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FOREIGN INCOME & TAXPAYERS
IRS issues Q&As on Sec. 965 transfer and consent agreements
By Nicole Ngai, CPA, South San Francisco
IRS Practice & Procedure
Editor: Mark G. Cook, CPA, CGMA
As a result of the enactment of the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), P.L. 115-97, the United States switched from a global to a territorial tax system, and certain U.S. taxpayers who held ownership in foreign entities were subject to a one-time Sec. 965 transition tax on untaxed foreign earnings. The IRS provided affected taxpayers various elections for paying this tax, including paying it in installments under Sec. 965(h) or deferring payment for S corporation shareholders under Sec. 965(i) until specific acceleration or triggering events occur. Even if such an event should occur, the IRS alleviates the tax burden by allowing transfer and consent agreements if the requirements are met. On June 27, 2019, the IRS released further guidance through its question-and-answer (Q&A) webpage (available at www.irs.gov) to further recap and clarify the rules for transfer and consent agreements set forth in Secs. 965(h) and (i) and Regs. Secs. 1.965-7(b) through (c).
Background: Sec. 965
Sec. 965 generally applies to U.S. shareholders, as defined under Sec. 951(b), in certain specified foreign corporations. A specified foreign corporation is either a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) or a foreign corporation with a corporate U.S. shareholder (Sec. 965(e)(1)). To the extent the foreign corporation has accumulated post-1986 earnings and profits that have not been previously taxed by the United States, Sec. 965 requires the U.S. shareholder to pay a transition tax on those earnings as of Nov. 2, 2017, or Dec. 31, 2017, in the foreign corporation's last tax year beginning before Jan. 1, 2018, as if the earnings had been repatriated to the United States.
Under Sec. 965(h), the taxpayer can elect to pay its Sec. 965 net tax liability in installments over eight years. The installment amounts are as follows: 8% of the tax for the first five installments, 15% for the sixth installment, 20% for the seventh installment, and 25% for the eighth and final installment (Sec. 965(h)(1)). However, if an acceleration event occurs, the unpaid portion of all the remaining installments becomes due. An acceleration event is:
An addition to tax for failure to timely pay any required installment;
A liquidation, sale, exchange, or disposition of substantially all of the taxpayer's assets, including in bankruptcy;
A cessation of business by a person that is not an individual;
An event that results in a person no longer being a U.S. person, including a resident alien becoming a nonresident alien;
A person's becoming a member of a consolidated group;
A consolidated group's ceasing to exist; or
A determination by the IRS that an acceleration event has occurred because of a material misrepresentation in a transfer agreement.
An exception to this rule applies if the acceleration event is a covered acceleration as defined in Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(b)(3)(iii)(A)(1), and an eligible Sec. 965(h) transferor and an eligible Sec. 965(h) transferee (as defined in Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(b)(3)(iii)(B)(1)) enter into a transfer agreement with the IRS.
Under Sec. 965(i), a special rule applies to S corporation shareholders and allows the taxpayer to elect to defer the Sec. 965 net tax liability with respect to any S corporation that was a U.S. shareholder subject to Sec. 965. The taxpayer continues to defer the tax until a triggering event occurs. Sec. 965(i)(2)(A) and Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(c)(3)(ii) describe a few triggering events:
The corporation ceases to be an S corporation;
There is a liquidation, sale, exchange, or disposition of substantially all of the S corporation's assets;
There is a cessation of business by the S corporation;
The S corporation ceases to exist; or
There is a transfer of any share of S corporation stock by the shareholder.
At the time of the triggering event, the entire amount of the deferred tax liability will be due unless (1) in the case of a stock transfer described in Sec. 965(i)(2)(A)(iii), a transfer agreement is entered into by an eligible transferor and an eligible transferee for stock transfers (Sec. 965(i)(2)(C)); or (2) the S corporation shareholder makes a Sec. 965(h) election to pay the transition tax over eight annual installments instead of immediately (Sec. 965(i)(4)). For specific triggering events described in Sec. 965(i)(2)(A)(ii), such as a liquidation or cessation of business, the Sec. 965(h) election can be made only with the IRS's consent (Sec. 965(i)(4)(D)).
Transfer agreements under Secs. 965(h)(3) and 965(i)(2)(C)
Regs. Secs. 1.965-7(b)(3)(iii)(B) and 1.965-7(c)(3)(iv)(B) highlight the requirements necessary to make a valid transfer agreement for Sec. 965(h)(3) and Sec. 965(i)(2)(C) purposes. The transfer agreement must be timely filed within 30 days of the acceleration or triggering event, and a copy of the agreement must be attached to both the transferor's and transferee's tax returns (Regs. Secs. 1.965-7(b)(3)(iii)(B)(2) and 1.965-7(c)(3)(iv)(B)(2)). In addition, the agreement must be signed under penalties of perjury by the appropriate parties (Regs. Secs. 1.965-7(b)(3)(iii)(B)(3) and 1.965-7(c)(3)(iv)(B)(3)).
The agreement must be titled "Transfer Agreement Under Section 965(h)(3)" or "Transfer Agreement Under Section 965(i)(2)" (see Regs. Secs. 1.965-7(b)(3)(iii)(B)(4) and 1.965-7(c)(3)(iv)(B)(4)), and the terms must include the following:
A statement that the transferee assumes the transferor's liability;
A statement that the transferee (and, if applicable, the transferor) agrees to comply with all the conditions and requirements of the appropriate Code sections and Treasury regulations;
The name, address, and taxpayer identification numbers (TINs) of the transferor and transferee;
The amount of unpaid remaining net tax liability or unpaid deferred net tax liability for Sec. 965(h) and Sec. 965(i), respectively;
A copy of the transferor's most recent Form 965-A, Individual Report of Net 965 Tax Liability, or Form 965-B, Corporate and Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Report of Net 965 Tax Liability and Electing REIT Report of 965 Amounts, as applicable;
A detailed description of the acceleration or triggering event;
A representation that the transferee is able to pay the net tax liability being assumed;
If the transferor continues to exist, an acknowledgment that the transferor and any successor will remain jointly and severally liable for the net tax liability;
A statement as to whether the leverage ratio of the transferee and its affiliated group members after the event exceeds 3-to-1;
For Sec. 965(h) purposes, a certification by the transferee waiving the right to a notice of liability and consenting to the immediate assessment of the remaining unpaid net tax liability; and
Any additional information, representation, or certification required by the IRS in publications, forms, instructions, or other guidance.
Consent agreements under Sec. 965(i)(4)(D)
Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(c)(3)(v)(D) highlights the various requirements necessary to make a valid consent agreement for Sec. 965(i)(4)(D) purposes. Besides making a timely Sec. 965(h) election on the tax return and timely payment of the first installment, the consent agreement must be timely filed within 30 days of the triggering event, and a copy of the agreement must be attached to the shareholder's tax return (Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(c)(3)(v)(D)(2)). In addition, the shareholder must sign the agreement under penalties of perjury (Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(c)(3)(v)(D)(3)).
The agreement must be titled "Consent Agreement Under Section 965(i)(4)(D)" (see Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(c)(3)(v)(D)(4)), and the terms must include the following:
A statement that the shareholder agrees to comply with all the conditions and requirements of the appropriate Code sections and Treasury regulations;
The name, address, and TIN of the shareholder;
The amount of unpaid deferred net tax liability for Sec. 965(i);
A representation that the shareholder is able to pay the net tax liability;
A statement as to whether the leverage ratio of the shareholder and all subsidiary members of its affiliated group after the event exceeds 3-to-1; and
New guidance from IRS Q&As and observations
The IRS released new Q&As related to transfer and consent agreements that emphasize the more practical issues a taxpayer may encounter and provided citations to the primary source materials as discussed earlier.
Under Q&As No. 2, No. 3, and No. 5, the IRS indicates that a transfer or consent agreement should be filed with the IRS's Memphis Compliance Service Collection Operations at Memphis CSCO, 5333 Getwell Road MS 81, Memphis, TN 38118. All agreements will be considered timely filed only if they are filed within 30 days of the acceleration or triggering event date. However, for the death of a Sec. 965(i) transferor and related triggering event, the transfer agreement may be filed by the unextended due date of the transferor's final tax return (Regs. Sec. 1.965-7(c)(3)(iv)(B)(2)(iii)).
The IRS emphasizes the consent agreement must be filed by the S corporation shareholder, not the S corporation, as the affected taxpayer is the shareholder (Q&A No. 4). If the S corporation has more than one shareholder, each shareholder must file his or her own consent agreement for certain triggering events in order to be permitted to pay the Sec. 965(i) tax in installments under Sec. 965(h). In addition to the consent agreement, the taxpayer is still required to make a timely Sec. 965(h) election (see Q&A No. 6). This signed election statement must be attached to the taxpayer's tax returns; and the appropriate Form 965-A or Form 965-B, which tracks the Sec. 965 tax liability, must be updated for the triggering event, election, and installment payments.
In Q&A No. 7, the IRS reminds taxpayers that if a Sec. 965(h) election is made, excess remittances in the year of a Sec. 965(i) triggering event cannot be refunded or credited to the next year's estimated income tax until the tax year's income tax liability is paid in full, including the Sec. 965(h) installments. The rationale behind this is that the previously deferred Sec. 965(i) net tax liability is immediately assessed as an addition of tax in the year of the triggering event. The Sec. 965(h) election only defers the payment, not the actual tax liability.
As such, with a Sec. 965(h) election in the year of a triggering event, the tax payments must be applied initially to the tax liability without Sec. 965, and the first Sec. 965(h) installment then to any succeeding Sec. 965(h) installments. Once the tax year's liability is fully satisfied, the taxpayer may receive a refund or credit to the next year's income tax if any excess remittances remain. Therefore, if the taxpayer plans to make a Sec. 965(h) election, the taxpayer must be careful of how much estimated tax payments are actually made for the tax year of a triggering event in order to get the most benefit out of the election.
Lastly, the IRS explains that the S corporation and transferor, if applicable, remain jointly and severally liable for a taxpayer's Sec. 965(i) net tax liability, even if a Sec. 965(h) election was made (Q&A No. 8). They will continue to be accountable for payments of the net tax liability, penalties, additions to tax, or other related amounts. The election does not alter the joint and several liabilities of the S corporation or transferor as discussed in Sec. 965(i)(5) and related Treasury regulations.
Mark G. Cook, CPA, CGMA, MBA, is the lead tax partner with SingerLewak LLP in Irvine, Calif.
For additional information about these items, contact Mr. Cook at 949-261-8600 or mcook@singerlewak.com.
All contributors are members of SingerLewak LLP.


