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Totally thoracoscopic left upper lobe tri-segmentectomy
With continued growing interest in sublobar resections from the international surgical community (1,2), mastering thoracoscopic segmentectomy is an important challenge for the surgeon. With respect to sublobar resections of the left upper lobe, it is now considered that for T1 tumors, a lingual-sparing upper lobectomy is oncologically equivalent to an upper lobectomy (3).
The main segmental resections involving the left upper lobe are: tri-segmentectomy (S1 + S2 + S3) (lingula-sparing lobectomy), apicoposterior segmentectomy (S1 + S2) and lingulectomy (S4 + S5). In this article, we will describe the technique of a full thoracoscopic approach and illustrate it with a video. Lymph node dissection is similar to lymphadenectomy for an upper lobectomy and hence will not be described here.
Clinical summary
The presenting case is a 66-year-old female patient who had an incidental finding of a nodule during follow-up of a severe chronic obstructive pulmonary bronchitis. The nodule was 1 cm in diameter and was located at the junction between the posterior and apical segments of the left upper lobe (Figure 1). PET-CT revealed an isolated tumor (SUVmax: 2.7). As the patient was fragile and had a FEV1 of 61% predicted, it was decided to perform a sublobar resection.
Anatomical landmarks
The landmarks are obtained from CT-scans with 3-dimensional reconstruction (Figure 2). The use of CT reconstruction can be helpful at the beginning of a thoracoscopic experience (4,5).
The segmental bronchi are concealed by arteries which must be divided first (Figure 2A). The upper lobe bronchus splits immediately into the lingular bronchus and a common stem which separates into an anterior bronchus and an apicoposterior bronchus. These segmental bronchi have short courses which can make their dissection and identification difficult.
The truncus anterior, posterior and lingular arteries supply the left upper lobe (Figure 2B). The truncus anterior is often broad and short and supplies the apico-posterior and anterior segments. The posterior segmental arteries originate in the fissure and distribute themselves over the curve of the pulmonary artery. Their number varies from 1 to 5, but most often from 2 to 3. All but the lingular artery, must be divided.
The superior pulmonary vein usually has three major tributaries (Figure 2C). The superior branch drains the apicoposterior segments and frequently blocks access to the apicoposterior arteries. The middle branch drains the anterior segment and the lowermost branch drains the lingula. The latter must be preserved.
The procedure is performed under general anesthesia with split ventilation using a double-lumen endotracheal tube. Patients are positioned in the right lateral decubitus position. We use a deflectable scope housing a distal CCD (LTF, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) connected to a high definition camera system (HDTV) (Exera II, Olympus, Tokyo, Japan). Only endoscopic instruments are used. These are inserted through 3 to 4 trocars, depending on whether an additional lymph node dissection is performed. Ports are inserted as indicated in Figure 3.
The procedure is similar to a left upper lobectomy, sparing the lingular vessels and the anterior portion of the fissure.
Step 1: division of the fissure and arteries
The lobes are separated to expose the middle portion of the fissure. The upper lobe is gently pulled forward, avoiding any undue traction which could injure the vessels. Dissection is conducted cephalad and all encountered posterior arteries are divided by turn. Traction helps exposing the first segmental artery whose dissection is usually easy. It is controlled by clipping, with a vessel sealing device or with a combination of both.
As the posterior segmental arteries are sequentially divided, the upper lobe unfolds and uncovers the posterior aspect of the truncus anterior which can be approached posteriorly. It is then also dissected from above and from the front, using various views thanks to the deflectable scope. Gentle blunt dissection is used to clear the origin of the trunk. If the trunk bifurcates into two large branches, these are dissected with caution and stapled independently.
An inferior branch of the truncus anterior is present in one-quarter of patients (Figure 4). It is usually impossible to predict whether this branch supplies the anterior segment or the lingula or both. When in doubt, it is advisable to preserve it.
Step 2: division of the segmental veins
The upper lobe is retracted posteriorly. The mediastinal pleura is then incised posterior to the phrenic nerve. Dissection of the vein is achieved by a combination of blunt dissection and bipolar electrocautery. Only the two superior branches are divided using either a stapler, or clips or a vessel sealing device, depending on their diameter. The inferior tributary which drains the lingula is preserved (Figure 5).
Step 3: division of the bronchial trunk and parenchyma
Once the arteries and veins have been divided, traction on the parenchyma helps to expose the segmental bronchi. The origin of the lingular bronchus is visualized and the upper trunk—which separates into an anterior bronchus and an apico-posterior bronchus—is exposed, cleared using a blunt tip dissector and stapled as a stem (Figure 6).
The parenchyma must be stapled between the lingula and the upper division. A clamp is applied on the parenchyma, the lung is reventilated to identify the intersegmental plane and the parenchymal division is then performed using an endostapler loaded with thick-tissue staples.
The specimen is removed in the usual fashion and the inferior pulmonary ligament is divided.
A left trisegmentectomy is similar in conduct to a right upper lobectomy. However, control of the truncus anterior may be more difficult on the left side because there are more anatomical variations and because the artery can be short.
Possible risks of the procedure are as follows:
- Inadvertent injury of the lingular vein when the distribution of the superior pulmonary vein comprises multiple small branches, as shown in Figure 5B;
- Twisting of the lingular segments when the anterior part of the fissure is loose. If in doubt, the lingula must be anchored to the lower lobe;
- Confusion between the anterior bronchus (B3) of the common trunk and the lingular bronchus;
- Ignorance of an accessory lingular artery that could be mistaken for a branch of the truncus anterior (Figure 4).
Some authors advocate against using stapling for division of the parenchyma because this can impair the expansion of the lingular segments (6). As shown in the video, this has not been an issue in our practice. Although stapling can slightly reduce the volume of the lingula, it has the major advantage of minimizing postoperative air leaks. In our series of 129 thoracoscopic segmentectomies, with stapling of the intersegmental plane, the mean postoperative stay was 4.9 days and only one patient had a prolonged air-leak. Miyasaka et al. failed to demonstrate a difference in postoperative complications and pulmonary function, between stapling of the intersegmental plane and division with electrocautery (7).
Disclosure: The author declares no conflict of interest.
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- Soukiasian HJ, Hong E, McKenna RJ Jr. Video-assisted thoracoscopic trisegmentectomy and left upper lobectomy provide equivalent survivals for stage IA and IB lung cancer. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2012;144:S23-6. [PubMed]
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- Fukuhara K, Akashi A, Nakane S, et al. Preoperative assessment of the pulmonary artery by three-dimensional computed tomography before video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2008;34:875-7. [PubMed]
- Segmentectomy of the left upper lobe. In: Nomori H, Okada M. eds. Illustrated anatomical segmentectomy for lung cancer. Tokyo: Spinger, 2011:137-92.
