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CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

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Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe Commentary on the Treatment of Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency

  • J. A. Reekers
  • M. J. Lee
  • A. M. Belli
  • F. Barkhof
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CIRSE Commentary

Chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) is a putative new theory that has been suggested by some to have a direct causative relation with the symptomatology associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) [1]. The core foundation of this theory is that there is abnormal venous drainage from the brain due to outflow obstruction in the draining jugular vein and/or azygos veins. This abnormal venous drainage, which is characterised by special ultrasound criteria, called the “venous hemodynamic insufficiency severity score” (VHISS), is said to cause intracerebral flow disturbance or outflow problems that lead to periventricular deposits [2]. In the CCSVI theory, these deposits have a great similarity to the iron deposits seen around the veins in the legs in patients with chronic deep vein thrombosis. Zamboni, who first described this new theory, has promoted balloon dilatation to treat the outflow problems, thereby curing CCSVI and by the same token alleviating MS complaints. However, this theory does not fit into the existing bulk of scientific data concerning the pathophysiology of MS. In contrast, there is increasing worldwide acceptance of CCSVI and the associated balloon dilatation treatment, even though there is no supporting scientific evidence. Furthermore, most of the information we have comes from one source only. The treatment is called “liberation treatment,” and the results of the treatment can be watched on YouTube. There are well-documented testimonies by MS patients who have gained improvement in their personal quality of life (QOL) after treatment. However, there are no data available from patients who underwent unsuccessful treatments with which to obtain a more balanced view. The current forum for the reporting of success in treating CCSVI and thus MS seems to be the Internet. At the CIRCE office and the MS Centre in Amsterdam, we receive approximately 10 to 20 inquiries a month about this treatment. In addition, many interventional radiologists, who are directly approached by MS patients, contact the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) for advice. Worldwide, several centres are actively promoting and performing balloon dilatation, with or without stenting, for CCSVI. Thus far, no trial data are available, and there is currently no randomized controlled trial (RCT) in progress Therefore, the basis for this new treatment rests on anecdotal evidence and successful testimonies by patients on the Internet. CIRSE believes that this is not a sound basis on which to offer a new treatment, which could have possible procedure-related complications, to an often desperate patient population.

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CIRSE believes that the CCSVI theory in its current form has a number of inconsistencies. The core of this new theory is the CCSVI syndrome, i.e., abnormal venous drainage from the brain. However, venous drainage from the head has an impressive anatomic variation, which has not been well catalogued in most textbooks. In addition, valves can be present at a variety of sites in the head and neck veins. Indeed, interventional radiologists who practise parathyroid sampling know about this huge variety in venous anatomy. In addition to the huge variation in normal venous anatomy, the jugular veins have some natural narrowing at two sites, and the azygos vein, so prominent in CCSVI theory, does not drain the brain at all. The azygous vein obviously can drain the spinal cord, but not solely, because many intercostal venous collateral veins fulfil the same function.

In addition, the fact that this imaging is performed with the patient in the supine position has a great influence on blood flow and image interpretation. There recently have been randomised studies comparing so-called “venous stenoses” in patients with and without MS [3, 4]. Both studies showed that there was no difference in the prevalence of venous stenoses between the two groups. This seems to be a strong argument against the existence of CCSVI. However, those physicians performing CCSVI treatment point out that these studies were not performed according to the VHISS criteria. The other part of the theory is that the venous outflow obstruction must be treated. However, if there is a real haemodynamic venous outflow obstruction, there should also be a pressure gradient, and this gradient should disappear after successful balloon dilatation. It has been shown, and confirmed by those who perform balloon dilatation for CCSVI, that over the so-called “stenosis” there is never a measurable pressure gradient. Again, those who perform this treatment will say that it is not the pressure gradient but the change in outflow pattern caused by this stenosis that is the pathologic entity.

What remains is the issue of anecdotal successful treatments. Undoubtedly, some patients obtain symptom relief after treatment for CCSVI, but this could easily be just a placebo effect. Many treatment successes in medicine are based on or helped by a placebo effect. In itself, there is nothing wrong with the placebo effect as long as we recognize that this is at play. It is also known that the more invasive the treatment and the more the treating physician believes in the treatment, the stronger the placebo effect is. Furthermore, MS can affect emotional and labile responses and is characterized by spontaneous relapses and remissions. This makes the gathering of scientific evidence to support CCSVI theory difficult in anything other than an RCT.

What we now have is the dilemma of a new treatment being promoted and performed by some early pioneers, with the popular press trumpeting its success and thus decreasing the chances of performing a properly conducted trial because it is considered unethical not to offer patients this new and promising treatment. The primary task of physicians is primum non nocere or not doing harm. We believe that harm can be caused by offering treatments without any scientific proof of efficacy as well as the more usual forms of medical harm. Pseudo-arguments such as “There is nothing else” or “Do you know how much they pay for medication that does not work?” are not valid and scientific arguments.

Confronted with these contradictions and lack of evidence for CCSVI treatment, some pioneers have taken to calling their work on MS patients a “phase 1 study.” However, a phase 1 study without a protocol, that has not been approved by a medical ethical committee, that does not require informed consent, and that does not have safety committee oversight does not qualify! CIRSE believes that only properly conducted trials with significant scientific rigor can solve this dilemma. We at CIRCE believe that a small prospective randomised trial, with a sham arm, is required. A trial monitored by an independent society, such as CIRSE and/or the European Society of Neurology, would be ideal.

