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Well. Where were we? Oh yeah, so after I met Dorie (!), my sister and I went to Norway and Spain, and then I moved from Boston.
Wait, you say. What? you think. Didn't you just move? you shake your head. Well, yes. Yes, I did just move. But it's been a complicated multi-stage move and I've had a hard time cutting the cord. I sublet a place in Brooklyn for three weeks and then went back to Boston. I returned to Brooklyn to another apartment, for 5 weeks this time. Then I took over a friend's lease in my old Upper West Side neighborhood, happily living mere blocks from my support system of friends. That lasted four months. The apartment, not the friends. And finally I moved to my current place. And earlier this month, I let go of my lease in Boston and transported the remainder of my belongings – furniture, books, pots and pans, scuba gear, and all – into my place in New York.
In case you're counting, it's been a year since I made those first tentative steps away from one career towards the uncertainty of another.
For most of my life, I've known what I was going to do next. There was always another school. A better job. A promotion. And now, I'm starting from scratch and for the first time ever, I don't know what's coming next. Will I eventually open a cafe? Write a cookbook? Work on the corporate side in a large restaurant group? Teach the principles of hospitality to other industries (healthcare, I'm looking at you!)? Cook for my family? There are all things I'm considering. And in the end, it will probably be a combination of several of these options. Which ones? I'm still figuring that out.
I met with a colleague and mentor the other day and we spoke about uncertainty. She encouraged me to just be. Or, in her words, to "grow where you're planted." I find myself repeating this phrase to myself multiple times a day. When I question what I'm doing. When other people question what I'm doing.
So, I'm going to make a deal with you. For a little while, I'm going to just be. To grow where I'm planted. To be OK with it. To be happy with it. Now here's where you come in. Please believe me when I say that I'm happy being where I am right now. Please trust me when I say that I don't yet have a clear vision for where I'm headed but that everything will work out. Please gently push me out of my comfort zone. And with your help, I'll continue to believe in myself and trust my instincts and push my own limits.
And in return, I will give you the gazpacho recipe I picked up in Barcelona. How's that for a win-win?
In Barcelona, my sister was in charge of directions and getting us where we wanted to go, and I was in charge of food. We saw a lot of Gaudí, ate ice cream at least once a day, and took a cable car across the port. We took the elevator to the top of Sagrada Família and wound our way down a narrow seashell staircase. We spent a day at a beach just a half hour outside Barcelona by train. We spent evenings by the pool on the roof of the hotel that we splurged on.
The only traditional tapas bar I went to was on a food tour the first night. The tour was enjoyable if unremarkable until I asked our guide for his favorite place to eat gazpacho. With this question, his eyes lit up. I make the best gazpacho, he said. Before I could ask him for his recipe, he started enumerating on his fingers. Take four tomatoes – make sure they're really ripe. And then one cucumber. Remove the peel and the seeds. One pepper. Red. Or green. But red is best for the color. Use red. Then one onion, about this size, holding up a clenched fist. And garlic. One or two cloves. Maybe three. Yes, three. And one-third of a baguette. Or half of a small one. It should be the size of the cucumber. Put it all in a blender. Add olive oil and vinegar. Sherry vinegar, of course. But the secret, he leaned in for effect. The secret, he beckoned, is cumin.
Just two days after returning from Spain, I gathered gazpacho ingredients, threw them in a blender, measured and tweaked and substituted. I stuck a pitcher in the fridge, and then I left to pack up the apartment in Boston that I had called home for five years. When I returned to New York, furniture and books and pots and pans and scuba gear in tow, the gazpacho was waiting for me.
This recipe is based on the one given to me by my tapas tour guide in Barcelona. Here I use cucumbers with thick waxy skin as he recommended. You can use "seedless" Persian or English cucumbers if you prefer. The raw onion and garlic give the soup quite a bite, but it does mellow out after a day or two. Make sure to serve the soup with some chopped vegetables and croutons for garnish and crunch.
Makes approximately 2 quarts
– 3 lbs ripe tomatoes
– 2 cucumbers, peeled, seeds removed
– 1 1/2 red pepper, seeds removed
– 1 small yellow or red onion
– 3 cloves garlic
– 1/2 stale baguette (approximately the same length as the cucumbers laid end to end)
– 1/4 C olive oil, preferably arbequina
– 2 T sherry vinegar
– 1 T cumin
– salt
– Optional garnish: diced tomato, cucumber, and pepper; small croutons
Chop. Roughly chop all the vegetables.
Soak. Tear the baguette in small pieces and cover with warm water until very soggy.
Blend. Add all of the vegetables to your blender and go to town until very smooth. Drain the water from the bread, reserving it for later. Add the bread and continue to blend until very smooth. Add oil, vinegar, cumin. Add 1 tablespoon of salt and then keep adding it by the teaspoonful until the gazpacho tastes good to you. If the soup is too thick, thin it out with the reserved bread water.
Strain. If you want your gazpacho to be silky smooth, do like most restaurants and push it through a cheesecloth lined strainer. I don't bother.
Chill. Let the gazpacho chill for at least 2 hours or ideally overnight.
Serve. Serve in wide bowls with small plates of diced tomato, cucumber, pepper, and croutons. Drizzle with olive oil.
Here are some of the restaurants that my sister and I enjoyed in Barcelona. I tried gazpacho at nearly every single one of them.
Bar Mut
Sam (the General Manager at USC and my boss) sent me here, referring to it as Balthazar meets tapas bar and recommending we show up in the late afternoon after the lunch rush. On an unassuming corner in what can only be described as the urban equivalent of the middle of nowhere (particularly in comparison to the bustle of las Ramblas), Bar Mut is truly a hidden gem. There are no menus. The website is little more than an address, a phone number, and a 17 minute video called Intereses Mundanos (Mundane Interests) that gives the restaurant an air of mystery. Daily specials are scrawled on a blackboard above the bar, but the best way to order is to engage your server in a dialogue about your hunger, mood, likes and dislikes, and let him guide you. Note, some of the fish entrees can get quite pricey.
