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Ohio lawmakers approve lethal-injection secrecy law
Ohio legislators have approved a bill that would shield the identities of pharmacies and pharmacists that compound lethal injection drugs used in executions.
Ohio legislators have approved a bill that would shield the identities of pharmacies and pharmacists that compound lethal injection drugs used in executions. The bill has been sent to Republican Gov. John Kasich, who is expected to sign it.
The law would prevent, for 20 years, the disclosure of the names of pharmacies that compound drugs used in lethal injections. It also shields the identities of members of the execution team and physicians.
To the compounder of the Oklahoma execution drug: Come out of the shadows
Several states, including Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania, have passed laws to conceal the source of drugs and the people involved in executions. The laws are designed to protect those involved in executions from harassment and threats.
Because large pharmaceutical companies will no longer sell drugs for the purpose of lethal injections, prison officials throughout the country say they can only obtain the drugs if the identities of compounders are shielded.
In Oklahoma, earlier this year, death penalty opponents from Missouri held a vigil at a Tulsa pharmacy that had been identified as a drug supplier for Missouri's executions.
The executive director of Ohioans to Stop Executions, Kevin Werner, said there is no evidence that pharmacists or pharmacies involved in compounding drugs for lethal injections have been threatened or harassed. "The allegations of harassment by anti-death-penalty advocates toward pharmacists and others involved in the execution process are not true," he told the Columbus Dispatch. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 0 |
PBCom Tower
The building in 2019
Record height
Tallest in the Philippines from 2000 to 2017[I]
Petron Megaplaza
Surpassed by
Grand Hyatt Manila
6795 Ayala Avenue corner V.A. Rufino Street, Salcedo Village, Makati, Philippines
14°33′29.90″N 121°1′9.51″E / 14.5583056°N 121.0193083°E / 14.5583056; 121.0193083Coordinates: 14°33′29.90″N 121°1′9.51″E / 14.5583056°N 121.0193083°E / 14.5583056; 121.0193083
Construction started
US$74 million[1]
Philippine Bank of Communications
Antenna spire
259 m (849.7 ft)
Floor count
52 aboveground, 7 belowground
119,905 m2 (1,291,000 sq ft) [1][2]
Lifts/elevators
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP; GF & Partners Architects [3]
Filinvest Development Corporation
Aromin & Sy + Associates, Inc.[4]
Samsung Construction Company Philippines, Inc.[5]
The Philippine Bank of Communications Tower, more commonly known as PBCom Tower,[8] is an office skyscraper ranked officially as the second tallest building in the Philippines. It was previously the tallest building in the Philippines, a title it held starting year 2000 until the completion of Federal Land Tower in early 2017. It has a total ground to architectural top height of 259 metres (850 ft), with 52 storeys [9] including an 8-level radio tower. It is a joint development of Filinvest Asia Corporation (FAC) and the Philippine Bank of Communications (PBCom). The building is the home of PBCom, one of the oldest Philippine banks. The bank occupies the building's first ten floors, with a food court on the seventh floor.
The building is located at Ayala Avenue corner V.A. Rufino Street in Makati, right inside the Makati Central Business District. The stretch of Ayala Avenue where PBCom Tower is located also has the main branches of Bank of the Philippine Islands, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, and Security Bank. The building houses international call centers such as Convergys, HSBC HDPP, and ICT.
The building in July 2005
PBCom Tower was designed by local architectural firm GF & Partners Architects, in cooperation with international architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP;[3] and structural design was provided by local engineering company Aromin & Sy + Associates.[4] Project and construction management services was provided by I.A. Campbell & Associates, a Philippine-based project management company,[1] while construction works was done by Samsung Engineering & Construction's local branch Samsung Construction Company Philippines, Inc. Samsung is known as the builder of the world's tallest buildings, including the Petronas Twin Towers, Taipei 101, and the Burj Khalifa.[10]
Besides these companies, other members of the design team include Edgett Williams Consulting Group (Elevator Design), Golder Associates, Inc. (Seismic Study); Fisher, Marantz, Rentro, Stone (Lighting consultant); Shel Milson & Wilke (Acoustic Analysis); CDC Limited (Curtain Wall design); Control Risks, Inc. (Security System design); N.B.F. Water & Wastewater Services (Sanitary System design); DCCD Engineering Corp. (Electrical Systems design); R.J. Calpo & Partners (Mechanical Systems design); and Radian Technology, Inc. (Fire Protection System design).[11]
Its exterior double-glazed, unitized curtain walls in aluminum frames, together with a monumental lighting effect, create a facade that reflects a fusion of art and function. Its interiors are an elegant interplay of glass, natural stone and metal. A landscaped garden in stepped podium also adds to the natural effect of the building's design. The building also utilizes tinted insulated vision glass in full height for the curtain walls to seal off heat and noise [11]
The offices spaces feature high ceiling headroom to enhance cosy working atmosphere; perimeter columns to provide flexibility in interior space planning; provision for raised access floor or underslab ducts; and having continuous wide panels in full height glazing allow magnificent views while providing ample natural light into the offices.[11]
The building also has banking facilities for efficient business transactions; food court with outdoor garden cafe; a business centre to complement corporate operations; and a roofdeck helipad for alternate transport access and emergency evacuation.[11]
Other amenities include a 100% standby generators, lightning protection and grounding systems, structured cabling system for high-speed transmission of data, video and voice communications, provision for fibre optic telecommunications system, advanced building management system, CCTV monitoring at strategic locations controlled at the central command station on a 24-hour basis, fire alarm and automatic fire sprinkler systems, dual water supply with water treatment facility, underground and overhead water reservoir, 2 individually controlled Air Handling Units per floor with allotted air condition load for after-office use, a communications tower, voice and smoke evacuation systems and a gondola system for building exterior maintenance.[11]
The building is equipped with 17 high-speed tower lifts in 3 zones lift-group to ensure minimum waiting time, 4 shuttle lifts for parking and amenity floors and 1 service elevator for all floors.[11]
The building's parking facilities have a secure and integrated multi-level design with paging system and a drivers' lounge.[11]
The PBCom Tower has been designated by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) as one of only two certified Information Technology (IT) buildings in the country. IT companies occupying the PBCom Tower will enjoy special tax incentives and other privileges from the government.[12]
List of tallest buildings in the Philippines
^ a b c I.A. Campbell & Associates, Inc.Projects - PBCom Tower Archived 2007-09-19 at the Wayback Machine
^ a b Skyscraperpage.com "PBCom Tower" page
^ a b GF & Partners Architects. The construction of PBCom Tower was started in November 1995 and was completed on April 26, 2000, and its opening on June 21, 2000. Our Projects - Completed Office Buildings Archived 2008-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
^ a b Aromin & Sy + Associates Our Projects Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
^ Filinvest Group Official Website "Operating Highlights - Property Development" page Archived 2001-03-12 at archive.today
^ Emporis.com PBCom Tower
^ HLURB website List of Makati Projects Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ Savills, K. M. C. "PBCom Tower". kmcmaggroup.com. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
^ Filinvest Official Website PBCom Tower page Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Samsung C&T Website Products & Services - Super Highrise
^ a b c d e f g Filinvest Group website PBCom Tower Design Team
^ Philippine Economic Zone Authority List of Economic Zones - NCR Makati - PBCom Tower
PBCom Tower website
PBCom Tower at Emporis
PBCom Tower Leasing Information
Location Map of PBCom Tower at Ayala Maps website
Makati Central Business District
Alveo Financial Tower
Ayala Tower One
Exportbank Plaza
G.T. International Tower
Lepanto Building
LKG Tower
L. V. Locsin Building
Makati Sky Plaza
Philamlife Tower
RCBC Plaza
Robinsons Summit Center
Rufino Pacific Tower
Smart Tower
The Enterprise Center Tower 1
The World Centre
Tower 6789
V Corporate Center
Zuellig Building
Discovery Primea
Grand Soho Makati
Makati Tuscany
One Roxas Triangle
Salcedo Park Twin Towers
Shang Salcedo Place
The Beacon – Amorsolo Tower
The Beacon – Arnaiz Tower
The Beacon – Roces Tower
The Residences at Greenbelt
Laguna Tower
Manila Tower
San Lorenzo Tower
The Shang Grand Tower
Ayala Center
Ayala Museum
Glorietta
InterContinental Manila
Makati Shangri-La, Manila
Ayala Triangle Gardens
Legazpi Active Park
Makati Medical Center
Mandarin Oriental Manila
Nielson Field Tower
Salcedo Park
The Peninsula Manila
Washington SyCip Park
Asian Institute for Distance Education
Asian Institute of Management
CAP College Foundation
Centro Escolar University Makati
Far Eastern University Makati
iAcademy
Mapúa University Makati
Amorsolo Street
Arnaiz Avenue
Chino Roces Avenue
Gil Puyat Avenue
Makati Avenue
Paseo de Roxas
Ayala station
Buendia station (MRT)
Dela Rosa railway station
Pasay Road railway station
De La Rosa Elevated Walkway
Pedestrian underpasses
Italics denote buildings under construction or planned.
Skyscrapers and towers in Metro Manila
Over 300 m
Metrobank Center (318 m, 2017)
PBCom Tower (259 m, 2000)
Trump Tower Manila (251 m, 2017)
The Gramercy Residences (250 m, 2013)
Discovery Primea (250 m, 2013)
Grand Riviera Suites (230 m, 2014)
Shangri-La at the Fort, Manila (229 m, 2016)
One Shangri-La Place Towers (227 m, 2014)
BSA Twin Towers (221 m, 2000)
G.T. International Tower (217 m, 2001)
Alphaland Makati Place (215 m, 2016)
The St. Francis Shangri-La Place Towers (213 m, 2009)
BDO Corporate Center (210 m, 2015)
One Rockwell West Tower (210 m, 2010)
Petron Megaplaza (210 m, 1998)
The Knightsbridge Residences (210 m, 2013)
UnionBank Plaza (206 m, 2004)
Greenbelt San Lorenzo Tower (205 m, 2009)
Edades Tower (205 m, 2014)
Net Park (205 m, 2015)
Golden Empire Tower (203 m, 2002)
One Corporate Centre (202 m, 2009)
Milano Residences (200 m, 2016)
Philamlife Tower (200 m, 2000)
Summit One Tower (200 m, 1998)
One Central Makati (195 m, 2013)
8 Forbestown Road (194 m, 2013)
Anchor Skysuites (193 m, 2013)
RCBC Plaza Towers (192 m, 2001)
The Infinity Fort Bonifacio (190 m, 2011)
Tower 6789 (185 m, 2013)
One San Miguel Avenue (183 m, 2001)
LKG Tower (180 m, 2000)
Marco Polo Ortigas Manila (180 m, 2014)
The Shang Grand Tower (180 m, 2005)
Pacific Plaza Towers (179 m, 2001)
Atlanta Centre (179 m, 1998)
Birch Tower (178 m, 2012)
Aspire Tower (175 m, 2012)
Robinsons Equitable Tower (175 m, 1997)
One Roxas Triangle (174 m, 2000)
Robinsons Summit Center (174 m, 2001)
Paragon Plaza (174 m, 1998)
The Enterprise Center Tower 1 (172 m, 1999)
Greenbelt Laguna Tower (171 m, 2008)
Greenbelt Manila Tower (171 m, 2010)
The Beaufort (170 m, 2013)
The Beacon Arnaiz Tower (170 m, 2012)
Pearl of the Orient Tower (168 m, 2004)
Discovery Suites (167 m, 1999)
GA Towers (165 m, 2005)
One Rockwell East Tower (165 m, 2011)
Rufino Pacific Tower (161 m, 1994)
Ayala Tower One (160 m, 1996)
The Orient Square (160 m, 1999)
Zuellig Building (160 m, 2012)
Lancaster Suites One (158 m, 2007)
Bellagio Golfview (156 m, 2010)
Exportbank Plaza (155 m, 1998)
Rizal Tower (155 m, 2000)
Wharton Parksuites (154 m, 2012)
BSA Grand Tower (154 m, 1998)
Belton Place (153 m, 2012)
The World Centre (152 m, 1996)
Salcedo Park Twin Towers (151 m, 1996)
Pacific Plaza Condominium (150 m, 1992)
One Legazpi Park (150 m, 2006)
Joy-Nostalg Center (150 m, 2009)
Forbes Tower West (150 m, 2011)
One McKinley Place (150 m, 2004)
The Columns (150 m, 2009)
The Stratford Residences (312 m, 2017)
The Estate Makati (276.8 m, 2018)
Century Spire (245 m, 2018)
The Skysuites Tower (220 m, 2018)
UNTV Broadcast Center (200 m, 2017)
Ayala Triangle Gardens North – Tower 2 (194.6 m, 2020)
Torre de Manila (165 m, 2018)
Alveo Financial Tower (185.9 m, 2020)
One Galleon Place (400 m)
Skycity (335 m)
Lopez Center (320 m)
Icone Tower (275 m)
Unbuilt
Centennial Tower (390 m)
PAGCOR Tower (665 m)
Philippine Diamond Tower (612 m)
Skyscrapers in Makati
Skyscraper office buildings in Metro Manila
Bank headquarters in the Philippines
Office buildings completed in 2000
PEZA Special Economic Zones
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Q: Rcpp with embedded R code, show no output of R code I have a cpp file that defines c++ and R functions, which are sourced into R using Rcpp::sourceCpp().
When I source the file, the R code is (partially) printed as well, even when I specify showOutput = FALSE (I guess it only applies to cpp code?!).
The question now is: how can I suppress the partial R output without using capture.output() or similar tricks.
MWE
in tester.cpp
#include <Rcpp.h>
// [[Rcpp::export]]
Rcpp::NumericVector timesTwo(Rcpp::NumericVector x) {
return x * 2;
}
/*** R
foo <- function(x) timesTwo(x)
*/
When sourcing the file, I see the following:
Rcpp::sourceCpp("tester.cpp", showOutput = FALSE)
#> foo <- function(x) timesTwo(x)
Even shorter MWE
Rcpp::sourceCpp(code='
#include <Rcpp.h>
// [[Rcpp::export]]
Rcpp::NumericVector timesTwo(Rcpp::NumericVector x) {
return x * 2;
}
/*** R
foo <- function(x) timesTwo(x)
*/
')
A: Could this question be rooted in a misunderstanding of what showOutput is for?
Looking at help(sourceCpp) we see
showOutput: 'TRUE' to print 'R CMD SHLIB' output to the console.
that it affects the actual compilation step and has nothing to do with any R code added as optional bit to also run if present.
The following example should make this clear (and reveal a few of CXX and other settings):
> cppFunction("int doubleMe(int i) { return i+i; }", showOutput=TRUE)
/usr/lib/R/bin/R CMD SHLIB -o 'sourceCpp_10.so' 'file99f11710553a7.cpp'
ccache g++ -I"/usr/share/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/include" -I"/tmp/RtmpC7dZ23/sourceCpp-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-1.0.5.4" -fpic -g -O3 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -c file99f11710553a7.cpp -o file99f11710553a7.o
ccache g++ -Wl,-S -shared -L/usr/lib/R/lib -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -o sourceCpp_10.so file99f11710553a7.o -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
>
> cppFunction("int trippleMe(int i) { return i+i+i; }", showOutput=FALSE)
>
Now, suppressing output of R code is a different topic and orthogonal to whether such code contains element made via Rcpp or not.
And lastly @MrFlick is spot on that if you don't want R code sourced as part of a sourceCpp() call ... then just don't include such code! Or just break the regexp /*** R.
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Canada|Calling Poutine 'Canadian' Gives Some in Quebec Indigestion
Montreal Journal
Calling Poutine 'Canadian' Gives Some in Quebec Indigestion
Canadians are divided over a nagging question: Is poutine Quebecois or Canadian?CreditCreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
By Dan Bilefsky
Lire en français
MONTREAL — The friends from Quebec went to London's Brick Lane food market, searching for a taste of home. But as they devoured their poutine — that gloppy, trouser-bursting dish of French fries, cheddar cheese curds and gravy — something felt horribly wrong.
The dish tasted just right — so authentic that the cheese curds emitted a faint "squeak, squeak" when bitten into — the telltale sign of a proper poutine.
But the jovial chef serving them had an Ontario accent. Even more disconcerting: He was wearing the hat of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, the archrivals of the Montreal Canadiens.
"Poutine is Quebecois; it is not Canadian," said Zak Rosentzveig, 25, a poutine-obsessed economist from Montreal, recently describing his visit to the food stall and adding his voice to a simmering debate over poutine's true identity.
"Calling poutine 'Canadian' makes me feel very uncomfortable because Quebec has a distinct culture and history from the rest of Canada, and poutine is a strong symbol of that."
"Now that poutine has become an international superstar," Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet said, "Canadians want to say it is theirs, but it is not."CreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
When President Barack Obama served smoked duck poutine canapés to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House last year, he unintentionally fanned a cultural skirmish over who deserves credit for the unapologetically caloric dish.
Now, a group of patriots from the province that gave the world poutine is trying to reclaim it as its own. They insist that poutine — long mocked by Anglophone Canadians as a low-grade hangover cure — is being unfairly usurped by the rest of the country.
Identity politics are no small matter in Quebec, where concerns about the encroachment of outside forces on French Canadian culture remain deeply ingrained in the province's psyche. Even Quebec's license plates, which say "Je me souviens" ("I remember"), have for decades been interpreted by some, fairly or not, as a reference to the British conquest of Quebec in 1759.
Only this month, the Quebec legislature passed a resolution calling for merchants in the French-majority province to stop greeting customers with "Bonjour hi" — a hybrid expression popular in bilingual Montreal — and to say just "Bonjour" instead.
Leading the movement to rebrand the beloved and starchy snack is Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet, 28, a self-described "poutinologist" from Montreal who rocked the Canadian culinary world this summer after presenting an academic paper arguing that Canada had culturally appropriated a dish so quintessentially Quebecois that it amounted to a theft.
In some ways, his argument is a light echo of conversations across Canada about cultural appropriation. The treachery, he observed, was akin to Britain claiming credit for haggis or Israel extolling falafel, widely enjoyed in the Arab world, as its "national snack."
Poutine at Chez Gaston, Quebec City. Lesley Chesterman, the food critic for The Montreal Gazette, said that, more often than not, poutine outside of Quebec was not really poutine.CreditRenaud Philippe for The New York Times
Six months later, Mr. Fabien-Ouellet has become something of a folk hero in his native Quebec, feted in dozens of newspapers and radio shows, even as he has been derided by Canadian federalists on social media as a poutine nationalist. He is now writing a book on poutine culture.
"Like Céline Dion, poutine was once mocked and underappreciated in Quebec," he mused this week at La Banquise, a popular ice cream shop-turned-poutine restaurant in Montreal's Plateau neighborhood as the pungent smell of fried oil wafted through the air.
Dozens of 20-somethings sat hunched over heaping plates like poutine la reggae — ground beef, guacamole, diced tomatoes and hot peppers. He continued, "Now that poutine has become an international superstar, Canadians want to say it is theirs, but it is not."
The bookish and rail-thin poutinologist, who appears not to pig out on his subject, stressed that the exaltation of poutine as one of the top 10 Canadian inventions of all time — up there with insulin and the Wonderbra — belied the fact that it was once ridiculed by Canadian elites to "tarnish Quebec culture and undermine its legitimacy of self-determination as a nation."
After first appearing in the 1950s in rural Quebec, poutine came to be sneered at by some gastro-snobs as a late-night nosh whose name dare not be spoken in a province that has long fetishized French cuisine. Its greasy simplicity was served up at hockey arena snack bars and seen as reflecting a working-class Quebec more inclined to cheese fries than foie gras.
Later, some health officials sought to ban poutine on school cafeteria menus.
Poutine's rags-to-riches transformation was cemented when Martin Picard, a maverick of Canadian, or shall we say Quebecois cuisine, helped raise it to an art form in 2001 when he made poutine with foie gras the signature dish at his now-celebrated Montreal restaurant Au Pied de Cochon.
Poutine preparation in the kitchen at La Banquise.CreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
The dish further went global when Chuck Hughes won an Iron Chef America contest in 2011, trouncing his rival with a plate of lobster poutine.
Today, there are poutine restaurants from Thailand and Bermuda to Liverpool, and concoctions like chicken tikka poutine and cheese cake poutine with the gravy replaced by caramel.
Still, the nagging question remains: Is poutine Quebecois or Canadian?
Lesley Chesterman, the food critic at The Montreal Gazette, said it was a sacrilege to call poutine "Canadian," insisting that, more often than not, poutine outside of Quebec was quite simply not poutine.
"In Vancouver they will get it all wrong — they will use mozzarella," she said. "People say you can now get cheese curds in Saskatchewan, but it won't be real poutine. When it crosses the border, it loses its authenticity."
She added, "Cheese cake poutine is just plain wrong!"
Other leading poutine proponents, including Mr. Picard, countered that the Canadian embrace of poutine could be construed as a healthy sign of a country increasingly at peace with both its English- and French-speaking parts.
"It is a sign that Canada's provinces are getting along better. It can be seen as a cultural affirmation," he said.
A classic poutine from La Banquise.CreditAlexi Hobbs for The New York Times
Jamie Kennedy, an influential Canadian chef who brought gourmet poutine to Toronto, said accusations that Canada was pilfering poutine from Quebec gave him indigestion, given that there was no such thing as a "Canadian national dish" in multicultural Canada.
"Do we need to endlessly give credit to the Quebecois for inventing it?" he asked.
Whatever its cultural provenance, its origins have more claims than there are curds in a plate of poutine.
One widespread theory is that poutine traces its roots to 1957, to a restaurant formerly known as Le Lutin Qui Rit, or The Laughing Elf, in Warwick, a small town northeast of Montreal, when a customer asked the owner Fernand Lachance to add cheese curds to his fries. Mr. Lachance is said to have proclaimed that it would be a "maudite poutine," or "a hell of a mess."
A history of poutine on the website of La Banquise notes that other dishes made of potatoes are also called "poutines," and it could also be derived from the English word "pudding."
Whatever the truth, some chefs, including Mr. Hughes, the creator of the lobster poutine, said politicizing poutine gave the fatty treat far too much importance.
"Poutine," he said, "is a bad decision at 4 in the morning."
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Culture War Over Beloved Dish Grips Quebec. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
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Man! Twain helps 'Idol' singers sound like stars
Published Apr 27, 2010 at 8:06 PM | Updated at 8:15 PM PDT on Apr 27, 2010
Each of the finalists got more praise than criticism from the judges, which was kind of a miracle considering the mentor was Shania Twain and each finalist sang from her catalog.
This is the week "American Idol" viewers are going to find out which of the six remaining finalists are truly the favorites, and which are living on borrowed time.
That's because each of the finalists got more praise than criticism from the judges, which was kind of a miracle considering the mentor was Shania Twain and each finalist sang from her catalog. If you haven't spent the whole season thinking, "Man, I wish I could see what Lee Dewyze and Michael Lynchecould do with a Shania Twain cover," well, you wouldn't be alone.