- Miyasaka Y, Oh S, Takahashi N, et al. Postoperative complications and respiratory function following segmentectomy of the lung - comparison of the methods of making an inter-segmental plane. Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2011;12:426-9. [PubMed]


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By JUNICHI TOYOURA | The Japan News/ Yomiuri | Published: August 20, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Park Geun-hye will travel to Beijing in September to attend China's ceremony "to commemorate the World War II victory," the presidential Blue House announced Thursday.
It remains unclear whether Park will be present at the military parade set for Sept. 3, the same day as the ceremony.
Park will stay in China from Sept. 2 to Sept. 4, according to the announcement. With regard to the president's participation in the military parade, it only said: "It is being deliberated taking various factors into consideration."
According to Ju Chul Ki, senior presidential secretary for foreign affairs and national security, Park is scheduled to be present at the ceremony during "the morning of Sept. 3." A meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping is also expected during those hours.
In the afternoon, Park will move to Shanghai to attend on Sept. 4 a reopening ceremony of the building of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. The building was once used as a base for activists who sought independence from Japan's colonial rule.
The Chinese government invited Park to the WWII memorial when Vice Premier Wang Yang visited Seoul in late January, according to a source close to the South Korean government. Around May, the Chinese went a step further by also requesting Park's presence at the military parade. Park was the first foreign leader to receive an official invitation from China, indicating China's strong desire to have her there.
Some in the rank and file of the South Korean government say Park should attend the military parade to underline the president's major diplomatic achievement in building a cordial relationship with China.
On the other hand, some oppose this, as China participated in the Korean War (1950-1953), fighting against South Korea. The Korean daily Dong-A Ilbo presented such a view in its editorial, which said: "The People's Liberation Army [of China] is an enemy force that hindered the unification of South and North. President Park wouldn't be able to give them applause at the parade."
The Japanese and U.S. governments have been conveying their concern to South Korea over Park's participation in China's WWII memorial. The U.S. government has been urging Seoul to be careful not to make it seem as though South Korea was united with China in putting pressure on Japan over historical issues. It seems the United States is wary of a rift developing between itself and its Korean ally, and of the latter leaning further toward China.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at Thursday morning's press conference that he was in no position to comment on Park's visit to Beijing as "it was a matter between China and South Korea."
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to see if he can also make a visit to China in September, but while avoiding the day of the ceremony in Beijing. With regard to this, Suga only said, "Nothing has been decided yet."

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Transforming a century-old brick building into modern accommodation has been a mammoth undertaking for a couple who studied in Dunedin in the 1980s. Kim Dungey reports.
It was the arch in the foyer that sold it. That and the stained-glass windows either side of the front door.
A 1914 property that had been converted to commercial premises in the 1970s was not what John and Rosamond Bridgman had in mind when they began looking for a student flat for their daughter.
But an online advertisement for the Dunedin building showed beautiful architectural features and those, combined with the central location, convinced them to buy it sight unseen.
It was a bold move, as its redevelopment took more than a year and, together with the purchase price, cost the Tauranga couple more than a million dollars.
Finally it reverted back to a residential property for the first time in more than 40 years last year, with the arrival of six university students, including their daughter, Frances.
The renovation retained the original staircase, stained-glass windows and arch the Bridgmans had admired, and married them with modern features, such as double glazing, solar panels and north-facing living areas.
The couple have named the six-bedroom, five-bathroom Frederick St property Henton House after its designer and first owner, Henton Macaulay Davey (1851-1935), an engineer, architect and patent agent who designed churches and other buildings as well as gold-mining machinery for the Otago goldfields.
Davey, who married three times and had eight children, moved into the house with his family from further along Frederick St in 1914 and lived there until his death at 84.
It remained in his family until the early 1970s, after which commercial owners removed the chimneys and installed automatic doors and an access ramp at the entrance. Most recently, it was the Diabetes Otago building.
Davey was a man of means and his home was more than a plain townhouse, Dr Bridgman says. The stained-glass windows either side of the front door were "fancy for the day" and the jarrah floorboards were imported from Australia.
He and his wife took that approach and "carried it on a bit", adorning the house with even more Edwardian features. The additions included a wrought iron front fence, tessellated floor tiles, picture rails in the bedrooms and new stained glass to complement the existing windows.
Three lights in the foyer were donated by the owner of an Edwardian house that had been destroyed in the Christchurch earthquake. A secondhand front door found in a local's back garden matched the one shown on the original architectural drawings but needed new stained-glass panels.
The house also got a new roof, plumbing and wiring. Kauri ceilings were removed, repaired and reinstated. Sash windows were taken out and double glazed. A ventilation system, a 7.5kW bank of solar panels, a 1000-litre hot water cylinder and a charging point for electric cars were modern additions.
The living room was moved from the ground floor to the back upstairs section of the house, where new windows and a north-facing deck take advantage of the sun and views.
Jarrah floor boards and rimu joists, lifted when the ground floor was replaced with a heated concrete floor, were recycled. Some became the flooring upstairs; others have been made into Edwardian-style furniture for the property, which will operate as a B&B when tertiary students are away over summer.
The building was also seismically strengthened to 100% of current new building standards (previously it was only 25%) by tying the new roof, new ground floor and existing first floor to the external walls and strengthening the interior with steel and timber beams.
That work should secure the future of a property that twice in the past has faced an uncertain future. In 2012, its owners, then Diabetes Otago and the Heart Foundation, went their separate ways after a crack was discovered and it was estimated the building needed $250,000 worth of strengthening work. Earlier, the premises were earmarked for demolition as part of the development of Dunedin's one-way system.
Flatting in a character property is part of the "Dunedin experience" for out-of-town students but often the cost of that is "deprivation", Dr Bridgman says. In the case of the Frederick St property, they wanted to retain the character but also renovate the house to a high standard.
An oral and maxillofacial surgeon who studied in Dunedin in the 1980s and '90s, he says the Cumberland St flat he lived in was often colder inside than outside.
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Buying a modern flat would have been easier and cheaper than the renovation project he and his wife had completed but not as much fun, he adds.
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Synchronising Sensor Data from Autonomous Vehicles over a wireless network.
Please give a brief synopsis of what you are researching and why.
Driverless vehicle technology is currently being developed and tested around the world. Automakers, technology companies, and research companies are amongst the many stakeholders investing in this vehicular revolution.
