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Ursula Valenta is an archer from Austria. Valenta competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics. She was born on 17 July 1951. |
Hi everyone....... I was diagnosed with endometriosis early this year just a few months after having my 4th child .I was in and out of hospital for 13 weeks near the end of my pregnancy with the same pain I have now and them having to stop my contraction as I went into labour early . As I had a previos c. Section I tried to give birth naturaly but was not happeng for me as i had a 38 hour labour so they had to do another c.section since then my endometriosis has just progressed and becoming very painfull i suffered with heavy bleeding and prolonged periods for upto 3 weeks at a time and had a few cysts on each of my ovarys which did go in time so I chose to have the marina in and that did not work for me as I bleed for 3 months everyday and still very heavy some days i would just spot but that was on the odd occasions and I was still in a lot of pain.so the gyne put me on norethisterone 2 a day and that did not help so had to go on 3 a day after going back to the docs that still did not help after taking them for another 2 weeks so I was by this time not a happy women my hormones were all over the place I was very snappy at my family and loved ones doctors were not doing anything so I desided to take it out myself . The bleeding stopped a few days after taking it out iv had a small period since then the codine no longer works for me so doctor put me on tramadol. Which some days when the pain is strong they don't even work I'm fed up of not sleeping feeling sick and been in pain I don't enjoy intercourse with my boyfriend as it hurts to much ,my social life has left me staying in all the time my pain is mainly on my right side mainly near my groin and my lower back the pain just burns constanly, I am 29 years old and I miss been so active.endometriosis runs in my family my mum has it and my sister I'm worried I will pass it on to my 2 girls.does anyone know if you can ask for a hysterectomy as iv had my kids now and am glad I have as there are people out there who can't have children with endometriosis my sister is one of them . Many thanks
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i too was diagnosed this yr after having my 2nd child thru c section, i was having really bad pelvic pains in the middle of m,y cycle and was suffering really bad stomach probs so docs thought i had ibs however on examination with consultant he said i had endo, my doc had given me a course of noristerone too but it made me ill so hosp put me on 3 month course of prostap whihc puts u into a min menopause the side effects arent too good but the relief from the endo was fantastic, i was then taken in for a laparosocopy in aug where they found the endo buried in my c section scar and im now awating to see consulatnt again next wk to see if they are going to perform a hysterectomy as im only 33 and cant give me the prostap for longer than a yr
hi i too was diagnosed with ibs when i was 17 after having my son .iv had pain now for the last 7 years i had a laparoscopy back in 2006 where they put a marina in at same time lasted me 18 months then it fell out they told me i had endo but it was not active . i would like them to do a nother laparocopy to find out whats going on in there and where all the pain is steaming from iv had problems with my bowels for so long i dont get the pain of ibs so much any more its more when i need the toilet and im bad with endo pain that i suffer more i do need to mention this to my gyne when i go back on 19th of dec ..... i am aware that hysterectomys do no cure the endo!!! and so many people have said that it just clings to you like a leech.my sister was on the injection and iv see the flushes she has and she said it was great for the pain . im just so confused at the moment.thankyou for your time to reply to my post i just try to take one day at a time as i have more bad days than good .
Oh i must say that i had a total abdominal hysterectomy in April this yr after 3 yrs of countless agony , cysts on one ovary then the other and finally a 10 cm cyst which burst!
I had been on Zoldex , prostap , codeine and Tramadol as well as countless other pills ! The hysterectomy does not cure Endemetriosis as i have recently found out as my pains are back with avengance ! The doctor told me the pains are all in my head !!!!!!!!!
I'm really not sure now where to go with all this but my life and every day to day things are a constant battle ! I am so deflated with it all xxx
im so sorry to hear that your cyst burst,iv been in agony with them where i have been doubled over with the pain and not been able to move ,lift my son up to feed him or even for a cuddle it was that bad.yeah a lot of people have said that about hysterectomys im also sorry to hear that your pain is back with avengance!! i understand where your coming from my mum is in the same situation as well as fighting cancer of the womb when she was only 27 years old she had 11 major opperations including a hysterectomy.my mum is now on so many tablets including morphine every day !!! her bowel has prolapsed and there is nothing they can do now. i just try to take each day as it comes most days tho i just feel rubbish im very snappy to everyone in my house and there is 7 of us . thank you for taking the time to writing back to me xxx
Hi.I'm not not sure yet if I have endo as I've got my lap on the 22nd. Just in time for. Christmas! But when they said it might be I looked up pain relief and Ponstan (mefanemic acid) was mentioned so I asked GP to prescribe it and it does ease pain. I used it for period pains when I was in my 20s after a nurse I lived with at uni suggested it. Was loads better than codeine. Never had Tramadol, but ease with which they prescribed it to me after an A&E session makes me think it's cheap
Yup. Just googled it and if you have a private prescription, ponstan is 20p a pill and Tramadol is 5p. Stands to reason it costs the NHS more to prescribe you ponstan. Also it's effectiveness on gyne pain seems a well kept secret, hence the fact that it took a nurse housemate and not my own doctors to prescribe it. Beware tho it does constipate. But them so does codeine.
hi there i have tried this as they gave it me to stop my bleeding they did not work for me unfortunatly it just seems everything they give me makes me feel sick or does noty work i hope to go back to doctore tomorrow to see what eles they can give me xx
You know they call all these things non-steroidal anti-inflammatories? Well, what about steroidal ones? If you're in a lot of pain, then are there steroids that might help? Silly question I know, but have always wondered.. |
The table below details the complete World Championship Grand Prix results for the WilliamsF1 Formula One team. The team also competed in several non-Championship Formula One races.
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Jump to: 1990 2000 2010
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A genome-wide association study of periodontitis in a Japanese population.
Periodontitis is a multifactorial disease in which bacterial, lifestyle, and genetic factors are involved. Although previous genetic association studies identified several susceptibility genes for periodontitis in European populations, there is little information for Asian populations. Here, we conducted a genome-wide association study and a replication study consisting of 2,760 Japanese periodontitis patients and 15,158 Japanese controls. Although single-nucleotide polymorphisms that surpassed a stringent genome-wide significance threshold (P < 5 × 10(-8)) were not identified, we found 2 suggestive loci for periodontitis: KCNQ5 on chromosome 6q13 (rs9446777, P = 4.83 × 10(-6), odds ratio = 0.82) and GPR141-NME8 at chromosome 7p14.1 (rs2392510, P = 4.17 × 10(-6), odds ratio = 0.87). A stratified analysis indicated that the GPR141-NME8 locus had a strong genetic effect on the susceptibility to generalized periodontitis in Japanese individuals with a history of smoking. In conclusion, this study identified 2 suggestive loci for periodontitis in a Japanese population. This study should contribute to a further understanding of genetic factors for enhanced susceptibility to periodontitis. |
West Perth is a municipality in Ontario, Canada, located in Perth County. It was started in 1998, when the town of Mitchell and the townships of Logan, Hibbert, and Fullarton amalgamated. West Perth has an area of 589.42 square kilometers (223.72 square miles). According to the Canada 2011 Census, it has a population of 8,919. |
Q:
Alzheimer disease or Alzheimer's disease?
What is the proper spelling: Alzheimer or Alzheimer's Disease?
A:
EL&U member 'Hot Lick's' commented,
"Alzheimer's disease" (using the possessive) appears to be the most common spelling...
This is correct, for the reasons 'Hot Lick's' cited, and as evidenced in this Google Ngram (case insensitive):
The possessive sense seems to be true of other eponymous diseases:
However, Wikipedia reports that there are arguments against using the possessive punctuation:
In 1975, the Canadian National Institutes of Health held a conference that discussed the naming of diseases and conditions. This was reported in The Lancet where the conclusion was summarized as: "The possessive use of an eponym should be discontinued, since the author neither had nor owned the disorder."2 Medical journals, dictionaries and style guides remain divided on this issue. European journals tend towards continued use the possessive, while US journals are largely discontinuing its use.[3]
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymously_named_diseases. The Lancet article that the Wikipedia entry drew upon is behind a paywall here: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2875%2992847-0/abstract
It appears, however, from the Ngrams that the possessive punctuation form has considerable impetus.
A:
The latter is correct. The former is colloquial. Even though it should be the other way around. The disease derives its name from Alois Alzheimer, a Bavarian psychiatrist:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Alzheimer
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Greasque is a commune of 3,705 people (2004). It is found in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region in the Bouches-du-Rhone department in the south of France.
Communes in Bouches-du-Rhone |
Q:
When to use return statements in Scala?
I have some python code and I want to convert it to scala.
Python code:
def temp(x):
if(x == 5):
return "equal to 5" //basically, this would be a guard clause in a real world example
// Maybe do some processing
return "not equal to 5"
print(temp(5)) //prints "equal to 5"
print(temp(6)) //prints "not equal to 5"
I create a scala worksheet and try to translate it line by line but the result is not the same.
Scala code:
object test {
def temp(x: Int): String = {
if (x == 5)
"equal to 5"
"not equal to 5"
} //> temp: (x: Int)String
temp(5) //> res0: String = not equal to 5
temp(6) //> res1: String = not equal to 5
}
I removed the keyword return because I read that it is not required in scala, but apparently, I cannot remove it in this context. I get the correct result if I do not remove the keyword return.
Why cannot I remove it in this context? Is there some other way to use guard clauses in scala? Or is there something else that is causing the unexpected output?
A:
The key is to understand in Scala if-else expressions are just that - expressions, not control structures. Hence
if (x == 5) "equal to 5"
does not mean
"if x equals five, then return five",
instead it means something like
"if x equals five, then evaluate this expression to five, otherwise evaluate to uknown value."
In fact we could write
val v: Any = if (x == 5) "equal to 5"
Note how the type of v is Any, because we have not provided the else part of the expression, so the best compiler can do is deduce Any type. Providing else clause we have
val v: String = if (x == 5) "equal to 5" else "not equal to 5"
where we see v is now nicely typed to String as required. Now in Scala if we put an expression as the last expression in the block, then this becomes the return value of the function. Thus
def temp(x: Int): String = {
if (x == 5)
"equal to 5"
"not equal to 5"
}
is equivalent to
def temp(x: Int): String = {
val v1: Any = if (x == 5) "equal to 5"
// do nothing with v1
val v2: String = "not equal to 5"
return v2
}
where we see temp will always return just v2. Instead we should write simply
def temp(x: Int): String =
if (x == 5) "equal to 5" else "not equal to 5"
We could say if-else expression acts as a traditional control structure only when it is the last expression in the block.
More formally, in conditional expression if (1) 2 else 3
The type of the conditional expression is the weak least upper bound of the types of 2 and 3
if (1) 2 is evaluated as if it was if (1) 2 else ().
where () value has Unit type which is explained here.
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The is the third version of the Nintendo DS handheld. It was first announced in October 2008 and was available in Japan in November of the same year and worldwide in 2009/2010. Development of the DSi began in late 2006, shortly after the release of the DS Lite. A larger version of the DSi titled the Nintendo DSi XL was released in 2009/2010.
Features
The DSi is about 12% thinner (2.6 mm) and the screen is about 17% bigger than the Nintendo DS Lite. It has two Video Graphics Array (or VGA) 0.3 megapixel digital cameras; one is pointed at the user and the other is in the outer shell. The power switch is now a power button like the original Nintendo DS instead of a switch and is moved to the bottom to make it harder to bump by accident. It no longer has a slot to play Game Boy Advance games in and one will not be able to play games such as Guitar Hero: On Tour on the DSi because the game requires the slot and the download games.
Differences between the Nintendo DS Lite and Nintendo DSi
Bigger Screen: The DSi Screen is one quarter of an inch bigger than the DS Lite screen.
Lighter: The DSi is 4 grams lighter than the DS Lite.
Battery Life: The battery lasts between 1-5 hours less than the DS Lite.
Extra memory: The Nintendo DSi has a SD card slot, on which photos and music can be stored.
No Game Boy Game Slot: The DSi cannot play Game Boy Advance games and DS games that require the use of the GBA slot; this caused disappointment when it came out.
Camera: The DSi has two cameras, one on the inside and one on the outside and the photos can be put on the SD card and later printed.
Music Player: The DSi has an AAC player, for playing music, much like an iPod does.
Internet: The DSi has an internet browser that cannot watch videos, but can do everything else. |
He endeared himself to area police officers, responding at any hour of the day to their personal or professional tragedies.
Parishioners of the East Side parish where he celebrated Masses grew to love his disheveled, everyman way of ministering, and impoverished residents in the neighborhood appreciated his caring attention.
In some ways, the Rev. Joseph F. Moreno Jr. did the kind of gritty priestly work for which few other clergy are suited.
Yet Moreno, 54, also was by many accounts a tortured soul – an enigmatic man who craved attention but refused to allow people to really know him.
His death Oct. 13 due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound sent shock waves across Western New York and caused his family and other supporters to blame diocesan officials for what they called a callous mishandling of the priest.
With the Catholic Church's clergy sexual abuse scandal still looming as a backdrop, some people wondered whether an allegation of that sort had surfaced for Moreno, who reportedly was distressed over his pending departure from St. Lawrence Church, where he had been living since 2005.
In a statement, the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo said no allegations of sex abuse of a minor were ever raised about Moreno. There were no indications Moreno harmed a child. But the priest had other troubling incidents in his past, including a 1989 conviction for attempted arson and falsely reporting an incident and a 2005 bankruptcy filing in which he listed $447,000 in debts.
Portrayals of Moreno as a saintly man and model priest don't tell the whole story, according to multiple clergy sources.
“He did a lot of wonderful things, but there is the dark side,” said one priest who spoke on the condition that his name not be used.
At times in his priesthood, Moreno could be highly unpredictable, to the point of missing Masses for which he was scheduled to be the celebrant.
“You never knew where he was going to be. He was supposed to be saying Mass somewhere, and he was someplace else,” said another veteran priest who requested anonymity.
He sometimes acted oddly, giving extravagant gifts to fellow clergy despite serious money problems. Clergy observers said Moreno fabricated or embellished stories about himself. In 2006, for example, he told Buffalo police he fought off a 6-foot-5, knife-wielding burglar who cut the priest's hand, requiring treatment at a local hospital.
Fellow priests suspect there was no burglar at all, and police said the case generated no leads and hasn't been solved.
So erratic was his behavior that some clergy suspected Moreno battled depression or bipolar disorder and wasn't adequately treated.
“It's always been a source of happy hour conversation: 'Did you hear what Joe did lately?' ” said one clergyman. “It's a tragic thing.”
Moreno's father, Joseph, and his sister, Susan, declined to comment for this story.
Arson at St. Aloysius
Whatever his personal demons were, Moreno kept them to himself, said Monsignor William O. Wangler, a retired priest who worked with Moreno in Springville more than 23 years ago.
If anyone tried to talk with him about stresses or problems in his life, Moreno deflected the overture or denied anything was wrong, said Wangler.
“Many people, including the chancery, tried to help him, but if a man doesn't want help, you can't help him,” he added.
Some members of the clergy said diocesan officials struggled for years with what to do with Moreno.
“I think they just gave up and said they can't control him,” said one priest.
Moreno's problems dated back to his early priesthood.
In May of 1989, three years after his ordination, Moreno was arrested and accused of arson in connection with a fire in the rectory of St. Aloysius Church in Springville, where he was an associate pastor.
He ultimately pleaded guilty in State Supreme Court to charges of fourth-degree attempted arson and falsely reporting an incident, both misdemeanors. He received a conditional discharge and was transferred to St. John Church in Olean.
Priests across the diocese were aware of the Springville incident, though the case had never been reported publicly.
Afterward, Moreno may have received residential treatment at a place such as Southdown Institute, a facility in Aurora, Ont., that provides a full range of mental health services to clergy, according to some priests.
The diocese declined to answer several questions about Moreno's conviction and any treatment he received afterward. Instead, through spokesman Kevin A. Keenan, the diocese issued the following statement: “Father Moreno's ministry was one of presence to first responders, the needy and the parishioners, and many others he served. The diocese makes available to all of its priests a full range of assistance for any issues that might arise during the course of their ministry, and that certainly was the case with Father Moreno.”
The statement also said: “It is unfortunate that these matters are now being raised when Father Moreno cannot speak for himself and when his family and friends are still grieving his unexpected, tragic passing.”
Outside of some self-admitted traffic violations, Moreno didn't have subsequent run-ins with the law.
But he did encounter serious financial problems.
In 2005, just a month after his Town of Tonawanda home was foreclosed upon, Moreno filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Western District of New York, declaring assets of $145,610 and an astounding $447,086.55 in liabilities – mostly credit card debt incurred in May of 1999, a time when Moreno didn't have a priestly assignment in the Buffalo diocese.
Moreno testified that he incurred the debt because of living expenses and as a result of extensive stock trading. His case was converted to a Chapter 7 filing, and he was granted a discharge of the debts in 2006.
Moreno ended up at St. Lawrence rectory around the same time the bankruptcy case was unfolding.
“He was very straightforward about this when he moved in with me at St. Lawrence,” said the Rev. Paul D. Seil, former pastor of the church, who lived in the rectory with Moreno before moving on to become pastor of St. Bernadette Church in Orchard Park. “He didn't hide it, and I didn't dwell on it or get into details.”
Some priests speculated that Moreno had a gambling problem that led to the debt, but Seil said Moreno was not known to frequent casinos, and he never spoke of placing bets.
“I do know that he was buying a fair amount of lottery tickets,” said Seil. “Once when I talked to him about this, he said he was in a group of guys [mostly cops], and he picked up the lottery tickets for the group.”
In his bankruptcy filing, Moreno revealed he won $15,300 in the lottery in 2003.
Never named pastor
In his 26 years as a priest, Moreno never was appointed pastor of a parish, and the bankruptcy, combined with the earlier arson, made such an appointment highly unlikely, even with the Diocese of Buffalo's growing priest shortage, clergy sources said.
Nonetheless, parishioners of St. Lawrence Church were disappointed when Bishop Richard J. Malone decided not to name Moreno pastor of the parish on East Delavan Avenue, not far from the Cheektowaga border.
Instead, Malone asked Moreno to leave St. Lawrence and live, at least temporarily, with Seil at the St. Bernadette rectory in Orchard Park.
“He was our shepherd and he should have been our pastor, but he never had that title,” said parishioner Eleonore Clark, who described the usually upbeat priest as like “a whipped puppy” after a meeting with Malone in which the bishop told him he would be moving.
Moreno had a profound impact on people's lives, regardless of whether he had the title and duties of pastor, said Monsignor Robert E. Zapfel, chairman of the Buffalo diocese's Council of Priests and pastor of St. Leo Church in Amherst.
“He did great ministry. He touched the lives and the hearts of many people, and he did it maybe because he wasn't pastor,” said Zapfel.
Moreno's faults might have helped him connect with people who “saw in him a very human priest, with failings as well as many blessings,” he added.
He “really understood their brokenness, their heartaches, their ups and downs, in ways that others couldn't,” said Zapfel. “From those perspectives, he was a great priest. Was he perfect? No. But none of us are.”
Wangler, too, said Moreno had “beautiful pastoral gifts” and was selfless in his concern for others, but he lacked the organizational skills that parish pastors must also possess.
“I think he had a personality that was a little bit not healthy, but he would deny it,” said Wangler. “One of the consequences of that kind of personality is that he needs attention and he needs to help people, more than people need the help.”
Trauma by proxy
There's no question Moreno helped plenty of people, including police officers, to whom he ministered regularly, even though he never was officially assigned as their chaplain.
And it's possible that Moreno's regular presence in tragic situations had an effect on him.
Care providers of all kinds can be profoundly impacted by aiding people in trauma, said Douglas B. Fabian, executive director of Crisis Services.
“They, too, become traumatized after a while,” said Fabian. “It's what we call vicarious traumatization.”