As doctors and interventional radiologists, we certainly hope that all of the anecdotal reports detailing improvements in QOL will prove to be true and that patients will benefit from this new treatment. Interventional radiologists have a long history of introducing pioneering treatments during the last 30 years that have proven to be of enormous benefit to patients. Recently new treatments, such as fibroid embolization, vertebroplasty, and carotid stenting, have all been interrogated by randomized trials. We believe that CCSVI treatment should be evaluated in the same manner. Furthermore, we believe that until real scientific data are available for CCSVI and balloon dilatation, this treatment should not be offered to MS patients outside of a well-designed clinical trial.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • J. A. Reekers
    • 1
  • M. J. Lee
    • 2
  • A. M. Belli
    • 3
  • F. Barkhof
    • 4
  1. 1.Department of RadiologyAMC, University of AmsterdamAmsterdamThe Netherlands
  2. 2.Department of Academic RadiologyBeaumont HospitalDublinIreland
  3. 3.Department of RadiologySt. George’s HospitalLondonEngland
  4. 4.Department of RadiologyMS Center Amsterdam, VU University Medical CenterAmsterdamThe Netherlands

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Fragile Affiliations

They can either make you

Bond or sometimes bind

They are intricately patterned

And finely intertwined

They can scuttle you with a

Volley of questions or

Give you those elusive answers

You seek to find

They can empower you

With freedom of choice

They can chain your spirit

And choke your inner voice

These fragile gossamers can

Become the source of peace of mind

These delicate bonds can sometimes

Make you go through the grind

They can be the salve to

Your wounded suffering soul

At times they burn your being

Like the soot of smouldering coal

They need be nurtured with

Care, Love and tenderness

And when these ties reach and impasse

And become the cause for sheer duress

You should know there is nothing

To tie you down or make you stay

Just lift your head with all your might

And choose to gracefully walk away

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Dubois’ Delightful Toxic Waste Site

The health care facilities are merely useful. This will be magic.

PetesPond_WillowForegroundAs spring brings life to the valley, an enchanting new creation is unfolding beside the highway, just east of the rodeo grounds. What makes the place seem even more magical is that it used to be a toxic waste site.

It’s difficult to imagine what might have been toxic about the sawmill that gave life to this community, until it closed in 1988. But an EPA document describing the “brownfields” cleanup project says the site was contaminated with petroleum byproducts including benzene and diesel fuels.

PetesPond_RiverwalkTen years after the mill closed, a local family bought the site and donated it to the Nature Conservancy, stipulating that it should be used for the “health and enjoyment of the citizens of the greater Dubois community and its future generations.” After the town gained numerous grants, the cleanup began five years ago.

The medical clinic, fitness center, and assisted living facility on the site clearly qualify in the health category, but as mere buildings they would not inspire the words “enchanting” and “magical.” As the dog and I enjoy the eastern end of the river walk, I’ve seen something emerging that will clearly deserve that description.

PetesPond_BenchViewThe good folks of Dubois Anglers and Wildlife Group (DAWGS) are busy completing Pete’s Pond, the dream of Pete Petera, a former director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department who retired to Dubois. I knew the bright-eyed gentleman all too briefly before he passed away, too early to see the project begin.

Pete wanted a place where children could enjoy fishing safely. The need for this becomes clear as I follow this part of the river walk in late May, watching the surging water breach its banks and crash past, frothing and muddy.

PetesPond_RiverFlowDAWGS long ago made the river accessible for handicapped anglers along this riverwalk. Now, on the landward side of the walk, they’re busy with backhoes creating not just a pond, but a whole new park. There’s a small stream at the inlet, and islands in the center of the pond.

What astonishes me is the sylvan aspect of the scene, where a few years ago this was hard-packed tan dirt overgrown with weeds and sage, the kind of desolate landscape so many people think of when they hear the word “Wyoming.”

PetesPond_ReflectionsIt’s a pleasure to think that this is what future travelers will see first as they pass into Dubois headed toward Yellowstone and Jackson. After that long desert drive from Rawlins or Casper, they will be enticed as they reach Dubois to stop and enjoy birds and gently lapping water, lined by trees and bordering the river.

It doesn’t yet look as green as it will, because it’s only early spring here, and the work is still under way. But I can already hear the laughter of the children.

Somewhere over there under the water is a ball that the dog lost in the weeds last summer. He’s certainly forgotten about it.  I’m very pleased to make the sacrifice.

© Lois Wingerson, 2018
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My Yellowstone Bison Adventure

I know it’s sentimental, but I felt he was guarding me.

BisonandGeezer0518“Is that one of the geezers?” said the man at the pullout.

I smiled. “I love the way you English people say that word,” I said. “Here we pronounce it ‘guy-zer.’ In American vernacular, a geezer is — ”

“I know,” he said. “An old guy. But is that one of them? Is it Old Faithful?”

He didn’t mention the bison I was watching as it grazed nearby. Nor did he tell me he was Irish, not English, which I learned later on.

“No,” I said. “You’ll see the signs for Old Faithful about five miles further south.”

Recently I read that, while the TripAdvisor experts recommend taking three or four days to tour Yellowstone, about half of visitors come all this way just to see Old Faithful. That’s a fairly short drive up from the South Entrance, which wouldn’t open for another week EastEntrance0518yet.

We ourselves had come in last Saturday from the north. We wanted to visit the Park before the hordes began to arrive through the South Entrance. We’ll see them approaching shortly, via Dubois.

That morning we had sailed through the East Gate entirely unimpeded, only one day after it opened, after driving all the way around through Cody.

AvalancheSign0518Only a few days into May,  the northern regions of the Park were still blanketed with deep and drifting snow. A road sign just a few miles inside the entrance warned us of avalanche risk.

Pulling into an overlook, we saw that Yellowstone Lake was still almost entirely snowbound.

Farther on, people had stopped to walk on the shoreline, where the ice had melted back a foot or two.

BisononRoad0518On the second day of opening, it was about as crowded as you would want for a visit to a public park. We had a little company–just enough to feel pleasantly surrounded, not too isolated in the wilderness.

On the north side of the Lake, we encountered the first of several small “bison jams.” We had to slow down briefly when two or three cars stopped shortly ahead of us. As so often happens, a bison was ambling right down the middle of the road.

TripAdvisor experts warn visitors to anticipate lengthy delays for bison jams. That day, after a moment, the car ahead moved on and then we drove slowly past.

FromVespa0518Besides a chance to visit that overly popular Park minus the crowds, this was a dry run for our small RV and our Vespa motorbike. We don’t use the Vespa much near home, because it wouldn’t feel safe in the traffic that zooms past at 70 mph, much of it either hurrying toward the Park or home afterwards.

Inside the Park, the speed limit is a comfortable 45.  On that early-season day, we figured, even inside Yellowstone the traffic wouldn’t be too heavy.

It was very pleasant to zip around those winding roads that were nearly empty. We’d pull over every so often to let cars pass, and then continue on our leisurely way.

Vespa_at_Lodge0518We drove into the parking lot at Old Faithful and stopped the bike. It looked like rain, so we went inside the Lodge to get a drink and maybe wait out the weather.

It was surprising how many people were already wandering around inside. The building is fanciful on an oversized scale, like a Norseman’s lodge gone mad (as my husband put it).

