, and then retrofit them for the Games.”

One of the most successful is the aquatic center. Atlanta’s Olympic organizers privately raised $21 million to build the venue, which the Georgia Institute of Technology took over after the Games and massively expanded into what is now one of the country’s “coolest college recreation centers,” as ranked this year by Men’s Health magazine.

The deserted Stone Mountain Tennis Center is the opposite kind of post-Olympic legacy, which Atlanta generally avoided. The center is encircled by a barbed fence and plastered with No Trespassing signs. Vandals have looted copper wires and pipes. The roughly $20 million complex could not make it as a tennis facility after the Games, and no redevelopment plan has yet gotten off the ground.

The Atlanta Olympics of 1996 are not a perfect comparison for what a Boston Olympic bid would face, but Atlanta may be the best available model for the principal reason of cost, and who pays.

SHIRLEY LEUNG: Give Boston Olympics a chance

Unlike most central governments, the US federal government offers only limited financial support to organize and run the world’s largest sporting competition. Teary athletes draped in the Stars and Stripes may stir pride in the USA, but the Olympics, after all, is a private event.

Atlanta’s Olympic organizers knew their only chance of rousing public support was to promise to fund the Games privately, as Los Angeles did in 1984. The only problem: The Atlanta team had no clue how to pull it off.

“Our mouths and intentions were way ahead of . . . how we were going to do it,” confessed Billy Payne, the genial Atlanta lawyer and former college football star who ran the ’96 Games and who is the person most responsible for bringing them to Georgia.

The Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games — a private, nonprofit corporation led by Payne — renovated a number of existing sports venues and built an Olympic stadium, a cycling velodrome, the aquatic center, and a village to house athletes and trainers — all things Boston would have to do.

INFOGRAPHIC: How Boston stacks up as an Olympics host city contender

In the end, the Atlanta committee broke even, privately raising $1.7 billion, including about $400 million for construction, mostly from broadcast rights, ticket sales, and corporate sponsorships. In addition, local colleges contributed tens of millions toward the buildings they would inherit after the Games, the federal government provided security and advanced some transportation and housing grants, and the city issued bonds to pay for infrastructure.

Total spending on the Atlanta Games is estimated to have been about $3 billion, according to a 2001 academic analysis, “Olympic Dreams — The Impact of Mega-events on Local Politics.”

Even accounting for inflation, which would bring the figure to about $4.5 billion, it’s a fraction of the estimated $50 billion Russia spent on the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

“In the United States it’s doable,” said Lisa Delpy Neirotti, a professor of sports management who studies the Olympics at George Washington University, referring to a privately financed Olympic Games. “I wouldn’t be saying this in other countries, but we don’t have to spend all of our money on infrastructure the city should have had in the first place.”

Getty Images file (left); Tami Chappell for the Boston Globe

The tennis courts where Andre Agassi celebrated winning the gold medal in men’s singles are now filled with weeds and has been abandoned.

Supporters and detractors of the Atlanta Games agree the Olympics were a catalyst for development. But the value of that development is still being debated 18 years later.

“It was the best thing that we ever could have done at the time that we did it,” said former congressman and US ambassador Andrew Young, now 82, who was mayor of Atlanta when the city launched its Olympic bid. “It was a good experience because it united the city behind a long-range idea.”

CAPITAL | Weekly Poll: An Olympic-sized split over bringing Games to Boston

On the other hand, antipoverty advocate Anita Beaty, director of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, said an Olympic building-boom “just steamrolled over Atlanta and nothing has been the same since.” The city decimated its public housing stock in the building craze, she said, and priced many low-income people out of their neighborhoods. She said taxpayers have paid to maintain sports venues inherited by local government after the Olympics.

Leaders of the Boston Olympic bid have outlined a financing strategy similar to Atlanta’s, promising a privately financed Olympic Games that would rely on public infrastructure improvements and partnerships with colleges and universities.

Intentionally or not, the structure of the nascent Boston Olympic movement also resembles the early days of the Atlanta effort, which began with a small group of prominent people, not easily discouraged.

Suffolk Construction chief John Fish is the public face of the effort in Boston, which made the US Olympic Committee’s short list of potential 2024 host cities, along with Washington, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

In Atlanta, Payne was the front man. His story is famous in Georgia:

It was 1987. Payne, then 39, successful and restless, having just led a fund-raising drive for a new sanctuary at St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church in the Atlanta suburbs, was invited to address the congregation.

“I’m looking down at my church, a thousand people looking back,” Payne recalled in a Globe interview. “The very same people who for the last three years I had revisited countless times to say, ‘You know that $10,000 you pledged? I need $15,000 now.’

“People had been like, ‘Oh God, Billy’s coming, lock the door.’ But as I’m looking down from the pulpit, these radiating smiles were coming back at me. The people who had complained the most were so proud of the ultimate manifestation of this effort, as we dedicated this sanctuary.”

Driving home Payne told his wife: “We’ve got to think of something else that brings that many people together in this common sense of celebration.”

