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All About the Epilepsy division
At UF
The foundations of epilepsy patient care and scientific epileptology at the University of Florida were laid by BJ Wilder and RP Schmidt over half a century ago. Dr. Wilder (known to friends and colleagues the world over as 'BJ') was instrumental in several pivotal studies that led to the approval of many second generation anticonvulsant medications. In 1992, the epilepsy surgery program was launched to complement the medical aspects of the program and offer truly comprehensive care for both children and adults with epilepsy. Today, we are a National Association of Epilepsy Centers Level IV program that provides compassionate, patient-centered and innovative care for epilepsy.
Meet the
'It takes a village'. Quality comprehensive care for epilepsy can only be provided by a multidisciplinary effort that is coordinated to serve the patient's best interests. At UFHealth, direct patient care is provided by a vibrant team of physician and nurse practitioner providers that partners with an adult and pediatric neurosurgeon. The provider group is the tip of an iceberg that includes a large team of EEG technologists, administrators and administrator assistants, hospital nursing staff and clinic medical assistants. For complex patients, our team also includes neuropsychologists, neuropathologists, neuroradiologists and a dietary biochemist.
For Patients
The Epilepsy Division is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of expert physicians and healthcare providers. As an NAEC Level IV program, we endeavor to provide the best care, and the most-up-to date information about all aspects of epilepsy to our patients. While there is an abundance of information about epilepsy available on the Internet, our team has compiled a list of websites that contain authentic and useful information about epilepsy. Please remember that the field is constantly evolving, and information gathered should always be discussed with your provider. We are always available for patients and their carers to contact us directly with questions.
Our outpatient program services over 5000 patients from north and central Florida, and we see referrals from all over the state of Florida and the southern United States. We offer expert evaluation of patients suspected to have seizures, new patients following their first suspected seizure, and patients with a longer history whose seizures remain difficult to manage.Our waiting list for new patients is under two weeks, and we can usually see urgent patients sooner. All outpatients are offered a detailed and unhurried evaluation of their seizure disorder. Patients always have access to our staff through our phone lines and the patient portal of our electronic medical record system.
Inpatient services revolve around hospitalized patients undergoing continuous EEG monitoring of some type. The Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) is a dedicated 8-bed unit on the 5th floor of the Neuromedicine Hospital (NMH) serving epilepsy patients specifically admitted for diagnosis or pre-surgical workup of of refractory epilepsy. Patients undergoing invasive EEG monitoring are jointly managed by the epilepsy faculty, critical care faculty and the neurosurgery service in the Neurointensive Care Unit on the 4th floor of NMH. The Epilepsy Division also oversees continuous portable video-EEG monitoring (long-term monitoring; LTM) on acutely ill patients across the entire UFHealth Gainesville campus.
Neurodiagnostic services are fully integrated into our bright and airy workspace at the UFHealth Neuromedicine Hospital. The outpatient EEG lab performs routine EEG, multi-day ambulatory EEG, short (6-hour) video-EEG, evoked potentials and PET-EEG. The inpatient EEG service performs long-term monitoring (LTM) across the entire UFHealth hospital complex, in addition to serving the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU). A transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) service was inaugurated in July 2020 for brain mapping. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a planned addition within the next year. These facilities will make UFHealth Neurodiagnostics among the most comprehensive clinical neurophysiology services anywhere in the nation.
The epilepsy surgery program at the University of Florida was started in 1992 to expand treatment options for patients with seizures not controlled by medications alone. Since then we have performed over 1500 surgical procedures for epilepsy. Epilepsy surgery is a complex process supported by our entire interdisciplinary team of physicians, surgeons, radiologists, neuropsychologists and many other providers. We combine a substantial historical experience with adoption of the emerging technologies of stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG), minimally invasive approaches (laser ablation therapy) and responsive neurostimulation (RNS) to offer a truly comprehensive treatment approach tailored to the individual patient.
While the traditional methods of treating epilepsy – with antiseizure drugs and with brain surgery – continue to advance, a further method of controlling seizures – neuromodulation – is rapidly evolving. 'Neuromodulation' is the process by which certain brain areas are activated electrically so that they may influence other brain areas to reduce the tendency for seizures. The science behind neuromodulation remains incompletely understood, but the positive effect on seizures can be significant. The first neuromodulatory treatment to be FDA-approved was vagal nerve stimulation (VNS), but in recent years RNS (responsive neurostimulation) and DBS (deep brain stimulation) have been approved for use in selected patient populations.
Clinical Trials
Treatments for epilepsy are under constant evolution, as the epilepsy community tries out new therapies to improve epilepsy care. Several of the major pharmaceuticals currently FDA-approved for the treatment of epilepsy underwent early trials at UF. Our team believes that complementary therapies – diet based, such as the Modified Atkins Diet, or hormone based for catemenial seizures – can have a strong therapeutic effect. We offer clinical trial participation for eligible patients, and alternative treatments are always available for those who have failed more conventional treatments in the past. While conventional treatments are always offered first, our providers will be happy to discuss alternative treatments.
Resident training in epilepsy and EEG is fully integrated into the overall training scheme of the UF neurology residency program. Despite the breadth of the subject of clinical epileptology, members of our Division aim to impart knowledge that is clinically important and comprehensive for the practicing general neurologist, yet succinctly conveyed. In addition, being a tertiary referral center, we also expose trainees to the challenges of complex and surgical epilepsy syndromes, so that they may glimpse the excitement and promise of this rapidly-evolving neurology subspecialty.
Fellowship training has been a long tradition at UF. We currently offer a one-year fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology. Up to two positions are available, with the relative EEG/Epilepsy versus EMG/Neuromuscular emphasis left to the interest of the Fellow. We also offer an Epilepsy/EEG fellowship as an ACGME accredited, one-year program. The latter fellowship offers a structured educational curriculum underscored by significant experience of complex adult and pediatric epilepsy.
Epilepsy Research
We are proud to exist in the #1 university in the State of Florida and the #8 public university in the country; UF's combined neuroscience research program recently ranked #2 among public universities. The Wilder Center for Epilepsy Research houses the Division's research efforts and our core members and affiliates pursue a number of themes in the brain science around epilepsy; interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged. The Wilder Center also hosts a week-long annual visiting professorship of epilepsy each spring, at which time an annual update conference for the UF community is held.


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Mixed Clinical, Biomarker Score Might Boost CAD Risk Prediction
The score, which combines two clinical variables and four blood biomarkers, mimics clinical judgement, one expert says.
A novel clinical and biomarker scoring system has the potential to identify obstructive coronary artery disease in a wide range of patients, according to proof-of-concept research.
Today, most patients suspected of having significant coronary artery stenosis—typically defined as at least 70%—undergo a range of often costly tests, such as CT angiography and stress testing, that are not entirely without risk. Biomarker scoring has shown promise in predicting the likelihood of adverse outcomes in A-fib, but it has had mixed success in predicting CAD.