The technology and sensors that make self-driving cars possible already impact the way we drive. The first steps towards hands-free driving have been taken by advancements like Parking Assist by VW and Parktronic by Mercedes-Benz. One area that appears to have been overlooked is networking autonomous vehicles. Networking of such vehicles could be seen as introducing another layer into an already complex system. Elements like security would of course be a concern as they are with so many emerging technologies. However, there are multiple benefits to balance those concerns, such as improved road user safety.
One key concern, for road users, pedestrians and cyclists alike, is safety. For cyclists and pedestrians, synchronised sensor data from autonomous vehicles would greatly assist in accident prevention. Research has shown that high collision numbers occur at signal-controlled junctions with obstructed visibility. Networking the output from sensors would enable autonomous vehicles to create a real-time virtual map of the road. Combining sensor outputs (LIDAR, Near Field Vision, Radar, GPS, Ultrasonic Rangefinders) from several cars would reduce the possibility of cyclists or pedestrians emerging undetected into the path of a vehicle.
Who are your academic supervisors?
Professor Ahmet Kondoz and Dr. Varuna De-Silve.
Why did you choose Loughborough University London to undertake your PhD?
I was looking for a growing university with links to the technologies market, and specialising in the area of digital technologies.
Tell us about your academic background.
- DEng in Process control & Instrumentation from Carlow Institute Of Technology (Ireland)
- BEng. in Mechatronics from Dublin City University (Ireland)
- MSc in Bioengineering from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
- MSc in Mobile Internet from Loughborough University London
What attracted you to your chosen research field?
I am very interested in the emerging field of Internet of Things and its applications to everyday life.
What research have you completed so far?
Most recently I was researching into a non-intrusive method of measuring excitement. This area of research was undertaken during my Masters with Loughborough University London. The aim of the research was to identify excitement through an elevated heart rate, blood pressure and galvanic skin response.
Prior to that I had been working as a consulting forensic engineer with Denis Wood and Associates. Primarily I was providing detailed analysis for road traffic accidents and failure mechanics, through scene surveys, vehicle examinations, data accumulation, witness statements, site specific and computer aided simulations, statistical & mathematical analysis, in preparation for expert witnesses, detailed forensic reports, and insurance claims on a case specific basis. As part of my time with Denis Wood and Associates we preformed constant research and produced numerous papers under the Denis Wood and Associates banner.
During my time in Trinity College Dublin I was working on a method of improving orthostatic hypotension in patients with autonomic failure. The aim of the research was to identify when an individual was about to fain and prevent it by applying abdominal pressure.
Describe a day in the life of a PhD student.
The day-to-day life of a PhD student is not too dissimilar to that of any other student. I arrive into the university in the morning and work on the current tasks at hand. Tasks usually take the form of compiling a poster, paper or a review of a series of work. I usually meet with my supervisor once a week and have a catch up about my findings and the direction I am heading in.
What do you like to do in your free time?
I am lucky that my hobby and my work are closely related. For many years now I have been interested in engineering, mechanics, electronics and programming embedded controllers. In Ireland, I was involved in the setup of a social enterprise that's largely focussed on different application for these embedded controllers and how they can benefit communities. Of course I have different interests such as reading and kayaking and traveling but if I was to list everything I would probably run out of space.
How would you describe the research community on campus?
Young and flourishing.
What advice would you give to prospective PhD students looking to study at Loughborough University London?
Follow your interests and what you like doing.


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Trees take center stage at Elmhurst College
ELMHURST – About 30 people enjoyed a scenic tree tour at Elmhurst College, 190 Prospect Ave., Elmhurst, in an event hosted June 14 by the college and Elmhurst Cool Cities Coalition.
Paul Hack, grounds and maintenance supervisor and certified arborist at Elmhurst College, showed tour participants several of the campus's beloved trees, including a dawn redwood, a European beech tree, Merrill magnolias and a tree that was a sapling in 1863.
The campus arboretum is home to almost 900 trees of more than 160 species.
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EagleFiler has a great option to search contained tags. But is there a way to exclude the contained tags during searches? E. g. if I have a parent tag Europe and daughter tags Andorra, Portugal and Sweden, and I do a search -Europe I do not get the list of files not tagged with Andorra, Portugal and Sweden. Perhaps I simply can't figure how to make it work, or, if this functionality is not implemented, is there a chance for it to appear some time in the future? That's a very important thing for housekeeping: finding which files have not been categorized yet.
The Search Contained Folders/Mailboxes/Tags option has to do with whether to include the child tags when you have a parent tag selected. This is completely separate from the negative search syntax like "-Europe".
There is currently no way to type "-Europe" and have EagleFiler interpret that as "-" all the child tags of "Europe". This does sound like a good feature request, though.
You could, however:
- Do a Tags search for "-Andorra -Portugal -Sweden".
- Use Untagged to find all the records that have no tags at all.
- Create a smart folder like "None of the following: Tags contains any of Andorra Portugal Sweden".
Thank you. Unfortunately, that works for three tags as in my example, but wouldn't be practically possible for hundreds as in more serious cases ,-( So, I have to keep category prefixes.
Speaking of feature requests, could I ask you to add a filter field in the tags list (like e. g. in Leap or Lightroom): since my tags (exported from hierarchical Adobe ones) have the structure e. g. place|Europe|Sweden|Stockholm, typing "place" moves me to the first entry of a long list of tags beginning with that word. Also, it would be great if the user could make the source list on the left of the main window as wide as he needs (my hierarchical keywords with biological taxonomy simply don't fit).
Sorry for flooding with requests. I know Apple tags aren't really meant to be used this way (and Finder slows down terribly when there are thousands of tags), but XMP, which is theoretically ideal and works perfectly with images, is not that good with pdfs since writing into pdfs is either very slow (Adobe Bridge) or creates sidecar files (PhaseOne Media Pro), and neither program is remotely as friendly overall as EagleFiler.
Anyway, many thanks for the program and for your reply.
Could you bulk-copy the child tag names from the source list and then paste them into the smart folder condition?
Yes, that's on the list. In the meantime, you can use type-to-select to help jump around.
Will do.
I tried this but the smart folder didn't work: after opening it for editing I discovered that the tags merged into a single long word. But in any case this is the solution for established tag hierarchies, whereas I am in the early stage of tagging my pdf collection, and every day I rename or rearrange tags or add new ones.
[This need of flexibility is actually the main reason why, after more than a year of struggle against Adobe Bridge, I gave up: Bridge is the only program I ever encountered that doesn't allow to rename the assigned keywords — if you do this, it only affects your keyword list, whereas the keywords already written to the files (doesn't matter, pictures or pdfs) remain in place and you have to manually assign the renamed variants and uncheck the old ones. That's the least friendly and most time consuming approach I can think of].
