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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Why women should avoid mammograms

X-Rays cause cancer
Before you read the article below: Let me start by saying that I believe Mamograms should not be the first choice for mass breast cancer screening.  I recommend an escalation hierarchy as follows:

  1. Breast Thermogram: Cheap non-invasive and will detect "hot spots" well before a cancer develops.  If a "hot spot" is detected then:
  2. Ultrasound: Again, non-invasive, cheap.  If a suspicious image is detected then escalate to:
  3. Mammogram.  If the mammogram confirms a suspicious lump:
  4. Biopsy which may then lead to surgery, etc.
This hierarchical process would spare hundreds of thousands of women the pain of mammograms, exposure to cancer-causing radiation and save the country millions of dollars.  It would mean detecting cancer-causing conditions which mammograms are next to completely useless at detecting.

So, why does the established cancer industry not encourage thermograms as the first choice for mass screening?   I think it is because this new technology threatens a $30 million industry, it could mean the closure of entire multi-million dollars facilities and even threaten the training institutions which churn out radiologists to operate the X-ray machinery.

A thermogram, by contrast, uses a special infra-red camera, a PC with a special piece of software and can be operated by a trained nurse.  No need for such massive infrastructure and technical support.  Please go here for more information about thermograms:
Posted: 17 Apr 2012 08:27 AM PDT
By Dr. Mercola
The Nordic Cochrane Center has put out a leaflet that every woman should read, explaining the potential benefits and potential harms of mammographyi.
They point out that recent studies suggest mammography screening is not effective in reducing your risk of dying from breast cancer.
And in fact, screening creates breast cancer patients out of healthy women who would never have developed symptoms.
Treatment of these healthy women increases their risk of dying from heart disease and, yes, cancer itself.
According to the Nordic Cochrane Center:
“It therefore no longer seems reasonable to attend for breast cancer screening.
In fact, by avoiding going to screening, a woman will lower her risk of getting a breast cancer diagnosis.”
I highly recommend reading the report in its entiretyii, as it contains a number of enlightening tidbits that may help you make a more informed decision.
For example, after systematically reviewing the randomized trials of mammography, the authors concluded that:
If 2,000 women are screened regularly for 10 years, one will benefit from screening, as she will avoid dying from breast cancer because the screening detected the cancer earlier.
Since these trials were undertaken, treatment of breast cancer has improved considerably.
Women today also seek medical advice much earlier than previously, if they have noted anything unusual in their breasts…
Because of these improvements, screening is less effective today and newer studies suggest that mammography screening is no longer effective in reducing the risk of dying from breast cancer.”
… Since it is not possible to tell the difference between the dangerous and the harmless cell changes and cancers, all of them are treated.
Therefore, screening results in treatment of many women for a cancer disease they do not have, and that they will not get. Based on the randomized trials, it appears that:
If 2,000 women are screened regularly for 10 years, 10 healthy women will be turned into cancer patients and will be treated unnecessarily. These women will have either a part of their breast or the whole breast removed, and they will often receive radiotherapy, and sometimes chemotherapy. Treatment of these healthy women increases their risk of dying, e.g. from heart disease and cancer.”
So, to recap, in order for mammographic breast screening to save ONE woman’s life:
  • 2,000 women must be screened for 10 years
  • 200 women will get false positives, and
  • 10 will receive surgery and/or chemotherapy even though they do not actually have cancer

Cochrane Conclusions Confirmed…

A couple of researchers at the University of Southampton set out to “assess the claim in a Cochrane review that mammographic breast cancer screening could be doing more harm than good.”
Their findings were published in the British Medical Journal in December last yeariii. By combining life years gained from screening with losses of quality of life from false positive diagnoses and surgery, the authors agreed with the Cochrane assessment, concluding that mammograms may indeed have “caused net harm for up to 10 years after the start of screening.”
ABC News reported on this findingiv:
“The default is to assume that screening must be good; catching something early must be good,” said James Raftery, professor of health technology assessment at the University of Southampton, U.K., and lead author of the review. “But if a woman has an unnecessary mastectomy, or chemotherapy or radiation, that’s a tragedy.
… “It’s difficult to balance the gain of one life against 200 false positives and 10 unnecessary surgeries,” said Raftery… The alternative is watchful waiting: delaying treatment until it’s clear whether a lump is truly a life-threatening tumor. But for woman faced with the words, “breast cancer,” watchful waiting is easier said than done…”

Have Dangerous Cancer Screening Devices Been Approved?

Based on information straight from the horse’s mouth, as it were, the answer to that question appears to be yes. Doctors and scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Device Evaluation have in fact warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients. As early as 2007, concerned employees in this department began making internal complaints about a dozen different radiological devices about to be approved despite lack of proof of effectiveness.
They stated they were concerned that millions of patients’ lives would be put at risk from these devices.
This included three devices that risked missing signs of breast cancer, and several colon cancer screening devices that employed such heavy doses of radiation they risked causing cancer in otherwise healthy people. In the case of a computer-aided imaging device for breast cancer screening, the scientists recommended against approval no less than three times, but after the third rejection, a senior manager, Donna-Bea Tillman, suddenly approved the device.
Subsequently, over the course of two years, the FDA secretly monitored the personal e-mail of nine whistleblowers within the department of device evaluations, and tried to launch an investigation against them, accusing them of “undermining the integrity and mission of the FDA” and illegal disclosure of trade secrets. Six of the monitored scientists and doctors recently filed a lawsuit against the FDA, charging that the agency violated their constitutional rights to privacy by monitoring lawful activity in personal email accounts, and using that information to harass and ultimately relieve some of them of their positions.
One of the key players in this ongoing drama is Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, who has repeatedly requested action be taken against the employees in question. Shuren is also the official who oversees mercury dental fillings, which they have been fraudulently referring to as ‘silver fillings.’ Shuren promised to make an announcement aboutdental amalgam by the end of 2011, but with just minutes left in the work year, the FDA conceded that no announcement was forthcoming, and maybe never will…
The FDA’s own doctors and scientists have called for a complete overhaul of the agency due to “deep-rooted systemic corruption at the highest levels.” There’s no doubt they know what they’re talking about. And there’s a lot of damning information out there that can, and eventually will, be used to call for a congressional hearing on the mammography cover-up.

Mammograms Often Lead to Unnecessary Treatments

In 1974, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) was warned by professor Malcolm C. Pike at the University of Southern California School of Medicine that a number of specialists had concluded that “giving a women under age 50 a mammogram on a routine basis is close to unethical.”
The warning fell on deaf ears, and the long-held conventional medical advice has been for women to get an annual mammogram once they hit 40. A couple of years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force decided to alter their mammogram recommendation, advising women under the age of 50 to avoid mammograms, and limit them to every other year after the age of 50. The revision caused outrage among many cancer organizations. What was overlooked, however, was the reasoning behind the Task Force’s decision to change their recommendation.
The prior advice was given in 2002, before a host of new research came out showing the problems of over diagnosis, including false positives. And as discussed above, it’s really hard to justify harming 10 women with surgery and toxic chemotherapy treatment, just to save the life of one woman…
Part of the problem is that cancer diagnosing is not really a cut and dry process. If a mammogram detects an abnormal spot in a woman’s breast, the next step is typically a biopsy. This involves removing a small amount of tissue from the breast, which is then looked at by a pathologist under a microscope to determine if cancer is present. However, early stage cancer like ductal carcinoma in situ, or D.C.I.S., can be very hard to diagnose, and pathologists have a wide range of experience and expertise. There are actually NO diagnostic standards for D.C.I.S., and there are no requirements that the pathologists doing the readings have specialized expertise…

Increase in Breast Cancer Actually Found to be Due to Over-Diagnosis!

In other recent news, a Norwegian follow-up study that looked at 14 years of mammography screening in Norway concluded that the increased incidence of breast cancer observed in that period was, again, simply due to over-diagnosis.v  According to the authors:
In 2004 we wrote in Tidsskriftet that mammography screening resulted in massive over-diagnosis and over-treatment of breast cancer. Our study was criticized because we had only five years of follow-up time and did not take account of the fact that increased use of hormone replacement therapy could lead to more breast cancer.
We have now been screening women for 14 years, and during a period when the use of hormones has fallen by 70 percent.
… The number of new cases of breast cancer in the period increased from around 2,000 to 2,750. About 300 cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) were also diagnosed. Today a total of some 1,050 more women have been diagnosed than before screening started. Our calculations indicate that in the absence of screening, around 800 of these women would never have become breast cancer patients. The figures from 14 years of mammography screening indicate that all increase in the incidence of breast cancer is due to over-diagnosis: findings of tumors that in the absence of screening would never have given rise to clinical illness.”