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Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission coming to PlayStation VR (update)
Star Wars + VR experience = give to me please
By Christopher Grant Jun 13, 2016, 9:51pm EDT
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E3 2021 takes place June 12-15 as a re-imagined, all-virtual online event. Nintendo, Xbox, Bethesda, Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, Capcom, and others will deliver new video game announcements, trailers, release dates, and more.
First teased during yesterday's Electronic Arts press conference, PlayStation VR is getting a Star Wars experience called Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission, which looks to be pretty much exactly what it sounds like. The video reveal was short on details, but heavy on promises of flying X-wings in VR, which is probably the only salient detail for a large percentage of Earth's humans.
Update: Criterion Games is working with EA DICE on Star Wars Battlefront: X-Wing VR Mission, Criterion announced on the PlayStation Blog. The PlayStation VR title will be free for everyone who owns Star Wars Battlefront on PlayStation 4.
"You will be instantaneously transported from the comforts of your living room to an X-wing cockpit in space," said James Svensson, a producer at Criterion.

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Progress towards malaria elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) will be highlighted this week when The Global Fund's Regional Artemisinin Initiative Elimination Initiative (RAI2E)1 meets with stakeholders in New Delhi on 7th February.
The RAI2E grant is one of the world's most ambitious attempts to eliminate malaria in an entire subregion, and to stop antimalarial drug resistance from spreading. For the period 2014 to 2020, the Global Fund has invested US$ 359M to end malaria in the GMS, an area that covers Viet Nam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Thailand.
Since 2014, confirmed malaria cases in the GMS have declined by 43% and annual mortality has dropped to below 60 people across the five countries. Additionally, domestic investments in malaria – spurred by the political commitment to end the disease and smart counter-financing polices by the Global Fund – have increased in the same period by close to 200%.
RAI2E has also led robust regional collaboration across borders, supported by its Regional Steering Committee (RSC);2 strengthened surveillance and community health systems beyond malaria interventions; spurred innovations; and built partnerships across sectors.
But while RAI2E has demonstrated great progress against malaria so far, antimalarial drug resistance remains a severe threat to the subregion and beyond. If we fail to end malaria in the GMS, there is a real threat of resurgence with potentially devastating consequences.
The RAI2E meeting is a side-event to the Global Fund's Preparatory Meeting of the Sixth Replenishment, also being held this week in New Delhi. The Global Fund's Sixth Replenishment Conference, to be held in October in France, will ultimately impact the scale of the acceleration of malaria elimination in the GMS, as well as progress across the globe, for the period 2020 to 2022.
In this context, the side-event will highlight the unprecedented impact of the Global Fund's investment in eliminating malaria in the GMS, and how this has strengthened underlying health and community systems. The meeting will also demonstrate the unique Global Fund partnership model that is reflected in the governance and implementation of the RAI2E grant and stress the importance of innovations as well as continued investments, to combat drug resistance and, ultimately, end malaria.
The Global Fund's Regional Artemisinin Initiative Elimination Initiative (RAI2E) meeting will take place in New Delhi, India on 7th Feb 2019.
1 The first grant was called RAI, and the later grant was renamed to RAI2E to emphasize the ambition to eliminate malaria.
2 A Regional Steering Committee (RSC) plays the role of regional coordinating mechanism for the grant.


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‹ Fourth sloth discovered • More press about the new sloth ›
New fossil CT scans
May 15, 2009 in computed tomography by David | No comments
We'll never be able to say enough about the amazing cooperation we've received from every University of Iowa department we've approached for help in analyzing the sloth fossils. That's especially true of the Iowa Comprehensive Lung Imaging Center (ICLIC), which has given us access to one of the most advanced x-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging machines in the county to scan some of our sloth bones. The Siemens high speed, high resolution, multi-slice scanner is one of the few in the country devoted entirely to human and animal research.
Thanks especially to Eric Hoffman, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering (video); Joseph Reinhardt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Jerred Sieren and Lisa Hudson, research assistants in the CT lab; and Youbing Yin, a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering program for processing the CT-scan files.
ICLIC, directed by Dr. Eric Hoffman, was created in 2004 with the help of a National Institute of Health (NIH) grant. It's a joint venture of the UI Carver College of Medicine including the departments of Radiology, Medicine, Surgery, Pathology, and Anesthesiology; and the College of Engineering including Biomedical Enginering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering; along with Siemens Medical Systems. The research team also includes investigators at the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins University, Marquette University and the University of Texas, as well as the University of Aukland in New Zealand and the University of Erlangen in Germany. The partners are using CT technology to build a dynamic model of normal human lung anatomy and function to use as a basis for understanding and diagnosing various human lung pathologies
The CT technology and software being used to analyze the inner structure of human lungs has provided us with amazing pictures of the details of the interior of various sloth bones and may help us understand the origin and impact of the serious wounds that have been found on both the "toddler" and the adult. The pictures below, slices of various bones as indicated, show the exceptional state of preservation. Lots more images in Flickr. . . . . Dave
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Greatest Movie Death Scenes: Deaths in film scenes have played a huge role in many films. They can be either cool, teary, metaphoric, grisly, scary, bloody, amusing, violent, transcendental, unforgettable, spectacular, frightening, funny, or shocking. Although one usually thinks that death scenes are gory, bloody, and grotesque, they can also be quite moving, magnificent or poignant. The victim's death may be well-deserved, accidental, expected, sudden, or intentional. Some effective death scenes even occur off-screen. A few death scenes are so quintessential that they are freeze-framed. Some are unexpected, some are predictable or complete the arc of a character's life, and others serve as retribution.
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Total Film Magazine's article (July, 2004 issue), 50 Greatest Movie Deaths is noted in these listings with this symbol (and ranking number #). Its survey was based upon the results of a non-scientific poll taken from interviews with film critics ranking the most highly-rated death scenes in cinematic history.
Note: Although there were some excellent and well-deserved choices in the Total Film list, there were many other great death scenes that were among the missing death scenes in Total Film's honored list of "cinema's best daisy-pushers" and "drop-dead moments" - those omissions are included in this comprehensive list from Filmsite.org.