At the time, the United States had hosted only three Summer Olympics: St. Louis in 1904, and Los Angeles in 1932 and 1984. Payne decided: Let’s bring the first Olympics to the American South.

The popular first impression in Atlanta: Wow, what a stupid idea.

“Every Olympic bid needs a spear-catcher, somebody like me in that position, who takes on all the incoming negativism and nevertheless keeps the idea alive,” said Payne, now chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, the home of the Masters.

RELATED: Fish went from struggling boy to Olympic bidder

If the idea survives long enough, the opportunity to present your city and state to the world “is a compelling force that ultimately will capture the hearts of just about everybody,” Payne said.

Atlanta won the Games over Toronto; Melbourne, Australia; Manchester, England; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; and the early frontrunner, Athens.

The 1996 Games would be criticized for its ho-hum architecture, but the Atlanta group was more interested in function, cost savings, and post-Olympic life.

The group privately raised about $200 million to build an 85,000-seat Olympic stadium, turned over to the city as a gift.

The torch-lighting by Ali, a gold-medal boxer in 1960 who is now battling Parkinson’s disease, was one of the great lump-in-your-throat moments of any Olympics. US sprinters Michael Johnson and Gail Devers blazed to gold medals in the stadium. American Carl Lewis won the long jump for the fourth Olympics in a row.

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Muhammad Ali, ex-heavyweight boxing star and Olympic medalist, lit the Olympic torch in 1996.

The stadium was not a perfect oval, because it was designed for a specific use after the Games. Part of the structure was later lopped off, and the building was converted to a 50,000-seat baseball park. Renamed Turner Field, it has been home to the Atlanta Braves since 1997.

The Braves will abandon the ballpark after the 2016 or 2017 seasons for a new stadium in the suburbs, and Turner Field may be knocked down and redeveloped. This has saddened many Atlantans, who considered a baseball stadium built without taxpayer money one of the better outcomes of the Games.

Two miles north of the stadium, Centennial Olympic Park lives on as probably the most influential development of the 1996 Games, though no competitions were held there. Payne came up with the idea to convert blocks of downtown warehouses into a “town square” for the Games, as a gathering space and place for entertainment. This is where a domestic terrorist named Eric Rudolph planted a bomb during the ‘96 Olympics. The blast caused two deaths and wounded more than 100 people, though the Games went on.

The manicured Olympic Park has grown into Atlanta’s version of the Boston Common or the Greenway. On hot summer days — which seems like every summer day in Georgia — children in bathing suits run screaming through water spouts at the park’s Fountain of Rings, patterned after the Olympic symbol. Tourist attractions have cropped up across the park, such as the World of Coca-Cola, a hokey homage to the Atlanta-based beverage giant, the Georgia Aquarium, and a new civil rights museum — the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

“Centennial Olympic Park has fostered a development downtown unlike anything we could have imagined,” said Yarbrough. “That was Billy’s greatest idea.”

INFOGRAPHIC: How Boston stacks up as an Olympics host city contender

The Georgia World Congress Center, a pre-existing convention facility next to the park, hosted smaller Olympic events in 1996, such as fencing, judo, handball, ping pong, weightlifting, and wrestling, without a great deal of investment.

The Georgia Tech campus a mile to the north, however, underwent an overhaul, said G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, who was president of Georgia Tech during the 1996 Olympics.

Tech’s mid-town campus essentially became the Olympic Village for 16,000 athletes and trainers, in addition to hosting several sporting events.

Thousands of campus housing units were built at Georgia Tech and Georgia State University to house the athletes. The $241 million cost was shared by the Atlanta Olympic committee, which privately raised $47 million for that project, and the University System of Georgia, which issued bonds to pay for the rest, according to a 1997 analysis of the Atlanta Games published in the Journal of the American Planning Association.

“We built very [high-end] housing for the students and that was a big plus for Georgia Tech,” said Clough, in a Globe interview. “You could say it was due to the Olympics, and it was. But at the same time Georgia Tech borrowed quite a bit of money to ensure that post-Olympics we would really have something lasting for the intuition, and that has made a big difference on the campus.”

SHIRLEY LEUNG: Boston group eyes Olympic venues

Near the city airport, the Atlanta Olympic committee spent $17 million on the Wolf Creek Shooting Complex, for sharp-shooting competitions. County taxpayers lost money on the high-tech venue after the Games, and the range was converted to a police and fire training center. The most obvious remnants of the Olympics are the world flags hanging from a high metal ceiling.

Stone Mountain Park, about 20 miles outside Atlanta, hosted archery and a very fast temporary outdoor velodrome, on which 21 Olympic cycling records were set. The velodrome was sold to the Disney company and moved.

The bald forehead of Stone Mountain, a popular day-hiking destination for Atlantans, rises above the abandoned tennis center. There was not enough demand for court time to sustain the facility after the Olympics, said Jim Brooks, director of the Evermore Community Improvement District, which is looking for ways to reuse the state-owned complex.

The venue has been dark since a 2005 concert by singer Roberta Flack, he said. The price tag to repair damage from neglect and vandalism is about $1 million.

“We continue to believe there is a higher and better use for the facility than to implode it,” Brooks said.