Researchers led by James Januzzi, Jr., MD (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston), created a scoring system using clinical variables (sex and PCI history) and biomarkers (midkine, adiponectin, apolipoprotein C-I, and kidney injury molecule-1 [KIM-1]). They then tested and validated it in 649 and 278 patients, respectively, from the CASABLANCA study.
Results published in the March 7, 2017, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology showed that elevated scores were predictive of ≥ 70% stenosis in all patients (OR 9.74), men (OR 7.88), women (OR 24.8), and those with no previous CAD (OR 8.67). Additionally, in the validation cohort the score could effectively predict which patients would or would not have CAD in 42% of subjects, with a positive predictive value of 93% and a negative predictive value of 91%. Even in those with "nonsignificant" stenosis, scores were correlated with the degree of narrowing, Januzzi said.
Over a mean follow-up of 3.6 years, the scoring system independently predicted incident acute MI in age- and score-adjusted models (HR 2.23; 95% CI 1.53-3.25).
"Having a widely available and easily interpretable blood test would be expected to be an advantage over much of the conventional ways that we evaluate patients for coronary disease," Januzzi told TCTMD. "This is the first time that these four proteins that we identified have been put together in this way together with clinical variables to predict coronary artery disease presence. So it is very, very novel."
Januzzi said that while he was optimistic in general about the usefulness of this scoring system, he was surprised at how the biomarker information "overwhelmed" the effect of clinical variables. Specifically, his team entered "100 or more" clinical variables initially, and only male sex and previous PCI remained as influential. Also noteworthy is how the testing strategy "can both exclude and identify the presence of significant disease in a substantial percentage of patients," he said. "Biomarkers in general are good for either excluding or identifying disease. To find this balance of sensitivity and specificity is unique and really remarkable I think."
A Potential 'Gatekeeper'
In an accompanying editorial, Robert Vogel, MD (University of Colorado Denver), writes that this scoring system stands out for its specific goal of finding "significant" disease as opposed to disease of any severity, but describes this as both a pro and a con.
"Assigning patients to the 'nonsignificant' category of coronary disease, as opposed to 'no angiographic disease,' is a disservice to patients because they have almost the same risk for major coronary events], and secondary preventive measures are usually not suggested with the same vigor as for those with significant disease," he says, adding that the results question whether "high grade" coronary disease is associated with different biomarkers than atherosclerosis in general.
Vogel observes that the score's "combination of clinical and biomarker parameters mimic clinical judgment," but he too expressed surprise at how only two clinical variables "proved useful." He also noted that midkine and KIM-1 have never before been linked to coronary atherosclerosis, but remarked that "it is interesting that none of the four biomarkers identified is a marker of inflammation as would be expected if the goal had been determining unstable disease."
Ultimately calling these results "preliminary" due to the division of patients into separate training and validation cohorts, Vogel said this scoring system should be further studied "in an independent population selected with more varied inclusion criterion."
Januzzi agreed. "It is a step toward a personalized precision approach for using biological information with validation to predict the presence of a very common and very important clinical diagnosis," he said. "With validation and further data regarding this score strategy, I think we could envision seeing it used clinically. More data are needed, and we're in the process of collecting it."
As for whether this system could ultimately change routine practice, Januzzi said it could "quite conceivably [be used as] a gatekeeper toward more expensive testing like stress testing or CT angiography, eliminating the need for some cases and increasing the need in others depending on the results of the score."
Specifically, he plans to investigate the score's use in both stable, office-based patients with "relatively subtle symptoms" and in unstable patients presenting the emergency department with ambiguity as to whether or not they have an ACS. "There are a wide range of potential applications here that still remain to be examined, but there's definitely a lot of promise," Januzzi concluded.
Ibrahim NE, Januzzi JL, Magaret CA, et al. A clinical and biomarker scoring system to predict the presence of obstructive coronary artery disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017;69:1147-1156.
Vogel RA. Biomarkers of high-grade coronary stenosis: searching for seventies. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017;69:1157-1159.
- Vogel RA. Biomarkers of high-grade coronary stenosis: searching for seventies. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017;69:1157-1159.
- Januzzi reports receiving support from the Hutter Family Professorship in Cardiology, receiving grant support from Siemens, Singulex, and Prevencio; receiving consulting income from Roche Diagnostics, Critical Diagnostics, Sphingotec, Phillips, and Novartis; and participating in clinical endpoint committees/data safety monitoring boards for Novartis, Amgen Janssen, and Boehringer Ingelheim.
- Vogel reports no relevant conflicts of interest.

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Ever sat at museums or just trolling by paintings online and looking at the famous paintings by the once lived famous artists and wanted to be a part of them? Well, this app literally takes the word out of your mouth and puts itself in the form of an app. You can now customize your selfies or pictures of landscapes or places and merge them into forms of art left by the famous artists!
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures." – Vincent Van Gogh
Art has always taken a place in our hearts. Creativity comes in all forms as it ranges from not only paintings but sketches and even our very own mother nature. Most things that we do in our daily lives are also considered a piece of art or a skill. Why not capture the most beautiful aspects of our lives in a single click and turn those into one of the master pieces left by one of the best artists deemed by the world of all times? How? Everimagining Ltd. Makes it possible by launching Go Art – the image editing app.
Go Art is a image editing and exporting app that uses the latest emerging artificial intelligence based technology that immediately turns any image that you capture into 'fine art' templates that already exist in the filter options in the application. These templates are famous paintings created by masters or famous painters and artists such as Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da'Vinci, Claude Monet, and so on.
The app is very easy to use as it's just a simple editing app and gives you no trouble as the options are to the point and simple. The templates come in a large number so you can always pick just the right one for the moment. Also it's to be noted that some of the templates are locked, meaning that users have to have the required amount of points to unlock the selected template. Users can gain points by signing up at the left panel of the app and earning points using referral system or creating your profile, watching neat advertisements and so on.
Launched on Google Play & Apple iTunes store, you can download this game on either of the platforms. However, if you wish to play GoArt on PC, you have come to the right place. All you have got to do is, Follow the steps illustrated in this article to Download & Run GoArt for PC on Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 / 8, Windows XP & MAC OS. Simple and easy to use, this app gives life to the art itself!
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of Sickness
The corrupting nature of abortion is something almost no one in the media, and no one in the political arena supportive of the procedure, dare discuss. If there is anything positive at all about the bizarre story of Ulrich Klopfer it is that it pulls the sanitary veil off this horrible industry.
[Last] Friday, 165 more bodies of aborted babies were found in a Mercedes Benz owned by the late abortionist who operated clinics in Gary, Fort Wayne and South Bend, Indiana. These bodies were all from abortions that occurred in 2002. The image of an abortionist keeping thousands of fetal remains at his home is sick enough, but driving around in his car with nearly 200 more is a special kind of sickness.