Address: Carrer de Pau Claris, 192 (at Diagonal)
Area: Eixample
Cornelia and Co.
Cornelia and Co is part restaurant, part gourmet take-away.
Address: Carrer de València, 225
Area: Eixample
Els Quartre Gats (4 Gats)
Go here for the art work and history as a modernist salon of sorts. The food is decent enough, but overpriced. That said, I had amazing pan con tomate.
Address: Carrer de Montsió, 3
Area: Barri Gòtic
Teresa Carles
Just a few blocks from La Rambla and on a quiet pedestrian street, this vegetarian restaurant is a nice break from meat-heavy menus. You can design your own salads and get a juice fix. My sister particularly enjoyed the seitan and tofu sliders.
Address: Jovellanos, 2
Area: Las Ramblas
Torre d'Alta Mar
This restaurant can be a bit confusing to find. It's located at the top of the tower from which the Telefèric del Port cable car launches. There is a tasting menu and you can also order a la carte. This is not an inexpensive restaurant. That said, we had some of the best and most interesting food of our trip and the view of the port is spectacular. It's worth the splurge.
Address: Passeig Joan de Borbó, 88 (take the elevator up)
Area: Barceloneta


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Within hours of the early results showing that Initiative 1183 would be approved, retailers and entrepreneurs put their toes on the starting line of the Washington equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush, and the state Liquor Control Board issued its first Liquor Sales Transition webpage announcing a timeline for implementation of the initiative and an outline of the new liquor licenses that can be applied for early next year.
Safeway Stores announced that it expects to sell liquor at all of its 155 Washington stores, and a Trader Joe's spokesperson thought the chain would sell distilled spirits at most or all of its stores in the state, according to a Seattle Times report.
Liquor Board spokesman Brian Smith says he did not believe the board would require stores to set up separate, secure retailing areas for the sale of spirits, such as can be found in Washington, D.C., Safeway stores. Smith did say that paper applications for the new "spirits distributor" and "spirits retail" licenses would be available in early January. Distributors and retailers would be authorized to begin operations on or after March 1 and June 1, 2012, respectively.

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Recycling bins are targets for thieves
Each week in San Francisco and in urban neighborhoods across the Bay Area, residents dutifully separate aluminium cans, glass bottles and plastic jugs from their garbage and roll their recycling bins to the curb on trash day.
But before the garbage trucks even arrive, many bins are picked clean by people who take the bottles and cans to a recycling center - or a wholesale, black-market collector on the corner - and turn the trash into cash.
The practice is illegal and inflates garbage-collection rates. The thieves often leave behind a mess on city sidewalks.
But police in San Francisco, Oakland and other Bay Area cities told Chronicle Watch that although they understand residents' annoyance with recycling rip-offs, chasing down the thieves is not a high priority.
"We see it and we know that we want to make an effort to stop it, but when you start your shift and you have A (priority) calls and B (priority) calls, you have to handle those first," said Officer Carlos Manfredi, a San Francisco police spokesman.
Most metal, glass or plastic containers can be redeemed in California for a nickel or a dime apiece at recycling centers. Some thieves collect only by the shopping cart, but police and garbage companies say there are larger-scale operations that pay people to collect from residents' trash cans, then deliver the booty to recycling centers themselves by the truckload.
"It is certainly an issue of note," Adam Alberti, spokesman for San Francisco trash collector Recology, told Chronicle Watch. "It is probably one of the top complaints the company gets from its ratepayers."
Officials at Waste Management, which collects garbage in most cities in the East Bay, agreed that recycling theft is one of their customers' main irritants.
Alberto Reyes, who lives in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, said he's seen people race from the end of his block to be the first to his blue Recology recycling bin when he rolls it out on Monday nights.
"Most of the time they're pretty considerate," Reyes said. "But when they just tip over the bin and dig through like raccoons, I get pretty pissed."
Alberti said recycling robbers cost residents money, because the thieves - not the garbage company - get the state reimbursement for the bottles and cans.
"It is a nuisance factor since it is always done in the middle of the night, there's a security factor since people put bills in the recycle bin, and there is actually a monetary factor," Alberti said. "This is a direct loss to ratepayers. They have to subsidize what we are not getting from the recycling."
Police sometimes conduct operations to catch recycling thieves and arrest suspects on misdemeanor infractions, Manfredi said. But running such stings is far below dealing with violent crime on the police priority list, he said.
A man who would only identify himself as "Pretzel" said he collects bags of bottles and cans from residential blue bins most nights. He makes a few bucks each day and tries not to leave a mess, because that just "gets people all upset," he said.
Pretzel said he's been hassled by the cops for taking recycling only once in his five years in San Francisco.
"One guy shined his light at me once and told me to go somewhere else," he said. "But that's it, man."
What's not working
Issue: Across the Bay Area, those looking for extra cash raid residential recycling bins to steal bottles and cans that can be turned in for cash. The thieves often leave trash strewn on the sidewalk, creating an eyesore. Recycling theft is also illegal and inflates garbage bills.
What's been done: Police in Oakland and San Francisco make an effort to stop recycling thieves, but acknowledge that other crimes are a higher priority.