An hour northeast of Atlanta, the Lake Lanier Rowing Center, built by the Atlanta Olympic committee for $10 million, probably looks more like it did during the Games than any other venue. The rowing center is spread over a small peninsula on the picturesque lake.

Two local rowing clubs use the Olympic boathouses and docks. Olympic murals and the tiered seating for finish line judges have been preserved in a four-story concrete tower.

The 2014 USA Canoe/Kayak Sprint National Championships were held last week at the venue, but supporters believe the site has been vastly underused.

Mimi Collins, chairwoman of a nonprofit group overseeing upgrades to the Olympic facility and a public park at the site, said city and county governments recently agreed to provide $300,000 to revamp the property, which is showing its age after years of minimal upkeep. The group wants the site to be busier, with more competitions and recreational water sports, concerts, and events.

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Young, the former mayor, whose credibility and early support kept Billy Payne’s idea alive, said Atlanta was successful because it went into the Games with the right intentions.

“We couldn’t spend money like London or Moscow or anybody else,” Young said. “We didn’t use the Olympics to rebuild the city, as Greece had to do. We had the single-minded purpose to put on the best Olympic Games that we could offer the world.

“To have Israel, Iran, and Iraq march into the Olympic Stadium together? That to me was what the Olympics was all about.”

The Olympic Village is now used by Georgia Tech for student housing.

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Bruin Dennis Seidenberg grimaced after getting tangled up with Senators Cory Conacher in the third period. He tore his ACL and MCL and will be out for the season.

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Bruin Dennis Seidenberg grimaced after getting tangled up with Senators Cory Conacher in the third period. He tore his ACL and MCL and will be out for the season.

The Bruins lead the Atlantic Division by 4 points. The trade deadline is more than three months away. The Providence-to-Boston shuttle — or, in the case of David Warsofsky and Nick Johnson, a trip from Glens Falls, N.Y., to Ottawa via Providence — is filling in the holes that riddle the varsity lineup.

Time and depth are on the Bruins’ side. They are in no rush to make a deal.

But at least one will be coming.

The Bruins, internally and via the trade market, will not find a replacement for Dennis Seidenberg. The No. 2 defenseman, ruled out for the year Saturday because of a demolished right knee (torn ACL and MCL), touches the game in every situation.

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In the playoffs, Seidenberg plays against top-line forwards. The left-shot defenseman switches to the right side. Seidenberg is paired with Zdeno Chara. Before their tanks ran dry in the Stanley Cup Final last season, they were the shutdown defensemen nobody wanted to face. But it is management’s imperative to acquire a veteran defenseman who can provide at least some of Seidenberg’s qualities.

Assuming the Bruins’ run of ill health stops short by the playoffs, they should have another roster ready for a run at more rings.

Tuukka Rask is a Vezina Trophy candidate. Chara is the NHL’s most feared shutdown defenseman. Their top line of Milan Lucic, David Krejci, and Jarome Iginla is the kind of heavy-duty, playoff-hockey unit that should be sponsored by Caterpillar. The Western Conference is loaded with Cup-worthy teams in Chicago, Anaheim, San Jose, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. The Bruins and Penguins, both racked by injuries, appear to be the only legitimate troublemakers in the East.

But the current crew will need help. Matt Bartkowski, the left-shot defenseman most similar to Seidenberg, doesn’t have his mentor’s pedigree of consistency. Johnny Boychuk and Adam McQuaid are right-shot defensemen. Torey Krug is a lefty, but is a puck-moving, power-play specialist.

The trade market, especially among Eastern teams, has yet to develop. Ottawa’s Chris Phillips would be a trade target for the Bruins. Phillips will be an unrestricted free agent at season’s end. Phillips is a stay-at-home left-shot defenseman. General manager Peter Chiarelli knows Phillips well from his days as Ottawa’s assistant GM. Chiarelli acquired Chris Kelly, Phillips’s former teammate. This past summer, Chiarelli took a run at former Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson.

But Ottawa, which claimed a 4-3 win over the Bruins Saturday night, isn’t ready to swing a sledgehammer at the roster. As of Sunday, the 10th-place Senators were just 1 point out of the East’s top eight.

Andrej Meszaros, also UFA at the end of the year, also could be a trade possibility. Meszaros was Chara’s partner in Ottawa. But the Flyers, who couldn’t get their engine to turn over at the start of the season, are back in the playoff race.

The Bruins have assets they can put in play. Their more valuable prospects — youngsters with top-six, top-four, or No. 1 potential — include Alexander Khokhlachev, Jared Knight, Zach Trotman, and Niklas Svedberg.

Only three days earlier, the Bruins wanted to see how Svedberg fit in their plans. The team recalled the Swedish goalie from Providence Friday. An audition would help determine how the Bruins would address their goaltending situation.

The Bruins would not have added a third goalie if they were satisfied with Chad Johnson as Rask’s backup. Johnson is 6-3-0 with 2.34 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage. They are respectable numbers. But Johnson’s untimely goals against, most recently a backbreaker in Buffalo Dec. 19, have not inspired confidence.