My friends from l'Ile de la Réunion gave me the formula for making what they call punch, but which is also called le rhum arrangé. It's a very simple but very delicious secret: fruit macerated for 2-3 months in rum, sweetened with sugar. 2 of our 10 kilos of mirabelles went into rum today, and we'll have nice punch maison to serve or give by the time sweater weather comes around again. I will never forget the one time we sampled one each of four different flavors of punch with Sonia and Olivier. We were bumping into lamp posts all the way home that night. Well not really, but we were simply glowing after sampling that punch. It's a miracle I remembered what Olivier said about burning the sugar to make the syrup.
special equipment: You'll need to crush some pits for this, so get a hammer or a nutcracker that will crack them.
Note on the jars: You don't need any specific sized jar, but the bigger the jar, the better. The total volume that your jars should hold for this recipes is 6 liters or a gallon and a half. Once you've strained them, this recipe yields about 4 liters of Punch. The jars must have an airtight seal.
Pit the mirabelles, keeping the pits aside, and distribute the fruit evenly between your jars. For each pound or 500 grams or pound of mirabelles, crush 20 mirabelle pits and sprinkle them into the jars over the fruit. The pits contain a little nut that smells like almond, but it is not almond so don't be tempted to eat it. Add 10 more unbroken pits for each pound of fruit. Cut the vanilla beans into pieces and distribute the pieces between the jars you are using.
Make the syrup: Put about 1/4 of your kilo of sugar into a heavy bottomed saucepan. Turn the heat to high, and watch carefully and stir as the sugar begins to turn brown and melt. Once the sugar has melted, (it will be brown and liquid, and very hot, watch out!) turn down the heat to low and pour in 1.5 cups or 250ml of water all at once, being careful to step back from the pan which will steam, because the sugar is incredibly hot! The sugar will crack and solidify instantly and be stuck to the bottom of the pan, but just be patient for a minute or two and stir and swish the water around with a wooden spoon to melt the sugar. The caramelized sugar will melt readily enough into the water. Stir it over the low heat until it finally all melts. It will take a few minutes, and the result will be a dark brown color with a deep red hue. Add the rest of the kilo of sugar and turn the heat up again, stirring to dissolve the rest of the white sugar in the dark fluid. Bring the syrup to a rolling boil and then remove it from heat. Pour it into a heat resistant large measuring cup, you should have about a quart of caramel syrup. If you don't have a liter or quart, add water to make it a liter/quart, and put it back on the heat, bring it to a full boil, then remove and let it cool a bit, about 5 minutes.
Once it is cool, you can taste it. But don't eat too much. Keep in mind that if you add some cream or butter to this sauce while it's warm, you have rich thick caramel sauce for ice cream stuffed profiteroles or any other dessert that can be served with caramel sauce. Keep in mind also that this sauce, if indulged in too heavily, will take an extra 20 minutes on the bike every day for as long as a week to work off. So keep your wits about you. And don't let your husband see you sampling the sauce, because inevitably he'll want some too and you might not have enough for the punch.
You have already added the fruit, the crushed and uncrushed pits, and the vanilla into the jars. Add rum to each jar until it is filled to about the halfway mark, and then divide your syrup accordingly for the jars you are using. For the four 1.5 liter jars I used, I put 1 cup of syrup into each one. (If you use three 2 quart jars, for instance, divide the syrup and put 1 1/3 cup syrup into each jar.) Top the jars off with rum, filling to the top, and close them with a hermetic seal. Gently agitate the jars to dissolve the caramel syrup. Put the macerating fruits away for two months, strain carefully through a coffee filter in the chinois, removing the fruits and crushed pits, and then seal the Punch into bottles for serving or giving.
If you are interested in maintaining the fruit for serving in desserts, when you crack the pits and remove the nut inside in tact, and don't let the shell get smashed. Once the fruit has been seperated from the pits after straining and bottling the punch, the fruit can be returned to a jar, covered with sugar syrup again, and saved for later use.
And an equally fun and lovely photo. I love the whole approach to writing and photography here.
Elie, I had no idea you had so many different concoctions going! I Consider it like Christmas shopping. Every batch you put away is a few holiday gifts. We're going to have to set up a trade... Plums of any kind would be cloeset to mirabelles. But other flavors are delicious, I remember especially loving the lychee flavor. Tropical fruits of course all work well.
Lucy, what a wonderful blog and a great recipe!


Ultra-cool Harouki Zombi is the performance art duo of Nina Barnes and Orenda Fink. They describe themselves as part DJ, part visuals; all hedonistic delights. The trippy dance-track recalls ever so slightly, to us anyway, the short-lived "commercial phase" of Danielle Dax (Tomorrow Never Knows) so you know we are going to just eat this stuff up.
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Mohit Suri, Bollywood Director
Mohit Suri, the famous Indian film director, hails from a film background and has directed a number of acclaimed Bollywood films.
Mohit Suri is a prominent Indian film director known for directing many successful Bollywood films like Aashiqui 2, Awarapan and others. Born on 11th April 1981, he is a member of the Bhatt family of Bollywood. He is the nephew of noted film director Mahesh Bhatt and the cousin of film actors Pooja Bhatt and Emraan Hashmi. Many of his films have been applauded by the critics earning him the recognition of an accomplished film director.
Career of Mohit Suri
Mohit Suri began his film career as an assistant director during which he worked for films like Kasoor, Awara Paagal Deewana and Footpath. He marked his debut in the Hindi film industry as a director with the Bollywood flick Zeher in the year 2005. The film garnered moderate success. Following this, he directed Kalyug which featured his sister Smiley Suri. The film also introduced Kunal Khemu as an adult actor. Kalyug received much appreciation and was marked as a critical as well as commercial success. In 2006 he came up with the movie Woh Lamhe which once again met positive reviews from critics but could not performe well at the box office. His 2007 venture was Awarapan starring Emraan Hashmi in the lead role. The movie, inspired from a Korean film A Bittersweet Life, was a commercial and critical success and rendered further fame to the director. In 2009 he directed Raaz - The Mystery Continues featuring Emraan Hashmi and Kangna Ranaut which was a sequel of the 2002 supernatural horror film Raaz. In the year 2010 his film Crook released which was based on the sensitive issue of racial attacks on Indian students in Australia. Mohit Suri also directed the sequel of 2004 film Murder titled Murder 2 which released in 2011. The film was substantially successful. He marked another huge success in 2013 with his film Aashiqui 2 which turned out to be blockbuster with mesmerizing music. The film featured Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor in the lead roles. In 2014 he came up with the romantic thriller film Ek Villain starring Sidharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor and Riteish Deshmukh in lead roles. He has also penned the story for a few films like Crook: It's Good To Be Bad, Raaz - The Mystery Continues, Kalyug and Zeher.
Personal Life of Mohit Suri
Mohit Suri is married to the Bollywood actress Udita Goswami since 29th January 2013.
Filmography of Mohit Suri
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2007 Awarapan Director
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Frank B has been on the steady come-up for the past couple years and has etched a lasting impression on the with his dope parts in the Brother's Factory films. Many of the features Frank has the balls to hit are freaking huge, and made us wonder what goes through his mind prior to dropping in. "Lots of little things pass through my head, but I only use positive thoughts," he told us. That's how I get the energy to do it, I guess. Sometimes we find a spot and I say, it's not possible, but then we keep shoveling anyway, and after spending time to build the setup, I gain lots of trust." Check out all the gear he's rocking this winter.