That sickness must be contagious. An abortionist in Michigan, pleaded "no contest" two years ago to multiple felony charges that included having 14 aborted babies in his car.
Two years prior to the conviction of abortionist Michael Roth, about the same time he was arrested, another abortionist in Michigan, speaking to the National Abortion Federation callously told her audience of her suggestion about what to do with fetal remains. Renee Chelian was caught on video saying, "We thought we'll give it [the fetal remains] to everybody in a gift bag, they can take it home, figure out what to do with it. It's their pregnancy – why is this our problem? And I'm saying that in all seriousness."
The total known number of unborn children Klopfer kept for years is now up to 2,411.
This article was originally published by AFA of Indiana.


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This is what the audience saw during "I Can't Explain," the opening song in last night's 2-hour marathon Who concert: singer Roger Daltrey swinging his mike cord like a lariat and guitarist Pete Townshend windmilling big chords from his guitar as he fell to one knee.
OK, everybody, you can all go home now. You've already got your money's worth. But, of course, it was only the beginning of a striking 21-song set that put to shame the Tweeter Center's previous two shows over the holiday weekend featuring Sting and Jimmy Page with the Black Crowes.
Blues greats like Muddy Waters were once the standard used to measure the way rock bands should age gracefully. Forget that.
Maturing rockers should look at what the Who and The Rolling Stones are doing in their senior years, and based on last night's Who concert, they should be afraid. Very afraid. With Zak Starkey on drums, Rabbit Bundrick on keyboards, and John Entwistle on bass, the band just chewed up and devoured classic Who tunes like "My Wife," "Bargain," and "Won't Get Fooled Again," as well as lesser-known songs such as "Relay" and "Naked Eye."
Daltrey's voice was a tad road-worn, but he still sports a washboard stomach and a riveting stage presence. Townshend was a marvel. Still one of rock's most physical guitarists, he abused his instruments all night - sometimes even repeatedly pummeling them with a fist - to get them to create great chopping riffs and torrid staccato washes.
But being a gentleman rocker sometimes has its drawbacks. Several times, in the middle of scintillating breaks, Townshend had to stop in midstroke to gently tuck the hem of his sportcoat behind his Fender.
The night was a primer in dynamics and chemistry and the delicate art of tension-and-release set to riveting music. The band members were clearly enjoying themselves, too.
Daltrey and Townshend kiddingly bickered with each other and the audience for much of the night. When Entwistle blew the roaring bass lines that kick off "Pinball Wizard," he just made everyone start over.
"I'm proud of the re-emergence of this band," Townshend admitted from the stage.
And rock fans everywhere should be grateful.


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No compromise with crime, corruption and communalism: Nitish
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said that he would not compromise with crime, corruption and communalism.
Without naming ally BJP, Nitish Kumar taunted it, saying that there is no question of keeping silent on communalism and compromising with communal politics.
Speaking at a function here, the Chief Minister also reiterated that he will not give up demand of special category status for Bihar.
"I had raised thus demand on Sunday at a meeting of NITI Aayog in Delhi," he said, adding that special category is must for development of Bihar.


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Resident's pleas over speed zone answered
THE tireless campaign has finally paid off for Ulmarra residents with the announcement of changes to speed limits on the southern and northern approaches to the village.
MP Chris Gulaptis announced on Friday safety would be improved on sections of the Pacific Highway at Ulmarra in the coming weeks following a detailed review of the speed zone in response to community concerns.
"The review considered the road environment, pedestrian activity, driver behaviour, vehicle volumes and historical crash data," Mr Gulaptis said.
"In line with the review's recommendations the existing 50km/h speed limit will be extended at the southern and northern ends of the township.
"The 80km/h speed limit on the southern entry to town will also be extended."
Ulmarra resident and Let's Not Wait campaign spokesperson Ryan Brown welcomed the announcement.
"It's a step in the right direction," Mr Brown said.
"It's more than what we had and it's good that everyone's been able to get on board.
"We have copped a bit of flak from motorists, so I think it's going to be all worth it."
Resident John Leask echoed these sentiments.
"I'm really happy with what's happened today," Mr Leask said.
"Some people were sceptical that the push by Ulmarra residents to make this place a safer place was going to be a waste of effort, but this is proof that when the community gets together, we can get things improved."
Mr Gulaptis said the extended speed limits would be supplemented with new warning signs and line marking to advise motorists of new speed limits.
The new speed limit will come into effect this month and motorists are advised to drive to the conditions.


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Africa Tourism Partners will step up its Africa Travel and Tourism Masterclasses with business-to-business meetings in early 2019.
Following a successful 2018 Africa Tourism Leadership Forum and Awards (ATLF) held in Accra, Ghana, at the end of August, African Tourism Partners (ATP) will host its Africa Travel and Tourism Marketing Masterclass and Business/MICE Travel Connection in Johannesburg from January 28 to 29, and February 22, respectively.
These programmes aim to chart the course for implementing one of the key action points that emanated from the first-ever Africa Travel and Tourism CEO's Dialogue on intra-Africa travel, held on the sidelines of ATLF 2018. The content of the forthcoming sessions has been designed and structured to provide Africa's travel and tourism sector with new possibilities to build capacity, share insights and attract new businesses from sister countries, thereby advancing the course of growing Africa travel.
Each programme will be a blend of an Africa Travel and Tourism Masterclass, business-to-business meetings and networking sessions. With these initiatives, ATP hopes to bring together managers of travel and tourism products, destinations, hotels, conference centres, travel management companies (TMCs), destination management companies (DMCs), professional conference organisers (PCOs), as well as African buyers and sellers from across the continent.
Participants will gain useful knowledge about African travel market segments that will enable them to steer their respective organisations to greater heights.
"We will share knowledge on doing travel and tourism business and opportunities in Africa, and how to harness these in the most cost-effective way," says Kwakye Donkor, ATP CEO. "While previously intra-Africa travel facilities and products have catered for high-end business and leisure travellers, there is now more room for destinations, facilities, products, buyers and suppliers to cater for the middle to lower end of the corporate and leisure travel market. This is due to growth in branded hotel developments, low-cost carriers, technological advancement, growing middle-class and more segmented offerings."
Both initiatives will be delivered by Africa travel and tourism professionals, experts and practitioners, including senior TMC executives, leading DMC professionals, chief convention bureau officers, chief marketing officers, key accounts directors and more.
The opportunities lie in learning as well as exploring new prospects in the current global disruptive and competitive tourism environment. These will be augmented by business-to-business meetings and product/facility showcase sessions.
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Robbo- (from the last post) Bizarre to think of a Steve Bruce side with no defence.
yesssssss 1-0 🙂
So here we are, Dean Smith, Swansea, and back to football with absolutely no idea what to expect as Swansea come to visit. We've read and talked about virtually everything possible over the international break, and now it's simply time to sit back and watch.