So Saturday morning, before Seidenberg’s status was finalized, Johnson was planning to be a healthy scratch for the second straight game. Johnson and Shawn Thornton remained on the Canadian Tire Centre ice long after their teammates hit the showers.

“It’s a young guy coming in and getting an opportunity,” Johnson said of Svedberg following Saturday’s morning skate. “They haven’t seen him play at this level. It doesn’t really affect me. I’m just going to go do my usual thing and take care of myself to get ready if there’s an opportunity to get in and help the team win. That’s where my mind’s at. I’ve been in every situation, it seems like, in my career from going up and down. The biggest thing is to worry about yourself.”

The Bruins will need their backup, whether it’s Johnson, Svedberg, or an acquisition, to play important minutes. It’s possible that Rask could be Finland’s ace in the Olympics. If so, Rask will return with an Olympic workload and travel to and from Sochi on his odometer.

Following the Olympics, the Bruins and their opponents will compete in a season-ending sprint that could create more carnage than the last lap at Bristol Motor Speedway. The Bruins play 17 times in March, including six sets of back-to-back games. They will close out the regular season with seven games in 13 days in April. They’ll need to ease Rask into the playoffs.

“They’re going to be compressed,” said coach Claude Julien, Saturday morning, of the post-Olympic schedule. “You always have a better idea, when you see a goaltender play, how much confidence you have in giving Tuukka more breaks. We’ve seen Chad play. Now we want to see Sveddy play. We’re going to have to manage some stuff here in the second half with some of those guys going to the Olympics.”

The catastrophe would be if Rask broke down. Like most teams, the Bruins are not prepared to be without their No. 1 goalie in the playoffs. They already will be down their second-best defenseman. It’s why help on defense and in goal is required.

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The Bruins assigned Trotman, Warsofsky, and Nick Johnson to Providence Sunday. Trotman and Johnson played in Providence’s 5-4 win over Springfield Sunday following their assignments. The Bruins’ next game is Tuesday against the Islanders. They are likely to recall reinforcements before then.

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Common Ground is pleased to announce our selection to help construct and operate La Central – a new multi-property development that will bring affordable housing, retail, community and recreation space – including a YMCA – to the Bronxchester Urban Renewal site in the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx.

On December 21, 2013, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Common Ground will be part of a team that includes BRP Development Corporation, Hudson Companies Inc., and the YMCA to develop this project on the last large assemblage of City-owned vacant land in the South Bronx, all but completing a major urban renewal effort that has rebuilt and revitalized the once blighted community. The Bronxchester site includes five tax lots totaling approximately 184,500 square feet bordered by Bergen Avenue, Brook Avenue and East 149th Street. When complete, La Central will create a thriving mixed-income, mixed-use development consisting of five buildings with 985 units of affordable housing for low- to moderate-income New Yorkers.

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Poka-Yoke: The Fine Art of Mistake Proofing – Game Planning With Science! Part 10

You remember that time you plugged your HDMI cable into your PS4 upside-down and fried it’s video card? Or that time you clamped your ski-boots into your skis backwards and almost killed yourself on a black diamond slope as a result? Or that time you put a k-cup into a Keurig machine sideways an sprayed hot coffee all over the kitchen? No, you don’t. Because you can’t do any of those things. Those products are all designed so that they can only be used in the proper manner. Your the grooves on the HDMI connector, the specific clamps and catches on skis and boots, and the tapered design of Keurig k-cups mean that the proper application of the product is as obvious as its improper use is impossible. Welcome to the world of poka-yoke (poh-kah yo-kay).

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Lean Development for Games – Game Planning With Science! Part 9

1947. Japan, still reeling from the Second World War, lies in economic ruin. And a little company called Toyota finds itself in a highly undesirable strategic position. It’s headquartered in a nation in tatters, and competing with companies in the world’s newest economic super-power: ‘Merca. How could it possible compete against companies with such amazing access to capital, resources and cash-rich customers? Well, necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. And the necessities of Toyota’s strategic realities gave birth to one of the most remarkable feats of management ever achieved: the Toyota Production System. Or, more generically, “lean” development.

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The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines power as (among other definitions) “possession of control, authority, or influence over others”. Nothing terribly shocking there. But it’s worth digging into how power induces that influence. There’s the obvious, overt “Do this thing because I said to do the thing.” We’re all familiar with that one. But there’s also a different form of influence that comes not from influencing people, but circumstance. And on any given day, this informal power is far more likely to cause you grief.

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The premium game model of development has a general cadence: pre-production, production, alpha, beta, and certification. There are variants of course, but that tends to be the gist of it. Alpha, beta, and cert are, of course, where we divert our attention from making features to the grueling task of fixing bugs. And, dear lord are those weeks painful. One house of cards to the next. But that’s just how it’s done, right? Yes that’s how it’s done. But it’s also incredibly inefficient. This model of delayed quality assurance means we fix bugs when it is maximally expensive to do so: at the end. After they’ve been buried under other bits of code that rely on those bugs being broken in exactly the way they are broken.