LodgeInterior0518As I sipped my beer near the huge fireplace in the lobby, a decent-sized group listened to a tour guide.

“You want to see Old Faithful?” my husband asked as finished our drinks.

“Nah,” I said. “I’ve seen it before. Probably no different today. I’m sure it will keep going off without us.”

The conversation about the geezer happened shortly afterwards, as we headed back northward toward the campground on the Vespa. We had spoken about how it wouldn’t be safe to stop close to a bison while driving the motorbike. But I asked to stop at a pullout when I spotted one close enough to the road to catch a picture on my IPhone but far enough away to be safe.

My husband turned off the ignition so I could climb off the Vespa and catch the shot. Then it wouldn’t start again.

When the Irish couple drew up to look at the geyser a few minutes later, I was standing beside the bike watching the bison. My husband stood a few yards to the north with his thumb out, waiting for a quick lift back to the campground so he could drive back with the RV and install the dead Vespa on the rack at its rear.

I was amazed how many cars drove past without stopping.

“Poor fellow,” the Irish man said with a chuckle, looking back at him. “Nobody’s going to stop for him.”

“That’s my husband,” I said, and explained the situation. Quickly, and kindly, they offered the ride we were waiting for.

BisonCloseupMeanwhile I turned to watch the bison grazing as I continued to wait. He lifted his head to watch me in return, as I stood silently beside the odd red object. Slowly, he turned in my direction. I caught my breath.

Then, ungainly, he sat down and resumed staring placidly at me.

After a while someone else pulled up to look at him. “You waiting for someone?” the woman asked, and I explained.

“What a place to be stranded!” she said.

It was an odd and fairly lonely vigil, as the other tourists sailed past unconcerned. It must have been 25 minutes before I saw our little RV approaching from the north. Most of that time, the bison and I had been gazing at each other from a certain distance.

My husband and I busied ourselves reinstalling the Vespa on the back of the RV, and then climbed into the cab. “Oh, look,” he said. “The bison has turned away.”

YellowstoneRain0518I know it’s sentimental, but I fancied that, rather than being a threat, he had been guarding me.

Just after we pulled onto the road, the heavens opened. Other campers told us later that we had missed a rainstorm at the campground. Amazingly, during the whole excursion, neither of us felt a drop of rain.

CamperWithVespaAs night was falling, I enjoyed myself for a long time beside the campfire, looking over in the direction of the Vespa on the back of the camper–both of us sitting at rest and doing absolutely nothing at all.

What a delight to have such a peaceful day in Yellowstone Park! The woman was right: It was a great place to be stranded–and a privilege to spend a little time up (almost) close and personal with one of the few wild creatures in our general neighborhood that would never be seen passing within view of my dining room window.

I’m so grateful to my husband for suggesting that brief getaway, the perfect start to another busy summer season.

© Lois Wingerson, 2018
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Tiny Signs of Spring in the Big Valley

The signs are subtle, but unmistakeable.

“Welcome to Dubois!” read the scrolling digital sign in town last week. “Spring is almost here.”

Nonsense. Spring is already here.

We’ve waited so long for the days to lengthen and the breeze to feel more gentle. There’s no question now that the vigil is ending.

Back in Brooklyn, spring burst in with a gaudy show of flowering trees. Here, the signs are more subtle–but unmistakeable nonetheless.

Sheridan Creek WY
Last week I took a hike at Sheridan Creek. The hills were still half-covered with snow.
Near the creek, I spotted my first tiny, indisputable sign of spring.
Wildflowers Dubois WY
Later I saw more tiny clumps of them, harbingers of the riot of wildflowers to come.
Time to get the garden ready for planting. These are the stalks from last year’s hollyhocks.
I sat down to relax, and watched a calf over in the valley, searching for its mother. Finding her, he bounded over and began to suckle.
Bluebird Dubois WY
The bluebirds have returned. This one sat for hours guarding a nest (I hope).
Moose Dubois Wyoming
Best of all, driving back from town I spotted this lanky lady. (Footnote to real Neyawkers: It’s a moose.) She saw me too, and ran off. I wondered where junior was hiding.
Snow still comes, but not in earnest. The spots on the picture are snowflakes. But see the blue sky?
Later, back at the highway, I watched the weather coming in again. But it won’t last.

© Lois Wingerson, 2018
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Shearing Whiskey

This is a short and sweet post..  I did my stretches and made a strong coffee (which would be about the average for most) and went.. All right then.. Lets do this..

I need to shear Ice, her wool did not come off nicely, it was a battle but she is much cooler and I have her in lock down and I will give her a finishing trim before she joins the flock again..

I had to do Junor.. he was my practise run.. not bad.. not bad..

But then came Whiskey, the fleece that I have the biggest plans for, it was the best job I have done to date with my new shears (which by the way, will get their own post in the fall as they are a improvement on the farm item)..

He is fine condition under that o so huge coat of his.. and I got it off in one full piece! YES…

Its good practise as I am looking forward to doing the lambs this fall.. For sure this young ram lamb, loving his black wool.

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One of the most valuable lessons I learned as a student all the way through grades 6 through 12 in the New York City public school system was to prepare a handwritten outline before writing a homework assignment, essay, paper or exam question. This process continued to serve me well through college, graduate school and then all of the jobs I have ever had. Not only does this serve to organize my writing into an orderly beginning, middle and end, but moreover, writing by hand is also a means to use several senses (vision, touch and even listening), at once to assist in planning things out.

Even after Word and WordPerfect began to include outline functions in their programs, I always continued to use them in conjunction with printing out my outline drafts and editing them by hand. Picking up a pen to enhance, edit and annotate the text has always given me an additional perspective on whatever topic I am outlining. The same goes for the full text of drafts insofar as printing them out and marking them up by hand.

As well, I still continue to write out the following items by hand:

Notes taken during situations where I want some sort of record including, among others, during business meetings, telephone calls with consumer companies, and at professional presentations and classes. I often go back over such notes and further write out summaries and follow-up questions.

To make my daily “To Do” list of what needs to be done each day, which I continue to mark up as my schedule progresses.

To schedule all of my appointments in my daily planner, including additional annotations about many of the upcoming events.

I have always believed that by writing out these thing in longhand helps me to plan, analyze, summarize and retain the most important points. However, if I did this by keyboard on an electronic device, or else not at all, I do not think I would retain as much of this content as I do when I set my pen down on a sheet of paper.