When it Comes to Cancer, Getting Second and Third Opinions is Advisable…

Once you delve into the research, you find that the issue of mammography is not as clear-cut as conventional medical wisdom would have you  believe. There are many risks, and according to some studies, these risks will outweigh the potential benefits for many women. And, it appears very clear that more women are harmed by it than are saved…
In the event you do receive a mammogram and a biopsy and are diagnosed with D.C.I.S. or another form of early stage breast cancer, I recommend getting a second, and possibly third and even fourth, opinion. I cannot stress this enough, as the false positive rates are so high, and the diagnostic criteria so subjective. Before you make any decision on treatment, and definitely before you decide to have surgery or chemotherapy, make sure your biopsy results have been reviewed by a breast specialist who is knowledgeable and experienced in the field.

How to Dramatically Cut Your Breast Cancer Risk

There are a number of lifestyle changes that can help prevent breast cancer from ever becoming a reality for you. For starters, we cannot discuss breast cancer without mentioning the importance of vitamin D. Vitamin D, a steroid hormone that influences virtually every cell in your body, is easily one of nature’s most potent cancer fighters. Receptors that respond to vitamin D have been found in nearly every type of human cell, from your bones to your brain. Your liver, kidney and other tissues can convert the vitamin D in your bloodstream into calcitriol, which is the hormonal or activated version of vitamin D.
Your organs then use it to repair damage, including that from cancer cells.
Vitamin D is actually able to enter cancer cells and trigger apoptosis or cancer cell death. When JoEllen Welsh, a researcher with the State University of New York at Albany, injected a potent form of vitamin D into human breast cancer cells, half of them shriveled up and died within days! vi
The vitamin D worked as well at killing cancer cells as the toxic breast cancer drug Tamoxifen, without any of the detrimental side effects and at a tiny fraction of the cost.
It is my impression that it is criminal malpractice not to recommend vitamin D and aggressively monitor a breast cancer patient’s vitamin D level to get it between 70 and 100 ng/ml. Vitamin D works synergistically with every cancer treatment I am aware of and has no adverse effects. According to one landmark study, some 600,000 cases of breast and colorectal cancers could be prevented each year if vitamin D levels among populations worldwide were increased. And that’s just counting the death toll for two types of cancer (it actually works against at least 16 different types)!
So please do watch my one-hour free lecture on vitamin D to find out what your optimal vitamin D levels should be … and how to get them there. This is one of the most important steps you can take to protect yourself from cancer.

Other Breast Cancer Prevention Musts

A healthy diet, regular physical exercise, appropriate sun exposure and an effective way to manage your emotional health are the cornerstones of just about any cancer prevention program, including breast cancer. But for breast cancer, specifically, you can take it a step further by also watching out for excessive iron levels. This is very common once women stop menstruating, and the extra iron works as a powerful oxidant, increasing free radicals and raising your risk of cancer. So if you are a post menopausal woman or have breast cancer you will certainly want to have your Ferritin level drawn. Ferritin is the iron transport protein and should not be above 80. So if it is elevated you can simply donate your blood to reduce it.
Further, the following lifestyle strategies will help to further lower your risk:
  • Improve Your Insulin Receptor Sensitivity. The best way to do this is to cut as much sugar, fructose and grains as possible from your diet, and make sure you have an optimized exercise program. Please don’t make the mistake of focusing on cardio to the exclusion of everything else. You can get some ideas from reviewing my video on exercise. (Although I did not mention stretching and flexibility work, such as yoga, in the video, it is a very important part of your exercise program. It will not affect insulin receptors but it will help prevent you from getting injured and stopping your other exercise.)
  • Maintain a healthy body weight. This will come naturally when you begin eating properly and exercising. It’s important to lose excess weight because estrogen, a hormone produced in fat tissue, may trigger breast cancer.
  • Get plenty of high quality animal-based omega-3 fats, such as krill oil. Omega-3 deficiency is a common underlying factor for cancer.
  • Avoid drinking alcohol, or limit your drinks to one a day for women.
  • Breastfeed exclusively for up to six months. Research shows this will reduce your breast cancer risk.
  • Avoid synthetic hormone replacement therapy. Breast cancer is an estrogen-related cancer, and according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer rates for women dropped in tandem with decreased use of hormone replacement therapy. (There are similar risks for younger women who use oral contraceptives. Birth control pills, which are also comprised of synthetic hormones, have been linked to cervical and breast cancers.) If you are experiencing excessive menopausal symptoms, you may want to consider bioidentical hormone replacement therapy instead, which uses hormones that are molecularly identical to the ones your body produces and do not wreak havoc on your system. This is a much safer alternative.
  • Avoid BPA, phthalates and other xenoestrogens. These are estrogen-like compounds that have been linked to increased breast cancer risk
  • Make sure you’re not iodine deficient, as there’s compelling evidence linking iodine deficiency with breast cancer. Dr. David Brownsteinvii, author of the book Iodine: Why You Need it, Why You Can’t Live Without it, is a proponent of iodine for breast cancer. It actually has potent anticancer properties and has been shown to cause cell death in breast and thyroid cancer cells. For more information, I recommend reading Dr. Brownstein’s book. I have been researching iodine for some time ever since I interviewed Dr. Brownstein as I do believe that the bulk of what he states is spot on. However, I am not at all convinced that his dosage recommendations are correct. I believe they are too high. I hope to publish some articles on this later this year with my recommendations.

  • iii Possible net harms of breast cancer screening: updated modelling of Forrest report, BMJ. 2011 ;343:d7627
  • iv ABC News December 8, 2011
  • v Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening. 2012 Feb 21;132(4):414-417
  • vi Is This the New Silver Bullet for Cancer?
  • vii Dr. Brownstein – Holostic Familt Medicine

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Unknown said...

Excellent article. My good friend, aged 53, has gotten a mammogram religiously every year for decades. The one last November showed she was clear. Three months later she had symptoms and mentioned them at a routine check-up. The symptoms were of breast cancer, stage 3 - the tumor was 8cm - significant but not detected by the mammogram. I've since read that ultrasound is the smarter way for a woman with fibrous breasts to go.

Gary Moller said...

Thanks Sandra. That is a sad result for your friend who has been so consistent with the mamogram. I have found that the areas where this trouble begins is to the side of the breast where the mamogram may not pick it up. The thermogram is the first choice because it picks up the "hot spots" well before there is a lump. Have you ever wondered what comes before the lump? INFLAMMATION! Inflammation is what we should be looking for if we are to be practicing true prevention. Detecting a lump is leaving matters too far down the track. I personally find the inability of many intelligent health professionals to comprehend this simple concept or detecting what comes before the disease quite exasperating.

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Sad and Bitter Days

Much sorrow in the world as attackers rocked London with bombs aimed at innocent people. Rain fell here through the day as we heard details of sadness, pain and courage as people dealt with bombs in London, flooding in North Carolina and hurricanes in Haiti.

I managed to get out to the bunny house early before the rain came in too hard and saw that Amber had filled her nest box with wool. A check later in the day revealed a nice litter of nine bunnies. Life goes on, even as human tragedy echoes through the world.

I spent the day quietly, with the rain falling steadily through the day. Computer work took up the morning, until the rumble of thinder warned me to get disconnected. I spent the afternoon spinning the rest of the yellow Shetland/mohair roving from Lura that I dyed. It made a nice yarn for my shawl project.

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Late afternoon brought friend Kym and a heavy rain that accompanied us to the restaurant at Mabry's Mill. Cousin Jane soon joined us and we had a lovely time discussing our different lifestyles, movies, being in your 30s and many other subjects. I'm past the 30s, with relief! It's an honor to know such beautiful and intelligent young women! Jane shared clothes with me; some lovely shirts and a handsome dress. I tell people that they come from Boutique Jane. The rain was coming down so hard I was drenched by the time I got home.

Quiet returned with the evening. Lily curled up on the little sofa beside me while I read, and then I started plying the singles I spun at the craft show and during the day yesterday. The rains still fell as the spinning wheel turned. When I went upstairs I could hear the solid drumming of rain on tin and it was cozy to fall asleep under the eaves, with Lily nestled at my feet.

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Meet Our Team: Curran Lipsett

CurranWelcome back to the Meet Our Team Q&A series. My name is Daniela Williams, Project Manager at ISE, and I’ll be asking ISE team members questions to help give insight into what makes us tick.

It's one of our favorite days of the year - Pi Day!  Today I'm interviewing Curran Lipsett, Software Developer, Product Owner, and the lead of the Fun Committee - which organizes a delicious Pie Baking Contest to celebrate Pi(e) Day.  In the past year Curran has also been heading up the transition of team members to the Vault in Cedar Rapids.  Curran wears quite a few hats at ISE! .

Q. How long have you worked at ISE and what did you do prior?

Curran: The end of February marks the completion of my 3rd year at ISE. Prior to ISE, I worked at a company called Cerner, which was focused on proving healthcare IT solutions to hospitals and other healthcare oriented businesses. My title was Systems Engineer, which, at Cerner, meant I was a Linux administrator for multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux nodes.