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How can we wrap our heads around the chaos of game development? By understanding that the famous phrase “find the fun” implies something important: discovery. How do you manage the creative process? By acknowledging the latter word of the phrase: process. If you can understand how those terms related – and where they differ – you can appreciate something vital to effective production. That nothing we do in game development is completely devoid of process. And, if you can learn to separate the process from the discovery, then science becomes a weapon against the dark forces of development hell.

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I will continue to tell anyone who will listen that Jim Collins’ Good to Great is the best business book I’ve ever read. Or, at least I will until I read something better. And in that wonderful tome, Collins’ presents a mantra: good is the enemy of great. His meaning: by being content with simply eeking along (being good), you will never take the steps necessary to be great. I totally agree with him, but I think there’s a corollary: perfection is the enemy of productivity.

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This week’s post…is hosted elsewhere. I wrote a guest post for my new friends at Black Shell Media. The post, “If You Want to Lead, Know Your Values”, is about a topic near and dear to my heart. Values matter to any organization, no matter the size. They matter from a company culture standpoint, certainly. But they also matter operationally and strategically. The most successful companies in the world have well-defined corporate values. But what are their values and, more importantly, how should you pick your own? Click this link to read on!

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If you’re both the entrepreneurial type and the game developer type, then Tom Ketola is your guy. Tom and I were brothers-in-arms at Wideload Games, where we shared a love of profanity, terrible fashion sense, and a complete disregard for status quos. Tom’s career includes stints at Activision, Jaleco, Konami, and Midway. And that’s just his career in the games industry. He’s also been involved in a number of start-ups, and seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of contracts. After reading my post about conversations for studio co-founders, Tom had a, shall we say, voluminous round of comments on the nuances of shares, acceleration, and vesting. Rather than abandoning me to badly interpret his thoughts, he took pity and offered to share his experience with all of you. I leave you in his capable, knowing, manly hands. Enjoy!

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In the corporate world, as a general rule, marketers and brand managers do not get involved in the creative aspects of advertising. Their job is to determine the strategy behind an ad campaign and then let the professional creatives do their thing. The job of the brand manager is to ensure that the ads are on strategy, but to leave the actual creation to the pros. Of course, as game developers, we are the creative pros. So that guiding principle just doesn’t sit right with me in the context of game development. Besides, I’d guess many or most indie studios probably can’t afford to hire professional creative agencies or trailer makers. So, to make the best use of the post, I’m going to walk through some of the important concepts behind ad creation. I’ll leave the decision as to who will craft the ad to you.

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Everyone knows what advertisements are and why they are necessary to drive awareness. But making an effective ad is not as simple as just slapping some captured video into a YouTube upload and calling it a day. Your target audience is bombarded by ads all day, every-day. Your conscious mind spends much of its life practically bathing in them. So crafting a successful ad means assembling something that can cut through all of the noise and provide information that will stick. And the first step is determining a strategy for your ads.

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Enchantment Group expands to the Caribbean

Enchantment Group, a hospitality management company focused on resort destinations, announced today that, with their partners, they have acquired The Cove, a luxury beachfront resort on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, from New Orleans-based businessman Sidney D. Torres, IV and IV Capital.

The 40-acre property, located on the island’s northern end on the Caribbean Sea, is just 45 minutes from South Florida.  It is serviced by daily flights from Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Nassau into North Eleuthera and Governor’s Harbour airports. Positioned on a secluded, rocky promontory flanked by two pink sand beaches, the resort includes stylish seaside villas, cottages and suites, a hilltop infinity pool, open-air sunset bar, gourmet restaurant and sushi bar, and activities like snorkeling, paddle boarding and kayaking.  Enchantment Group will also manage the property, potentially building a spa and additional waterfront suite accommodations.

“Eleuthera offers the appeal of a somewhat under-the-radar island with a magnificent shoreline, peaceful beaches, and crystal-clear water,” said Marcos Casillas, vice president of Enchantment Group.  “The Cove captures the essence of an idyllic island getaway in a place of stunning natural beauty. It is a great fit for our company’s growth and investment strategy.”

When Torres, founder of IV Capital, bought The Cove, it had been closed for two years and had only six rooms.  Sketching on napkins, he conceived of a grand property outfitted with top amenities, something sought after by discerning travelers. Torres added a highly-rated restaurant and top-shelf bar program with all the flavor of his hometown, New Orleans. The resort now has 55 rooms and a growing list of accolades in the last year:

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*  Condé Nast Traveler’s “Perfect Vacation Beach”
*  Trip Advisor’s “Top 5 hotels in the Caribbean”
*  Travel + Leisure’s It List: “Best New Hotels”

“After 10 months of construction and two years of operation, the opportunity to partner with Enchantment Group was a perfect fit,” said Torres, who will continue to develop property on the island while handing over ownership of The Cove resort to the team at Enchantment Group.

The Cove is the newest addition to the Enchantment Group collection which also includes Enchantment Resort; Mii amo, a destination spa; and Seven Canyons golf club, all in Sedona, Arizona; and the Tides Inn located on Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay.