For many years I wrote with the BIC R730. This pen was outstanding because of the speed with which I could write with it and, because of the many textures I could get out of its writing point, was likewise great for doodling. (See The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently by Sunni Brown, 2014, Portfolio Hardcover, for a terrific treatment on the virtues of doodling.) Unfortunately, I can no longer find them for sale with blue ink. I have found a worthy replacement to be Uni-Ball Vision Elite (third row down, second image from the right in this link), for writing as well as doodling.

As a result of my continued enjoyment of handwriting, notwithstanding all of the time I spend each day working on real and virtual keyboards (as does everyone else on Planet Earth), I was recently delighted to see a brief article on on January 19, 2015, entitled 7 Ways Writing by Hand Can Save Your Brain by Yohana Desta. The reporter spoke with Dr. Marc Seifer who wrote The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis (Career Press, 2008). I highly recommend clicking through to read this post and view the accompanying videos. To sum up the seven advantages Dr. Seifer sees in writing by hand (and adding my own anagram to remember them as sailing the 7C’s ), it:

  • Produces a c alming effect on your demeanor when you repeatedly write down positive thoughts.
  • Helps to c oordinate the activities of the left and right (and maybe “write”, too), cerebral hemispheres.
  • Improves c ognitive skills. The article links to another very interesting article that appeared in the October 10, 2010 edition of The Wall Street Journal entitled How Handwriting Trains the Brain by Gwendolyn Bounds.
  • “Inspires c reativity” because writing is slower than keyboarding thus giving you more pause to consider what you are doing.
  • C ontinues to keep minds sharp as people age.
  • Improves c ontent retention.
  • Uses the c onnected areas of your brain for reading while you are writing. Studies have shown this is not the case with keyboarding.

A similar and highly persuasive case for the educational development benefits of teaching handwriting to students appeared in an article in the June 2, 2014 edition of The New York Times in an article entitled What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades by Maria Konnikova. This explores the lasting effects upon children when they are taught to write first insofar as they learn to read faster and build better retention of what they have read. Indeed, learning to write simultaneously activates three important areas of the brain. There might even be some distinction in the effect of learning to print and learning cursive writing. I highly recommend clicking through and reading the full text of this fascinating feature together with the equally informative WSJ article linked in the third bullet point above.

I believe it is always safer to be on the write side of things.

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If you’re a new artist in London, these three words will shine in your mind as you see them for the first time:

Yes, if you’re new in this big city, you feel an immediate desire to PEE, and you’ll accept every opportunity you can get to PEE. You need a platform, a space where you can perform and show your work to the world. You also need to experience all sorts of challenges and get your own history in the arts business. Finally, you need to expose yourself and make sure that you’re seen by those who will make you build your career.

Be sure not to fall into the over-pee trap though, or you’ll end up with a crazy timetable of volunteer work that gets you nowhere.

During my first year in London, I was determined to take advantage of every opportunity that would come to me. One day I got in my college email the following message:

“I’m part of a nonprofit organization and they’re going to need a pianist for their launch event.There will be media coverage, wine, food and a whole load of high-profile guests (such as the dragon’s den investors, ambassadors of various countries, entertainment industry people etc.)

They’d need to play from about 6:30 for a few hours on and off — nice, relaxing, evening music.

Know anyone who might be interested? Be great if you can spread this around!’

Thanks x

Please let me know if anyone is interested! It is a good performance opportunity plus you’ll be seen by high-profile guests who might want to book you for their event!

The big trap of being a performing artist in London with a desire to PEE is that people start undervaluing the work of performers (specially student-performers). They don’t need to pay for our work, as there is always one person in this huge city who is willing (and desperate) to get the gig for free.

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The graphic shows what I observed during the evening I took part in that event. It was a non-profit organisation, so they were selling expensive wine and doing all sorts of auctions. However, they did spend a lot of money in making the whole event very elegant, with great food and wine, wonderful marketing appearance and professional staff. I got to understand that the money raised in the event went to:

  • the organisers, who needed money for future market advertisements and (obviously) for their salary;
  • a considerable part for charity work, although far from the total of the amount;
  • all the high-standard marketing presentation of the organisation, with logos, promo videos, merchandising;
  • the stewards and catering staff, who assumed they weren’t there doing volunteering work.

And then there’s the background music provided by the volunteer entertainer. I played for 4 hours (!) with only one break for speeches. I spent money on travelling to the venue and time preparing repertoire.

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Here’s the picture of me playing at that event. I didn’t get to talk with many people, as they were almost all gone by the time I finished playing. The famous network environment wasn’t very profitable for me, as I wasn’t presented to anybody. By the time I came off of the piano, nobody was interested in meeting anyone.

The worst thing was when I went to have the dinner that I was promised to, and the organisers told me that the food was all gone hours ago.

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As I walk past from that very posh event I was involved in, I felt like I just had had the lowest point in my music career. It was a breaking point for me and my London adventure. From this night on, I started to appreciate the true value of my work. We shouldn’t give away our daily hours and hours of sweat, motivation and dedication for people who show no recognition or gratitude whatsoever.

My general advice to anyone that is starting an independent life in London – and this is the motto that has been driving me through this journey – is to have two simple sentences in one’s mind:

London is big. I am bigger.

London might give us everything we want (and by everything I mean everything). But we cannot give it all away and allow it to swallow us.

Be open, but be also very selective.

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Welcome to London Art GMT ! The place where you have to start, if you want to succeed in the Art world in London.

This blog will give you lots of tips to embrance the arts in London and to let everyone embrace your art! It’s all about GOING, MEETING & TRANSFORMING. If you really experience something and create your own story in London, you firstly need to say YES to the right opportunity that comes to you. And you will find many more opportunities to be creative in London than you expect, but you’ve got to select the ones you’re more passionate about and in which you feel you have something special to say! Because let’s face it, in such a huge city like London, there are thousands of creative minds hungry for opportunities, and chances are that all of them are better than you in a specific area, just because they all SPECIALISE in what makes them unique. So if you want to make it in Europe’s city of dreams, you need to find what really drives you and what you think is special about you. Then the easy part comes, you just have to show the world how passionate and unique you are.