It's hard to imagine that the four guys remaining were enthusiastic about picking their songs, and not surprisingly none chose to go with "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" Although man, I wish they had! But fortunately for them, the judges were more than kind.
Lynche was compared to Luther Vandross by both Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell, which indicates that both judges need to dust off their old CDs and give them a fresh listen before ever doing that again. He did fine on "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing," but a Vandross-esque performance it was not.
And if you thought that praise was over the top, the judges really, really, really talked about Casey James' version of "Don't," as if the singer's fate on the show were entirely in their hands. And it may well be, given that James was the second-lowest vote-getter a week ago. He did much better this week and the genre suited his vocal skills, but it wasn't the masterpiece that Simon and company painted it to be. Maybe they really think Kara DioGuardi does have a crush on him, and just want to keep her happy.
Dewyze opened the show by singing "You're Still the One," which did not sound very good when he was practicing it for Shania, but which turned out much better onstage. Downsides for Dewyze are that he opened the show and that the song isn't the peppiest in the Twain canon. Upside is that he's Lee Dewyze, he seems to have a sizable fan base and he sang it tolerably well.
As for Aaron Kelly … the judges just can't keep from being patronizing toward the 17-year-old. Whether they love him or hate him, they talk to him like he's a 3-year-old or a puppy. I fully expect that when he gets voted off the show, they'll have Ryan Seacrest present him with a blue participation ribbon for a job well done.
Kelly sang "You've Got a Way," and he later told the judges that he was singing it for his mother, which was a lot more information than I needed to know. The quartet felt it was his best effort yet, which might not mean much considering it's not the highest standard ever and that everyone else was strong as well.
As for the women, we'll soon find out if Crystal Bowersox owes her success to single males with a crush on her, or family values folks who assumed that the fact that she's a mother must also mean she's married. If either is the case, she's in big trouble.
Her boyfriend was on display for the first time, sitting in the studio audience wearing a T-shirt reading, "Did you know that America prefers Crystal Bowersox one BAJILLION times more than other contestants?" If that T-shirt is correct, it shouldn't matter that Simon didn't like her performance of "No One Needs to Know" and that the rest of the judges weren't overwhelmed.
Certainly, Bowersox herself didn't seem affected. "It's not as big as the other performances, but bigger isn't always better," she said, silencing Kara's feedback.
Simon also wasn't impressed with the song itself, which means he shouldn't expect to have Twain serve as a guest judge on his next reality TV project.
Siobhan Magnus closed the show with "Any Man of Mine," and was as polarizing as always. The detractors will say that she gave a karaoke performance, while her supporters will note that she and Bowersox were the only ones who looked like they were having fun onstage, and that she closed the show with a performance that had the crowd on its feet throughout.
But everyone should agree on two points: It was probably the most showmanship from her all season, and she deserves credit for once again working the scream in there. Sure, Simon may not like it, but it's her trademark, like Bowersox's dreadlocks and guitar; James' long, blonde curly hair; and Dewyze's nervous smile. He can't take that away from her.
Well, unless she's the lowest vote-getter this week (the only way anyone will be able to silence the scream). On a night where everyone did enough to earn fan support, she's definitely a candidate for elimination. But except for Bowersox, so is everyone else.
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InkFreeNews.com Aug 03, 2016 Nick Goralczyk Updated: Aug 3, 2016 @ 11:14 AM
Madison Beaman
SYRACUSE — Wawasee's Madison Beaman has steadily climbed the ladder as a member of Wawasee's golf team.
An outsider looking in during her freshman campaign led to a supporting role as a sophomore, which gave way to a breakout season as a junior. Now, Beaman enters her senior campaign as a leader and an ideal role model for a young team.
"I've been trying my best to pass along past experiences to our younger players," Beaman stated. "What they should do, and what they can do in certain situations. I try to share my stories with them, in practice and they play with us, in hopes that they just keep getting better."
Beaman and Aubrey Schmeltz are the only two seniors and returning players with varsity experience on a Wawasee team that won the sectional in 2015. They are also the only two remaining players from Wawasee's run to the state finals in 2014. While Wawasee's team success has been well documented in recent seasons, Beaman's story has flown under the radar.
Her contributing efforts gave her a window during the trip to state during her sophomore year and her potential could definitely be seen. But Beaman was not looking to settle on simply showing potential.
"I played a lot of tournaments the past two years in the summer with Aubrey," Beaman shared, "that really helped to gain good experience out on the course."
That extra work paid off. After starting last season as the No. 5, Beaman quickly turned heads as she maintained the team's best average through most of the first half of the season. The rest of the team caught up to Beaman's efforts, helping to lift the tam to a sectional title.
Then a junior, Beaman was a huge part of her team's sectional title as she shot an 84. Schmeltz also shot an 84 on that memorable day for Wawasee, and now both have embraced taking the reigns this season for a team that has plenty of new faces.
Junior Kabrea Rosotchak has excelled in other sports and is giving golf a go for the first in her athletic career to add a degree of depth to the roster while sophomores Lesley Tayagua and Zoe White hope to bring the success they had on JV to the varsity roster. Freshmen Jadison Rostochak and Valerie Haessig are unproven but provide plenty of optimism.
"We've got a lot of unproven players right now," stated Wawasee head coach Steve Coverstone. "Kabrea just started playing but I think she'll be good for us in the long run. Lesley and Zoe have to get more reps in, but they showed potential for us during their freshman seasons. Then we have Jadison and Valerie. I really think they will be good golfers for us. They have plenty of work to do but I like the team we have, we're just awfully young right now. But the work our seniors are doing has been a big help so far."
The challenge of playing with such a young team has led to most people overlooking Wawasee entering the season, but that's put a chip on Beaman's shoulder and she's never been one to back down from a challenge.
"I think this is a big challenge for Aubrey and I as the seniors of this team," Beaman stated. "We've been there before and now it's our job to get this team prepared for the challenges that the season will have and I think it's going to be a good ride. We're not the team that everyone is looking out for this year, but I'm excited for this season and the opportunity we have."
Wawasee has its first home match on August 13 with the Wawasee Invitational.
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Being able to understand and use our times table knowledge within school is essential for the children to be successful in other areas of maths. To ensure that the children are confident in using and applying their times table knowledge, we will be focusing on learning our times tables each week within homework. This will help the children to become quicker and more confident in recalling and applying their times table knowledge.
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Over the next couple of weeks we shall be introducing record cards for the children to be able to keep track of how well they are doing with knowing their times tables – keep an eye on the blog to find out more!
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Fr Timothy Shanley (1781–1835) was an Irish Roman Catholic priest notable for his opposition to British Crown authority, and to the Protestant Ascendancy, in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was active in the United Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Early life
Shanley was born in Lisdessin near the village of Drumraney, County Westmeath in 1781. He was one of eighteen children.
He was educated at a seminary in Maynooth after taking part in an ambush near Tyrrellspass during the 1798 Rebellion. Shanley was the only student in the class who did not sign the required Oath of Allegiance due to his belief in the Irish cause. Due to his beliefs, he was often targeted by British soldiers.
Priesthood
Fr Shanley was curate in Milltownpass and Meedin parish, he was then transferred to Slane, County Meath for ten years, before being transferred back to Meedin. He remained there till his death in 1835.
He is buried in Carrick, near Dalystown in County Westmeath. An annual mass is held at his gravesite on Good Friday.
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Behind the Flyers' plan to score more off the rush
Dave Isaac
VOORHEES — In the first couple weeks of the season, once the unpredictability of exhibition play had died down, it appeared the Flyers wanted their identity to be speed. To a man, everyone seemed to be more fleet afoot coming out of training camp.
It wasn't just skating fast. Their whole game was fast.
As general manager Ron Hextall has said several times, "Nobody moves faster than the puck."
That can lead to more scoring off the rush. At least that's the Flyers' plan.
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"Last year we still had the freedom to be creative, to have offense," second-year winger Travis Konecny said. "I just think this year we're trusting ourselves a little bit more and being a little more confident with it."
So far, it's shown. Both of Konecny's goals this season have come off the rush. He notched a breakaway tally against the Nashville Predators and beat Ottawa goalie Craig Anderson with no one in front of him too.
These days he's on a line with Valtteri Filppula, another player who can create on the rush as opposed to a sustained offensive-zone cycle, and Wayne Simmonds.
"I think personally I have to bear down a lot more," Konecny said. "I probably have some of the most 2-on-1's just on scoring chances and I need to bear down a little bit more and capitalize on them."
Part of Konecny's frustration comes because breaking out of the defensive zone and trying to create offense off the rush is featured in every practice. Of course, sometimes that can be a 5-on-0 rush where there's no one defending.
In games is when it matters and the Flyers hope they'll continue to improve.
"On the rush game, I think our D create a lot more than they created last year," Simmonds said. "It's easier when you have the puck on the wall and you have defensemen rushing up the ice and forwards rushing up the ice. You've got three, four, five options sometimes. I think that opens up the ice a lot more for the guys carrying the pucks. It makes it a little easier on the rush."
"It's the players making plays," coach Dave Hakstol said. "I think we've really tried to empower the guys, once they have some time and space to enter the zone, to add a little creativity. There's a little more East-West to our game once we're in the zone than there was last year. That allows some of the late plays, the delay plays to happen. That's all the players making good decisions, making responsible decisions because there are times where you have to live for the next play and just get the puck deep."
If the defensemen have made a big difference, a lot of that has to do with turnover on the roster. Gone are Mark Streit, Michael Del Zotto and Nick Schultz.
Robert Hagg and Travis Sanheim have proved they can move the puck up the ice, either with passing or skating it quickly through the neutral zone. Helping the cause is a healthy Shayne Gostisbehere and a year of experience under Ivan Provorov's belt.
"I think we're playing a faster game, which allows us to join the rush," Provorov said. "We know the forwards have our backs if someone moves up to join. If we play fast and tenacious on the puck we'll be able to recover if we turn over the puck or anything like that happens. You've still got to use your head about when to join the rush and when not to. Yeah, I think as a D corps we're joining the rush more."
Gudas returns to practice
After missing Monday's on-ice session, Radko Gudas returned to the ice after the head injury he suffered last Wednesday in Chicago. Based on his ability to take contact in practice, it would appear he's on track to return to the lineup Thursday in the rematch against the Blackhawks.
"I hate watching hockey, especially when my team is playing," Gudas said. "That's the toughest for me every time because I'm not able to jump in there. Anything I can do to make it faster, I'm trying to do as much as I can."
Gudas isn't the only one to have dealt with a blow to the head. Gostisbehere didn't travel on the Chicago-St. Louis road trip after he was sent head-first into the boards by Toronto's Leo Komarov.
Nolan Patrick skated by himself, before Tuesday's practice, but he hasn't played since Oct. 24 when a shoulder-to-shoulder hit from Anaheim's Chris Wagner included a whiplash effect that saw his head bounce off the boards.
"I think it's really unlucky," Gudas said of all the head injuries. "Hopefully we get it out of the way early in the season and it's not going to bite us later in the season. If we get it out of the way now, it's a good thing too. Just looking forward to getting healthy and having the whole team together."
Dave Isaac; @davegisaac; 856-486-2479; disaac@gannett.com
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ThinkFast: July 9, 2008
ThinkProgress Jul 9, 2008, 1:00 pm
Brave New Films and other activists will deliver a petition today with 43,000 signatures demanding that "Lieberman Must Go." The petition, which asks that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) be stripped of his committee chairmanship, will be delivered to the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee at 11 a.m.
Tomorrow, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) plans to introduce a single article of impeachment against President Bush "for taking our nation and our troops to war based on lies." Last month, Kucinich presented 35 impeachment articles against Bush, which have been sent to the Judiciary Committee.
A federal judge overseeing Guantánamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to ensure that detainees have their day in court. "The time has come to move these forward," Judge Thomas F. Hogan said yesterday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully.
Iranian state-run media reported today that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard had "test-fired nine missiles, including one which Tehran claims has the range to reach Israel." The test comes one day after Iran threatened to strike Tel Aviv and American interests if attacked by Israel or the U.S.
On the trail today: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) holds campaign events in South Park, PA and Portsmouth, Ohio. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will be in Washington, DC as the Senate votes on FISA reform, and then, he will head to New York for some fundraisers.
Steve Schmidt, aide to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), defended his lobbying firm's hiring of Tim Griffin, a former prosecutor involved in the U.S. attorney scandal. The U.S. attorney scandal was "mostly a combination of nonsense and politics and provides us no concern at all," he said. Griffin was "a great addition to the firm," he added.
A new report by Inspectors General from the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs finds that many veterans "disabled in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan pay more for health care than other retirees." They suggest "waiving for life the Medicare Part B premiums for service members who have been medically retired and are unlikely to get another job."
Faced with mounting pressure from voters to respond to record gasoline prices, Sens. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) "opened the door to a compromise with Republicans that would open more land on and offshore to oil and gas exploration and production." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also "called on the Bush administration to draw down 'a small portion' of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
The Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the most revered Shi'ite leader in Iraq, has "rejected any security agreement with US, stressing such deal will affect the country's sovereignty." Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie said his government was "impatiently waiting" for the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops.
And finally: Yesterday, two-time defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson spoke at the National Press Club. The event became "politically dicey" when the moderator asked him whether there is "anything inappropriate about a sport based on fuel consumption." Johnson initially punted the question saying he wasn't "fit to comment," but then admitted that they should look at "alternative fuel sources." Johnson also said he drives at hybrid, "even though it may sound crazy coming from a race car driver."
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There are 1,759 content items related to poverty on the Land Portal.
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STAARS Fellowship Program: 2021 Call for Research Proposals
agricultural land management
land investments
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The Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program, a multi-institution collaboration managed by Cornell University with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), announces its annual call for research proposals.
INSIGHT-Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia
rural population
At least 1.76 million jobs in the nation of about 16 million people are at risk due to COVID-19, while the poverty rate could double, to about one-in-four people, the World Bank said in May. Cambodian human rights groups have this year called for a freeze on loan repayments due to the virus and for lenders to return more than one million land titles held as collateral.
Use COVID-19 to build back better, cities told
The United Nations urged civic leaders to build more liveable urban centres better for public health, society and the environment
Could youth land rights hold the key to transforming agriculture and stimulating economic development in Africa?
Tizai Mauto
Land Stakeholders & Institutions
customary land rights
customary tenure
Over 60 percent of Africans are under the age of 35 – a well-documented "youth bulge" representing both an enormous challenge and a tantalizing opportunity for the continent.
Three reasons to invest in land tenure security
Harold Liversage
Ms. Giulia Barbanente
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For rural people, especially low-income rural people, land and livelihood are one and the same. Access to land means the opportunity to earn a decent income and achieve food and nutrition security, and it can also pave the way for access to social benefits such as health care and education. A lack of secure land access, on the other hand, can disempower rural people and expose them to the combined threats of poverty, hunger and conflict.
Nicaragua: The Autonomous Regions facing Covid 19
Dolene Miller
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Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor
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LANDac Annual Summer School
6 July 2020 to 17 July 2020
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Land Governance for Development - Special Online Edition!
Every summer, LANDac organises the 'Land Governance for Development' Summer School in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Webinar: The Distribution of Urban Land in the Global South
land distribution
Date: Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Time: 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM EST
Join us for a webinar co-hosted by the the Land Portal Foundation, Habitat for Humanity International, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, UN Habitat and Tata Trusts on the distribution of urban land in the global south.
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ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the last decade it has become widely accepted that insecurity of land tenure has a unique impact on women, particularly in the global South where, more often than not, women are the primary caregivers in a household.
Housing, Land and Property rights for Somalia's urban displaced women
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The Analyzing Development Issues Centre (ADIC) was registered with Cambodia's Ministry of the Interior on 4 April 2011. ADIC began from the Cooperation Committee of Cambodia (CCC)'s Analyzing Development Issues (ADI) Project in 1999 and transformed as an NGO in 2011. ADIC's initial goal was to increase the critical thinking skills of NGO staff and their capacity to analyze development issues through development research that contributes to beneficial social change in local communities.
Association for Land Reform and Rural Development (ALRD)
ALRD envisions a Bangladesh where upholding the rights of the citizen is the cornerstone of the State and where the State is pro-actively pursuing the promotion and strengthening of the rights of poor and the marginalized, including the most vulnerable of the society; landless peasants, indigenous peoples, women and religious and other minority communities. ALRD further aspires for a Bangladesh that adopts secularism as key guiding principle and gender equity and social justice are considered as key objectives of all its undertakings.
Bank Information Center (BIC)
The Bank Information Center (BIC) partners with civil society in developing and transition countries to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions (IFIs) to promote social and economic justice and ecological sustainability. BIC is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection of rights, participation, transparency, and public accountability in the governance and operations of the World Bank Group and regional development banks.
Biovision Foundation
Biovision was founded in 1998 by Swiss World Food Prize recipient Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren, with the aim of sustainably improving life for people in Africa while conserving the environment as the basis for all life.
In the 1980s, the world renowned entomologist Hans Rudolf Herren saved millions of people in Africa from starving to death by devising organic control methods for a devastating cassava pest. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 1995 for his work – he is the first, and so far only, Swiss person to have received it.
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Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (BASIS)
The Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP) carries out and disseminates collaborative, policy-oriented research that addresses rural poverty by making markets work for all. The website hosts research reports, working papers, briefs and trip reports.
Caritas Cambodia
Caritas Cambodia is an official social development arm of the Catholic Church in Cambodia. It has been built on the values of Love, Concern, Justice, Peace Unity, Sharing and brotherhood. It draws inspiration from the Gospel and aims at integral development of people irrespective of race and creed. Hence the objectives of Caritas Cambodia specifically include the following:
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Caritas Ghana is a Charity Organization of the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) and member of the global Caritas Confederation.
Caritas Internationalis is confederation of 165 Catholic humanitarian and development national member organisations who are working at the grassroots in almost every country of the world. When a crisis hits, Caritas is already on the ground. The diverse members give us our strength – from small groups of volunteers to some of the biggest global charities. Inspired by Catholic faith, Caritas is the helping hand of the Church – reaching out to the poor, vulnerable and excluded, regardless of race, religion or sex, to build a world based on justice and fraternal love.
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The Republic of Mozambique is located in South East Africa, and Caritas Mozambique is an entity of the Catholic Church in the country, which defines itself as "a driving force of charity, based in the community, which seeks to promote the integral development of all men and women." It consists of 13 dioceses across the country.
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import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
import org.fujion.ancillary.IEnumWithValue;
import org.fujion.common.Assert;
/**
* Value type of array elements.
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/**
* Signed byte (8 bits).
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BYTE(5120),
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* Signed integer (32 bits).
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INT(5124),
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SHORT(5122),
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* Floating point (32 bit).
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FLOAT(5126),
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* Floating point (16 bit).
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HALF_FLOAT(5131),
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* Unsigned byte (8 bits).
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UNSIGNED_BYTE(5121),
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* Unsigned short (16 bits).
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UNSIGNED_INT(5125);
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*/
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Assert.isTrue(ArrayUtils.contains(allowedValues, value),
() -> "Value type must be one of " + ArrayUtils.toString(allowedValues));
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ValueType(int value) {
this.value = value;
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Surprise! Chicago suburb is home to a major Guadalupe shrine
Dec 12, 2019 - 03:01 am .- Marian devotion is intense among the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe each year on her feast day.
Chicago Tribune op-ed: Public schools can learn from Catholics in handling sex abuse
Jul 2, 2019 - 04:43 pm .- After an investigative series by the Chicago Tribune uncovered numerous cases of sexual abuse and cover-up in the city's public schools, a local commentator is looking to the Archdiocese of Chicago as an example of putting safeguards for children into practice.
From a dumpster to the head of a procession: The story of 'Broken Mary'
Jun 7, 2019 - 03:08 am .- On Friday, May 31, four lanes of traffic on a major thoroughfare in the city of Chicago shut down for an hour and a half, while 3,200 people marched past.
Cupich denounces pastor's decision to host Nation of Islam leader
May 11, 2019 - 02:20 pm .- Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago is distancing himself from the decision of a pastor who invited controversial preacher Louis Farrakhan to speak at his parish, saying that he was not consulted before Farrakhan's talk.
Chicago priest removed 'temporarily' following rainbow flag burning
Sep 25, 2018 - 07:15 am .- According to the archdiocese, Fr. Paul Kalchik has "left willingly" from his Chicago parish "to receive pastoral care."
Chicago priest leads protest against gun-violence, shutting down expressway
Jul 9, 2018 - 02:12 pm .- Thousands of marchers joined Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger to protest gun violence on Saturday, shutting down more than a mile of the city's busiest highway.
Chicago discipleship building group coming to three new cities
Apr 27, 2018 - 12:39 am .- Originally created as an organization to form disciples in the Chicago area, L'Alto Catholic Institute is now expanding to three new cities, with local teams working to instill a culture of discipleship at a local level.
How Catholic Charities is helping the homeless during the 'bomb cyclone'
Jan 5, 2018 - 06:45 pm .- Record-breaking cold temperatures and snowfall in the eastern United States this week have delayed flights, cancelled school, and closed workplaces.
Pope Francis to Chicago: Let peace heal your city
Apr 5, 2017 - 12:12 am .- As violence continues to plague the city of Chicago, Pope Francis has sent words of encouragement, solidarity and hope to the people who live there.
Cardinal George admitted to hospital for tests, evaluation
Mar 4, 2015 - 01:11 pm .- After being dropped from a cancer drug trial over a month ago, Cardinal Francis George, retired archbishop of Chicago, has been admitted to the hospital for testing and further evaluation of his health.
Retiring Cardinal George opens up on faith, freedom and death
Nov 18, 2014 - 11:58 am .- As he enters retirement, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago noted the importance of living faith in the truth, reflecting on his time as archbishop, the approach of death, and advice for his successor, Archbishop-designate Blase Cupich.
Retired bishop who served Chicago's Polish community dies
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OMSI presents Science Pub Portland: Earthquakes in Oregon on Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at the Empirical Theater at OMSI (1945 SE Water Ave.).
In the Pacific Northwest of the United States, the Juan de Fuca plate is being subducted under the North American Plate at the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The lecture will discuss the hazards of and the preparedness for ground shaking, liquefaction, landslides and tsunamis along the subduction zone. What are the differences of recurrence intervals for large earthquakes on the northern and southern margins?
Much of the region was not thought to be an earthquake region so earthquake building standards are fairly recent. How does the chance of crustal, plate and subduction quakes affect building codes, emergency preparedness, siting of critical facilities, building of bridges, and transportation corridors in the region? What have we learned from recent subduction quakes around the world that can be applied to the Pacific Northwest? What can the region expect after a large quake?
Presenter Scott Burns, PhD is a professor Emeritus of geology at Portland State University.