Before you wrote, I didn't know that tags could be bulk copied in EagleFiler: I only tried to do this in the tag window, but it didn't work there. I searched if there was a way to copy all my tags and only discovered that the .plist file has all of them secretly assigned to the Trash folder so they could be copied from there.
Many thanks. I bought EagleFiler many years ago, tried it several times, a couple of times seriously, but I didn't believe that OpenMeta and later Apple tags were a solid storage as I want my pdf-organizational efforts to persist over decades and to be shareable with colleagues. Well, since GraphicConverter has the ability to move between Finder tags and XMP keywords, I now can use EagleFiler as the working (and friendly) environment and be sure that the results will not get lost.
It should work if you separate them by spaces instead of newlines.
Yes, that's why I agree the feature is needed, but I wanted to offer a workaround of sorts.
In both the main window and the Tags window you can select them and choose Edit > Copy.
Also, to be clear, EagleFiler syncs to Finder tags but uses a SQLite database as its reliable primary storage (plus XML backups, as you saw).


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Catlin wants more research data on current 'isoform' test Sonksen criticizes officials, touts his 'marker' test for HGH
By Matt Chaney
Preeminent anti-doping scientists are citing problems about the Olympic "isoform" test for synthetic human growth hormone, in response to the ongoing campaign of WADA and USADA officials who want pro sports like baseball to adopt their controversial blood scan.
"It is simply not a useful test, no matter how you cut it or spin it," said American testing engineer Don H. Catlin, M.D., director of the non-profit Anti-Doping Research laboratory, speaking in a telephone interview last week from Los Angeles.
Catlin said he hasn't seen "any scientific discussion" on the blood scan's disputed reliability, only "warfare" rhetoric exchanged through media, pitting anti-doping officials against administrators of sports and unions.
In London, England, growth-hormone testing pioneer Peter H. Sonksen, M.D., said WADA officials erred years ago by casting aside his bio-marker scan, going instead with the assay for GH isomers. Sonksen
says his bio-marker system can confirm artificial GH in the bloodstream for as long two weeks, while the isoform's detection window lasts about 24 hours.
"I don't know why they chose the isoform," Sonksen said of anti-doping officials in a webcam interview. "I think they thought this was a more direct test than our marker method. I think that they were, ah, too thick to understand it. They weren't experts in the field, and they don't really understand it. The isoform test would be every bit as difficult to defend in court as our method."
Sonksen receives research funding from the anti-doping agencies, including their parent WADA. Major League Baseball and the Amgen biotechnology firm fund Catlin's work, among his current grants.
WADA officials administer and market the long-standing GH isoform test, which only recently returned a positive result leading to suspension of an athlete, British rugby player Terry Newton, who did not contest the finding.
That positive result, announced Feb. 22, was the first confirmed among about 1,500 tests conducted since the 2004 Olympics. WADA and USADA hail the development as proof of the isoform method's validity and reliability.
But Catlin dismissed that claim for the present, maintaining too little is known about the isoform for proper review by independent science. He is confident WADA has conducted clinical trials on subjects, presumably including athletes, but no scientists have the data outside those employed within agency "working groups," as officials term the closed network.
"I believe they have data," Catlin said. "I mean, it would be silly not to. But they don't display it."
Echoing Catlin, American sport officials argue the WADA test for growth hormone needs scientific airing in public. When MLB and union officials recently reiterated the call, WADA president John Fahey replied "nonsense" to their charge of inappropriateness about the test.
"If I were baseball, I'd want to see the [research] numbers," Catlin said, "but WADA won't show the numbers. They recognize, rightfully, that as soon as they do show the numbers, there could be difficulty."
Sonksen, Catlin and other scientists say WADA practice to limit information on the isoform model dates to its patenting a decade ago by German researcher Christian J. Strasburger, M.D., who became an in-house scientist of the agency. Previous to the test's launching six years ago, a WADA spokesperson told ABC Science Online that "we won't comment on specifics and, for obvious deterrence reasons, we won't give those details even when a test is in place."
Charles E. Yesalis, Sc.D., historian and researcher on doping, rebuked the WADA blockade on testing information. "I'm just astounded," said Yesalis, the epidemiologist and Penn State professor emeritus who co-authored the first comprehensive surveys of teen steroid use in the United States.
Yesalis contends sport anti-doping technology must be more precise than many standard medical tests, since positive findings virtually assure punitive consequence for athletes. "It's almost criminal. I mean, if you're going to ruin somebody's life, and if you don't have [credible testing] totally locked up, to me that is immoral and unethical. I'd rather see five million cheaters compete than see scientists bastardizing themselves.
"And this has been going on since that testosterone ratio test," Yesalis said, noting the epitestosterone-testosterone assay, introduced in 1983, that has been debunked for reliability by recent studies and statistics review--yet remains in use by anti-doping agencies.
Yesalis posed an analogy to illustrate the disregard for scientific convention: "If you and I had a proprietary laboratory, and we did a press conference where we said we just had a major breakthrough in a screening test for cancer. And we just said, 'Well, you've got to trust us.'
"Well, immediately other epidemiologists would ask, 'What's your sensitivity and specificity? What's the percent of positives that are truly positive, and what's the percent of negatives that are truly negative? And please show us exactly how you do this test so we can replicate it.'
"If you couldn't answer those questions, you'd be laughed out of the scientific community. I've said this for years, about the way they behave [anti-doping officials]. Yeah, they do publish some stuff, but it's very difficult to understand, historically."
Among concerns, Catlin says establishing precise baseline for human GH secretion is problematic and unverified by scientific consensus. The concept of isoform testing relies on a consistent GH baseline to pinpoint amounts of the dominant isomer known as 22kDa—or molecular weight in kilodaltons—when it's suppressed by presence of identical versions that are synthetic or "recombinant" growth hormone. Natural GH pulsates irregularly in the human body while activity, gender, age and ethnicity also spur levels to fluctuate.
And Catlin wants to know more about the test before he would implement the protocol in his own laboratory, particularly for the prospect of defending it in court, including against affluent athletes and unions likely to contest positive findings of growth hormone.
Sonksen believes the isoform is reliable for readings within 24 hours of rHGH introduction to a body physiology, if a sampling captures enough of the synthetic drug. But he said the specter of court challenge looms, even if the first-case Newton chose to confess his illicit use.