“For people to think that a priest is any stronger than anyone else,” said Fabian, “I don't want to burst the image, but that's not necessarily the case. They are in a position to see more trauma, to see more problems, than anyone else.”
Over the years, Moreno attracted positive attention from The News and local television stations, which some clergy said helped insulate him from chancery discipline.
Often in the media
Moreno loved the limelight, regaling in his associations with the likes of Jay Leno and Derek Jeter. He seemed constantly to be delivering pizza and baked goods to one needy group or another.
“Because he was so high-profile, administrators left him alone,” another priest said. “As long as what he was doing was admirable – priest to the poor and all that – it took them off the hook.”
But Moreno's work wasn't always so public, said Seil.
“A lot of times he was out there, bigger than life, getting attention, but a lot of times he was doing things privately, behind the scenes, with nobody knowing,” he said
Moreno's fellow priests are still struggling to come to grips with exactly who he was.
Seil, who preached at Moreno's 25th anniversary Mass and probably knew him as well as any other priest, wishes he had more answers about his friend. |
Bowling Green is a city of Kentucky in the United States. It is southeast of Owensboro, Kentucky. The confederates had it at the beginning of the Civil War until 1862. It has a population around 53,000 people.
Cities in Kentucky
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1798 establishments in Kentucky |
Message from the President
Summer 2014 : By Jerry Falwell
Last month we celebrated the hard work of 17,840 graduates — the largest graduating class in Liberty’s history — at our 41st Commencement. More than 34,000 joined us for this special weekend. I am always amazed by this show of support from families and friends who have trusted us to care for their loved ones. We understand that it is no small responsibility to train students to not only know how to make a living, but also how to live.
When I addressed our graduates, I congratulated them on their success but I also offered words of encouragement as they enter a world that is growing more hostile to their Christian beliefs. Many of them are going into careers where they will face attacks on religious liberty head-on. Below are portions of my speeches during Commencement and our historic Baccalaureate service, as I believe these messages can apply to all of us who face challenges to our faith and freedom no matter where we live.
I applaud the Class of 2014 as they join more than 200,000 Liberty alumni faithfully serving as Champions for Christ throughout the world.
Baccalaureate, May 9, 2014 President Jerry Falwell
In recent years, Liberty has encountered growth on an unprecedented scale. God has blessed Liberty in ways that nobody dreamed possible, allowing the university to literally rebuild the campus. We are replacing all the temporary buildings that were erected in the 1970s with state-of-the-art academic and athletic facilities and adding hundreds of new programs of study, including a cinematic arts center and a medical school. Some were concerned that these blessings and prosperity would cause complacency and would result in our students losing some of their fervor for serving Christ and others. I am proud to report tonight that, if anything, Liberty students are even more committed to the Christian ideals that have defined them for decades. I spoke with hundreds of graduates at the senior picnic last weekend and it was evident to me that they remain committed to a life of loving God with all their hearts and loving their neighbors as themselves.
Tonight’s occasion — the baccalaureate service — is a Christian tradition that is as old as the university tradition in America itself. In fact, it’s even older than America.
The early founders of America’s universities left behind many of the traditions of European higher education, yet they kept this one intact and treated it with a certain solemnity.
The baccalaureate service is believed to have begun in the early 15th century at Oxford University, and involved every male graduate delivering a sermon in Latin. The baccalaureate service eventually came to be treated more like an official worship service where the university community gathered prior to Commencement to give God the glory for their great achievement.
Yet, as the American academy became increasingly secularized, baccalaureate services were de-emphasized, and today — if they exist at all — they are considered unofficial services often endorsed only by a student club, sometimes not even allowed to meet on campus, and almost never endorsed by the university itself.
The sad fact is that God has been steadily uninvited to Commencement at most universities in America.
Not here.
At Liberty University, God is the guest of honor.
The American education system, founded in so many respects upon our faith, is the envy of the entire world.
America’s founders would not believe — nor would they accept — the alienation of faith from the academy. Quite to the contrary, they wrote Christianity into the founding creeds of America’s first universities. They carved Bible verses in the stone facades of buildings and erected monuments to pastors and missionaries.
You might say that at Liberty University we actually believe in the mission statements that made America’s first and most famous universities what they once were.
Actually, and ironically, six of America’s Ivy League universities have kept their religious mottos.
This includes Brown University, whose motto is “In God we hope.” Princeton’s official motto remains “Under God’s power she flourishes” and Yale’s is still “Light and Truth.” The seal of Columbia University has Psalm 36:9 inscribed in Latin, which reads: “In Thy light we shall see light.”
These days higher education has itself become a spiritual wilderness, and Liberty — now the fifth largest four-year college in America — is a voice so loud that it can be heard from one corner of that wilderness to the next.
That voice declares that we believe in God. This university is His university, for “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty” (2 Corinthians 3:17).
Commencement, May 10, 2014 President Jerry Falwell
(To the Class of 2014): We are so proud of you and so thankful to God for your achievement. It has truly been our privilege to serve you and to be a part of your lives. You have sacrificed and labored for years to make this day a reality; you have earned this great honor, and we are here to salute you today. Congratulations!
I have watched with pride as you welcomed some of the best-known and most influential leaders of our world today to Convocation. We’ve had everybody from Willie Robertson to Sarah Palin to even the mother of Justin Bieber here this year. …
Each of these speakers left here as lifelong fans and supporters of Liberty University because of the impression you made on them. You even changed for the better how some of them view Christianity.
I have to stop here to congratulate you on that because the warm reception that this diverse group of speakers received here at Liberty this year and in past years is in stark contrast to the reception that speakers often receive at major secular universities — universities that constantly pat themselves on the back for their commitment to diversity and inclusiveness.
Just last week, former Secretary of State Dr. Condoleeza Rice cancelled her scheduled Commencement speech at Rutgers University because of loud and organized protests from students and faculty who did not like the fact that Dr. Rice’s political views were different and more conservative than their own.
USA Today reported this week that HGTV had announced a new series, “Flip It Forward” planned for October, starring twins and LU graduates David and Jason Benham. The show was already in production and was being filmed when suddenly this week, quietly, in a tweet, HGTV said the show will not be happening.
USA Today reported that it appears HGTV was alerted by an anti-Christian and anti-conservative watchdog group that David Benham had protested against the homosexual political agenda at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and had protested against abortion in the past.
When I learned of this just two days ago, Becki suggested that I invite the Benham brothers to be my personal guests at Commencement this morning. To my surprise, they were able to make it. They are here, sitting on the front row.
David Benham said this week:
“The first and last thought on our minds as we begin and end each day is: Have we shined Christ’s light today? As Christians we are called to love our fellow man. Anyone who suggests that we hate homosexuals or people of other faiths is either misinformed or lying. Over the last decade, we’ve sold thousands of homes with the guiding principle of producing value and breathing life into each family that has crossed our paths, and we do not, nor will we ever, discriminate against people who do not share our views.”
Jason Benham added to that:
“We were saddened to hear HGTV’s decision. With all of the grotesque things that can be seen and heard on television today you would think there would be room for two twin brothers who are faithful to our families, committed to biblical principles, and dedicated professionals. If our faith costs us a television show, then so be it.”
David and Jason, it is sad that the groups targeting you are using McCarthy-era tactics in an attempt to punish you for your opinions. Your values are American values, and if everyone in the world turns against you, you can rest assured that your alma mater will always have your back. I would like to invite the more than 30,000 people in this stadium to join me in applauding you to demonstrate our support for you and our admiration for the stand you’ve taken.
I tweeted this morning with the hashtag #flipthisdecision and you can find it on @LibertyU or my twitter account @JerryJrFalwell. Please retweet it and let’s get the message out to HGTV that it’s not acceptable to punish people for their opinions and their beliefs. It’s just not American.
This year’s Commencement speaker at the University of California at Berkeley is Nancy Pelosi. I heard the mother of a conservative graduate at UC-Berkeley interviewed by Rush Limbaugh this week. She said that she and her husband don’t share Ms. Pelosi’s beliefs but they are planning no protests and intend to be respectful at the ceremony.
Isn’t it amazing how the people in our country who claim to be open-minded and committed to tolerance, diversity, and inclusiveness are the most bigoted and close-minded to opposing views, especially conservative Christian views?
While Liberty is a Christian university and all of our faculty are Christians committed to our doctrinal statement, we have always invited prominent speakers from all religious and political persuasions and from all walks of life to speak in Convocation and even at Commencement. We believe that you, our graduates, will be better equipped to defend your faith and your values because you have heard firsthand from leaders who have different theological and political beliefs.
I believe that one reason our Liberty community and conservative Christians in general are more respectful and more willing to listen to those who have different viewpoints is because they are confident in what they believe. You see, if you fervently believe something and have confidence in your faith and in your worldview, you don’t feel threatened by contrary opinions. On the other hand, if you are insecure in your beliefs or you don’t really believe what you claim to believe, you are more likely to fear the expression of opposing views. I believe that is why the protestors at Rutgers were so afraid of Condoleeza Rice speaking at their school and why the liberal watchdog group feared the Benham brothers having their own TV show.
You, the Class of 2014, are entering a world that is becoming increasingly hostile to your Christian values. I urge you, like the Benham brothers, to never compromise your faith or your values, regardless of the price you have to pay.
From our university’s inception we have taken our faith and our patriotism seriously. Our name, “Liberty,” has both theological and patriotic implications. Each graduation year, our Baccalaureate service emphasizes our faith, and this Commencement service emphasizes our patriotism.
During this Commencement ceremony we have always reminded you that it’s far better and far easier to love God and to love others in a world that’s free.
We have reminded you that success and prosperity are worthy ambitions, and that the free market is not an enemy of generosity but a reason for it. Or, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Doing well is the result of doing good.”
In the parable of the talents, Jesus scolded the servant who didn’t take risk in the marketplace and generate a return on his investment, calling him “wicked and lazy.” Jesus taught us that it is not good to not do well.
At Liberty we have prepared you for both: to do good and to do well.
In America, it was our Judeo-Christian foundation that gave us the free market and that made us the most prosperous and generous nation in the history of the world.
We believe in work and worship, in prayer and prosperity, in generosity and responsibility.
I like what William Penn, the devout Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, said about the marriage of faith and the free market. Penn said, “I desire to extend religious freedom, yet I want some recompense for my troubles.”
This degree you’ll soon receive today is an investment in your future, and as Jesus said, “To whom much has been given, much shall be required.”
It’s not getting your degree that’s most important … it’s what you’ll do with it that matters.
As colleges across the country welcomed business leaders, politicians, and other people of influence to speak at Commencements, similar thoughts began to resound from the podiums. While President Falwell spoke on the silencing of conservative views in this nation and how institutions of higher learning should be the arenas where diverse views can challenge minds, a surprisingly similar speech was given by former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at Harvard University’s Commencement a few weeks later. Falwell, using the example of Liberty alumni David and Jason Benham who had their TV show pulled because of their conservative views, said the groups targeting them are using “McCarthy-era tactics in an attempt to punish (their) views.” Bloomberg told Harvard graduates: “There is an idea floating around college campuses — including here at Harvard — that scholars should be funded only if their work conforms to a particular view of justice. There’s a word for that idea: censorship. And it is just a modern-day form of McCarthyism.” Both Falwell and Bloomberg mentioned other major universities that either rescinded their invitations to Commencement speakers or had speakers withdraw this year because of political pressure. “In each case, liberals silenced a voice — and denied an honorary degree — to individuals they deemed politically objectionable,” Bloomberg said. “That is an outrage and we must not let it continue. If a university thinks twice before inviting a Commencement speaker because of his or her politics, censorship and conformity — the mortal enemies of freedom — win out. Isn’t the purpose of a university to stir discussion, not silence it? What were the students afraid of hearing? Why did administrators not step in to prevent the mob from silencing speech? And did anyone consider that it is morally and pedagogically wrong to deprive other students the chance to hear the speech?” At Liberty’s Commencement, Falwell praised Liberty’s student body for giving a warm welcome to diverse speakers invited to campus this year for its Convocation series. Speakers ranged from U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and Pattie Mallette (mother of Justin Bieber) to television and radio host Glenn Beck. The students’ response, Falwell said, “is in stark contrast to the reception that speakers often receive at major secular universities — universities that constantly pat themselves on the back for their commitment to diversity and inclusiveness.” Bloomberg’s speech can be viewed on Harvard University’s YouTube Channel. |
Serravalle is a municipality of the district Blenio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It was created on 1 April 2012 when the former municipalities of Malvaglia, Semione and Ludiano merged to form the new municipality of Serravalle. |
Insider-Outsider reflections from a Native Hawaiian researcher and the use of community-based participatory approaches.
There is an increasing interest in conducting research within indigenous communities among indigenous and non-indigenous researchers alike. This paper offers the critical reflections of one Native Hawaiian researcher and the process of engaging in research as both an insider-outsider. Community-based, participatory research (CBPR) offers one model for outsiders to work effectively with indigenous communities, but CBPR also offers valuable principles for insiders who desire to work with their own communities. |
Lucile Jarvis (nee Howard; June 24, 1917 - January 26, 2020) was an American television producer.Lucy Jarvis (born Lucile Howard; June 24, 1917 - January 26, 2020) was an American television producer. She was born in New York City. She produced the movie Family Reunion. In 1990, Jarvis brought the Russian rock opera Juno and Avos to New York City.
In November 2017, Jarvis was presented with the Women's Entrepreneurship Day Pioneer Award for her groundbreaking success in Media at the United Nations in New York City.
Jarvis turned 100 in June 2017 and died in January 2020 at the age of 102. |
Mother Nature's gifts to diseases of man: the impact of natural products on anti-infective, anticholestemics and anticancer drug discovery.
This chapter is designed to demonstrate that compounds derived from nature are still in the forefront of drug discovery in diseases such as microbial and parasitic infections, carcinomas of many types and control of cholesterol/lipids in man. In each disease area we have provided short discussions of past, present and future agents, in general only considering compounds currently in clinical Phase II or later, that were/are derived from nature's chemical skeletons. Finishing with a discussion of the current and evolving role(s) of microbes (bacteria and fungi) in the production of old and new agents ostensibly produced by higher organisms. |
Edward Jonathan "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is an English actor and stand-up comedian. He has acted in movies and television. He is known for his strange comedy and for being a transvestite (he often wore women's clothes, before deciding he wanted to be recognised not as a male lesbian but as a full blown 'woman' named Suzy' such a shame s/he could not have been herself as is, without any the fuss!! If s/he just accepted who 'they' were, and as that equally recognised and loved as equally funny. Eddie/ Suzy Izzard is ..A true star of comedy, surrealist stage screen hero!
Personal life
Izzard has described herself as "a lesbian trapped in a man's body".
Other websites
Izzard's website |
Haribo Gold Bears 5lb
The one and only Haribo brand Gummi Bears. These gummy bears also known as Gold Bears are thought to be the best gummi bears in the world. They are a little bit chewier than the normal gummi bear. Comes in a 5lb Bag. |
was a Japanese Liberal Democratic Party politician. He was the Minister of Finance in the first Cabinet of Shinzo Abe, from 2001 to 2007. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1983 until 2009. Omi was born in Numata, Japan.
Omi died on 14 April 2022 from pneumonia in Tokyo, Japan at the age of 89. |
Human immune cells as space travelers.
Experiments in space have shown that T lymphocyte function is altered in more than 50% of space crew members. There is strong evidence that such effect is due to stress rather than to weightlessness per se. However the health of astronauts was never threatened so far. Experiments in-vitro with cultures of human peripheral blood lymphocytes (not from astronauts) have shown that T cell function is dramatically reduced. Recent work with the random positioning machine, a new instrument to simulate conditions similar to microgravity, indicate that there are direct gravitational effects on the genetic expression of interleukin-2 and of its receptor in T lymphocytes. |
Observation is an activity of an intelligent living being (e.g. human), which senses and assimilates the knowledge of a phenomenon in its framework of previous knowledge and ideas.
Observation is more than the bare act of observing: Observation requires observing and seeking knowledge, often through experiment.
Observations that come from self-defining instruments are often unreliable. Such observations are hard to reproduce because they may vary even with respect to the same stimuli. Thus they are not of much use in exact sciences like physics which require instruments which do not define themselves. It is thus often necessary to use various engineered instruments like: spectrometers, oscilloscopes, cameras, telescopes, interferometers, tape recorders, thermometers etc. and tools like clocks, scale that help in improving the accuracy, quality and utility of the information obtained from an observation.
The accuracy and tremendous success of science is primarily attributed to the accuracy and objectivity (i.e. repeatability) of observation of the reality that science explores.
The role of observation in the scientific method
Scientific method refers to techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning. A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
Although procedures vary from one field of inquiry to another, identifiable features distinguish scientific inquiry from other methodologies of knowledge. Scientific researchers propose hypotheses as explanations of phenomena, and design experimental studies to test these hypotheses. These steps must be repeatable in order to dependably predict any future results. Theories that encompass wider domains of inquiry may bind many hypotheses together in a coherent structure. This in turn may help form new hypotheses or place groups of hypotheses into context.
Among other facets shared by the various fields of inquiry is the conviction that the process be objective to reduce a biased interpretation of the results. Another basic expectation is to document, archive and share all data and methodology so they are available for careful scrutiny by other scientists, thereby allowing other researchers the opportunity to verify results by attempting to reproduce them. This practice, called full disclosure, also allows statistical measures of the reliability of these data to be established.
Testing and improvement
The scientific process is iterative. At any stage it is possible that some consideration will lead the scientist to repeat an earlier part of the process. Failure to develop an interesting hypothesis may lead a scientist to re-define the subject they are considering. Failure of a hypothesis to produce interesting and testable predictions may lead to reconsideration of the hypothesis or of the definition of the subject. Failure of the experiment to produce interesting results may lead the scientist to reconsidering the experimental method, the hypothesis or the definition of the subject.
Other scientists may start their own research and enter the process at any stage. They might adopt the characterization and formulate their own hypothesis, or they might adopt the hypothesis and deduce their own predictions. Often the experiment is not done by the person who made the prediction and the characterization is based on experiments done by someone else. Published results of experiments can also serve as a hypothesis predicting their own reproducibility. |
Q:
AccessText inside Label (XAML to C#)
The following code is part of a small XAML application that displays data in a tabular form. Basically I need to translate this code into C#.
<Grid Width="768" Height="1056">
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="114" />
<RowDefinition Height="906*" />
<RowDefinition Height="36" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
...
<Label Grid.Row="1" Width="40" Height="32" Margin="14,4,0,0" Padding="0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalContentAlignment="Center" VerticalContentAlignment="Center" BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" Name="label16">
<AccessText Margin="0,0,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" TextAlignment="Center" FontWeight="Bold">
SEQ
</AccessText>
</Label>
...
</Grid>
I've been looking for an answer for a couple of days and I can't find anything specific to this. Can someone please give me an idea of how to do it?
Thank you
A:
I constructed a sample Window for you. Here is the code-behind you are looking for:
public Window1()
{
InitializeComponent();
AccessText text = new AccessText()
{
Text = "SEQ",
Margin = new Thickness(0),
TextWrapping = TextWrapping.Wrap,
TextAlignment = TextAlignment.Center,
FontWeight = FontWeights.Bold
};
Label label = new Label()
{
Content = text,
Width = 40,
Height = 32,
Margin = new Thickness(14, 4, 0, 0),
HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left,
VerticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Top,
HorizontalContentAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Center,
VerticalContentAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Center,
BorderBrush = Brushes.Black,
BorderThickness = new Thickness(1),
Name = "label16"
};
Grid grid = new Grid();
grid.Width = 768;
grid.Height = 1056;
grid.RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition() { Height = new GridLength(114) });
grid.RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition() { Height = new GridLength(906, GridUnitType.Star) });
grid.RowDefinitions.Add(new RowDefinition() { Height = new GridLength(36) });
Grid.SetRow(label, 1);
grid.Children.Add(label);
this.Content = grid;
}
This example nicely demonstrates how easy XAML is for constructing user interfaces. :)
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Alyaksandr Hleb (born 1 May 1981) is a Belarusian football player. He plays for Stuttgart and Belarus national team.