The Portland Science Pub takes place monthly at the Empirical Theater at OMSI. Check in at the theater entrance (doors open at 5 PM) – there's a $5 suggested admission. OMSI's restaurant Theory, and the Empirical Cafe are open and you can take food and drinks into the theater with you.
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Everything That You Ever Wanted to Know About Mars Retrograde
by Lynn Koiner, PMAFA
This article was written many years ago but it is very relevant. The examples are older but I have tried to add some updates.
DEFINITION OF MARS RETROGRADE:
All of the planets, except for the Sun and Moon, which are not actual planets, have a period of retrogradation when they "appear" to move backward in the sky. Mercury turns retrograde when it is about 14 degrees ahead of the Sun and it is retrograde for 3 weeks 3 times each year. The other planets turn retrograde when they are on the opposite side of the zodiac from the Sun. Often, a planet forming a trine to the Sun will also be retrograde. Mars is retrograde for slightly less than 2 2 months every 2 years. When a planet is retrograde, it does not work in its normal manner. One frequently needs to make changes or to work on an inner, psychological level before the planet can express itself outwardly.
From OCTOBER 30 2022 through JANUARY 12 2023, the planet Mars will be in retrograde motion. This period is inappropriate for activities requiring the normal flow of Mars initiative. Using the constructive aspects of this transit, it is an excellent time to reinforce some aspect of our lives. This will be shown by the House position of the transit.
In the 1st House, it is a time to work on one's self-image with courses or activities that bestow confidence and courage.
In the 2nd House, it is a time to make corrections or repairs in your financial situation. It should be a time of paying off debts and not a time for spending.
In the 3rd House, it is a good time to end those subscriptions for magazines that you do not read. It is a good time for catching up on reading and studies— like those astrology books that you bought two years ago but never read. This house rules transportation so it might be a good time to have those squeaky brakes fixed on your car… or, at least, have an annual tune-up.
In the 4th House, it is a good time to make repairs around the house and to reinforce its safety by replacing your smoke detector batteries. Activities may go on in your personal environment of which you are not readily aware.
In the 5th House, it is a good time to be a spectator— take the kids to an amusement park (vent their pent up energy), give yourself some relaxation time at the movies or with some home videos, watch someone else get killed on the football field.
In the 6th House, reinforce your diet. Add nutrients that benefit the kidney-adrenal (adrenal supplement or Chinese energy herbs) and the iron content of the blood.
In the 7th House, work on repressed anger and resentment issues in your relationships. Do not get into a fight— talk it out!
In the 8th House, reinforce 8th House issues. If your house is insured for its 1970 value, bring it up-to-date. Pay off those credit cards. Curb any tendencies toward obsessive-compulsive behavior or action. It will only get you into trouble1. I had surgery during the 1988 Mars retrograde in which my foot was RE-ATTACHED. The doctor felt it was the best surgery of his career!
In the 9th House, it is a good time to study comparative philosophies. This would include history— studying the past to understand the present.
In the 10th House, this is a good time to find out why activities in your business are not working and then reinforce the structures. If and where you are losing business, assess the problem. I traveled to Eastern Europe to visit astrologers.
In the 11th House, it might be a better time to do things alone and not drain yourself through the energy of groups. Psychologically, it is a good time to assess if your current goals are really contributing to your happiness index!
In the 12th House, solitude is beneficial. Meditation puts you in touch with your inner self.
HOW TO HANDLE MARS RETROGRADE:
When Mars is retrograde, it depletes the vitality so that it is never a time to initiate. Whoever initiates loses— a new project, a great love, an argument, a lawsuit, or an international war. With a new project, it will fizzle out and never really go anywhere. With a hot romance, it too fizzles and it rarely gets to the altar. With an argument, the hostility will come back to haunt you later. In legal matters, stoke your opponent into initiating the lawsuit first. It will be etched in granite that they will lose. In an international war, whoever fires first will automatically lose or ultimately withdraw.
Matters commenced while Mars is retrograde will be frustrated and plagued with disruptions until they finally fizzle out. At this time, people become irritated when activities do not run smoothly. The anger may disrupt indirectly and inappropriately— like getting a traffic ticket when you feel annoyed with your job.
During this cycle, never buy anything mechanical unless it is heavily insured! Office machinery and computers easily break down. A friend who owned a word processing service found this period to be a disaster. During one retrograde cycle, the printer, the back-up printer and the rented printer all failed to work. When they finally got one that worked, the mailing labels printed— but there was no ink! I often notice that the world needs a brake job when Mars is retrograde. In 1995, I discovered a water leak in my new car. Fortunately, this was covered by the warranty. Anything mechanical that is hanging on by a thread will likely break down during this cycle. Get those unstable devices repaired in advance— don't wait until you have a breakdown disaster! My mother even ordered a small treadmill for exercise. We realized as soon as she got it out of the box that she would never be able to use it. Since we could not get it back in the box, we just trashed it.
Those who have Aries or Scorpio strong in their horoscopes are dramatically affected by this shift in direction of their ruler. For Arians, they find themselves being less aggressive, less pushy and less impatient to have THEIR WAY in a situation. For Scorpios, they find that they are less concerned about being in control, controlling an immediate situation and, of course, running matters THEIR WAY. Both Mars-ruled types find themselves more inclined to sit back and review matters in a more detached or impersonal way. They feel more patient to wait on circumstances to unfold before they take action. These individuals, however, may not recognize the anger they feel inside. They may express an unusual passiveness while under fire because they need too much processing time before they can retaliate. Only when Mars turns direct can they move the Mars energy forward.
For those who are NOT ruled by Mars, it may feel quite differently. They may feel more impatient to force matters to a conclusion, to get a project going or to take immediate action. This would be an unwise course of action! Look to the House-position of your natal Mars to see where you might become impatient and act pre-maturely. Remember, initiating or impulsively taking action will not work to your favor.
In GOOD DAYS ACTION PLANNING GUIDE, Mary Shea describes an ideal way to handle Mars retrograde. She states that, "there is a tendency to be more reserved (when Mars is retrograde). Your hesitation causes you to review your behavior in the past and look for new way of responding in the future." She feels that this is the way we learn to perfect our responses. "You go back over situations (either in your mind or in reality), doing things again and again while making corrections in the way you handle events. While Mars is retrograde, you will be reviewing the way you handle anger, self-defense, self-motivation and sexual relationships, outward anger or conflicts may not be appropriate."
She rightfully feels that using passive-aggressive techniques, manipulation, arbitration or subtle power plays may be more appropriate at this time. "If you are normally non-assertive, you have be forced to defend yourself. Whatever your tactics, you must give thought to what you are doing. If your tactics do not work or they are inappropriate to the situation, your anger will continue to build while Mars is retrograde. You can expect the anger to manifest full-blown by the time Mars turns direct. If you have seriously wronged or angered another with…acts of aggression, you can expect the backlash as Mars turns direct."
When writing on Mars in 1995, my first observation was its effect upon men in general. There masculinity seemed more easily threatened, manifesting mood displays and they often needed reassurance. I personally felt "organizationally impaired." As hard as I tried to organize my work, the more disorganized I became. I was overwhelmed by all of the data that has been submitted for the political articles and I seemed to be doing a lot of wheel spinning. This is unusual and it began when Mars turned retrograde. This seemed worse while Mars was in Virgo— for the male ego and my disorganization. I felt some improvement when Mars retrograded back into Leo, at least for my disorganization. As the 1997 Retrograde got underway (Libra/Virgo), I noticed that non-aggressive types seemed to be intolerant of lazy people who waste their time. They were not willing to take action and eliminate the non-essential personnel. It seemed to be the reverse of the 1995 influence.
Delphine Jay, in CROSSROADS IN DELINEATION, states that, when Mars retrogrades through a House, something there needs a renewed effort, a renewal of activity, to be revitalized or, at least, strengthened through reinforcement. It is a time to direct your efforts toward reinforcing matters or a relationship in order to keep it vital or active. It is a time to lend strength to something or someone that you believe in.
Work activities supported when Mars is retrograde are those associated with trouble-shooting, re-evaluating previously commenced projects and shoring up the weak areas, making hard-nosed cuts with the ineffective B eliminating parts of the projects with little cost-benefit, personnel cut-backs and possibly re-hiring individuals who may know how to make the project succeed. Never start anything new! Work with what has been previously commenced and make necessary improvements. Mars Retrograde is similar to Mercury Retrograde in many respects but Mars is associated with action, projects and the energy required to make something succeed. Mars is back-door politics rather than direct confrontations.
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES with MARS RETROGRADE: Renovations on my home began while Mars was retrograde in early 1993. This work proceeded so slowly and it was so stressful. The work stopped after only the kitchen and bathroom were completed. It was not until September of 1994 that the work was finally finished!
In 1997, there was a lot of craziness going on trying to organize my spring trip to Europe. A friend and I wanted to travel to Ireland but I was invited to lecture in Prague in May. It was all so expensive and, when Mars turned direct, I finally made the decision to cancel the Ireland trip. I cannot tell you how stressful this decision-making was for me. I paid $40 on my Upton's bill and they recorded 40 cents. It took 3 months to straighten it out with both my bank and the store. My mother found a young cat, insisted that I keep it (along with its medical expenses) and, within a year, it died of an auto-immune disease.
At tax time, I had a software crisis. It was horrible!! Then, my copier broke, I had it fixed and I broke it again! It was worse than Mercury retrograde. On February 14, there was a transiting Mars-Saturn opposition in Libra-Aries. I agreed to give mini-readings for a St. Valentine's Day dance— 2 hours for $200. However, when I got there, the owner wanted me to give mini-readings for over 50 people. With Mars retrograde, people were rude, obnoxious and demanding, even when I lost my voice and could not continue. I was furious at how badly I was treated!
The best Mars Retrograde story concerned a friend who met Mr. Wonderful… who could not get it up (ED). I learned from this story that, if a man is a Perfect Gentleman for too long, there is a big problem. Men often mask these physical disabilities by taking the moral high road in relationships. There was a lot of passive-aggressive behavior in that relationship. It was painful but she cut him loose!
Another friend found a long-running work crisis abated during the Mars retrograde period. With Mars in Virgo, it was suddenly decided that a long-term backlog of work (a backlog that had gone on for 10 years) had to be brought up-to-date. It was arbitrarily decided that there would be mandatory overtime, including weekends, and no vacations until this was done…and this decision occurred one month before Christmas! She found herself fighting against this arbitrary crisis and the arbitrary rules in order to get her after-Christmas vacation and March vacation to London. By the time that Mars retrograded back into Virgo, the work was caught up, the backlog grew again, she took off for London and the crisis disappeared.
In 2001, with Mars in Sagittarius, it was intercepted in my 4th House. There was much going on in my personal life of which I was totally unaware. It exploded to the surface after Mars turned directed and opposed my natal Uranus. I also put energy into a movement that totally fizzled out when Mars turned direct. I got new eyeglasses— the worst that I have ever had and it started out with the prescription being reversed. On the positive side, I talked myself out of 3 traffic tickets.
2009: After living through many Retrograde Cycles, I have learned not to put my life on hold. Mars Retrograde is generally not as disruptive as Mercury retrograde. During the 2007-08 Mars Retrograde period, it was transiting the sign of Gemini. For the Sign Influences, see Mars Signs on this website. The sign that Mars transits is always very important, especially for medical influences.
From November 2007 through early 2008, Mars was in Gemini while Retrograde. Despite the Retrograde motion, it was a highly stimulating period and I did re-connect with many old friends in Europe. I did experience many health issues ruled by Gemini— Allergies, Bronchitis and Swollen Glands, all connected with inflammation and the lymphatic system (ruled by Mutable signs). Even my Gemini aunt contracted pneumonia, a condition which later took her life (she was 93 years old). I had a mammogram scare but the condition was observed as a tiny cyst with small ducts.
In December 2007, during a very bad wind storm, a huge branch of our Tulip Poplar tree fell on the top of my father's beloved red truck. To be honest, my dad really wanted a new truck and I think he mentally attracted this accident. He gave it to his mechanic, Mike Beahm, who completely repaired it and now used it on his farm in upstate Maryland. I was very lucky because, on that day, I parked my car in a different location and the branches of the tree completely missed my car.
And, speaking of automobile crises, years ago a client needed to purchase a truck while Mars was retrograde. It was something that just had to be done for his plumbing business. I told him to buy when the aspects were favorable (I have him a date) but to insure it heavily for one year. After the year, he could drop the expensive insurance, if nothing happened. Before the year was over, his truck caught on fire but it cost him nothing since the truck had maximum insurance.
Another friend asked astrologer, Gil Navarro, to pick a good day for her to purchase a car so that she would not be affected by Mars Retrograde. Her old car died and she just had to purchase a new one. The time that he recommended insured that, if anything happened to her car, it would not cost her anything. While her car was in the garage for minor repairs, the garage was vandalized and her car was damaged. Because it was in the garage, the mechanic's insurance company paid for all of the repairs. She had this car for many years afterwards.
I had terrible problems with a tooth that was not treated corrected by 2 new dentists. Eventually, I found a great dentist, Bill DeLong in Ellicott City MD
Friend dealt with a highly irrational client. This behavior was unusual for this person but she just went "crazy" about a reading.
2 friends had successful surgeries but they were NOT elective surgeries. I feel that non-elective surgeries are successful with Mars R but I would never elect to have surgery at this time. If you HAVE to have surgery at this time, DO IT!
A friend, fearing astrological predictions by financial astrologers, sold stocks — and then had to pay over $20,000 in taxes! This was a decision that she regretted.
A very Neptunian young person lost connection with reality and had a breakdown.
The Twilight series movie, NEW MOON, came out, glamorizing depression and dysfunctional relationships.
A friend tried to hours to get a router to work. When Mars turned Direct, he discovered that it was just a bad router!
I lectured at the Cambridge NCGR conference. Because I chose a perfect time to start the trip, all went well
A friend and I were looking forward to a workshop in Virginia Beach, which we signed up for while Mars was R — then the big snow hit the east coast and all was canceled.
HISTORICALLY, MARS RETROGRADE: Probably more than you ever wanted to know!
The election of 1988: Michael Dukakis, a Scorpio, was unable to defend himself against the verbal assaults of Vice President Bush as soon as Mars turned retrograde. It was not until Mars turned direct on October 28— 4 days before the election— that he began to assert himself. His meek approach was confusing to both his staff of advisors and campaign commentators— but not to astrologers who knew that Mars was transiting retrograde.
Mars Retrograde Administration: The 1993 presidency commenced under a Mars retrograde influence. Many local astrologers predicted that this would not be a constructive administration. Mars retrograde in the 2nd House of the U.S. Gemini rising chart focused upon financial and economic issues. With Mars retrograde, nothing was accomplished! Clinton commanded changes in the attitude of homosexuals in the military. Such direct action was not appropriate for Mars retrograde and the matter met success only through the indirect approach of the Sam Nunn compromise. Yet, nothing really changed with the military. It was actually worse. And, don't forget the sex scandals and cover-ups!
NOTE: I use 3 charts for the United States. The Gemini rising chart influences Americans as a people, national issues and relations with Canada and Mexico. The Sagittarius rising chart is always active with crises and actions involving other countries. The Articles of Confederation chart affects the government itself and it is always active with government scandals (spy scandals show up in this chart).
When Mars is Retrograde, Whoever Fires First Loses: It is common to see battles igniting during the retrograde period but whoever fires the first shot loses. Little Argentina never really had a chance against Great Britain but, when they fired the first shot in the Falklands, they were condemned to lose in a big way. The Russians fired the first shot in Afghanistan and, after spending billions, they were ultimately forced to withdraw. The Israeli wars have always occurred when Mars was retrograde so, in that country, there is always a fear of war and dire predictions of such by that country's astrologers when Mars turns retrograde.
Physical Energy Impaired: The 1980 Winter Olympics occurred when Mars was retrograde in Virgo. Mishaps plagued this event, especially for the United States. If using the Gemini rising chart, Mars was retrograde in the 5th House ruling sporting activities and competitive games!
WORLD EVENTS DURING THE 1997 MARS RETROGRADE IN VIRGO–LIBRA:
Around the first 10 days of February 1997, Mars was station in Libra. The station period, when a planet appears to stand still and change direction, is a very potent time when the planet's energies are intensified. At the Station,
A civil jury found OJ Simpson liable, in the amount of $8.5 million for wrongful death in the 1994 slaying (February 4).
The Army's top enlisted man was accused of sexual harassment. Sgt. Major Gene McKinney, on February 3, was forced to resign from the committee to investigate sexual harassment in the military.
On February 3, the U.S., Britain and France agreed to freeze distribution of $68 million in gold bars that had been looted by Nazi Germany in World War II.
During the period from February through April 1997 when Mars was retrograde, there were many recorded dismissals, failed votes, blocked plans, revisions, acquittals, dropped changes, failed amendments and expulsions. A list of some of the major events of that Mars Retrograde period are:
The Ecuador Congress ousts its president and an interim leader is named.
Ken Star announces on February 17, that he will resign as independent counsel in order to take an academic post at Pepperdine University. On February 21, he changes his mind!
In Britain, the House of Commons defeated a motion to censure the government for its handling of the Amad cow@ disease crisis, giving a Avote of confidence@ to Agriculture Minister, Douglas Hogg.
Furor over the Democratic Party fund-raising intensified with disclosures of the Clinton memo, endorsing plans to reward big contributors with White House visits.
On February 19, an Internet pornography scam was uncovered.
On February 23, scientists clone an adult sheep, sparking a cloning controversy. In 1938, Hans Spemann of Germany first theorized this possibility. Incredibly, in 1938 and 1997, Mars was in Virgo-Libra, Jupiter was in Aquarius and Saturn was in Aries!
On March 14, while very likely drinking with golf pro Greg Norman (who is a known heavy drinker), President Clinton fell and seriously injured his knee. When this occurred, the transiting Mars Retrograde in Virgo was opposing the transiting Mercury. This lined up exactly on his progressed 5th-11th House axis and the transiting Uranus in Aquarius was exactly in opposition to his natal Mercury at 7 Leo and the progressed Saturn at 7 Leo! Saturn was opposing the progressed Neptune; Jupiter was opposing the progressed Pluto.
On February 26, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, approved development of a large Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem despite Palestinian warnings that such construction in the traditionally Arab sector of the city would seriously affect the peace process. The Mars retrograde period was colored by terrorism and boycotts. Later, Netanyahu was caught in a scandal surrounding the appointment of an attorney general but, by April 20, there was insufficient evidence and the matter was dropped.
Near the second station, on April 16, a financial crisis began in the Czech Republic. Czech Premier, Vaclav Klaus, announced a new budget of austerity measures aimed at restoring the country's economic health. Several cases of security fraud were uncovered, the country's economy went into crisis and Klaus was forced to resign.
On March 26, 39 members of Heaven's Gate committed ritual suicide.
WORLD EVENTS DURING THE 1999 MARS RETROGRADE IN SCORPIO–LIBRA:
During the station period, when Mars was sitting at 12º,
The Serbian army began preparing for a major offensive and, while the Ethnic Albanians signed a peace accord to end the year-old conflict, the Serbian delegation rejected this agreement because it would allow 28,000 NATO troops to police Kosovo. On the evening of March 24, NATO launched its air attack.
The entire EU Commission resigned amid corruption allegations
The Medicare Reform Panel hit a deadlock and disbanded
On March 18, when Mars changed direction and the Moon changed latitude, a train crash in Illinois killed 11 people
On the last day at 12º and when Mercury changed latitudes, a deadly fire broke out in a vehicular tunnel that connects France with Italy, killing 40 people, and a train derailment in Kenya killed 32 people.
During the Scorpio phase
The Dow surpassed the 10,000 mark (March 29)
The Paraguayan President resigned after violent street protests
Libya delivered the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing suspects for trial
A New Jersey man was arrested for the Melissa computer virus
A Nazi War Criminal was arrived in England
Susan McDougal was acquitted
The coalition government in India failed
Both India and Pakistan test a nuclear capable missile
Harris and Klebold kill 13 students in Colorado high school
A deadly tornado struck 5 US states
The Chernobyl computer virus unleashed.
During the Libra phase
In Belgrade, the US "accidentally" bombed the Chinese Embassy— this was no accident
The US jobless rate dipped lower in May
Barak unseats Netanyahu, beginning his ineffective term
British spies were listed on an internet site
A 15-year old opens fire in a Georgia high school
American Airlines accused of violating anti-trust laws with price fixing
After a 3 month recess, the Microsoft anti-trust case was resumed
India launched an air strike at Islamic militants in Kashmir
Pakistan shot down 2 Indian jet fighters.
WORLD EVENTS DURING THE 2001 MARS RETROGRADE STATION IN SAGITTARIUS:
At this writing, as Mars turns retrograde, the late breaking news is:
The FBI discovers 3000 pages of documents not given to McVeigh's defense team, postponing his execution until June 11. Incompetent and controversial FBI director, Louis Freeh, finally resigns
A wall collapses in western China killing 12 people
US spy satellites detect evidence that China is preparing for an underground nuclear weapon test
Israel fires missiles at car of Palestinian intelligence officer
Most significant, Senator James Jeffords quit the GOP, shifting the power in the Senate to the Democrats.
2003 & MARS IN PISCES:
In 2003, Mars retrograde: At Station, there was an unsuccessful coup in the Philippines. There were many terrorist bombings, including the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad. There were several oustings, referendums and resignations of political leaders during this cycle.
2010 & MARS IN LEO HISTORICALLY: In December 1915/January 1916, Einstein developed a new theory of relativity, an extension of his Special Theory of Relativity developed in 1905, which altered the view of gravity proposed by Sir Isaac Newton. It would not be until after World War II that scientists would be able to test this theory.
In the war in Europe (WWI), England and France were retreating after great losses and the Serbians were driven to the Adriatic by the German, Austrian and Bulgarian armies. It was not until the Sun-Mars conjunction in 1917 that the Americans voted to enter the war in Europe. During the 1994-95 alignment, Russia attacked secessionist Republic of Chechnya and, in May 1996, when Mars moved behind the Sun, the Chechnya Peace Treaty was signed. There is an obvious pattern of aggressive action with Mars Retrograde will be corrected when Mars moves behind the Sun. The Republicans also took control of the Congress and they did nothing, never keeping their Promise to America.
In 2010, Mars Retrograde in Leo can be very frustrating for our Leo president, especially beginning at the end of January 2010. Mars Retrograde brings discoveries and breakthroughs in technology. This will be helped by the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in 2010.
MARS IN GEMINI & HEALTH ISSUES:
From AUGUST 20 2022 THROUGH MARCH 25 2023, Mars will transit the sign of Gemini. The sign that Mars transits during a 6-week period describes what makes us angry and how we respond to aggravating situations. The personal energies are regulated by mental stimulation and physical restlessness. Its energies are quite scattered. Gemini thrives upon new ideas, visual stimulation and social interaction with others. This sign can become quite depressed when there is nothing going on to keep the mind perked and energized. For those with many Fire and Air signs in their horoscopes, it becomes difficult to sit still under this transit. For these people, inactivity or confinement can make them extremely despondent and melancholic. Those with many Earth and Water signs can also be stirred into activity but it can cause some stress due to the disruption of normal routines.