Who's responsible: In San Francisco, contact Police Chief Greg Suhr at (415) 553-1551 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
In Oakland, contact Police Chief Howard Jordan at (510) 238-3365 or email@example.com
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|Regional Financial Regulation in Asia
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|Regional Settlement Infrastructure and Currency Internationalization: The Case of Asia and the Renminbi
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|The People's Republic of China's Growth, Stability, and Use of International Reserves
|January 2014
|Joshua Aizenman, Yothin Jinjarak, Nancy P. Marion
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|Will History Repeat Itself? Lessons for the Yuan
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|Expanding Beyond Borders: The Yen and the Yuan
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|Financial Crisis as a Catalyst of Legal Reforms: The Case of Asia
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|Masahiro Kawai, Henrik Schmiegelow
|Mapping Crisis-Era Protectionism in the Asia and Pacific Region
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|Simon J. Evenett
|Modern Currency Wars: The United States versus Japan
|October 2013
|Ronald McKinnon, Zhao Liu
|Exchange Rate Policy and Regional Trade Agreements: A Case of Conflicted Interests?
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|An Asian Perspective on Global Financial Reforms
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|Peter J. Morgan, Victor Pontines
|Long-term Issues for Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Asia
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|Asymmetry in Government Bond Returns
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|Ippei Fuijwara, Lena Mareen Korber, Daisuke Nagakura
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|Iwan J. Azis
|Financing Development Cooperation in Northeast Asia
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Sunday, February 6, 2011
David Thompson and the Sasquatch
But amongst Sasquatch historians, North West Company explorer and geographer David Thompson is recognized as the first white man to have spotted the footprint of a Sasquatch.
This is how the story happened:
Thompson first entered the territory west of the Rocky Mountains in 1807, by the Blaeberry River.
He and his men set up a number of fur trade forts over the years: Kootenais House, on the headwaters of the Columbia River, in British Columbia, in 1807; Kullyspell House on Pend Oreille Lake, Idaho, in 1809, and Saleesh House in modern-day Montana later the same winter.
In spring 1810 Thompson left the district (not for the first time) and took his furs to Rainy Lake, just north of Fort William on Lake Superior.
He then returned to the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains, planning to carry his trade goods into the district on the west side of the mountain range.
But Thompson and his men were being watched by the Piegans, who wanted to block his passage into the district occupied by their enemies, the Kootenays.
The fur trader felt so threatened he decided to avoid the southernmost pass and to cross the Rocky Mountains by Athabasca Pass -- a trail he had only heard of but never seen.
He and his men made the long journey northward to the Athabasca River, and climbed the sloping hills to the pass.
It was the end of December, 1810 -- mid-winter.
On December 30 the party set off on foot and horseback to cross the mountains.
Their guide pointed out the route down the west side of the mountains, and left them to find their own way down to the banks of the Columbia River.
Years later, Thompson wrote of the footprints he and his men saw as they descended the snowy west side of the mountains.
In his book Mapmakers' Eye, Jack Nisbet writes "the surveyor had cut a line of unusually large animal tracks that his hunters insisted had been made by a 'mammoth.'
"In his journal, Thompson had carefully recorded the measurements and dismissed them as the marks of a large grizzly bear, but in the Travels he included his hunters' description of a dry lake bed where the behemoths feasted on sphagnum moss.
"He used the opportunity to reference recent Siberian discoveries of mammoth bones, and recounted a tribal story about a monster very like a mammoth that is similar to a Delaware Indian legend found in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia.
"Finally after restating his belief that the tracks must belong to a large old grizzly bear and not one of Mr. Jefferson's living mammoths, he wondered what unsolved wonders were yet to be uncovered in the vast reaches of the Rocky Mountains."
Source for the above quotes are from: Jack Nisbet, The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau (WSU Press, 2005).
And the Travels mentioned in above quote is The Writings of David Thompson, the Travels -- edited with an Introduction by William E. Moreau, publishers, McGill-Queens University Press and The Champlain Society, in association with the Centre for Rupert's Land Studies at the University of Winnipeg.
Only one volume has been published thus far, with two more volumes of Thompson's writing to come.
David Thompson's travels have been published in various forms in the past, and sometime a few years ago someone who read them realized that the footprints might have belonged to a Sasquatch.
And the story began, and remains, and is recirculated every few years when Sasquatch historians get together.
But did you know that mammoths are real and that they lived in the Rocky Mountains as recently as the early 1800's?
I find that far more interesting than the Sasquatch story.
In his book, Sources of the River, Jack Nisbet writes more about David Thompson and the mammoth:
"The Old Chief told David Thompson a story about a creature who lived up in these woods, an animal that stood eighteen feet tall and could never lie down, but had to lean against trees to catch a nap.
"The Kootenais thought this was because it had no joints in the middle of its legs, but they couldn't say for sure since they had never been able to kill one and examine it."
Even though the two men worked in different fur trades and never knew each other, there were a number of connections between David Thompson and Alexander Caulfield Anderson.
When young spprentice clerk Anderson entered the fur trade at Lachine in 1831, he met then-retired David Thompson at one of the fur trade parties, and described him as decrepit.
That's one of the connections -- a second connection is, of course, the Sasquatch.
There are more connections, but the most interesting thread that ties the two men together is, perhaps, the mammoth.
Next week I will tell you the story of Alexander Caulfield Anderson and the Mammoth!
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My fiancé is a great x 9 (I believe, I'd have to dig out the records) grandson of David Thompson & Charlotte Small! We only found out a few months ago, when we started digging into his family history.ReplyDelete
So I've been googling as much as I can! Just want to thank you for this blog :)
"David Thompson is recognized as the first white man to have spotted the footprint of a Sasquatch." <-- this is insanely amusing to me!!!
Please, if you are on Facebook, join us on the Descendants of David Thompson's men Facebook page -- we would love to hear from you. Another descendant of David Thompson who lives in the east somewhere just came down the Columbia River with the 'brigade,' and we have photos of him on the page.ReplyDelete
Just find the page, click on Request or whatever, and I will let you in. I have no rules, and we have some pretty interested people in the group!
This invitation to join the page is pretty much open to everyone who has some connection with Thompson's men. Thompson left the territory in 1812 -- I am researching people who worked with Thompson's men after 1812, too.