Talking with a Forest mate of mine last night, and I was going on about Smith, he was just finding out Forest's owner just went to jail or something, and then we just kept drinking. Which is why your faithful correspondent does not have anything clever to say at the moment. Other than a word of caution that adding a little St. Germain to rye whiskey is an excellent, but deadly cocktail. And when you host the women's book club that has nothing at all to do with books, you really should leave the house instead of getting caught up in "our book club can outdrink your book club."
Personal problems.
At Villa Park, meanwhile, here's who we'll see start in claret and blue:
Hutton, Tuanzebe, Chester, Taylor
Elmohamady, Bjarnason, McGinn, Adomah
Grealish, Abraham
So, as I suspected, not a radical departure to start out. It'll be a full and, one hopes, rocking house this afternoon. All we need is a win and who knows what might happen next.
COYVB, and over to you.
Robbo- (from the last post) Bizarre to think of a Steve Bruce side with no defence.
yesssssss 1-0 🙂
1-0 villa.
What a refreshing change. All the players pushing it.
So far so good hope the oranges are good
A lot more pressure, to be sure…Very curious to see how the second half plays out.
JC whats the general play look like?
Mark. We chasing down every ball and playing as a team. Also the crowd are behind the team which is great.
Greilish just missed 2
Haggis sounds better mate, should be 2 up though but hard to tell with the AVFC presenter.
Their goalie is keeping them in this.
Haggis thanks for the match info.
Am in wales & all I've got to follow is the beeb & Bham mail internet internet match txts, as the swansea end is in welsh ffs.
Sounds like there is a change already, the atmosphere looks amazing.
Hourihane in for Grealish
McGinn yellow card do don't play Tuesday.
Nyland MOM been brilliant
Looked good first half, rather ragged in the second. Could well be 4-4 or something like that apart from players missing their chances and keepers making good saves.
Well done Dean Smith and staff
3 points. Tenth with 3 off play offs. could of been loads of goals. Very impressed with the whole side. Well done. DSC&BA
Guilty of writing some stupid posts myself but 1 earlier today takes the biscuit, that if de matteo had got much longer Bruce job would have been looking for promotion from league 1 ha ha ha
Phew thank Gawd for that should do them good.
JC- yes not used to pressing I presume I thought they'd fade, good Nyland made a few saves and got a clean sheet.
No Mcginn for tues but hourihane will have to play
How did Hutton do? Tuanzebe?
Terrible! Scrabbling to hang onto the lead second half.
These Brucie tactics will not work! Smith out!
Tuanzebe looked fine, Ian. Back line was getting well up the pitch. Hutton was Hutton.
McGinn had a very good game. Bolasie and Kodjia failed to make any real impact. Bjarnason did well, Nyland made a couple-three excellent saves.
Basically looked like Villa, but less cautious. Made the early pressure count, could've run away with it, then could've lost it.
13th place 3 points off 6th 7 off top two with all to play for, and you'd hope its gonna get better once he knows his players strengths etc , game on.
Probably a bit of truth about tiring themselves out…Will take a little bit for them to get used to doing that for more than 30 or 40 minutes.
Yeah, I think he'll rotate through some players, see what's what.
Forgot to mention Abraham…Had another two chances he should've buried, but headed one straight into the ground, put the other straight into the keeper. His energy and pressure up front were impressive though, and the goal was very well taken. Good ball in from Elmo.
JC- I am annoyed about Bolasie, a needless loan for big money when the defence was so weak. I think him and Kodjia will not feature much once we get rolling. Neither seem very coachable if you like. Wonder if Smith has started eyeing the u23's yet? 🙂
I know he wasn't fit, but even as he's been worked it, just not seeing much. Maybe he comes good, but…And Kodjia just can't get it going.
Whoever said it could have been 4-4 got it about right. Also agree about Nyland being man of the match, which bearing in mind his continued kicks to touch is a bit of a surprise.
There were some differences today:
Hunting down the opposition in packs and winning the ball many times (McGinn in particular)
More attempted through balls (although quite a few going astray)
More low crosses driven into the box rather than lobbed across for headers
Like for like substitutions
Generally a bit more energy about the team, particularly in the first half (not sure if that's coaching or just taken up in the atmosphere)
Oh . . . and a full Villa Park. . . . . 41,000 in the championship is pretty impressive
JC's call for Bjarnason looked right today. . . him and McGinn provided the midfield energy to give some protection to our defence. Tuanzebe is starting to look the part though, so provided him and Chester can stay fit we may just be ok there.
Taylor had his best game for us for a while too.
ian, Hutton did well. Made good interceptions, worked hard and is one of the players I feel is most consistently reliable.
Mark. . . I thought they did start to tire in the second half which is part of the reason that Swansea were able to get on top. Having said that, we still created plenty of chances in the second half.
I was very impressed with today and not giving a very good side like Swansea a second won it for me. I joked when we scored about if Bruce was here we would just sit back. Joking aside IMHO if Bruce was in charge we would of lost it. As said before the best defensive is offensive. Hats off to the whole team. Would of loved to have seen Hogan on instead of Kodjia as John said neither him or Bolisa impressed.
I think kodjia is done. Two ankle breaks inside of a year is tough to recover from. I think his ankle hurts most of the time.
So – very happy with a win as I always will be with the Villa, no matter how it is earned.
But – 1 striker at home …………… Bruce would have been hammered for that.
Whelan and Jedi on the bench …………………. Bruce would have been hammered for that.
Putting on loads of strikers as subs ……………………. Bruce would have been hammered for that.
Not taking off Thor when he was obviously totally shagged after the Internationals …….. Bruce would have been hammered for that.
But saying all that – the team worked hard but 2nd half were not really at the races for whatever reason. And sat back. Good to see Grealish taken off as he didn't really contribute, Bruce may not have done that so kudos to Smith. The keeper had a superb game and kept us in it.
I feel that Smith kept with more or less the 'usual' team today to see how they reacted and played. Maybe we will see changes in the coming games as he gets to know the players better.
I think we will get better as all the newcomers gel and get a better feel for things. Smiths reaction at the end was superb and showed what it meant to him.
A big couple of games coming up away from home which we will need to get points from to keep up with the pack ………………… I think we can do it and then push on from there.
BUT – if I hear RDM mentioned again, I'm going to nuke the whole of Oxford……. 😉
Oxford is going ……………………….. very soon. Now where did I put that nuke? It's here somewhere …….
Getting 3 points after an international break….. Bruce would never have done that.
Keep a clean sheet with the bare bones of a defence…..Bruce would never have done that.
Leaving Jedi and Whelan on the bench….. Bruce would never have done that.
Play an active pressing game….. Bruce would never have done that.
Batten down the hatches and be there or thereabouts…..Bruce would definitely have said that.
I've always preferred Cambridge to Oxford anyway.
You all seem to want MK destroyed by nuking – not nice is it?