The "multiple blogs" discussion has convinced me into moving all my reviews to a second blog. I'd like for it to be http://myurl.com/reviews, but for some reason am getting completely stuck on how to do that! Do I do something with a subdomain?
Who is your hosting service?
On mine I just create a file in my publichtml with the name of the directory I want (so review if you want it to be www.mysite.com/review) and then I upload the blog to there.
I use Bluehost and they actually do all the dirty work for me for free! I love them!!
But you would just do the same thing you did with your origina blog, just add it to the review folder.
How do you like WP? Do you need to have your own hosting account to use WP? I have two blogs at blogger.
I LOVE WP, but I've never used anything else so I can't compare. The newest version is really neat, so if you did decided to switch over it would be a great time.
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The Aberrant Treasures Of The Caribbean Deep
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URGENT; Investigation into Undocumented Treasure
N-Comm. Officer, Prolab C-1203-34
<jonesclarissa@authority.rpc> July 03, 2022, 10:48 AM (8 hours ago)
Doug,
Since my temp transfer, everyone in the Bureau's been frantic about 34 seeking another cutback. But I think I just saved our bonuses. By the way, do you know anyone who can speak Spanish? I know Jones double-majored in Latin for some reason.
Anyway, going through Prolab's backlog, I saved a few gems from the incinerator. Get this: A whole archive of shipping manifests going back to the Auctoritas days, just sitting in a corner study. I'm talking old tombs, diaries, scrolls, treasure maps — real gems, none of it backed up. With Conprocs twiddling their thumbs, Containment's got Bates buttering up Corneille on the second floor. I can't say a speech about the 'Lost Doubloons of Captain Goldbeard' will persuade anyone, but it'll buy us some time to wear down the Director for approval. Get back to me by Friday. I gotta deal with this Krushchev-Era shit until then.
Hell or high water, I trust your judgment.
"I believe these Caribbean lands to be a corrupting force, with the autonomous allure to sour the most pious amongst us. In the contest of nations, We cannot rely on any other institution to stay true to God other than the one he has set forth."
— Pope Paul V (circa. 1550 – 1621)
A decennium past the start of the 17th century, the Auctoritas began reaching out to the new world, spoken of as a treacherous and unholy place. Its aberrant forces must be captured, contained, or destroyed. Alea iacta est. The die has been cast; with no naval infrastructure of its own, the Vatican must turn to outsiders for help.
The "Auctoritas Conquista:" A period of growth, excitement, and new opportunities for the uninitiated, for the desperate buccaneer light on coin, for the pirates willing to do anything for gold, even for enterprising adventurers looking to profit from the anomalies of the coast. As the name suggests, this was an initiative of expansion for the Auctoritas, but the more colourful of the order would call it a "Reconquista" in the name of god. This golden age was spearheaded by a new, delegated body over the West Indies, known only to an enlightened few as "the Caribbean Inquisition." A grim moniker in remembrance of the past, in jest. But in truth, it was a purification of what the New World Expeditions were always set to be.
The rewards are great, but cui bono? Ex nihilo nihil fit. Nothing comes from nothing. For every opportunity, there are deadlier risks. Tales of the Kraken, who rests at the swirling maelstrom of the Bermuda Triangle, challenge even the most hardened of pirate crews. The Sea, cruel as ever, besets us at all sides with ghostly ships of the undead, risking the threat of ancient curses and forbidden rituals of sacrifice. Yet, the Caribbean islands offer no reprieve: a terrifying morass of vicious traps and dense jungles riddled with poisonous frogs, venomous snakes, and natives determined to defend their treasures with their lives.
Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold! Gold-hungry privateers have many threats to face, locking eyes with the reaper, grins of greed and steel on their faces.
☐ Address to Emergency Auctoritas Hearing: (Febuary 12th, 1608)
☒ Address to Emergency Auctoritas Hearing: (Febuary 12th, 1608)
"Brothers of the High Congregation, I beseech Your presence. We have ignored the pestilence brewing upon the new world for far too long. Routine missions, coveted by Spanish Missionaries, have uncovered immense phenomena surrounding the West Indies. Lone sailing parties detail lost architecture buried under a hostile paradise. They report monstrous pleasantries able to unlock what is, perchance, the key to prolonged life itself: The Fountain of Youth. Yet, Our compact with the Armada Española has kept us at bay, forbidden from sending combatants into their conquest.
Nevertheless, the bulk of Our forces have been devastated: Despite the optimistic reports of Magistrates, four of our largest cargo ships have been claimed by the sea this year alone. Of the few survivors We know of, their tales stay consistent: They hear wayward voices masquerading in the wind, trying to drive their vessels off course. Strange diseases cut through colonies in a day, refusing to let the ill die. A large, slimy beast now treks across the Mexican gulf, able to darken the horizon with their tendrils: The fabled Kraken.
Brothers, We can no longer deny it: The superiority of the Spanish Armada, entrusted with the revival of Christ, has been embellished in the Monarquía's greed. Indulgent on their enormous conquest, the region borders on damn near conflict. Savage armies and pilfering thieves lock their abnormal treasures behind impossible riddles and enigmatic traps. Of the original fleet, only twenty frigates remain, each stretched impossibly thin in uncharted waters.
Arch Councilor, I petition to create a new Inquisition, born in secrecy and wholly independent, able to accurately assess the problems facing the new world in its ever so heightening abnormalities. I ask We be able to uphold Our most honorable duty and rechristen these sinners to serve a higher purpose. Our fleet is already rebuilding, but that is not enough. For in this new crusade, whatever resources are present in Our care — within Our reach, We can and must gather."
— Mark Benlevio, Archbishop and Inquisitor General.
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☐ Archived Submission Info: (October 1st, 2022)
☒ Archived Submission Info: (October 1st, 2022)
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Additional Documentation:
☐ Frequent Alliances: (circa. 1615-1670)
☒ Documented Allies Frequent Alliances: (circa. 1615-1670)
Well-known Crews
Lesser-Known contacts and Privateers
Loosely Affiliated Groups
To forgive mortal debts past-due, in order to facilitate normality through kinship …
Ledgure of Regional Factions:
A List of Documented Allies and Known Associates:
"… To the faithful lies our most literal of duties, To the vulnerable lies grave temptation, to the brave lies great reward held by insurmountable peril."
— Caribbean Inquisition Induction Manuscript, written Mark Benlevio.
Name of Crew's Captain Beginning of service with Auctoritas Relevant Information
Eduardo Blomar 1666 Was provided a pardon for his role in the Chepo Expedition.
Captain Napin (or Napping) 1718 All contact with Napin was through a neutral messenger, worked primarily in the seas around Brazil. Went missing after taking an assignment in florida.
"Red Leg" Greaves 1692 Entered Auctoritas Service while becoming a pirate hunter, primarily asked for assistance in hunting down English vessels as payment.
Vincenzo Alessandri 1650 Former Knight of Malta, entered as one of the first pirates to work for the Auctoritas.
Captain Archembeau 1686 Little information known about their service with Auctoritas.
Jean I'Olonnais 1670 Entered Auctoritas Service after witnessing his brother Francois be eaten by anomalously affected natives
Francois Grogniet 1680 Entered Auctoritas Service after his fellow captains George d'Hout and Pierre le Picard were killed by the Kraken en route to Guayaquil
Captain Jorgenson - Danish Pirate descended from a line of Vikings, Jorgenson left their home in Iceland after stealing a galleon-sized vessel from the visiting Danish government. Joined Auctoritas in 1687, Jorgenson and his crew specialized in routing Native populations and taking anomalous artifacts linked to them. Jorgenson was especially effective at this because of his continued use of longships, which he would take down the river systems to get closer to tribal villages and then escape quickly. Jorgenson was also able to help extensively with the Kraken, as a Viking saga passed down as a family heirloom gave several details of the beast to the authority.
Mario Cattaneo - A former Knight of Malta, he worked with the Auctoritas before stealing a Turkish artifact believed to provide wealth. After obtaining the artifact he absconded, and left the order along with his crew. He rejoined the Auctoritas in 1664, mostly working as a sort of salvager, helping retrieve objects from other pirates' shipwrecks for the authority. He continually uses the stolen artifact in his missions, often choosing the mission via the artifact. While his loyalty to the Auctoritas' ideals and Catholicism is strong, he is one of the less trustworthy captains working with the Auctoritas.
Joshua Grant, Francisco Garcia, and Juan Gutierrez - A larger group of aligned Pirates. Joshua was a former member of Francis Drake's crew but left after he converted to Catholicism. He took two of the Spanish prisoners from their ship and began a solo career. One of the top dogs of Tortuga, Joshua spends most of his time partying, with Auctoritas members having to take him aside. Joshua is often used as an intermediary agent for pirate crews, sending Pirate Crews on Auctoritas missions for a cut of the pay. His right-hand men both have their own crews, which he'll use for the best-paying missions to make sure they're finished. Joshua "joined" the Authority in 1656, although he refused the privateering certificate and simply asked to work as their guide.
Gichinga Fournier - Escaped Haitian slave, he took the surname of his former owner as an act of defiance. One of the larger crews in the Caribbean, he regularly made raids on colonies in order to gather more slaves. Joined the Auctoritas in 1694, many of his crewmates displayed exceptional amounts of recklessness, which was discovered to be due to an excessive amount of groves radiation emanating from his ship during a recent Authority investigation. He often specialized in taking down humanoid anomalies, although he would be fine with capturing them, for an exorbitant fee.
These groups, while they're often mentioned in Auctoritas documents, seem to be less understood by the Conquista, unlike the other privateer crews.
Joffrey - A broker that often worked with the Conquista, claimed to represent a group he called "The Misbelievers" although no other members have ever been notated (Joffrey stated this is because all other members take his name for notation as an alias although this cannot be proven). The Conquista rarely approached him, as he would often ask for a steep surcharge when taking commissions, but since his commissions were always finished quickly with no issue, he was not blacklisted.
Pyre & Neumann Shipping Co. - A small group of originally British workers, they split off from the East India Co. in 1654. They are often regarded highly in Auctoritas documentation with the leadership often requesting aid from the group. Pyre & Neumann specialized in the capture of aquatic anomalies as well as moving already captured anomalies from privateers to Auctoritas bases. Multiple notes regarding the organization state to not mention the ex-Vice President, George Vinland, only the current one, Johannes Vinland Neumann, as this is a large point of issue for the Company's Founder, Friedrick Reinmann Pyre, and had caused multiple commissions to fall through.
Unknown Nordic Group - These workers, simply referred to as "The Vikings" in Auctoritas Documentation, are the least understood group the Conquista worked with. This group would always approach members of The Church at night, oftentimes having already subdued an anomaly requested. All Auctoritas documentation shows that working with this group was loathed, especially since the group refused the money, asking instead for favors or some seemingly random object. A large note on many reports states that their eyes were a murky blue as if their irises were "flooded with seawater."
"The Misfits" - A group of seemingly unrelated small crews, only aligned through a shared base of 4 ships that are physically attached to each other. they would take most commissions, but many never returned, leading the Conquista to be less willing to give them some of the relevant materials for cases, since they would become lost with the initial commission taker. The Conquista often used them less as a way to take commissions and more for getting communications to more consistent groups. These communications were how the Conquista first came into contact with Joshua Grant.
☐ Bulletin of General Occurrences: (circa. 1610 - 1654)
☒ Bulletin of General Occurrences: (circa. 1610 - 1654)
In the name of His holiness, for the benefit of His children's welfare…
Public Inquiries of Note:
Leads on General Rumors & Occurrences
REMINDER: Though these general leads remain public knowledge, this does not mean you are free to hoard or abide by such related items yourself whether you are a national or nation-less. Just as you cannot choose when to freely sin when walking among saints, you cannot pick and choose when to follow or deny our instructions on collection. If you associate with completing these tasks but fail to return all items, we will know, and the punishment will be swift and righteous.
Trazar las Fauces del Bastardo: 500 Escudos (Possible risk to the body)
"They call it 'Bastard's Catch,' that peak everyone talks about. It's a tight squeeze down the runoff, south of here. But if you just keep sailing, for far enough, you'll find it: Just a mound of ship parts stacked smack dab in the middle of nowhere. And I'm not talking just planks of driftwood; whole fucking ships, peaking from the ocean floor… I have seen not only flags of the magnanimous King of the Catholics, but English banners as well. Want to bet how much treasure must have pooled just below the waves? Just, if you go out there, keep away from anything you catch slytherin' in the splinters."
— John Barbsy, noted first mate of the Quellen Crew; discussing his unusual detours with new recruits.
"The Vampire of Honduras" 11,500 Escudos
Locate the Shaman, kill or subjugate him, and bring what you can of him back to the headquarters on Tortuga.
"The Indians of Honduras… something is not right about them. Their shaman climbs to the tops of trees at night with two young men. No, it's not for hunting, nor is it a rite of passage. Every morning, he returns by himself. After seeing this obvious affront to god I sent my men into his house, always surrounded by a red mist, but it was for naught. By the time most of our men had entered that rosy-colored mist, their wails had enveloped the canopy. And where they stood, a deep-red cloud of vapor had simmered in their place."
— Sir Blasco de Alzado, Explorer and Spanish Cartographer.
Cautivar al Cano Tuerto: 8,250 Escudos (Whether living or dead)
"Ever heard about Ol' One-eye? Met him once in Tortuga. Strange fella kept fiddling with his skull amulet and asked me if I'd ever heard of him. I said no, naturally, and he rattles off alias after alias to me, askin' if I've heard any of' em. He seemed desperate to be recognized as some great captain. I thought he was talking nonsense until he brought up a name I did recognize: Johnny Wight.
"That was the name of an old captain, beloved among many of my trade, whose ship vanished into the Bahamas more than a century ago, making him older even than Moses when God took him. He thanked me, laughin' to himself and repeating his own name, till his face turned grim and he begged: he feared the torch of the Inquisición, and asked that I let him go. He fled without my answer, clutching the amulet in a furious vice.
— Yessenia Vizcaino, slaver and former member of Joseph Crocket's Pirate Crew.
"La Mancha Negra" 2,240 Escudos
"There's something in the water, I don't know what. Believe it or not, this place used to be a great fishing spot when I was a kid. Now, the catches are dwindling, and what you catch are all deformed like, 'got rotting sores on 'em and frothing at the mouth! I mean, what I seen happenin' is this black "thing" movin around the water like a huge ink stain. Every time afterward I see a few of them puss bubbles floating on the water, from time to time, clumping up on the beach."
— Nej Adamson, Trade Fishermen (planned to move two weeks after interview)
Hacerse con el Paradero de la Ciudad Blanca: 60,000 Escudos
To any captain or leader willing to lead the crew of the Santa Clara to the White City of savage legend, the title of Adelantado may be bestowed by the Crown of Philip III, together with a reward of 60,000 Escudos to be distributed among all finders.
"Though the blinding glints of the golden province that Cortés bore witness to do often blind even the prudent cunning brought by great age, and indeed the reward shall only blind our wisdom further, I must call to the fear of the Lord above within our hearts: none have yet even gazed upon the White City and returned to bring truth to legend.
— Bernardino de Meneses y Bracamonte, 1st Count de Peñalva & Comisario de la Auctoritas
"Purge Tenochtitlan's unholiness" 20,000 Escudos (Minimum of 20 people required)
"I was trying to find some remaining jewels and such from that old Aztec capital, but the moment me and my buddies walked in there we could feel this overwhelming presence. We looked to the top of their temples and there was a man holding the heart of another on every one of them. All of a sudden they all turn and look at us, and start shouting at us about an exchange or something.
I went to leave immediately, but everybody else just stared at them and walked slowly towards the temples. I looked back and then I noticed it, the sun was blood red. It wasn't just red though, it's like it was dripping from the surface of the sun, and the sun was filled with their blood. I don't really understand how I knew that, it was like an instinctual truth."
— Julio Bernardino, Treasure Hunter
Destrúyanse los Caballeros de Chisholme: 3,000 Escudos (Exceptional prowess in combat needed.)
Find and retrieve the Green Gem from the Chisholme Knights of the British crown. For each helm taken and returned, an additional 1,000 Escudos will be rewarded.
"…A team of armored Britons, conducting robbery in the lands of the Catholic Crown! I will not let the forces of the Armada be bested by schismatic bandits. We must seek that this insult finds proper retribution before they flee for the seas. They carry a wide green emerald with them: a stolen relic from the Santa Maria. Its iridescence, a sure sign of magickal attributes yet unknown, will reveal them by night. Though we know not yet of its power – as it was meant to burn –, the Knights must surely not know either.
— Tomas Torreblanca, Inquisitor of the Auctoritas
"Testas Mampuestas" 3,000 Escudos (Multiple Isolated/Sparse Reports)
Enter the forests of Guatemala, find the stone heads and map out their location. Recommendation is to go in shifts so any possible effects from "seeing too many" is lost. Search for any possible link to the Quetzals of the area.
"You've seen them too right? The stone heads of the forest. Not those short round ones made by the 'Olmecs' as the savages call them, they're much taller and have more european features. You never find one on purpose, you just happen upon them while traveling. I've never seen anything happen around them or because of them, but as soon as you get close to one you can instantly feel the sensation that you aren't welcome."
— David Bailie, Cartographer by Trade (sanity recently questioned due to bouts of hysteria, noted by family.)
"Recabar los Despojos del Ave de Fragores" 10,000 Escudos
"… a monstrous creature was swooping over the coast of Isla Bermeja. Its feathers cast smoke, and it made a strange buzzing cry as it struggled among the storm clouds. I believe it was what the savages call "Wakį́yą." It must have flown in from the open sea. And yet it didn't flap, save for a strange twirling of whiskers or teeth about its head. When I had sent young Bobo to investigate, in the deep jungle line, he reported seeing a red-haired woman, a European, in the distance, stumbling deeper into the island with a gash upon her head."
— Antón de Deça, Church Historian and Explorer, found near a secret pub.
"Sink the Ship of Metal" 8,000 Escudos
"Quellen and Crockets' crews have a pretty nasty rivalry, no one'll dispute that. There's always something that one of 'em has or is searching for that the other guy wants. It ain't cheap, relic hunting, with all these church-mice2 around.
Last I heard, they were both investigating claims of some big vessel that's been attacking the other boats, everybody's been saying that it's harder than any other boat they've seen and is bigger than a galleon. Anyway, that's been a few months, and no one's seen them make their usual ration run."
— Joseph Kerts, Bartender; Testimony was given post inquiry into a series of bottled messages floating up the shore in the town of [Unintelligable].
Expúlsesen los Niños Macilentos: 2,100 Escudos (Consult with Father Tiago de Burgos)
All men of arms and courage are called for the assembly of a company to aid in the endeavor of exorcizing the Sickly Children from the inland town of Cáliz. Others of less verve may assist with burning of corpses thereafter, for a halved reward of 1,000 Escudos.
"Minding your own business is a good piece of advice anywhere, but here, it's a survival tactic. The children: We don't know where or who they come from, just that they're here at night. You may see them on street corners or fence posts, out of the corner of your eye. But what we do know is that they aren't fond of introductions, and all the people who follow them don't come back. Wha— Getting a priest out here? I'd like to see you try."
— Maria Elvello, mother of four and Genoan colonist.
"Goldbeard's Treasure" 700 Escudos (Cold Case) RETRACTED
Find Captain Goldbeard and/or his treasure. Look for any islands surrounded by black waves, or any that appear to be floating. Retrieve as much treasure as you can and bring it to Auctoritas. 'Reward will be increased depending on the size of your haul
All efforts outside of the capture of "Goldbeard" have been halted by an official Vatican decree. Any who continues to attempt to reach the island does so at their own risk.
"Captain Goldbeard's Treasure: By God, I am not jesting, his name was 'Klaus Bernhard Goldbeard.' He had a gruff facial scar, the most luscious, silvery-blonde locks you'd ever see, and a rotund, jolly demeanor. I took a job for him once — desperately — but when I got to the agreed location, there wasn't a ship, just these beds. He told us about midday to get some early shuteye since we'd be leaving real' early in the morning. I shrugged it off at the time, but when I had that dream… The flying ship, the food, the gold, the black-capped waves rolling off the waterfalls into the endless abyss below; It all seemed real. I know it was real."
— Scotsman "Ailig Goering," among one of forty coma victims found at the Nimmerland Inn, ranting about 'floating island(s).'
"The Retaking of Fort James in Tobago," Print by an Unknown Artist (circa. 1622)
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Account of Records:
Unholy Treasures
RPC-445 - Blade of Selene
High Sea Folklore:
Der Fischer Und Die Magische Leiche
Ship Manifests:
El Corazón de Judas
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A Special Thank You To:
Directed by Croal, Blairin,
Almarduk for revising the bulletin,
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And Vizlox for creating and brainstorming such an amazing event idea.
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The code for starting up the plugin is contained in main.cpp, but this is so similar to the channel shader plugin that I won't list it here. You can download it in the source file archive for the plugin. It's worth looking at the header file crossmaker.h though, because it's a little different.
A few things to note about this. There are three virtual functions we have to supply code for, but the only new one is GetContour(), which we'll look at on the next page. Then we have the usual static function Alloc() to allocate a new instance of the plugin class. We also have three functions we supply, GenerateCross(), OrientObject(), and ResetValues(), which are explained on the next page. Finally, there is another static function, OrientObject(), which will get the default orientation of a spline primitive. It has to be static because we call this before a spline object has been generated.
Note that we also have a small data structure called 'Cross'. This will hold all the parameters we need to determine how the cross will be drawn. There are only two here, but in a more complex plugin there could be a lot more, and keeping them all in one structure is a very convenient way to pass the data to any functions we write.
The only other thing to point out is the 'INSTANCEOF(CrossMaker, ObjectData)' line. This is just a macro that in this case redefines (using a typedef) 'ObjectData' as 'SUPER'. This is very convenient if you need to call a base object's equivalent function at the end of one of the virtual functions we implement. In fact we don't need to do that here, but you will in some cases - this macro is used quite a lot in the SDK examples, check these out to see how it's used.
On the next page we will implement the actual code for the plugin.