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It's been an exciting year for musician Sam Bradley. On his MySpace page he describes himself as a "late bloomer in the music world". But he's surely made up for it just in the past year.
You can find his name on the 'Twilight' soundtrack, right next to that of his childhood friend Robert Pattinson. They co-wrote "Never Think", which Pattinson performs in the movie.
A year later the soundtrack has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, and has remained on the Billboard 200 chart for 56 consecutive weeks. But ask Sam what he thinks about it winning an American Music Award, or being nominated for two Grammys, and he will dispute he deserves credit for it. (We try to convince him otherwise).
However what he will take credit for is his first EP, released over the summer. It includes fan favorites such as "Sea Blue" and "Passport". The folksy tunes connect with audiences in a very personal level. And that is just like Sam wants it.
We caught up with Sam in Seattle, the next to last stop on his tour to promote his EP. We talked about what 2010 will bring, his message to his twitter fans, and of course once he mentioned this famous buddy of his, we couldn't resist asking about that "shirtless scene".
Sam's version of "Never Think" - "Too Far Gone"


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Arnold S. Relman, M.D.
January 9, 2001
This two-volume textbook, published in a second edition in 1999, is edited by two naturopaths — one the president, and the other a member of the faculty of Bastyr University, which is the leading school of naturopathic medicine in the country. The textbook has over 1,600 pages and 57 contributors (most of whom practice and/or teach naturopathic medicine), and it purports to provide "well-documented standards of practice for natural medicine." I therefore take it to be an up-to-date summary of what is taught about the practice of naturopathic medicine and how its practitioners are expected to provide care for the patients who consult them.
Among the criteria we have adopted for deciding whether a complementary and alternative ("CAM") practice should be licensed by the State are: (a) evidence that the practice "confers measurable benefits" to those who use it (Criterion #2), and (b) evidence that the use of "some or all of the modalities within a practice that fall within the accepted standards of the practice may result in direct patient harm" (Criterion #5). A close reading of this textbook should provide some answers to these crucial questions about the potential benefit and harm of naturopathic practices as currently taught.
I borrowed a copy of the Textbook of Natural Medicine (the "Textbook") and studied it carefully over a period of several days in an attempt to answer these questions. My conclusion is that the licensing of naturopathic medical practitioners as independent providers of primary health care would endanger the health and safety of the public and would not result in health benefits commensurate with its risks. There is abundant evidence in the Textbook to support this conclusion, but I summarize below only a few of the most problematic examples of the deficiencies and dangers in naturopathic practices.
1) The textbook describes the diagnosis and treatment of only 70 "specific health problems," and they are simply listed in alphabetical order, without regard to the nature of the condition or the organ(s) involved. In comparison, standard textbooks of conventional medicine provide a much more rational and systematic presentation that includes hundreds of disease conditions and describes them in much greater depth and detail. The Textbook includes in its 70 chapters on specific diseases nothing about cancer, diseases of the blood (including leukemias and anemias), nothing about heart attacks or serious abnormal rhythms of the heart (such as atrial fibrillation), and virtually nothing about kidney diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cirrhosis of the liver, or about many common and serious infections such as pulmonary tuberculosis, malaria, syphilis, meningitis, encephalitis or bacterial endocarditis. Lacking adequate education about these diseases, naturopathic practitioners might fail to diagnose them in a timely fashion or delay in referring patients for appropriate medical treatment,
2) Many of the treatments recommended in the Textbook for the 70 diseases are not likely to be effective, and treatments proven to be effective are often totally ignored. This could endanger the health and safety of patients with serious diseases who relied solely on care from a naturopathic practitioner. As explained in the Textbook, naturopathy objects to the use of pharmaceutical agents and depends instead an the use of herbal or "natural" remedies of unproven value. Here are some examples of common, serious diseases that are dangerously mistreated in the naturopathic Textbook:
A) The chapter on the treatment of anginal (coronary artery) heart disease does not even mention the use of nitrates, beta-blockers or calcium-channel blockers — all of which are standard, effective, FDA-approved treatment for this condition. Failure to use one or more of these agents in the treatment of severe angina would probably be considered medical malpractice. There is no mention of "statin" drugs to lower cholesterol and prevent further progression of coronary heart disease. The use of angioplasty or bypass surgery for patients unresponsive to pharmacologic therapy is dismissed. "Chelation" — a totally irrational and unproven form of treatment — is discussed favorably. However, at the end of this chapter, it is stated that "patients with unstable angina pectoris . . . should be hospitalized", thus tacitly admitting that naturopathic methods may be ineffective and that serious cases may require medical or surgical treatment found only in hospitals.
B) The chapter on congestive heart failure recommends unproven nutritional supplements, but says nothing about the standard (and usually effective) treatment. with diuretics and ACE-inhibitors, which have been shown to give comfort to, and prolong, the lives of these patients, It does, however, admit that "In later stages, adjunct (prescription) drug therapy is Usually necessary", but gives no details,
C) The chapter on high blood pressure says nothing about the diagnostic work up that is often needed to rule out certain curable causes (such as certain diseases of the adrenal gland, or obstruction in the aorta or the renal arteries). It recommends diet lifestyle changes and the use of herbs but admits that severe cases unresponsive to these "natural" measures may require treatment with pharmaceuticals (presumably under the management of a conventional medical doctor). However, it ends with the dangerous advice that once control of high blood pressure has been achieved with drugs, the naturopathic physician should have the patient "taper off " the medications. For some such patients, a reduction in medication risks sudden resurgence of severe hypertension and the possibility of a stroke or heart attack. Most patients with severe hypertension need to remain on medication indefinitely, or for many years.
D) The chapter on diabetes says very little about the use of insulin, nothing about oral hypoglycemic drugs, and nothing about the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of diabetic acidosis– except to warn that it is a medical emergency that will require hospitalization,
E) The chapter on epilepsy says nothing about the use of anti-epileptic drugs, without which many cases simply could not be adequately controlled. Uncontrolled epilepsy is dangerous.