"I think there's a certain fear amongst the, ah, [WADA] politicians that if it comes to a case in court, they won't win it," Sonksen said, adding the isoform has undergone little modification since 2004. "You only have to go to [engineers] Strasburger and [Martin] Bidlingmaier, and see how many papers they've published on the subject. Most of them are reruns of their original papers.
"There's very little new [data], and I think it would be quite easy for a lawyer to drive a cart and horses through it in court."
Sonksen does believe WADA would win a court test of the isoform method. But he contends the agency should strengthen its testing by finally implementing his serum-marker detection for growth hormone, which over time builds a profile of an athlete's natural levels in "outcome" substances like insulin growth factor-1 and collagens. He says his test in complement with Strasburger's isoform model would produce effective prevention against GH doping by athletes.
WADA has considered Sonksen's HGH test before, but put it aside for every Olympics since the 2000 Sydney Games, perplexing him and more experts worldwide, such as Catlin. They say the marker method has credible peer review in scientific publication.
Sonksen and WADA have often battled in public over their differences.
Catlin intoned: "I'm a great fan of [marker testing]. It should be done. But, again, there's all the publicity that goes around this. Now, Peter Sonksen has said some pretty tough things to WADA, but I think he's rightfully saying them because the [isoform] test alone doesn't work. It's political. This whole thing's political."
Sonksen is optimistic his test will be adopted for the 2012 London Olympics on his home turf, and he claims backing by U.K. Anti-Doping officials. But he's wary of the WADA administration.
"Yes, they're politicians, aren't they," he surmised. "They're sports politicians, not scientists, although they've got scientific training. Their interest is in the politics of sport."
Matt Chaney is a journalist, editor, teacher and publisher in Missouri, USA. E-mail him at email@example.com. For more information, including about his 2009 book Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in American Football, visit the home page at www.fourwallspublishing.com.


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Today we grabbed a couple of coffees and headed out on the road – we couldn't find a breakfast place in Shamrock so decided to wait for breakfast. The first thing that became evident as we travelled through the Texas Panhandle is that the topography was changing – instead of the trees and waterways we'd seen as we were leaving Oklahoma, we were now seeing the flat scrubby landscape that you see in the old western movies. The land is harsh but beautiful – the further we travelled west, the higher the temperature climbed. The mesquite bushes and scrub brush broken by gullies and coulees – it was just beautiful and we talked about how hard it must have been to travel this route 40 years ago.
We eventually found the BEST breakfast place in McLean Texas . We pulled into town about 11:30 and after cruising the almost vacant town – another victim of the interstate nearby – we found Lolly's Market. Lolly's Market is a family run business that is a grocery store, a restaurant and a coffee shop all rolled into one. The groceries sit on two huge wooden shelving units that run down the left side of the room and chrome and formica tables are arranged on the right side of the room. The kitchen and counter where you order are at the back, right beside the buffet station. There were a few young men in the back who were eager to take our order and their mom, we found out later, was cooking in the back. There were a few regulars there when we went in and we got a couple of curious but friendly looks. We ordered our breakfast and a couple of coffees and then went and sat at a table. There were a few people coming in and getting lunch to go or just a coffee, and each one was greeted by the people already in the store when they came in. Clearly this was the hub of McLean. Soon our breakfast came and after munching up some really great bacon, eggs and Hashbrowns, we said goodbye and got back on route 66.
Our next stop was Amarillo Texas where we went and saw the Cadillac Ranch. I had seen pictures and articles about this before so I was really excited to visit this site in person. The cadillacs were set up originally in 1977 and looked like the first picture. This is what they look like Today in the second picture.
As you can see, the cadillacs have changed. The great thing is that when this art was installed, the point was to have people come and see the cadillacs and they were encouraged to add their own touch. The cadillacs have so much paint on them that they are distorted and feel spongy to the touch in some places. It is fantastic to see what 40 years of paint have done.
We, of course, could not leave without adding our touch to the Cadillac ranch so here is a picture of what we added:
I hope if you are ever in Amarillo Tx you go and see this – it's really worth it.
After Amarillo we jumped back on the road and headed towards Tucumcari NM. It is another one of those towns that time stopped for once the interstate was built and Route 66 wasn't travelled as often. Many of the original structures are still there – some renovated and repurposed, some restored, some just sitting and baking in the sun. The town is really fascinating and it feels very much like you've just stepped back in time. We bought a couple of souvenirs and then once again into the truck.
The next stop was Santa Rosa – which is where we are tonight. This town is a little larger than Tucumcari but has the same sort of feel. We will be visiting Bozo's car Museum tomorrow and maybe the pottery store – there's a place that makes pottery and does hand spinning – it should be interesting. I'm sure we will have lots to say about Santa Rosa tomorrow.
We are headed for Albuquerque next so stay tuned!
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Putin is chosen as Time's Person of the Year, over runner-ups former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, British author J.K. Rowling, Chinese President Hu Jintao and the U.S. Commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus. Managing editor Richard Stengel explains the choice:
He's not a good guy, but he's done extraordinary things. He's a new tsar of Russia and he's dangerous in the sense that he doesn't care about civil liberties; he doesn't care about free speech; he cares about stability. But stability is what Russia needed and that's why Russians adore him.


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Yes, people in prison do not get to take off their orange jumpsuits at the end of the day. But then again, they made the decision to put themselves into that situation, and no crying that its the fault of society makes it not self-inflicted. No one forced them to steal, attack, shoot, or sell drugs, rob, beat, rape, murder or whatever. That it is disproportionately "people of colour" is not society's fault but the community's fault.
Get over it, get over yourselves, and if you don't like seeing people having a costume party then look the other way. Halloween is coming; start practicing tolerance for those you disagree with.
Jay Kelly: exactly how many illegal border crossers and Middle East so called "refugees" have you taken into your home and are financially supporting? If the number is zero, STFU.


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Hello and welcome back to The Comedy Cast; today you'll be hearing from American stand-up comedian Maria Shehata.
We kick off the interview by speaking about Maria's ongoing Edinburgh Show, Wisdomless a show about why she left LA for London after falling in love.
She talks about what she both loves and hates about London and the differences she's noticed having living in both New York and LA before.
We get talking about living in cities in general, how I don't particularly like it and find it hard to sleep among noise, while Maria finds no problem at all and while talking about it, she tells me I probably have misophonia, a strong reaction to specific sounds.
We speak about Maria's ancestry and how ancestry.com got her name 100% wrong.
We get talking then again about the Edinburgh Fringe and how this is her first time doing an hour there, we talk about what she knew about the Fringe when living in America and what American comedians think of it.