Plug – "Keep a clean sheet with the bare bones of a defence" ……………. virtually the same defence as has been playing all season.
Jedi and Whelan have been on the bench many times with Bruce.
Active pressing game sort of ran out of steam 2nd half I think …….
But as I said, I'm really happy with a win however it is gained…………..
r0bb0 ……………………. 🙂
Bruce would have got a clean sheet
There or there abouts
Funny first time in years most villa fans are happy with manager willing to give him the chance to lead us to promotion, yet 2/3 on most sites still bemoaning the sacking of the most overrated manager in our history
OV – If your threats of never coming back to this site are anything to go by Oxford is safer than houses, not that I live there mind, Switzerland have a great policy on youthanasia hope you take full advantage 😉
Robbo- two faced
"Two faced"
Care to explain?
Thanks, JC for getting a leader up after attending one of those women's book club meetings.
There were so many missed chances in this game. Both goalies were pretty busy, which is a good thing.
Considering, Villa usually lose after a break, it was a very good win, even though, Villa couldn't really make the game safe with another goal. Swansea played their part in that. Villa did well, especially since VP would have been like a cauldron for some of the players.
I agree with OV, the team will gel to become more cohesive with time. I feel the previous manager never really settled on a first team. Injuries had something to do with that.
OV/Iana: "the team will gel to become more cohesive with time."
Well of course you could say the same thing if Bruce were still in charge! 😉
But I won't say that! 😀
For the sake of continuity Smith couldn't take a big plunge with changes in the first match and whether the same names remain in contention week-in week-out remains to be seen once the new regime settles in.
Smith has clearly tried to exert the players to take more responsibility, though, and that can only be a good thing.
The fact that Smith has an intimate knowledge of what Villa fans want should produce the right results in terms of points and entertainment, just as the ex-Villan Big Ron did the same nearly 20 years ago.
I wonder what Brian Little and Smith talk about?
MK – you know very well that Banbury is in Oxfordshire (which is what OV meant) – or don't you regard yourself as being an Oxonian?
MK – "Switzerland have a great policy on youthanasia hope you take full advantage " ….. even though your spelling is rubbish, thanks for a thoughtful and pleasant comment. Or should that be a nasty and very unpleasant comment.
Must be the Banbury humour! I worked there for a year once and found it a strange place…! 😉
OV . . . . you should just be flattered to be considered a 'youth'
Robbo- yes one minute your my mate the next you want me bombed is that clear enough.
JL- And wanting to kill me is what Brummy humour? Born in Kingshurst mate, how your standards have slipped.
OV- Don't give it if you can't take it pal or is bombing folk you disagree with your thing? spelling? is that it?
But you *live* in Banbury area…
As for OV's "nuke" comment, you must know that the refined air over there can go to your head! 😉
Either that or the affect of the CERN gadget is getting through!
Now you've given your explanation I plead "not guilty"
I didn't even know that you live in Oxford.
I didn't actually know what OV's Oxford banter referred to but happen to have family links with Cambridge and have always supported the light blues in the boat race. . . . my comment was as shallow as that.
MK – " Don't give it if you can't take it pal or is bombing folk you disagree with your thing? spelling? is that it?"
Yep and of course I was really serious about what I said lol. I have nukes ready and waiting obviously. Bit touchy aren't we MK? Is it because some of the people who you constantly argued with are back on this site?
You seem to have offended at least 3 people quite easily and unpleasantly. Sorry we are interfering with all your extremely interesting and high in number comments on this blog.
Oh and I am certainly not your "pal" …………
I nuked a bowl of cream of tomato soup a couple of hours ago. It was pretty good, though I was told that nuking destroys the nutrition.
Do people from Wolverhampton and Bromwich regard themselves as Brummies? Or are they Wolfies and Brommies? This talk about Oxonians started this. What is a person from Kidderminster or Cambridge called?
Iana, now you've asked a question! Think JL may be best placed to answer maybe?
But getting back to football now that yesterdays game has been and gone – I still stick with my original comments re the team etc but will be very interested to see what changes are made for both Tuesday and then Friday nights games. Changes that may be enforced because of tiredness (Thor) or because DS has now had longer to see how players perform or because of suspension (McGinn) ………………
Two big games and crazily with 3 games in the space of under a week. Well done the Championship!
We'll do well to get 4 points but let's hope for six points ……
JL- In holte enders in the sky you'll see my dad who's from Banbury , strange is he? says the man who believes in little green men 😉
OV- well why don't you try not venting your spleen toward me every time you come on here, your a clever chap you know what you do .
I like Smiths comments on what he has worked on this week and what he liked from the game, mainly about tightening the team up. It suggests we have seen nothing on the attacking side yet other than the high press, which broke down a little maybe once the subs came on.
"All we have done this week is work without the ball, out of possession.
"We've not had chance to work with the ball.
"That's something we can improve on as the season goes on.
"I felt that we set some very good traps early on but I felt we were loose later on which allowed Swansea to play."
On the most pleasing thing about the win
"The grit. The players' desire to keep the ball out of the net.
"We have been a bit loose in conceding too many goals.
"But I thought we defended well, at corners as well. They were never a threat to the goal (from corners).
"The biggest thing I take from the players is how they've taken things on board.
"They look like they want to get better."
Blimey, I take a nap & look what happens!
Apart from that you'll all make Banbury cross, gang violence because your finer feelings have been hurt is an interesting response.
Serves you right OV for forgetting your sense of humour.
Mark, I haven't read his post match words but it's interesting if DS described us as 'setting some very good traps". That was one of the most noticeable differences yesterday, with players 'ganging up' and surrounding opposition players to deny them outlets and win the ball. McGinn was the most effective proponent and has a clever way of turning his body to both win, and shield the ball.
Some of the players worked exceptionally hard yesterday and as OV says, it'll be interesting to see how DS rotates the squad to maintain the intensity with 3 games in a week.
Yes the rotations should be a good indicator of how training is going as well.
Traps sending the opposition into channels you control sounds better than 'there or thereabouts'.
Mark, did DS say that the high press broke down 'when the suns came on'?
I thought it had broken down before that and his substitutions were an attempt to lift the energy levels.
The one player who's energy didn't seem to flag at all was McGinn. . . . Duracell should sign him up.
Re McGinn – isn't he suspended on Tuesday as he has reached 5 bookings?
Absolutely suspended
Are you implying that JL believes in leprechauns?
I thought he had grown out of it
Norwich going to be very very tough. They are on great form. No mcguinn either. If we can get 4 points it will be superb.
Interesting there was no el sway or brew sat. Wonder if we will rotate
Well, a great trip to the Aston Tavern and Villa Park on Saturday. It was also good to see a sell out crowd and have Villa Park rocking…and then the explosion when El Mohamady's cross was met by Tammy Abraham's for Vila's vital goal!