F) The chapter on HIV infection and AIDS advocates various types of herbal and "natural" remedies but gives no information about conventional drug therapy. Although it is admitted that no clinical studies have yet demonstrated the effectiveness of naturopathic medical care in HIV infection when used alone, or even as a supplement to conventional medical treatment, the chapter nevertheless ends with this advice: "We urge physicians to apply the principles of naturopathic medicine in the care of their HIV positive patients." As if this neglect of the proven life-prolonging value of anti-viral pharmacotherapy were not shocking enough, the chapter also fails to recommend drug treatment of pregnant women with HIV infections, which is standard practice for the prevention of HIV transmission to the newborn. Neglect of such treatment would surely be considered malpractice in the medical profession.
G) The chapter on the treatment of asthma is also seriously deficient because it says nothing about the use of bronchodilator drugs, or drugs that block the allergic response in the lining of the respiratory passages, or about the short-term use of adrenal steroids for emergency cases. These are all well-established treatments for asthma; and it is difficult to imagine how serious cases could be managed without them. However, the Textbook advises naturopathic physicians to refer patients with acute asthmatic attacks to a hospital emergency room. This acknowledging that naturopathic remedies may not work and that seriously ill patients will need treatment by conventional medical methods. But this advice is also deficient in that it fails to mention that appropriate medical treatment could prevent the onset of attacks that require emergency care.
3) As already noted, naturopathic teaching (as exemplified in the Textbook) claims that "natural" herbal remedies are generally superior to pharmaceuticals in the treatment of most diseases — despite the fact that the FDA forbids the manufacturers of herbal preparations and dietary supplements from making therapeutic claims. The textbook nevertheless devotes a large section to herbs and dietary supplements in which many such claims are made, often with little or no credible supporting evidence in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. At the same time, the Textbook omits entirely (or mentions only in passing) the use of many standard, proven pharmaceuticals that modern medicine has found useful or even essential in the treatment of serious diseases. For example:
- Antibiotics are given only cursory consideration and often mentioned only as a last resort.
- Nothing is said about the antibiotic treatment of syphilis tuberculosis or meningitis.
- Chemotherapeutic agents for cancer are dismissed despite the fact that they are known to be effective in certain types of tumors and in leukemias.
- There is no mention of the use of anticoagulants (blood-thinners) in the treatment of blood clots or their use to prevent embolic strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation. (These diseases are not even mentioned.)
- There is no mention of diuretic drugs that are sometimes absolutely essential in the treatment of edema due to heart failure or kidney disease.
Perhaps most disturbing of all, there is no mention of opioid drugs in the treatment of intractable pain. Morphine and its derivatives are often essential for the relief of patients in the terminal stages of cancer. It is almost incomprehensible that nowhere in the numerous discussions of the management of pain by a great variety of "natural" methods is there a reference to the use of morphine or other analgesic drugs. Obviously, as any experienced physician knows, there are alternatives to drugs that may help — particularly when pain is mild, moderate or only intermittent. But in advanced cancer, morphine is often the only way to afford relief, and it seems remarkable that the Textbook should omit such an essential form of treatment.
Primary care practitioners whose education does not include the use of prescription drugs simply cannot be expected to provide effective and safe care for many serious conditions they are likely to encounter. While it is true that unnecessary or inappropriate use of drugs is harmful, and that even proper usage of drugs can sometimes cause serious reactions, there can be no doubt that on balance prescription drugs have been enormously beneficial, and that drugs will be even more important in the future. The anti-pharmaceutical bias of naturopathic education (as illustrated in the Textbook) therefore poses real risks for patients who rely on naturopaths for the management of their illnesses. Without prompt and appropriate drug therapy many patients with serious diseases will die.
I recognize that there are probably large variations in philosophy and medical education among naturopathic practitioners. Some may practice more prudently than others and may use conventional medical treatments more frequently and work more closely with conventional medical practitioners. But we should make public policy decisions based on the standards of practice that are being taught, not on our opinions about individual practitioners. Judging by the standards of practice presented in the Textbook, it seems clear that the risks to many sick patients seeking care from the average naturopathic practitioner would far outweigh any possible benefits.
Dr. Relman is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of The New England Journal of Medicine; and a member of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (BORM). He prepared this report while serving as BORM's representative to the Special Legislative Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medical Practitioners, an ad hoc group formed to provide advice to the Massachusetts legislature.
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Monday, December 13, 2010
DC "Cartoon Flips"
I recently obtained a collection of over-sized DC comics from the 1970's. The group included Limited Collections' Edition #3, which contained a Golden Age feature titled "Cartoon Flips starring Superman."
The page had instructions for cutting out, stacking, and flipping the images, but with our magical computers of 2010, I decided to make animated GIFs instead.
Wow, it's like I'm standing in the same room with him! Too bad DC hasn't continued with such fun activities for the kids in the Modern Age.
Oh! I've got it! How about a Cartoon Flip starring Wonder Woman, repeatedly breaking Maxwell Lord's neck...
Posted by Kerry Callen at 7:31 AM
Labels: comic books, DC Comics, superhero, Superman
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- Richard J. Marcej said...
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- December 13, 2010 at 9:42 AM
- Kerry Callen said...
Those things are wrong.
- December 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM
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Next month will be the last edition of the Carnival of the Blue that I will be curating. The consensus among those I've polled is that the utility of blog carnivals has diminished in the last couple of years, especially with the rise in social media. Consequently, June may also be the last Carnival of the Blue. There is the possibility of transferring the curation of the carnival onto someone else. If you know anyone who is interested in the responsibility, please have them contact me.