Gemini likes change and lots of it! However, it is important to remember that Gemini likes activity, not necessarily accomplishment. Mars in Gemini can cause mental stress, reckless decisions, relationship setbacks and frustrating circumstances when it forms stressful aspects to the outer planets:
As I examined my journals, I found this to be a period of either restlessness and despondency when nothing was happening or excessive activity and over-stimulation. In 1990, I began receiving letters from Eastern Europe and I concretized my plans for my first trip to meet with astrologers in these countries. I was featured on several television programs. I took several short trips just to get out of the house. Under the stress of too much activity, I was very susceptible to allergies. I noticed many references in my journal to running around all day. There were several crises such as losing my credit card two days before leaving for Europe! There was much social interaction with others — in person, by telephone and with the fax machine. During the Gulf War, a Media War with Mars in Gemini, I was faxing data on a daily basis to Prague. I even went back to college for the first time in 25 years.
During another Mars in Gemini cycle, a friend from Sweden visited. This was a cycle for stimulating conversation and the exchange of new ideas on astrology. Relationships seem to be a theme for this Mars transit. People provide lots of gossip and energizing conversation. I explored new ways of meeting people and, of course, I met lots of people. While there were several mentally stressful periods that upset my nerves – something typical of Mars in Gemini – the stress passed quickly.
During the most recent Mars in Gemini transit in 2006, life was very active! I went to lectures, conferences, expos; I took a lot of short, stimulating trips; I got to talk with a lot of new people; an article that I wrote on UFOs and the Septile aspect received a great deal of recognition. It appeared on many unusual, non-astrological websites. Even now, with Mars in Gemini, the US Capitol Historical Society is starting their brown bag lunch lectures and I will attend their lecture series. Obviously, the restless energy of Mars in Gemini motivates us to get out and interact with others, seek a change of scenery and learn something new. Life should become a smorgasbord now.
During the transit in 2009, my friend from Austria visited and I always do and see a lot when she comes. I say that she is a good Wagon Master, planning and directing trips. Her husband visited and he did a lot of the driving for me. We traveled all along the ocean area of Maryland and Delaware and we shopped at the outlets. Another article was published about my dad and I in a local magazine. In both 2009 and 2011, The Greatest Astrological Picnic in the Known Universe occurs. There is always a lot of social and mental interaction.
In 2015, my Progressed Venus was squaring Saturn so there were crises occurring around this Mars transit. I traveled to Boston to give a long astrology lecture. I had to drive to Boston after a train crash had closed all train transportation to Boston. Actually, I enjoyed the drive, despite it being 10 hours long. I traveled to Universal Studios to visit Harry Potter World. My roommate was in a very bad mood and this was very stressful for me.
In 2017, it was a fun period — buying plants for the garden, traveling to nurseries and attending lectures and events in Washington DC.
In 2019, I returned to Boston once again but this time the trains were running fine. I stayed with a wonderful family and we talked about herbs and medical topics the entire time. I attended a lot of lectures, as usual, and I did a radio show which went really well. There were other difficult aspects as my dad had recently died and, without him, someone working in his garden began bullying me. Finally, the Department of Agriculture intervened and the bullying stopped.
When the restless energies of Mars in Gemini are blocked, frustrated or seem to generate stress through over-stimulation, there can be an imbalance in the homeopathic cell salt, Kali Muriaticum, potassium chloride. Kali Mur is found throughout the body. Deficiency results in a coating of the tongue, glandular swelling, scaling of the skin, and excess mucous discharge. Deficiency symptoms include colds, congestion of the bronchial tubes, sinus inflammation, arthritis inflammation, a lack of energy and interest. All congestion and swelling need Kali Mur. If there in an inflammation, the may be a need for Ferrum Phosphate — the inflammation usually arises from the lack of oxygen due to iron deficiency.
CRITICAL DATES:
OCTOBER 10-15; NOVEMBER 14-18 2022 Retrograde; MARCH 12-14 2023 Direct: Mars in Gemini squares Neptune in Pisces – plans and projects may fizzle out. There may be details about which you are unaware so wait until this aspect passes.
NOTE: If you were born with Mars in Sagittarius, this will be a low energy cycle that last a LONG time. Take it easy. Do not push yourself. Allow your body to recharge. I have an article on Mars Cycles on this website. Check it out for more information.
A TECHNICAL VIEW OF MARS RETROGRADE…from a message to Astrological Conference on Techniques (ACT) mailing list dated January 9 2000
When Mars is transiting retrograde, it will be closer to the Earth than at any other time. Planetary distances, according to Juan Revilla (astrologer from Costa Rica and author of the freeware calculation program, Riyal), from the Sun (perihelion/aphelion) or the Earth (perigee/apogee) are a rarely-considered dimension in astrology. A…although we gave some attention to the perihelion of Pluto in 1989 because the differences are very large with respect to Pluto's distance when farthest (aphelion) from the Sun. In the case of very eccentric orbits, such as Pluto and the Centaurs, the differences between aphelion and perihelion are more significant, more dramatic, more telling…The main difference with Mars is caused, not by its eccentricity, but whether it is in front of the Sun or behind the Sun. This is the same with the inner planets B Venus at superior (direct) conjunction is behind the Sun and farthest from the Earth (about 1.7 AU) whereas, at inferior (retrograde) conjunction it is nearly 7 times closer to the Earth (0.25 AU).@
Juan quoted an excellent example from WWII by Jane Axtell. When Mars was behind the Sun during the summer of 1941, Hitler was pushing his way through Europe without much resistance. When Mars was on the Earth's side, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the action was fast and furious.@
Juan continues in his explanation: Checking Mars= geocentric distances from 1900 to 2005, one finds the maximum distance about 2.7 astronomical units with a minimum about 0.37AU, during the time of opposition, 7.3 times as much…or less. The average distance at opposition with the Sun, when closest to earth, is 0.52, and the cycle of closest approaches (nearing the minimum of 0.37AU) is 15 or 17 years, as follows: 1909, 1924, 1939, 1956, 1971, 1986, 2001 and 2003.
MAXIMUM CLOSENESS TO EARTH:
While Mars has a 15 to 17 cycle in which it is both close to the Sun and close to the Earth (perihelion and perigee), the apparition (appearance in the sky) is not always the same. There are rare occurrences when the Earth and Mars are within 35 million miles of each other. The last time that this occurred was September 1988, earlier in August 1924, and it will happen again in August 2003!
This event occurs when the Earth lined up between Mars and the Sun, reaching its closeness to the Sun and to the Earth at the same time with Mars appearing at its maximum brightness! For those with a scientific and historical interest, the most remote of the Mars perihelion occurred in 1969 and in 1937. In 2001, Mars will reach its opposition to the Sun on June 13, make its closest approach to the Earth on June 21, and reach its perihelion or closest approach to the Sun on October 12. For excellent graphics and descriptions, the Sky Over Berlin website is a good resource: www.surveyor.in-berlin.de/himmel/indexe.html
The June 2001 perigee was the second closest in this current decade (0.45 AU), the maximum closeness occurred in August 2003 (0.372 AU— in Pisces) and the next closest will be in July 2018 (0.385 AU— in Aquarius-Capricorn).
Historically, these specific dates do not figure prominently in world events— but the year itself is highly significant. In 1909, when Mars was Retrograde in Pisces-Aries, the pioneering spirit of Aries brought the discovery of the North Pole but, with Mars Retrograde, there was a great controversy: Who reached it first, Cook or Perry? In summer, a French aviator was the first to fly across the English Channel. With the idealistic zeal of Pisces, the ladies were protesting as suffragettes and prohibitionists. Steel strikes in Pittsburgh become violent and trigger deaths. A new introspective thought in America was fueled as Freud went on tour explaining "psychoanalysis."
In 1924, Lenin died and Stalin took control of the USSR, King Tut's coffin opened after 3300 years, the Teapot Dome Scandal, Greece became a republic, Hitler spends this Mars Retrograde in prison for the Beer Hall Putsch, the Leopold and Loeb Athrill murder@ trial…but none occurred in August. The year 1988 was significant for terrorist activities. I find, however, the sign of Leo and alignments with fixed stars to be more significant.
When a planet aligns with or occults a fixed star, it has a very special influence in world events. With regard to Mars' retrograde cycles, there is a 79-year cycle of the retrograde/direct loops of Mars in the vicinity of the fixed star, Regulus. This occurred in December 1915, January 1916 (Direct, May 1916) and in December 1994-January 1995 (Direct, May 1995). These Leo cycles are far more dramatic than any of the other Mars apparitions. The Leo Fixed Stars can be found at www.astrologycom.com/fixedstars.html#Leo
Missi says:
Thank you for all your insights.
I am going to have to travel by plane from USA to UK sometime between September 3 and November 3. I will be there for a few months. As it is the Mars retrograde, and also Mercury retro, can you recommend a good day to fly?
Also, prior to flying I will have to buy a new laptop. Again, is there a good date to buy this to avoid the issues you detailed in your article?
Ria McGee says:
This is just what I've been looking for. Mars retro in Gemini in house 12. Sometimes it's hard to define what represents going over already established things and initiating something new. We are travelling to Jersey in the Channel Islands for Christmas as a family to stay with my eldest son and his family. They live there. I was tasked with searching for flights. After quite a successful peruse I contacted everyone with the very economical possibilities. One family member had to change dates for her work so the process had to begin againMy younger son managed to sort flights but as it was nearer to the holiday period prices had rocketed and we had to get one stop flights. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 20 |
The AZURA Pilot Prep LC 250 LPG system is a complete low pressure gradient (LPG) HPLC system for the purification of samples in the laboratory scale. The AZURA Preparative HPLC system is designed and optimized for the purification of milligram to gram samples. The system proposal consists of a preparative HPLC pump with ternary LPG valve block and an Assistent ASM 2.1L.
Large sample volumes can be introduced via the third LPG channel. For smal volume size the sample can be injected with a manuel injection valve.
The AZURA P 2.1L pump covers a wide flow rate range and pressure capabilities. In the current setup, it supports max. pressures up to 225 bar at flow rates up to 100 ml/min (200 bar from 100 - 220 ml/min). The integrated automatic recognition of the pump head with RFID technology allows fast adaptions of the pump for various applications. The LPG valve block enables the accurate formation of binary or ternary gradients with a maximum flow rate of 220 ml/min.
The system is completed by an AZURA assistant ASM 2.1L for preparative HPLC. This assistant includes the detector UVD 2.1S, an injection valve and a 12 port multipositions valve for fractionation.
The AZURA HPLC system comes with an eluent tray for safe storage of eluent bottles and an integrated leak management system with sensors. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 21 |
July 19, 2011 by LindaJoy Rose . Posted in " Recipes, Salads, Videos " . Tags " ehow, salad, strawberries " .
Dr. LJ's ambrosia salad isn't like the one that grandma used to make because this one is very good for you: it's high in fiber, it's low in sugar, and it has no saturated fats!
In "Miscellaneous, Petit Plats, Recipes, Salads, Sides"
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Spoorlijn 267 was een Belgische industrielijn in Charleroi. De lijn liep van de aftakking Martinet aan spoorlijn 112 naar Fosse 3 en was 1,3 km lang.
Aansluitingen
In de volgende plaats was er een aansluiting op de volgende spoorlijn:
Y Martinet
Spoorlijn 112 tussen Marchienne-au-Pont en La Louvière-Centrum
Zie ook
Lijst van spoorlijnen in België
Lijst van goederenspoorlijnen in België
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A majority of mergers fails despite lots of experts convinced that the merger will be a great success.
Mergers & Acquisitions aim at generating multiples. Every significant investment is worthwhile as long as the target has been well selected and the process is completed successfully. Investments in banks and consultants are significant. However, the success of an M&A process relies on getting a few more things right as well. McKinsey lists the top 10 areas to consider and recommends the application of powerful tools.
The reason for the failures are obvious and quickly identified: complexity, uncertainty and weak risk management throughout the entire process including the Post-Merger-Intergation (PMI) phase. McKinsey has listed 10 "must haves" for M&As.
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Just as it's not possible to drive a car by observing only the rear mirror, leaders can't manage a company based exclusively on experience from the past (e.g. financial data).
To "stay on the road" or even "win the race" leaders need to adjust the path by using the steering wheel – to do so they need to have an idea of the overall roadmap.
Budget values are often based on assumptions about the future that are derived from discussions with e.g. representatives from the sales department.
These assumptions (e.g. about growth rates and sales performance) can change over time due to new insights and findings. The calculated quantitative impact needs to be integrated into the qualitative decision making process. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 25 |
The nature of Alexander's Feast is perhaps better summed up by its other title, The Power of Music. It is in fact a celebratory ode for St Cecilia's Day, written by Dryden in 1697 for the City of London's traditional celebration of the patron saint of music, and set in suitably celebratory style by Handel in 1736. At its first performance that year, he incorporated two delightful concertos, one for harp and the other for organ, and these are included in this recording. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 26 |
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Update (November 2017): Unfortunately, Facebook has deprecated Comment Mirroring and it is no longer possible to use this feature: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2017/11/07/changes-developer-offerings/.
We recently migrated a client to Facebook comments and enabled Comment Mirroring. Though the process is simple, it's poorly documented and a little finicky. Here's a rundown!
In the left-hand sidebar, click "About"
Beside the "Category" text, click "Edit"
Remove the existing category tags and add "App Page"
In the left-hand sidebar, click "Settings"
A new option called "Advanced" will appear under the "Settings" button you just clicked. Click on it.
Scroll down to "App Page" and select your Facebook Page from the drop-down list.
You can now go back to your Facebook Page and change the category tags to whatever you want.
Scrape the specified og:url and create a new URL object based on the contents of that page. If og:url is already associated with a URL object, use that object's cached data instead.
The cached data for any URL object is publicly visible via the Graph API: https://graph.facebook.com/<URL>.
Associate the comments on this page with the specified fb:app_id so they inherit the correct Comment Mirroring and comment moderation options.
These options can be configured at: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments/<APPID>.
Create a new Facebook comment box and display all of the comments associated with the URL object located at data-href.
Your comment may also appear on Mugo Web's Facebook Page.
This comment will also be posted to mugo.ca.
The Facebook scraper parses every URL into an internal og_object. For instance, https://graph.facebook.com/https://www.mugo.ca reveals that "https://www.mugo.ca" is represented by the og_object id 678293832262175. This link between the URL and an internal Facebook object is a permanent one.
The very first time a comment box is rendered for an og_object, the Facebook SDK checks to see if all the conditions of Comment Mirroring have been met. If they have, Comment Mirroring is permanently enabled for that og_object. Otherwise, Comment Mirroring is permanently disabled. There is no way to change this setting once it has been set. This process happens in a black box and is entirely undocumented.
Post the page to your Facebook Page.
The steps detailed in the "Embedding Facebook comments on your web page" section bypass some of these limitations by manipulating the Facebook parser's behaviour. By appending "?fbpage=mugoweb" to the URL, and setting the resulting address as the page's og:url and the comment box's data-href tag, we've avoided a permanent link between our base URL and a black-boxed Facebook comment box instance. This means that if we decide we'd like to mirror our page to a different Facebook page, or to disable mirroring altogether, we can do so simply by changing the appended query parameter to the og:url and data-href, which would result in the creation of a new og_object.
If you're already using Facebook comment boxes and have an active Facebook presence, Comment Mirroring is a worthy addition. But even if you prefer your existing commenting platform, don't miss the opportunity to creatively link your engagement channels. For instance, instead of the generic Facebook Page Plugin that indiscriminately displays recent posts, you could opt for the Facebook Embedded Post Plugin, which displays the engagement metrics (likes, comments, and reshares) of a single post. By showing readers how many people liked or commented when you shared an article on your social media channel, you create a natural cross-channel bridge that is likely to be compelling to your audience.
Though this post was focused on Facebook, social engagement occurs across many platforms, each of which comes with a unique set of tools and considerations. At Mugo, we're in the business of providing highly catered solutions that target the specific needs of our clients. Do you run a content-driven website? Have you maximized your engagement potential? Contact us for a free assessment! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 28 |
Posted on August 10, 2016 by Johannetta in research, teachers.
In June, we already informed you about the ongoing research on teacher mobility in the Caribbean Netherlands. We would like to give you a short update about this research.
From June 6th until June 24th, all teaching staff from the pe en se/sve schools had the opportunity to participate in the online survey. The survey response is very satisfying; 41% off all the teaching staff participated. The percentages are evenly distributed among the three islands (Bonaire 40%, Saba 40%, St Eustatius 44%) and between pe versus se/sve.
The research team is quite satisfied with the survey response and want to thank all the participants. By filling in the survey, all participants had the chance to win an Ipad Air 2. After closing the questionnaire, one winner was randomly selected by the Research Centre for Education and Labour Market (ROA) of Maastricht University. The winner is Elly den Holder from the Pelikaanschool Bonaire. Elly (see picture) has already received her Ipad.
The research team is currently finalizing the report of the findings. These will be distributed to the participating schools in the autumn of 2016. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 29 |
Q: HorizontalScrollView with very wide bitmaps suppose that I have just one ImageView inside a HorizontalScrollView. The problem I'm facing is I have to create a very wide Bitmap to place it inside my ImageView and, obviously, use the scroll from HSV to see all my image there. I'm getting a lot of OutOfMemoryException so, is there any technique to get this task done without getting a ton of OutOfMemoryExceptions?
A: You are getting OutOfMemoeryException because your bitmap is too large to load the entire bitmap into memory (a loading issue not a rendering issue).
Instead you need a custom image view that downsamples and/or only loads sections of the image at a time depending upon what part of the image should be currently visible.
This may not fit your use case but it is an example of this problem being solved by downsampling
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How much does Alice know about Radical-6?
Who is the man in the recording, and the the people on Mars?
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Why was Radical-6 at the simulated launch site?
What is the picture Tenmyouji was carrying?
Who killed Alice in this timeline, and what was their motive?
There were nine men and women in the simulated Mars launch.
Sigma and Phi vote "Ally" and Tenmyouji votes "Betray", leaving Sigma and Phi at 1 BP.
Quark becomes infected with Radical-6 and attempts suicide, but is stopped by the others.
Sigma, Tenmyouji and Alice enter the PEC and find a blue memory card in the safe.
Quark is cured of Radical-6 through a vial of Axelavir found in the laboratory.
Examining the blue card reveals an audio file from 2028, hinting at the origins of the Radical-6 pandemic. Tenmyouji reveals that he was part of a simulated mission to Mars, where the outbreak apparently began. A woman on the recording was apparently responsible for this, as well as the deaths of six other test subjects.
Sigma votes Ally in round two, and so does Tenmyouji, leaving Sigma with 3 points and Tenmyouji and Clover with 8.
Tenmyouji is seen viewing a photo of some sort, but we don't get any description of what it is.
Alice is found dead in the crew quarters, stabbed with a scalpel.
Clover demands proof that Alice wasn't murdered. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 31 |
U.S. v. Maslenjak, 821 F.3d 675 (6th Cir. 2015): Can an Individual be Denaturalized for Immaterial False Statement?
Facts and Procedural History of Maslenjak
Question before the Supreme Court of the United States in U.S. v. Maslenjak
Key Statutes and Issues in Maslenjak
Reasoning and Decision in Maslenjak
Overview of Divergent Decision in Puerta
June 25, 2017 Update: The Supreme Court issued its decision in Maslenjak v. United States, 582 U.S. __ (2017). The Supreme Court reversed the Sixth Circuit decision discussed in this article. The Supreme Court held that materiality is an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). Please see our full article on the Supreme Court decision to learn more [see article].
On April 7, 2016, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a published decision in U.S. v. , 821 F.3d 675 (6th Cir. 2015) [PDF version]. The decision, authored by Judge S. Thomas Anderson, allowed a naturalized citizen to be denaturalized under section 340(e) of the INA based on her conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) for making a false statement that was immaterial to her naturalization. Subsequent to the decision, the Sixth Circuit denied rehearing en banc on May 27, 2016. The Supreme Court of the United States granted a petition for certiorari on January 13, 2017, and heard oral arguments on April 26, 2017. In this article, we will examine the facts of the case and the Sixth Circuit decision in brief. We will also examine the earlier decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in U.S. v. Puerta, 982 F.2d 1297 (9th Cir. 1992) [PDF version], which reached a contrary result to the Sixth Circuit decision in Maslenjak.
Please see our companion article on the oral arguments in the case before the Supreme Court for more recent happenings in the case [see article].
The case concerned a naturalized citizen appellant who had been convicted of having knowingly procured naturalization contrary to the law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) and of misuse of evidence of citizenship or naturalization under 18 U.S.C. 1423.
The appellant, Divna Maslenjak, was a native of what is today Bosnia. In 1998, she and her family met with a then-Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officer to seek refugee status based on fear of persecution in Bosnia. The record of the Maslenjak's trial showed that she acted as the primary applicant on her family's application for refugee status. She stated under oath to the INS officer that her family feared persecution because her husband did not serve in the military during the Bosnian Civil War, instead living in Serbia to avoid conscription. She further stated that she had remained in Bosnia and lived apart from her husband from 1992 to 1997. The INS opted to grant the Maslenjak and her family refugee status. They immigrated to the United States in 2000 and became lawful permanent residents in 2004.
In 2006, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) interviewed Maslenjak's husband as part of an investigation as to whether he had failed to disclose his military service in Serbia in his immigration application. Maslenjak was present during the interview. Her husband was charged with two counts of making a false statement under 18 U.S.C. 1546(a), specifically for having failed to disclose his service in the Bratunac Brigade of the Army of the Republic Srpska (VRS), "a unit that participated in the genocide of 7,000 to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in 1995." There was no evidence that Maslenjak's husband himself participated in the genocide, although there was evidence that he had been in the VRS at the time it occurred. He was arrested on the charges filed under 18 U.S.C. 1546(a).
One week after her husband was arrested, Maslenjak filed the Form N-400, Application for Naturalization, on December 20, 2006. One of the questions on the Form N-400 inquired as to whether she had ever "knowingly given false or misleading information to any U.S. government official while applying for any immigration benefit or to avoid deportation, exclusion, or removal." Another asked whether she had ever "lied to a U.S. government official to gain entry or admission into the United States." Maslenjak answered "no" to both of those questions. Furthermore, during her subsequent naturalization interview, she declined to make any changes to her answers on the Form N-400 when presented with the opportunity to do so. Maslenjak was naturalized as a United States citizen on August 3, 2007.