We speak about the challenge of putting on a solo-one hour show and the differences between having polished 10,15-minutes of different clubs sets and why she wanted wrote something completely new for her first Fringe Show.
We speak about the differences between British and American audiences and if there's any truth to there being any difference between them at all.
We talk about whether her delivery or style of comedy has changed at all since leaving America for the UK.
In a previous interview Maria had said that a friend noticed she kind of lived her life somewhat detached from herself, I thought that was really interesting and to be honest, really helpful when it comes to a life in comedy so we delve into the subject for a bit.
We speak then about a web series Maria was part of the America, called My Super Overactive Imagination with Cat Reinhart.
Finally then we talk too about Maria's upcoming comedy album that she's recording soon.
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This was actually the topic that initially sparked the idea of Thursday Thoughts and made all of this wonderfulness possible! So, speaking of Divergent, I'm going to start off by addressing the conversation my best friend and I had about a month ago that got me thinking about how everyone perceives things differently and has different opinions while reading. My friend hates Shailene Woodley as Tris Prior, who is the main character of Divergent in case you weren't aware. She just can't get over how much she doesn't look like what she pictured. But, for me personally, I think that the casting of the movie was absolutely immaculate. Literally everyone was exactly how I pictured them when I was reading the book. (Especially Christina. I think that Zoe Kravitz is PERFECT for that role.)
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What shocks me, though, is that people still get crazy excited for book to movie adaptations. That's because they don't realize this! Not every movie will be a smash hit like The Hunger Games and not every movie will do a good job of depicting the characters just as you think they will because ten other people pictured them ten other ways when they read it. However, that's not a bad thing by any means! We just need to be open minded going into a book to movie adaptation. Don't have too high of expectations. For example, when the very first Harry Potter film came out way back in the day some people were totally against Daniel Radcliffe saying he didn't fit the role. But in hindsight, are those people totally happy now after all the movies have come out and been fantastic? I bet they are.
Back to Divergent since it's kind of my example movie for this post (even though I have yet to see it. *cries*), I do know that there are a few secondary characters from the book who aren't going to be featured in the first movie. This totally upsets me. I'm not going to say who because maybe that's considered spoilers? I don't know. Either way, I do get a little pissy when characters or remotely relevant plot points are left out in movies. Like, would it really have hurt you to put in that one more little scene? Probably not. But, now it's hurting me because it's not there. Okay, I'm being a little bit over-dramatic, but you get what I'm trying to say.
Now, to address the final question that I proposed in the prompt; Do you mind seeing the movie before reading the book? No. Plain and simple, I do not mind. I am not one of those strict readers who is like "Oh my god, I can't let myself see the movie yet because I've never read that book." One of the main reasons for this is that I'm a slow reader. That's kind of a silly reason, but if there's a movie out that I want to see I'm going to go see it regardless. The only situation I can really think of in which I wouldn't see the movie until reading the book is, like, books in a series. By the time they make the Insurgent movie... I will hopefully be finished reading the book and if not, I probably won't see it until I am. This is amusing because, if you weren't aware, I've been trying to get though Insurgent for a good 6 months or something ridiculous like that. At this point it's kind of a DNF. Whatever. I'm getting off on a tangent.
All in all, I have a pretty open mind when books become movies and I think that's the best way to go into it. If you keep an open mind and make sure your expectations aren't too high, you'll be able to appreciate the movie regardless of how it turns out. And, that's all I have to say on that! I hope you enjoyed this Thursday Thoughts post. Don't forget to link up below if you're joining in!


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By Swati Sinha
Does your company suffer from siloed teams? Disconnected applications? Information scattered across business processes? All these problems can obstruct your ability to respond to ever-changing customer and market needs.
Today's buyers are sophisticated and in control, and they want a combination of products and services customized to meet their individual needs, available on their preferred channel, and on perceived price point.
Lead-to-cash: Transform Your Buyers' Journey
To deliver an exceptional customer experience in this new landscape, all customer-focused business units – from marketing to sales to fulfillment to billing – must join forces. To achieve this, you need a solution that fully integrates internal and external data and processes, and that becomes the one source of truth across the organization.
Lead-to-cash is arguably the most important customer-centric process in an organization – starting with the customer's intention to buy and ending with revenue recognition. Utilizing artificial intelligence and in-depth integration of data, you can make your processes inherently intelligent, thus guiding sales to be proactive, rather than reactive, to changing customer needs.
AI and Integration Can Transform Sales Leads
With an integrated solution, marketing can effectively hand off lead information to sales. Research by the Aberdeen Group suggests that companies optimizing the sales and marketing relationship see 32 percent faster growth in revenue, 90 percent higher growth in brand awareness, and a huge increase in average deal size, sales acceptance of marketing-generated leads, attainment of team quota, and percent of sales-forecasted pipeline generated by marketing.
Opportunity Knocks: Is This What Your Customer Wants?
Deals and opportunities are the foundation of your sales cycle. To pursue an opportunity, salespeople spend extensive time searching for customer information. Unfortunately, this information is typically spread throughout a disparate system – so they instead end up going with their "gut feel" or personal network to pursue it. This can result in fragmented conversations and even loss of deal.
With the help of artificial intelligence and real-time access to holistic internal and external customer information, sales professionals can engage effectively – focusing their time on the best deals and taking recommended actions to convert prospects to customers.
This intelligent approach eliminates clutter from the pipeline and increases forecast accuracy.
Proposal: Trusted Advisor
A report by Forrester suggests that 79 percent of B2B buyers say it's critical for them to interact with a sales rep who can be a trusted advisor – which means not only meeting expressed needs, but having the ability to foresee and support future customer goals. For this, sales reps need to listen and surface customer pain, identify needs, and proactively recommend an ideal solution.
Products are constantly changing to match customer expectation of customization and options – generating thousands of SKUs. As catalogs grow, sales reps are placed in a difficult spot: They have to be trusted advisors with in-depth knowledge about their products; however, with the complexity of products, they don't have a grasp on the entire product line and possible customizations.
Lacking intelligent solutions, the rep sells based on limited knowledge – which may or may not be the best choice for the customer, or the most profitable for the organization. Guided selling simplifies this process by recommending products based on various attributes such as the type of sale, past customer behavior of similar customers, etc.
Intelligent Pricing Generates Revenue
Correct pricing is critical in determining the revenue of an organization. Pricing influences the behavior of not only the customer, but the sales rep.
Sales reps want to price a solution that is lucrative to customers, and might end up applying discounts that cut into the overall margin – especially in complex, bundled sales. Intelligent pricing helps sales reps price the solution that is competitive, and optimizes their commission without impacting the profitability of the deal.