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Rembrandt at Hull in 1661. Laroon became well known for small portraits and conversation-pieces; in the latter he showed great proficiency. He also painted numerous small pictures of humorous or free subjects in the style of Egbert van Heemskerk, some of which were engraved in mezzotint by Beckett and John Smith. He also etched and engraved in mezzotint similar plates himself. Laroon is best known by the drawings he made of 'The Cryes of London,' which were engraved and published by Pierce Tempest. He also drew the illustrations to a book on fencing, and the procession at the coronation of William III and Mary in 1689. He was frequently employed to paint draperies for Sir Godfrey Kneller, and was well known as a clever copyist. He was a man of easy-going and convivial temperament, fond of music and good company, and lived, on coming to London, in Bow Street, Covent Garden. He died of consumption at Richmond in Surrey on 11 March 1702, and was buried there. He married the daughter of Jeremiah Keene, builder, of Little Sutton, near Chiswick, by whom he had a large family, including three sons, who were brought up to his own profession. He painted portraits of Queen Mary (engraved in mezzotint by R. Williams), C. G. Cibber the sculptor, and others; his own portrait by himself showed the scars resulting from injuries received in a street quarrel. Some drawings by him are in the print room in the British Museum. He had a collection of pictures, which was sold by auction by his son on 24 Feb. 1725.
Laroon, Marcellus, the younger (1679–1772), painter and captain in the army, second son of the above, was born on 2 April 1679 at his father's house in Bow Street, Covent Garden. He and two brothers were brought up as painters, but were also taught various accomplishments, including French, fencing, dancing, and music. His father had frequent concerts in his house, at which the sons, when quite children, became noted for their proficiency on the violin and other instruments. In 1697 Laroon was appointed page to Sir Joseph Williamson [q. v.], English plenipotentiary at the peace of Ryswyck. After the peace was signed he became page to the Earl of Manchester, who was leaving the English embassy in Holland to fill that at Venice. Laroon went through Germany and Tyrol to Venice in the earl's train, but soon returned by way of North Italy and France to London, where he resumed painting. Family differences led him to abandon his art for the stage, and he was for two years engaged as an actor and singer at Drury Lane Theatre. But he resumed painting before 1707, when he made the acquaintance of Colonel Gorsuch, commanding the battalion of foot-guards on service in Flanders. Gorsuch introduced him to Colonel Molesworth, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Marlborough. He crossed in the duke's ship to Holland, was presented to the duke, and joined the foot-guards under Gorsuch. He was soon promoted to a lieutenancy in the Earl of Orkney's regiment, fought in 1708 at Oudenarde, where he was wounded, at the siege of Lille, and at the siege of Ghent, where he was again wounded. In 1709 he went under General Stanhope with James Craggs the younger [q. v.] to Spain; in 1710 he was appointed deputy quartermaster-general of the English troops, served in all the battles, and was taken prisoner with Stanhope at Brihuega. In 1712 he returned, on an exchange of prisoners, to London. In 1715 he served in Colonel Stanhope's regiment of dragoons at Preston, and was quartered at various places in Scotland. He was then placed on half-pay for eight years, and resided at York. In 1724 he was given a troop in Brigadier Kerr's dragoons, in which he served till 1732, when he was placed on half-pay, with the rank of captain.
Laroon was a friend and imitator of William Hogarth (1697–1764) [q. v.], and a man of jovial and boisterous habits. At Strawberry Hill there was a drawing by him of the inside of Moll King's house. He appears himself in Boitard's engraving of 'The Covent Garden Morning Frolic.' Another portrait of Laroon occurs in the group of artists painted by Hogarth, now in the University Galleries at Oxford. He was a deputy-chairman of a club presided over by Sir Robert Walpole, which met at the house of Samuel Scott [q. v.] the marine painter. He bought pictures for Walpole, including a 'Holy Family' by Vandyck, the authenticity of which was doubted. This so enraged Laroon that he issued a challenge to all the critics (see Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 23076, f. 27). Laroon's drawings of musical parties, conversations, &c., are very well done. There are drawings by him in the print room at the British Museum and in the University Galleries at Oxford; some have been engraved. He died at Oxford on 1 June 1772, in his ninety-fourth year, and was buried in St. Mary Magdalene's Church in that city.
[Walpole's Anecd. of Painting, ed. Wornum; Vertue's MSS. (Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 23068–23076); J. T. Smith's Nollekens and his Times, vol. ii.; Seguier's Dict. of Painters; Chaloner Smith's British Mezzotinto Portraits; Nagler's Monogrammisten, iv. No. 1976.]
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Numbers Numbers Numbers
I don't think I began to weigh myself and diet until my sister was going to be married. I wanted to look beautiful in the pink dress I would be wearing as Matron of Honor and began to diet in earnest. I went down to 117-my lowest ever. I didn't eat anything. I drank a lot of beer instead. Great diet, hu? I looked fabulous on her wedding day and promptly gained back the weight. I guess from then on out the dieting and weighing began in earnest.
I joined Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, OptiFast, OptiSystems, Nutri Systems, my gosh, I can't even remember the names of all of the programs I have tried. Finally I began to sober up, run, lift weights and cut back on sugar. Everything changed.
I've been lifting 5 days a week under Tony's instruction for 14 weeks now since I decided on this Bodybuilding Comp in October. I've been eating lean protein and lots of veggies-which I have been doing for a few years now. I haven't let up on the running at all. I wasn't sure if I could run as much as I am and still put on muscle, while eating a rather restrictive diet, but somehow I knew that I could.
The numbers that I received today are confirmation to me that I have gained muscle, lost fat and haven't lost speed nor endurance in running. Amen!
My body fat is now 11.9%. I've dropped 6 pounds of fat and gained 1.20 lb of lean body mass. Gotta like that! Tony told me during our first discussion that he felt I could gain .40-.60 lb of muscle every 4-6 weeks. He was right on.