He will Return to Barcelona on January of 2012
Club career statistics
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|1998||Dinamo Minsk||Premier League||11||1
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|1999||rowspan="2"|BATE Borisov||rowspan="2"|Premier League||13||1
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|2000||12||3
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|2000/01||rowspan="5"|Stuttgart||rowspan="5"|Bundesliga||6||0
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|2001/02||32||2
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|2002/03||34||4
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|2003/04||31||5
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|2004/05||34||2
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|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Arsenal||rowspan="3"|Premier League||25||3
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|2006/07||33||2
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|2007/08||31||2
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|2008/09||Barcelona||La Liga||19||0
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|2009/10||Stuttgart||Bundesliga||||
36||5
137||13
89||7
19||0
281||25
|}
International career statistics
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|2001||1||0
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|2002||7||2
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|2003||3||0
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|2004||2||0
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|2005||8||1
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|2006||7||1
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|2007||10||0
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|2008||6||0
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|2009||5||1
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|2010||||
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!Total||49||5
|} |
But the SFA President insists he WILL do all he can to help both Gers and Celtic live their dream of being part of an all-new European league set-up further down the line.
Ibrox supremo Charles Green claimed earlier this week that his club should look to leave if the SPL and SFL’s plans to introduce a new 12-12-18 league set-up are pushed through. Right now Gers would have nowhere to go — and UEFA rules wouldn’t allow them to move to another country.
But SFA President Ogilvie senses chiefs in Nyon are finally warming to the idea of establishing a cross-border league involving some of the continent’s bigger clubs.
And he revealed he can now see a scenario where one day the Old Firm could be involved in both a Scottish AND European set-up.
He said: “We have a situation in this country where the championship has been won by the Old Firm something like 47 times in 50 years.
“I can understand the Rangers scenario or certain clubs maybe wanting to play elsewhere. The slight change this time is that there’s been a softening with UEFA on this.
“They are opening up more to the idea of clubs crossing borders.
“I don’t know where that’s going to go — and even if it goes somewhere it’s not going to move forward significantly in the next two or three years.
“We embrace looking at that. We have to be looking at these issues and we have an open mind — we’re not anti that at all.
“A year ago I went to a UEFA meeting where the issue was raised for the first time. We reported it to the Professional Game Body here and the decision was taken that, yes, we should be looking at this. We’ve been involved in discussions. The European Club Association has been involved and so have UEFA.
“We can’t be left behind. It’s an avenue we have to explore.
“But it won’t change overnight.”
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell, unlike Green, confirmed earlier this week that the Hoops ARE keen to play their part in the new 12-12-18 set-up.
But the Hoops have openly admitted they would be interested in playing in an expanded European league.
Ogilvie believes a number of big clubs across the continent are now starting to share a similar view.
But he insists the Old Firm’s first priority must be helping Scottish football get its house in order.
He said: “We’ve got to be a step ahead so we are speaking to UEFA. The clubs in the ECA — Rangers, Celtic, Hearts and Aberdeen to a lesser degree — will be involved in these debate.
“That’s being done — but what we have is an immediate problem in the game and that has to be addressed at the same time.
“In the short term we have to be looking at how we can improve the game in this country. |
Brienne-le-Chateau is a commune of the Aube departement in the north-central part of France.
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United States Court of Appeals
FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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No. 99-1517
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United States of America, *
*
Plaintiff - Appellee, *
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v. *
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Armando Grimaldo, *
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Defendant - Appellant. *
__________ Appeals from the United States
District Court for the Southern
No. 99-2177 District of Iowa.
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United States of America, *
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Plaintiff - Appellee, *
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v. *
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Julio Escobedo-Romero, *
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Defendant - Appellant. *
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Submitted: November 15, 1999
Filed: June 2, 2000
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Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, JOHN R. GIBSON, and BEAM, Circuit Judges.
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JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
Armando Grimaldo and Julio Escobedo-Romero appeal their convictions for
conduct related to a drug distribution conspiracy headed by Jose Grimaldo-Zamorron,
Grimaldo's brother. Grimaldo was convicted of conspiracy to distribute
methamphetamine and two counts of distribution of methamphetamine and sentenced
to 120 months in prison. Escobedo-Romero was convicted of conspiracy to distribute
methamphetamine and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and sentenced to
70 months in prison. Escobedo-Romero argues that there was insufficient evidence to
convict him on both counts. Both he and Grimaldo argue that there was no probable
cause to search Grimaldo's apartment. They also contend that the district court1 erred
in admitting certain evidence and in its findings of drug quantity attributable to them.
Finally, Escobedo-Romero and Grimaldo argue that in light of the Supreme Court's
decision in United States v. Jones, 526 U.S. 227 (1999), they were deprived of due
process because drug quantity was not charged in the indictment, submitted to the jury,
and found beyond a reasonable doubt. We affirm.
I.
In March 1998, a confidential informant met with Grimaldo-Zamorron and his
girlfriend, Dina Rivas, in apartment 714 at the Tallcorn Towers in Marshalltown, Iowa
to arrange a methamphetamine purchase. Pursuant to the arrangement, Jon
Neuschwanger, an undercover agent who was a member of the Mid-Iowa Drug Task
1
The Honorable Ronald E. Longstaff, United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Iowa.
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Force, purchased a quarter pound of amphetamine2 from Rivas in a car next to the
Tallcorn. Rivas regularly assisted Grimaldo-Zamorron in his illegal activities by
delivering methamphetamine and setting up deals. She and Grimaldo-Zamorron lived
with Escobedo-Romero in apartment 714 during the month of March, and Grimaldo-
Zamorron stored methamphetamine there and sold it from the apartment. Grimaldo was
out of the country at the time.
In June 1998, Segar Brown was arrested for possession of methamphetamine.
Following his arrest, he agreed to cooperate in the investigation of Grimaldo-
Zamorron's drug activities. Rivas and Grimaldo-Zamorron had moved into the
Flamingo Motel, and Grimaldo had returned from Mexico and was staying with
Escobedo-Romero in apartment 714 at the Tallcorn. On June 8, Brown went to the
Flamingo and paid Grimaldo-Zamorron $300 for a previous purchase. Later that day,
after finding no one at the Tallcorn, Brown returned to the Flamingo and Grimaldo-
Zamorron told him to "go back to the Tallcorn and talk to Julio and Armando." Brown
then acquired a half-ounce of methamphetamine from Grimaldo in apartment 714.
Escobedo-Romero was present during the transaction.
Three days later, Brown went back to apartment 714, paid $400 to Grimaldo-
Zamorron for the half-ounce, and asked for another ounce. Grimaldo and Escobedo-
Romero were present. The next day, June 12, Brown and Darius Carr were sent to
apartment 714 to get the ounce of methamphetamine.3 According to Brown, no one
was there; Carr testified that Grimaldo was present. They then went to the Flamingo,
where Grimaldo-Zamorron wrote a note in Spanish and told them to give it to
2
Rivas alleged that the substance was methamphetamine, but laboratory tests
showed that it was amphetamine.
3
Carr, whose father was a member of the Mid-Iowa Drug Task Force, agreed to
help the task force by going with Brown to pick up the methamphetamine.
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Grimaldo. They returned to the Tallcorn, gave the note to Grimaldo, and received an
ounce of methamphetamine.
On June 15, Brown and Neuschwanger negotiated with Grimaldo-Zamorron
outside a restaurant for the purchase of a quarter-pound of methamphetamine.
Grimaldo-Zamorron went to the Tallcorn, then to the Flamingo. Brown and
Neuschwanger met him at the Flamingo and obtained the quarter-pound, giving
Grimaldo-Zamorron a partial payment of $900. Two days later, Neuschwanger paid
Grimaldo-Zamorron the $2100 that was still owed, and Grimaldo-Zamorron gave him
an additional two ounces. On June 19, when Neuschwanger went to the Flamingo to
pay for the two ounces, Grimaldo-Zamorron accepted the payment and fronted him a
half-pound of methamphetamine.
The investigation culminated on June 25. Neuschwanger met Grimaldo-
Zamorron at the Flamingo. They agreed that Neuschwanger could return in an hour to
pick up a pound of methamphetamine. Both men left the hotel, and Grimaldo-
Zamorron went to the Tallcorn. After Neuschwanger and Grimaldo-Zamorron returned
separately to the Flamingo, Neuschwanger rode in Grimaldo-Zamorron's car to the
Tallcorn. While Neuschwanger waited in the car, Grimaldo-Zamorron went in and
came out with a package in the front of his pants. Grimaldo-Zamorron gave the
package, which contained a pound of methamphetamine, to Neuschwanger in the
parking lot at the Tallcorn. Neuschwanger suggested they drive to a cemetery so that
he could count the money he was to pay Grimaldo-Zamorron. When they arrived at the
cemetery, Neuschwanger signaled other officers to arrest Grimaldo-Zamorron.
The task force obtained search warrants for the room at the Flamingo and for
apartment 714 at the Tallcorn. The search revealed no controlled substances at the
Flamingo. At the Tallcorn, Escobedo-Romero was found in apartment 714 along with
Barb Thompson and her daughter. The officers found 86.5 grams of cocaine in a jacket
in the closet and $564 in cash. The owner and manager of the Tallcorn informed an
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agent that she had seen Grimaldo-Zamorron going into apartment 728 earlier that day.
The agent checked the registration and found that apartment 728 was rented to
Grimaldo. The police then obtained an additional warrant to search Grimaldo's
apartment, where they found him along with 52.2 grams of methamphetamine, 25.2
grams of cocaine, and $1190 in cash.
Grimaldo and Escobedo-Romero were tried together. The jury acquitted them
of the June 8 sale, but convicted both for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
Grimaldo was also convicted of two counts of distribution of methamphetamine, one
on June 12 and one on June 25. Escobedo-Romero was acquitted of the June 12 sale,
but convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.4 The district court
found that the conspiracy was responsible for sixty pounds of methamphetamine. It
attributed three pounds of that to Grimaldo and sentenced him to the mandatory
minimum of 120 months. The court attributed two pounds of the methamphetamine and
the cocaine found in the jacket to Escobedo-Romero and sentenced him to seventy
months. Grimaldo and Escobedo-Romero appeal.
II.
Perhaps the most important legal issue raised in this appeal is whether the
Supreme Court’s decision in Jones v. United States, 526 U.S. 227 (1999), has wrought
a change in the law that requires drug quantities to be charged in the indictment and
proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt in order to pass muster under the
Constitution. The defendants did not raise this argument below because the Jones case
had not been decided. We therefore review for plain error. See Johnson v. United
4
The judgment in Escobedo-Romero's case erroneously lists this offense as
"Distribution of Cocaine." Both the indictment and the verdict correctly refer to
possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Either crime is prohibited by the same
statutory provision, 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).
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States, 520 U.S. 461, 466 (1997). Plain error requires (1) error (2) that is plain and (3)
that affects substantial rights. See id. at 467. If these three criteria are met, a
reviewing court must determine whether the error affected the fairness, integrity, or
public reputation of the judicial proceedings. See id.
A.
Grimaldo and Escobedo-Romero argue that, in light of Jones, the district court
erred by determining drug quantity as a sentencing factor. In Johnson, the Court
reiterated that new rules for the conduct of criminal prosecutions apply retroactively to
all cases pending on direct review.5 See id. We look first, therefore, at whether the
intervening Jones decision established a new rule for the conduct of criminal
prosecutions. The Jones Court interpreted the federal carjacking statute, which then
read:
Whoever, possessing a firearm . . . , takes a motor vehicle . . . from the
person or presence of another by force and violence or by intimidation, or
attempts to do so, shall–
(1) be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 15 years,
or both,
(2) if serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of this title)
results, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25 years,
or both, and
(3) if death results, be fined under this title or imprisoned for any
number of years up to life, or both.
5
After Johnson was convicted of perjury under 18 U.S.C. § 1623 and before her
appeal, United States v. Gaudin, 515 U.S. 506 (1995), held that the materiality of a
false statement in an 18 U.S.C. § 1001 case must be submitted to the jury. See
Johnson, 520 U.S. at 464-65. Since "the failure to submit materiality to the jury would
be error under Gaudin," the Court found error because the district court decided the
issue of materiality in Johnson's case. Id. at 467.
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18 U.S.C. § 2119 (Supp. V 1993). The district court found by a preponderance of the
evidence that one of the victims of the carjacking in which Jones was involved suffered
serious bodily injury and sentenced Jones to twenty-five years in prison. See Jones,
526 U.S. at 231. The indictment had not charged serious bodily injury and the jury
instructions that listed the elements of the offense omitted any reference to serious
bodily injury. See id. On appeal, the defendant argued that serious bodily injury was
an element of the offense that should have been charged in the indictment and proven
to the jury beyond a reasonable doubt. The Supreme Court agreed.
The Court determined that the statute was unclear and construed it to contain
three separate offenses rather than one offense with three sentencing options. See id.
at 234, 251-52. Serious bodily injury was thus held to be an element of the offense,
rather than a mere sentencing enhancement. This interpretation was made "in light of
the rule that any interpretive uncertainty should be resolved to avoid serious questions
about the statute's constitutionality." Id. at 229.
Any argument that Jones requires us to interpret drug quantity as an element of
a 21 U.S.C. § 841 offense is foreclosed by the language of the statute and by circuit
precedent. The structure and plain language of the statute leave no doubt that drug
quantity is a sentencing factor. Section 841(a), titled "Unlawful acts," states
Except as authorized by this subchapter, it shall be unlawful for any
person knowingly or intentionally–
(1) to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent
to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance; or
(2) to create, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to
distribute or dispense, a counterfeit substance.
21 U.S.C. § 841(a) (1994). Section 841(b), titled "Penalties," provides that a person
who violates subsection (a) "shall be sentenced as follows" and contains a variety of
sentencing ranges that are based in large part on drug quantity findings. 21 U.S.C. §
-7-
841(b) (1994 & Supp. IV 1998). Also, on several occasions, we have held that drug
quantity is a sentencing factor rather than an element of the crime defined in section
841(a). See, e.g., United States v. Holt, 149 F.3d 760, 762 (8th Cir. 1998); United
States v. Abanatha, 999 F.2d 1246, 1251 (8th Cir. 1993); United States v. Wood, 834
F.2d 1382, 1388-90 (8th Cir. 1987). Because drug quantity has been determined to be
a sentencing factor, the district court correctly applied the law. This does not, however,
foreclose the argument that treating drug quantity as a sentencing factor violates the
Constitution in light of Jones.
B.
In Jones, the Court explained the principle underlying its position that if the
carjacking statute were construed to contain sentencing enhancements it might be
unconstitutional: "[A]ny fact (other than prior conviction) that increases the maximum
penalty for a crime must be charged in an indictment, submitted to a jury, and proven
beyond a reasonable doubt." 526 U.S. at 243 n.6. The Court went on to say, however,
that its "prior cases suggest rather than establish this principle." Id. In addition, the
Court expressly stated that it was announcing no new principle of constitutional law.
See id. at 252 n.11.
Section 841(b) contains a variety of sentencing ranges that depend on the type
and quantity of drug involved in the offense as well as on other factors, including prior
convictions. Most importantly for our purposes, however, the maximum sentences
increase dramatically as the quantity increases. For example, the maximum sentence
for a crime involving methamphetamine can be twenty years, forty years, or life,
depending solely on the quantity involved in the offense. Thus, if any fact other than
recidivism that increases the maximum sentence for a crime must be charged in the
indictment and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, treating drug quantity as
a sentencing factor with none of these procedural protections would violate this rule.
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To determine whether treating drug quantity as a sentencing factor is
constitutional error in light of Jones, we briefly review earlier Supreme Court decisions
that deal with the due process requirements for conviction and sentencing. In Specht
v. Patterson, 386 U.S. 605 (1967), the Court held that due process was not satisfied
where the petitioner was convicted under a state statute that carried a maximum
sentence of 10 years but sentenced under another statute (the Sex Offenders Act) that
allowed the trial court to sentence a convicted defendant to an indefinite term of one
year to life if the court found that the person constituted a threat of bodily harm to the
public or was a habitual offender and mentally ill. See 386 U.S. at 607, 611.
Soon after, the Court made clear that due process requires that "every fact
necessary to constitute the crime" charged be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. In
re Winship, 397 U.S. 358, 364 (1970). This high standard was necessary, the Court
asserted, because of the immensely important interests of the accused: loss of liberty
and stigmatization. See id. at 363.
The Court then struck down a state law that required a defendant charged with
murder (punishable by life in prison) to prove that he acted in the heat of passion on
sudden provocation in order to reduce his crime to manslaughter (punishable by a
maximum of twenty years in prison). See Mullaney v. Wilbur, 421 U.S. 684 (1975).
Because malice aforethought was an essential element of murder, the fact that the law
conclusively implied it when the homicide was intentional and unlawful violated
Winship. See id. at 686, 703-04. "The safeguards of due process are not rendered
unavailing simply because a determination may already have been reached that would
stigmatize the defendant and that might lead to a significant impairment of personal
liberty." Id. at 698. The Court pointed out that Winship was concerned with substance
rather than form, and implied that a state could not redefine elements of crimes and
characterize them as factors that bear only on punishment. See id. at 698-99.
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In McMillan v. Pennsylvania, 477 U.S. 79 (1986), the Court upheld a state
statute that required a mandatory five-year minimum sentence for certain felonies if the
sentencing judge found by a preponderance of the evidence that the individual visibly
possessed a firearm during commission of the felony. The Court pointed out that the
statute merely limited the sentencing court's discretion in selecting a punishment within
the range that was already available to it, and that it neither altered the maximum
punishment for the crime nor created a separate offense with a separate penalty. See
id. at 87-88. There was no indication that the statute had been designed "to permit the
visible possession finding to be a tail which wags the dog of the substantive offense."
Id. at 88.
Finally, the Court interpreted 8 U.S.C. § 1326 to define one crime: a deported
alien returning to the United States without special permission. See Almendarez-Torres
v. United States, 523 U.S. 224, 226 (1998). If convicted, the alien could be sentenced
to a maximum of 2 years; his sentence, however, could be enhanced to as much as 20
years if he had been deported after a conviction for an aggravated felony. The Court
held that the enhancement was not a separate crime, but merely a penalty provision.
See id. According to the Court, recidivism has typically been considered a sentencing
factor. See id. at 230. The Court specifically rejected the argument that the
Constitution requires that any factor that significantly increases the maximum sentence
must be considered an element of the crime. See id. at 247.
Exactly one year after Almendarez-Torres was decided, the Supreme Court
decided Jones, in which it held that factors that increase the maximum sentence for the
crime of carjacking are elements of the offense. These cases illustrate that the Court
has long been grappling with the due process requirements for conviction and
sentencing. The Supreme Court's failure to conclusively resolve the constitutional
issues raised by these cases and discussed in Jones leads us to doubt that the Court
announced a new rule for criminal prosecutions that must be applied retroactively.