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Random telegraph signal (RTS) noise and other anomalies in the near-infrared detector systems for the Euclid mission
Author(s): Ralf Kohley; Rémi Barbier; Bogna Kubik; Sylvain Ferriol; Jean-Claude Clemens; Anne Ealet; Aurélia Secroun; Luca Conversi; Paolo Strada
Euclid is an ESA mission to map the geometry of the dark Universe with a planned launch date in 2020. Euclid is optimised for two primary cosmological probes, weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. They are implemented through two science instruments on-board Euclid, a visible imager (VIS) and a near-infrared spectro-photometer (NISP), which are being developed and built by the Euclid Consortium instrument development teams. The NISP instrument contains a large focal plane assembly of 16 Teledyne HgCdTe H2RG detectors with 2.3μm cut-off wavelength and SIDECAR readout electronics. The performance of the detector systems is critical to the science return of the mission and extended on-ground tests are being performed for characterisation and calibration purposes. Special attention is given also to effects even on the scale of individual pixels, which are difficult to model and calibrate, and to identify any possible impact on science performance. This paper discusses a variety of undesired pixel behaviour including the known effect of random telegraph signal (RTS) noise based on initial on-ground test results from demonstrator model detector systems. Some stability aspects of the RTS pixel populations are addressed as well.
Date Published: 5 August 2016
Proc. SPIE 9915, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VII, 99150H (5 August 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2233352
Ralf Kohley, European Space Astronomy Ctr. (Spain)
Rémi Barbier, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (France)
Bogna Kubik, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (France)
Sylvain Ferriol, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (France)
Jean-Claude Clemens, Ctr. de Physique des Particules de Marseille (France)
Anne Ealet, Ctr. de Physique des Particules de Marseille (France)
Aurélia Secroun, Ctr. de Physique des Particules de Marseille (France)
Luca Conversi, European Space Astronomy Ctr. (Spain)
Paolo Strada, ESA - ESTEC (Netherlands)