Great to seethe whole team playing together and looking for the ball, and will agree that Taylor had his best game for Villa, although he tailed off a little, along with one or two others after about 60 minutes, something Terry pointed out about Villa in our Premiership days. McGinn outstanding again, Bolasie was not on long enough, and has not played enough to be up to the mark, but although Kodija was also not up to the mark, I felt he was getting stuck in more.
I am sure as the training intensifies, players will improve and Villa can only get better, and they look as if they want to play for Smith.
Nyland, as everyone else has said had a great game and was a lot more confident which augurs well for the future.
JC you have my complete sympathy , as I drove from Villa Park to Rhyl after the match to see the Michael Jackson Experience to keep my girls happy, and was in theatre and seated in time for the beginning of the show!! However, there was no way I was going to miss the match..!!!
Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Oldbury and Dudley all belong to the "Black Country" Iana, and Kidderminster, home of carpets, sits on the edge. They are known as the yam yam's…..as opposed to us nasal "Brummies" ….
Thanks for the info, Paul.
Glad you enjoyed the big day at VP. I remember Terry giving Villa stick for not being fit.
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While visiting her father in hospital, Isla meets Harry, the first boy to understand her and her love of the outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as his health fails, Isla is determined to help him in the only way she knows how.
Together they watch a lone swan struggling to fly on the lake outside Harry's window. Isla believes that if she can help the damaged swan, somehow she can help Harry. And in doing so, she embarks upon a breathtakingly magical journey of her own.
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The British-Indian film directed by Gurinder Chadha became a global feel-good hit and catapulted Keira Knightley to stardom. After 15 years, it's only fitting to take a look at where the cast started and where they are now.
Parminder Nagra as Jess Bhamra
Before taking on the main role in Bend It Like Beckham, the then 26-year-old actress already had a handful of stage and screen credits to her name. Most notably, she stared in the British medical dramas Holby City and Casualty.
At age 42, Nagra has continued to act steadily with roles in TV series Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D, The Blacklist and ER. As of 2018, she has had a supporting role in Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why.
Keira Knightley as Jules Paxton
At age 17, Knightley already had ten years of acting experience under her belt with her most notable title being the first Star Wars prequel.
Now, she is most commonly known for her portrayal of Elizabeth Swann in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Knightley is also a two-time Oscar nominee and has four movies in the works including, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, The Aftermath, Official Secrets and Berlin, I Love You.
Archie Panjabi as Pinky Bhamra
Before being cast as the spunky older sister of Jess, the then 29-year-old had appeared in a few short films and a smattering of guest television roles.
She has since won an Emmy for her role on The Good Wife and took the lead role in British drama Next of Kin. The 46-year-old actress also has a recurring role in Blindspot.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Joe
Having acted for eight years prior to joining the cast of Bend It Like Beckham, the Irish star had a number of films to his name. The most notable titles for the then 24-year-old were Prozac Nation and Ride with the Devil.
The now 41-year-old actor has continued to star in films almost yearly since his Beckham days as well as adding television credits to his CV. In 2013 he took up the lead role of Dracula in the tv series Dracula, and since 2017 has had an ongoing role as Bishop Heahmund in Vikings.
Anupam Kher as Mr Bhamra
The then 47-year-old actor was already an award winning star in Hindi cinema when he landed the role as Jess' strict, yet supportive, father.
Keeping busy in both Bollywood and Hollywood, the 63-year-old has been in films such as Hotel Mumbai and Love Sonia. He also had a role in the TV medical drama New Amsterdam.
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Although she is not cast, she deserves a spot in this list because without her we wouldn't have a film. Prior to directing Bend It Like Beckham, the then 42-year-old had had success as a reporter and documentary maker. Her first feature film Bhaji on the Beach premiered in 1993.
Six years after Beckham's release, Chadha directed the popular yet another teen flick Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. She is currently filming a musical dramaedy inspired by Bruce Springsteen titled Blinded by the Light which is due for release in 2019.
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Klebsiella oxytoca is an important microorganism for nitrogen fixation and chemical production. Here, we report an annotated draft genome of K. oxytoca strain M5al that contains 5,256 protein-coding genes and 95 structural RNAs, which provides a genetic basis for a better understanding of the physiology of this species.
Klebsiella oxytoca is a Gram-negative bacterium that has shown promise in utilizing a wide variety of sugars to produce valuable chemicals and biofuels, including ethanol (1), hydrogen (2), 1,3-propanediol, and 2,3-butanediol (3). The species is also of agricultural importance due to its function in nitrogen fixation (4). To date, two complete genomes and seven draft genomes of K. oxytoca strains have been stored in the NCBI database, among which only strain KCTC 1686 showed the capability to produce chemicals (2,3-butanediol) (5). Compared with the other K. oxytoca strains, strain M5al does not have the regular polysaccharide capsule and is therefore more easily genetically accessed and modified. Moreover, the metabolic engineering of strain M5al for the production of 1,3-propanediol and 2,3-butanediol has been reported (6). Therefore, sequencing M5al will not only enrich the genome sequence database of K. oxytoca, but it will help to understand the genetic background of this useful strain. Here, we report the genome sequence of K. oxytoca M5al and describe the sequence differences from the genome of strain KCTC 1686.
The genome of K. oxytoca M5al was sequenced using the Solexa technology according to Illumina's recommendations. A total of 6,199,416 reads, totaling 223,178,976 bases, were obtained, providing 37× coverage. Assembly was performed using AMOScmp (7) and Velvet (8), with comparative genome and de novo assemblies, resulting in an assembly of 282 contigs of >500 bp each. The final assembly includes 114 contigs after manual curation. The total size of the assembly was 5.8 Mbp, with an N50 of 94.98 Kbp and a G+C content of 60%. Compared to the 841-contig draft genome of K. oxytoca strain VJSK009, a mutant derived from the wild-type strain M5al (unpublished, http://genome.wustl.edu/genomes/view/klebsiella_oxytoca_m5al), our draft genome sequence has a significant improvement in assembly quality.
The genome sequence was annotated using the NCBI Prokaryotic Genomes Automatic Annotation Pipeline (PGAAP) (9). The draft genome sequence of M5al contains 5,351 genes, including 5,256 predicted coding sequences (CDSs), 19 rRNA genes, and 76 tRNA genes. A total of 4,450 orthologous genes between strains M5al and KCTC 1686 (GenBank accession no. NC_016612.1) were identified using the Reciprocal Smallest Distance (RSD) algorithm with the default parameters (10). These comparative analyses revealed 806 protein-coding genes that are present in strain M5al but absent in strain KCTC 1686. Among the 806 proteins unique to strain M5al, 231 proteins could be mapped into the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathways, and most of these genes were related to purine, glyoxylate and dicarboxylate, methane, and nitrogen metabolism; this explains the genetic basis underpinning the function of strain M5al in nitrogen fixation and chemical production.