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Even if the Court later embraces the principle it announced in footnote 6 of Jones
as established law, any error made by the district court must be plain at the time of
appellate consideration. See Johnson, 520 U.S. at 468. For an error to be plain, it must
be obvious. See United States v. Tulk, 171 F.3d 596, 599 (8th Cir. 1999). If the trial
occurred today, it is not obvious that treating drug quantity as a sentencing factor would
be unconstitutional. To date, eight circuit courts of appeals have addressed the
treatment of 841(b) drug quantities in light of Jones. All uphold the pre-Jones rule that
drug quantity is a sentencing factor, not an element of the 841(a) offense. See, e.g.,
United States v. Jackson, 207 F.3d 910 (7th Cir. 2000); United States v. Thomas, 204
F.3d 381 (2d Cir. 2000), petition for cert. filed (Mar. 24, 2000) (No. 99-8779); United
States v. Rios-Quintero, 204 F.3d 214 (5th Cir. 2000); United States v. Swiney, 203
F.3d 397 (6th Cir. 2000); United States v. Smith, No. 99-4454, 2000 WL 139250 (4th
Cir. Feb. 8, 2000) (unpublished); United States v. Hester, 199 F.3d 1287 (11th Cir.
2000); United States v. Jones, 194 F.3d 1178 (10th Cir. 1999), petition for cert. filed
(Feb. 10, 2000) (No. 99-8176); United States v. Williams, 194 F.3d 100, 107 (D.C.
Cir. 1999) (posing the unanswered question, "Do section 841's penalty provisions,
which extend for pages, cover topics ranging from death and serious bodily injury to
water pollution on federal lands to date rape, and significantly affect sentence severity,
suggest that the sentencing tail may be wagging the section 841 dog?"). Only the
Seventh and Tenth Circuits have addressed the constitutionality of classifying drug
quantity as a sentencing factor post-Jones, and both adhered to their prior cases that
held the penalty provisions of section 841(b) constitutional. See Jackson, 207 F.3d at
920-21; Jones, 194 F.3d at 1186.
We are not certain that the Constitution requires that any fact, other than prior
conviction, that increases the maximum penalty for a crime must be charged in the
indictment and proven to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. Until this constitutional
principle is established, rather than suggested, we decline to find plain error under these
circumstances.
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III.
Escobedo-Romero challenges his convictions for possession of cocaine with
intent to distribute and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, arguing that there
was insufficient evidence to convict him. We review the sufficiency of the evidence
to sustain a conviction de novo. See United States v. Brooks, 174 F.3d 950, 954 (8th
Cir. 1999). We must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government,
resolve conflicts in the government's favor, and accept all reasonable inferences that
support the verdict. See United States v. Surratt, 172 F.3d 559, 563 (8th Cir.), cert.
denied, 120 S. Ct. 257 (1999). We uphold a conviction if substantial evidence supports
it. See United States v. Maggard, 156 F.3d 843, 846 (8th Cir. 1998), cert. denied, 525
U.S. 1170 (1999), and cert. denied, 119 S. Ct. 1372 (1999). Substantial evidence is
that which suffices to convince a reasonable jury of a defendant's guilt beyond a
reasonable doubt, not that which rules out all reasonable hypotheses of innocence. See
id.
The elements of the crime of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute are
knowing possession of cocaine and the intent to distribute it. See United States v
Rodgers, 18 F.3d 1425, 1429 (8th Cir. 1994). The police found the jacket that
contained 86.5 grams of cocaine in Escobedo-Romero's closet, and there was no
evidence that the jacket or the drugs belonged to anyone else. Because there was no
evidence that anyone other than Escobedo-Romero resided in apartment 714 at the time
of the search, he had constructive possession of the cocaine. See United States v.
McCracken, 110 F.3d 535, 541 (8th Cir. 1997) (if person has dominion over premises
where contraband is concealed, constructive possession established). Constructive
possession satisfies the knowing possession element. See id. Rogelio Rosales testified
that he had purchased three small quantities of cocaine (1 gram, 1/8 gram, and 1/16
gram) from Escobedo-Romero prior to December 1997. (Tr. I at 156, 160-161) The
jury could infer two things from this testimony: first, that Escobedo-Romero had the
requisite intent to distribute, and second, that 86.5 grams of cocaine was an amount for
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distribution rather than for personal consumption. Substantial evidence supports
Escobedo-Romero's conviction for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
To prove Escobedo-Romero guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine,
the government must have shown that a conspiracy existed, that Escobedo-Romero
knew of the conspiracy, and that he knowingly became a part of the conspiracy. See
United States v. Rork, 981 F.2d 314, 316 (8th Cir. 1992). A conspiracy may be
inferred from circumstantial evidence. See United States v. Garrison, 168 F.3d 1089,
1095 (8th Cir. 1999). The only element at issue is whether Escobedo-Romero
knowingly participated in the conspiracy.
The government argues that four pieces of evidence support Escobedo-Romero's
conviction for conspiracy: (1) Brown testified that Grimaldo-Zamorron told him to go
to the Tallcorn and talk to Julio and Armando on June 8, (2) Escobedo-Romero was
present when Brown purchased methamphetamine from Grimaldo-Zamorron on more
than one occasion and when he paid $400 to Grimaldo-Zamorron on June 11, (3)
Brown said he bought drugs from members of the conspiracy, including Escobedo-
Romero, and (4) Thompson testified that she purchased cocaine and methamphetamine
from Escobedo-Romero. The record does not support points (3) and (4). Neither
Brown nor Thompson testified that they made purchases from Escobedo-Romero.
Thompson did testify that he gave her drugs, but that she never paid for them.
If the government's case must rest on points (1) and (2), it is indeed weak.
Brown's testimony regarding the June 8 transaction shows that Escobedo-Romero
probably answered the door when Brown arrived at apartment 714 and that he spoke
to Brown. Brown testified that their conversation was social and had nothing to do
with drugs. Grimaldo was the one who gave Brown the methamphetamine. The fact
that Escobedo-Romero was present when Brown engaged in drug transactions with
others does not prove his guilt. "Mere presence at the location of the crime alone, even
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when coupled with knowledge of that crime, is not sufficient to establish guilt on a
conspiracy charge." United States v. Hernandez, 986 F.2d 234, 236 (8th Cir. 1993).
Other evidence, not pointed to by the government, supports Escobedo-Romero's
conviction for conspiracy. Rivas testified that Grimaldo-Zamorron stored as much as
two pounds of methamphetamine at Escobedo-Romero's apartment when they lived
with him in March. The drugs were stored in the living room closet where Grimaldo-
Zamorron kept his things and wrapped so that they were not readily identifiable. Rivas
stated, however, that Grimaldo-Zamorron sold methamphetamine from the apartment
while they lived there and that Escobedo-Romero was present during some of these
transactions. After Grimaldo-Zamorron and Rivas moved out of the Tallcorn and after
Grimaldo returned from Mexico in May, Grimaldo-Zamorron told Rivas that he was
storing methamphetamine at his brother's place at the Tallcorn. Grimaldo lived with
Escobedo-Romero until June 18. In addition, Grimaldo-Zamorron told Brown to go
see Escobedo-Romero and Grimaldo on June 8. Escobedo-Romero was present when
Grimaldo gave Brown methamphetamine that day, and Brown testified that Grimaldo
got it out of the living room closet in apartment 714.
A jury could reasonably infer that Escobedo-Romero knowingly allowed
Grimaldo-Zamorron to store methamphetamine in the closet of apartment 714,
particularly because he was aware that both Grimaldo-Zamorron and Grimaldo
distributed methamphetamine from the apartment. Because the evidence sustains the
conclusion that Escobedo-Romero knowingly allowed his apartment to be used for the
storage and distribution of methamphetamine, substantial evidence supports his
conviction for conspiracy. See Salinas v. United States, 522 U.S. 52, 65 (1997) (a
defendant need only "adopt the goal of furthering or facilitating the criminal endeavor"
to be a conspirator).
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IV.
Both Grimaldo and Escobedo-Romero argue that the district court erred by
failing to suppress the evidence found in Grimaldo's apartment. Escobedo-Romero
lacks standing to challenge the search because he could have had no reasonable
expectation of privacy in Grimaldo's apartment. See United States v. Washington, 197
F.3d 1214, 1216 (8th Cir. 1999). Grimaldo has standing, however, so we review the
district court's factual findings underlying its ruling on the motion to suppress for clear
error and review de novo its conclusions of law. See United States v. Schmitz, 181
F.3d 981, 985 (8th Cir. 1999). We must "ensure that the evidence as a whole provides
a substantial basis for finding probable cause for the issuance of the warrant." Id.
Probable cause exists when the affidavit sets forth facts sufficient to create a "fair
probability" that evidence of a crime will be found in the place to be searched. United
States v. Horn, 187 F.3d 781, 785 (8th Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 120 S. Ct. 1442 (2000).
A prima facie showing of criminal activity is not required to support probable cause.
See id. at 787.
Only after the officers completed the search of apartment 714 did they discover
that Grimaldo had a separate apartment in the Tallcorn Towers. The owner of the
building informed one of the agents that she saw Grimaldo-Zamorron entering
apartment 728 that morning. The agent checked the registration and found that
Grimaldo rented 728. Grimaldo's lease began on June 18, only one week before the
bust and the subsequent searches.
The affidavit supporting the search warrant spelled out in some detail the
particulars of the methamphetamine conspiracy. It included the fact that a confidential
informant had previously acquired methamphetamine from Grimaldo in apartment 714
at Grimaldo-Zamorron's direction on two occasions. The affidavit also stated that
Grimaldo-Zamorron made two trips to the Tallcorn on June 25, and that the police
became aware that Grimaldo was renting apartment 728 that same day. Looking at the
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evidence as a whole, we hold that there was probable cause to issue a search warrant
for Grimaldo's apartment at the Tallcorn.
V.
Grimaldo and Escobedo-Romero argue that the district court erred by admitting
certain evidence, including documents, hearsay statements, audiotapes, and Rosales's
testimony. "We will not reverse a district court's evidentiary rulings unless they
constitute a clear and prejudicial abuse of discretion." United States v. Withorn, 204
F.3d 790, 794 (8th Cir. 2000).
We have considered the list of alleged evidentiary errors and reviewed the
transcript for each. The district court admitted Rosales's testimony, which related to
matters entirely outside the time frame of the charged conspiracy, under Fed. R. Evid.
404(b). The court instructed the jury that the testimony could only be used to
determine whether the defendants had the knowledge and intent necessary with respect
to the crimes for which they were on trial. The court emphasized that any past similar
acts were not evidence that either Grimaldo or Escobedo-Romero committed such an
act in this case. Rosales did make some hearsay statements, but the court instructed
the jury to consider only what he actually observed, not what he heard from other
people. After reviewing Rosales's testimony along with the court's instructions, we find
no abuse of discretion.
The district court did improperly admit hearsay testimony from a member of the
task force because it believed that he was testifying about what he heard on a
surveillance tape of the June 12 transaction. Once the court became aware that the
officer was relying on the statements of Brown and Carr, rather than on the audiotape,
it reversed its ruling and told the jury not to consider the testimony regarding the
transaction as proof of the transaction. Later testimony from Brown and Carr regarding
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the same transaction was substantially similar to the officer's testimony. We conclude
that even if there was error, it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.
The defendants' remaining evidentiary challenges6 are similarly without merit and
require no further discussion. The district court did not abuse its discretion.
VI.
Finally, Escobedo-Romero and Grimaldo argue that the district court erred in its
calculation of drug quantities attributable to them. We review determinations of drug
quantity attributable to a defendant for clear error. See United States v. Sales, 25 F.3d
709, 711 (8th Cir. 1994). The district court found that sixty pounds of
methamphetamine could be attributed to the entire conspiracy, but took into
consideration the fact that Grimaldo was out of the country for a large part of the
conspiracy. The court also considered Rivas's testimony about the quantity of
methamphetamine stored at Escobedo-Romero's apartment. We hold that the district
court did not clearly err by attributing three pounds of methamphetamine to Grimaldo
and two pounds of methamphetamine, plus 86.5 grams of cocaine, to Escobedo-
Romero.
For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the judgment of the district court.
6
The defendants argue that it was error to admit the audiotapes designated as
Exhibits 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, 8B, and 10B. They also argue that it was error to admit
the documents designated as Exhibits 11J, 11T, 11U, 11Q, and 11S. Finally, they
argue that it was error to admit Rivas's testimony regarding statements made to her by
Grimaldo-Zamorron and an officer's testimony regarding a June 15 conversation
between Brown and Grimaldo-Zamorron.
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A true copy.
Attest:
CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.
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|1997/98||rowspan="6"|Independiente||rowspan="6"|Primera Division||2||0
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|1998/99||25||0
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|1999/00||34||2
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|2000/01||25||1
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|2001/02||3||0
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|2002/03||34||0
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|2003/04||rowspan="4"|Real Zaragoza||rowspan="4"|La Liga||35||0
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|2004/05||35||3
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|2005/06||34||1
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|2006/07||35||1
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|2007/08||rowspan="3"|Barcelona||rowspan="3"|La Liga||27||1
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|2008/09||0||0
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|2009/10||||
123||3
166||6
289||9
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|2001||0||0
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|2002||0||0
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Q:
pass contextmenu parent as CommandParameter
i have a HierarchicalDataTemplate for a TreeViewItem, in the template i have a contextmenu and i want to pass as CommandParameter the ContextMenu parent - i.e the TreeViewItem owner that was right clicked at the moment, is there a way to do that?
here is my template:
<HierarchicalDataTemplate
x:Key="ServerTemplate"
DataType="{x:Type models:Server}"
ItemsSource="{Binding Channels}"
ItemTemplate="{StaticResource ChannelTemplate}">
<StackPanel
Tag="{Binding DataContext,RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor,AncestorType={x:Type Window}}}"
Orientation="Horizontal">
<StackPanel.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu
FontSize="14"
FontFamily="Arial">
<MenuItem
Header="{x:Static p:Resources.ServerOperations_CommunicationSettings}"
Command="{Binding PlacementTarget.Tag.ServerCommunicationSettingCommand, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor,AncestorType={x:Type ContextMenu}}}"
CommandParameter="{Binding Path=Parent, RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=Self}}">
</MenuItem>
</ContextMenu>
</StackPanel.ContextMenu>
<Image
Source="{Binding ImageURL, Converter={StaticResource StringToImageConverter}}"
Margin="0,0,2,0"
Height="25"
Width="25"/>
<TextBlock
Text="{Binding ServerName}"
Foreground="White"/>
</StackPanel>
</HierarchicalDataTemplate>
thanks for the help
A:
You can get the TreeViewItem by getting PlacementTarget of ContextMenu which will be StackPanel and its TemplatedParent will be ContentPresenter and its TemplatedParent will be TreeViewItem. So this will work:
CommandParameter="{Binding Path=PlacementTarget.TemplatedParent.TemplatedParent,
RelativeSource={RelativeSource Mode=FindAncestor,
AncestorType={x:Type ContextMenu}}}"
PlacementTarget (StackPanel) --> TemplatedParent (ContentPresenter) --> TemplatedParent (TreeViewItem)
Ideally it's not a good idea to pass UI components to ViewModel. You should pass data i.e. DataContext of TreeViewItem as you can always play with that.
In case you want to pass Server instance i.e. DataContext of TreeviewItem, you can simply do "{Binding}" since MenuItem will inherit it from StackPanel.
CommandParameter="{Binding}"
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Sammy Adjei (born 1 September 1980) is a Ghanaian football player. He has played for Ghana national team.
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|2004/05||Africain||Ligue Professionnelle 1||20||0
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|2005||Accra Hearts of Oak||Premier League||7||0
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|2005/06||rowspan="3"|Ashdod||rowspan="3"|Premier League||27||0
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|2006/07||28||0
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|2007/08||28||0
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|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Accra Hearts of Oak||rowspan="2"|Premier League||||
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|2009/10||||
20||0
7||0
83||0
110||0
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|2001||5||0
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|2002||7||0
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|2007||2||0
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!Total||37||0
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We write out of concern for the impact on U.S. interests in the Muslim world of the actions of some Members of Congress in promoting anti-Muslim conspiracy theories suggesting that top U.S. officials who are Muslim-American are part of a Muslim Brotherhood plot to infiltrate the U.S. government.
As you are aware, Reps. Michele Bachmann, Trent Franks, Louie Gohmert, Thomas Rooney and Lynn Westmoreland recently wrote to various government agencies and asked them to investigate the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on U.S. officials who are Muslim-American, targeting top State Department official Huma Abedin and several advisers to the Department of Homeland Security.
As you are also no doubt aware, the promotion of these conspiracy theories by Members of Congress has been cited by conspiracy theorists in Egypt as evidence for the claim that the U.S. government has deliberately helped engineer the electoral success of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. This has come at a time when the U.S. government has worked hard to avoid any public perception that it is backing one faction over another in Egypt’s nascent democracy.
The United States Government spends significant resources in the Muslim world working to combat various conspiracy theories, such as the claim that the U.S. government has engineered the electoral success of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. By promoting these conspiracy theories, these Members of Congress are undermining U.S. policy in the region.
Just as many Americans are not familiar with the roles and significance of various officials in foreign governments, many people in other countries are not familiar with the roles and significance of various officials in the U.S. government. The promotion of these conspiracy theories by Members of Congress can thus have an outsized influence in the Muslim world compared to the influence of these same Members of Congress in U.S. domestic politics.
The leadership of the House doesn’t get to choose who voters in a particular district elect to Congress. But the leadership of the House does get to choose who serves on the House Intelligence Committee. Three of these five Members of Congress – Reps. Michele Bachmann, Thomas Rooney, and Lynn Westmoreland – currently serve on the House Intelligence Committee. Their tenure on the Intelligence Committee – where they have oversight over U.S. intelligence agencies – can be cited in the Muslim world as giving credence to their conspiracy theories among people who have limited knowledge about how the U.S. government works. Rep. Bachmann’s advocacy of these conspiracy theories is particularly damaging to U.S. interests because of her greater prominence, including the fact that for a time she was taken seriously as a presidential candidate.
Despite considerable criticism across the political spectrum, these Members of Congress have refused to disavow their actions.
We therefore urge you to act to replace them as Members of the Intelligence Committee.
cc: Mike Rogers, chair, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Dutch Ruppersberger, Ranking Member, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Signers [in formation]:
Samuel M. Hoskinson, Former Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council; National Intelligence Officer for the Middle East and South Asia; former senior member of the National Security Council staff in three presidential Administrations; former Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs
Haviland Smith, Retired CIA Station Chief, Chief of the Counterterrorism Staff and Executive Assistant in the Director’s office
William C. Harrop, Former Inspector General, Department of State, former U.S ambassador to Guinea, Kenya, Zaire and Israel
Dennis Jett, former Ambassador to Mozambique and Peru, Professor of International Affairs, Penn State University
Pat Kushlis, US Foreign Service Officer (Ret.), cowriter, WhirledView
Timothy Towell, former Ambassador to Paraguay
Stephen Kinzer, Professor of International Relations, Boston University
Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Ervand Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York
Kenneth Cuno, Associate Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois
Hadi S. Esfahani, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois
Carolyn Eisenberg, Professor of US foreign policy, Hofstra University
B. Welling Hall, Plowshares Professor of Peace Studies, Pericles Professor of Civic Engagement, Earlham College
Matthew P. Hoh, Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy
Gareth Porter, Investigative journalist and historian
Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Peace Action
Jon Rainwater, Executive Director, Peace Action West
Mark Weisbrot, co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
John Feffer, author, Crusade 2.0: The West’s Resurgent War on Islam
Robert Naiman, Policy Director, Just Foreign Policy |
Malafrena is a book by Ursula K. Le Guin that was published in 1979 . The novel takes place in the country of Orsinia, which is also the setting of Le Guin's 1976 story collection, Orsinian Tales.
1979 books
Books by Ursula K. Le Guin
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What Hillary Told Cindy
Cindy Sheehan keeping a vigil in Senator Bill Frist's office with another activist
photo: Sarah Ferguson
Cindy Sheehan and the other members of the Bring Them Home Now tour hit the halls of Congress on Thursday, knocking on the doors of more than a dozen legislators to demand their position on the warincluding Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.