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(by the way, nice YES installation in Greenwich Park)

I am a Portuguese concert pianist, in search of my uniqueness as I live and experience arts in London. I often go abroad to perform in classical concerts, as it’s not easy to survive performing classical in London only. I am also very passionate about Musical Theatre (yeah, it’s the right city to be in then), so I am gradually building my training in order to make the most of my piano skills in the MT world.

Here’s my website, just in case someone wants to find out more:

I train at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, which has the most beautiful campus on earth (full description and lots of pics will be posted soon!). This blog was created as a project for the London Study Ambassador Programme. As I am the International Student Ambassador for Trinity Laban, I am part of a very special team of 17 representatives from London universities, and we will take part in the most incredible adventures around London, experiencing it in the most elegant way!

London Study Ambassadors. I’m the first boy appearing on the left side.

Being the only performing arts representative in the group, I get to promote this city in a very different way from my partners. I hope you enjoy reading my tips along the way. Those come from a true experience of life in the trendiest art centre of the world!!


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Friday, 27 September 2013

The ICA celibates emptiness.

Free, and still too expensive.

It specialises in the most facile and pointless of conceptual art that resembles a child making farting noises in the hope of being noticed. The last exhibition I attended (and possibly will ever attend) consisted of a screen upon which was projected the image of a middle aged Arab man. The commentator waffled on and on about the fact his watch was a cheap Japanese brand and that he knew nothing about him personally.

On and on it went. Seemingly forever, saying nothing new. Deliberate boredom is a feature of this kind of art.

The next room was bared from me. A feminist sat in the doorway and told me that this part of the exhibition was for women only! I considered making a scene for a moment and then realised this was part of the trap. I was quite sure that whatever was in the 'woman's section' was as worthless as the remainder of the exhibition but it bothered me anyway.

The real point of this policy was to drive a wedge between heterosexual couples. Men would wait outside of the room while the women went in. The men were all reasonable about this and yet their relationship would be damaged to some degree as a result.

I now think of the gallery as an exhibition of human stupidity. Interesting in a ghastly sort of way.

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Before watching this, the only movies I could think of in which Australia was featured prominently were the Crocodile Dundee films. Knowing only this, let me say that director Baz Luhrmann's newest film is now my third favorite about the goings on in Oz.

Not wanting to close their foundering ranch, early-1940s British aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman, The Golden Compass) follows her philandering husband to rural Australia. Upon arriving, she finds loads of foul play afoot, and the only man who can move her cattle is a rather uncouth, uncooperative rustler (Hugh Jackman, X-Men). In the meantime, there's a newly orphaned half-Aboriginal boy to look out for, and WWII is creeping toward the Aussie mainland.

Australia feels like two mini-movies in one—and with a runtime of 165 minutes, it's no wonder. Part One, I would liken to a period Disney film. There's a kid narrating, there's mischief, and the characters are thoroughly exaggerated. Part two is a more Pearl Harbor-ish war-era love story. Both are a little simplistic: The good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, and that's that. I hate to ruin it, but the ending is also sickeningly upbeat.

No doubt Luhrmann, who re-teamed with his Moulin Rouge star Kidman, is a wiz at creating visually stunning films, but this script came up somewhat short. Luckily, the slowest moments are at the onset, helping soften the overly long runtime. I still say that if you want a fully entertaining Aussie film, rent something with Paul Hogan's name on it.


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It's finally time to welcome Mark Wahlberg into the upperechelon of action-movie stars. After shooting, bombing and punching his way out of more hopeless situations in his latest flick than MacGyver, the Boogie Nights star has earned himself a spot next to cult heroes Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Russell. The difference is, Wahlberg has mixed in some credible dramatic work in getting there.

Former military sniper-turned-mountain-recluse Bob Lee Swagger (Wahlberg) gets roped into helping avert a presidential assassination attempt then pegged with the crime himself when a shot is fired. On the run, he enlists the help of a former partner's girlfriend and an FBI agent who believes his innocence—then he breaks a lot of arms and shoots a slew of folks in the head.

It's intelligent for a shoot-'em-up flick, which isn't surprising since it's helmed by Training Day director Antoine Fuqua. (If you recall, Denzel Washington scored his second Oscar under Fuqua's direction.) Michael Pena, best known as the door repairman from Crash, is impressive as Wahlberg's wet-behind-the-ears sidekick, while Danny Glover, who in advancing years now sounds like he has gauze in his mouth, plays a convincing government official with questionable morality.

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Letters published July 18, 2007

What would Jesus do . . . with that M-16? Bravo to Gulf War veteran Timothy Coil and his wife Yvette for their courageous effort to thwart two Army sergeants from attempting to sign up Tim Ellis for military service in the Stow-Munroe Falls Library, where the Coils tried to prevent the enlistee from needlessly risking his life in an unwarranted war ["Disturbing for Peace," July 4].

Perhaps the most poignant point in Denise Grollmus' excellent article was Timothy Coil's comment that he is a "Christian trying to stop young men from coming back in a box" or suffering the emotional wounds he struggles with as a result of his Gulf War service.

The Coils' actions epitomize the message of peace preached by Jesus Christ centuries ago, yet we have in Washington alleged Christians -- most notably George W. Bush -- who instigated an endless policy of death and maiming among Iraqis, causing the same to thousands of our own men and women.

How such warmongering hypocrites can call themselves Christians is beyond comprehension. If it were a felony to impersonate a Christian, Bush and his lying band of remorseless reprobates would be doing big-time hard time. In a perfect world, they would be judged as war criminals.

I can relate to Timothy Coil's change of heart during his military service, eventually morphing into a dove. Although nowhere near being a hawk during the Vietnam War, I did buy into the government's propaganda.

Back in the late '60s, I used to think Jane Fonda's anti-war activities played into the hands of the North Vietnamese government, but over the years I have come to understand she was simply trying to stop the killing.

In retrospect, Fonda's actions seem rather Christian, don't they?

Good luck to Timothy Coil in appealing his case. Where can readers send contributions to his defense fund?

Louis H. Pumphrey
Shaker Heights

Reporter tells tall tales? Talk about a lazy reporter. "Disturbing for Peace" wasn't as one-sided as one might expect, but when [Grollmus] wrote that Mr. Coil "towered over the bespectacled librarian," she lost all credibility. Give me a break. For Mr. Coil and his "300-pound frame" to tower over that "bespectacled librarian," he'd have to be well over seven feet tall. Anybody who's ever met Mr. Dotterer would get a good laugh out of this. Obviously the reporter didn't.