Q. This is your third year leading the Fun Committee.  What has been your favorite event?

Curran: I think my favorite event each year is the Pizza and Bags event we have during the summer. It is a great event for everyone at ISE because we get to spend a few hours socializing, hanging out with our coworkers, eating delicious pizza, and of course, participating in the bags tournament. It’s also a great story, seeing as the owners of Maggie’s Pizza were also ISE’s first customer way back in the early days of ISE.

Q: Outside of the Fun Committee, your role at ISE has evolved from developer to Product Owner. How has ISE provided the support necessary to be successful as your role has changed?

Curran: ISE has done a great job supporting my development into the role of Product Owner. I was recently involved in some Leadership Development training with three other team members who’ve recently taken on or expanded their leadership roles. The training was focused on the Mastering Leadership book and philosophy which was developed by the Leadership Circle team. I enjoyed the training as it allowed the four of us to grow individually, but also to reflect on our accomplishments and struggles as we went through the course. It was great to get input from the other members to get different perspectives on how they would address a problem.

Along with the Leadership Development training, ISE also provides 40 hours of “Growth and Development” time for every employee each year, and I’m currently using my 40 hours to work towards the Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 Certification (PSPO 1). A few others at ISE already hold this certification, and have had positive things to say about the effort involved in obtaining the certification as well as the value it provides to their work and personal lives.

Q. You are currently working out of our newest location, the Vault, in Cedar Rapids.  How has this changed the everyday work environment and interaction with your team?

Curran: I am very thankful that ISE was supportive of the team members who had interest in establishing a Cedar Rapids location for ISE. It has been a very positive and smooth transition for the now 10 team members who work out of the Vault full time. I think we have been successful because of ISE’s focus on keeping team members happy and ensuring teams are operating in an efficient manner.

Some of the changes I’ve noticed in regards to working out of the Vault include:

  • Having most of our meetings in a “virtual” fashion, where a majority of the meeting attendees join the meeting remotely as opposed to joining the meeting from a meeting room. This has been a great change for everyone on the call. In the past, there were issues with hearing all the people in the meeting room due to the position of the microphone, background noise, or conversations between multiple people in the room.
  • Ensuring we are constantly communicating and collaborating on our work in a more searchable and maintainable way. Since we aren’t physically next to each other, there is a barrier in how quickly we can ask questions and get answers from team members. To address this, our teams are using other forms of communication, such as Slack or video conferencing. This has been a good shift as it makes it easier to search back through previous conversations to get an answer to a question, and it also helps the remote team members feel like they are being included in important conversations that might be happening in the other offices.
  • Meeting people from different teams. One nice thing about the Vault is that it’s not dedicated to one team at ISE. We have a few members from the Big Data team, a few members from the eFleetSuite teams, and a few other ISE team members. While it’s easy to know everyone’s name at ISE, it’s sometimes tougher to make deeper connections with team members who aren’t directly on your team.
  • Upgrading some of ISE’s networking hardware. One of the challenges with working from the Vault is that we all need to be on the VPN in order to get access to resources inside the ISE network. It’s been great that our IT Manager, Nick, has been willing to work with us to understand and improve our experience while working on the VPN. I know the rest of the group at the Vault appreciates the effort as well!

Q: What do you do for fun?

Curran: I have a wonderful wife, Katie, and a 2.5 year old daughter, Hayden, who tend to keep me pretty busy. Hayden is involved in dance and gymnastics, and those activities are something I really look forward to watching and participating in. We are getting ready for spring so we can continue our raised bed garden. Last year, we had one 4x8 raised bed with tomatoes and bell peppers, but this year, we plan to add two more 4x8 beds. I’m working on getting those ready to go and looking into using an Arduino to create a watering system that I can set to a schedule. I also enjoy playing the guitar and reading all sorts of books when I have free time. My wife and I enjoy being outdoors and are looking into getting into biking during the upcoming spring and summer months.

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Rheumatoid Arthritis: Signs and Treatment for it

Rheumatoid Arthritis: Signs and Treatment for it

By Dr. Hardik Thakker, Internal Medicine

Rheumatoid arthritis is an auto-immune disorder which causes abnormal swelling of the body joints due to a sudden attack to the joints by the immune system of the body. This disorder is fairly common in the body parts that are more frequently used such as the knees, fingers, shoulders, wrists, elbows and the hips. Although rare, this disorder can also affect the ligaments or the tendons along with kidney, lungs, eyes or the heart.

This disorder tends to be chronic. Although the exact cause of the disease is still unknown, the loss of immunity generally leads to the disorder. Thus people who are obese, regular smokers, or who have had a family history of this condition are the most vulnerable to this disorder.

The symptoms of Rheumatoid arthritis are:

  1. Severe pain in the joints.
  2. Severe pain coupled with high fever.
  3. Stiffening and inflammation of the joints, resulting in intense pain.
  4. Exhaustion, fatigue and sudden weight loss.
  5. The pain gets aggravated in cold weather conditions.

If rheumatoid arthritis is not treated immediately after diagnosis, it might cause further complications in the future such as lymphatic blood cancers, osteoporosis (a medical condition resulting in brittle and weak bones), blockage of the arteries and dry mouth syndrome (Xerostomia).

The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis includes:

  1. Prescribed dosage of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as Ibuprofen and Naproxen, anti-rheumatoid drugs such as Methotrexate and steroidal drugs such as Prednisone help in reducing inflammation and pain. The dosage depends on the intensity of the condition.
  2. Performing regular exercises which will help you retain flexibility of the joints and subsequently cure rheumatoid arthritis.
  3. In extreme cases, the doctor might suggest surgeries such as:
    • Synovectomy: A surgery that removes the damaged portion of the joint
    • Joint fusion: This option will realign the joint and reduce the pain


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Population increases, life expectancy, is also on the rise, it’s excellent news. Or is it not?

Medicine has evolved immensely during the last century: we have vaccines and cure for many deadly diseases. But as the population increases, the need for healthcare services will gradually increase too.

However, the problem of access and delivery of these services is even more sensitive. It’s hard to get medical aid in rural areas due to the shortage of equipment and staff. Technology is proving to be the supporting hand to resolve this problem.

Out of all the many technologies now being applied to healthcare delivery, Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the most exciting. AR allows medical knowledge, skills, and expertise to be shared remotely at the moment, ensuring they get where they are needed the most.

Let’s take a look at three AR devices that are revolutionizing the medicine today:

Not only complex manipulations but day-to-day procedures can also be tricky.

  1. For example, 40% of nurses fail on the first attempt at finding a vein, so a medical company called AccuVein have invented an AR scanner that projects over skin and shows nurses and doctors where different veins, valves, and bifurcations are in a patient’s body.

The device has been used on more than 10 million patients so far and made finding a vein on the first attempt 3.5 times more likely.

Image credit: AccuVein

  1. In no sphere, augmented reality has such practical application as it has in surgery, where it helps to save lives. Three-dimensional reconstructions of organs or tumors will help surgeons become more efficient during the actual procedure.

For example, spinal surgery is a long and challenging process. But with the use of AR, it can reduce the time, cut risks and improve the results. The Israeli startup Augmedics had created an augmented reality headset for spine surgeons. This technology overlays a 3D model of the CT-scan on the spine, so, the surgeon can visualize and interact with it.

Augmented reality in medicine

Image credit: AUGmedics

Not a very long time ago, ultrasonography made its entry in medicine and has so far proved to be a handy device. Today, it has another chance to make the same with augmented reality. Already a few AR software companies developed a mobile ultrasound scanner, which with the help of smart glasses work as a traditional one. Overestimating the usefulness of this technology is hard.

Victor Skobov, a student and computer enthusiast, got an old ultrasound machine and managed to convert its output into an augmented reality overlay that displays what the machine is seeing next to the transducer. Check the video for the applications of this smart scanner.

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April 15, 2014
by Angela Sanchini (ARES)

Energy efficiency, green light to the transposition of the Directive 2012/27/Ue in Italy

The Italian Council of Ministers on 4 April approved a draft decree transposing  on energy efficiency, which changes Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repeals Directives 2004 / 8/EC and 2006/32/EC. The decree introduces innovative measures aimed at promoting energy efficiency … Continue reading

Energy management and maintenance: short interviews

April 14, 2014 by Carole Piton (CIPRA) | 0 comments

Last week we had the opportunity to interview Dietmar Lenz and Rainer Siegele who are involved in testing the Module 5 “Energy  maintenance” of the Service package “sustainable:building in the municipality” in the Region of Vorarlberg (Austria)

The module 5 aims to control and optimize the energy consumtion and the cleaning process – during the planing phase, during the buildings works and by the use of the building.

They answer to our questions:

Dietmar Lenz, from Umweltverband Vorarlberg
“What was your experience by testing the module 5 “Energy and Maintenance?”

“Could you see any saves of the energy consumption thanks to the Module 5?”