The activists were bringing Camp Casey, named for the 24-year-old son Sheehan lost in Iraq, to Capitol Hill. The first Camp Casey was set up this summer outside President Bushs ranch in Crawford, Texas.
On Thursday, Sheehan sat down with Clinton and Reid, two of the highest-profile Democrats, to pose the same question she has posed to President Bush: What noble cause are our loved ones fighting and dying for?"
I asked them, Are you going to be willing to lead us out of Iraq? Because if you do, the rest of the nation will follow you, Sheehan said.
Neither Clinton or Reid, who both voted for the war, were willing to reverse tracks and push for a U.S. withdrawal now. Nevertheless, Sheehan reported feeling fabulous coming out of the meeting.
I know their offices are going to be working with us; all we have to do is keep up the pressure on them, Sheehan said, adding, Now its up to the people of New York to put pressure on Clinton.
New Yorkers who oppose the war might not feel so encouraged, given the hawkish stance our junior senator has taken thus far.
Asked afterward about the meeting, Clinton noted that she had met earlier in the day with about 20 moms from American Gold Star Mothers, the pro-military group that President Bush has glommed onto in an effort to deflect the criticism by Sheehan and other military families. Bush has proclaimed this Sunday National Gold Star Mothers' Day to honor Americas fallen heroesjust a day after Sheehan and other military families are to speak out at Saturdays anti-war demonstration.
Clinton noted that those moms have voiced different positions on the war from the one held by Sheehans group, Gold Star Families for Peace.
Its just a painful experience because of their loss, Clinton said of her meeting with Sheehan, who was accompanied by her sister Dede and by Lynn Bradach, whose 21-year-old son, Corporal Travis Bradach-Nall, was killed clearing a minefield outside Karbala two years ago.
But Clinton added: My bottom line is that I dont want their sons to die in vain.
Asked when she thought those soldiers mission might be complete, Clinton responded: I dont believe its smart to set a date for withdrawal. I dont think you should ever telegraph your intentions to the enemy so they can await you.
Ive been very critical of the presidents policies and also supportive of the Iraqis who are trying to move forward and form a new government, Clinton told the Voice.
I think it is a much more complicated situation, she continued. I dont think its the right time to withdraw, but we also have to stand up and send a message that were not going to be there indefinitely. We need to tell the Sunnis that they have to do their job and that we wont be there forever. Because if you dont, then what incentive is there for them to ever participate in the political process?
Clinton cited two key upcoming moments: October 15, when the Iraqis are slated to vote on their new constitution, and December 15, when Iraqis are expected to elect a new government.
Responding to a question of whether Sheehan and the anti-war crowd are premature in demanding an immediate withdrawal of troops now, the presidential hopeful was nothing if not diplomatic.
No, I think theyre playing a very important role, Clinton said. This is a democracy, thank God, and people should be speaking out. It helps keep the debate flowing and creates the conditions for better decision-making, which makes for better policies, so its very important.
Nobody has a greater right to make that criticism, Clinton said of Sheehan and the other military families who feel betrayed by the war. But I happen to think that fighting for freedom is a noble cause. There are lots of things wrong with how Bush did it. I believe we should have gone through with the inspection process and acted through the UN. But I believe that standing up against someone as dangerous as Saddam was a good goal.
Clinton was noncommittal when asked whether she still supports sending more troops to Iraq. Well see, she said, then disappeared into the Russell Senate office building.
At least Clinton was willing to hear Sheehan and the other military family members plea. Republican representative Bill Thomas of Bakersfield, California, wouldnt let them in the door, while Senate Majority Leader Bill Frists staff told the group they would have to fill out a written form if they wanted a meeting. When told they had already called and e-mailed several times, Frists chief of staff relented and spent about 15 minutes with the group, which included Iraq war veterans and members of Military Families Speak Out.
She didnt take any notes, but hopefully the emotions we evoked in that meeting will say more than any notes would, said Al Zappala of Philadelphia, whose son, Sgt. Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad last year.
Sheehan and the other members of the Bring Them Home Now tour say they wont give up until they get every member of Congress to take a stance on U.S. withdrawal.
Theyve launched a new campaign, Meet With the Mothers, to mobilize other military family members to go to every member of Congress and ask them what noble cause their loved ones are fighting and dying for. Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, has agreed to meet with Sheehan on Tuesday, after refusing earlier requests.
If the politicians dont answer, there will be constituent Camp Caseys on their doorstep, just like in Crawford, vows Jonathan Read, the former chair of Park Plaza Hotels and Resorts, who helped launch the campaign after camping out in Crawford with Sheehan for three weeks.
Earlier in the day, Sheehan and several other military moms held a press conference to announce a $1 million campaign of TV commercials and print ads.
The hard-hitting TV ad was funded by donations to Gold Star Families for Peace. It features four women challenging the president for taking the country to war, including Melanie House, a former supporter of invading Iraq, whose husband, Petty Offficer John House, was killed when his helicopter was shot down earlier this year.
How many more soldiers have to die for your mistake? My husband never got to hold his baby. What will I tell our son his father died for? House asks in the commercial, which is set to run nationally on the Fox News Network and on CNN in Washington, D.C., over the next 12 days.
The print ads were paid for by Win Without War. They feature the banner headlines, They lied. They died, and juxtapose the faces of Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice with a full-page list in tiny fine print of the more than 1,900 American soldiers killed in Iraq. The ads are running in 14 papers, including USA Today. A two-page spread appeared in Thursdays Washington Post. |
Vaisakh (Punjabi: vaisaakh, Shahmukhi Punjabi: wyskhh) is the second month in the Nanakshahi calendar. This month is usually in April and May in the Gregorian calendar. It is the same as Vaisakha in the Hindu calendar and the Indian national calendar. Usually, it is when crops are harvested in the Punjab region.
Months |
package install
import (
"github.com/golang/glog"
"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/meta"
"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/unversioned"
"github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/build/admission/defaults/api"
"github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/build/admission/defaults/api/v1"
configapi "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/cmd/server/api"
)
const importPrefix = "github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/build/admission/defaults/api"
var accessor = meta.NewAccessor()
// availableVersions lists all known external versions for this group from most preferred to least preferred
var availableVersions = []unversioned.GroupVersion{v1.SchemeGroupVersion}
func init() {
if err := enableVersions(availableVersions); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
}
// TODO: enableVersions should be centralized rather than spread in each API
// group.
// We can combine registered.RegisterVersions, registered.EnableVersions and
// registered.RegisterGroup once we have moved enableVersions there.
func enableVersions(externalVersions []unversioned.GroupVersion) error {
addVersionsToScheme(externalVersions...)
return nil
}
func addVersionsToScheme(externalVersions ...unversioned.GroupVersion) {
// add the internal version to Scheme
api.AddToScheme(configapi.Scheme)
// add the enabled external versions to Scheme
for _, v := range externalVersions {
switch v {
case v1.SchemeGroupVersion:
v1.AddToScheme(configapi.Scheme)
default:
glog.Errorf("Version %s is not known, so it will not be added to the Scheme.", v)
continue
}
}
}
|
Zhangixalus is a group of frogs in the subfamily Rhacophorinae, family Rhacophoridae. They are called Zhang's treefrogs in English. They live in the Eastern Himalayas, southern China, Taiwan, Japan, and southeast Asia.
Name
The frogs are named for Zhang Ya-Ping from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zhang worked in biodiversity and evolution research in China. Ixalus is a word that means treefrogs.
Taxonomy
Scientists made the group Zhangixalus in a 2019 when they were looking at the very large genus Rhacophorus (92 species). They divided Rhacophorus into three groups: Rhacophorus sensu stricto (then 39 species; as of November 2021, 43 species), Leptomantis (then 14 species; as of November 2021, 13 species), and Zhangixalus (then 37 species; as of November 2021, 40 species). They did this because of molecular data, such as DNA, but also because they could see differences in the frogs' bodies and in the places where they lived. Rhacophorus is the sister taxon of Zhangixalus and Leptomantis.
Description
Zhangixalus are large frogs, ranging between in from nose to rear end, but most are more than more than . The snout is round. The terminal phalanges of fingers and toes are Y-shaped. Dorsal skin is smooth or has some small bumps. Most frogs have green skins. The female lays eggs in white foam nests that the two frogs make together.
Zhangixalus has frogs that seem not to be related to other frogs: Z. achantharrhena, Z. dulitensis, and Z. prominanus. They are different from other Zhangixalus frogs: they have folds in their skin by their legs and tarsal projections. Scientists are not sure these species really should be in Zhangixalus.
Species
There are 41 species in this genus:
The AmphibiaWeb recognizes the same species except Zhangixalus amamiensis, which is treated as being part of Zhangixalus viridis. |
Primitive neuroectodermal tumors of bone and soft tissue: histological subclassification and clinicopathologic correlations.
Recent reports of Ewing's sarcoma (EW) and extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma (EEW) support the hypothesis that these tumors are neuroectodermal in origin. Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) of bone (32 cases) and soft tissue (25 cases) including those previously categorized as EW in 27 cases and EEW in 15 cases were carefully studied histologically, immunocytochemically and morphometrically, focusing on tumor cell differentiation. This study attempts to subclassify these tumors on the basis of the size of tumor cells and nuclei, their variations (uniformity or diversity), arrangement of tumor cells (rosette or non-rosette), focal differentiation to larger ganglion-like cells, and staining intensity for neural markers. All tumors were histologically subclassified as small, medium or large cell types, three basic subtypes (rosette type, abortive rosette type, non-rosette type) and four complementary subtypes (fibrillary type, non-fibrillary type, angiomatoid type, ganglion cell type). Classic EW or EEW is consistent with small or medium, non-rosette, non-fibrillary type tumors, previously described large cell EW with large, non-rosette, fibrillary or non-fibrillary type tumors, and classic neuroectodermal tumor with small or medium, rosette, fibrillary type tumors, according to the present subclassification. Clinicopathologic correlations with the different subtypes are discussed. Long-term survival, more than 5 years, was seen in patients with small cell type, and those younger than 14 years of age. |
Richard Gordon Scott (November 7, 1928 - September 22, 2015) was an American nuclear engineer and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was the sixth most senior apostle among the ranks of the church. |
The goal of this supplement is to provide funds to bridge mouse line production from our currently funded period into the prospective next phase. The available funds for production in year five are dedicated to completing generation of the tm1b lines and their expansion for phenotyping. There is no provision for mouse production in year five of our currently funded award to generate new mouse lines for phenotyping. The supplement will provide additional funding to generate new mouse lines during year five, in advance of the prospective year six continuation, ensuring continuity of well developed production pipelines and an uninterrupted supply of lines for phenotyping. This supplement will also support needed development to resolve optimal approaches to producing CRIPSR conditional alleles at scale, as well as extending production as possible to reporter alleles. Our need for this supplement relates entirely to the requirement for additional funding necessary to support this production and development; it is not feasible to carry out this activity within the existing award. |
Johann Baptist Martinelli (February 8, 1701, Vienna - June 21, 1754, Vienna) was an Austrian architect and constructor of Italian descent.
Overview
He was the son of architect Franz Martinelli. In cooperation with his brother Anton Erhard Martinelli, he designed the plans of several baroque church in the Habsburg empire, among which the church in Grossweikersdorf and the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Blaj. He also designed several mansions among which the one in Dolna Krupa.
1701 births
1754 deaths
Austrian architects
People from Vienna |
Cytokines for the treatment of thrombocytopenia.
Multiple cytokines affect the cellular processes that occur during the transition of a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) to a platelet. Thrombopoietin (TPO) is the physiological regulator of thrombopoiesis. Although a number of cytokines (interleukin [IL]-1, IL-3, and IL-6) were first evaluated for their ability to lessen the degree of thrombocytopenia occurring during a variety of clinical scenarios, their clinical development was abandoned due to their limited effectiveness or excessive toxicity. Clinical results with TPO and a truncated pegylated form of TPO, megakaryocyte growth and development factor (MGDF), were more promising, but the repeated use of MGDF resulted in the development of neutralizing antibodies. This adverse event halted the further clinical development of not only MGDF but also TPO. IL-11 also affects various stages of megakaryocytopoiesis and thrombopoiesis and its use has been shown to shorten the duration of chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia, which led to its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A growing number of new non-immunogenic peptides and non-peptide TPO agonists recently have entered clinical trials. These small molecules appear to be effective therapies and have acceptable toxicity, but additional clinical evaluation will be required prior to their approval for clinical use. |
The Musee des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux is the fine arts museum of the city of Bordeaux, France. It was established in 1801. The museum has European art from the 15th century through the 20th century.
Gallery |
Shahrul Aman Mohd Saari, Yap Swee Seng, Chan Tsu Chong and Wong Chin Huat hold placards at a press conference in Petaling Jaya April 3, 2018. — Picture by Shafwan Zaidon
PETALING JAYA, April 3 — The general election could be won with only 16.5 per cent of the popular vote as a result of the new voting boundaries, electoral reform group Bersih 2.0 asserted today.
In a media briefing on the effects of the Election Commission’s redelineation, Bersih 2.0 steering committee member Wong Chin Huat said this conclusion was derived from votes needed to secure the 112 smallest federal constituencies in the country.
The simulation was conducted by applying the voter turnout and voting patterns from the 13th general election in 2013 to the new constituency sizes that were gazetted last week.
“Theoretically, Barisan Nasional (BN) needs only 16.5 per cent of the popular vote to win the election because they would have gotten 112 of the smallest parliamentary seats.
“For them to win 112 of the smallest seats, they only need to focus all their manpower and resources on 20 per cent of their seats (that they are contesting) and they can win,” Wong said.
The 112 seats are the minimum needed to secure a simple majority in Parliament.
The simulation does not use the current electoral rolls or non-voter figures.
Others on the briefing panel today included Bersih 2.0 executive director Yap Swee Seng, interim chairman Shahrul Aman Mohd Saari and outreach officer Chan Tsu Chong.
They noted that the redelineation has created massively sized constituencies with more than 100,000 voters each.
Bersih 2.0 also accused the EC of partisan gerrymandering as well as ethnic segregation.
“In Melaka, for example, five polling districts with strong Opposition support were transferred out from P137 Bukit Katil (a marginal constituency) and packed in P138 Kota Melaka which is an Opposition stronghold.
“Based on re-simulation of the 13th General Election voting patterns with the new boundaries after redelineation, P137 Bukit Katil will switch from an Opposition constituency into a ruling government constituency,” said Chan.
Shahrul Aman also warned that racial segregation apparent in the redelineation would be harmful to communal ties.
“One of the reasons behind the bloody racial riots on May 13, 1969 was economic activities drawn along racial lines.
“Now it seems that the EC has reversed that trend to fracture racial relations. Is EC heading towards racism?” he said.
Bersih 2.0 deduced that there are eight new Malay dominant constituencies: P59 Bukit Gantang (72.4 per cent Malay from 67.5 per cent); P74 Lumut (72 per cent from 54 per cent); P101 Hulu Langat (65 per cent from 54.1 per cent); P107 Subang (65.3 per cent from 47.5 per cent); P109 Kapar (70.7 per cent from 54.6 per cent); P121 Lembah Pantai (62.1 per cent from 57 per cent); P124 Bandar Tun Razak (61.1 per cent from 53.8 per cent) and; P137 Bukit Katil (62.4 per cent from 55 per cent).
The panel also demanded to know why 59 per cent of parliamentary constituencies including the whole of Pahang, Perlis and Penang were excluded from the redelineation exercise.
It pointed out that Penang and Pahang’s exclusions were unjustified from the “approximately equal apportionment” standpoint. |
Ann Coulter (born December 8, 1961) is from the United States. She is a writer and is known for her controversial opinions about politics. She was asked to go on television, radio and speaks at public and private events. Coulter has described herself as a "polemicist" or someone who tells the truth even if it will cause problems. She does not want to "pretend to be impartial or balanced." |
Alcohol-related presentations in the emergency department.
Alcohol-related problems and binge drinking pose continuing challenges to nurses nationally and internationally. To provide optimum care for this vulnerable group and sound advice to hazardous drinkers, it is essential that nurses are knowledgeable and competent in this area of practice. |
AWAL, also known as "Artists Without A Label", is a British music distribution company owned by Sony Music Entertainment.
Artists
Aly & AJ
Bruno Major
Claudia Alende
Dayglow
Dadi Freyr
De La Soul
Die Antwoord
Everything Everything
The Aubreys
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Gabrielle Aplin
girl in red
Greyson Chance
Gus Dapperton
Jae Jin
Jesse McCartney
Katelyn Tarver
Kira Kosarin
Laura Marling
Lauren Jauregui
Lauv
Lil Peep
Lisa Heller
Little Simz
Lizzy McAlpine
Madison Beer
Moby
Naked Eyes
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Now United
Pouya
Quadeca
R3HAB
Rex Orange County
Rickie Lee Jones
Spacey Jane
The Kooks
The Night Cafe
The Wombats
Thom Yorke
Todd Terje
Tom Misch
VERITE
You Me At Six
Yung Bans
Zolita
Record labels
Glassnote Records
mau5trap
D Flat Records
EEM Records
Good Soldier Songs
Dance Cloud Records
NFFA Records
B-Unique Records
SideOneDummy Records |
1. Field
The present specification generally relates to pulling rolls for use in the manufacture of glass sheets and, more specifically, to pulling rolls comprising spring elements for applying a drawing force to glass sheets.
2. Technical Background
Pulling rolls are used in the manufacture of sheet glass to apply tension to a ribbon or web of glass from which individual sheets of glass are formed. The amount of tension applied by the pulling rolls to the glass is utilized to control the nominal thickness of the glass as the glass is drawn from molten glass, such as in an overflow down-draw fusion process, as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,338,696 and 3,682,609, or in similar glass manufacturing processes.
Pulling rolls are generally designed to contact the glass web at its outer edges, usually in an area just inboard of the thickened beads that form at the very edges of the glass web. Because the pulling rolls are in direct contact with the surface of the glass web, damage to the surface of the glass can occur due to the wear characteristics of the pulling roll material. For example, glass particles can become embedded in the surface of the pulling roll resulting in damage to the glass as the pulling rolls contact the glass.
Similarly, the pulling roll may shed particulate matter if the material of the pulling roll degrades with use at the elevated temperatures of the glass drawing process. This particulate matter may become embedded in the soft glass thereby forming defects in the glass. In addition, particulate matter generated from the glass drawing process (e.g., debris, dust, glass shards and the like) may become embedded in the surface of the pulling roll thereby creating repetitive defects in the glass web. Damage to the glass web caused by any of these mechanisms may result in uncontrolled and/or premature breakage of the glass sheet during the drawing process thereby decreasing manufacturing efficiencies and increasing costs.
In addition, particulate matter generated from the glass drawing process may cause the pulling roll to lift off the glass sheet, resulting in a concentrated normal force to bear on not only the sheet but also the pulling roll, which could cause permanent deformations in the pulling roll material.
Accordingly, alternative designs for pulling rolls for use in glass manufacturing processes are needed. |
Tropical Storm Jerry was a weak tropical storm of the very active 1995 Atlantic hurricane season. Even though Jerry was weak, Jerry caused 8 deaths and $40 million in damage. Jerry made landfall in Jupiter, Florida and Dixie County, Florida. Jerry was active with four other cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean: Humberto, Iris, Luis, and Karen. Because there was not much damage, the name Jerry was not retired and was used again in 2001 and 2007, the name will also be used again in 2013.
Meteorological history
A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August 9. Over the next week, clouds and other thunderstorms grew near the tropical wave. By August 22 it was upgraded to Tropical Depression Eleven. Tropical Depression Eleven was located just to the north of Cuba at the time. On August 23 it became Tropical Storm Jerry. Jerry had winds at 40 miles per hour, however the minimum pressure was not at the lowest still Jerry weakened back to a depression. The National Hurricane Center did not expect to Tropical Depression Eleven to become a tropical storm because most of the showers and thunderstorms were over land.