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title: Hope Sabbath School Outline
date: 24/01/2020
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### Outline #4 From Furnace to Palace

*  The building of a huge golden image
	* Daniel 3:1-7 Why do you think Nebuchadnezzar ordered the construction of a huge golden image?
	* What other stories in the Bible illustrate a desire to trust in human strength rather than trust in God?
	* Why was Nebuchadnezzar so slow to learn the importance of trusting fully in the God of heaven?

*  The command to worship the golden image
	* Daniel 3:8-15
	* Think of other times in history when people have been forced to worship in a way that was contrary to the clear teachings of the Bible.  Who is behind all such forced idolatry? (see Matthew 4:8-10, Isaiah 14:12-14)
	* Why is this story recorded in Daniel 3 particularly relevant for our lives today? Revelation 13:11-18

*  The test of fire
	* Daniel 3:16-18 What impresses you as you hear the testimony of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego?
	* Daniel 3:19-23 Why did the attitude of Nebuchadnezzar change from respect to rage?
	* What details in this story emphasize the severity of this fiery test?
	* Share a time when your loyalty and faithfulness to God faced a fiery test.

*  The Fourth Man in the fire
	* Daniel 3:24-25
	* Daniel 3:26-27 How does the presence of the Fourth Man in the fiery furnace impact those who witness the scene?
	* Share some promises in the Bible where God assures us He will be with us as we face the fiery trials of life. Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 50:15, etc.
	* Sometimes God delivers us from the fire.  Other times He delivers us through the fire.  Still other times He delivers us after the fire. Share examples of those who faced death unafraid, trusting in God that their ultimate deliverance was sure.

*  The response of King Nebuchadnezzar
	* Daniel 3:28 What are your thoughts about Nebuchadnezzar's confession?
	* Daniel 3:29-30 What are your thoughts about Nebuchadnezzar's two declarations?

*  The gift of courageous faith
	* Hebrews 11:1-6 How can we develop courageous faith like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego?
	* Ephesians 2:8 – courageous faith is a gift of God
	* What lesson can we learn from the absence of Daniel in this story?

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Q: Dynamic dispatch and binding Are dynamic dispatch and dynamic binding the same thing?
Thanks
Maciej

A: Dynamic dispatch or dynamic binding means that when calling a method, choosing the actual method implementation to execute happens while the program is running, because statically there is not enough information available. It will based on the method name, the actual receiver type (subtype polymorphism), and/or the actual argument types (overloading), or even more fancy pattern matching.
Dynamic binding is, according to Wikipedia, a form of dynamic dispatch in OO languages where the actual method to invoke is based on the name of the operation and the actual receiver at runtime.
This article introduces statically-typed dynamic binding (dynamic binding aided by the static type system) and dynamic binding fully performed at runtime. It treats overloading as a form of dynamic binding as well.
I'm sure you can find many other articles that talk about dynamic dispatch or binding. As far as I can tell, the terminology is not fixed and 'overloaded'. It is best to describe what actually happens at runtime (the exact process of how a particular method is chosen) instead of trying to correctly define either of these two terms.

A: No.
Dynamic Dispatch - The actual method group/signature/override chain is bound at compile time.  The method called is dependent upon the actual runtime type of the object but no actual interpretation occurs.  It will still be a version of the statically bound method.
Here is an example in C#.
class Foo {
  public override string ToString() { return "foo's ToString"; }
}

void Example(object p1) {
  p1.ToString();
}

The call to p1.ToString is an example of dynamic dispatch.  The code statically binds to the method ToString.  However it is a virtual method so the actual .ToString() called won't be known until runtime but it is guaranteed to call a .ToString() method.  It will be the ToString of the actual type of p1.  So if p1 is actually an instance of Foo, Foo::ToString will be called.
Dynamic Binding - The actual method is bound at runtime and is subject to interpretation based on the semantics of the language or reflection framework.  This may fail due to an inability to bind.
Example:
void CallBar(object o) {
  var method = o.GetType().GetMethod("Bar");
  method.Invoke(new object[] {o});
}

In this case, we're attempting to invoke the method "Bar" on the object in question.  The keyword is attempting.  It's entirely possible that "Bar" will not exist on the object.  But this is determined at runtime by dynamically binding to the method "Bar".
The thing they have the most in common, is both operations (likely) depend on the runtime type of the object.
EDIT
Added some more examples at the request of the OP


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Q: How to find maximum likelihood parameter estimates for a custom bivariate distribution? this is univariate distribution
dist= ProbabilityDistribution[{"CDF", (1 -  E^-(\[Lambda]*x))^\[Alpha]}, {x, 0, \[Infinity]},Assumptions -> {\[Lambda] > 0, \[Alpha] > 0}];

this is data
data = {74, 57, 48, 29, 502, 12, 70, 21, 29, 386, 59, 27, 153, 26, 326}

i used this code to get parameters
 mle = FindDistributionParameters[data, dist, ParameterEstimator -> "MaximumLikelihood"]

and used this code to get -L
LogLikelihood[dist, data] /. mle

how i do it with this bivariate copula distribution and data to get this results
dist1= ProbabilityDistribution[{"CDF", (1 -  E^-(\[Lambda]*x))^\[Alpha]}, {x, 0, \[Infinity]},Assumptions -> {\[Lambda] > 0, \[Alpha] > 0}];
dist2= ProbabilityDistribution[{"CDF", (1 -  E^-(\[Lambda]*x))^\[Alpha]}, {x, 0, \[Infinity]},Assumptions -> {\[Lambda] > 0, \[Alpha] > 0}];

bidist = CopulaDistribution[{"FGM",\[Gamma]}, {dist1, dist2}];

