Diffuse axonal injury (often shortened to DAI) is one of the most common forms of traumatic brain injury. In traumatic brain injury, the damage is focused to one area of the brain, in diffuse axonal injury, the damage occurs over a larger area of the brain. DAI mainly damages white matter, which makes it one of the major causes of unconsciousness and persistent vegetative state after head trauma. It occurs in about half of all cases of severe head trauma.
Frequently, people suffering such damage fall into a coma; Over 90 percent of the patients with severe DAI never regain consciousness. Those who do wake up often remain significantly impaired.
Other authors state that DAI can occur in every degree of severity from (very) mild or moderate to (very) severe. Concussion may be a milder type of diffuse axonal injury.
Timecop
Timecop is a 1994 American science fiction action movie. It is about a federal agent who travels in time. Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Max Walker. Mia Sara plays Melissa.
"Timecop" got mixed reviews from critics. It made a lot of money at the box office.
Silent Fall
Silent Fall is a 1994 drama and mystery movie. The movie is about a boy with autism who sees a murder. Linda Hamilton plays Karen. Liv Tyler plays Sylvie Warden. John Lithgow plays Dr. Harlinger.
"Silent Fall" got negative reviews from critics. It became a box office bomb.
Junior (movie)
Junior is a 1994 comedy movie. The movie is about a male scientist who makes himself pregnant as an experiment. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Alex. Aida Turturro plays Louise. Emma Thompson plays Diana Reddin. Pamela Reed plays Angela.
This movie was released on November 23, 1994. The reviews were mixed to negative. It made quite a bit of money anyway.
Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Jean-Jacques Pauvert (8 April 1926 - 27 September 2014) was a French publisher. He was known for publishing the work of the Marquis de Sade in the early 1950s and as the first publisher of the "Story of O" (1954). He also published the first edition of Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylone" (1959). Pauvert was born in Paris.
He have also published the first French edition of the "Civil disobedience" of Henry David Thoreau in 1968.
Pauvert died in Toulon, France, aged 88.
Zhang Xianliang
Zhang Xianliang (; December 1936 – 27 September 2014) was a Chinese author and poet. He was the former president of the China Writer Association in Ningxia. He was a political prisoner during the Anti-Rightist Movement in 1957, until 1979. His most well known works, include "Half of Man is Woman" and "Grass Soup".
Xianliang died in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, aged 77.
Abdelmajid Lakhal
Abdelmajid Lakhal (November 29, 1939 – September 27, 2014) was a Tunisian theatre and movie actor and theatre director. He was known on Arab Television for acting in many telefilms. He was known for his roles in "Jesus of Nazareth", "Day of the Falcon", and in "Bab'Aziz - The Prince That Contemplated His Soul".
Lakhal died in Tunis, Tunisia, aged 74.
Taylor Hardwick
Taylor Hardwick (July 15, 1925 – September 27, 2014) was an American architect, interior designer, filmmaker, and educator. He designed hundreds of buildings throughout northeast Florida, predominantly in and near the city of Jacksonville.
Hardwick died in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida from cancer, aged 89.
Pamela Reed
Pamela Reed (born April 2, 1949) is an American actress. She acts in both movies and television. In "Kindergarten Cop", she played Phoebe O'Hara. In "The Simpsons", she played Ruth Powers.
Reed was born in Tacoma, Washington.
Adephaga
The Adephaga is a suborder of beetles. There are more than 40,000 recorded species in ten families. This is the second largest suborder of the order Coleoptera.
The beetles of this suborder include ground beetles, tiger beetles, diving beetles, and whirligig beetles. Most of the species belong to the family of carabids, or ground beetles (Carabidae).
The Adephaga is two groups with a common origin. They are the Hydradephaga (water beetles) and the Geadephaga (ground beetles. They are mostly predatory. The first fossils of both groups are found in the Triassic period. The ground beetles have formidable chemical defences. They have special pygidial glands which squirt out hot, burning chemicals. Bombardier beetles are famous for squirting their nasty chemicals at attackers.
Magnitude (astronomy)
The apparent magnitude () of a celestial object is a number that measures its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth. The brighter an object appears, the lower its magnitude value (i.e. inverse relation). The Sun, at apparent magnitude of −27, is the brightest object in the sky.
Magnitude is a logarithmic measure. It is measured in a specific wavelength or passband, usually in optical or near-infrared wavelengths. A full moon is −13 magnitude and the brightest planet Venus measures −5. The brightest man-made objects, Iridium flares, are ranked at −9 and the International Space Station measures −6.
The Greek astronomer Hipparchus first invented our system of apparent magnitude. He gave the brightest stars a magnitude of 1 and increased the numbers for dimmer stars. About 300 years later Ptolemy of Alexandria created an encyclopedia of stars based on Hipparchus' work. The Persian astronomer Al-Sufi took Ptolemy's work and gave Arabic names to the stars some 800 years later. Medieval European astronomers simply translated Al-Sufi's work into Latin which is why many stars today have Arabic names.
Alice Drummond
Alice Drummond (May 21, 1928 – November 30, 2016) was an American actress of stage and television. She was known for her roles in "Ghostbusters", "Awakenings", "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar", "", and in "Doubt".
Drummond was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She died on November 30, 2016 from complications of a fall in The Bronx, New York, aged 88.
Joe Franklin
Joe Franklin (born Joseph Fortgang; March 9, 1926 – January 24, 2015) was an American radio and television host personality from New York City. He is best known for the television talk-and-variety show format that set the standard for television talk shows.
His show began in 1951 on WJZ-TV (later WABC-TV) and moved to WOR-TV (later WWOR-TV) from 1962 to 1993. He interviewed over 100,000 guests during his 43 year career.
Franklin died of prostate cancer at a hospice on January 24, 2015 at the age of 88.
Greater Western Sydney Giants
The Greater Western Sydney Giants (nicknamed the GWS Giants or just the Giants) is a Australian Rules Football club. It plays in the Australian Football League. The club was founded in 2009. It is based in Sydney.
Crash course
Crash Course (also known as A Mother's Fight for Justice) is a 2001 American made-for-tv drama movie, Inspired by a true story.
A mother is angry at the boy who hit her son while driving drunk, because he never apologizes.
She tries to fight for revenge against the will of her husband and son. After he served in prison, the son decided to stop the fight, he came to say that he was never allowed to say that he is sorry.
Nerve plexus
A nerve plexus is a branching network of nerves which serves a part of the body. Nerves which go to and from the central nervous system bunch up in certain places. Between each vertebra is a plexus of nerves going in and coming out of the spinal cord. Another plexus is underneath each arm. That is a plexus of nerves and also blood vessels which serve every part of the arm, hand and fingers. Under the arm is much the safest place to have these things because of the damage they would get if too exposed. This also explains why arteries are deeper under the surface than veins.
Pichal Peri
Pichal Peri or Churail or Churel (Urdu:meaning, with reversed
feet) is a sort of legendary witch or monster type creature in Central Asian and
South Asian folklore.