On October 7, 2007, Maslenjak's husband was found guilty in federal court of making false statements under 18 U.S.C. 1546(a). The conviction rendered him subject to removal. As a defense from removal, Maslenjak's husband applied for asylum. Maslenjak filed a Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative on his behalf and testified for him at his asylum hearing. During her testimony, Maslenjak stated that her husband had served in the VRS and that they had lived together in Bosnia after 1992. She also admitted that she had lied to the INS about her husband's military service and living circumstances in seeking refugee status in her interview in 1998.
"On March 5, 2013, a federal grand jury indicted Maslenjak with one count of knowingly procuring naturalization contrary to the law in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a)." Specifically, the indictment alleged that she had "made material false statements" on her Form N-400. She was also charged with one count of misusing her unlawfully procured certificate of naturalization to file a Form I-130 petition on behalf of her husband in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1423. On April 17, 2014, Maslenjak was found guilty by a jury of both charges. She was sentenced to two years' probation. The district court granted the government's motion to have Maslenjak's naturalization revoked under the denaturalization provision found in section 340(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (due to the conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a)). Maslenjak appealed the adverse decision to the Sixth Circuit.
Before analyzing the Sixth Circuit decision in Maslenjak and the divergent Ninth Circuit opinion in Puerta, we should understand the issue from Maslenjak that is currently pending before the Supreme Court on appeal.
The Supreme Court is considering "[w]hether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding … that a naturalized American citizen can be stripped of her citizenship in a criminal proceeding based on an immaterial false statement" [PDF version]. We will analyze the Maslenjak and Puerta decisions in light of the question before the Supreme Court.
Maslenjak was convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). An individual violates this statute if he or she:
knowingly procures or attempts to procure, contrary to law, the naturalization of any person, or documentary or other evidence of naturalization or citizenship.
A conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) may lead to fines and/or a term of imprisonment. However, the issue in Maslenjak is that an individual convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) is subject to automatic denaturalization under section 340(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (codified at 8 U.S.C. 1451(e)), which provides:
When a person shall be convicted under section 1425 of Title 18 of knowingly procuring naturalization in violation of the law, the court in which such conviction is had shall thereupon revoke, set aside, and declare void the final order admitting such person to citizenship, and shall declare the certificate of naturalization of such person to be cancelled.
Critical to the issue before the Supreme Court are two points that we must understand. First, 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) is a criminal statute. That means an individual charged with violating 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) will face criminal proceedings rather than civil immigration proceedings. This is distinguishable from the naturalization provision found in section 340(a) of the INA which provides for a civil denaturalization procedure for a naturalized citizen who "illegally procured or [] procured by concealment of a material fact or willful misrepresentation" a certificate of naturalization (however, note that the certificate of naturalization must then still be revoked by a federal district judge). The second point to understand is that courts do not have the discretion to choose not to revoke the naturalization of an individual convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). This is because the language of section 340(e) of the INA is mandatory, stating that the court "shall thereupon revoke, set aside, and declare void" the final order admitting the individual as a citizen of the United States. The use of the word "shall" makes clear that denaturalization is an absolute and necessary consequence of a conviction in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425.
The pertinent question that the Sixth Circuit examined — and the Supreme Court will examine — is whether an individual may be denaturalized under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) and section 340(e) of the INA for a false statement that was not material to the individual's application for naturalization being approved. "Material" can be understood as something affecting the adjudicator's decision to grant or deny a naturalization application (the standard for section 340(a) civil denaturalization is whether the false statement had a natural tendency to influence the decision). In providing instructions to the jury, the District Court judge presiding over Maslenjak's trial made clear that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) did not require proof of materiality. This means that regardless of whether Maslenjak's false statements were material to her asylum petition, the jury did not have to come to a decision regarding the materiality because it was instructed that materiality was not an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425.1 In short, an "element" is something that must be proven (or admitted to in a plea) in order to sustain a conviction.
The government in Maslenjak's case alleged that she had committed two predicate offenses relating to violations of the laws concerning naturalization that led to her having violated 18 U.S.C. 1425. The first of these is 18 U.S.C. 1015(a), which criminalizes:
knowingly mak[ing] any false statement under oath, in any case, proceeding, or matter relating to, or under, or by virtue of any law of the United States relating to naturalization, citizenship, or registry of aliens…
Additionally, the government alleged that Maslenjak's false statements meant that she was not a person of good moral character (as defined in section 101(f)(6) of the INA) at the time she was naturalized as required for naturalization under section 316(a)(3) of the INA.
Please note that Maslenjak's conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1423 necessarily relied upon her conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425, and it is, therefore, not an issue that will be discussed in any of the articles pertaining to this litigation.
In the next section, we will examine why the Sixth Circuit agreed with the District Court decision and found ultimately that materiality is not an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425 and that Maslenjak's denaturalization was not in error. In the subsequent section, we will briefly example the 1992 Ninth Circuit decision in Puerta which held contrarily that materiality is an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425.
The opinion of the court in Maslenjak was authored by United States District Court Judge S. Thomas Anderson, who was sitting on the Sixth Circuit by designation for the case.
The decision first addressed whether materiality is an element of 18 U.S.C. 1425. The opinion stated that "[a] plain reading of the statute suggests that materiality is not an element of the offense" 821 F.3d at 682 (2017). Maslenjak conceded that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) does not explicitly require materiality. However, she argued that materiality was nevertheless necessarily implied in the text of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a).
First, she noted that the civil denaturalization statute found in section 340(a) of the INA requires that a "misrepresentation" in procuring citizenship have been material. The Sixth Circuit, however, disagreed and found that reading the civil materiality requirement into the criminal provision to be unwarranted.
The Sixth Circuit read "contrary to the law" in 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) as requiring proof that Maslenjak's conduct had "violated at least one other law applicable to naturalization." 821 F.3d at 683 (2017). The Sixth Circuit reasoned that neither of the predicate offenses that the government alleged that Maslenjak had committed — 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) or procuring naturalization while not being a person of good moral character as required by section 316(a)(3) of the INA — require that a false statement have been material. The Sixth Circuit took the position that Congress had established a "two-track system for denaturalization[,]" one civil and one criminal. It found that there was "little justification" for reading the civil proceeding materiality requirement into the criminal statute.
The Sixth Circuit noted that — in accord with the plain text of section 340(a) of the INA — the Supreme Court had found that materiality was an element of the civil denaturalization statute in Kungys v. United States, 485 U.S. 759 (1988) [PDF version]. It explained that the Supreme Court made clear that the burden of proof shifts in civil denaturalization proceedings, which inherently affords less protection to the naturalized citizen than he or she has in criminal proceedings. In Johannessen v. United States, 225 U.S. 227, 242 (1912) [PDF version], the Supreme Court held that civil denaturalization does not impose a punishment on an alien who procured naturalization by fraud or other illegal conduct, but instead "deprives him of ill-gotten privileges."
Conversely, the Sixth Circuit explained that in criminal proceedings brought under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), "the government has the burden to establish the elements of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt, and the accused has the right to all the constitutional due process he would not otherwise receive as part of a civil denaturalization proceeding under [section 340(a) of the INA]" 821 F.3d 685.
The Sixth Circuit stated that Maslenjak restricted her materiality argument to 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), and did not attest that the statute under which she was denaturalized — section 340(e) of the INA — contained a materiality requirement. The Sixth Circuit quoted from the Supreme Court decision in Bates v. United States, 522 U.S. 23, 29-30 (1997) [PDF version], "[w]here Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same Act, it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion or exclusion." In referencing Bates, it is important to note that the Sixth Circuit is referring to the differing language in sections 340(a) (civil denaturalization provision) and section 340(e) (automatic denaturalization for conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a)), and not the text of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a).
The Sixth Circuit explained that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) was intended to sweep more broadly than section 340(a) of the INA. For example, a person may be convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) for procuring "documentary or other proof of naturalization or citizenship" in addition to naturalization. Furthermore, a person may be convicted in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) for doing so for "any person," meaning a naturalized citizen could be convicted for "improperly obtaining a forged naturalization certificate for a family member" 821 F.3d 686.
Based on its reading of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), the Sixth Circuit found that the government had to establish the following in order to secure a conviction:
1. Maslenjak procured her naturalization;
2. She procured it in some manner contrary to law; and
3. That she did so knowingly (id.).
The critical dispute between Maslenjak and the government was the meaning of "contrary to the law." The District Court had instructed the jury that contrary to the law encompassed any false statement made in an immigration hearing, regardless of materiality. The Sixth Circuit found that this instruction was correct because it applies to "all laws applicable to naturalization" 821 F.3d 687. Pertinently, this meant 18 U.S.C. 1015(a), one of the alleged predicate offenses, which lacks an explicit materiality requirement. To this effect, the Sixth Circuit cited to the Supreme Court decision in Fedorenko v. United States, 449 U.S. 490 (1981) [PDF version], wherein the Court quoted from United States v. Ginsberg, 243 U.S. 472, 474-475 (1917) [PDF version], in making clear that "[n]o alien has the slightest right to naturalization unless all statutory requirements are complied with…" The Sixth Circuit also noted that it and other circuits have upheld convictions under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) where the predicate offense was another criminal offense (see e.g., United States v. Damrah, 412 F.3d 618, 622-23 (6th Cir. 2003) [PDF version]; United States v. Alameh, 341 F.3d 167, 171-72 (2d Cir. 2003) [PDF version]). Accordingly, the Sixth Circuit saw fit to diverge from United States v. Puerta, wherein the Ninth Circuit interpreted "contrary to the law" to mean "contrary to the INA."
The Sixth Circuit then assessed the alleged predicate offenses committed by Maslenjak.
In an unpublished decision, the Sixth Circuit had held that 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) has no materiality element. In precedent decisions, the Ninth Circuit in United States v. Youssef, 547 F.3d 1090, 1094 (9th Cir. 2008) [PDF version], and Fourth Circuit in United States v. Abuagla, 336 F.3d 277, 278 (4th Cir. 2003) [PDF version], held similarly. The Sixth Circuit reasoned that 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) lacked a materiality requirement. Accordingly, the District Court had been correct in instructing the jury that no such requirement existed.
The Sixth Circuit took the position in its opinion that 18 U.S.C. 1015(a) was a predicate offense for 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) because it satisfied the "contrary to law" element of 18 U.S.C. 1425. It further stated that requiring materiality as an element for 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) alone "would lead to incongruous legal outcomes" (821 F.3d at 689). In short, the Sixth Circuit's rationale meant that reading materiality into 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) would render the phrase "contrary to the law" as meaning merely "contrary to some laws," an outcome that it did not find was justified by the text of the provisions in question.
The Sixth Circuit criticized the Puerta decision insofar as it read materiality into 18 U.S.C. 1425 regarding false statements while failing to acknowledge that 18 U.S.C. 1425 encompasses conduct beyond false statements. We will examine the Puerta decision in more detail in the next section.
Maslenjak also argued that because of the severity of denaturalization, the same materiality standard that applies to civil denaturalization proceedings should apply to the criminal statute. However, the Sixth Circuit found that "the argument invites us to overlook the plain text of 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) and disregard the overall statutory scheme Congress has enacted for denaturalization under the INA" 821 F.3d at 691.
The Sixth Circuit explained that the discrepancy between the civil denaturalization statute and the criminal provision "is actually consistent with a two-track statutory scheme for denaturalization" 821 F.3d at 693. To this effect, the decision referenced the lesser burden carried by the government in civil proceedings than in criminal proceedings, and the extra protections afforded to a criminal defendant that are not provided to an individual facing civil charges.
Next, the Sixth Circuit addressed Maslenjak's arguments that the district court was in error in instructing the jury that it could convict her under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) if it found that her false statements established that she was not a person of good moral character at the time of naturalization. Section 101(f)(6) of the INA states that an individual cannot establish good moral character if, within the period a showing of good moral character is required, he or she gives "false testimony for the purpose of obtaining any benefit" under the INA. Maslenjak made two constitutional arguments against convicting her for lack of good moral character. For reasons we will examine, the Sixth Circuit found her arguments unavailing.
First, the Sixth Circuit addressed Maslenjak's claim that her conviction "amounts to an unconstitutional criminal punishment based on her status" as a person lacking good moral character. 821 F.3d at 693. The Sixth Circuit rejected this argument because 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) criminalizes conduct rather than status, that is, her knowingly procuring naturalization in a manner contrary to the laws governing naturalization. Accordingly, the Sixth Circuit explained that she was not punished for having been a person lacking good moral character, but rather for procuring naturalization with the knowledge that she was ineligible. The Sixth Circuit also rejected Maslenjak's reliance on Puerta, wherein the Ninth Circuit stated that "simply being a person who cannot establish [good moral character] in court is not a crime" 982 F.2d at 1302. The Sixth Circuit reiterated that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) — in its view — does not solely refer to violations of the INA, but rather violations of all statutes pertaining to naturalization. Accordingly, it found that Maslenjak was not punished for having the status of lacking good moral character.
Secondly, the SIxth Circuit addressed Maslenjak's argument that the good moral character provision was unconstitutionally vague as applied to her case. To this effect, she cited to the good moral character "catch-all provision" in section 101(f)(9) of the INA. However, the Sixth Circuit noted that the district judge had only instructed the jury regarding section 101(f)(6), which covers the specific conduct engaged in by Maslenjak (giving false testimony to procure an immigration benefit). Because the conviction was based upon a finding of of specific conduct, the statute was not void for vagueness as applied to her case.
Finally, the Sixth Circuit addessed Maslenjak's claim that the District Court's instructions regarding section 101(f)(6) of the INA were insufficient, in that the judge did not explain that the false "testimony" must be oral and must be given with the specific intent to obtain a benefit under the INA in order to sustain a conviction. In Kungys, the Supreme Court had made clear that, for purpose of section 101(f)(6), the false testimony need not be material but must be oral. Kungys, 485 U.S. at 780. The Sixth Circuit found that, taken as a whole, the jury instructions given by the District Court "accurately reflected the law." 821 F.3d at 696. The judge instructed the jury that "[g]iving false testimony for the purpose of obtaining any immigration benefit precludes someone from being regarded as having good moral character." Although the Sixth Circuit did note that the judge did not define "testimony" as being limited to oral statements nor did it advise the jury as to which of Maslenjak's statements constituted "testimony," the instructions were not "confusing, misleading, or prejudicial" when viewed as a whole and given the plain meaning of the word "testimony." Furthermore, the opinion found that,in light of the evidence heard by the jury that the testimony had, in fact, been oral, any lack of specificity in the jury instruction constituted "harmless error."
Judge Julia Smith Gibbons authored a concurring opinion. Interestingly, she noted that she was initially inclined to follow Puerta but was persuaded to join the opinion authored by Judge Thompson because of its analysis of the statutes. However, she expressed reservations with the perceived absence of a materiality element from 18 U.S.C. 1425(a), and she stated that she did not "locate[] any analogous context in which the elements of a crime are less onerous than the elements of the related civil penalty proceeding." Although she found the result "troublesome," she nevertheless joined the opinion because it was "guided by what the law requires."
In Puerta, the Ninth Circuit held that false statements must be "material" in order to sustain a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a). Interestingly, in that case, the government actually took the position that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) "implies a materiality requirement similar to the one used in the [civil] denaturalization context." 982 F.2d at 1302. Both the opinion of the Sixth Circuit and the concurring opinion noted the government has taken inconsistent positions on this question in different cases. This finding led the Ninth Circuit to conclude that 18 U.S.C. 1425(a) cannot apply to having lacked good moral character because that is a status and not a crime. Significantly, Ninth Circuit precedent makes clear that a false statement must be material in order to lead to a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 1425(a).
Please continue to our article on the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Maslenjak to read about how the case has progressed [see article].
This is worth noting in light of the fact — which was also noted by multiple justices of the Supreme Court — that Maslenjak's false statements were quite possibly material to her application. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 32 |
New App Enhancing Helicopter Trip Planning
Helipaddy is a new app developed for both iOS and Android platforms that is going to enhance helicopter trip planning.
The app, which is free to download, enables pilots and their passengers to save their favourite sites and share sites with their friends. It can be used to store VRP's, too. An optional yearly membership of £29.99 will then give access to a fully moderated database of 1000's of places to land to eat, to stay or even just to walk the dog throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
Helipaddy incorporates live GPS tracking on all the latest smartphones and shows basic airspace, thus enabling users to navigate efficiently to a landing site. Helipaddy supports the GPX file format and landing sites can be easily opened in Skydemon as waypoints. The Helipaddy pin accurately marks the exact landing site where possible and, in the majority of cases, there are photographs of the establishment.
Helipaddy is also great for airfields and farm landing strips with essential information on refuelling and, especially useful in the case of French airfields, whether you can use a standard credit card. Whilst the app is new, we are providing all the airfield information for free.
When flying click the 'Safari mode' button and the map tracks you in the air, automatically popping up sites within a 2nm radius. You can then satisfy your curiosity as to the exact location of the Great Train Robbery, Camelot or the history of a particular ruined castle. There are automatic 1, 2 and 5 minute markers to help time arrival and the ability to send a landing request to a particular establishment with one click.
There is an Events page so airfields and other places can publish their upcoming fixtures and a system to leave a comment for other users on any pad. Paid-up members can log into a members area to see events online.
We know that Helipaddy is unique and will enable pilots to discover new places to land and new landscapes to explore. We are excited about version 2 which is already in the pipeline with a bunch of new features and extending our range further into Spain, Italy and the USA and including a friends-location feature. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 33 |
It's 12:15am on Friday morning and I can't sleep.
1. The Griffith-Hammond basket-brawl. I'm pissed because it happened. I announce a lot of basketball and no doubt in the past couple of years the game in NWIndiana has gotten more physical, mean-spirited, undisciplined and dangerous. With the blatant animosity that players show for each other and refs, and that coaches and fans show for refs, players and each other – this was bound to happen. It did. So I can't sleep.
2. The decision by the IHSAA to cancel the basketball seasons of Griffith and Hammond. There is much sadness and anger, but I agree with the decision.
3. Arbitrary and capricious. What I wonder about, however, is how that decision was made and what it means for athletic programs in the future. Listen to the podcasts of the two interviews that I did with IHSAA commissioner in the 18 hours following the decision. Basically, Bobby watched the video, talked to the coaches and administrators, and canceled their seasons. Case closed. "Swift and decisive action," I think I called it on Tuesday.
,,,But something's been nagging at me. There have been many fights at Indiana high school games in past years, and none of those programs involved have been canceled for the season. I brought up to Bobby the bench-clearing brawl at the Fort Wayne South-Indianapolis Arsenal Tech football game. Watch that video, it's just as frightening as the Griffith-Hammond brawl.
But in the Fort Wayne situation, Bobby handed out suspensions. Both teams got to compete in the post-season. What gives?
I've been thinking about this… so I can't sleep. And what keeps coming back to me is a simple phrase – "arbitrary and capricious." That's what the late Judge Calvin Peete said in two well-known court cases a few years ago about the way that the IHSAA makes its decisions.
I covered both of those trials. And quite frankly, I didn't then understand what judge Peete meant by "arbitrary and capricious." I just remember that Kenny and Angel got to play and that Angel helped ECCentral win a state championship.
So back to my conversations with commissioner Cox this week. Several times Bobby said that he had met with member institutions and that they're sick of the bad stuff at games, that if we don't watch out we'll be going to a funeral instead of a game. He also pointed to a commission that he set up that basically reiterated that everyone's sick of the BS (bad stuff) at games.
I asked him then – is this a policy shift for the IHSAA? When in the past it was suspensions, now it's cancellations?
"Our membership has spoken," Bobby said.
Sounds like a shift in policy, or as my lawyer wife would say, the making of case law. As I see it, Bobby Cox is decreeing that if 1. your players get in a fight, 2. fans come on the floor or playing field, and 3. benches clear – your season is over.
If those are the rules, I'm good with that. As long as Bobby Cox writes them down.
Bobby needs to spell out exactly what will end a team's season. Because if nothing's written down, then it's just one guy choosing who continues on after a fight and who doesn't, without any written rules to go by. That's the definition of Judge Peete's "arbitrary and capricious." Lawyers will have a field day, and when that happens we all suffer. Also, if you write down the rules and coaches read those specific rules to players, parents, fans, the media, you get a huge deterrent effect. Less fights, more sports. - Here's the rules. If we violate them, then our season's over.
4. Race hatred. In the wake of the IHSAA decision to ban the all- or mostly- black Griffith and Hammond teams for the rest of the season, and the simultaneous stripping of the all-black Jackie Robinson West Little League team of its US championship, I got some disturbing calls on the radio. Caller Joe said that white people – me included – secretly want to see black kids suffer. And to top that – "White police officers are just KKK members in blue uniforms." The next caller - Will from the southeast side – echoed that. Couple that with white guys pointing at blacks as the problem, and sometimes it's just too much to take. Listen to the podcasts and tell me how well you sleep.
5. Sportsmanship Dinner guys missing an opportunity.
As you know, 61 years ago there was a rumble at the Hammond sectional, so some Hammond businessmen got all the teams together and held a dinner so that it wouldn't happen again. It's been going and growing ever since, bringing around 30 teams, some 900 people in all, to a hall in Schererville the Monday before sectionals week. It's one of the coolest enduring institutions around.
Here's the moment that the healing begins. You invite Hammond High and Griffith to the dinner, and you give their players a couple minutes at the microphone. That's when the healing begins. . Honor the spirit of healing that the Sportsmanship Dinner started with in the first place, guys. Seize the opportunity.
---- It's not 12:15am anymore. It's 1:47am, and in three hours and 43 minutes life starts playing out on the radio again. Hope you'll be rested for it. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 34 |
in: Locations, 1980s, 1990s,
Fictional nightclubs
Fictional restaurants
Fictional waitstaff
Images of Anna Devane
Images of Duke Lavery
Images of Robert Scorpio
Images of Sean Donely
Duke's
Delafield's redirects here.
Duke's Club
Duke and Anna tango at Duke's Club (1988)
Duke Lavery
(original owner)
Terry O'Connor
(former owner)
Katherine Delafield
1067 Bricksley Road
Duke's was a restaurant/night club in the city of Port Charles, New York.
Run by Duke Lavery and Felicia Jones, this club was a popular hangout for Port Charles residents in the late 1980's. Frisco Jones and Terri O'Connor regularly performed. Duke also opened a sister club on April 22, 1988 in New York City, called Club Duke as a front for the Jerome mob, it closed on January 24, 1989.
On June 10, 1988 vandals trash Duke's and spray paint graffiti on the walls. It closes that night, until its cleaned up. Olivia Jerome later assisted Duke with the remodeling. The club reopens on July 5, 1988, and it floods the same night.
After Duke's presumed death in 1989, Anna decides to sell the club to Terri O'Connor. It reopens in July 1989. Frisco Jones performs at it's reopening.