On August 23, Tropical Storm Jerry made landfall in Jupiter, Florida while it was still a weak tropical storm with winds at 40 miles per hour. It stayed as a tropical storm until it went into the Gulf of Mexico. It made a second landfall in Florida of August 25 while a tropical depression. It crossed into Georgia soon after and into South Carolina. Jerry died on the border of Georgia and South Carolina on August 28. The remains of Jerry either moved to the south back over to Florida or to the east over North and South Carolina. But the remains of Tropical Storm Jerry did last for five days over the United States.
Impact
Tropical Storm Jerry killed two people in Florida, three people in South Carolina, and three more in North Carolina. Jerry caused $19 million in damage in Florida, $10 million in South Carolina, and $11 million in North Carolina. In total, Jerry caused $40 million in damage and 8 people to be killed. This was the first time since 1990 that a name starting with the letter "J" was used. It was also only the second time that the name Jerry made been used to name a storm in the Atlantic. Because there was not much damage, the name Jerry was not retired, so it was used again in 2001 and 2007, it will also be used again in 2013.
Related pages
1995 Atlantic hurricane season |
"""
help(str)
"""
help(str) # 查看str数据类的所有方法和说明
help(str.count) # 查看str数据类的某个具体方法,方法说明文档
"""
list列表**有序**数据结构，python中的list可以装任何类型的元素在同一个list中
如果遍历list的时候想要获取index，好像只能使用while小于len的方法
"""
a_list = [1, 3.14, "hello world", True, [1,2,3] ]
b_list = []
c_list = list()
print(len(c_list)) # 返回0表示这个list是一个空的list
for temp in a_list:
print(temp)
i = 0
while i < len(a_list):
print(a_list[i])
i += 1
"""
list添加元素是在原list进行修改的,列表是可变的，和str的操作不同，str是不可变的
list.append -> 追加
list.extend(obj) -> 继承一个可迭代的对象，将obj中的每一个元素拿出来进行追加append
list.insert(index, obj) -> 在index的位置上插入一个obj, 如果index越界，不会报错，直接在末尾append
"""
d_list = [1, 2, 3]
d_list.append("4")
d_list.extend("abcd") # 字符串本身就是一个可迭代的对象 -> [1, 2, 3, '4', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
d_list.insert(1,"abcd") # [1, 'abcd', 2, 3, '4', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
print(d_list)
"""
""" |
Hipra Laboratories, S.A. is a Spanish pharmaceutical multinational founded in 1954. It began in the field of veterinary medicine but is also developing a vaccine against COVID-19.
History
The founder of the company is the Catalan pharmacist, veterinarian and chemist Joan Nogareda i Gifre, a native of Olot. In 1971, he acquired a Madrid-based companyand moved it to the province of Girona in 1954. Since 1973, its headquarters have been in Amer. His brother Ernest and Pere Casadevall are involved in the new company.
Human health
Since April 2020, Hipra has been developing a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 with funding from the CDTI.2 Later, in November 2021, the vaccine went to phase 2 of human trials3, to finally start phase 3 in early 2022 with 3,000 volunteers in 20 hospitals, mainly from Spain but also from Italy and Portugal.
The company expects to make 400 million doses in 2022, having already agreed a supply of 50 million doses with Vietnam.
Animal health
Hipra markets a variety of products aimed at animal health, especially for farm animals but also for domestic animals such as pigeons and dogs.
Hipra has seven veterinary products registered in Spain. |
Q:
How to Convert Multiple Unix TimeStamp to Pandas Datetime?
I get the following error when trying to convert multiple the unix timestamps to a datetime in pandas, I've tried setting values but seem to not be getting it right.
ValueError: to assemble mappings requires at least that [year, month,
day] be specified: [day,month,year] is missing
Here's the code:
pd.to_datetime(ksdata[['state_changed_at','created_at','launched_at']])
It's got to be something simple but I just can't see it.
Sample of file
A:
The dataset helps as its easier to test the solution but anyway for unix timestamp, solution would be
ksdata[['state_changed_at','created_at','launched_at']] = ksdata[['state_changed_at','created_at','launched_at']].\
apply(pd.to_datetime, unit = 's')
As @MaxU suggested, if you need to convert all the columns ending with '_at' to timestamp, you can filter them using
ksdata.filter(regex='_at$')
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Heritage of Mercury. Almaden and Idrija is a joint UNESCO World Heritage site in Almaden, Spain, and Idrija, Slovenia. The property includes two mercury mining sites. In Almaden mercury has been extracted since antiquity, while in Idrija it was first found in 1490 AD. The Almaden site includes buildings relating to its mining history. These include Retamar Castle, religious buildings and traditional houses. The site in Idrija notably features mercury storage and infrastructure. It also includes miners' living quarters, and a miners' theatre. The sites shows how trade in mercury generated important exchanges between Europe and America over the centuries. The two sites represent the two largest mercury mines in the world and were working mines until recent times. |
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Stewart Baker over at Volokh.com wonders why most libertarians have laid down when it comes to their willingness to tolerate the current copyright regime:
Conservatives and especially libertarians seem like a cheap date on this issue. You'd think libertarians would have been in the forefront of objecting to governmental intrusions into our lives at the behest of a special interest let alone the creation of a new class of quasicriminals, defined as more or less everyone who entered high school after 1996, who can be investigated and prosecuted whenever the government or some member of industry decides that they are too troublesome.
But no. For a lot of libertarians, judging by the comments to David's post, all the RIAA has to do is call its new government-created entitlement a form of property, and, presto bingo, it's sacrosanct.
Come to think of it, maybe I can persuade readers here that TSA's new enhanced security measures are just fine as long as we enforce the rules by giving all the passengers on the plane a "property" right not to travel with people who refuse body imaging and enhanced patdowns. Instead of relying on oppressive government regulation, we'd just let the passengers collect millions in "statutory damages" from noncompliant travelers. |
Ribeauville is a commune. It is found in the region Picardie in the Aisne department in the north of France. In 2015, 69 people lived there.
Communes in Aisne |
<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class CreateTranslationsTable extends Migration {
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('ltm_translations', function(Blueprint $table)
{
$table->collation = 'utf8mb4_bin';
$table->bigIncrements('id');
$table->integer('status')->default(0);
$table->string('locale');
$table->string('group');
$table->text('key');
$table->text('value')->nullable();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('ltm_translations');
}
}
|
MTV Entertainment Studios is the film and television production arm of MTV Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the [Paramount Media Networks] division of [Paramount Global.] Founded in 1991 as MTV Productions, it is a consolidation of the former MTV Films group established in 1996 and the MTV Production Development/MTV Studios group of 2003-2021, it has produced original television shows like Beavis and Butt-Head, AEon Flux, Jackass, My Super Sweet 16, Daria, Celebrity Deathmatch, Clone High and The Real World and films such as Election, Joe's Apartment and Napoleon Dynamite. Its films are released by fellow [Paramount Global division] [Paramount Pictures.] The MTV Films unit was part of Paramount Players until 2020.
Companies based in California |
Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Baronet (creation of 1628)
Sir John Stonhouse, 2nd Baronet (1601 – 14 June 1632) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1628 to 1629.
Stonhouse was the son of Sir William Stonhouse, 1st Baronet, of Radley, Berkshire. He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 21 March 1617, aged 15, and transferred to Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1618 to 1622. He was a student of Gray's Inn in 1619. In 1628, he was elected Member of Parliament for Abingdon and sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years. He was knighted in August 1629. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father in 1632.
Stonhouse died at the age of about 31 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother George.
References
Category:1601 births
Category:1632 deaths
Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of England
Category:English MPs 1628–1629
Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford
Category:Members of Gray's Inn
Category:People from Radley |
Leon Ames (born Harry L. Wycoff; January 20, 1902 - October 12, 1993) was an American movie and television actor. He was known for his roles in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), Little Women (1949), On Moonlight Bay (1951) and By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953). |
For much of the Thanksgiving weekend, I was surrounded by friends and family who have either abandoned Facebook or who never joined it in the first place. It’s not that they haven’t heard of Facebook, or that they doubt its potential to be useful. Instead, it typically came down to a fundamental concern about sharing their personal information and a fear that it would turn into a distraction that eats away too much of their time. My girlfriend, who is active on other social networks, abandoned Facebook earlier this year largely because she felt uncomfortable with the idea of the company using her personal information for marketing purposes. Read the full story at Mashable. |
The SOCATA TB700 is a light transport aircraft. It is used by both civilian and military operators. It is built in Tarbes, France by SOCATA. It is a single-turboprop aircraft built in all-metal. More than 600 were sold. TBM-850 is a modern variant.
Civil aircraft
French military aircraft |
Rogletimide
Rogletimide, also known as pyridoglutethimide, is a medication which was never marketed. It is related in chemical structure to the sedative/hypnotic drug glutethimide, but instead has pharmacological activity as a selective aromatase inhibitor similar to the related drug aminoglutethimide and has no significant sedative-hypnotic effect. This makes it potentially useful in the treatment of breast cancer, and with fewer side effects than aminoglutethimide, but its lower potency caused it to be unsuccessful in clinical trials.
References
Category:Abandoned drugs
Category:Aromatase inhibitors
Category:Glutarimides
Category:Pyridines |
A cotyledon, or seed leaf, is a leaf that is stored in a seed. When the seed sprouts, the cotyledons are the first leaves that the plant has. Monocot plants have only one cotyledon, and other plants have two. Cotyledons often look very different from the other leaves, so they are not called true leaves.
Plants use cotyledons to make sugars through photosynthesis. They use the sugars to keep true leaves growing. After a while, the cotyledons often die because the plant does not need them anymore.
Plant anatomy |
Harington (ward)
Harington is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Sefton Central Parliamentary constituency that covers the western half of the town of Formby including the western half of the area known as Freshfield. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 11,780.
Current Councillors
Cllr Denise Dutton 2010 to present (Conservative Party) - Deputy Leader of Conservative Group in Sefton Council.
Cllr Simon Jamieson 2015 to present (Conservative Party).
Cllr Prof Michael Pitt 2016 to present (Conservative Party).
Denise Dutton was formerly the leader of the Conservative group in Sefton Council, while Simon Jamieson was the deputy. In May 2018, Jamieson became embroiled in an online row in which he labelled a student a "lefty pleb". Shortly after, he was removed from his post as deputy, with Dutton taking his place.
Historic Election results
Elections of the 2010s
References
Category:Wards of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
Category:Formby |
Holostei are bony fish that show primitive characteristics. There are eight species divided among two orders, the Amiiformes represented by a single living species, the bowfin (Amia calva), and the Lepisosteiformes, the gars. There are more species to be found in the fossil record.
Ray-finned fish |
Members of 11 peer groups gathered at the seminary February 18-21 for the S3 Orientation Retreat. Members of the 6 groups in the 2012 cohort conducted final project evaluations, while 5 incoming groups received their orientation to the project and explored approaches to becoming a group with Rodger Nishioka, Benton Family Associate Professor of Christian Education. Both groups spent time with event keynote speaker, MaryAnn McKibben Dana, M.Div. ’03 and author of Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family’s Experiment In Holy Time (Chalice Press). Dana also hosted a lunch discussion with students, staff, faculty, and S3 participants during the course of the week.
The following thumbnail sketches written by each group as part of the grant approval process provide glimpses into their projects:
Connect More!
(A geographically disbursed group of men and women serving as solo or associate pastors in their first or second calls)
Our group came together across great distances from various callings with one shared need: connection. As pastors, we seek connection with other friends and colleagues in ministry to provide accountability and grounding in a shared sense of call. In the midst of our conversations, we find ourselves longing for connection as well as reunion--opportunities to revisit our histories, reclaim our identities, and rekindle enthusiasm for the journey. Our goal is to explore the sacred nature of reunions through the lens of reuniting in Christ.
Our need for reunion is threefold: reunion with God, reunion with self, and reunion with others. For some this may mean a return to our roots, for others reconciliation, and for others an expression of love for those we miss. We will explore biblical passages about reunions to serve as guides in our own reconnections. We will seek out individuals in our personal lives that we long to reconnect with. We will reconnect with our own identity through spiritual direction. We will share our learning with each other by utilizing technology and social media. Our time together will include three reunions when we will share our learnings and enjoy Sabbath together. We trust this practice of reunion will bring us renewed sense of identity both personally and professionally.
We are a group of clergy women in various stages of ministry working with a variety of congregations, who share a desire for connecting role and soul and inviting our congregations to explore what it means to deeply listen to each other. Our plan is to:
• Meet monthly, in a 3 hour session, following the Circle of Trust approach for spiritual formation and community building developed by Parker Palmer and the Center for Courage and Renewal. This involves connecting around a third thing, sitting in silence and sharing our truth into the center of the circle. We will use guidelines for this process that include touchstones and the art of asking open and honest questions.
• Hold a 2-day retreat for the group where we can more deeply explore the Circle of Trust process and develop an introductory experience for our congregations.
• Utilize A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer as “text” for our study and learning.
• Convene 3 one-day workshops for people in our congregations that will be regionally based and will introduce them to the work. Our hope is that this work will lead to the formation of Circle of Trust groups in up to 3 of our congregations. We will share the results of this work with the Center for Courage and Renewal and their Courage to Lead initiative for clergy and congregations.
Perhaps you have heard it said, "Laughter is healing, and good for the soul." But how often do pastors laugh? How often do pastors see it as a healthy practice to lead others to laugh, to take themselves and life itself less seriously? Sabbath is often perceived as a time of quiet and reflection, but we will Sabbath with one another through meals, laughter, and joy. We intend to study the art of humor, to utilize resources on the subject, and to witness professional humorists practicing their art. In service to others, we imagine assembling some of these learnings and sharing them with interested peers in area Presbyteries. We look forward to synthesizing Sabbath, study, and service with our understanding of the holiness of laughter.
Interfaith Conversations
(An interfaith group of 3 men and 1 woman from Savannah)
In the current climate of violence, fear, misrepresentation, and misunderstanding, it is important to equip religious leaders to develop relationships with our neighbors from different faith traditions. It is important to know what our neighbors believe, how they practice their faith, and what common concerns we share. Making connections and developing community among people who sit in churches, mosques, and synagogues is a means to build authentic interfaith engagement.
Our group of four includes a Presbyterian pastor of a church, a Muslim imam of a mosque, a Jewish rabbi of a synagogue and an ordained Presbyterian minister who serves as hospital chaplain, working daily in an interfaith setting. We will study and learn about each other’s faith and practices, provide service by guiding a hospital’s construction of an interfaith chapel, and enjoy the Sabbath of shared meals, meal preparation, and social times where we will meet each other’s families.
SELAH
(Greater Atlanta area; four African-American clergywomen, all graduate students and full or part-time counselors or chaplains)
Our group would like to implement a project that seeks to explore the effectiveness of self-care activities for women of color in ministry. We will do this by engaging in self-care practices throughout the year, reflecting on these experiences, literature, and movies that deal with how women take care of themselves in the midst of life and ministry. At the close of our year together, we will conduct an autumn workshop for men and women in ministry entitled: “SELAH: Self-Care for the Season.”
Information about future S3 cohorts will be announced in the next issue of JOURNEYING TOGETHER. |
Ugly Americans is an American animated television show created by Devin Clark and developed by David M. Stern. The show is on the life of Mark Lilly, a social worker working for the Department of Integration, in an similar version of New York City which has monsters and creatures in it.
Ugly Americans was first broadcast on March 17, 2010 on Comedy Central. The series is based on a webseries by Devin Clark that is named 5 On with Alan Whiter.
It is on The Comedy Network in Canada and was first broadcast on the same day at the same time. |
Eagle car crash leaves two dead, two hospitalized
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EAGLE — A head-on collision on Interstate 70 Saturday near Eagle left two people dead and two hospitalized.
A 44-year-old woman from Taiwan lost control of her 2012 Dodge Avenger in the westbound lane of Interstate 70. She crossed the median and entered the eastbound lane, where she struck a 2001 Chevy pickup truck head-on, said the Colorado State Patrol.
The woman and her passenger, a 9-year-old boy, were both pronounced dead at the scene. They were both wearing seatbelts, according to the Colorado State Patrol.
The pickup driver, a 35-year-old Thornton man, and his passenger, a 39-year-old Denver man, were both seriously injured and taken to hospitals by ambulance — the driver to Vail Valley Medical Center in Vail and the passenger to Valley View Hospital. They were also wearing seatbelts, the State Patrol said.
The names have not been released, pending notification of next of kin, the State Patrol said. The driver of the Dodge is a citizen of Taiwan.
The State Patrol is still investigating the cause of the accident, said Trooper Josh Lewis. He said alcohol and drugs are not believed to be factors.
The call came in at about 4:12 p.m. Saturday, the State Patrol said. The interstate was closed and traffic was rerouted to Highway 6 for several hours Saturday night. |
A linking verb is a verb that joins the subject of a sentence to the complement (the word or phrase needed to finish an idea).
Here are some examples of linking verbs:
The sky is blue.
In the schools are enclosed rooms.
The finger is long
('is' and 'are' are the linking verbs that connect the subject to the adjective or adjective phrase that describes it.)
Many languages have one main linking verb. In English, this is the verb to be. People use this verb to show how or what something or someone is. Some languages, for example Portuguese and Spanish, have two different verbs for the two meanings of this verb.
Other languages, for example Arabic and Russian, do not have any linking verbs. That is because most languages without linking verbs have inflections, or word endings, that show what part of the sentence words are. Speakers of those languages can join the subject to the complement without any extra words since they share the same kind of inflection. For example, to say "I am a cat" word by word in Russian, a person only says "I cat" (Ia koshka in Russian), but it is obvious to the Russian speaker what the meaning is because both words are in the nominative case, or the word form that shows that a word is the subject of a phrase. Since both words are in the subject form, the words are both linked together.
Conjugation of the verb "to be"
Parts of speech |
Q:
flash as3 call function in one child class from another child class
I'm trying to call a function in one child class (Circle.as) from another child class (Wedge.as). Circle.as is instantiated by the document class (Tree.as), and Wedge.as is instantiated by Circle.as. How do I do this? This is my code:
Tree.as
package com.treediagram
{
public class Tree extends MovieClip
{
var firstCircle:Circle = new Circle();
addChild(firstCircle);
}
}
Circle.as:
package com.treediagram
{
public class Circle extends MovieClip
{
private var wedge:Wedge;
public function Circle()
{
var circleHolder:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var circleClip:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
circleClip.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,circleClickedEvent);
}
private function circleClickedEvent(e:MouseEvent):void
{
var wedgeHolder:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
circleHolderRef.addChildAt(wedgeHolder,1);
var wedge:Wedge = new Wedge(wedgeHolderRef);
wedge.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,wedgeClickEvent);
}
private function wedgeClickEvent(e.target){
trace ('click'); //NOT WORKING
}
}
}
Wedge.as
package com.treediagram
{
public class Wedge extends MovieClip
{
public function Wedge(wedgeHolderRef)
{
var wedgeClip:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
wedgeClip.addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, wedgeAddedEvent);
wedgeHolderRef.addChild(wedgeClip);
}
}
}
I saw a similar question to this here:
How to call a function in a Class from another Class?
but it was a bit hard to follow as it relates to my problem. One of the solutions worked, but was commented as being bad form, and another did not work, so I want to make sure I structure my code properly.
A:
Usually it is OK for a parent class to know about its children, but not the other way around. If you don't follow this principle, you'll end up creating Circular dependencies and end up with code that is tightly coupled and hard to maintain. The key then is to prevent a child from needing to call its parent's methods directly.