Craig Mancuso

Ain't no pro-life T-shirts in Baghdad: Every Christian has been commanded to stop war. "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Come on, right-to-lifers -- or is it just babies' lives that are important? I believe in fighting to protect our time-honored way of life, but not at the expense of civilian lives and my civil liberties.

Remember what being a patriot really is. It is not mindlessly listening to a government that was barely elected. It is for standing up against oppressive government and taxation without representation, and, more than anything else, for religious freedom.

There is no embarrassment to a country that tries to fix an error, just to one that continues to make them. I remember the struggle Vietnam vets went through. Where are these young Americans going to get the mental and physical rehabilitation they need? From the V.A. hospitals that have been shut down? From our already overtaxed Social Security system? War debt plus medical burden equals a country full of paupers.

Dave Kasl

Fair and Balanced Bias
From Rodney King to the Hit King, blame the media:
Bravo to Bob Gross [Letters, June 20] for bringing up the shameful Anne Hetman episode. In this country it's only racial injustice if it happens to a black person.

One of the biggest culprits of this mentality is the mainstream liberal media. Case in point: Recently a group of four black thugs kidnapped, brutally raped, sodomized, tortured, and dismembered a random young white couple. It never made the headlines. It was treated like a stolen bicycle.

How about Rodney King? The original eight-minute video shows him violently fighting the police, throwing them off like a crazed gorilla for more than seven minutes, until the police had no other option to subdue him. But we only see the last 30 seconds, ignoring what led up to it. And what did Rodney do after his $2.8 million settlement? Try to run over a police officer who was trying to arrest him in another crack deal.

Does anyone really believe that if Pete Rose sliced his ex-wife's head nearly off, he'd be walking around like O.J., let alone doing speaking engagements? Until the liberal media start telling the truth and we silence morons like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, racism will remain a cancer on this land.

Nick Djukich

Comfort-Zone Advice
Good enough, smart enough, and darn it, folks like him:
In response to the letter sent by Monique Moore [July 4], may I commend her on a very well-articulated response to Bob Gross' ugly one.

One point regarding the [Anne Hetman] incident: She said she understood the black response. That comes just short of condoning their ignorance, which was inexcusable.

I'm a lot like Mr. Gross in my feelings toward black people. Since age seven I've lived around whites and developed their attitudes. I've never been comfortable around black people since. I fled to an all-white comfort zone and stayed there. Whites were hard on me at first, but I learned how to deal with them over the years, and now we are fine.

So, Mr. Gross, you can do like I do, and accept your flaws and expect to answer for them, or grow and change. But if you aren't ready to do that, don't complain about your lot in life. It's all up to you. Good luck.

Davey Houston

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Aerosmith Delivers High-Energy Set at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton

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The Pro Football Hall of Fame held its first “Concert For Legends” on Friday evening at the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton. And when you’re talking about legends, it’s hard to think of a better choice than fellow Hall of Famers — 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, that is — Aerosmith.

The Boston band wrapped up its 2015 “Blue Army” tour in style, playing to their largest crowd of the summer. The stadium’s official capacity is listed as 22,364, and it was packed to the rafters with fans who were ready to celebrate the kickoff of the weekend’s Hall of Fame events with a good time. Aerosmith didn’t disappoint. You can see a slideshow of photos from the concert here

After a powerful but brief opening set from Living Colour and a short changeover period, the stage lights dimmed and the band made its appearance, taking the stage with the giant Aerosmith logo hovering behind them with neon white wings and the familiar Aerosmith script glowing bright red. Appropriately, they reached straight back to the title track of 1977’s Draw the Line to kick off a high-energy 17-song set. 45 years into the Aerosmith story, incredibly, the band still maintains its original five man lineup and these guys still perform with the intensity and connection that you can only find when you’re making music with a bunch of guys that you first jammed with back in 1970.

Clad in a swashbuckling combination of purple and black, frontman Steven Tyler, is 67 years old, but you’d have a hard time believing that, watching him writhe around on the stage on his back as he enthusiastically spat out the familiar lines of “Love In An Elevator” from the band’s late ‘80s Pump album. Two songs in, Tyler knew things were going good and at the conclusion of that song, he looked out into the crowd and quipped, “Crosby, Stills, Nash — and Aerosmith,” referencing the band’s airtight harmonies on the song.

Joe Perry, Tyler’s longtime counterpart, was typically cool (emphasis on the “cool”), calm and collected, with the guitarist throwing off riff after riff with a heavy amount of swagger that remains undiminished by the passage of time (and yes, that’s a picture of his wife, Billie, that you saw on the guitar that he played during “Crying”). Behind Perry, drummer Joey Kramer, who is similarly mellow on the surface, provided a key element to the performance. He was an endlessly percussive engine of activity operating with a visibly focused amount of intensity. On the tail end of the classic “Toys In The Attic,” Kramer would get a chance to really show off his stuff with a drum solo — one of those arena rock moments translated quite well to the stadium environment in front of the amped up crowd

Guitarist Brad Whitford and bassist Tom Hamilton complete the lineup for the Aerosmith dream team that has entertained the masses for so many decades now and on this night in Canton, the band chose a setlist that drew on its  many ‘70s highlights — including a couple of wildcards, “Rats In The Cellar” and their famous version of the Beatles’ “Come Together” while also offering plenty of acknowledgement to the hits that followed during the rebirth of the band in the late ‘80s and ‘90s. If we’re going to talk in football terms, Aerosmith scored touchdowns — a lot of them — and they wrapped up the night with a big bang, bringing the members of Living Colour back out on stage for a set-closing jam.

Surrounded by cheerleaders, the combined forces tore through a blistering version of “Walk This Way” with Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover sharing the vocals with Tyler, while Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid traded riffs with Perry. With no shortage of musicians on the stage, they stretched out and made it a good long jam during which everybody got a piece of the action — even the cheerleaders, who eventually linked arms with Tyler and did a synchronized Rockettes-style dance as the band continued to play on.

They could have easily wrapped up the night right there. But Aerosmith came back and gave the crowd two more, sending fans home with an encore set of the classics “Dream On” and “Sweet Emotion.” It was a great night and a fitting kickoff that no doubt left the crowd in attendance well primed for the remaining celebratory events of the Hall of Fame weekend.