Katherine, Anna, Robert, and Sean at Delafield's (1990)
After Duke's presumed death, the club was purchased in 1990 by classical pianist Katherine Delafield and reopened under the name Delafield's on June 1 of the same year. She left on a world tour at the end of November in 1990, leaving Angel and Mary Finnegan in charge.
Port Charles was struck by an Earthquake in April 1991 and the building was condemned. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 35 |
Thidrin has just released its new album Rhenniwhich will be available in the market very soon. This new album is composed of twelve hits that deal with different topics ranging from love, freedom, politics and others.
The album title is inspired from henna "Rhenni". Historically, henna was used for cosmetic purposes in north Africa by the Amazigh women when celebrating traditions such as marriage. The weeding party used to be an occasion where the girls of the village meet to sing dance and tell Izran (poetry), which is an oral tradition characterized by improvisation. Thidrin is one of the unique bands that tries always to open the Amazigh traditional music on other international styles to promote it to the world stage. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 36 |
Q: Searching on Multiple Fields using BST Suppose we need to create an address book that can provide search functionality on multiple fields, with a large number of records. The structure is very simple – name, phone number and city name.
I can type "begin with Ron..." or "begin with 202..." or "begin with Arling..."
Then it will give me the expected results.
First solution come up to my mind is, create three BST, one based on phone number, one based on name, the third one based on city.
NOW I AM THINKING, is there a way to create one BST (or any other methods), but still make the search work, without sort it every time?
Thanks in advance.
A: You could do it with a single BST. The BST node would be:
class BSTNode
{
string Key;
byte KeyType; // 0=Name, 1=City, 2=Phone
AddressRec Record;
}
And the AddressRec is of course a reference to the actual address record.
You end up having three entries in the BST for each record. So given an address record:
rec0 = { Name = "Jim", City = "Austin", Phone="512-555-1212" }
You would add the records:
BST.Add(rec0.Name, 0, rec0);
BST.Add(rec0.City, 1, rec0);
BST.Add(rec0.Phone, 2, rec0);
And your search would take the record type as a parameter.
This is easier to manage in that you only have one BST, but searching is going to be a little slower, but by a constant factor. Search in a BST is O(log n), and your combined BST is going to have three times as many nodes as the three special-purpose trees. Still, it's not linearly slower. That is, if you have 1,024 address entries then each of your special-purpose trees will have 1024 nodes. log2(1024) is 10. Your single tree will have 3,072 nodes. log2(3,072) is 11.58. So individual searches will be slightly slower.
Note, though, that it's slightly slower by a constant factor. Consider this table:
n log2(n) log2(3n)
16 4 5.58
128 7 8.58
1024 10 11.58
2^20 20 21.58
On average the single tree will require approximately two extra probes per search, regardless of how many items are in the BST.
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Bluff Manufacturing was founded in 1968 near Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, manufacturing primarily yard ramps. They quickly established themselves as a dock equipment company, expanding into the southwest, and then eventually the entire U.S. as well as Canada, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. Bluff is now a leading manufacturer of dock levelers, primarily edge-of-dock levelers, with standard height and low dock options. In addition to their levelers, they offer dock plates and dock boards that function as a low cost solution in a low volume loading and unloading application. These are to be used with hand trucks and pallet jacks, and should not be used with forklifts or other power equipment. Similar to dock boards, Bluff's rail boards are an effective solution for loading and unloading railroad freight cars. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 38 |
With its palm lined boulevards and beautifully appointed homes, Trasacco Valley is the most exclusive residential estate in Ghana and a truly secure enclave. This five-bedroom mansion, is built on a 2,779m2 walled and gated plot.
Recessed down lights to all rooms. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 39 |
Q: Return adjacent duplicates in Erlang I'm trying to learn recursion in Erlang and I am working through a book.
But I'm hitting a wall when faced with the problem of taking a list and returning only the duplicate elements.
I tried writing a function which returns only the unique elements and then removing them from the original list.
adjacent_dups(L) -> L -- uniques(L).
uniques([]) -> [];
uniques([H|T]) -> [H | [X || X <- uniques(T), X /= H]].
This will however not give the correct result when the list is not well structured.
L = [7,3,4,3]
My code will return
adjacent_dups([7,3,4,3]) -> 3
How can I get
adjacent_dups([7,3,4,3]) -> []
A: Use pattern matching in the function head to find adjacent identical values:
adjacent_dups(L) ->
adjacent_dups(L, #{}).
adjacent_dups([], Acc) ->
maps:keys(Acc);
adjacent_dups([H,H|T], Acc) ->
adjacent_dups(T,maps:put(H,H,Acc));
adjacent_dups([_|T], Acc) ->
adjacent_dups(T, Acc).
The first function adjacent_dups/1 is meant to be exported. The rest, adjacent_dups/2, are helper functions.
The adjacent_dups/1 function creates an empty map to pass to adjacent_dups/2 as the initial value of an accumulator. Recursive functions often use accumulators.
The first clause of adjacent_dups/2 handles the case where the incoming list has been exhausted or was empty to start with. In that case, we retrieve the keys of the accumulator map; these are our adjacent values.
The second clause of adjacent_dups/2 handles the case of adjacent values using pattern matching. In this case, we add the value as a key and value to the accumulator map, and call ourselves recursively with the tail of the list. Using a map eliminates duplicates from the final result.
The final clause of adjacent_dups/2 handles the case where a value does not have an adjacent value; it simply makes a recursive call with the tail of the list and an unmodified accumulator.
A: If you only want adjacent duplicates you can try pattern matching them out pairwise from your list. Here is a naive solution to get you started. It assumes that duplicates are only found in pairs (never three in a row, for example):
adjacent_dups([]) -> [];
adjacent_dups([A,A|Tail]) -> [A|adjacent_dups(Tail)];
adjacent_dups([_Head|Tail]) -> adjacent_dups(Tail).
If we think a little bit more about it we might realize that we can handle triplets in the same way. And by making that case only consume the first value and put the other two back we can actually make it generic enough to work even if there are more than two in a row. Watch the magic:
adjacent_dups([]) -> [];
adjacent_dups([A,A,A|Tail]) -> adjacent_dups([A,A|Tail]);
adjacent_dups([A,A|Tail]) -> [A|adjacent_dups(Tail)];
adjacent_dups([_Head|Tail]) -> adjacent_dups(Tail).
Here is the output:
adjacent_dups([1,1,1,1,2,3,4,55,55,6,7,8,8,8,1]).
[1,55,8]
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Окръг Критъндън () е окръг в щата Кентъки, Съединени американски щати. Площта му е 961 km², а населението - 9384 души (2000). Административен център е град Мариън.
Окръзи в Кентъки | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaWikipedia'} | 41 |
I chatted with Nicholas Cain this morning, Managing Director of Cain Medical.
development. Cain Medical is the third vendor in a group including HEI (and their LinkIt) and Capsule Technologie.
data, providing acknowledgement and re sends of data when required.
the IEEE 1073 MIB and DICOM.
will tell how solutions like Sensitron or devices with their own connectivity (like smart pumps or telemetry) fit into solutions like Cain Medical's.
This is definitely a company to keep an eye on. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 42 |
White Gate is a luxury Alamo real estate home development located at the end of Stone Valley Rd. White Gate was built by Harold Smith Builders between 1982 and 1993, and features a gorgeous setting nestled in the oak-studded hills of East Alamo. Ranging from 2000 sq ft up to 4000 sq ft or more, White Gate homes for sale in Alamo CA are on lots typically in the 1/3 to 1/2 acre range, with some up to 1 acre. White Gate Houses in Alamo are very close to Monte Vista, Los Cerros & Green Valley Schools. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 43 |
There is a serious epidemic spreading across the country, and I think that it's about time to shed some much needed light on what can only be described as a tragic issue that is homegrown, and in dire need of correction. As many of you are aware the wars we have waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other smaller countries in the middle east have lasted 8 1/2 years. In effect, the longest armed conflict in American history.
The 'war on terror' was a very unique war in so far as it was fought by a 100% volunteer armed services contingent. What this means is that over 99% of the American public had no visceral ties to the conflict. In addition, unlike say World War 1, and World War 2, we as a nation did not have to make any serious sacrifices and/or rationing requirements. The result of all of this is that we have a public that is disconnected from the soldiers that have fought for it's existence.
Here is the real issue...Everyday in these United States of America, Twenty-two (22) Iraq/Afghanistan veterans commit suicide. I'lll repeat. Every 24 hours, 22 war veterans commit suicide. That's about one suicide every hour (65 Minutes to be exact). That's basically a 'Newtown' massacre amount of death (26) everyday. In the years between 2004 and 2009 the rates of suicide doubled.
To put it yet another way, that's thirty (30) suicides per every 100,000 people in this country. This is an epidemic. Something needs to be done, this issue requires much more attention than it's been getting. Our soldiers deserve much better. This past Wednesday afternoon one of these veterans 34 year old SPC. Ivan Lopez not only killed himself, but he decided to take an additional three (3) lives with him at Fort Hood, Texas. The second mass shooting at that facility in 5 years. A recent study/survey performed by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Washington Post, found that 55% of Iraq war veterans felt 'disconnected' from civilian society. 43% of those are suffering from some form of physical health problems. 30% are suffering from serious mental health issues. 51% of Iraq/Afghanistan veterans either know someone who has committed suicide, or someone who has thought about it.
We are talking about young people from their late teens to their mid thirties. Our soldiers have made the ultimate commitment to us as a nation, therefore it should go without saying that we owe them our full respect and commitment to look out for their collective welfare upon their return to civilian life. The backlog in terms of Veterans healthcare is abysmal. Soldiers are waiting upwards of a year or more to have their claims attended to, and health issues addressed. This situation cannot stand. As an Army veteran myself, I find this situation appalling. In many ways this is a slap in the face to people who in no way deserve it. Regardless of how you may personally feel about the legitimacy, or necessity of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts, you cannot turn a blind eye to the pain and suffering of our veterans.
I think that it's important to not only express our gratitude to our veterans, but to also demand action from our elected officials. Specifically in Congress. The issue of the welfare of our veterans should be every bit an election issue in 2014 & 2016 as any other. The United States is the greatest democracy in the world because of the risk and sacrifice of our veterans. It's our turn to give back. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 44 |
Convergence and Technologies
Determination of Tumor Margins with Surgical Specimen Mapping Using Near-Infrared Fluorescence
Rebecca W. Gao, Nutte T. Teraphongphom, Nynke S. van den Berg, Brock A. Martin, Nicholas J. Oberhelman, Vasu Divi, Michael J. Kaplan, Steven S. Hong, Guolan Lu, Robert Ertsey, Willemieke S.F.J. Tummers, Adam J. Gomez, F. Christopher Holsinger, Christina S. Kong, Alexander D. Colevas, Jason M. Warram and Eben L. Rosenthal
Rebecca W. Gao
1Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Nutte T. Teraphongphom
2Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Nynke S. van den Berg
Brock A. Martin
3Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Nicholas J. Oberhelman
Vasu Divi
Michael J. Kaplan
Steven S. Hong
Guolan Lu
Robert Ertsey
Willemieke S.F.J. Tummers
4Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Adam J. Gomez
F. Christopher Holsinger
Christina S. Kong
Alexander D. Colevas
5Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Jason M. Warram
6Department of Otolaryngology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Eben L. Rosenthal
For correspondence: elr@stanford.edu
DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-18-0878 Published September 2018
For many solid tumors, surgical resection remains the gold standard and tumor-involved margins are associated with poor clinical outcomes. Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging using molecular agents has shown promise for in situ imaging during resection. However, for cancers with difficult imaging conditions, surgical value may lie in tumor mapping of surgical specimens. We thus evaluated a novel approach for real-time, intraoperative tumor margin assessment. Twenty-one adult patients with biopsy-confirmed squamous cell carcinoma arising from the head and neck (HNSCC) scheduled for standard-of-care surgery were enrolled. Cohort 1 (n = 3) received panitumumab-IRDye800CW at an intravenous microdose of 0.06 mg/kg, cohort 2A (n = 5) received 0.5 mg/kg, cohort 2B (n = 7) received 1 mg/kg, and cohort 3 (n = 6) received 50 mg. Patients were followed 30 days postinfusion and adverse events were recorded. Imaging was performed using several closed- and wide-field devices. Fluorescence was histologically correlated to determine sensitivity and specificity. In situ imaging demonstrated tumor-to-background ratio (TBR) of 2 to 3, compared with ex vivo specimen imaging TBR of 5 to 6. We obtained clear differentiation between tumor and normal tissue, with a 3-fold signal difference between positive and negative specimens (P < 0.05). We achieved high correlation of fluorescence intensity with tumor location with sensitivities and specificities >89%; fluorescence predicted distance of tumor tissue to the cut surface of the specimen. This novel method of detecting tumor-involved margins in surgical specimens using a cancer-specific agent provides highly sensitive and specific, real-time, intraoperative surgical navigation in resections with complex anatomy, which are otherwise less amenable to image guidance.
Significance: This study demonstrates that fluorescence can be used as a sensitive and specific method of guiding surgeries for head and neck cancers and potentially other cancers with challenging imaging conditions, increasing the probability of complete resections and improving oncologic outcomes. Cancer Res; 78(17); 5144–54. ©2018 AACR.
Surgical resection remains the primary treatment for many solid tumors, and failure to pinpoint residual neoplastic tissue results in positive surgical margins, which are correlated with locoregional recurrence and poor patient outcomes, emphasizing the need for improved intraoperative identification of tumor-involved margins (1–3).
Surgeries for squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck (HNSCC) may especially benefit from real-time tumor discrimination due to the unforgiving nature of tumor margins in complex head and neck anatomy. If the resection is too conservative, the patient may suffer local recurrence from residual tumor, too aggressive, and critical functional and aesthetic features of the face may be compromised. Currently, intraoperative margin assessment relies on frozen analysis of select tissue specimens, a time-intensive method that can only sample a small portion of the wound bed or the primary specimen and is limited to certain tissue types.
There have been several attempts in different cancer types at developing suitable techniques for the real-time assessment of tumor margins, including radiofrequency spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, photoacoustics, optical coherence tomography, Cerenkov luminescence using fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) tracers, and sheet light microscopy, among others (4–6). These methods all have their own challenges and limitations. Notably, these methods have largely focused on in situ imaging of tumor tissue during resection.
Although HNSCC resections may especially benefit from fluorescence guidance, they are also uniquely challenging for optical imaging due to the orientation difficulties created by complex and heterogeneous topography and interference from shadowing, especially within the oral cavity (7). As such, in the case of head and neck cancers and other cancers with difficult in situ imaging conditions, surgical value may primarily lie in the fluorescence evaluation of surgical specimens.
Conveniently, over 90% of HNSCCs overexpress the EGFR, presenting an attractive, cancer-specific target for contrast agents (8). EGFR is a transmembrane cell surface glycoprotein frequently overexpressed in many other types of solid tumors as well, broadening its oncologic applicability (9). We conjugated the therapeutic anti-EGFR antibody panitumumab to a near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent dye and evaluated panitumumab-IRDye800CW in a dose escalation clinical trial. We chose to repurpose an FDA-approved therapeutic agent for imaging given the already-demonstrated safety, regulatory efficiency, cost savings, and promising in-human results (10–14).
Panitumumab is a fully humanized monoclonal IgG2 antibody that binds to the extracellular domain of EGFR with high affinity, and it was first FDA approved in 2006 for metastatic colorectal cancer (15, 16). Preclinical research with panitumumab-IRDye800CW showed high tumor-to-background ratios (TBR) and the ability to detect microscopic areas of disease invisible to the naked eye (16, 17). Previous research on another anti-EGFR antibody, cetuximab-IRDye800CW, demonstrated promising results, and, due to the higher binding affinity and improved safety profile of panitumumab, we chose panitumumab-IRDye800CW to evaluate a new, innovative method of utilizing fluorescence for tumor discrimination and tumor mapping of surgical specimens (18).
The primary aims of our study were to provide evidence of safety, tumor-specific uptake, and assessment of tumor-involved margins in surgical specimens versus in situ imaging using an intravenously administered panitumumab-IRDye800CW in patients with HNSCC.
We performed a single-center, nonrandomized, prospective phase I study. The study protocol was approved by the Stanford University Institutional Review Board (IRB 35064) and the FDA (NCT 02415881), and written informed consent was obtained from all patients. The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, FDA's ICH-GCP guidelines, and United States Common Rule.
All adult patients with biopsy-proven, primary or recurrent HNSCC scheduled to undergo standard-of-care surgery with curative intent were eligible. Exclusion criteria included a life expectancy of less than 12 weeks, a Karnofsky performance status <70%, prior infusion reactions to mAbs, QT prolongation on screening electrocardiogram (ECG; >440 ms in males, and >450 ms in females), significant cardiopulmonary or liver disease, abnormal electrolyte values, and/or utilization of class IA or class III antiarrhythmic agents.
Four cohorts of patients were enrolled in this dose escalation study. Cohort 1 (n = 3) received a microdose of 0.06 mg/kg (1/100 of one therapeutic panitumumab dose) and was primarily assessed for safety. Cohort 1 was not included in the statistical analysis and served only as a negative reference point, as the devices were insufficiently sensitive to detect this concentration level of dye. Cohort 2 was used to assess for ranging dose. Cohort 2A (n = 5) received a loading dose of 100 mg of unlabeled panitumumab, followed by a 0.5 mg/kg (1/12 of therapeutic) infusion of the study drug, conjugated panitumumab-IRDye800CW. Cohort 2B (n = 7) received the same loading dose as cohort 2A and an infusion of 1 mg/kg (1/6 or therapeutic) of panitumumab-IRDye800CW. Cohort 3 (n = 6) received a fixed dose of 50 mg of panitumumab-IRDye800CW. Preclinical research suggested the utility of a loading dose for improved tissue contrast, and we thus examined dosages both with and without a loading dose, as flat dosing may simplify dosing and minimize costs (19).
Briefly, patients were infused with the study drug 1 to 5 days prior to surgery, fluorescence imaging was obtained both of the surgery and of the surgical specimens intraoperatively, and final pathology correlation was obtained (Fig. 1A–D).
Clinical workflow. The patient is intravenously infused with the panitumumab-IRDye800CW 1 to 5 days prior to surgery (A). During surgery, in situ fluorescence imaging is obtained intraoperatively with open-field imaging devices (B). Closed-field fluorescence imaging of the surgical specimens is also performed (C). After surgery, all surgical specimens undergo standard histopathologic analysis, and fluorescence intensity is compared with EGFR expression and tumor location (D).
Panitumumab-IRDye800CW conjugation
Panitumumab-IRDye800 was produced under GMP at the Leidos Biomedical Research Center (Frederick, MD). IRDye800CW-NHS (IRDye800CW-N-hydroxysuccinimide ester; LI-COR Biosciences) was used as a fluorescent probe with a NIR absorption and emission peak of 778 nm/794 nm as discussed previously (17, 20, 21). Briefly, panitumumab (Vectibix; Amgen; 147 kDa) was conjugated to IRDye800CW-NHS by a 2-hour incubation at 20°C in the dark with a dye-to-protein ratio of 2.3:1. Quality control of the conjugate included analysis of drug product in a sterile vial for particulates and integrity of the sterilizing filter. Upon production and vialing, vials were transported to Stanford University (Stanford, CA) where they were stored at the Stanford Health Care Investigational Pharmacy.
Adverse events were categorized according to the NCI Common Terminology Criteria (version 4.0). Safety data and adverse events were collected at 15 days, and patients were followed for 30 days postinfusion. General physical exam and Karnofsky performance status were assessed prior to enrollment and on the day of surgery, day 15, and day 30. Serum chemistry, metabolic panels, complete blood count, prothrombin/partial thromboplastin times, and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels were obtained on day 0, day of surgery, and as needed for up to 30 days after drug infusion. ECGs were performed at screening, 30 minutes postinfusion of the unlabeled antibody loading dose, 2 hours postinfusion of the antibody–dye complex, and day 30.
Intraoperative NIR imaging
Intraoperative imaging was performed using two wide-field optical imaging systems modified for IRDye800 fluorescence imaging: PINPOINT (Novadaq), and SurgVision Explorer Air (SurgVision BV). During surgery, NIR imaging of the primary tumor was performed prior to and during tumor resection. After tumor removal, the wound bed was imaged. The surgeon then obtained tissue specimens from the wound bed at select margin areas most suspicious for residual tumor involvement according to clinical judgment. In patients undergoing neck dissections, we imaged the lymph nodes and postdissection wound bed. Our protocol stipulated that imaging data would not guide the surgical procedure, and all resections were performed per standard of care. To minimize ambient lighting, overhead, head-lamp, and room lights were turned off for imaging.
All patient specimens (including the primary tumor specimen, wound bed margins, and lymph nodes) were imaged on the OR back table immediately after resection. Imaging was performed using a closed-field NIR optical imaging system (Pearl Triology imaging platform; LI-COR Biosciences; 800 nm channel) and the two wide-field imaging devices previously described. Images from the open-field devices were immediately available on the screen in real time as a continuous video. The images for the closed-field device (i.e., PEARL) took approximately 15 seconds to capture.
Histopathology processing
The surgical specimens were processed for frozen section or formalin fixation by the pathologist. Select wound bed margins underwent frozen section analysis and the specimens were exhausted. All other specimens were fixed in formalin. After formalin fixation, the primary tumor was sliced at 5-mm intervals and sectioned to fit in cassettes. The cassettes were imaged with a closed-field NIR optical imaging system (Pearl Triology imaging platform; LI-COR Biosciences; 800 nm channel) for measuring fluorescence signal. The specimens in the cassettes were embedded in paraffin for standard histologic processing.
Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) specimen blocks were serially sectioned at 5-μm thickness. The slides were dried overnight at 37°C and baked for 2 hours at 65°C. Both FFPE blocks and slides were scanned for NIR fluorescence using the Odyssey CLx scanning system (LI-COR Biosciences), using the 800-nm channel, at 21-μm lateral spatial resolution and the highest quality setting.
FFPE tissue slides were deparaffinized with xylene and rehydrated in 100%/70%/50% concentration ethanol. One slide from each FFPE block was stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) according to standard procedure. All slides were examined by a board-certified pathologist to delineate tumor.
In addition, selected blocks were immunohistochemically evaluated for EGFR expression and tumor identification. Briefly, slides were treated with heat-induced antigen retrieval in EDTA-based buffer (pH 9.0) for 15 minutes, followed by endogenous peroxidase blocking for 30 minutes. For EGFR staining, tissue sections were incubated for 2 hours with anti-EGFR primary antibody (clone EP38Y, prediluted; in 0.025 mol/L Tris-HCl, Thermo Fisher Scientific), then followed by a 30-minute incubation with goat anti-rabbit secondary antibody (Vector Laboratories). For cytokeratin (CK) staining, the slides were incubated with the anti-pan cytokeratin mAb AE1/AE3 (ab961, Abcam) and followed by a 30-minute incubation with goat anti-mouse secondary antibody (Vector Laboratories). Both EGFR and CK slides, were treated with streptavidin for 1 hour and ImmPACT DAB Peroxidase (HRP; Vector Laboratories) for 5 minutes. Sections were counterstained with Mayer's hematoxylin, dehydrated in a series of alcohol and xylene, and coverslipped with mounting media. Stained slides were scanned digitally using a whole slide scanner (Hamamatsu NanoZoomer 2.0-RS).