One solution is to use event-based communication. When something happens in the child class, it fires an event which a parent class may choose to handle or not.
For example:
public function Circle()
{
var wedge:Wedge = new Wedge();
wedge.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onWedgeClick);
}
private function onWedgeClick(e:MouseEvent) {
deactiveCircle();
}
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Harry Geisinger (October 31, 1933 - May 1, 2015) was an American politician for the Republican Party. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1969 to 1975 and then from 2005 until his death.
Geisinger was born in Roswell, Georgia. He got his Bachelors's degree in business from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Geisinger died from leukemia on May 1, 2015, aged 81. |
import React from 'react';
import { Icon } from 'antd';
import classNames from 'classnames';
import styles from './index.less';
const NumberInfo = ({ theme, title, subTitle, total, subTotal, status, suffix, gap, ...rest }) => (
<div
className={classNames(styles.numberInfo, {
[styles[`numberInfo${theme}`]]: theme,
})}
{...rest}
>
{title && (
<div className={styles.numberInfoTitle} title={typeof title === 'string' ? title : ''}>
{title}
</div>
)}
{subTitle && (
<div
className={styles.numberInfoSubTitle}
title={typeof subTitle === 'string' ? subTitle : ''}
>
{subTitle}
</div>
)}
<div className={styles.numberInfoValue} style={gap ? { marginTop: gap } : null}>
<span>
{total}
{suffix && <em className={styles.suffix}>{suffix}</em>}
</span>
{(status || subTotal) && (
<span className={styles.subTotal}>
{subTotal}
{status && <Icon type={`caret-${status}`} />}
</span>
)}
</div>
</div>
);
export default NumberInfo;
|
Croydon is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States.
Towns in New Hampshire |
Padroni di casa
Padroni di casa (also known as Homeowners and The Landlords) is a 2012 Italian drama film directed by Edoardo Gabbriellini. It entered the competition at the 2012 Locarno International Film Festival.
Plot
Cast
Valerio Mastandrea: Cosimo
Elio Germano: Elia
Gianni Morandi: Fausto Mieli
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi: Moira Mieli
Francesca Rabbi: Adriana
See also
List of Italian films of 2012
References
External links
Category:2012 films
Category:Italian films
Category:Italian drama films
Category:2010s drama films
Category:Films about landlords |
Hurricane Alice is the only known Atlantic hurricane to span two calendar years. It is one of two named Atlantic tropical cyclones. The other is Tropical Storm Zeta of 2005.
Category 1 Atlantic hurricanes
1954 in North America
1950s in weather |
Q:
Using pointer in boolean expression of if statement
I am getting input as argv, argc and I want to return TRUE of FALSE according to the input. My code is :
int is_valid_regexp(const char* regexp);
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if (!is_valid_regexp(argv[1])){
fprintf(stderr, "wrong regular expression format:%s", argv[1]);
return(EXIT_FAILURE):
}
return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
int is_valid_regexp(const char* regexp)
{
do{
if(*regexp == '\\')
return FALSE;
}while (regexp++ != '\0');
return TRUE;
}
The program executes and then stops working. I think something is wrong with if(*regexp == '\\') return FALSE - the program works well if I exclude that part. Does it have something to do with pointer problem?
A:
}while (regexp++ != '\0');
Here, regexp is a POINTER, which is equal to address of area of memory. regexp++ just shift right on one position this pointer. As type of pointer is size_t (unsigned __int32) you go outside your string.
Use
`}while (*regexp++ != '\0');`
to solve your problem.
|
Ah, Wilderness! is a 1935 American comedy drama movie directed by Clarence Brown and is based on the 1933 play of the same name by Eugene O'Neill. It stars Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Spring Byington and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. |
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are becoming an increasingly popular source of light in a number of lighting applications. In many of these applications, LEDs may serve as an improvement over the previously used incandescent or fluorescent lamps because of the low voltage and high efficiency at which LEDs operate. Unfortunately, when one or more LEDS are coupled to a lighting cavity (such as a backlighting cavity) in order to mix and redirect light, optical losses may occur due to multiple reflections within the cavity which do not escape. Further, it is often a challenge to sample optical output of an optical cavity without degrading optical output. It would therefore be highly desirable to provide a solution to optical losses in the cavity while also sampling the light for appropriate characteristics without degrading optical output. |
Reise, Reise is a 2004 album from German industrial metal band Rammstein. The album is loosely based off of Japan Airlines Flight 123, the deadliest aviation accident in history.
2004 albums |
class Categories::Show < BrowserAction
include Auth::AllowGuests
before cache_in_varnish(1.minute)
get "/:slug" do
if category = CategoryQuery.new.slug(slug).first?
weak_etag(last_modified(category).to_unix)
html ShowPage, category: category, posts: PostQuery.new.preload_tags.recent_in_category(category)
else
raise Lucky::RouteNotFoundError.new(context)
end
end
private def last_modified(category)
time = PostQuery.new.last_modified_in_category(category)
if time.nil?
Time.utc
else
time
end
end
end
|
In organic chemistry, a diene ( ) or diolefin ( ) is a hydrocarbon that contains two carbon pi bonds.
Conjugated dienes are functional groups, with a general formula of CnH2n-2. Dienes and alkynes are functional isomers. Dienes occur occasionally in nature but are widely used in the polymer industry.
Classes
Dienes can be divided into three classes, depending on the relative location of the double bonds:
Cumulated dienes have the double bonds sharing a common atom as in a group of compounds called allenes.
Conjugated dienes have conjugated double bonds separated by one single bond.
Unconjugated dienes have the double bonds separated by two or more single bonds. They are usually less stable than isomeric conjugated dienes.
Compounds that contain more than two double bonds are called polyenes. Polyenes and dienes, share many of their properties.
Cycloadditions
An important reaction for conjugated dienes is the Diels-Alder reaction. Many specialized dienes have been developed to exploit this reactivity for the synthesis of natural products, e.g. Danishefsky's diene. |
UPDATED 11/05/13 1:47 a.m.
PARAMUS, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Police responded in force late Monday and early Tuesday, after a gunman fired several shots inside the Garden City Plaza Mall.
While there were no injuries reported, the gunman remained at large as of midnight Tuesday morning and was believed to have left the mall.
“At approximately 9:19 this evening, a single male entered the Garden State Plaza mall and fired several shots while the shopping mall was still open,” Paramus police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said in a statement. “He was dressed in black wearing what is believed to be a motorcycle helmet. The weapon has not yet been recovered. No further shots were fired and there are no reported injuries.”
At the scene, Paramus Mayor Rich LaBarbiera emphasized that everyone was safe.
“There has been no injuries, there has been no victims, and we are now searching the mall and sweeping it,” LaBarbiera added at a news conference.
“We found one shell casing, which I believe was from a long-armed rifle,” Paramus Office of Emergency Management deputy coordinator Jim Tedesco said on 1010 WINS.
Late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, agencies from all over New Jersey were going through the mall and sweeping the area. The mall was placed on lockdown, and crews were passing through in an attempt to evacuate the mall in a safe and orderly way.
Despite some people who reported more than one gunman, LaBarbiera said there was just one. He said the shooter was believed to have left the mall.
Authorities were also trying to make sure no one else was tied to the shooting.
As of 1:45 a.m., employees and shoppers continued to exit the mall. The staging area to pick them up had been set up at the Chili’s parkikng lot adjacent to Route 17SB, WCBS 880’s Jim Smith reported.
The mall will be closed throughout the day on Tuesday, WCBS 880 has learned.
The incident happened inside the mall beginning sometime before the mall in Paramus, N.J. closed for the night at 9:30 p.m. |
My Boyfriend's Back is a 1993 American zombie movie directed by Bob Balaban. It was a movie debut for Matthew Fox and Matthew McConaughey. It was distributed by Touchstone Pictures.
1993 horror movies
1993 fantasy movies
1993 romantic comedy movies
American horror movies
American fantasy movies
American romantic comedy movies
Zombie movies
Movies directed by Bob Balaban
Movies about proms
Movies set in Texas |
The Takeaway:
Creditors of failed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox are considering an offer by Russian law firm ZP Legal, which claimed it could recover up to 200,000 BTC from unnamed Russian nationals.
Some creditors are questioning the firm’s motives and extraordinarily high fees and looking for alternatives.
It’s unclear if Nobuaki Kobayashi, the Mt. Gox trustee leading the court restructuring process in Japan, will work with ZP Legal. Creditors hope to hear the answer during the next meeting on Oct. 1.
ZP Legal’s efforts could result in the extradition to Russia of Alexander Vinnik, the alleged operator of defunct exchange BTC-e, who’s also wanted in the U.S. for Mt. Gox-related charges.
A Russian law firm’s audacious proposal for recovering up to $2 billion stolen from Mt. Gox in return for a steep fee has divided the failed bitcoin exchange’s creditors.
A minority of creditors have decided it’s better to take a chance on Moscow-based ZP Legal than sit and wait for Nobuaki Kobayashi, Mt. Gox’s court-appointed trustee in Japan, to finish the corporate restructuring process.
According to Alexander Zheleznikov, ZP Legal’s managing partner, creditors holding claims for a combined 15,000 BTC (worth $150 million at current prices) have signed up for his firm’s services. That’s less than 8 percent of the bitcoin he claims he might recover. (Any recovered funds would most likely be repaid in fiat.) Applications to ZP Legal were due Sept. 22.
However, many viewed the offer with skepticism, especially given the hefty fees ZP Legal has been asking for: 50 to 75 percent of the recovered funds, depending on how much each creditor gets, plus $320 per hour, charged only in the case of success.
“While a small number of creditors have already signed up with ZP Legal, it seems the more prevalent view among creditors is strong criticism,” Kim Nilsson, a creditor, told CoinDesk. “The fee they’re asking feels unconscionably high given that these are people’s lost savings we’re talking about.”
As CoinDesk previously reported, ZP Legal approached Mt. Gox Legal (MGL), an association representing the creditors, in February, via then-head of MGL Andy Pag.
The proposition, in short, was to leverage the previously established connection between the 2014 Mt. Gox hack and defunct Russian crypto exchange BTC-e, where some of the 750,000 stolen bitcoins ended up.
ZP Legal offered to file police reports in Russia on the creditors’ behalf. Then, creditors would have to wait for alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik to get extradited to Russia and for the police to find the other culprits — with ZP Legal’s help. The thieves would either plead guilty and return the stolen funds to receive lighter sentences, or get convicted and then be sued by creditors for damages.
But in addition to the fees, a number of other things about the proposal have spooked creditors.
‘Mystery box’
For example, the vague language of ZP Legal’s proposal felt manipulative, Nilsson said. “The sales pitch has rather been that there are no options, ‘just trust us, this is an exclusive deal with only limited availability, better hurry and sign up,’ and so forth.”
Lawyer and Mt. Gox creditor Daniel Kelman also questioned the way ZP Legal communicated about its tactics to the creditors.
“These lawyers have treated their engagement like it’s a mystery box, asking us to first gamble with a majority of our right to recovery before we can take their legal strategy out of its package,” Kelman wrote in his blog.
This approach made many creditors feel “not so much being served as clients but rather being served up for dinner,” Nilsson wrote, adding:
“The money being pursued here were life-altering losses to many people, and just because we didn’t expect more of it to be recovered doesn’t mean we might as well not need it back and are happy for our ‘saviors’ to help themselves to the lion’s share of it. In short, don’t reach for blood money quite so casually.”
Another issue with the offer, Nilsson went on, is that while the civil rehabilitation process is designed to compensate all the creditors with approved claims, the plan ZP has been proposing will benefit only those who choose to sign up for it.
At the same time, according to a Telegram chat for Mt. Gox creditors, people are worried about what happens if some creditors choose to use both ZP Legal’s service and the Japanese court’s civil rehabilitation process, potentially ending up in a better situation than others.
“Most creditors want any and all recoveries to be done on behalf of all creditors and shared equally on a pro-rata basis. I think we can expect severe conflicts between different ‘classes’ of creditors if a subset of creditors pursue this Russian recovery separately and keep the money,” Nilsson explained.
According to Zheleznikov himself, his firm has been in talks with the trustee’s team about the possible collaboration. However, it’s not clear if any common plan of action has been or is expected to be worked out. The next meeting of the creditors with the trustee is scheduled for Oct. 1 and expected to clarify the situation.
It’s also not clear how legal procedures in Japan and Russia would work together in such a case, and if any legal action ZP Legal might take conflict with the process in Japan, which deals with the obligations of Mt. Gox as an entity and doesn’t stipulate any form of individual compensation directly from third parties.
Still other creditors decided to pursue the “Russian recovery” path, but with a firm that would work cheaper. Mt. Gox creditor Frank Lee told CoinDesk he found a Moscow-based lawyer named Ivan Bunik, of the law firm Timofeev, Farenvald and Partners, who agreed to look into the case.
According to the creditors’ Telegram chat, Bunik would represent the creditors in Russia for “either $200 per hour for work performed with a maximum cap of $7,000 per month (including outside services) or 25 percent of eventual recovery, whichever is greater.”
When reached by CoinDesk, Bunik refused to comment on the situation, except to say no agreement had been signed yet.
Muddy waters
The main question, in the meantime, remains whether the strategy ZP Legal presented to the creditors is feasible.
Cryptocurrency currently has no legal status in Russia, and actual criminal cases related to bitcoin are rare. According to Gleb Plesovskikh, head of Plesovskih and Partners law firm, the regulatory uncertainty makes recovering stolen crypto in Russia problematic.
“There have been some criminal cases related to cryptocurrencies in Russia, but they were based on the current criminal law, so the criminal activities have been classified as illegal banking services or money laundering, for example,” Plesovskikh, a former law enforcement officer, told CoinDesk.
He added that in such cases, Russian law enforcement would rather investigate the mentioned conventional crimes than “the theft of crypto-assets from a foreign company.”
As for ZP Legal’s strategy, the creditors should “read between the lines,” Plesovskikh said:
“It’s something that is obvious for the lawyers working with our law enforcement system: once the ‘culprits’ are found and a certain pressure is applied to them with the help of the law enforcement, to ease their fate, they will volutеer to return the stolen funds.”
For example, Plesovskikh said he once represented the investors of a failed initial coin offering (ICO) in Russia, and after being called up by the police, the ICO launchers offered to return the money, to prevent a criminal case from opening.
Zheleznikov mentioned a similar tactic describing ZP Legal’s work with users of the failed crypto exchange WEX, the successor to BTC-e. According to him, the sides also reached a settlement without a criminal investigation.
“There are for sure some chances of success with this case, but let’s face the reality: most likely, there won’t be any actual criminal case on the crypto-assets theft as such,” Plesovskikh said of ZP Legal’s Mt. Gox proposal.
Zheleznikov himself has acknowledged ZP Legal can’t guarantee a successful recovery for the Mt. Gox creditors, that the firm will be operating in a legal grey zone and that the strategy might take years to bear fruit.
Saving Private Vinnik
In the meantime, some of the creditors suspect that the whole operation ZP Legal is planning has a totally different objective: boosting the chances that Vinnik will be extradited to Russia instead of the U.S., by presenting more victims on the Russian side. He is currently detained in Greece.
According to this theory, the Russian government wants to prevent Vinnik from falling into the hands of the FBI due to the role BTC-e played in at least one story involving the Russian political elite.
Fancy Bear, the hacker group linked to Russian intelligence that attacked the Democratic National Committee email server during the 2016 presidential campaign, purchased bitcoin on BTC-e to fund its operations, according to an investigation by the BBC and Elliptic.
(President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitri Peskov denied any affiliation between the Russian authorities and Fancy Bear. “We are unaware what kind of hackers they refer to, we do not know what this interference entails,” Peskov told the Russian news agency Interfax last August.)
Whatever the motivation, Russia’s interest in getting Vinnik back has been expressed at the highest level. In January, Putin personally raised the issue during talks with the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, according to Russian news outlet RIA Novosti.
“The conclusion of Vinnik’s extradition may be influenced by [Greece’s] decision to take into consideration of how many victims and financial damages each country has,” Mt. Gox creditor Lee wrote in a blog post.
Zheleznikov’s clients include high-profile individuals such as the oligarch Konstantin Malofeev, an alleged sponsor of the pro-Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, and the police investigator Pavel Karpov, sanctioned by the U.S. following the Magnitsky Act.
However, he denied that getting Vinnik extradited to Russia is his primary goal.
Zheleznikov told CoinDesk his aim has been to “form the legal practice, help the creditors and, in case of success, make money,” concluding:
“If Vinnik’s extradition helps the case, we’re glad to see any legal event helping our plans, but the extradition itself is not our goal and we don’t represent Vinnik’s interests.”
Alexander Vinnik image via Shutterstock |
(9 July 1249 - 4 October 1305), was the 90th emperor of Japan, in the traditional order of succession. His reign started in 1259 and ended in 1274.
Traditional history
Before he became the monarch, his personal name (imina) was . The posthumous name of Kameyama comes from the place name of the emperor's tomb, in a section of Kyoto.
He was the seventh son of Emperor Go-Saga and the younger brother of Emperor Go-Fukakusa.
Kameyama was the father of 36 children, including the son and heir who became Emperor Go-Uda.
Events of Kameyama's life
1258 (Shoka 2): Kameyama's son, Prince Tsunehito was named Crown Prince and heir at age nine.
1259 (Shogen 1, 11th month): In the 14th year of Go-Fukakusa's reign, he abdicated. Go-Fukakusa's younger brother got the succession (senso). Soon after, Emperor Kameyama accepted the monarch's role, duties and powers (sokui). This was confirmed in ceremonies.
1268 (Bun'ei 5): Kameyama did not answer a letter from Kublai Khan which demanded tribute. Khan, the leader of China, saw this non-response as rude and not respectful.
1274 (Bun'ei 11, 1st month): In the 15th year of Kameyama's reign, he abdicated.
19 November 1274 (Bun'ei 11, 20th day of the 10th month): Yuan China (Kublai Khan) sent a fleet and an army to invade Japan. Some military forces landed near Fukuoka in Kyushu. This was the "Battle of Bun'ei" or the 1st Mongol Invasion. The same day, a storm sank many of the ships with the main part of the invading army. The invaders ran away to Korea. During the short fight, the Hakozaki Shrine was burned to the ground.
1281 (Koan 4): This is called the "Battle of Koan" or the 2nd Mongol Invasion. A typhoon broke up the invading fleet; and this act of 'divine wind' was called kamekaze.
1291 (Shoo 4): Kameyama helped to found the Buddhist temple Nanzen-ji in Kyoto.
1305 (Kagen 3): Kameyama died.
After his death
The Imperial Household Agency say the mausoleum (misasagi) of Kameyama is in Kyoto. The emperor is venerated at a memorial Shinto shrine there.
Eras of reign
The years of Kameyama's reign cover more than one era name.
Bun'o, 1260-1261
Kocho, 1261-1264
Bun'ei, 1264-1275
Related pages
Emperor of Japan
List of emperors of Japan
Japanese imperial family tree
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The Hopvine is a post prohibition watering hole built in the early 1930s. Until 1995, the Hopvine was the 507 Tavern, a little place in the 15th Avenue business district. In 1995 the current owners remodeled the Hopvine, adding lots of nice blond wood and a bar with taps arranged in clusters of three and four. It's a comfortable neighborhood pub and a good place to enjoy a craft beer along with very good pub food.
I love these people. They couldn't be nicer. The soups are always fantastic. The pizza--not my fave, but I like a New York-style pie. What is the deal with doughy Seattle pizza? Anyway, I won't hold that against the Hopvine 'cause everything else is fabulous. Try the artichoke sandwich. Yummmmmm! |
Lipsheim is a commune. It is in Grand Est in the Bas-Rhin department in northeast France.