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Whether a home office is the headquarters or remote location for a small business, 2008 was full of events that affect how small business owners and their home offices will used. Here is a look at the biggest events of 2008 for home based business owners.

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    1) US Economy Falters and Then Falls

    - Though the signs first started appearing for many small businesses last year, 2008 was the year when the economy’s struggles really came to the forefront. Home based businesses in particular were hit by slower hiring of freelancers and contractors and delayed spending on projects.

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    · Though very related to the first two items on our list, the subprime mortgage debacle was the first step and it was seemingly the only problem during the first part of the year. Still, that problem was real enough as self-employed individuals came to find out that their avenue for getting or refinancing mortgages via stated income loans had been poisoned by unscrupulous lenders, borrowers, and mortgage brokers who used these loans to cheat underwriting criteria by pretending the borrowers had better situations than they actually did. Now, getting a mortgage for a small business owner is nearly impossible unless you have high earnings to show on your taxes.

    4) US Presidential Election

    · For the first time in 8 years, small business will be operating under a new president. While Congressional elections shook up the legislative branch as well, the overall party makeup remains the same.

    5) Health Care Reform Discussion Heats Up

    · Ask small business owners what their number one problem is compared to being employed, and many of them will answer health insurance. With private insurance almost always substantially more expensive than group insurance available through an employer, the premiums can be tough, especially for single employee small businesses run from a home office. Add to that the fact that most private insurance will not cover the cost of pregnancy or delivery, and this issue is extremely tough on younger small business owners who might be ready to start a family.

    6) Free WiFi Service Explodes

    · Many home office bound workers and business owners found themselves free from being bound non-stop to the home office. Thanks to the dropping cost of supplying WiFi to customers, virtually every coffee store, and every bookstore, plus dozens of other businesses now provide free wireless Internet access to their patrons. So, the local sandwich shop can be just as good of a place to get business done as the home.

    7) Layoffs

    · A story that ramped up during the year was the increasing number of layoffs finally culminating with news in December that the unemployment rate was the highest in over 20 years and more layoffs are coming. The bad news for home office users is that with fewer bodies to provide “coverage,” working from home may no longer be an option for some. For entrepreneurs, the news means fewer opportunities because companies laying off workers aren’t often hiring outsiders either.

    8) Stock Market Plummets

    · While the markets don’t necessarily affect the home office worker or business owner immediately, the impact on assets inside of IRAs or other retirement plans can be enormous. This doesn’t make it any easier to get a loan when the assets side of the balance sheet looks worse (see Credit Crunch above).

    There you have it. The Biggest News Stories for Home Office Based Small Business in 2008.

    Have another one? Drop a comment or shoot me an email.


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Archive for November, 2012

Halloween 2012

This year we celebrated Halloween with our small group from church. For Brisan and Parker this was their first year out since 2008. Either someone was sick, in the hospital, or it was way too cold to have the big boys out. Duncan was getting so excited leading up to the day!

Brisan was a Tank!

Brisan in his tank wheelchair

Brisan Stults – Tank Wheelchair

Parker was Ratatouille and his was a Stove Top Wheelchair! He kept trying to kick it off his tray. HA

Parker as Ratatouille with his Stove Top Wheelchair

Parker as Ratatouille with his Stove Top Wheelchair

Then Duncan was Darth Vadar! His little buddies Seth & Keegan were apart of the “force” as well.

Duncan as Darth Vadar

Duncan as Darth Vadar

All this was possible because of Jennifer's hard work and creativity. Overall we had good fellowship and Duncan had so much candy in his “satchel” that he was wobbling. He tapped out because he was pooped!

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Happy Thanksgiving 11-25-10

Gobble GobbleWanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! We have many things to be thankful for.

Today the boys will get their infusions of DDVAP (Desmopressin) a few hours earlier so we can enjoy our Thanksgiving Lunch with family here at the house. Jennifer will be doing the infusions with the help of our nurse today. I plan on taking a little video of the whole process to share with everyone.

The bad news is we found out Monday that 1 of the 2 companies in the US that manufactures the Desmopressin has shut their plant down. That leaves a huge shortage and we were informed that the drug is on indefinite hold until further notice. That simply means to us that on Monday November 29th will be Brisan and Parker's last infusion.

At this time we don't have another option to help try to control their bleeding issues which leaves a big void of unknown and uncertainty in that area. You would think there would be an alternative drug we could use but that isn't the case this time around.

Enjoy Turkey Day!

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Pictures of Brisan’s nose

Here are some pictures I got this morning of Brisan's nose. You can see he is pretty swollen!

Brisans nose 1Brisans nose 2Brisans nose 3

Parker not doing well

Yesterday was our last day for the NAC drug trial but unfortunately isn't our last day here. Early yesterday morning both boys started throwing up. They took turns every 15 minutes it felt like. After 3 sheet changes we made it into phlebotomy for their blood work.