Tomorrow I send him evaluation pictures and my number data. I imagine I will continue building muscle and only dropping a few more pounds of fat. My show isn't until October and I really don't need to drop much more this early in the game. We'll see.
To switch topics here a bit..
The Biggest Loser
You know that I love to watch The Biggest Loser. It wasn't always that way. When I first caught an episode a few years ago I became very uncomfortable while watching the show. I saw the contestants taking part in a challenge and I thought the show was making fun of them. I didn't really know the contestants, nor did I understand the shows premise. I didn't watch it again until a few years later.
Now that I have watched a few seasons from start to finish I know that the show is not at all making fun of the contestants. The show is helping the contestants to push through their self made barriers and show them what they can really do when they really want to do and need to do in order to succeed.
Last week the contestants ran A HALF MARATHON! Yes, 13.1 miles! Can you believe it? All but one contestant FINISHED. Ron could only run 4 miles-he has one knee and one shoulder-the others all ran the 1/2! Now these people are all over 200+, some well over 200 and they stuck it out and finished it up. Only 1 contestant had even run 6 miles before..yet they all dug deep and ran a half. Isn't that amazing? Jillian and Bob weren't with them either-they were all at home running the 1/2 as a challenge. The fastest finisher would win $10000! Tara finished in 2:15 or so but was deducted 5 minutes because a contestant ate a cookie for her.. so Sione won the $10000 and finished in 2:16! Or was it 225 and 226. Numbers. Still, amazing and inspiring.
At work we are doing The Biggest Loser. We aren't doing fun challenges, such as running a 1/2 - wouldn't that be great-we are just getting on the scale each week. 20 of us pitched in $10 for the 10 weeks and The Biggest Loser will win the pot at the end of 10 weeks. Guess who was The Biggest Loser yesterday? Yup. Me. I was down 5.64%. My goal was 8 pounds and now I have reached it. I may go for another couple.
More numbers numbers numbers.
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- JojaJogger said...
I just finished watching the 1/2 marathon episode of the Biggest Loser. They were amazing and the thing that is going to get me off my butt is that the 2 fastest times were only a few minutes off of my PR. Looks like I have some work to do!
Woohoo! You are doing awesome!
- David Ray said...
Nice numbers you're seeing. We're doing a body fat challenge at work to lose 10% of our current body fat number. Not an easy thing to do. Congrats on your progress!
- EatRantRun said...
I think it's great that they all ran the 1/2 but I think it is really, truly, lousy to have them run this far without proper training. Going from 6 miles (or less) to 13 is the the perfect prescription for injury, pain and burnout. Typically, while you may finish the distance, it's not an enjoyable process, nor does it turn you into a runner. It does prove you can gut it out.
It would have been a far better experience (and smarter too) in the long run to build them to a 10k and then add on mileage and take them to a half marathon. Then it might have turned some of them into life long runners, rather than people who can run 13 miles once.


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Ok I know this is not as exciting as reaching 500 or 1000 finds but I reached 100 finds today after only 7 months of caching. This is the first of many milestones for me in caching! 500 here I come!
Ok I know this is not as exciting as reaching 500 or 1000 finds but I reached 100 finds today after only 7 months of caching. This is the first of many milestones for me in caching! 500 here I come!
Congratulations arparkguy on your 100th find. That really is a milestone. I can still remember my 100th find as if it were yesterday. Somehow, 100 was just a memorable number, at least for me. I look forward to seeing you reach 200, then 300, then... I'm betting they will come quickly.
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I wish you many more happy milestones.
Seems like I passed 100... can't remember. My profile says 135 so I must have. I've kinda slowed down in my frailty. I'm always looking for really worthwhile caches without too much physical exertion involved and I'm coming to Withrow Springs one of these days... when I can talk one of the boys into going with me.
Congrats on the big 100. I had a goasl of 500 in the first year I missed it by 100 so of well. Good Luck on the next ...
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Congratulations on the 100th find. I remember our 100th quite well it was "The Bug Ranch" east of Amarillo, Texas and we had failed to find it as we headed west. So we snagged it going east toward home.
Just enjoy each and every cache you come to regardless of the number. That may sound kind of silly coming from me but I can remember almost every find we ever did.
Sorry we missed you last Friday. We were headed to Miami Ok for the weekend to cache a bit with rklmbl and Golfnutz.....poppy
HOORAY FOR YOU! The 100th is a thrilling cache to find - it seems as though it "justifies" all the time up to then that you've been caching. As if us cachers need any justification! The 100th is just so monumental in our minds! As are all of the "milestones" that we place for our selves.
We've counted each 100 of ours as monumental and they seem to come quicker and quicker (either we're getting better at finding them or else we're just spending more time caching!). We'll never hit the really big numbers and don't even plan on it - but we totally agree with Nonnipoppy, enjoy and remember each and every one of them!


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Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The Amazing Race, and Dark Blue. His best known films include Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, The Rock, Con Air, Coyote Ugly, Crimson Tide, Armageddon, Enemy of the State, Gone in 60 Seconds, Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, Pirates of the Caribbean, G-Force, King Arthur, Prince of Persia and the National Treasure franchise.
Many of his films were produced by Paramount and Disney, while many of his television series were co-produced by Warner Bros.
The son of German Jewish immigrants, Bruckheimer was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Mumford High School in Detroit until moving to Arizona for college at age 17. Bruckheimer was also an active member of the Stamp Collecting Club. He graduated with a degree in psychology from the University of Arizona with an algebra minor. He was a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. A film buff at an early age with an interest in photography, Bruckheimer would take snapshots when he had the opportunity. After college Bruckheimer worked in advertising in Detroit and New York City, producing award-winning commercials.


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A certain color has loomed large in James Bond's life: think "Goldfinger," "The Man With the Golden Gun," "GoldenEye." And now, there's a Golden Anniversary for 007, but the kickoff celebration is really in shades of Blu – as in Blu Ray.