Rainer Siegele, Mayor of Mäder, Pilot building
“What is your practical experience?”

April 2, 2014
by Apolline Faure

Waste management in sustainable renovation projects

The quantity of construction waste generated by building construction and public works sectors is eight times more important than domestic garbage. Almost all waste (inert, not dangerous or  hazardous one) is produced by deconstruction, demolition, rehabilitation and new building construction … Continue reading

April 1, 2014
by Jakob Ebner

MountEE pilots – first results

In Dalarna, Sweden, the MountEE project assists small municipalities with quality controll management, introducing the so called Sveby-modell and advocating the use of LCC-calculations. The new school in Aspeboda is a good example on how a competent development team can take control of the building … Continue reading


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In Stock Books from Parr & Badger's The Photobook: A History Vol. III

Books In Stock Books from Parr & Badger's The Photobook: A History Vol. III Four in stock titles from John Gossage, Joel Meyerowitz, Michael Schmidt & Igor Samolet featured in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger's The Photobook: A History Vol. III.

In celebration of the third and final volume of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's The Photobook: A History, we're happy to share a few titles from the 200 books featured in the publication that we currently have in stock. All copies are first edition unless otherwise noted. Read Melanie McWhorter's review of The Photobook Vol. III.

The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler / Map Of Babylon
By John Gossage
$75, $80 Signed — Purchase Book

Selected as a Best Book of 2010 by:
Martin Parr
Alec Soth

"This first book in color by Gossage is fascinating as he makes it look like he was a new colorist all along. Mainly shot in the suburbs of Washington DC, he can find photos in the most mundane territory with the greatest of ease."—Alec Soth

Be Happy!
By Igor Samolet
$39.50 — Purchase Book
Note: The edition featured in The Photobook Vol. III is the out-of-print artist book. It has since been reprinted by Peperoni Books.

Selected as a Best Book of 2013 by:
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"Igor Samolet's Be Happy! follows the grand tradition, showing a small cadre of Russian youth engaged in (check all rebel boxes that apply) drinking, sex, group sex, stripping, smoking, fighting, fireworks, squatting, and various indeterminate stunts involving water and/or fire. The usual young hijinks in other words, although practiced here with unusual fervor and sometimes by older participants. At some point, youthful indiscretions lose their patina of experimental freedom and sag into middle-aged nihilism." —Blake Andrews

Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
By Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz was the only photographer allowed unrestricted access to the site of the World Trade Center towers immediately following the attack, climbing through the rubble with the police officers, firemen, steelworkers and rescue teams. His stunning over-sized book Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive captures the astonishing destruction as well as the many-year clean up effort, and also the dust-covered blocks surrounding the site. Over a dozen years later, the images are still shocking, horrific, and moving.

By Michael Schmidt
$175 — Purchase Book

Selected as a Best Book of 2012 by:
Adam Bell
Colin Pantall
Martin Parr
Christian Patterson
Tom Claxton

"A great new work from Schmidt exploring all aspects of food production in Germany. He shoots an unsavoury mix of close ups, color, black and white, throws this all into the pot to produce a most compelling book." —Martin Parr

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Three years after the disaster of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh where 1133 people were killed during the collapse of the building where were their clothing workshops, the mobilization remains intact.

To the initiative of the fashion designer Carry SOMERS, the collective FASHION REVOLUTION incites each to consume the fashion differently. This collective believes that fashion can be made in safe, clean and beautiful way. Where creativity, quality, environment and people are valued quality.

As French manufacturer we make a commitment.

Since the 7th of October 2011, Regain is proud to be the first French textile company to obtain the LUCIE label, which makes real its commitment to sustainable development in social, economic and environmental terms in accordance with the ISO 26000 standard.

In our factory, we wanted to obtain the labelling very quickly as it simply reinforced the spirit and the values with which we have always worked.

For us, lovers of the rich green natural heritage of the Midi-Pyrenees, the social and environmental aspects have never been questioned. Since the launch in 1987 of the first French firemen’s pullover, every resource has been preciously employed.

In our company, not a single thread lies around. Pullovers at the end of their lives are recycled and the scraps of raw materials are recovered for a weaver who recycles them into carded thread” Far more than a standard to be respected, LUCIE is our philosophy! Each collaborator is involved and has understood the usefulness of such an initiative given what is at stake in sustainable development.

In a difficult sector, that of the clothing, we are committed as French manufacturer to maintain jobs and to preserve the know-how and the industrial facilities in France.IMG_3302

Sylvie, for 19 years in the factory , #imadeyourclothes

La Depeche speaks about Pic de Nore…

Read the article on La Dépêche

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Easter with le Chocolat des Français

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Discover a chocolate that does not melt into the mass

le chocolat des français 2Who says Easter says chocolate and at Pic de Nore as good gourmand we sought THE brand that would be tasty and also beautiful, we discover … le chocolat des Français and you will not be disappointed!

Created by two chocolate lovers, Mathieu and Paul, le chocolat des Français wants to reconcile the good and the beautiful: flatter the retina by its flashy colors and tickle the taste buds with its delicious flavors.

Le chocolat des Français offers homemade chocolates, 100% pure cocoa butter with no palm oil or preservatives and made in France.

A chocolate wishing to delight the pupils as much as the taste buds

Pic de Nore asked them a few questions to learn more about this inspired and inspiring brand

Tell us briefly your company and your products?

Le chocolat des Français is a young brand created a year ago to develop artisanal chocolate bars, illustrated by artists under the banner Made in France.

What is for you the “made in France”?

Le chocolat des Français, the “made in France” is obvious, is to enjoy the local talent in all industries.

According to you what are the advantages, disadvantages and can be difficult to produce in France?

The advantages are many: quality, convenience, logistics facilities, common language … The difficulty is of course the high cost of production but that is far outweighed by the benefits mentioned above.

How would you define your value added produced in the French market?

We are the only chocolate brand that combines the good, the beautiful and Made in France.

Can you share with us your future projects?

For Easter, we organize an exhibition of 400 original and unique chocolate bars, illustrated by 100 artists including: Charlotte Le Bon, Soledad, Penelope Bagieu … Go to Sergeant Paper gallery, at 38 rue Quincampoix in Paris.

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(Français) Pic de Nore dans Midi en France

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Pic de Nore is on Laso !

Pic de Nore is now selling in Japan

Now you can find ours made in France sweaters in Japan thanks to Laso, a Tokyo-based fashion e-commerce retailer specializing in high-end clothes and outfits from around the world.

Laso was founded in 2006 by Masatoshi Murota, to differentiate the service from others in this intensely competitive field, the company has imported more than 200,000 items from 2,000 brands in 50 countries worldwide.

Their buyers handpicked items to showcase in accordance with global fashion trends. They have no physical inventory of these items in Japan, so a user’s purchase will be delivered one or two weeks after placing the order.

Come and discover Laso !

Discover 1083, made in france jeans !

Discover the beautiful story of eco-designed and made in france jeans within 1083 km from home …

Pic de Nore continues its tour of France 100% French manufacturing brands with the brand of jeans and shoes 1083. We love the family adventure time, their motivation, their desires and their beautiful adventure made in France!

Tell us briefly about your company and your products?

1083 brand was born two years ago, designed by two brothers, Thomas and Gregory Huriez around a promise to the customer: make jeans at less than 1083 kilometers from home (maximum distance between the two cities the most remote of the hexagon: Menton in the South and Prospoder in Britain). It is through a crowdfunding campaign on Ulule website that history began with 1108% of target achieved for the implementation of the production chain.

In 2015, we sold 15 000 jeans in France, fully spun, dyed, woven and made in the hexagon!

What means “made in France” for you ?

The manufacture our products in France is a traceability guarantee for the consumer who can follow the various stages of the manufacturing process via a QR code located in the pocket of his jeans. The proximity and transparency are part of our core values: being closer to the people, it responds more readily to their expectations and better understand their motivations. Our customers become our best ambassadors.

According to you what are the advantages, disadvantages and can be difficult to produce in France?

Relocate the entire manufacturing sector has not been easy. 97% of the price of our jeans irrigate the local economy but the metal button and rivets are still produced by our Italian neighbors, lack of maintaining a tricolor expertise in this field. However, produce in France allowed us to reduce the number of contacts between the production process and the end customer. Thanks to this economic model inspired by that of shoe manufacturers in Romans it there’s several decades, our jeans are available at relatively affordable prices (from 89 to 109 euros depending on model).

How would you define your added value in the French market ?

The fact of saling in France made in France products allow us a closer relation with customers. This proximity in kilometers and intermediate makes us better : as consumers we buy better, and we manufacture better  in workshops. Thanks to the involvement of everyone we immediately see the virtuous effects on the environment and job creation .

Can you share with us your future projects ?

To go further in this transparent approach, we have a workshop visitable project that would allow customers to physically penetrate our clothing workshop to discover this expertise. Another way to restore the textile industry in France .