We were essentially done after eating breakfast; well the boys didn't eat or show any interest. While in the lobby of the PED's clinic talking with other Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) families Parker had a nice projectile vomit! After that moment he just became more pale than he normally is. Dr. Porter saw him and he was instantly concerned. We brought him back to an examination room where they think he had some type of seizure we didn't catch that made him unresponsive to what they were doing with him. We also found out we were suppose to leave Friday evening not Saturday.

During that time Jennifer's family (Uncle Jim's sister Tammy and family) drove up to visit but I was in the lobby with them during that time when Parker was not Parker. I do remember glancing in the room without knowing what was happening and thinking that Parker didn't look right. We all know Parker how if he thinks your going to touch him he responds!!!!!!!!!

Parker before ICU 4-23-10

Dr. Porter and Dr. Holmes felt that the floor they had him on where Dr. Porter does his protocol work for NPC, wasn't suitable to watch him properly. So they moved him up to ICU on the 3rd floor. At this point it was about 9 pm EST and poor Brisan hadn't even taken a real nap all day. He also was vomiting but he didn't act like Parker did (Brisan seems to be doing well this morning as I write this).

The biggest concern after getting Parker into a room for testing was why his hemoglobin was so low. It was a level 6 which in adults we would be pretty lethargic and non responsive.  His heart rate and pulse were up and his blood pressure was low. The question that remains is where is all the blood going? Jennifer updated me this morning that they gave him a blood transfusion and he is now up to level 9. She said he isn't a 100% but appears to be improving from the low points over the last 24hrs.

We have a scheduled plane ride tonight at 6 pm EST but we are a 100% sure that isn't going to happen. I would suspect maybe Monday we could come home (???). Thank you for all your support and prayers! Truly it is your support that makes things better because alone we are not capable of producing such comfort on our own.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV
fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Next week we’re heading to the NIH

Parker and Brisan are doing better. Parker seems to be walking in an improved state.  Wednesday Duncan decided to jump on the couch and broke Jennifer's nose. She isn't feeling well and has an appointment with the ENT on Monday to see what can be done to resolve the issue. She posted the x-rays on her Facebook profile page.

April 21-24 we will have our last visit to the NIH for the NAC drug trial. That Thursday will be used to provide insight into Brisan's sinuses and polyps along with the finishing touches of paperwork / examinations they will perform. Nothing major expect 14 tubes of blood! In May we will start Zavesca back up but I am sure we will talk with Dr. Porter more about it to get his insight.

Brisan and Parker's port-a-cath sites are looking good. Monday will be the first time they can access Parker's site for his infusions. They also took Parker off AMICAR and gave him another drug in its place.

Maybe we go home today?

Jennifer stayed the night with Brisan while I went home to gather the heard (dogs). Looks like his incisions started bleeding sometime this morning. They applied some pressure bandages to them.

This morning they were not for sure they were going to allow us to go home today but they just came in and said we could leave. Well of course after taking the pressure bandages off there still was some bleeding. I think we will get to go home tonight. They feel fine since we are local that if an issue arises that we could come back ( I had to giggle at that one!)

Here he is very happy 🙂

Brisan 4-8-10

Brisan is recovering

So far so good for today for Mr. Brisan. Pretty similar story to Parker’s surgery but today went very smooth per Dr. St. Peter. Brisan had his port-a-cath put in just like Parker did exactly two weeks ago today (April 7, 2010).

The morning started off well. He was such a trooper when they had to stick him for his IV to give him his DDVAP & blood platelets.

Brisan's platelets

Brisan is currently resting and has really been asleep the whole time since post operation recovery. He had a small nose bleed after surgery when one of the nurses went to suction his nose out with all that snot! He moved and it got him!

Thank you for all your prayers and thoughts.  We are hoping that this makes the anxiety and a piece of our life slightly better with the infusions.

Brisan after surgery 4-7-10

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Index: D

Pages 357-359

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 35, 1666-1668. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1935.

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Dalziel, Thomas, lieutenant general of Scotland:
-, routs rebels at Pentland Hill, 117n.

Damme, Dam [Prov, W. Flanders, Belgium]:
-, Dutch demand as pledge for help, 199.

-, Lazzaro Mocenigo killed in attempting to force, 261.

Dauphin. See Louis, son of Louis XIV.

Dauphin, France:
-, Huguenots of, invite English, 64.

Davis, Edward, takes part in capture of Providence, 97n.

Deal, co. Kent:
-, king goes to, 9n.

Defiance, royal navy:
-, going to the Strait, 123, 126n.

Delfino. See Dolfino.

Delmenhorst [Oldenburg, German Empire]:
-, Swedish claims to, 173.

Denbigh, earl of. See Feilding, Basil.

Denham, M., chaplain to English factory at Leghorn, 69n.
-, leaves, 123, 124n.