The genome sequence of K. oxytoca M5al serves as a basis for further investigation of the molecular basis of its potential in nitrogen fixation and chemical production. Relatively detailed annotations will reveal physiological difference among the various mutants derived from strain M5al, which showed differing capabilities to produce 1,3-propanediol (6).
Nucleotide sequence accession numbers.This Whole Genome Shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession no. AMPJ00000000. The version described in this article is the first version, AMPJ01000000.
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 30900012) and the Scientific Equipment R&D Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no. YZ200941). Genome sequencing was supported by the National High Technology Program of China (863 Project, grant no. 2012AA022101), the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. KSCX2-EW-G-14-1), and the Key Technologies R&D Program of Tianjin (no. 11ZCZDSY08400). Y.Z. is supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. KSCX2-EW-Q-14).
- Received 4 November 2012.
- Accepted 19 November 2012.
- Published 31 January 2013.
- Copyright © 2013 Bao et al.
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Happy Monday! Now I really feel like the holidays are over, I had my first full week at work and I'm back to my daily routine. I had a cold over the holidays and I'm currently dealing with this cough that just won't go away. I spent my weekend resting and doing a lot of prep work for my meals this week. When you want to increase your veggie intake, I find that you have to cook more often throughout the week. So over the weekend I tried to prep that can be done early and stored in the fridge or freezer.
Over the holidays I watched You on Netflix and holy cow, this show is so crazy and creepy. I'm so happy to hear there will be a season 2 and this interview with part of the cast and creators was fun to watch. This show does a great job at showing how oversharing can potentially be dangerous. I don't think social media is bad but try to not share things that can easily help pinpoint your address for example.
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This was another day in Cali, Charnele and I drove to Malibu and had the best early dinner. It was my first time in Malibu and it's so pretty there, would love to go back some day and spend more time.
I know it's been quiet here since Tuesday but as mentioned before, I have to take it easy. I'm happy you guys enjoyed my last book review, I'm thinking of doing a round up of my favorite books of 2018. What do you think???
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Coping With Betrayal
Have you ever been betrayed by a friend? Someone you trusted and thought would never hurt you? Some of us may have even been betrayed by family. Forgiving the people who deceived you seems impossible. We may not know how to react or even how to cope with this disloyalty.
What does the Bible say about betrayal? We know Judas as one of the most infamous people in the Bible for betrayal. After all, he was the one whose treachery resulted in Jesus's crucifixion.
Judas was not the only one to dishonor Jesus. Peter also surprisingly did the same when he said he did not know Jesus three different times. "61 And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the saying of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times." 62 And he went out and wept bitterly. " Luke 22: 54-62.
Jesus forgave Peter just like he forgave all those other people who betrayed him. Can you imagine the ultimate forgiveness from our Savior? We cannot even fathom it! He was sent to die for people who did not deserve his mercy- he was betrayed by these same people. Yet, he has forgiven every single one of us.
When you struggle with forgiving just remember this verse: "14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. "Matthew 6: 14-15.


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Your toilet isn't a dustbin and it isn't a garbage disposal either! Toilets are not magic bowls that make stuff disappear. They are meant to dispose of human waste and toilet paper only. Do a small test at home.
– Take a bowl of water.
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- Date: August 2017
Experiences That Look Beyond Graduation
A recent IBM survey of industry and academic leaders revealed the skills students need to succeed at work. Among them are analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, and business-context communication, along with flexibility, agility and adaptability. Experience-based practical learning has become even more critical. Partnerships between academia and the private sector help create an even more valuable education ecosystem.
The University of Kansas School of Business actively partners with the business community to benefit students in many ways — from attending guest lectures in the big auditorium or viewing them on the videowall; to learning advanced accounting from partners of a major accounting firm; to keeping up with the financial markets through the Bloomberg ticker streaming in the great hall; to engaging in casual conversations with business leaders as their presence is announced on the large screens.
Innovative universities offer integrated AV experiences rich with stimuli that rival some of the most admired organizations, including Pixar Animation Studio, with its atrium space that is a central hub for spontaneous collaboration; and design and innovation consulting firm IDEO, whose San Francisco open office includes private booths for focused work. When students graduate, they will fit right in to a work environment they have already experienced.
Some leading higher education institutions have been particularly innovative in integrating AV experiences throughout their campus communities, whether revitalizing existing structures and spaces or creating new facilities designed around experiences from the ground up. They provide an inspiring way forward for all of higher education.


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Why Facebook Messenger's Performance Improved
How did Facebook tweak the infrastructure behind its Messenger applications to focus on mobile speed and performance? Software engineers Jeremy Fein and Jason Jenks detailed the process in a post on the social network's engineering blog.
How did Facebook tweak the infrastructure behind its Messenger applications to focus on mobile speed and performance? Software engineers Jeremy Fein and Jason Jenks detailed the process in a post on the social network's engineering blog.
Fein and Jenks described how Facebook moved from a pull-based protocol to a push-based protocol, as well as how the social network uses Iris to deliver its users a totally ordered queue of messaging updates, adding that the new protocols lower non-media data usage by 40 percent, and the decreased congestion on the network slashed the number of users who experience errors while trying to send messages by 20 percent.
The two engineers offered the following overview of the process:
Messages have been part of Facebook for many years, beginning as direct messaging similar to email (available in your inbox the next time you visited the site) and then eventually evolving into a real-time messaging platform that provides access to your messages on a number of mobile apps or in a browser. But until recently, the back-end systems hadn't evolved much from early iterations, and Messenger's performance and data usage started to lag behind — especially on networks with costly data plans and limited bandwidth. To fix this, we needed to completely reimagine how data is synchronized to the device and change how data is processed in the back end to support our new synchronization protocol.
The version of Messenger we released at the end of last year was the first taste of a "mobile-first" experience for Facebook Messenger. For the past year, while our app-developer teammates have been improving the UI (user interface) and expanding Messenger's feature set, the Messaging infrastructure team has been working to make the platform more reliable on the back end and use less data. As a result, we created a new Messenger sync protocol that decreased non-media data usage by 40 percent and developed a new service called Iris to power it. By reducing congestion on the network, we've seen an approximately 20 percent decrease in the number of people who experience errors when trying to send a message.
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When building a high-quality real-time mobile app, it's important to remember that the network is a scarce resource that must be used as efficiently as possible. Every byte wasted has a very real impact on the experience of the application. By sending less data and reducing HTTPS fetches, apps receive updates with lower latency and higher reliability. Extending desktop-focused infrastructure for a mobile world could work well, but building new mobile first infrastructure with protocols designed for pushable devices offers even better experiences.
Fein and Jenks also called out other engineers for their contributions to the project: Andrew Lutsenko, Andy Chen, Brian Tang, Changle Wang, Domas Mituzas, Harrison Fisk, Jeff Ferland, Olivia Bishop, Pierre-Luc Bertrand, Sachin Kulkarni, Thomas Georgiou and Ting Yang.