Pic de Nore will be at Capsule !

Capsule is more than a tradeshow

Capsule is the premiere gathering of the finest apparel and accessories brands from around the world. More than a tradeshow, the brands who participate in Capsule make up a community that is shaping the future fashion landscape. In our case, different really is better.

Capsule launched in 2007 as the brainchild of fashion consultancy BPMW to develop a global network of like-minded people who conceptualize, create, desire, and buy the clothes that epitomize a new vision of forward progress. Artisans, strategists, devotees, and style leaders converge on Capsule in three cities, ten times per year.

Capsule is known for its global curation of the world’s most directional designers and the brands that participate in Capsule are among some of the most prestigious, respected and coveted fashion labels. Their team scours the world hand selecting only the best of the best – from the independent emerging designers, to more established labels who push the envelope of design, craft manship and quality.

Pic de Nore goes in NYC

This year ours sweaters and accesorizes Pic de Nore will be on Capsule in Paris from 22 to 24th of January and just after we are going to pack and cross this Atlantic to be in NYC for Capulse Men from 26 to 28 of January…

Pic de Nore will be at the ASAP on January !

Do you know ASAP ?

ASAP is the unavoidable event about ski / outdoor textile in Europe ! The 7th edition will starts in Annecy on January 11 and 12.

This year you will found lot of innovations but also a new staging of the show with our partner Wood Stock Creating and 11 new brands including Pic de Nore !

This unique concept give to professional the opportunity to discover in 2 days the 2017 winter collections among more than 53 brands in 30 showrooms and enjoy sport & fashion parade.

Pic de Nore parade !

This year the parade is orchestrated by Virginie Toc at the Imperial Palace, Annecy emblematic place , it will set the tone for the 2017 high season color . An original show around fashion, technical know-how, sports and dance. Some of our jumpers and jackets have been selected for this unique event on Monday, January 11 from 19:15 !

Discover the last year parade !


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Whats on the Menu? (blog marathon post 2)

One of the marvellous things (and yes there are indeed many marvellous things—but let us focus on one thing at a time) about living here, is the Children’s school lunch menu, which would give a Gourmet restaurant a run for its money. The menu (See Study the image above.Click on it to enlarge as a separate pdf file.Thanks to Nikhil.) sounds more like a restaurant menu where the children have the option of Hot dinner (for some reason they refer to the afternoon meal as dinner here) or packed lunch plus a vegetarian option and the most delicious desserts.

The cooks who make it have all achieved a NVQ level 2 qualifications in Professional cookery. The lunches meet the Government based food standard as well as nutrient based standards (which are very high). To top it, the menu changes every week, and they have a different menu each season! Could anyone ask for more?!

The parents can decide that morning what the child will have and then hand over the money (2 pounds a meal) to the school that morning when they drop the child—or if you have decided which days, you can indicate that or if you like you can choose for the child to have school lunch the whole week. You are also free to send packed lunches from home. (Which I often do—my children love my cooking)

We’re all given a copy of the menu—so each morning before they leave for school, my children look at the menu( and decide what they will have—mummy’s cooking, hot-dinner or packed lunch option at school. Based on what they say arrangements are made accordingly. Husband of course loves my cooking and I pack lunch for him every single day. My son too prefers my cooking but my daughter wants to have it at school. (I suspect it’s largely because of the desserts they offer—plus she can leave out food and I won’t find out!)

A few days back my daughter (who is soon to be eight, she keeps reminding you) studied the menu intensely. If you look at the menu above, you will know that it takes a while. Then she looks at me and announces “Ma—whatever I want is not there in the menu.”

I am secretly pleased, as it gives me a chance to prove that Mom’s cooking is indeed the best and what even a gourmet menu cannot provide, mom always can.

So I say magnanimously, my chest swelling a bit with pride, “Tell me darling, whatever you want, mummy will make it for you.”

She says “You can’t Mom. You may not know the recipe.”

I say “Of course I can—I can google everything. All the recipes are there.”

“This one isn’t.”

Now curiosity is getting the better of me. “What is it?” I ask eagerly, bent on proving my culinary skills.

“I want a non-vegetable.” she says.

I am a bit surprised as my daughter is a vegetarian.

“Oh—you mean you want non-vegetarian?” I correct her, presuming she had made a mistake.

“No Ma,” she insists “I want a non-vegetable. It means if there is even a trace of vegetable in it, I won’t eat it.”

She totally stumped me there!

There are no non-vegetables in MY menu (You can’t have Maggi and curd rice on a daily basis! Definitely not advisable for growing children.It is completely against my mommy ethics)

And googling for non-vegetable recipes is of no use either!

I tried. :-)

Addendum: After reading some of the comments, hurrying to add this. (Especially because the recipe suggestions are making me hungry and making my mouth water!) Using all my mummy cunningness (Oh and it comes naturally once you have kids) I have made a deal with my daughter. Once she finishes her quota of veggies for the day, she is allowed to eat junk :) It works best ! (Especially when there is no house help, unlike India, and you have to do the washing ,cooking cleaning etc all yourself and you can't afford to make 5 different things)

  1. Put your daughter on a veggie meal marathon. 31 days and 31 diff recipies :)
    But then you will be running too many marathons I guess :)

    -Tarun Chandel

  2. Tarun: If there is vegetable in it--she wont eat it! So no recipes for this one!!If she ate vegetables i would gladly do this marathon 100 times over!

  3. ha ha ha .. if i was in her place i wud ask the same thing...

    i was so strictly non veg when young.. mom had to force me to eat green !

    its another thing that I love them nw
    but still very much a non veggie..

    - suddentwilight ( twitter)

  4. Well either you can disguise the veggies in a cutlet and give her tht or make kathal n tell her it's a non-vegetable (when I was a kid my mom used to tell me that kathal is a vegetarian non-veg dish whatever tht is :P)

    Or give her one of my favourite non-vegetable dishes - hot steaming rice and mashed boiled potatoes (mash them with a pinch of sale, pepper and mustard oil) and ghee/ butter :)

    I'm sure she'l love the latter. Everyone who's eaten it has.

  5. SMM: Nutrition is zero (except for carbs) in the steaming rice and mashed potatoes--and she wont
    eat potatoes as its a vegetable! And u cannot NOT eatc veggies if u want your minerals,vitamins and proteins!!

    Teeki Mirchi: Now that i think of it, when I was a child I used to love non-vegetables too!

  6. It's an ocassional option not an everyday meal. Btw are chole bhature also a a vegetable or rajma chawal?

    Veggie cutlets are a good nutritious option aren't they though

  7. Oh Preeti, what I am saying is that you market your vegetables in a better way.

    Like if I had asked you to post everyday you would not have done this but doing a Blogathon is exciting. Similary the school has already made an impact with the menu (as I twitted, it does sound delicious).

    You can also try something creative that get her to eat vegetable and yet feel nice about it :)

    @SMM: wow now I am feeling hungry.

    - Tarun Chandel

  8. You could give her a soya granule curry ( add tomato puree with the masalas that you would use for any curry) and make a chappati wrap or even mix it with rice to pass it off as a pulao.

  9. ahhh she sure has u stumped there heheh... its so difficult to make most kids eat veggies, but i also do know kids who eat too much veg also and i wonder how they manage to do so...

  10. SMM: oh yes--veggie cutlets are a good option :) The best way i ahve figured is to make a deal with her..Once she has her veggies she can eat junk :)

    Radha: She wont touch pulao! I just make a deal with her that once she eats veggies, she can have junk..That works. Soya option is nice though..thanks!

    Enigma:Yeah--even i know kids who love their veggies.

  11. Tarun: :) Yes- noted..and Yeah SMM--you mae me hungry too! :)

  12. Seems like its going to be a challenging month for you with the blog a day and now the new recipe.

    Non-Vegetable hmm one solution Paneer Paranthas (Technically Paneer is not a vegetable as curd is not)

  13. Anonymous3:53 PM

    lol...but gud for ur kids yaar...i hate the mess food here in india...yuck :(

  14. Prats: i do soooo want paneer paranthas now!

    Sahil: Come to UK! :)

  15. Teaching them the power of the bargaining tool :P

    @ Tarun...If your hungry, the best thing to do is eat. Have some nice tasty tangy mirchiwali chaat wih boiled channa n aalu n sprouts (nutritious n yummy too) :P

  16. SMM: Wait till u have kids and then we'll talk :) And i am, this very instant, going to make that chaat :)

  17. Omg! LOL! I am sitting alone and laughing out loud :) Please make sure that once you have the recipe you post it on the internet. At least we'll be able to google it then :)

  18. SS: Glad it made u laugh..No way! I'll patent it and become a millionaire--thanks to a valued comment by SMM ;-)

  19. I'd be glad to share my receipe with whoever wants it. However I want a few spoons from it for haring my valued recipe :P

    And, Preeti, if your planning to make millions based on my valuable advise, I want 5% percent of the profits in INR (before Satish asks) :P

  20. SMM: :-) Well said!!! :-) Smiling a big smile now :)

  21. hey this all made me so hungryyyyyy... :((

    Gosh ur daughter is so cute... try mashing vegetables in flour and cook parantha..may be then she can eat..though I know kids are smarter...:)

  22. in our place our kids love different sets of things... so its a nightmare trying to get them to both agree to something.... except junk of course :)

    but i've seen, hunger is the best motivator... they will eat almost anything!