Microscopy fluorescence imaging
For fluorescence microscopy, selected tissue slides were deparaffinized, and the nuclei were counterstained with 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI, Prolong Gold, Life Technologies). Stained slides were dried in the dark at 4°C overnight. The slides were imaged using a custom set-up inverted digital fluorescence microscope (DM6B Leica Biosystems) equipped with a highly sensitive Leica DFC9000GTIs camera (4.2M Pixel sCMOS camera), a metal halide LED light source (X-Cite 200DC, Excelitas Technologies) for DAPI imaging, and a xenon arc lamp LB-LS/30 (Sutter Instrument) for NIR imaging of IRDye800. Image acquisition and processing was done through LAS X software (Leica Biosystems). Images were stitched using Adobe Photoshop CS6.0 software.
Image analysis.
The images from the wide-field devices were analyzed using ImageJ (version 1.50i, NIH, Bethesda, MD). For imaging data acquired by the SurgVision Explorer device, images were processed into a compatible format using integrated instrument software for the SurgVision (SV_view, SurgVision BV) prior to ImageJ analysis.
For in situ imaging of the primary tumor, the TBRs were calculated as fluorescence intensity of the primary tumor divided by the fluorescence intensity of the background (peritumoral area). Peritumoral tissue for in situ imaging was standardized and defined as the area immediately adjacent to tumor tissue with the same-sized area as the tumor. The region of interest (ROI) for tumor was determined based on the fluorescence images and confirmed with H&E. Peritumoral tissue was chosen as the background fluorescence to capture a TBR more reflective of realistic views of the tumor during resections.
For the back-table imaging of the lymph nodes and sectioned primary tumor specimens, TBRs were calculated as fluorescence intensity of the entire specimen divided by the fluorescence intensity of a piece of muscle from the patient. Muscle has low EGFR expression and therefore served as a negative control (18). This alternate method was used because tumor versus peritumoral area could not be delineated, because the purpose of pathologic analysis of these specimens is to determine whether or not tumor tissue is involved.
For the back-table imaging of the wound bed margins, TBRs were calculated as fluorescence intensity of the entire specimen divided by average fluorescence intensity of three randomly selected spaces (not including the specimen itself) with the same size as the specimen. This calculation method was used because the wound bed margins are often sent for frozen section pathologic analysis intraoperatively, prior to availability of a muscle specimen for comparison.
Correlation of EGFR expression and fluorescence intensity.
To determine the correlation between fluorescence intensity and EGFR expression, three ROIs were randomly drawn based on each IHC-stained EGFR slide. The mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of the ROIs was measured in a consecutive tissue slide from Odyssey CLX fluorescence scanning system (LI-COR Biosciences) and the system's integrated instrument software (ImageStudio, LI-COR Biosciences). Staining intensities for EGFR in each of the corresponding ROIs were calculated through analysis of whole slide scanned images (Hamamatsu NanoZoomer 2.0-RS). Image analysis was done in ImageJ. Image thresholds and the percentage of EGFR-positive stained area related to the total ROI area were calculated (EGFR-stained area/total ROI area), and a regression line was generated.
Correlation of fluorescence signal with tumor depth.
After removal from the patient, the gross primary tumor specimen was imaged by closed-field fluorescence imaging devices of the entire deep margin surface (Supplementary Fig. S2A and S2B). The threshold was calculated using the average of the MFIs of tumor tissue in primary tumor specimens as the standard for tumor tissue fluorescence signal, and we used one half that MFI value as the threshold for fluorescence. All areas on the deep margin surface of the gross specimen exceeding this threshold were considered positive for fluorescence, and all other areas were negative. Pathology slides sectioned from fluorescent areas of the deep margin were considered fluorescence positive.
The distance between the tumor-involved tissue and the deep margin surface of the specimen for each pathology slide was measured using ImageJ for both fluorescence-positive and fluorescence-negative slides. The lateral width of the tumor area was measured and divided into 10 equal intervals (Supplementary Fig. S2C). At the beginning of each interval, the straight-line distance between the tumor-involved area and the deep margin surface was measured for a total of 10 measurements per slide (Supplementary Fig. S2D). The average distances of tumor-involved tissue from the deep margin in fluorescent-positive slides were comparedwith average distances in fluorescence-negative slides using unpaired, two-tailed t tests by patient and by cohort.
Sensitivity and specificity.
To determine the sensitivity and specificity of panitumumab-IRDye800CW for surgical specimens, an ROC analysis was performed on data from all tissue specimens submitted for pathologic evaluation. Based on each tissue cassette, we determined the MFI, defined as total counts divided by ROI pixel area. Next, the pathologist, using the corresponding H&E slide as the gold standard, assessed whether or not the tumor was present in the cassette using a binary (yes/no) approach. We calculated the sensitivity and specificity of the fluorescence signal of the formalin-fixed tissues against the H&E result. Gland regions exhibited elevated fluorescence and were excluded.
To determine the sensitivity and specificity for wound bed margin assessment, we used a slightly different approach. Recognizing the importance of sensitivity over specificity (i.e., exclusion of false-negatives), we aimed for maximal sensitivity. The TBRs for each wound bed margin specimen were compared with the pathology diagnosis, and the differences between the TBRs for negative margins and positive margins were analyzed using an unpaired t test (two-tailed). Dysplastic tissue was considered "positive" because it resulted in further surgical resection. Specimens composed completely of bone tissue were excluded due to poor fluorescence penetration. For cohort 3 (50 mg), the primary resecting surgeon was asked to predict whether each margin specimen was involved by malignancy, and the resulting sensitivity and specificity were compared with predictions by the fluorescence imaging.
For the deep margins, the sensitivity and specificity of the fluorescence signal in detecting tumor-involved areas within 1 and 2 mm of the deep margin were calculated in GraphPrism by cohort. One and 2 mm were selected because these are the distances commonly used by pathologists to indicate close and/or negative resection margins for HNSCC.
Statistical analysis was performed using a two-way ANOVA for validity of the differences between groups where a single condition changed (version 6.0c, GraphPad Software). Correlations of surgical imaging to quantitative measures of fluorescence in surgical specimens and IHC analyses of specimens were investigated for the purposes of colocalization and correlation (Pearson correlation) and for determination of MFI obtained by fluorescence signal. A P value of 0.05 or less was considered statistically significant.
From December 2015 to October 2017, 31 patients with biopsy-proven HNSCC were screened for enrollment. Ten patients did not meet eligibility criteria. Patient and tumor characteristics of the remainder 21 patients are summarized in Supplementary Fig. S1. The average age at diagnosis was 62 years old (range, 32–85), and the majority presented with oral cavity SCC (81%). Tumor size (determined by pathology) ranged from 6 to 55 mm (median 32.5 mm) in maximum dimension. Patients in cohort 1 received a microdose (0.06 mg/kg or an average of 4.7 ± 0.7 mg of panitumumab-IRDye800CW), cohort 2A received 0.5 mg/kg (average 39.2 ± 6.9 mg), cohort 2B received 1.0 mg/kg (average 69.1 ± 12.3 mg), and cohort 3 received a fixed 50 mg dose.
No infusion reactions occurred, nor were there any abnormalities in hematology or blood chemistry levels after infusion of panitumumab-IRDye800CW that could be attributed to the study drug. There was a single grade 1–related adverse event in the microdose cohort (0.06 mg/kg); the patient experienced an increase in the QTc interval after infusion of the study drug but returned to baseline at the 30-day follow-up.
Cellular localization of panitumumab-IRDye800CW
In Fig. 2A–F, clear colocalization of fluorescence intensities from fluorescence imaging at 800 nm showed uniform, strong cytoplasmic, and membranous binding of panitumumab-IRDye800CW (green channel) to the tumor cells. This fluorescence was not observed in the normal tissues or the stromal compartment. Regions of high-grade dysplasia showed lower to normal uptake of dye compared with invasive cancer (Fig. 2E and F). DAPI (blue channel) was also used to stain the nuclei of the tissue improve image visualization. To determine the correlation between the fluorescence intensity and tumor location, cytokeratin, and EGFR expression, a board-certified pathologist outlined the areas of tumor (T) and normal tissue (N) on routine H&E slides (Fig. 2G–J). EGFR was highly expressed in tumor tissue and correlated well to high levels of fluorescence; linear regression analysis of percentage of EGFR area and fluorescence revealed a strong correlation (r2 = 0.8599, P < 0.001; Fig. 2K).
Target validation. Microscopy images of H&E stains of tumor and normal tissue (A and C) are compared with images showing EGFR expression (B and D). Areas of high-grade dysplasia (E) show increased EGFR expression (F), although less compared with areas of invasive carcinoma. A section of tumor and normal tissue is compared by H&E (G), cytokeratin staining (H), EGFR expression (I), and fluorescence intensity (J). EGFR expression shows a strong positive correlation with fluorescence intensity (K).
In situ surgical imaging
Video and still-frame images were obtained during surgery, and, from these images, TBRs were calculated to determine the ability of panitumumab-IRDye800CW to discriminate between normal and tumor tissue (Fig. 3A–D). In situ images of the primary tumor were analyzed and plotted by cohort. Average TBR of 2.4 ± 0.4 was found for cohort 2A (0.5 mg/kg), 2.6 ± 0.4 for cohort 2B (1.0 mg/kg), and 2.5 ± 0.4 cohort 3 (50 mg fixed dose). No statistically significant differences were observed between the TBRs of the wide-field devices (P > 0.05). In all patients, fluorescence imaging of the surgical specimens confirmed intraoperative findings. No intraoperative imaging was performed in cohort 1 (0.06 mg/kg panitumumab-IRDye800CW), as the dose was too low for in situ imaging, and the primary goal was to determine study drug safety.
In situ and surgical specimen mapping. A, TBRs by cohort of the in situ primary tumor obtained using an open-field device. B, An example of an in situ image. C, MFIs of tumor tissue in the primary tumor surgical specimen and background muscle by cohort obtained using a closed-field imaging device with TBRs. D, Sample image of a primary tumor specimen. E, Brightfield and fluorescence images of serial sections of tumor tissue, muscle, and skin by weight. F, Muscle, normal epithelium, and tumor tissue show positive linear correlation of weight and fluorescence signal. G, Normalized fluorescence by weight shows statistically significant difference between fluorescence of tumor compared with muscle and normal epithelial tissue.
Identifying the smallest amount of detectable disease.
When evaluating fluorescence intensities of different tissue types in the resected specimens, a strong correlation was found between fluorescence intensities, tissue weight, and tissue type, with r2 of 0.93, 0.83, and 0.79 for tumor, normal muscle, and normal epithelium, respectively (P < 0.001; Fig. 3E and F). Moreover, when looking at the normalized fluorescent signal by weight, a 12-fold increase in fluorescence signal was observed when comparing tumor and normal muscle (P < 0.0001). Similarly, a 3-fold fluorescence intensity difference was found between tumor and normal epithelium (which also expresses EGFR; P = 0.0002).
Surgical specimen tumor mapping
Tumor detection in the primary tumor specimen.
Evaluation of fluorescence intensity immediately after surgical resection and prior to formalin fixation was performed in a closed-field device. A quantitative comparison of MFI of the primary tumor and the enveloping uninvolved tissue (background) and TBRs are shown by cohort (Fig. 3C). There is no statistically significant difference in the background signal from cohorts 2A, 2B, and 3. We achieved average TBRs of 2.67 ± 0.7 for cohort 1 (0.06 mg/kg), 5.40 ± 0.6 for cohort 2A (0.5 mg/kg), 5.44 ± 0.7 for cohort 2B (1.0 mg/kg), and 6.53 ± 1.2 for cohort 3 (50 mg). As expected, in cohort 1 (0.06 mg/kg), minimal fluorescence signal in surgical specimens was detected. The difference in MFIs and TBRs between cohort 1 and the three other cohorts was statistically significant (P < 0.05), but there was no difference in TBRs between cohorts 2A, 2B, and 3.
To determine the overall specificity and sensitivity of panitumumab-IRDye800CW for neoplastic tissue, an ROC curve was generated from the MFI data from the specimen cassettes from each patient and plotted as sensitivity versus (1-specificity). Average positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and AUC are also displayed (Table 1). All cohorts showed very high sensitivity and NPV (≳90%). Cohorts 2B and 3 both showed higher specificity (91%, 92% vs. 78%) and PPV (86%, 82% vs. 68%) compared with cohort 2A. They also demonstrated higher AUC values (0.95, 0.93 vs. 0.83), although there was no statistical difference between cohorts 2B and 3 compared with cohort 2A (P = 0.09, P = 0.2).
Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, and AUC by cohort of the primary specimen shown as average values ± SEM
Tumor detection in margin samples.
When strips of tissue were obtained from the wound bed by the surgeon, these samples were imaged prior to frozen sectioning (Fig. 4A). The average TBR of positive wound bed samples in cohort 2A was 18.14 and 4.63 for negative margins (P = 0.0005; Fig. 4B). The average SBR for positive margins in cohort 3 was 50.27 and 11.12 for negative margins (P < 0.0001; Fig. 4C). Only cohorts 2A and 3 had positive wound bed margins for comparison.
Margin samples. A, Examples of tumor-involved (positive) and normal (negative) margin samples biopsied from the wound bed by the resecting surgeon per clinical judgment. B and C, TBRs of muscle, negative margin samples, and positive margin samples in cohort 2A (0.5 mg/kg; B) and cohort 3 (50 mg; C). There is a statistically significant difference between positive and negative margins (P = 0.0005; P < 0.0001).
In addition, panitumumab-IRDye800CW demonstrated a high sensitivity and specificity for the intraoperative detection of tumor-involved margin samples. In cohort 2A (0.5 mg/kg dose), there was a sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 90%, an AUC of 0.98 (P = 0.007), PPV of 80%, and NPV of 100% (Table 2). For cohort 3 (50 mg dose), there was a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 74%, AUC of 0.97 (P = 0.002), PPV of 52%, and NPV of 100%. Compared with the resecting surgeon, fluorescence signal revealed the presence of disease more consistently: Fluorescence had a much greater sensitivity (100% vs. 36%) and NPV (100% vs. 84%) with less specificity (74% vs. 97%) and PPV (52% vs. 80%).
Sensitivity and specificity of fluorescence for tumor-involved margin samples
Mapping tumor depth around the margins of the primary specimen.
At the deep surface of the primary tumor specimen, we examined the distance of tumor tissue from the specimen edges using fluorescence. In all three cohorts, fluorescence signal in an area indicated that tumor tissue was significantly closer to the margin edges than in areas without fluorescence (P < 0.0001; Fig. 5A–D). There was a significant difference between the tumor distance from the edges of fluorescent areas in cohort 2B compared with 2A and 3 (2A, P < 0.001; 3, P < 0.001). There was no difference between the tumor distance in fluorescent areas between cohorts 2A and 3 (P = 1).
Tumor mapping of surgical specimens. Distance of tumor tissue to the deep margin surface of the primary tumor specimen given as average tumor depth (mm) ± SD. Views of the entire deep margin surface of representative samples from cohort 2A (A), cohort 2B (B), and cohort 3 (C) are shown here. D, Comparison of tumor tissue depth from the deep margin surface of the primary tumor specimen in fluorescent areas versus areas without fluorescence.
Comparison of tumor tissue depth from the deep margin surface of the primary tumor specimen in fluorescent areas compared with areas without fluorescence was 2.5 ± 2.4 mm versus 7.6 ± 4.9 mm for cohort 2A [P < 0.0001, 95% confidence interval (CI), 4.3–5.9], 2.5 ± 1.8 mm versus 6.9 ± 3.5 mm for cohort 2B (P < 0.0001; 95% CI, 3.6–5.1), and 3.8 ± 2.5 mm versus 8.6 ± 3.7 mm for cohort 3 (P < 0.0001; 95% CI, 5.3–6.2).
Fluorescence had >95% sensitivity and >98% NPV for areas where the tumor tissue was ≤1 mm from the margin edge in all three cohorts 2A, 2B, 3 and 80% to 90% sensitivity and >90% NPV for tumor tissue ≤2 mm (Supplementary Tables S2 and S3). At both the ≤1 mm and ≤2 mm cutoffs, the cohorts showed lower specificity (50%–60%) and PPV (14%–50%). Generally, the ≤2 mm cutoff showed modestly higher specificity and PPV and lower sensitivity and NPV compared with the ≤1 mm cutoff. Cohort 2B demonstrated the lowest specificity and PPV compared with cohort 2A and cohort 3.
Fluorescently labeled antibodies have been a promising development for achieving tumor-specific, intraoperative guidance for oncologic resections. The focus, however, for optical image-guided surgery has predominantly centered around in situ surgical navigation during specimen removal. Experience in recent clinical trials suggests that open-field imaging may have distinct limitations using current hardware, depend on instrument positioning intrusions, and intrude on surgeon workflow (7). HNSCC and other cancers with limited exposure and narrow wound beds that result in difficult imaging conditions may derive more benefit from specimen tumor mapping rather than intermittent in situ imaging. To this end, we developed several specimen-mapping strategies to improve real-time information needed by the surgeon that integrates into the workflow of oncologic surgery.
Compared with previous research on other cancer-specific fluorescence tracers, we present two unique methods of utilizing fluorescence to detect tumor-involved margins within surgical specimens: screening intraoperative margin samples and identifying close or positive margins on deep margin of the primary tumor specimen (10–14, 18, 22). Margin sampling is an active area of research and controversy, which is a primary driving motivation for our research to improve intraoperative margin analysis through fluorescence imaging. There is significant controversy for which locations in the wound bed and how many locations are necessary to comprehensively determine the presence of residual disease. Surgical margins generally are obtained using two widely accepted methods: The first is the removal of small tissue biopsies from the wound bed by the surgeon. The second is that the entire specimen is examined by the surgeon and/or pathologist after which margins are taken. Thus, margin selection remains a controversial area of surgical oncology, and it is most often that the surgeon chooses the method based on personal preference, clinical circumstance, and institutional bias (23). Sending multiple margin samples is a resource-intensive method that can prolong anesthesia time while waiting for results. Our data show that positive, tumor-involved margin samples are significantly more fluorescent than normal, negative margin samples. Although the specificity is limited (74%–90%), the sensitivity and NPV is exceptionally high (100%, 100%). This enables fluorescence to be an ideal "rule out" test, allowing the clinical team to screen these margin samples and prioritize the fluorescent ones for further examination, leading to savings of time and labor.
On the other hand, although margin samples are used for the binary evaluation of whether or not tumor tissue is present in the sampled location, the goal for evaluating the primary tumor specimen is altogether different. The presence of tumor in the primary tumor specimen is undisputed, and it is instead necessary to determine resection completeness by examining how closely tumor tissue extends to the specimen edges. The presence of tumor tissue within 1 mm of the specimen surface is generally considered a positive margin, whereas tumor greater than 5 mm away is considered negative. Presence of tumor between 1 and 5 mm from the cut surface is often considered as a close margin. Our data indicate that fluorescence is sensitive for detection of tumor within the 0 to 5 mm range, which has potential future applications in allowing pathologists to prioritize fluorescent areas for further analysis, also leading to savings of time and labor.
Even more specifically, our data suggest that panitumumab-IRDye800CW can distinguish between areas of the primary specimen harboring tumor close to the edges and areas in which tumor is farther away, thus creating a fluorescent "map" predicting tumor depth across the entire surface of the specimen. This mapping capability can also be used to reduce the sampling error inherent to the current standard of sampling areas of the primary tumor specimen or the wound bed to determine the presence of tumor-involved margins. This sampling error may be further worsened by the limited ability of the surgeon to predict (and thus select to sample) areas with tumor-involved margins, as suggested by a 36% surgeon sensitivity for positive margins in our trial. Fluorescence, however, may be able to map out the entire specimen surface (the surgical margin) to identify suspicious areas of residual tumor tissue, as sampling can only inspect a fraction of this space. By using tumor mapping of surgical specimens, fluorescence can potentially assist in achieving complete resections and improved oncologic outcomes.
Our data suggest that, at our current level of technology, closed-field fluorescent tumor mapping of surgical specimens on the OR back table may provide more consistent data compared with open-field in situ imaging. In situ surgical imaging requires open-field devices that are subject to interference from ambient light, reflectance, and placement at variable angles to the tumor, whereas back-table imaging of surgical specimens can utilize closed-field devices with a controlled environment. The in situ images showed an average TBR of 2.5 compared with 5.8 for the surgical specimen images, in part due to interference from ambient lighting. We attempted to overcome these difficulties by reducing overhead lighting, but this often interrupts surgical workflow, whereas surgical specimen imaging can be performed in parallel on the back table while the surgeons operate, minimizing disruption from maneuvering the imaging devices. These closed-field devices are inexpensive, readily available, and relatively small. Given these advantages, closed-field devices with a controlled, standardized environment and the potential to generate three-dimensional tumor maps of surgical specimens may be an optimal way to leverage current technology.
We validated our results by examining fluorescence signal with tumor and normal tissue by linear weight measurements, and fluorescence intensity also correlated well with EGFR expression and density. Fluorescence signal was shown to be relatively homogeneous across the cytoplasm and cellular membrane of tumor tissue, consistent with the known antibody–receptor complex transition from the cell surface to the cytoplasm (24). Imaging contrast between tumor and normal tissue was consistent with preclinical data (25).
In terms of patient safety, panitumumab-IRDye800CW demonstrated a highly favorable safety profile. There were no infusion reactions, and only one grade 1 adverse event. This shows improved safety over cetuximab-IRDye800CW, a compound we previously used to demonstrate simple, initial feasibility and safety of a fluorescently labeled anti-EGFR antibody (10). When designing this study to evaluate the new methods for surgical specimen mapping we proposed, we chose panitumumab-IRDye800CW instead of cetuximab-IRDye800CW in order to improve patient safety, as panitumumab is a fully humanized mAb, whereas cetuximab is a human–mouse chimera. Accordingly, because we are using much lower doses for imaging compared with the therapeutic dose of panitumumab (which also has a safer profile as a parent compound compared with cetuximab), it is unsurprising to see minimal adverse effects (15, 16).