data = {{2, 6.5}, {2, 6.5}, {2.1, 10.1}, {2.2, 7.2}, {2.2, 7.6}, {2.2,
 7.9}, {2.2, 8.5}, {2.2, 9.1}, {2.2, 9.6}, {2.2, 9.6}, {2.2,
10.7}, {2.3, 9.6}, {2.4, 7.3}, {2.4, 7.9}, {2.4, 7.9}, {2.4,
9.1}, {2.4, 9.3}, {2.5, 7.9}, {2.5, 8.6}, {2.5, 8.8}, {2.5,
8.8}, {2.5, 9.3}, {2.5, 11}, {2.5, 12.7}, {2.5, 12.7}, {2.6,
7.7}, {2.6, 8.3}, {2.6, 9.4}, {2.6, 9.4}, {2.6, 10.5}, {2.6,
11.5}, {2.7, 8}, {2.7, 9}, {2.7, 9.6}, {2.7, 9.6}, {2.7,
9.8}, {2.7, 10.4}, {2.7, 11.1}, {2.7, 12}, {2.7, 12.5}, {2.8,
9.1}, {2.8, 10}, {2.8, 10.2}, {2.8, 11.4}, {2.8, 12}, {2.8,
13.3}, {2.8, 13.5}, {2.9, 9.4}, {2.9, 10.1}, {2.9, 10.6}, {2.9,
11.3}, {2.9, 11.8}, {3, 10}, {3, 10.4}, {3, 10.6}, {3, 11.6}, {3,
12.2}, {3, 12.4}, {3, 12.7}, {3, 13.3}, {3, 13.8}, {3.1,
9.9}, {3.1, 11.5}, {3.1, 12.1}, {3.1, 12.5}, {3.1, 13}, {3.1,
14.3}, {3.2, 11.6}, {3.2, 11.9}, {3.2, 12.3}, {3.2, 13}, {3.2,
13.5}, {3.2, 13.6}, {3.3, 11.5}, {3.3, 12}, {3.3, 14.1}, {3.3,
14.9}, {3.3, 15.4}, {3.4, 11.2}, {3.4, 12.2}, {3.4, 12.4}, {3.4,
12.8}, {3.4, 14.4}, {3.5, 11.7}, {3.5, 12.9}, {3.5, 15.6}, {3.5,
15.7}, {3.5, 17.2}, {3.6, 11.8}, {3.6, 13.3}, {3.6, 14.8}, {3.6,
15}, {3.7, 11}, {3.8, 14.8}, {3.8, 16.8}, {3.9, 14.4}, {3.9,
20.5}};

now i want to calculate mle
     mle = FindDistributionParameters[data, bidist , ParameterEstimator -> "MaximumLikelihood"]

but i get error like this

and i can't get -L
or pvalue
DistributionFitTest[data, bidist /. mle, {"TestDataTable", "KolmogorovSmirnov"}]

A: In this case I think one needs to construct the log likelihood "from scratch" and use a high WorkingPrecision.
(* Data *)
data = {{2, 6.5}, {2, 6.5}, {2.1, 10.1}, {2.2, 7.2}, {2.2, 7.6}, {2.2,
     7.9}, {2.2, 8.5}, {2.2, 9.1}, {2.2, 9.6}, {2.2, 9.6}, {2.2,
    10.7}, {2.3, 9.6}, {2.4, 7.3}, {2.4, 7.9}, {2.4, 7.9}, {2.4,
    9.1}, {2.4, 9.3}, {2.5, 7.9}, {2.5, 8.6}, {2.5, 8.8}, {2.5,
    8.8}, {2.5, 9.3}, {2.5, 11}, {2.5, 12.7}, {2.5, 12.7}, {2.6,
    7.7}, {2.6, 8.3}, {2.6, 9.4}, {2.6, 9.4}, {2.6, 10.5}, {2.6,
    11.5}, {2.7, 8}, {2.7, 9}, {2.7, 9.6}, {2.7, 9.6}, {2.7,
    9.8}, {2.7, 10.4}, {2.7, 11.1}, {2.7, 12}, {2.7, 12.5}, {2.8,
    9.1}, {2.8, 10}, {2.8, 10.2}, {2.8, 11.4}, {2.8, 12}, {2.8,
    13.3}, {2.8, 13.5}, {2.9, 9.4}, {2.9, 10.1}, {2.9, 10.6}, {2.9,
    11.3}, {2.9, 11.8}, {3, 10}, {3, 10.4}, {3, 10.6}, {3, 11.6}, {3,
    12.2}, {3, 12.4}, {3, 12.7}, {3, 13.3}, {3, 13.8}, {3.1,
    9.9}, {3.1, 11.5}, {3.1, 12.1}, {3.1, 12.5}, {3.1, 13}, {3.1,
    14.3}, {3.2, 11.6}, {3.2, 11.9}, {3.2, 12.3}, {3.2, 13}, {3.2,
    13.5}, {3.2, 13.6}, {3.3, 11.5}, {3.3, 12}, {3.3, 14.1}, {3.3,
    14.9}, {3.3, 15.4}, {3.4, 11.2}, {3.4, 12.2}, {3.4, 12.4}, {3.4,
    12.8}, {3.4, 14.4}, {3.5, 11.7}, {3.5, 12.9}, {3.5, 15.6}, {3.5,
    15.7}, {3.5, 17.2}, {3.6, 11.8}, {3.6, 13.3}, {3.6, 14.8}, {3.6,
    15}, {3.7, 11}, {3.8, 14.8}, {3.8, 16.8}, {3.9, 14.4}, {3.9,
    20.5}};
data = Rationalize[data, 0];

(* Define distributions *)
dist1 = ProbabilityDistribution[{"CDF", (1 - E^-(λ1*x))^α1}, {x, 0, ∞},
   Assumptions -> {λ1 > 0, α1 > 0}];
dist2 = ProbabilityDistribution[{"CDF", (1 - E^-(λ2*x))^α2}, {x, 0, ∞},
   Assumptions -> {λ2 > 0, α2 > 0}];
bidist = CopulaDistribution[{"FGM", γ}, {dist1, dist2}];

Now construct the log of the likelihood and use some substitutions in an attempt to speed things up.  I gave up on using LogLikelihood directly.
(* The substitutions are an attempt to simplify the resulting log likelihood *)
logpdf = (Log[PDF[bidist, {x, y}]] // PiecewiseExpand)[[2]];
logpdf = logpdf //. Log[u_ v_] -> Log[u] + Log[v] //. Log[u_^v_] -> v Log[u]
logL = Total[logpdf /. {x -> data[[All, 1]], y -> data[[All, 2]]}];

mle = FindMaximum[{logL, λ1 > 0 && λ2 > 0 && α1 > 0 && α2 > 0 && -1 < γ < 1},
  {λ1, λ2, α1, α2, γ}, WorkingPrecision -> 30]
(* {-271.80470974521206383075696322790604898437737424471,
{λ1 -> 2.4941182035060283311914526300852320136344602902781,
 λ2 -> 0.47825679807006947144544091632892697088138495905157,
 α1 -> 765.98664215659951906278158670015743663123546664348,
 α2 -> 122.76925777452731498490642356544790410817809336203,
 γ -> 0.99999999999999999999999999999925884158661728362410}} *)

Show[ContourPlot[PDF[bidist /. mle[[2]], {x, y}],
  {x, 1.5, 4.5}, {y, 5, 22}, ContourShading -> None],
 ListPlot[data]]

I don't think a statistical test of goodness-of-fit is necessary:  the fit is not very good.