  23. Non-vegetable!!!! wow!!! I can wholly understand your plight...these kids can get so difficult to please at times...
    I'm sure you would have tried any number of strategies to deal with nothing can go past them. :)
    But if I were to be given that weekly menu.I would jump at the offer... ;) saves the agony of cooking marathons during vacations, with endless requests

  24. I always knew Geminines were clever and yes, your daughter is a Geminine and please don't argue and say the word 'cusp' :)

    She is so smart! I wud never have known to say the word non-vegetable and you know how old I am!

    Hey, how about egg? I'm yet to figure out whether it's a non-veg or veg dish, so let's just call it non-vegetable. Yeah, I know, I don't make much sense :)

  25. cute...I just love her innovation...Non Vegetable;-)) I cant think of anything against her wishes, as I was like that, My mom used to tell me;-) From mommy's perspective, u need to make deals with her too uh;-)!!!!

  26. nice way to start the blog marathon...
    Anyway ur daughter do have some out of the box choices... :)

  27. nice way to start the blog marathon...
    Anyway ur daughter do have some out of the box choices... :)

  28. Day 2 of the marathon n u have so must to tell us..yippe! veggies..that cant be a PERFECTLY healthy meal...but yet she can have a nutritious meal...if u make all the types of daals(tuvar,yellow moong,green moong,masoor etc etc), chole, Rajma..u get the drift...basically lentils n so lots of proteins.
    My mom makes this really nice stuff with green moong..gravy n sabji, which I make now. Tell me if ur REALLY interested n i can email u the receipe.
    Is onion and/or tomatoe considered a veggie or no?? if not..i can give u so many more receipes!

  29. sometimes when you stay alone all these foodie marathons seems like a distant dream

  30. Chronicwriter:No foodie marathon--only blog marathon which anyway u have mastered! :P

    Pavi: I am always looking for new recipes to try. i have a huge collection.I try and if its nice it goes into collection. Would really appreciate any dal recipes--mostly for moong dal and tuvar dal..I also make green moong.Onions and tomatoes are ok! Can be disguised. If its not too much trouble pls do mail them to

    Sushobhan:Oh yes, she does!

  31. Durga: i too loved the term non-vegetable!yep--deals are a part and parcel of the game!

    Still thinking: No i wont argue--must tell u something--heck no--that can be a post! :P

    Prats:Yes--many times i tell them to eat there too..sometimes they dont like whats on the menu for that day. Then i cook.

    Guru: oh yes--and everything is extra tasty when they are hungry!

    Chirpy paro: yes--she does like parathas.

  32. Kids really do say the most adorable things sometimes! Non-vegetables... that had me stumped for a while too :D

    Interesting blog, cheers...

  33. non vegetables kids are innovative for sure...

    try mixing dal and boiled and mashed veggies in dough and make paranthas, my mom did it with my sis who was ditto as ur daughter and i am doing it for my son

    PS: i signed up for the challenge too :)

  34. No please, please tell me! I just can't handle suspense :p

  35. Gosh! Aren't the kids just pampered silly !! I haven't met one person who says canteen food rocks. Maybe an item or two. But ever single day. Naah!

    Purvi is way way too smart for her years. Things like these never occured to me when I was her age. They still don't occur to me actually!

    Your culinary skills I don't doubt. That sure is such an achievement for your family to choose your cooking even though they are spoilt for choice! Wow!

    Maybe if you make something that you've never made before, she'd be thrilled even though that has vegetable components! Take care :)

  36. Stillness speaks: please come to Uk and visit us soooooon!!

    Still thinking: it wasn't anything great--but entertaining nevertheless--your cusp comment reminded me of that--will post!

    Monika:Welcome to the madness :)

    Arnab:Thank u! Cheers :)

  37. Long time!!

    Bravo on the second consequetive post.

    Non vegetable, now thats something new. The menu looks super cool, if only such service was available for office folks.

  38. You came up with a great solution.

  39. Nessa: Works for now!

    J: Yeah--menu is too good! How have u been?

  40. When my daughters started getting demanding about different foods I bought them some simple cook books and taught them to cook. It's really paid off. Katy makes the best pies!
    And Shelle does some very adventurous things in the kitchen.
    When they were little it helped them feel more in control of what they were eating and happier, too.

  41. School meals in this country hav eundergone a bit of a shake up over the last couple of years..but even by the standards I've seen..your children's school menu is amazing!

  42. Rayne: That is indeed a BRILLIANT idea! Thanks for sharing. Will surely try that out.

    Niall: Isn't it the same menu all over UK? I presumed it was so!

  43. what a menu! my kids too prefer to take packed lunches..sometimes i have to force them to buy at the school cafeteria...:)

    though i'm not a great fan of c ooking everyday, somehow i don't mind cooking SO much after coming here ;)

    btw, tarla dala has a cookbook for kids and my nephew has been trying diff recipes from there for ages...the 6 yrold seems interested in cooking so i plan to get that book for him...

    okay my priceless suggestion : soya cutlets? i sometimes put them in mini burgers...or give it plain

  44. wow that is awesum! now im so depressed i dint get to study in a fancy skool which had such fancy lunches...!!

  45. where did she get the idea if she's a vegetarian :-O
    ..that does a jacket potato look like ;) and.. sweetcorn medley sounds like such a musical dish :P

  46. Smart girl,

    Don't know if she would take rice....anyways here is my option of Non-Vegetable(Atleast she woulnot see any veg)

    Lemon rice?
    Tomoto rice? ( if you can cut tomoto into tiny pieces it won’t be visible)
    Bun butter jam
    Bun butter bournvita ( I had it in my PG Hostel almost every single morning)
    Bread sandwich ( only with red and Green chutnies- It will look like Indian flag too!!!LOL)

  47. I was so much like her when I was small.. used to eat only curd n rice for years together n since amma was working in a diff place I had my way with dad.. Dads never oppose any junk eating habits ;)

  48. haha.. I used to be like ur daughter ! and thats why i'm 22 and 45 ! my age and weight respectively!! :P :(

  49. ma dear!

    if ya looking pour some sympathy for having no house help, you certainly not getting it from moi! ;)

    evilish, devilish grin turning into green goblin (hint: spiderman movie)

  50. I AM QUITE JEALOUS OF UR KIDS....all kinds of delicacies!! and here we get stale "sambar" and rice that seems to be cooked few days ago and you will be lucky really lucky if you DO NOT FIND insects like "cockroaches,lizards,maybe even worms" in the curry..i was lucky that i din find any but one of my friend did and we stopped going to our college canteen....he he...lived for 2 years only on 1 samosa and a lime juice Bill Rs 5...quite a saving na??? but by the time i get home..i could eat 10 dinosaurs...

  51. Anonymous1:24 PM

    Amazing... non-vegetables in my dictionary normally means non-vegetarian. I should try some non-vegetables for my vegetarian husband - so pass on the recipes.

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A Billion Heartbeats

As animals get bigger, from tiny shrew to huge blue whale, pulse rates slow down and life spans stretch out longer, conspiring so that the number of heartbeats during an average stay on Earth tends to be roughly the same, around a billion.

And …

… the surface area a creature uses to dissipate the heat of the metabolic fires does not grow as fast as its body mass.

To see this, consider a mouse as an approximation of a small sphere. As the sphere grows larger, to cat size, the surface area increases along two dimensions but the volume increases along three dimensions. The size of the biological radiator cannot possibly keep up with the size of the metabolic engine.

Haha. Ass.
Might be fun to start with the theory that all animals get a billion heartbeats and build up some charts to see if its true. Also a surface area of various mammals vs age graph might be interesting to calculate and plot.
Does this mean that I should stop exercising?
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Alexis' 1st Birthday | Kids & Baby | South Florida Kids Photographer

Alexis is 1!

Alexis' parents Adam & Jennifer celebrated their daughter's first birthday
with a pink-a-licious birthday bash at their home with family, friends and neighbors.

Alexis was decked out in a cute pink birthday t-shirt and an adorable frilly tutu.
She was amazed by the balloons and her monster cupcake cake.
It was as big as her!
Her guests enjoyed playing in the bounce house and designing
their very own cupcakes.
Candies, snow cones, cupcakes galore. Now that's my kind of party!

Happy 1st Birthday Alexis!

Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Regalado Family | Kids | South Florida Family Photographer

This particular session was a Mother's Day gift to Aida,
mother of 3 and grandmother of 4.
I was told that Aida loves photos.
The walls of her home are covered with photos of her loved ones
so a family portrait session would be a gift best suited for her.

It was a treat for me to be able to photograph such a
big family, especially these ridiculously cute kids.
From youngest to oldest: Julian, Brianna, Gavin, & Tyler.
I've had the pleasure of photographing Julian over a year ago,
when he was only 6 months old.
I enjoyed photographing him again as well as
meeting his extended family.
They were an energetic and delightful bunch
and I look forward to capturing their family moments again!

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The Lovely Luis Family | Kids & Baby | South Florida Family Photographer

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love big families!!
There is so much love...and cuteness...to go around, especially in this one.
Lori and her husband Dorestes have 4 beautiful children (from oldest to youngest):
Samantha, Sophia, Kayla & Dylan.
Samantha just turned 16 and is starting to drive. Sophia will be starting 10th grade in the fall.
Kayla loves to collect silly bands and has collect over 40! Dylan is 19 months old
and is a total sweetheart to his older sisters.
His favorite show is Yo Gabba Gabba so we started
singing some songs from the show during our session!

They are such a photogenic family. I don't think I had one bad shot from their session.
Despite the ugly weather we were having that day, we managed to have
cooperative weather for our session.
The Luis family must be a lucky one, in more ways than one!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

remofoto: open for business | Etsy

It's been about a month since I first announced that
I would be creating an etsy shop.
Now I can finally say that my etsy shop is
open for business!
Woot woot!

First of all, I would like to thank those fans who
submitted their ideas for a shop name.
There was one name that influenced the final name for my shop
and it was submitted by CAROLINA!

Congratulations Carolina, you are the winner of my etsy shop in the works contest!

So...here it is...

Please come and visit my shop.
For the "grand opening", I'm offering a BOGO sale!
(C'mon, who doesn't love a sale?)

Here are a few prints that are available
for purchase in my shop.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Madeline Grace | Kids & Baby | South Florida Kids Photographer

Our little girl is growing up so fast!
Mady turned 18 months last week (yes, I'm a little behind with the post).
She's talking more and more everyday.
She's a singer and a dancer (and the occasional drama queen).

You can imagine I take TONS of photos of Mady on a regular basis,
but I wanted to do a special 18-month shoot.
I had several cute outfits and accessories for her, the whole 9 yards.
Unfortunately Mady and I weren't on the same page that day
and we barely made it through the first outfit.
The onset of the terrible twos or the unbearable heat?
I managed to capture a few cute shots (tongue included).

Thank goodness I brought her swimsuit and let her play
in the water feature at the park.
As you can see, she enjoyed it quite a bit.

My little munchkin...I love you. Y

P.S. Gotta love the Elton John shades.


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We are Rusty Lake:

Creators of the praised Cube Escape series and the premium point-and-click adventures Rusty Lake Hotel and award-winning Rusty Lake: Roots.

Dear visitor,

Welcome to Rusty Lake, a surreal place where anything can happen. We offer you the most mysterious game series you'll ever play.

Why not try out our praised Cube Escape series first? Let the cubes guide you the eerie and atmospheric point-and-click adventures with an "escape room" feeling. Currently we have ten Cube Escape games taking place in the Rusty Lake universe. Cube Escape: Paradox is our latest installment which is combined with a short film! Download them for ten on iOS, Android or play on Desktop.

Next to our Cube Escape series we created three premium adventure games with unique story lines taking place in Rusty Lake as well. Serve deadly dinners to five animal-headed guests in Rusty Lake Hotel, expand the bloodline of the Vanderbooms in our award-winning adventure Rusty Lake: Roots or stop the ten plagues on a small island in Rusty Lake Paradise.

On the right, you can find a list of all our games sorted by release date.

On our game portal you can play our free games but also find other adventure, room escape and puzzle games. We selected games with a fascinating story, ambiance or unique game-play made by more forward-looking developers.

Check out our blog, social media or newsletter for new updates and content.

We wish you a pleasant stay in Rusty Lake!

Read more about the studio
  • AwardIndie Prize, Best Narrative Award ‘16
  • AwardTop 10 Google Play Indie Games Contest ‘17
  • AwardPremiere Paradox - A Rusty Lake Film @ LIFF '18
  • Award"Most Inventive" App nomination Google Play Awards ‘18

Merry Christmas from Rusty Lake!

Merry Christmas from Rusty Lake!

Merry Christmas from Rusty Lake!

The last 5 days we shared a video with an item from Rusty Lake.

Solve the mystery and you will have a chance to win a special Mr. Crow Coffee Mug:!

Special thanks to Sander Wiesnma for creating the videos, Bob Rafferty for his awesome voice over and @en_ree for the lovely matroyska-doll we got as a present

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  2. Josh Reynolds says:

    Merry Christmas Rusty Lake!

  3. 魏新雨 says:

    Merry Chrismas!

  4. Whiskey_kiska says:

    С католическим Рождеством и наступающим Новым годом, ребят! Желаю заниматься только тем, что вам нравится. У вас это неплохо получается. Обожаю ваш неповторимый стиль. From Russia with love!

  5. Janice says:

    Love that the game responds properly when you use the item!

  6. סצינק says:

    Should I enter correct combination in Paradox chapter 1?
    I tried but nothing… maybe, combination is not correct, maybe I should do something other with it…

  7. clair nursey says:

    Merry Xmas rusty lake I love yr games

  8. 鹿XP says:

    Merry Christmas and happy new year~Love you all~

  9. allthatyoutouchyouchange says:

    Merry Christmas !!!

  10. Suzan says:

    Merry Christmas to all!

  11. Lisa says:

    Thank you for this Christmas Mystery, it was so fun !
    Merry Christmas to all of you !

  12. Claire says:

    Merry Christmas and thank you for all your incredible games

  13. Manav Sharma says:

    Merrrryyy Christmas! Will follow this series for the rest of my life lol

  14. Mary Ellen Sargero says:

    Merry Christmas!

  15. Zhu Xuanyu says:

    Merry Christmas!

  16. Mooagain says:

    Why is there a mamoth in the lake?

  17. Karl582003 says:

    You are the best company creating games of adventure and mistery. I played all the games of Cube Escape and Rusty Lake, i have find all the secrets and my sister love this saga too.

  18. Karl582003 says:

    Happy End of The Year

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Fr. Steve’s updates

Radiation takes only 15 minutes a day. So far, I still feel good, and every day that I do, I count as a real blessing, helping me on the way to getting through the whole thing.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Radiation takes only 15 minutes a day. I did have another consultation with the doctor to check on how I’m holding up.

There’s not a whole lot to report yet. Other residents of the Lodge say that as time goes on the effects of radiation accumulate and you feel more drained and start to have stronger side effects.

So far, I still feel good, and every day that I do, I count as a real blessing, helping me on the way to getting through the whole thing.

Spring is trying to break out, and I took a long walk this afternoon. The warmth and sunshine felt invigorating.

This evening at supper another group volunteered to cook us dinner. I’m getting spoiled, and losing too much weight has not been a problem for me yet.

We also welcomed back the folks who returned from a weekend at home, and some of the new people who are just arriving and settling in to begin their treatments.

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At St. Joseph's Indian School, our privately-funded programs for Lakota (Sioux) children in need have evolved over 90 years of family partnership, experience and education. Because of generous friends who share tax-deductible donations, Native American youth receive a safe, stable home life; individual counseling and guidance; carefully planned curriculum based on Lakota culture and individual student needs and tools to help build confidence, boost self-esteem and improve cultural awareness. All of this helps children to live a bright, productive, possibility-filled future.

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  1. Thinking about you alot lately – wish I had your inner strength, cousin.

    Brother John and I are investigating on-line Risk..

  2. Hello Fr. Steve, I know you don’t know me, but I have donated to St. Joseph’s and read about the wonderful work you do. Please know you are in our prayers and I’ll be keeping an eye on your progress. God Bless You. Susie :O)

  3. Fr. Steve,

    I hope that if I ever have to face something like this, I can do it with the grace and bravery that you are displaying!

    So, Roger Staubach is throwing out the first pitch down here for the Texas Rangers!!! It’s almost time to PLAY BALL! My Red Sox are playing the Yankees on Sunday…wouldn’t it be great to be at that game!

    Blessings to you Father!

  4. God Bless you Father Steve!……I’m praying for you!…….the children need you! You sound good – keep the faith, keep healing!………….People you don’t even know are sending you good energy and God’s love!

  5. Hi Father Steve–
    I am happy to hear you are progressing with your treatments. We all know God helps those who help themselves….so you are doing your part.
    You are listed on the World Wide Prayer List, so know your blessings and healing are initiated from around the world.
    Know you will be healed!! Blessings,

  6. Dear Father Steve,
    So sorry to hear of your illness. We all need you, hope and pray for you. Have a blessed Easter. If I lived closer, I would come and visit you!