It allows them to build in rules to prevent discounts that dip below a certain level of margin, contingent on the products included in the deal. It also helps in identifying up/cross sell of add-ons, options, and special promotions to increase deal size.
Putting It together: Effective Quotes Are Crucial to Sales
Effective quoting requires both speed and accuracy, and is an integral part of the sales cycle. While an accurate quote can help close a deal fast, a delayed and error-filled quote can frustrate the customer – and may even cause the loss of the deal.
Automated and streamlined approval processes help protect margin throughout any negotiations, introducing quality control. Triggers can be set for an approval of special quotes, such as exceeding discount or gross margin thresholds, or non-standard terms.
Since sales reps have real-time visibility into margins, delays in non-standard discounts and negotiations are minimized. Quotes with no special terms are automatically approved to speed up quote delivery.
Deliver on Your Promises
After the contract is signed, the fulfillment center ensures that the right products – including add-on items, etc. – are delivered to the customer on time.
An integrated and streamlined process provides the visibility needed to stay attuned should any "change in order" arise – thus avoiding any surprises upon deal closure. Sales solutions should also be able to move order details from the quote to the contract to ERP, and, on the other hand, have the ability to add details to the CRM to enable fast and intelligent renewals.
Integrated Billing Solutions: Flexible and Insightful
Monetization strategies continue to evolve as companies look for new ways to sell their products. Billing solutions should be flexible enough to customize subscription models for various levels of services, allowing for upgrades or one-time charges.
Integrated billing solutions should be able to consolidate even complicated B2B products and service packages into a single bill, and personalize it before sending to the customer. With integrated billing solutions, sales has visibility into purchase and transaction history, and can create personalized offers for existing customer bases – thereby increasing revenue by lowering the cost of customer acquisition.
So, with an integrated and intelligent lead-to-cash solution, organizations can accelerate sales velocity and time to revenue, have margin-protecting guardrails and price optimization, increase cross and upsell opportunities, avoid revenue leakage at various points, and help an organization transform its customer buying journey.
Swati is a senior director of global solution marketing at SAP for Sales Cloud. A seasoned enterprise software professional with varied experience in product marketing, product management, and engineering, she has worked with organizations both large and small. She is a technologist at heart and empathetic by nature, which gives her the ability to understand customer needs and tell a story about how technology can solve their business problem. She has an MBA and a master's degree in computer applications. In her free time she likes to connect with her community and support charities.


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In the days leading up to the GDPR compliance deadline in May, a great deal of attention was placed on capturing consent via two practical and logical methods: email and Web forms. However, another, less frequently discussed method, in-person events, offers sales and marketing teams the opportunity to leverage in-person events for direct face-to-face consent capture.
Event contact capture is just one port of entry for data entering sales and marketing systems, and when organizations are looking for consent, not all data is created equal. Smart segmentation of the data that companies acquire (e.g. via registration, badge scans, business card exchange, organizer lists) helps collect quality contextual data for the marketing database, and ensures that the data is compliant at the time of entry and for future processing. The four major segments of event contact information are:
The responsibility of consent does not just lie with marketing. Other functions such as sales, teleservices and channel employees must contribute to expanding the addressable marketing contact database. Provided that the people, process and technology are in place, there is no better opportunity for each team member to play his or her part in delivering those all-important opt-ins than in-person events.
Julian Archer is a VP, principal analyst in the Marketing Operations Research Service at SiriusDecisions. He has more than 25 years of international B2B demand marketing experience within corporate and pan-European field functions. Follow Julian on Twitter @julianarcher


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Things to do in Lisbon: it doesn't hurt to ask
The 'Ask me Lisboa' counters gave us a list of the most ridiculous questions they get
We asked the city's tourist offices for the most strange questions. Here are some of them. And just to make sure there is no doubt, our team has answered them all.
Things to do in Lisbon: it doesn't hurt to ask
Morocco is just on the other side of the river, isn't it?
No, it's not just there. It's a bit further down. About 680 km further. And there's a lot still to see before you reach Morocco. The Serra da Arrábida, for example, is a beautiful range of halls a 40-minute drive south of Lisbon. Then there's the whole Alentejo to explore and, right at the bottom, the Algarve. But even from there you can't actually see Morocco.
We want to drive to Porto and visit Madeira on the way. How do we do that?
It's not easy. The only solution is to ask James Bond to lend you the amphibious car he used in the film Spy Who Loved Me. But don't forget to fill up your tank: the island of Madeira is 973 kilometres southwest of Lisbon and there are no filling stations on the way. Alternatively, there are daily flights to Madeira from both Lisbon and Porto.
Is it in the Tagus that the famous bacalhau is fished?
No. The cod eaten in Portugal comes from a long way away. It was back in the 14th century that the Portuguese started fishing it in the North Atlantic,off the coast of Greenland and Newfoundland. The Portuguese obviously like to complicate things, so we've created culinary specialities from a fish that is caught thousands of kilometres away (and then salted and dried, so that it has to be soaked against before cooking). The Tagus is certainly broad, but it is just a river, not the sea.
What is the difference between Lisbon and Lisboa?
Basicaly, the price. 'Lisbon' tends to be more expensive than 'Lisboa'. Here are two bits of advice: 1) Be suspicious of restaurants with photos of food on their menus. 2) Always carry our magazine with you – everything we recommend in it are things that we locals really like, and there are no tricks involved. Otherwise, 'Lisbon' is just the English name for 'Lisboa'.
Is Sintra an island?
Sintra is certainly hard to define. The area's beauty enchanted poets, novellists and composers, from Lord Byron and Hans Christian Andersen to Richard Strauss. Each saw something different in Sintra. But none of them would have seen it as an island. The town of Sintra is about 30 kilometres from Lisbon. And believe us, it is worth the trip.
Do the king and queen of Portugal live in the Torre de Belém?
No. For two reasons. Firstly, because the Tower of Belém (or Torre de São Vicente – it is officially named after the city's patron saint, St Vincent) is really quite small. It was built 500 years ago as part of the city's maritime defences and, despite being classed as UNESCO World Heritage, does not offer the comfort that royalty demands. Secondly, because Portugal has been a republic since 1910. It has neither king nor queen, but a president – whose palace happens to be in Belém.
Portugal is an island, isn't it?
What's with this obsession with islands? No, Portugal is not an island. It is part of a peninsula, Iberia, together with Spain and one author did imagine the peninsula coming loose and becoming an island that drifts off into the Atlantic. But that was fiction. If you get the chance, read The Stone Raft (in the Portuguese original A Jangada de Pedra) by José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who in 1998 was awarded the Nobel prize for literature.