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Coen Brothers' A Serious Man mundane

The Coens' bleak movie about cosmic disappointments is, uh, a bit of a letdown.

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The common Coen brothers scenario of good peoplesâ€™ lives ruined by bad choices is flipped in A Serious Man. Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a good person whose trauma is that he makes no new choices. The metaphor is made plain: As a math professor, Larry insists that equations must provide certainty. A Simple Man delves into the mystery of bad luck. But the movieâ€™s bleakness lacks the pop fizzle and moral overview that made No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading so thrilling. Establishing Jewish faith and family in experienced, though near-vaudevillian caricatures, the last half has Larry visit three rabbis, testing his belief against his cosmic disappointment. The filmmakers accentuate repetition over story (the colleague who tells Larry his tenure is under review, the Korean kid who wants his grade changed, the Columbia House representative that wonâ€™t stop phoning). Thatâ€™s a brave approach, but the film winds up presenting mundane existence in mundane term---the Coens keep us outside looking in. Larryâ€™s spiritual crisis doesnâ€™t attain its demanded empathy, leaving A Serious Man as a lesser work by great artists.

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Defrauding an Election

Wired has a fun and informative look at How to Rig a Presidential Election in 1000 Easy Steps. Basically it’s impossible — I hadn’t really thought of this before, but every precinct has its own officials from both parties that certify everything, there are just a ton of people involved at every step of the process. All that said, I would love if voting platforms were completely open source software and had paper receipts that could be verified manually.

Also speaking of politics getting dirty, the San Francisco State Senate race has had a ton of falsehoods and attacks from Scott Weiner, someone I’ve met before and previously thought was a nice guy, but the latest mailers I’ve seen have just been deceitful (especially considering the Guardian actually endorsed his opponent, Jane Kim).

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  1. I thought you were smarter than me, even I know you defraud the election before the voting takes place. Don’t listen the the BS from the media its to point you in another direction you should know that.

    Its the rigging the DNC to favor your candidate and having the GOP good old boys go along to get along. Its having the media lap dogs buy into the system until they own it by proxy.

    Duh only a person that expects something from the system would not say they can’t see the fix is in. So stay focused on the propaganda bis and don’t point people to the shiny things to take their eye off the prize.

    Freedom and fair elections matter if they steal the election what stops them from taking your stuff too?

    The media is suppose to be balanced and unafraid they are now idiots or scared mongrels at best. They were the 1st line of defense for a free country now they are the main line to stealing the election, its not about who wins as much as it is who chose them, the people or the corrupt system.

    Its obvious neither candidate is presidential stuff I do believe the backup team as VP is a much better a choice. If Hilliary gets in we are stuck with Kaine (New World order). I don’t like that idea at all do the research. Its pretty obvious few people really wanted these two to run for that matter I haven’t seen but a couple in the last 40 years worth voting for as president and its by design.

    See you don’t have to be that smart to see what the hell is going on. Love your products hope you can keep them from socialism.

    1. There is a reason that I really like that wikipedia format. It’s because opinions without facts are discouraged and notes to the public that such and such is still yet unverified are reminders that we are still waiting for said author to back up the factoid with verifiable sources.
      I am neither pro nor con to what you wrote but I am very interested in seeing the backup documentation to it. Several years ago, I also use to write like this but having seen the proper way of presenting informative material, I am adverse to going backwards.

      1. Its simple the fact is its in your media face bias and they don’t care what you believe as long as they can hold off until the election is over. If you can’t see it you don’t want to.

        Its just like most not all but most of the riots were based on a bias media as part of the instigators of the violence. After the facts came out most of the propaganda was found out to be untrue, just as we will see here. Just keep the lies going until the damage is done and you get the results you want.

        Front page lies with back page small post to retract lies.

  2. Not a big fan of electronic voting, way too sensitive to fraud.

    Imagine how much could be done with the money that is spent on elections.

    I’ve found this one of the weirdest things of elections. You have people losing their jobs, homes, not being able to afford health care.

    Politicians promising change, from a neutral perspective, and all of them spending tons of money on stuff to promote a message, possibly providing some jobs.

    Why not make promotional material that actually helps people? Like canned food for example.

  3. Hmmmm… you’re asking the wrong question! The issue of rigging the election isn’t about fixing the vote after, but about disenfranchising 100s of thousands of people (mostly black and latino) by rigging the voting system, thus denying them to right to vote!

    1. Could you explain the rigging the voting system with a little more detail??

      Don’t you believe you should have as much identification to vote that you do to cash a paycheck? Like a legal citizen with a photo ID? If there are more issues than that I may be uninformed?

      1. Well, here in the UK, you need absolutely nothing aside from stating your name and address, in order to vote. You do get a form in the mail but you don’t actually have to present it when you vote. Most vote fraud here is the result of postal voting.

        But as I said, the biggest problem in the US are racist/classist state governments! At least 25 states have passed ‘laws’ that de-enfranchise many black citizens or made it extremely difficult for black citizens to vote.

        And then you have you have the Diebold voting machines with no paper trail, with OSs that can be hacked.

        But worst of all, you only have two parties to vote for and yuo call it democracy (just like here)!!!

    2. How is that possible? Nobody who is a citizen can be denied a vote. ID cards are issued free of charge to people who cannot afford them. ID cards are in everybody’s wallet these days. You cannot cash a check, take an airplane bus or train without an ID. You often cannot pickup medications without it. You cannot buy alcohol or tobacco without it. Please tell me black and latino people do not do any of these things.

      1. Apparently voter fraud in the US is incredibly rare:

        Somewhere around 11% of eligible voters don’t have access to government ID that would enable them to vote, which could be because of something like their name changing (marriage) or an address change:

        To the extent fraud is possible, it’s much more possible with voting by mail since in most cases ID laws don’t apply. If it were just about fraud ID laws should apply to voting by mail as well:

        I just voted by mail myself today, actually! (Just once, not fraudulently. :))

        I’ve had an ID my entire life that I can remember, so requiring some sort of ID seems like a common-sense measure, but this story from Houston (my home) opened my eyes to how it can actually be a huge time and money cost to get a new ID, for a 65-year-old who was born in Texas and lived his entire life there:

  4. “Officials from both parties” secures nothing. From the perspective of an average American, both parties are exactly the same in that they exist to keep America polarized and to perpetuate policies that keep their government paychecks large while we carry the cost on our backs. Of course both parties are content to rig the election in favor of whichever candidate ensures they continue to get their fat paychecks while America remains divided arguing over petty things that dont matter when you can barely afford to feed your family because you work to pay taxes for gov’t benefits that you don’t qualify for. Both parties have been working together to this end for over 30 years. A poor people is an easily controlled people, and the candidate who continues to secure this vision of the elite is the candidate who will win. Both parties are in on it.