Readers: Did you realize that Messenger had undergone such drastic shifts on its back end?


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Everyone in New England has been saying it for months: just get healthy for the playoffs and everything should be fine.
Well, here we are. The Patriots are set to host the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday (4:35 p.m., CBS) at Gillette Stadium. They're as healthy as they're going to be.
You wouldn't say they're rolling into the postseason, though. In fact, they played some of their worst football under Bill Belichick over the last six weeks of the regular season, a 2-4 stretch.
Much of that was due to injury. Julian Edelman was out, Rob Gronkowski was out and then played hurt, Brandon LaFell and Danny Amendola played hurt, and the offensive line was patched together. On defense, Devin McCourty, Patrick Chung, Dont'a Highower, and Chandler Jones, among others, all missed time.
There are still unknowns surrounding the Patriots on offense. Edelman is set to return, but at what percentage of health? And another big concern developed on Thursday: Rob Gronkowski, who had just six receptions for 104 yards and zero touchdowns over his final two regular season games, missed practice for the second time this week.
If the knee hampers him on Saturday, the Patriots could be in trouble.
The game manager
When it comes to Alex Smith, people throw the term "game manager" around to slight him. He may not wow you with his arm or take over a game, but the bottom line is Smith does what it takes to win, through the air or on the ground. The Chiefs ranked just 30thin pass offense this season (203.4 yards), but sixth in rush offense (127.8 yards) even with Jamaal Charles going down. Smith can get out and run with the best of them, so when there's nothing available, he'll tuck it away and do work on the ground rather than force a throw. He might need to run more this weekend if Jeremy Maclin (high ankle sprain) can't go. Trust that Smith usually makes the smart decision with the ball, though. His postseason touchdown-to-interception ratio is 10 to 1.
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Smith and the Chiefs offense have to do just enough. They can rely on their defense to do the rest. Brady better hope his guys are healthy on Saturday, because they'll need to be against a Chiefs defense that ranked eighth in rush defense (98.2 yards) and ninth in pass defense (231.1 yards) this season. Kansas City also ranked second in the NFL in interceptions (22) and second in turnover differential (plus-14). In other words, there's not much room for error for the Patriots offense.
Punch first
The Chiefs dominated the Texans last week from start to finish. A kickoff return for a touchdown to begin the game put Kansas City in the driver's seat for 60 minutes. For the Patriots to make Smith and the Chiefs uncomfortable, they'll need to get out and build an early lead. The Chiefs may not have the offensive firepower to come back. The Patriots were able to come back from down 14 points to the Ravens twice in last year's Divisional Round. They certainly can't expect that against the Chiefs.


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Two years ago I went on a trip with my friend Paulina and her older brother, Max. I had to save a lot of money because I wanted very much to go on this journey with my friends. We planned our trip to take us around Europe. We were going to stop in various parts of Europe with family members and friends. The first place where we arrived was London. After a two hour flight we landed at Gatwick airport, of course we booked our tickets early which saved us quite a lot of money.
At the airport my cousin and her husband were there waiting for us which was fantastic as I had not seen them for such a long time. In England we stayed with Mary and her husband in a semi-detached house which was about a ten minute car drive from the city center. Because we were lucky enough to stay with family we could save our money to see some of the amazing attractions on London.
We visited the London Eye, Big Ben and Museum of Waxworks. In the evenings we tasted the nightlife in a city that never sleeps.
On our last day me and Paulina we went to the shopping centre because girls love to shop in any country, while Max went to a traditional English pub. Our time in London lasted five days, which went so quickly and was not enough time do everything. We bought a lot of wonderful things and were so lucky to have been there. On the sixth day of our journey we traveled by express train through the La Manche Channel to Paris. It was a long and boring journey, but the train was very comfortable. Trains in France and England are better and more exclusive than in Poland. We had a lot of luggage due to our shopping trip, and with Paris fast approaching only more shopping was to come.
In Paris we lived in the city center at a close friend of Paulina's brother. His apartment was in a fantastic skyscraper, from which we could see the entire city. We were so impressed by the city. We visited the Eiffel Tower, Louvre and Note dam Cathedral. At night we went walking though Paris with all the bright lights and passion that comes from this city. We were there four days. Our time there was a mixture of sightseeing, shopping and parties. It was a really wonderful time as in Paris. Our final part of our journey was to the Azure Coast in France, we arrived there by train and met with blue sea's and amazing sunshine. On the Azure Coast we lived with Paulina's uncle, he was a really nice and relax person. He lived on the Coast in mansion with his wife and two children.
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Today's gift is being an excellent patient.
In four weeks we are going to be taking my daughter to see a new doctor. In preparation for our visit she has to have lab work done. When I opened the attachment with the paperwork for the lab work my stomach started to get knots. It was a "work up" for sure!
The last time my daughter had extensive lab work done was when we were still playing the guessing game and trying to figure out what was really going on with her. Six. Years. Ago.
Today was the day she had the lab work done, bright and early this morning as she had to fast. Anytime she has blood work done I always bring my dad, aka Poppy, as he is very calm in situations like these. And it also helps he knows a little about finding a vein! I also said lots of prayers she was going to do okay and we would get through this with flying colors.
She was a ROCKSTAR! Wow!
A year ago was the last time she had her blood drawn, with only one vial being collected. No big deal...right?
Today...she had not 1, not 2, not 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8....but NINE vials of blood taken! She. Did. Not. Make. One. Peep. Or. Face!
I was beyond proud of how awesome she was this morning! My other two children would still be screaming! Trust me...I have had to get their blood drawn before and you would think they were removing a limb!
Her excellent patient skills did not stop at the lab today as she also had an appointment this afternoon with her orthopedist. We had an appointment scheduled to pick up her new AFO, but I wanted to also get an X-ray (six actually) done of her back as I (we) felt something was going on with her back and her last growth spurt. And we were correct.
Another characteristic of Rett Syndrome has decided to rear its ugly head with our daughter. Scoliosis.
Bad news, she has it. Good news, it does not require bracing and we will watch it for six months and then have another set of X-rays.
Through the X-rays, her doctor visit and AFO fitting she was again a ROCKSTAR! To say she put up with a lot is putting it lightly. I would have been done after all the lab work!
Today she taught me that even when you are given bad news, you still have to keep your chin up and keep moving forward. To her, nothing changed today. To us, we now know we not only have to continue doing what we have been, but better. More. Scoliosis is just one more hill we have to climb, but we will not let it limit one more thing from our daughter.
My daughter is an excellent patient...lab work, doctors offices, physical therapy....you name it...so I know she will be an excellent patient in dealing with this new characteristic of Rett Syndrome.
Here are two quotes for today...
Fear is nothing more than an obstacle that stands in the way of progress. In overcoming our fears, we can move forward, stronger and wiser within ourselves- Author Unknown
True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart - Author Unknown