  7. Hi Father.
    You inspire me to make the most of my days, hours, minutes! I have heard your message to make it all count.
    We are all blessed by you!
    Rest, think good thoughts and heal.

  8. Thank God ..for such a person in the world as you, Father Steve…!
    You are truly a RARE Blessing..!
    Thany You..
    Mia Archer

  9. Hi Fr. I have some ideas for you. I am not a nutritionist but I am a student of nutrition and Chinese Medicine. And,they seem to feel that cancer is an anaerobic condition–cells flourishing without oxygen–plus being aided by a too-aciditic environment. So, the Chinese medicine proponents would suggest laying off aciditic foods–meat, dairy, oil,coffee, bakery products, any pastas, sweets, no fruits either and instead, loading up on vegetables (alkaline for the most part), grains like brown rice, buckwheat, and proteins like beans and legumes (grains and beans are also aciditic but are just packed with nutrition. The reason why sweets are a no-no is because sugar feeds the cancer cells. You can get your “sweets” from carrots, squash, sweet potatoes (but no white potatoes as they convert to sugar, likewise corn products.) Meals should be 80% alkaline, 20% acid, according to Chinese Medicine. There’s an old saying, “Let medicine be your food, food be your medicine.” Also, nix negative thoughts. This stuff works. Good luck.Nancy

    I Know he listens, and he HEARS the PRAYERS for YOU, from so many….Because YOU ARE LOVED and NEEDED by so MANY. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE POWER OF PRAYER.–

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Greg Brown with Bo Ramsey:
Show Report

The show began with an acoustifying solo performance by Bo Ramsey.  As if that wasn't enough, Greg Brown joined him onstage to perform sweet, sweet musical love. As Ray said in his introduction, "It was the hope of having Brown perform that was the creating force of Uptown's Playlist Theater."

And it was everything we had been waiting for: "It was something grandma couldn't put in a jar."
I'm inclined to describe further the nuances and one-liners Brown delivered in comedic fashion - like when describing downtown LaSalle as “beauty shops and bars” -  but the following words are a little too timely to surpass:  "You be good to me, let me be good to you."  Brown was referencing the current political atmosphere, and it's a philosophy that wouldn't hurt anyone to follow.

Yes, Brown is more than a musician, he's an activist - with causes like Barn-Aid, In Harmony, The Breast Cancer Fund, and supporting the Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve.  From Southeastern Iowa, our continental backyard, Brown and his activism are defined by others letting him be good to them.

Too many pop 'musicians' sing about nothing and manage to do it over and over and over again.  For Brown, it is always something familiar, but it is never the same.  In the most humanly way, the characters in his songs suffer, sorrow and yearn for something or someone lost. Yet they have hopes and dreams, and at times, they rejoice and dance. In the kitchen of life, Brown has a way of cutting into leftovers and serving it up as filet mignon.

As Greg so eloquently put it, “Tiny little future, great big past.”  This show was a benchmark for the Uptown Playlist Theater, and we’re all looking forward to an even bigger past.

Ka-ching! That's the sound.  See you at the next show.

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  1. Reid,

    Good article- made me realize what I missed! Next time I plan to get a ticket to the show.

    Julie Scott


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15 Dad jokes

Those are dad jokes, not dead jokes.
Well, I guess most kids would reather be dead than hear their dad tell these corny ass dad jokes again.
Then again, dad jokes are fun.
And they are even more fun when dad is drunk as hell and telling these jokes with his friends.
That is a real win-win. Dad has a laugh and the kids don’t get annoyed.
When the kids grow older, they will realize that these dadjokes are just a necessity for a dad to stay sane with those crazy ass kids that he got.

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Friday was another nice day for the stock market in general, and for Lowell’s M/A-Com Technology Solutions in particular. The company hosted an analyst day on Thursday in New York City, and at least one observer came out of it impressed enough to predict $2 billion in annual revenue for the company by 2020. And

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Pre-Conference Sessions

WILU 2016 is excited to offer two pre-conference sessions. The sessions will occur on Monday, May 30th from 9:00 am – 11:45am.  The sessions will include refreshments and lunch.

Hidden Intersection
Helping Graduate Students Cross the Threshold from Student 2 Scholar using Framework-Driven, Blended Learning IL Interventions

Colleen Burgess and Melanie Mills: Research & Instructional Services Librarians at The D.B. Weldon Library, Western University

Learning Outcomes

  • Participants will discover and experiment with the bank of IL activities, assets, and assessments available through
  • Participants will design a blended learning, framework-focused IL session using the S2S modules.
  • Participants will identify opportunities for blended learning interventions for library instruction at their institutions.

Session Description
Hidden Intersection: Teaching faculty, librarians, and staff in institutions of higher education have now had more than a year to familiarize themselves with and begin to adjust their instruction in response to the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education (ACRL, 2014). But adapting one’s pedagogy from an IL Standards, largely skills-based approach to one grounded in social learning theory is no small feat. Add to this the ever present and pressing challenges of teaching with technology and reaching online students who, increasingly, will never set foot on our campuses, yet alone in our libraries or physical classrooms. In response to this very challenge, a diverse and distributed team of academic librarians and university staff, graduate students and instructional designers, devoted the better part of a year to the design and development of an open access, self-directed series of online modules on the subject of academic literacies and research skills for social science graduate students. Based on ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, and acknowledging that research and scholarly development is an iterative process, (S2S) takes a holistic approach in the organization of its content.

Presented in ten modules, including a pre-module on citation management, the framework of S2S is loosely based on a four-phase research process: inquiry & exploration, investigation & organization, analysis & evaluation, and creation & communication. Though may be used as a repository of teaching and learning assets, activities, and assessments from which faculty, librarians, and staff, or graduate students themselves may draw directly, it also provides a case-study in, and an opportunity to facilitate a deliberate departure from IL-standards driven, primarily face-to-face delivered information literacy instruction. In this pre-conference workshop, teaching faculty and instruction librarians and library staff will: (1) observe, role-play, and critique a truncated, ‘mock’ blended-learning IL lesson plan that incorporates S2S in both its design and delivery; (2) be introduced to the sociocultural Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework (Koehler and Mishra, 2009) and engage that frame to reconsider their own pedagogical practice; and finally, (3) exchange workshop-generated library instruction designs, or course/curriculum plans alongside fellow workshop attendees in order to: communicate and share ideas; provide and receive constructive feedback; and leave the session with a working, blended learning, ACRL Framework aligned lesson plan in hand.

Workshop Requirements
Participants will need to bring a laptop or tablet in order to use the S2S software and to conduct collaborative lesson planning.  Devices must be capable of connecting to the Internet and have Word or equivalent installed.

Contexts and Connections – FULL
Using ACRL’s Framework to Build Partnerships and Design Learning Activities

Dr. Smita Avasthi, Lead Instruction Librarian at Santa Rosa Junior College.

Learning Outcomes

  • Use the Framework to build connections with disciplinary faculty.
  • Apply disciplinary context(s) to the framework.
  • Design a lesson plan to put the framework into practice.

Session Description
ACRL’s framework emphasizes the contextual aspect of information literacy. This new emphasis on context opens the door for librarians to revitalize our instructional approaches by collaborating with other faculty when constructing learning activities; instead of focusing on the mechanics of information retrieval, we can address how information is produced within a specific department or discipline. By using an interdisciplinary lens, we can move beyond demonstrating the use of a database and focus on what it means to conduct research in a specified field or context.

I propose a workshop where librarians discuss each of the six frames as they intersect with a particular discipline or department. For example, the idea that scholarship is a conversation might resonate differently with a history instructor than it would with a nursing teacher. Yet, in either case, a student will need to understand how to participate in this conversation. Thus, the question becomes how can students learn how to engage with and produce the knowledge within their fields? Librarians are uniquely situated to address this question because, unlike other faculty, our purview includes our entire campus; librarians create and maintain sources for all disciplines and, thus, we have unique insights into how topics are treated, how knowledge is produced, and how cutting-edge ideas are communicated within multiple fields. At the same time, many of us liaise and collect materials for a particular subject.

In my workshop, I will divide librarians into six groups, one for each frame, and ask them how this particular frame resonates with the field where they have the most responsibility for collecting materials and instructing students. Once librarians have discussed how all of the frames in relation to a specific field, I would introduce an activity that uses backward design to construct an assignment or learning exercise that would be particularly suitable for that discipline but that can be applied to other classes, as necessary. By the end of the workshops, librarians will have a better understanding of how to use the framework to build partnerships and to rethink information literacy instruction. They will also have interpreted the framework from the perspective of both a scholar and a practitioner. And, by using backward design, they will have produced a lesson plan and will have another strategy for adapting and developing learning activities in a variety of contexts.

Workshop Requirements
No technical requirements. Session is capped at 24 participants.