Communes in Bas-Rhin |
Houstonians cheer France to World Cup win at Discovery Green watch party
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A global mix of about 200 soccer fans converged at Discovery Green on Sunday to watch on the big screen as France defeated Croatia in a World Cup finale that featured a series of firsts, including an own goal, a penalty awarded after a video review and an intrusion onto the pitch courtesy of the Russian punk rock group Pussy Riot.
As the clock ticked down at the 4-2 finish, a group of four French families in Houston for jobs with the petrochemical company Schlumberger leapt from portable chairs and blankets, and bounced up and down in a giant hug, despite the Houston heat. Several wore team jerseys and had the tricolour flag painted on their cheeks, and one couple had dressed their 6-month-old daughter in a onesie featuring the Gallic rooster, the French equivalent of the American eagle.
Aldrick Garcia Mayans, a native of Montpellier who has lived in the Houston area for seven years, was up in the air for each of the four goals, and intermittently texting with friends in Brazil and Houston and family members in France and Belgium who were dutifully watching the European telecast on a 15-second delay so they wouldn’t spoil it for him.
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“It’s only the expats that cheer,” said Mayans, 37, of Spring Branch and father of Lucie, the infant in the rooster suit. “Soccer for us is what American football is for you. It’s the same fever.”
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Led by Kylian Mbappé and Paul Pogba, France brings home its second World Cup trophy, 20 years after winning its first.
Led by Kylian Mbappé and Paul Pogba, France brings home its second...
After the final whistle, strangers from around the world clustered in a corner of the grassy viewing area with Mayans and his friends and family to take photographs with a team flag—supplied by the family of Nabil Medjahed, 50, of The Woodlands, who emigrated from Algeria, and a replica World Cup trophy supplied by Angel Almanza, 20, of Katy, who is originally from Mexico.
Nancy Beatriz Mora Cabrera, a Porter resident from Ecuador, stepped in for a shot with the trophy. Faruk Islam, a Bellaire resident from Bangladesh, also stepped in to get a victory photo with the Gallic talismans, although he admitted he’d been rooting for Croatia moments earlier.
Croatia’s stake
Aldiro Bunga, 24, a native of Angola who has lived in Houston for four years, couldn’t stop smiling after he took a photo with the French team flag.
“I’ve been for France all the way,” he said.
Medjahed, whose family members brought the French flag, had been cheering for the underdog Croatian squad, due in part to the Croatian friends he made living in Astoria section of New York City. A win for a country that small, he said, would “change history.”
“It means everybody will pay attention and look at your differently,” he said.
An employee in the technology department at Conroe ISD, Medjahed grew up playing soccer on the streets of Algiers. He said a win, even in the early rounds of the tournament, is a huge source of pride and identity for a tiny country. Every Algerian who is old enough remembers the country’s swashbuckling first-round victory over what was then West Germany in the 1982 World Cup in Spain.
“My father told me, ‘This is like when we got independence,’” he recalled. “I will never forget.”
As Croatian team began losing ground after halftime, Medjahed, who had come downtown with his wife, three kids and another family, said, “Thank God I’m not Croatian. I get so stressed I cannot watch the game.”
Smaller than Harris County
Other Croatia fans at the viewing party had personal connections to the country. Liza Meyer, 15, of Bellaire had fond memories of her mother’s Croatian friends babysitting her.
Tony Zamarripa, a banking professional from Oak Forest, wore the Croatia jersey he bought during a tour of Dubrovnik, Split and Zagreb. “You gotta go with the underdog,” said Zamarripa, who supported the U.S., which didn’t make the cut, and then Mexico, which was defeated, before switching to Croatia.
Adam Rybak, 25, who works at a medical startup and lives in the Museum District, had traveled to Croatia with his girlfriend and wore a team cap he’d bought a few years ago with a slogan on it he didn’t notice until Sunday: “To the finals with fire in our hearts.”
The French team, known as Les Bleus, or The Blues, defeated Uruguay and then Belgium in a nail-biter to make the cut. France has qualified for 14 tournaments, beginning at the inaugural World Cup in 1930, but had won the title only once, in 1998.
The Croatian team, known as Vatreni, or The Blazers, beat Russia and upset England against all expectations to make it to the finale. The country, which has a population just under Harris County’s, has participated in the World Cup five times. Prior to independence, Croatians played for the Yugoslavia team, which appeared in eight World Cup tournaments.
Statistically speaking, Harris County has more French nationals than Croatian nationals. In the greater Houston area, stretching from The Woodlands to Sugar Land, there are 4,258 foreign-born residents from France and 294 from Croatia, according to the 2016 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census. |
Honduras is a country in Central America. Its capital is Tegucigalpa. Most people of Honduras speak the Spanish language (while English has mostly widely spoken). 7,483,763 people live in Honduras and it is in size. It is next to El Salvador. To one side is the Caribbean Sea and to the other in the Pacific Ocean.
The ethnic makeup of Honduras is 90% mestizo, 7% amerindian, 2% black, and 1% white.
Honduras has the world's 4th highest murder rate.
Departments
Honduras is divided into 18 departments. The capital city is Tegucigalpa in the Central District.
Atlantida
Choluteca
Colon
Comayagua
Copan
Cortes
El Paraiso
Francisco Morazan
Gracias a Dios
Intibuca
Islas de la Bahia
La Paz
Lempira
Ocotepeque
Olancho
Santa Barbara
Valle
Yoro
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Honduras national football team
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Q:
Getting titles out of string
I'm really stuck with this one program...
I'm learning how to program and I'm starting with PHP right now.
I need to get titles out of articles.
I already asked this question, and I mannaged to get the first title of the text in many ways. For example if text was :
Hello
I'm learning how
to write this code.
:like this, so I got the "Hello" part for example like this:
<?php
$string = "Hello
I'm learning how
to write this code.";
$str=strstr($string,"\n",true);
echo $str . "<br />";
?>
However, there can be a lot of titles in the article and each one of them is seperated with blank lines from above and bellow and I cannot mannage to get all of these titles.
Here's what I tried:
<?php
$string="
Good text
Good text is good but I have no idea
how to code this.
Another title
I need to get you,
but don't know how."
$get = substr($string, strpos($string, $finda), -1);
$finda="\n";
$getFinal=strstr($get, $finda, true);
echo $getFinal;
?>
But this doesn't work because there are "\n" after every line. How to identify only those blank lines? I tried to find them:
$getRow = explode("\n", $string);
foreach($getRow as $row){
if(strlen($row) <= 1){
but I don't know what to do next.
Do you have any ideas? Can you help?
Thank you in advance:)
A:
You can use a regular expression like this:
<?php
$string="
Good text
Good text is good but I have no idea
how to code this.
Another title
I need to get you,
but don't know how.";
preg_match_all('/^\n(.+?)\n\n/m', $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);
?>
Outputs:
array(2) {
[0] =>
string(9) "Good text"
[1] =>
string(13) "Another title"
}
Explanation of the regular expression
Regular expressions are a compact way to describe constraints for a string. Either to check that it verifies a given pattern or to capture some of its parts. In this case, we want to capture some parts of the string (titles).
'/^\n(.+?)\n\n/m' is the regular expression used to solve your problem. The actual expression is between the slashes while the leading m is an option. It indicates that we want to analyse multiple lines.
We are left with ^\n(.+?)\n\n which can be read from left to right.
^ indicates the beginning of a line and \n represents the "new line" character. Coupled (^\n), they represent an empty line.
Parenthesis indicates what we want to capture. In this case, the title, which can be any number of any characters. The . represents any characters and the + indicates that we want any number of occurrences of that character (but at least one, the * can be used to include zero occurrence). The ? indicates that we don't want to go too far and capture the whole string. It will thus stop at the first occasion it has to match the remaining part of the regular expression.
Then, the two \n represent the end of the title line and the end of the empty line following it.
As we used preg_match_all instead of preg_match, every occurrence of the pattern will be matched instead of the first one only.
Regular expressions are really powerful and I invite you to learn them further.
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Pecos County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2020, 15,193 people lived there. The county seat is Fort Stockton. |
Keith McDermott
Keith McDermott (born September 28, 1953) is an American actor, theater director, and writer.
Life and career
McDermott was born September 28, 1953 in Houston, Texas, the son of Betty Ray (Rees) and James E. McDermott. McDermott graduated Ohio University Theatre School. In the 1970s, he lived with author Edmund White in New York City, and appeared as Alan Strang in Equus on Broadway opposite Richard Burton. He directs theater productions, and is particularly known for his direction of Off-Off-Broadway comedies penned by avant garde playwright Jim Neu. McDermott appeared in the Hollywood movie Without a Trace, as well as in numerous independent films, including as half the title role in Ignatz & Lotte. His novel Acqua Calda was inspired by his long-term friendship and collaboration with director Robert Wilson, and his memoir of former long-time boyfriend Joe Brainard appeared in the anthology Loss Within Loss. His other memoir and fiction has appeared in periodicals, as well as in the anthology Boys Like Us.
Bibliography
Print
Acqua Calda, Carroll & Graf Publishers
Lessons from Our Fathers, Durban House Publishing, due Oct 2006
Stage
Harold and Maude as Harold Feb 7, 1980 - Feb 9, 1980
A Meeting by the River as Tom Mar 28, 1979 - Mar 28, 1979
Equus as Alan Strang - opposite Richard Burton, and later, Anthony Perkins
Film
A Slipping-Down Life (1999) .... Paul Ogle
Ignatz & Lotte (1995) .... Ignatz
Without a Trace (1983) .... Philippe
Tourist Trap (1979) .... Woody
How the West Was Won - The Rustler (1979) TV Episode .... Everett
See also
LGBT culture in New York City
List of self-identified LGBTQ New Yorkers
References
Review and photo at gaycitynews.com
Interview
Bio bits at Innerart.com
External links
Category:1953 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:American male film actors
Category:American male stage actors
Category:Gay actors
Category:LGBT writers from the United States
Category:Gay writers
Category:LGBT entertainers from the United States
Category:LGBT novelists
Category:LGBT people from Texas
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Category:21st-century American male writers |
The kidneys are two organs in the abdomen of vertebrates which are shaped like beans. They regulate the amount of water and salts in the blood. They make urine so it can be removed from the body.
The adjective which is used for kidneys is renal. For example, renal failure is when the kidneys are sick and do not work.
The prefix nephro- is also used in words to mean "kidneys". For example, a nephrologist is a specialist who studies kidneys.
Hormones
The kidney makes hormones. The two most important ones that it makes are erythropoetin and renin.
Erythropoetin is made by the kidneys if there is less oxygen in the kidney. Erythropoetin signals the bone marrow to make more red blood cells. This means there will be more oxygen carried in the blood.
Renin is made by the kidney if there is low blood pressure, low volume of blood, or too low salts in the blood. Renin makes the blood vessels smaller and tells the adrenal gland to make aldosterone (which tells the kidneys to save salts). It also makes a person feel thirsty. All of this makes the blood pressure go up.
Stable environment
The kidney's most important work is keeping homeostasis. Homeostasis means that the body keeps a stable environment inside itself. The body needs to have the consistent and proper amount of water, salt, and acid in the blood. The kidney keeps these things constant.
If there is too much water, the kidney puts more water in the urine. If there is not enough water, the kidney uses less water in the urine. This is why people make less urine when they are dehydrated.
Kidney diseases
There are many types of kidney diseases. A kidney disease makes the kidneys unable to work perfectly but they do work in part. People can have mild kidney failure and have no symptoms. As long as it does not become worse, people may not even know they have it. Severe kidney failure means very bad failure. The kidneys do not work very much at all. People with severe kidney failure always have symptoms. They need special care from doctors.
The main kinds of kidney diseases are:
Kidney stones - this is when a solid substance forms in the urine. This stone moves through the urinary system until it cannot go on and gets stuck. This sometimes blocks urine flow, and usually causes severe pain. After a time, the stone usually goes out or passes. If it does not go out, a surgeon may have to remove it.
Kidney infections - also called pyelonephritis. This is a bacterial infection in the kidneys. Some of the symptoms are back pain, vomiting, fever, and dark or bloody urine. People with pyelonephritis need strong antibiotic medicines.
Glomerulonephritis - this is a disease of the tissues in the kidneys that make urine. These are called glomeruli. Glomerulonephritis is an autoimmune disease. It can cause mild or severe kidney failure.
Congenital kidney disease - this is when people are born with kidneys that do not work properly. This includes people that are born with kidneys in the wrong place, or in the wrong shape. About 1% of people are born with only one kidney.
Polycystic kidney disease - this is an inherited disorder in which cysts grow in the kidneys, and destroy the kidney tissue until the kidneys can no longer perform their functions.
Diabetic nephropathy - this is the disease diabetics get when their blood sugar is too high for a long time. This is one of the most common causes of kidney failure in the United States
Hypertensive nephropathy - this is caused by having hypertension (high blood pressure) for a long time. Many people have hypertensive and diabetic nephropathy together.
Cancer - Renal cell carcinoma is the most common kind of kidney cancer. It is most often found in adults, and is usually deadly. It is hard to stop it with radiation treatments or chemotherapy.
Renal replacement
If a person's kidneys do not work properly, they are very sick. If they have severe kidney failure, they cannot live unless they have a replacement for their kidneys.
There are two ways to replace the kidneys: dialysis and transplantation.
Dialysis
Dialysis is when doctors use a machine and medicines to do the work of the kidneys. There are two kinds of dialysis: hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis.
Peritoneal dialysis is when doctors put a plastic tube into the person's abdomen. Every day the person fills the abdomen with fluid. The extra salts, waste, and water that the body does not need goes into the fluid. Then the fluid comes out and takes the wastes with it. This does part of the job that kidneys do.
Hemodialysis is when doctors take blood from a person, clean the blood with a special kind of filter, called a haemodialyser, and put it back in the person. When the blood is cleaned; water, salts and wastes are taken out of it. This must be done 2-4 times every week (usually 3 times.) It takes 2-4 hours to do this each time.
Hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis are not perfect. They do some of the work of the kidney, but it is not as good as a real kidney. So people who need dialysis are not as healthy. They must take medicines. For example, in kidney failure, the kidneys do not make any erythropoetin. Doctors have to give people erythropoetin so they make enough red blood cells.
Transplant
A better way to do the kidneys' work is to give the person another kidney. This is called a kidney transplant. Kidney transplants are the most common type of organ transplant. It is the most common because we have two kidneys, but only need one kidney to live. People who are alive can donate a kidney to another person.
Even transplanted kidneys are not the same as kidneys people were born with. A person who gets a renal transplant must take strong medicines to stop their body from attacking the new kidney. Sometimes, after years, the transplanted kidney stops working. But sometimes a patient can get a new transplanted kidney after the first one stops working.
History
It was widely believed in Europe that the conscience was actually located in the kidneys. This idea was taken from the Hebrew Bible. In modern times, medical scientists have shown kidneys do not have this kind of psychological role.
Anatomy of the urinary system |
It's beyond my control: a cross-temporal meta-analysis of increasing externality in locus of control, 1960-2002.
Two meta-analyses found that young Americans increasingly believe their lives are controlled by outside forces rather than their own efforts. Locus of control scores became substantially more external (about.80 standard deviations) in college student and child samples between 1960 and 2002. The average college student in 2002 had a more external locus of control than 80% of college students in the early 1960s. Birth cohort/time period explains 14% of the variance in locus of control scores. The data included 97 samples of college students (n = 18,310) and 41 samples of children ages 9 to 14 (n = 6,554) gathered from dissertation research. The results are consistent with an alienation model positing increases in cynicism, individualism, and the self-serving bias. The implications are almost uniformly negative, as externality is correlated with poor school achievement, helplessness, ineffective stress management, decreased self-control, and depression. |
Moldoveanu Peak (Romanian: Varful Moldoveanu) is the highest mountain in Romania. It is in the Fagaras Mountains of the Southern Carpathians.
The most-used paths to reach Moldoveanu are over the Vistea Mare Peak (2527m), by paths coming from Podragu, Sambata, or by the Vistea Valley.
The closest locality is Victoria, on the north side. On the south side it is accessible from northwest of Campulung.
Carpathians
Mountains of Romania |
New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur speaks on quarterback Josh Allen, who he passed on during the 2018 NFL Draft.
Prior to the 2018 NFL Draft, the New York Giants had a big decision to make. Do they go with a new quarterback with their No. 2 overall pick? Do they try to improve the offensive line? What about the generationally-talented Penn State running back Saquon Barkley?
Head coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Dave Gettleman ultimately went with the last of those choices for their first pick.
Big Blue passed on the quarterback-stacked class in the first round and waited to select a quarterback until the fourth round (Kyle Lauletta). This week, Shurmur and the Giants will face one of those quarterbacks they passed on. The Buffalo Bills and second-year man Josh Allen will come into town to face off against Big Blue on Sunday.
“I would never comment on how in the mix anybody was,” Shurmur said this week, per Paul Schwartz of the New York Post. “I think that’s behind-the-scenes. That doesn’t do anybody any good. But I can comment on what we thought of [Allen]. We thought he was a big, strong thrower. A guy that had a chance to be a starter in the NFL, and he has been for them. I think he’s made steady improvements. He’s a very strong-armed guy. He’s helped them win some big games already. Just like any young player, you see where he’ll make mistakes and then correct them.”
Shurmur added that he thought the former University of Wyoming standout “had a chance to be a starter” in this league.
Allen has proved to be one of the better rushing quarterbacks in this league, rushing for 631 yards and eight touchdowns during his rookie campaign. However, he’ll need to improve when it comes to throwing the ball if he wants long-term success in the NFL. Through 12 games last year, Allen completed 52.8% of his throws for 2,074 yards, 10 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions.
The Giants and Bills will kick off at 1:00 p.m. ET this Sunday at MetLife Stadium. |
Mount Rushmore is a famous mountain and memorial near Keystone, South Dakota in the United States. It has the heads of four of America's presidents carved on it: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The Mount Rushmore Memorial is a part of the United States Presidential Memorial, which covers and is above sea level (altitude).
History
Before the memorial was carved, the native Lakota Indian Tribes called the mountain "Six Grandfathers". Later, the mountain was named after Charles E. Rushmore, a well-known later, after an expedition in 1885. The memorial was carved to help increase tourism in the Black Hills, where the mountain was. Doane Robinson first formed the idea in 1923. Robinson convinced many influential people in the United States government to build the memorial. Congress soon allowed construction to begin.
After gaining Congress's approval, Gutzon Borglum, a famous American sculptor, was hired to begin the project.
The work of carving the heads began on March 3, 1925. It was completed on October 31, 1941. |
Stars Fire GM Nieuwendyk
The Dallas Stars fired general manager Joe Nieuwendyk on Sunday after the team failed to reach the Stanley Cup playoffs for a fifth consecutive season.
The struggling Stars were beaten 3-0 at home by the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday, ending their campaign 11th in the 15-team Western Conference with a 22-22-4 record.
Nieuwendyk, an elegant forward who hoisted the Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames, Stars and New Jersey Devils, was appointed as general manager of the Stars in May 2009.
"Joe Nieuwendyk has represented the Dallas Stars extremely well as the club's general manager and has helped put pieces in place that will once again turn this team into a contender," Dallas owner Tom Gaglardi said in a statement.
"However, I believe it is time to take this organization in a different direction with our intentions set on returning to the elite of the National Hockey League. "
My commitment to the Dallas Stars is unwavering, and I am confident we have found the right general manager to return us to the pathway of success."
Red Wings assistant general manager Jim Nill, who has spent 19 years in that team's front office, is widely expected to take over from Nieuwendyk, 46.
The Stars have twice won the Western Conference Finals, and went on to clinch the Stanley Cup for the only time in 1999 when Nieuwendyk earned the Conn Smythe Trophy as the post-season's most valuable player.
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