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Rocky Mountains have got the main natural sources this region needs to held the most important sport activities all over the World. Mountains, snow, rivers and lakes. And if we add to it its structure, technology, tourist facilities, with an excellent quality service and the security the visitor has to be in one of the most secure and peaceful country of the world. These are why they are one of the best tourist options this Planet has got today for you.
Among all the activities you can do in Rocky Mountains the best are sledges ridden by dogs , rafting, ridings and excursions on horse back, snow motorbikes, mountain bike, trekking, and guided trips all over the mountains and glaciers.


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Eclipse update – The lunar eclipse tomorrow coincides with Guru Purnima which is celebrated on the full moon of the lunar month of Ashada. This is a time to honour of teachers, mentors and Gurus and show our gratitude. Continue reading "Lunar Eclipse of July 2018"
Shashti Hayini Dasa
Shashti Hayini Dasa – Conditional Vimshottari Dasa for Sun in the Ascendant
Published in Gochara, Volume 19, Issue 1 Spring 2018
Sun is the soul of all and represents the spirit of man. Sun in the first house will have the blessings of the Sun deity (Aditya) and therefore the person will carry the inner impulse of dhātṛ aditya. Continue reading "Shashti Hayini Dasa"
2018, Jyotish, Solar Eclipse
Eye on the Sky – Solar eclipses of 2018 and the summer of discontent
There are three solar eclipses this year. All of the solar eclipses are partial and their magnitude is much smaller than the August eclipse we saw last year. However the tango of Mars and Ketu in Capricorn in the summer months when Mars is mostly retrograde during the two eclipses, with the planets hemmed between the nodes in a Kala amrita yoga will create friction and there is a greater need for caution. Jupiter in Libra is blessing for Aries and Libra and to an extent to Aquarius and Gemini ascendants until it transits into Scorpio in October.
Continue reading "Eye on the Sky – Solar eclipses of 2018 and the summer of discontent"
Jyotish, Solar Eclipse, United Kingdom
UK – Fortunate or Eclipsed
United Kingdom – Fortunate or Eclipsed?
The appropriate proverb for the situtation in the UK is the translation of the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times". There are a lot of challenges ahead of us with respect to deadlines, expenses and a potential for serious conflict with our neighbours. Some soul searching is necessary. Continue reading "UK – Fortunate or Eclipsed"
Jyotish, Solar Eclipse, United States
Great American Eclipse
The total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 will be visible in North America, It is dubbed as the "Great American Eclipse" and it will be the first one visible there since 1979. Continue reading "Great American Eclipse"
What is my Being or What is my Dharma?
What is my Being or What is my Dharma?
Published in Spring 2017 Gochara
A look at the trines to the 9thhouse to see how intrinsic nature and intelligence can affect quality of life of a person and the importance of Dharma Karamadhipathi Yoga. Continue reading "What is my Being or What is my Dharma?"
Adityas, Jyotish
Adityas and Soul of the Nations
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Adityas and Soul of the Nations
Vijaya Subramanian
Published in Jyotish Digest April 2013
The Sun is the soul of the Kala Purusha. Kala Purusha is the embodiment of the divine or the birth of the divine soul into a human form. The Soul takes birth usually for a purpose ascertained by the law of karma.
As the Sun travels around the Zodiac it creates the 12 rasis (signs) or Adityas. The purpose of the soul is shown by the placement of the Sun in a horoscope. This is a concept based on the "Dvadasa Adityas (12 adityas)". These 12 Adityas are the sons of Sage Kashyap and Aditi, and they are giver of resources and skills that are necessary to achieve the purpose of the soul. Continue reading "Adityas and Soul of the Nations"
Divisional Chart, Inheritance of Property, Jyotish
Divisional chart D4 – Properties and Inheritance
Chaturthamsha D4 – Property and Inheritance
Published in Gochara, BAVA April 2016
The fourth divisional chart or Chaturthamsa (D4) is seen for landed assets and property. It operates at the physical level. There are four one-fourth divisions (7◦30') in every sign. The first quarter of every sign falls in the same sign, the second quarter falls in the next Kendra or fourth from it, the third quarter in the seventh from it and finally the last quarter falls in the tenth house from itself. Continue reading "Divisional chart D4 – Properties and Inheritance"
Jyotish, Planetary Dignities
States of Dignities of Planets
Avasthas or States of Planets
Published in Gochara, BAVA in April 2014
Parasara states that before judgement of results the states of the planets must be looked at. Planets have five different states:
1. Baalaadhi – maturity
2. Jagradadi – alertness
3. Deeptaadi – status
4. Lajjitaadi – mood (such as proud, shy etc.)
5. Shayanaadi – condition of activity Continue reading "States of Dignities of Planets"
Egypt, Jyotish, Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse of 2011 and fate of Egypt
Published in Jyotish Digest, Sagittarius Publications, April 2011
Solar Eclipse and the fate of Egypt
The unrest in North Africa seems to be triggered by the partial solar eclipse that took place on Jan 4th of this year in Sagittarius Rasi and in Purvashada Nakshatra. The path of the eclipse from the NASA website is reproduced below. Continue reading "Solar Eclipse of 2011 and fate of Egypt"


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A California high school cross country team decided to change things up during summer workouts and, in doing so, they let the dogs out.
The St. Joseph High School Cross-Country Team in Santa Barbara, California, partnered with the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter to get shelter dogs out of their enclosures and onto the trails and running paths where the team trains.
The team was able to give around 12 dogs a reprieve from being in the shelter by taking them on their morning run August 4. The dogs seemed to enjoy being out as well, although one pooped pooch had to be carried part of the way.
"I am not sure who was more excited and having the most fun… the dogs or the kids," Luis Escobar, former coach of the cross country team, posted on his Facebook page. "Either way, it was a great time and I am sure we will do it again sometime soon."
If you live near Santa Barbara, California, and want to adopt a dog, contact Stacy Silva at (805) 934-6981. You can also visit the Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter-Santa Maria Facebook page.
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The areas under precautionary boil water advisory. (Source: citynmb.com)
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A precautionary boil water advisory has been ordered for areas serviced by NMB Water.
The order is due to a drop in water pressure throughout the distribution system at the Norwood Water Treatment Plant following a momentary power outage.
As a precaution, the city is advising that all water used for drinking, cooking, making ice, brushing teeth, or washing dishes be boiled prior to usage.
The notice will remain in effect for a minimum of 48 hours or until the Florida Department of Health deems it's safe.
The order stretches for the entire service area of NMB Water.
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