    1. As we watch the donkeys and elephants huddle together in secrecy to conspire for Hillary its pretty obvious to a 5th grader something stinketh starting with the news media.

  5. Dig more into the Super Delegate system and electoral college, and how it interprets and quantifies (or not) our vote. That’s where the democratic system is rigged at the fundamental federal level.

  6. To think an election cannot be defrauded is being naive. Many people vote several times in different districts and are not caught. False registrations are happening and not caught. Voter rolls that have not been cleaned for years contain the names of dead people who can still legally vote since an ID is not always required to vote only say your name. Illegal aliens who have a valid state issued driver’s license can vote in some districts even though they are not legally allowed to. All these and many other ways the votes of American citizens are being degraded. I like your products, I think business people should keep their politics to themselves as they risk to lose clients. You have one vote like anyone else, I want to conduct business with you but if I have to be subjected to your political views I might look elsewhere. When I do business with you I do not bring my political opinion into it.

  7. I notice we keep going back to the lame voting machines focus as nearly impossible but now know that are not so hard to calibrate for the left as we get new information in, oh thiose pesky factoids the left hates.

    Election and voter fraud are myths? Who knew? Despite mounds and decades of evidence to the contrary, the media tell us that Trump is “dangerous” and “undemocratic” for daring to suggest that this election, including the media’s coverage of the candidates, is rigged. We may appropriately quote 1984: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” Right now they have the control; it’s our job to wrest it back from them.

    Since the final debate, there’s been hardly a mention of 1) The Clinton Foundation – a criminal enterprise 2) Hillary’s incitement of violence at Trump’s rallies 3) The modern Middle East, half burned down, thanks to Hillary. And yet we are supposed to believe that it’s all Russia’s fault…

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Between Self and Other

Pictures for an Exhibition

Representation of the human body dates back to earliest antiquity. The portrait genre developed among the first civilizations, with humans shedding their fleshly forms to be reinvented as statuettes, carved in stone or drawn on walls. Stating definitively just when the generic ended and the singular began is a hazardous venture, however, since the space between self-sculpture and the question of the double also offers an opening for otherness. What is the position of the other relative to the self? That is one of the questions which prompted the selection of works gathered together here.

Photography, webcam, painting, family album, shadow theatre¾all platforms for staging the self. Self-representation is a very widespread tradition that began taking on heightened importance in the 1970s, at a time when artists were focusing more on their own individuality. Since then, this interest has continued to grow and the ways of expressing it have proliferated in society; no longer the exclusive preserve of artistic circles, today they are taking over our computer screens. Between identity and representation, forms and appearances, perception and reality, self and other, the self-portrait constitutes an exquisite paradox: it is a projection both outside the self and of the self.

Pictures for an Exhibition is an evolving cycle of exhibitions based on works from the collection and intended to generate new connections between historical works and recent acquisitions, between the different media and artists of various generations.

The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is grateful to Québec’s Ministère de la Culture et des Communications for a grant provided under its program to support permanent exhibitions, which has made this project possible.

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  • Had trouble turning head side to side and couldn’t raise my right arm. Pain in my back on the left side, balance a little off, and pain. Today I am pain free, feel wonderful, back to my old self one more time. I turn 75 years young today, and I feel much younger, moving better, thinking better without pain. Thanks to the team that worked on me.…

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  • Coming to Madden PT was the best decision I made. Before I came I could not sit or stand for more than a few minutes without pain. My life activities were on hold, and my job was suffering. With dedication to my PT program my life had resumed back to normal. I can walk, drive, lift, and sleep through the night without any pain. I am able to participate in family activities again with no pain at all. I am very thankful to Jan, Ryan, and Josh for all they did for me, the best caring staff. Thank you so much!…

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My full name is Nicole Vasiliu. That is pronounced “Va-silly-u”. Recently, I’ve graduated from Lebanon Valley College with my Doctorate of Physical Therapy. Like all physical therapy students, I spent most of my time in the library studying or in the classroom practicing hands-on skills. Ironically, I wasn’t convinced that I would enjoy working in Orthopedics. I didn’t even think I would be able to utilize all the hands-on techniques that we use at Madden. In fact, when I was in school, I doubted myself in my ability to effectively do any manual therapy due to my small body stature. After a long internal debate, I decided to take a chance and move out of my comfort zone. I took an elective course taught by two of our PT’s here at Madden, Joe Hribick and Dan Hinnerschitz. As it turns out, that course built up my confidence and taught me ways that I would be able to perform the techniques even though I’m smaller—I’m small but mighty!

In addition to academics, I was kept very busy with also being a student athlete. I ran both Cross Country and Track and Field. College athletics taught me many lessons, but I think the biggest one is how important it is to have strong, supportive friendships in life. Sure, sports teach you how through being persistent and committing to a goal that you can succeed, but I wouldn’t be the person I am today without those friendships I made in school.

I’m also quite the chatterbox, so while in school I put that skill to work. I became a campus tour guide. Basically, it was my job to show prospective students and their parents around campus and tell them about all the different things that LVC had to offer. In a way, I was these people’s first impression of LVC. Of course, I did something to completely embarrass myself… One day in January, we had gotten a ton of snow and then it melted and froze back over. Well, of course I’m on a tour, I step on ice and slip and completely wipe out. That was probably one of the most embarrassing things that has ever happened to me in front of a bunch of strangers.

You are probably thinking, “Oh, Nicole is out of school, she probably just works and then goes home and relaxes”…WRONG!!! I currently live in Mechanicsburg with my parents and sister, who is also pursuing a career in physical therapy. I’ve lived there my whole life. When I’m not doing things with my family, you can probably find me at LVC. I am currently the assistant Cross Country coach there as well as an assistant Lab Instructor for the Manual Therapy graduate course within the Physical Therapy department. After struggling with my own misconceptions on being of smaller stature and not being able to perform effective hands-on techniques, I wanted to help others who might be struggling with the same issues. It is important for the students to know that you can deliver manual therapy regardless of your size.