-, doubtful attitude to Swedish mediation, 2; Konigsmarck hostile to, tries to detach France from, 6.
-, appeals to Dutch for help, 7; proposed league to protect against Sweden, 24.
-, measures to exclude English from Baltic, 29; Dutch ask for ten ships, 46.
-, Sweden threatens if helps Dutch, 35; gains by French settlement with Sweden, 35; Dutch relieved of need to help, 36; France won alliance of, for Dutch, 52; pamphlet on declaration of war on, 157n.
-, Charles willing to include in peace, 68; he has little good to say of, 101.
-, regards Swedish attack on Bremen unfavourably, 95, 109; Bremen settlement a great advantage to, 110.
-, neutral place appointed for, 113; England withdraws objection to taking part in peace congress, 141.
-, piqued by paper about Berghen affair, 114; and place for congress, 137; will follow wishes of France about peace, 139.
-, Dutch trying to prevent Swedish attack on, 114; de la Roche going to, to command squadron for France, 139, 140.
-, proposed alliance with French and Dutch to overawe England, 153.
-, demands of, from English, not pleasing to Dutch, 157; proposed alliance for safety, 163.
-, deputies of, leaving for Breda, 157; gets month allowed for ratification of peace, 177; Dutch pressing for ratification of, 179.
-, waiting for subsidies promised by Dutch, 164; Dutch expecting 16 ships from, 169.
-, Swedes waiting for peace, to turn against, 173; peace forced on, by English and Dutch, 200; French proposals for trade with rejected, 3312.
-, fleet:
-,-, proposed combination with, 17, 34; squadrons for Sound and Jutland, 29.
-,-, squadron sails from Texel, 29; convoying ships from Copenhagen, expected to join Dutch, 106; squadron promised to assist Dutch, 114; to cruise about and protect friendly merchantmen, 138.
-,-, king busy over equipment, 146; forty ships ready, waiting for sailors, 164; ships kept back for defence, 169.
-, King of. See Frederick III.
-, ships of. See ships, Danish.

Diamond, royal navy, escort for Gothemburg ships, 124n.

Dieppe [Seine Inf. France]:
-, Beaufort ordered to, 75; he reaches, 76, 78; Beaufort sails from, 82; English levies sailing for, captured, 191n.

Dillon, Illon, Thomas viscount:
-, offers Louis a levy of Irish, 166.

Dolfino, Delfino, Marc Antonio, Venetian noble imprisoned in the Seven Towers, Winchelsea visits, 225; thanks for courtesy to, 324, 331.

Dona, Donna, Christofle Delphique, count, Swedish minister at the Hague:
-, Charles asked not to sign treaty before negotiations concluded, 161.
-, leaves Breda, well pleased with negotiations, 164; takes place of Coyet, 168n.
-, tries to bring deputies together again, 174; to start negotiations with States, 198; representations to, for union of Sweden with England to save Flanders, 209; dies in London, 220, 246; Molina treated with about victualling troops from Bremen, 325.

Dorat, 9.

Dordrecht [Prov. S. Holland, Netherlands]:
-, Cornelis de Witt burgomaster of, 170.

Dorell, Capt., sailed with Heemskerk, 139n.

Dorothea, daughter of duke of Holstein Gottorp:
-, marriage to elector of Brandenburg, 237n.

Douglas, Duglas, Lord George:
-, regiment of, expected at Dunkirk, 183; crossing to France, 194n.

Dover, co. Kent: 72.
-, mediators to meet at, 2; suggested for peace congress, 139, 144, 148.
-, English fleet off, 71; English troops cross from, to Ostend, 168; Colbert crosses to, 246.

Downs, Monk's force in, 7n; Allen sails from, 214n; Harvey detained in by bad weather, 271; passage of prince of Tuscany to, 320.

Draperis, Georgio, dragoman of English embassy at Porte:
-, informs Winchelsea of Ventelet's move, 43; gets Winchelsea excused from going to Adrianople, 44.

-, proposal to abandon French fashions, 101.
-, Mocenigo adopts English, for audience, 256, 283.

Druenstein, merchant:
-, wants English ship to take out munitions, 303.

Duca, George, hospodar of Moldavia, 221.

Duglas. See Douglas.

Duivenwoorde, Dutch navy:
-, in N. Foreland battle, 16n.

Dumfries, co. Dumfries, Scotland:
-, revolt breaks out at, 117n.

Dungeness, co. Sussex:
-, English defeat French squadron off, 82n, 96n.

Dunkirk [Nord, France]:
-, governor of, ordered to supply Ruyter, 41.
-, unfit for fleet because of plague, 79.
-, ships of to attack those of Ostend and Bruges taking goods to England, 130; English prize brought into, 146.
-, troops sent to, for ships built in Holland, 140.
-, reference to sale of, 173; inquiry about sale, 184, 1934.
-, regiment of Douglas expected at, 183.
-, considered part of claim to French crown, 194; French offer to restore, 209, 276.

Dunkirk, royal navy, going to the Strait, 126.

Duquesne, Abraham, commander of French convoy squadron:
-, arrives at Vincennes, 73; squadron under, to enter Channel, 109.

Durazzo, Marquis Giovanni Augusto:
-, mission to the Porte, 26n, 96; relations with Casanova and Winchelsea, 160.
-, suggests keeping squadron of galleys at Tangier, 300, 304.

-, suspected of setting fire to London, several arrested, 77; Spain grants English same privileges as, in trade, 162.
-, levy of, for Venice, 208, 266.
-, See also Netherlands.