Ian's Fleming's legendary secret agent made his film debut on Oct. 5, 1962 in "Dr. No," and for 50 years has continued to set the standard for on-screen espionage, action and sex appeal through 22 films. Those movies are newly assembled in their most pristine visual presentation yet in the first-ever comprehensive Blu Ray box set "Bond 50."
From iconic turns by Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan, through briefer stints by George Lazenby and Timothy Dalton to current standard-bearer Daniel Craig, the Bond films have been unparalleled in their longevity and popularity, creating and continuing to define an entire movie genre over the course of five decades. Michael Brown, Executive Vice President of Marketing for MGM, opens the secret dossier behind the scenes of the unprecedented collection – including nine films never before released on Blu Ray.
How did you put the whole package together to make the fans really happy?
We work heavily with the [Bond] producers, Eon, as well as us and Fox [home video] and we really understand what the fans want. So we sat down and we said we were going to do this and we were going to do it the right way: we want them to see these films in pristine condition, great quality, and we want to build it up. Everything we've done is very elegant and basically hitting what the franchise has been doing for 50 years. We came in with that strategy and said, 'Let's release it and let's do it the right way.' Not that we weren't doing it the right way before, but let's make this for them to celebrate this 50th.
What are some of the fun bells and whistles, as far as like extras and those sorts of things?
We're doing a lot of stuff with locations, the iconic stuff that you would want to see when you look at Bond – it's filmed in many locations across the world. The women. The vehicles. The villains. Those four or five things you want to hit on in every 'Bond' movie….We know what the fans said, what they've liked, what they haven't liked in the past. But I think we know, and the producers know, in the 50 years what has sort of stuck, and we focused on that. The key point is the quality and High Def and Blu-ray for the first time. That's important for these fans.
What sort of synergy did the timing of "Skyfall's" release offer you as far as making sure that the Bond movies were front and center in everybody's mind?
I think it's the whole year of 'Bond', and I mean that sincerely – there's so much going on in the marketplace from when we announced at the Consumer Electronics Show with this Blu-ray set to, well, I'm sure you saw [Daniel Craig at] the Olympics opening ceremony. It's completely eventi-zed this franchised. This franchise is event-ized and it NEEDS to be event-ized. And the Blu-ray set is for the loyal, dedicated fans and also the younger fans that are going to see Daniel Craig who maybe have not seen it in the past – I think they'll find an interest in seeing this set in the future, or now.
Where do you fall, personally, as a 'Bond' fan?
Working here at MGM you get pretty deep into that franchise, I will tell you that! My favorite is 'GoldenEye'. I just remember seeing it for the first time in a theater and I fell in love with it. It hit me. It hit on everything I was going through at the time. And that's actually one of the things about Bond: I think there's a Bond in everyone, right? Everyone can relate to one of those guys or want to be one of them


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Happy New Year from JLR.com!
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Happy 2018, everyone! Thanks as always for visiting our site over the past year. Here is a summary of what we can expect to see from Jeremy in 2018.
First, the first season of Knightfall, produced by Jeremy, will continue its run on The History Channel. It airs Wednesdays at 10:00 PM EST. If the show is renewed for a second season, it will likely begin airing later this year.
In the realm of movies, Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, Jeremy's first animated film, will be released this year. He will be voicing the lead character, Swifty the Arctic Fox. The original release date was January 26, but due to a lack of trailers or other promotion for the film, it is possible the release date has changed to later in the year. Jeremy has mentioned in interviews that he wrote music for the film, so hopefully one or more of his songs will make the final cut!
Next up is the most anticipated film of 2018, Avengers: Infinity War. Jeremy will once again reprise the role of Hawkeye. It will be released on May 4.
Hot on the heels of Avengers is Tag, a comedy about four friends who play an elaborate game of tag every year. Jeremy portrays the only member of the group who has never lost. It will be released on June 15.
Jeremy has several other projects that were announced as in development in 2017 and could begin production this year. These include:
Doc: A biopic about Doc Holliday starring Jeremy. This project could be either a feature film or a television series. Both possibilities have been mentioned in interviews.
I.F. (Imaginary Friend): an animated film based on a song by kid hop artist Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. As of now, Jeremy will only be producing the film, and will not provide voiceover work.
Playing with Fire: A television movie whose plot is still unknown at this time. The Combine will be producing along with Justin Lin.
Finally, there are other projects which we have mentioned in years past but have never got off the ground, such as King of Heists, Slingshot, and The Worker. It's possible that any one of those projects could begin production in 2018 as well. Jeremy could also decide to release some of his original music.
With Avengers: Infinity War being released this year, we expect to see Jeremy make appearances at multiple Comic Cons to promote the film. We already know that he will be appearing at Armageddon Expo in New Zealand at the end of March. It is also highly likely he will appear at San Diego Comic Con along with other members of the cast. We will post news regarding any other Comic Cons as we receive it.
Here's to a great (and Jeremy-filled) 2018!


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Daniel Kessler leads the Swiss system of Boston Consulting Group. He joined the firm in January 2003 and is a core member of the Financial Institutions and Marketing, Sales & Pricing practices. During 2006 and 2007, Daniel was based in the New York office.
In his work at BCG, Daniel has led several global large-scale transformation and post-merger integration projects and has worked with teams on strategy programs, client segmentation, offering and service model design, cost-cutting and reorganization, and redesign of corporate functions in Europe, the US, and Asia. Daniel also was BCG's global leader for wealth management and private banking from 2012 to 2017.
Daniel has partnered with financial institutions on many projects in the fields of banking, insurance, and wealth management, including a comprehensive wealth-management plan for a large Swiss private bank, a complex post-merger integration effort for a major wealth manager, and a segmentation approach and value proposition for the European affluent business of a global bank's private banking unit, among many others.