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Follow this system-by-system approach to keep your patient stable and steering clear of complications.
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Adapted from: Mullen-Fortino M, O'Brien N. Caring for a patient after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Men Nurs. 2008;3(5):12–18.
Every year, some 427,000 patients in the United States have coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.1 Whether the surgery is done with the patient on or off the cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) machine (see "On pump or off?"), the postoperative nursing care is the same. In this article, we'll outline your role in patient care by body system.
Twenty-four to 48 hours after surgery, your patient will be transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU) to the cardiac surgical unit and placed on continuous telemetry monitoring. Your top priority is to keep him hemo dynamically stable so his vital organs are adequately perfused. Check his vital signs according to your facility's protocol and assess for signs and symptoms of adequate cardiac output. Investigate even subtle signs of trouble, such as tachycardia and cool extremities. Other signs of reduced cardiac output include diminished peripheral pulses, changes in mentation, decreased urine output, and hypotension.
Preoperative or early postoperative administration of beta-blockers is considered standard therapy to reduce the risk of AF after CABG.3 Amiodarone is an alternative for patients who have contraindications to beta-blockers.
If your patient develops AF, his stroke risk is two to five times higher. The American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association provides consensus guide lines for administering anticoagulation to patients with AF lasting more than 24 hours.4 Because heparin is associated with increased bleeding risk, the patient may start warfarin therapy without also starting heparin. However, for high-risk patients, such as those with history of stroke or transient ischemic attack, heparin should be considered a bridging therapy to oral warfarin until the patient's international normalized ratio is therapeutic.
Ventricular dysrhythmias can occur any time after CABG surgery but are more common in the early postoperative period. Hypothermia, electrolyte disturbances (especially hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia), acidosis, manipulation of the heart, and myocardial ischemia may be factors in postoperative dysrhythmias. Brady cardias and transient heart blocks usually resolve within several hours after surgery. The patient will come out of the operating room with epicardial pacing wires and a temporary pacemaker, which are used for atrioventricular pacing until normal conduction returns.
A pericardial effusion can result in cardiac tamponade, a rare but potentially lethal complication following CABG. Most cases occur in the early postoperative period, but tamponade can occur as late as 6 months postoperatively. Pericardial effusion puts pressure on the heart, prevents diastole and filling of the chambers, and reduces cardiac output. The hallmark of cardiac tamponade is the Beck triad: muffled heart sounds, distended jugular neck veins, and hypotension. Pulsus paradoxus greater than 12 mm Hg is a classic sign of tamponade. Patients may experience dyspnea, chest pain, and dizziness.
If your patient has signs and symptoms of cardiac tamponade, the physician may order a bedside echocardiogram. If it confirms tamponade, prepare your patient to return to the operating room for evacuation of the clot and repair of the bleeding site. But if the patient's condition deteriorates to the point that he's at risk for cardiac arrest, the physician may perform an emergency bedside reexploration sternotomy.
Between 30% and 60% of patients have pulmonary dysfunction and hypoxemia after CABG, usually as a result of fluid volume overload, poor inspiratory effort, and atelectasis. Risk factors for pulmonary problems include a history of heart failure, COPD, smoking, or diabetes; age over 65; and endotracheal intubation. Common signs of respiratory impairment are shortness of breath and decreased oxygen saturation.
Atelectasis, a common postoperative complication, may be related to CPB, including decreased surfactant production, or the effects of general anesthesia.
Pleural effusion, another common complication, occurs in the immediate postoperative period in 41% to 87% of patients. Effusions can result from bleeding secondary to internal mammary artery (IMA) harvesting. Small effusions (less than 500 mL) can be managed conservatively and will usually resolve spontaneously. Larger effusions may require thoracentesis, especially if they cause dyspnea or other signs and symptoms.
To reduce your patient's risk of postoperative pulmonary complications, assess breath sounds frequently, monitor his SpO2, administer supplemental oxygen as needed, and encourage him to perform incentive spirometry every hour while he's awake. Teach him to splint his incision when coughing and moving. Be sure to provide optimal pain control so he can move freely. Assisting the patient with early, aggressive ambulation, coughing and deep breathing, and turning from side to side while in bed are simple but effective nursing interventions that help prevent postoperative pulmonary complications. Patients with copious pulmonary secretions or bronchospasm may also need chest physical therapy and nebulized bronchodilators.
Besides keeping the patient comfortable, effective pain control helps maintain hemodynamic stability and prevent pulmonary complications. The typical patient will receive I.V. push opioids in the immediate postoperative period, then switch to oral forms by the second or third postoperative day as tolerated. Analgesics, positioning, distraction, and relaxation techniques also can be used to control pain.
Monitor the patient for adverse drug reactions, such as oversedation and respiratory depression. Balance his need for pain control without respiratory depression with his need to cough and deep-breathe. Individualize pain management and frequently evaluate the patient's pain, using an appropriate pain intensity rating scale, to check the effectiveness of interventions. Also use a sedation-rating tool to monitor for sedation and respiratory depression.
Besides opioids, I.V. ketorolac, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), may be used with caution in patients who don't receive adequate pain control from opioids alone. Check the patient's renal function before administering this drug and expect to discontinue it if his serum creatinine increases. Also remember that NSAIDs can increase the patient's risk of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. Monitor for signs and symptoms of occult bleeding.
Another source of moderate to severe pain is chest tube removal, which usually occurs on the first or second postoperative day. Administer adequate analgesia before chest tube removal.
Bleeding is a common complication after CABG surgery and can have many causes, including platelet dysfunction from prolonged contact with the artificial surface of the CPB machine, high doses of heparin given during surgery, and hypothermia.
Postoperative renal dysfunction occurs in as many as 8% of patients after CABG. Predictors of renal dysfunction include advanced age, history of moderate or severe heart failure, prior bypass surgery, type 1 diabetes, and preexisting renal disease.
A comparison of the patient's postoperative daily weights to his preoperative weight guides the use of diuretics. Monitor his urine output, blood urea nitrogen level, and serum creatinine level to assess renal function.
Diuretics typically are given on the first postoperative day and are continued until the patient reaches his preoperative weight (usually in 5 to 7 days). Patients who needed diuretics before CABG may need to continue taking them after discharge. If the patient develops oliguria (urine output of less than 0.5 mL/kg/hour), assess his cardiac function and perfusion, vital signs, and lab results. He may need fluids or medication dose adjustments.
Less common, GI complications affect 1% to 2% of patients after CABG. The most common major complications are upper GI bleeding from gastritis or peptic ulcer disease, pancreatitis, hollow viscus perforation, mesenteric ischemia, and cholecystitis.6 Monitor the patient's bowel sounds and notify the healthcare provider if the patient develops abdominal pain, distension, nausea, and vomiting. The patient may need diagnostic testing including an abdominal X-ray, electrolyte panel, and complete blood cell count.
Most patients have a nasogastric (NG) tube immediately after CABG surgery. The NG tube usually is removed after the patient is extubated and after his bowel sounds return. He then can be started on clear liquids and his diet advanced as tolerated.
Anorexia and nausea are common postoperative complaints and may be adverse drug reactions. Administer antiemetics if the patient is nauseated and give histamine blockers as prescribed to minimize gastric acid secretion. Treat constipation, another common postoperative problem, with stool softeners or bulk laxatives as ordered.
Superficial infections and deep sternal wound infection (also called mediastinitis) occur infrequently but can have a profound effect on patient morbidity, length of stay, and cost of care. Infections usually occur within the first 2 weeks after surgery. A patient is at increased risk if he's obese, if he has diabetes or COPD, if bilateral IMA grafts were used, or if surgery was prolonged (more than 90 minutes).
Although no consensus has been reached on best practice for postoperative wound care, best-practice guidelines recommend keeping a sterile dressing on the wound for 24 to 48 hours after surgery.9 Follow your facility's policy for performing incision care and changing dressings. Monitor your patient for signs and symptoms of infection, including fever, increased chest wall pain or tenderness, an unstable sternum, and purulent discharge from the wound.
Administering prophylactic antibiotics for 48 hours after cardiac surgery has been shown to minimize infection.10 The risk of deep sternal wound infections can be reduced with continuous I.V. insulin infusions to aggressively control perioperative hyperglycemia. Major infections such as mediastinitis require surgical debridement and weeks to months of I.V. antibiotic therapy. Minor wound infections can be treated with oral antibiotics and local wound care. The choice of antibiotic and duration of therapy depend on patient-risk factors and healthcare provider preference.
when to contact the hospital or healthcare provider. Tell the patient to seek immediate medical attention if he has chest pain, shortness of breath not relieved by rest, a fast or irregular heartbeat, chills, fever, severe headache, numbness or tingling in his arms or legs, fainting spells, or if he coughs up bright red blood.
what to expect and what's normal after surgery. Mood swings, diminished appetite, and difficulty sleeping are common after CABG, but usually resolve in 4 to 6 weeks.
lifestyle changes such as stopping smoking, eating a low-fat diet, controlling BP, and losing weight. For example, patients who continue to smoke have more myocardial infarctions and reoperations.
activity progression. For the first 6 weeks postoperatively, the patient can engage in light activities such as setting the table, folding clothes, walking, and climbing stairs. He can return to work part-time after 6 weeks and can gradually increase his activity level to normal by 3 months after surgery.
incision care, as directed by the surgeon.
medication education. Most patients are discharged on antiplatelet therapy, typically aspirin, which significantly reduces saphenous vein graft closure through the first year.4 Patients with dyslipidemia will also receive lipid-lowering therapy. Explain what the drugs are for, how to take them correctly, how to recognize signs and symptoms of adverse drug reactions, and what to report to his healthcare provider.
cardiac rehabilitation. Unless contraindicated, all patients should receive cardiac rehabilitation after CABG. Patients who participate in cardiac rehabilitation have increased physical mobility, feel in better health, and generally have a more positive outlook on life.
About 20% of patients are depressed after a major cardiac event such as CABG surgery. Reassure the patient that temporary feelings of sadness are normal and should go away within a few weeks as he gets back to normal routines and activities. Tell the patient and his family that if depression is persistent or severe and disrupts activities of daily living, he should discuss this with his healthcare provider.
A patient undergoing CABG has complex healthcare needs. Knowing about the multiple system changes caused by surgery will help you and the rest of the care team anticipate postoperative problems and intervene quickly and appropriately so that your patient can have the best possible outcome.
During "on pump" CABG surgery, a CPB machine circulates oxygenated blood while diverting most of the patient's blood from the heart and lungs. This provides a bloodless, motionless surgical field while preserving tissue perfusion to vital organs. The blocked coronary artery is bypassed using a graft from the saphenous vein or the internal mammary artery or radial artery. However, CPB puts patients at risk for various problems related to the blood being in contact with the machine, including atrial fibrillation, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, stroke, cognitive changes, renal failure, dysrhythmias, coagulopathies, and microemboli.
The older "off pump" technique, in which surgery is performed on the beating heart, reduces the adverse reactions associated with CPB and the need for RBC transfusions and positive inotropes. However, a meta-analysis found no significant differences in mortality rates, myocardial infarction, stroke, or renal dysfunction between the two types of CABG, and no consensus has been reached on which procedure is better.
Source: Keenan TD, et al. Bypassing the pump: changing practices in coronary artery surgery. Chest. 2005;128:363–369.
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