We also evaluated the optimal dosing necessary to achieve these detection goals. The three cohorts (2A, 2B, 3) did not show significantly different TBRs of the primary tumor specimen. A larger difference between fluorescence of positive and negative wound bed margins in cohort 3 (1 mg/kg) compared with cohort 2A (0.5 mg/kg) suggest that a higher dose may be more effective. However, cohort 2B (1 mg/kg) might have an unnecessarily high dose for mapping tumor depth on the primary specimen. Fluorescence intensity from tumor in cohort 3 (1 mg/kg) was strong enough to be detected at a deeper depth than cohort 3 (0.5 mg/kg) or cohort 3 (50 mg) but had tradeoffs in specificity and PPV. In addition, the loading dose of unlabeled antibody does not appear to add additional value. As such, cohort 3 (flat dose of 50 mg of panitumumab-IRDy800CW) appears to be the safest and most cost-effective dose.
The primary limitation of our trial is the small cohort sizes that limited the power to distinguish how tumor size and location may affect fluorescence signal. The tumors were not evaluated preoperatively for EGFR status, although we did not see different EGFR expression levels impact TBR on histologic examination. EGFR is also modestly expressed in the basal layer of normal mucosa and skin, which can increase background fluorescence (26). In addition, we did not examine and quantify the histologic characteristics of the resected tumors to assess for aggressive or complex features such as perineural invasion, distant tumor nests, and stromal alterations, which may affect drug uptake. HNSCC also exhibits inter- and intratumor heterogeneity, which we attempted to correct for by using each patient as his/her own control in the analysis.
A physical limitation of the technology is the penetration depth of NIR fluorescence (approximately 5 mm; ref. 27). This depth can identify tumor tissue in small margin samples and at distances relevant for determining resection completeness (0–5 mm) but cannot provide complete internal pictures of large specimens >10 mm in thickness. Compared with other intraoperative imaging methods in development, fluorescence imaging has acceptable penetration depth (compared with 1–2 mm for Cerenkov luminescence with radiotracers), faster imaging speeds (compared with 15–30 minutes for multispectral imaging), lack of ionizing radiation, and high spatial resolution (although less than sheet light microscopy; refs. 4–6, 28). In addition, new combinatory uses of fluorescence in optoacoustics (such as multispectral optoacoustic tomography) have shown potential to incorporate the high image fidelity of optical imaging with the increased penetration depth (3–5 cm) afforded by acoustic technology (28–30).
Overall, our data present a promising new avenue of utilizing fluorescence to identify both the presence of tumor tissue in margin samples as well as to map tumor depth in the primary tumor specimen. Tumor mapping of surgical specimens may be more revealing than in situ imaging in cancers with difficult imaging conditions in particular, but margin assessment utilizing the methods presented in this trial may potentially be applicable to all oncologic surgeries. These promising results from conjugating fluorescent dyes to therapeutic mAbs may prove to be a valuable method of combining existing technologies to develop safe, tumor-specific imaging agents to improve intraoperative detection of cancerous tissue to ultimately improve oncologic outcomes.
We present a novel method of detecting tumor-involved margins in surgical specimens using a cancer-specific agent to provide highly sensitive and specific, real-time, intraoperative surgical navigation in resections with complex anatomy otherwise poorly amenable to image guidance.
Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest
F.C. Holsinger is the founder and chief scientific advisor at Surgical Vision Technologies and has ownership interest (including stock, patents, etc.) in Surgical Vision Technologies, Inc. No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed by the other authors.
Conception and design: N.T. Teraphongphom, S.S. Hong, G. Lu, J.M. Warram, E.L. Rosenthal
Development of methodology: R.W. Gao, N.T. Teraphongphom, N.S. van den Berg, N.J. Oberhelman, G. Lu, W.S.F.J. Tummers, A.D. Colevas, J.M. Warram, E.L. Rosenthal
Acquisition of data (provided animals, acquired and managed patients, provided facilities, etc.): R.W. Gao, N.T. Teraphongphom, N.S. van den Berg, B.A. Martin, N.J. Oberhelman, V. Divi, M.J. Kaplan, S.S. Hong, G. Lu, W.S.F.J. Tummers, A.J. Gomez, F.C. Holsinger, C.S. Kong, A.D. Colevas, E.L. Rosenthal
Analysis and interpretation of data (e.g., statistical analysis, biostatistics, computational analysis): R.W. Gao, N.T. Teraphongphom, N.S. van den Berg, S.S. Hong, G. Lu, W.S.F.J. Tummers, A.J. Gomez, A.D. Colevas, J.M. Warram, E.L. Rosenthal
Writing, review, and/or revision of the manuscript: R.W. Gao, N.T. Teraphongphom, N.S. van den Berg, B.A. Martin, N.J. Oberhelman, V. Divi, S.S. Hong, G. Lu, W.S.F.J. Tummers, A.J. Gomez, C.S. Kong, A.D. Colevas, J.M. Warram, E.L. Rosenthal
Administrative, technical, or material support (i.e., reporting or organizing data, constructing databases): R.W. Gao, N.T. Teraphongphom, N.J. Oberhelman, G. Lu, R. Ertsey, E.L. Rosenthal
Study supervision: N.T. Teraphongphom, S.S. Hong, A.D. Colevas, J.M. Warram, E.L. Rosenthal
This work was supported by the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Stanford University School of Medicine Medical Scholars Program, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (019.171LW.022), and the NIH and the NCI (R01CA190306, R21CA182953, R21CA179171, T32CA091078). Institutional equipment loans were received from Novadaq, SurgVision.
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Cancer Research Online (http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/).
Received March 23, 2018.
Revision received May 3, 2018.
Accepted June 25, 2018.
Published first July 2, 2018.
©2018 American Association for Cancer Research.
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Paint Plastic reindeer with white acrylic paint. Let dry.
Remove lid by slowly bending lid backward to pull hinges away from box and sliding lid off. This is also a good time to remove that leftover mint dust because if anyone takes a picture of it at this stage, it might be embarrassing (cough, cough).
Using a pliers and tin snips, bend the hinge tabs on the box outward and snip off as close to the box as possible. (Hint: If you have an old pair of scissors that you don't care about, you can use these instead of tin snips to get a closer cut). Bend the remaining portion of the tabs back in, so that they are aligned with the box. Save the lid to use for another project.
Trace an outline of the Altoid box base onto the back side of the Robin's Nest Winter Deer Glitter Cardstock. Carefully cut this out, slightly inside the lines and try fitting it inside the tin. Make tiny incremental trims, if necessary, until you have a perfect fit. Remove and set aside.
Repeat Step 6 with the back side of the Winter Snowflakes Cardstock, adding 1/16 of an inch to the width of your strips. This should fit the outside sides of the tin.
Trace another outline of the Altoid box base onto the back side of the Winter Snowflakes Cardstock. Carefully cut this out, barely inside the lines and make sure it fits the back of the tin. Wait to trim this piece until Step 13. Set aside.
Apply matte medium (I used Liquitex) to the inside sides of the tin and the deer side of the Winter Deer Glitter Cardstock. Place the strips in the tin. Place the seam on the bottom of the tin because it will be the least obvious spot. The top of the tin will have the holes where the hinge was. If you did this right, the sides should now be covered in blue and white stripes.
Apply matte medium to the base of the tin and the Winter Deer Glitter Cardstock rectangle. Carefully set this base piece into place. Cover both the inside base and sides with a thin coat of matte medium. Let dry.
Using a small hole punch, make two small holes in the top of the tin where the hinge openings were.
Apply matte medium to the outer sides of the tin and the snowflake side of the Winter Snowflakes Cardstock strip. Place the strip on the tin, with the seam at the bottom of the tin. .
Check to make sure that that the Winter Snowflakes Cardstock rectangle fits the base of the tin (snowflake side up) so that it neatly covers your side edges. Make any necessary changes with tiny incremental trims, until you have a perfect fit. On the back (dark blue) side, make a note about which corner fits the bottom right hand corner of your tin. This will keep everything lined up for when you are ready to adhere the rectangle.
Apply matte medium to the outside base of the tin and the dark blue side of the Winter Snowflakes rectangle. Line up the placement according to the notation you made in Step 13. Then cover both the outside base and sides with a thin coat of matte medium. Let dry.
While the paper on the tin dries, use a strong adhesive to adhere Metallic Gold Dew Drops to four to five tips of your snowflakes.
After the paper has thoroughly dried, line up your hole punch with the previous holes you made and re-punch the holes.
Glue a blue bead onto one end of a white tinsel pipe cleaner. Starting from inside the tin, thread the pipe cleaner through one hole and back through the second hole, leaving enough length to form a hanger loop. Cut the pipe cleaner and glue another blue bead onto the end. Add a tiny dot of glue to the inside of the hole edges to keep the beads in place.
Attach the deer and snowflakes with strong adhesive.
Starting at the bottom of the tin, attach white tinsel pipe cleaner to the front outside edge.
White snowflakes (I had these in my stash, but I love you so much that I searched and searched until I found some similar ones at Factory Direct Craft I think I remember seeing them at Michaels last week, but I couldn't find them online, so don't blame me if it's a wasted trip or if you go to buy $1.99 snowflakes and come home with $250.00 of other craft supplies ).
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Great idea for home decoration!
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Q: Android multiple image in order as background resource of a button I have a requirement in Android. I have a button. And i want to render 5 images one after another as the background resource of the button with a time difference.
It is like when the rendering starts, the first image will be shown. After few miliseconds, the second image will be shown and will continue until the 5th one is shown.
I think it is achievable with handler. But quite not sure how. Can someone please help
A: Use a CountDownTimer:
//25 second, 5 second per image
new CountDownTimer(25000, 5000) {
public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
//Set your image
}
public void onFinish() {
//Done!
}
}.start();
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People in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast expected British soldiers to protect them during a shooting incident in 1971, but instead hid fearing a massacre, an inquest has heard.
Eilish Meehan said people had gone to an Army to "ask for protection".
"That never came, but we were shot at and nobody had a clue why," she said.
Another witness, Joe Millen, told the inquest he believed a bullet passed through him before striking Francis Quinn in the head.
Ten people, including 19-year-old Mr Quinn, were shot over three days in August 1971.
Both witnesses described seeing men and youths with guns in both the loyalist Springmartin and nationalist Moyard areas.
However, no witness has come forward with evidence at the inquest to suggest that shooting came from the field where Fr Hugh Mullan and Mr Quinn died.
Ms Meehan, who was then aged 19 and was helping evacuate children from the Springfield Park area, told the inquest that before the shooting started she had seen a number of boys throwing stones at soldiers based at the Henry Taggart barracks, but described that as not unusual.
Later a crowd had gathered at the back of the houses in Springfield Park.
Ms Meehan said someone shouted "they are coming in", in reference to loyalists in Springmartin, and there was a single shotgun blast, which she described as a "warning shot".
She said she did not see who fired the shotgun in Springfield Park, but said she overheard someone say it was a legally held gun used for hunting.
Ms Meehan described the main shooting event that evening as "crossfire" with shots coming from two directions, including from people lying on top of flats in Springmartin.
She described a "sense of disbelief" when she heard that local priest, 38-year-old Fr Mullan, had been shot.
"There was panic… you don't shoot a priest, we thought we were going to be overrun, massacred," she said.
"I thought it was loyalists were firing on us.
Giving evidence, Mr Millen said he heard Fr Mullan scream three times.
He said he started to crawl towards him but heard a shot and realised he had been struck in the back.
He asked a young man nearby for help but that man, later identified as Francis Quinn, had also been shot and was dead.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Highlighting Numismatics and Diversity
Stan Kimer on January 8, 2021
Republicans are still up to those same tricks they pulled during the Great Depression. As a diversity consultant and numismatist (a collector of money), I am now finding some interesting connections between our nation's money and our diversity as a nation.
Allyship is Alive and Well
LGBTQ Support Mounts as Allies Emerge
Mykah Buff on December 11, 2020
Dating back to the Stonewall riots, allyship has been a vital component in the continued fight against the oppression, discrimination, social injustice and inequality plagued by the LGBTQ community. Simply put, an ally, also referred to as a straight ally to distinguish from other types of allyship, is someone who in some way supports LGBTQ people.
Capital Idea
An Interview with Kim Roberts, Editor of 'By Broad Potomac's Shore'
Gregg Shapiro on November 13, 2020
As compared to New York, San Francisco or Chicago, Washington, D.C. might not be among the first places the average person thinks of when it comes to poetry. But thanks to queer poet/historian/educator Kim Roberts, that is changing.
Busting Out All Over
An Interview with June Millington of Fanny
Gregg Shapiro on October 30, 2020
June Millington is the very definition of a living music legend. A founding member of celebrated all-female rock band Fanny in the early 1970s (one that was signed to a major label!), Millington and her bandmates, including sister Jean, paved the way for everyone from the Runaways to the Go-Go's and the Bangles to Team Dresch and Sleater-Kinney to Ex Hex and Chastity Belt.
Lainey Millen on October 16, 2020
News briefs from across the globe for 10.16.20.
Our People: Justin 'J.' Clapp
Drag Performer, Activist, Educator
Mykah Buff on September 18, 2020
Justin Clapp, more commonly known as J. Clapp, is the interim executive director at the LGBTQ Center of Durham in North Carolina. Clapp also holds two other positions: one as a director at Duke University in the university's Office of Access and Outreach, and the other as founder and chair of Pride: Durham.
How Republicans Delayed Police Body cam Release
Blue Chronicles
Tonya Jameson on September 9, 2020
If you are wondering why it's taken so long for body cam footage to be released from the June 2 protest incident, then watch this edition of the #bluechronicles soon to be named Story Time w/ Tonya.
Convention Watch
Record Number of LGBTQ Delegates Represent North Carolina
Chris Rudisill on August 21, 2020
North Carolina had a record-number of 18 LGBTQ delegates representing the state at this year's Democratic National Convention.
Black August: an Observance & a Celebration
Political Voices
Kendra R. Johnson on August 21, 2020
As we head into the thick heat of summer, Equality North Carolina is inviting our communities all across the state to join us in observation of Black August — a month-long period of remembrance about the history of anti-Black, violent, systematic oppression in this country and the giants and revolutionaries who laid the foundation for the work of our movements today.
N.C. Reparation Efforts Focus on 'Generational Wealth,' Avoid Direct Payments
Cities Explore Ways to Right Age-Old Wrongs
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez and Anton L. Delgado on August 19, 2020
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Top 10 Human Medications That Are Poisonous to Dogs
Leaving a pill bottle opened on a low countertop, packing your medication in a plastic baggie or accidentally dropping a pill on the floor could harm your dog more than you realize. Dr. Justine Lee, associate director of veterinary services at the Pet Poison Hotline, says 50 percent of the approximately 150,000 annual calls the hotline gets are about pets swallowing human medications. Recently, the hotline came out with a review of the call data, which revealed the top 10 offenders.
10. Cholesterol Drugs
Called "statins," these popular drugs treat a problem that dogs typically don't have. The good news is that serious effects in dogs only occur from chronic ingestion.
9. Thyroid Drugs
Hypothyroidism can be common in dogs, and the dose required tends to be 10 times stronger than for a person, says Lee. For this reason, accidental ingestions are usually not a problem, unless a dog eats an extremely large amount.
8. Beta-blockers
Used to treat high blood pressure in people, beta-blockers can have serious effects in dogs, lowering their blood pressure and heart rate to dangerous levels. "It has a very narrow margin of safety," says Dr. Ahna Brutlag of the Pet Poison Hotline. "It may not take very many to cause lethal side effects."
7. ACE Inhibitors
Another group of blood pressure medications, ACE inhibitors can cause problems similar to beta-blockers, but with less severe effects. Still, heart medications should never be within a dog's reach, says Lee.
6. Birth Control Pills
"The containers are colorful, plastic and may make a rattling noise," says Lee. "Dogs seem to find them irresistible." Thankfully, most canines aren't affected by accidental ingestions, but non-spayed female dogs are at risk of side effects. High doses can also lead to serious bone marrow problems.
5. Benzodiazepines and Sleep Aids
They're designed to reduce anxiety or improve sleep, but many dogs instead become agitated rather than sedated. Lee says such medications are commonly left on a bedside table. "Putting them there helps people remember to take them," says Lee. "But curious animals often get to them first."
4. ADHD Medication
Even minimal ingestion of these drugs can be deadly to dogs. Tremors, seizures, elevated body temperatures and heart problems can result. Brutlag says it's important to educate children taking these pills: "Make sure your children know how dangerous the pills are for the pets."
3. Antidepressants
It's true that antidepressants are prescribed to pets, but Lee says the veterinary versions have a different makeup. The human version can actually lead to agitation in dogs.
2. Acetaminophen
This over-the-counter pain medication can be devastating to pets. And ingestion often isn't accidental. "Pet owners think because it's over the counter that it's safe," Lee says. Acetaminophen ingestion by dogs, however, can lead to liver failure or, in large doses, red blood cell damage.
1. NSAIDs
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories are another pain medication. Just one or two pills can lead to serious stomach or kidney ulcers, or kidney failure. "The only pain pill we ever recommend is aspirin," says Lee. "People think aspirin is the same as Tylenol or Advil, but it's not."
Lee and Brutlag offer tips to help prevent accidental ingestions, based on the most common stories they get from hotline callers:
Keep human and dog drugs in different locations. It's easy to grab the wrong bottle if they're next to each other on the shelf.
If you carry drugs in your bag or purse, place it someplace high when you're home.
If you use a seven-day pill container, store it out of reach. Dogs often think it's a toy.
Don't assume children's medicine is safe. Species' differences are significant enough that medications safe for children can still harm dogs.
When you travel, be vigilant about safely packing your pills.
by Elijah Merrill
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What to do on a rainy day in Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf is mostly known as the new financial centre of London, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Hundreds of shops and restaurants, as well as parks, cinemas, museums transformed Canary Wharf in a lovely place to enjoy every day.
If you are here looking for somethings to do in Canary Wharf during a rainy day, you are in the right place!
Choose which of the following options in the below menu fits you the most
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The London Docklands Museum
Free Entrance – West India Quay Station
osting more than 100 art events every year, home of the second tallest skyscraper in the UK, One Canada Square, that sits on top of the futuristic Jubilee line Underground station, Canary Wharf didn't forget about his origins, that you can get to know visiting the London Docklands museum.
The museum is composed of 9 galleries that cover the entire history of the docks, from 1600 to today, and 1 children dedicated gallery.
Crossrail Place Roof Garden
Free Entrance – Canary Wharf Station
aving more the 100.000 people working in the area, plenty of fine dining restaurants, bar, pubs opened in the last years, together with parks and with the Crossrail Place Roof Garden.
Born in the 2015, Crossrail Place Roof Garden offers the possibility to relax and breath some fresh air, right in the middle of the city's new financial centre.
O2 arena – North Greenwich
Free Entrance – North Greenwich Station
ith 20.000 seats and the stunning record of over 1,819,487 tickets sold just in 2015, the O2 Arena has granted itself the title of the busiest indoor arena in the world.
Since the opening in 2007, the O2 Arena hosted hundred of different events, such us the 2012 London Olympics, world level musicians and singers, boxing and MMA matches and comedy shows.
Everyman cinema
££££ – Canary Wharf Station
an you think of a better way to beat a rainy day in Canary Wharf than watching a movie together with your friends or loved ones?
At Everyman cinemas you have the possibility watch the latest movies sitting on comfy sofas, enjoying a nice glass of wine or a slice of pizza served to your seat. This will bring to the next level the classic cinema experience.
Canary Wharf Shopping Centre
here are over 200 shops, restaurants, bars, organised on different levels both indoor and outdoor in this 4 malls shopping centre.
You can find luxurious shops such as Tiffany or Montblanc, classic brands such as Zara or Topshop and small independent shops and boutiques. Also part of this huge shopping complex is the biggest Waitrose and John Lewis of the country.
ipping a cocktail, sitting in a comfy chair next to the river, inside a heated pop up igloo. The only word that would probably fit this experience is "amazing".
The sipping room serves breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner, so you can beat the rainy days in Canary Wharf at any time of the day!
What to do in a rainy day in Canary Wharf
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Perth Scorchers rope in Faf Du Plessis for the upcoming season of the Big Bash League
By Akshita Patel
Posted on Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 9:36 PM IST
Perth Scorchers have gotten a stellar deal as they bring Faf Du Plessis on board in a replacement deal. Faf will don the orange jersey in the upcoming season of the Big Bash League.
Faf Du Plessis is a South African veteran explosive batter. His sheer power and effortless stoke playing ability have made him one of the top-ranked T20 players in the world. However, his career went downhill in his prime owing to a spat with the South African cricket board. The rumors were that Faf Du Plessis and the South African cricket board were in disagreement over an issue. The matter reportedly escalated, and Faf was barred from selection for the national team.
Nevertheless, Faf did not back down and kept playing for multiple franchise leagues all around the world. After a successful stint with Chennai Super Kings in IPL, Faf Du Plessis was recently roped in as the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore. He led the team from the front, and they finished third in the tournament.
"I'm really excited to be signing with Perth Scorchers," Faf Du Plessis
Faf Du Plessis is all set to join one of the most successful teams in the Big Bash League. Perth Scorchers have announced the arrival of Faf Du Plessis for the upcoming season. Faf is coming in as a replacement for Laurie Evans. Laurie Evans had to part with Scorchers after he failed a doping test and will be out of action for a while. Moreover, Du Plessis has issued a statement saying that he is excited to be a part of a franchise that is a 4-time champion.
"I'm really excited to be signing with Perth Scorchers. I think the first thing that jumps to mind is that Perth are four-time champions, which is very impressive. Any player who plays around the world wants to win competitions, so it's a great franchise to be part of"
He further added that he would be looking to learn a lot of things. Moreover, the Protea is also confident of adding value to this successful team.
"I'm also keen to come in and learn. I think it's important to learn from other people and organisations, and find out why they're successful. I'm also excited to share my experiences and the things I've learned, and hopefully, that can be a great combination"
However, Du Plessis is likely to play only a handful of matches at the start of the tournament as he has previous T20 commitments to attend to.
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Lemongrass Restaurant Review
: At some restaurants on The Strip there is hardly any distinction between the dining area and the lobby or casino, but Lemongrass at Aria Resort & Casino is nestled away from the hustle and bustle. A woven pattern of long ropes divides the sleek bar and lounge from the dining room dressed in soothing tan and brown tones. The focus is on Thai fare, but dim sum and dishes from other parts of Asia make appearances. In addition to the à la carte menu, there's a signature four-course tasting menu ($59, plus $29 for beverage pairings) and a three-course early evening menu from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. ($39, plus $19 for beverage pairings). Start off with a selection from the satay grill before continuing with pad thai, yellow curry with chicken, or chili sea bass. The spice level of the salads, most of the soups and a few other dishes can be customized on a scale from 1-10, ranging from mild to extremely hot. Among the desserts, you'll find coconut ice cream with sticky rice. Sip on Thai iced tea, Chang beer from Thailand or cocktails like the Ginger Peach made with black tea-infused Absolut Apeach vodka and Domaine de Canton. While its prices are higher than at your neighborhood Thai spot, overall Lemongrass offers decent value in a sophisticated atmosphere with good service.
New & Hip Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Dariusz Paweł Stefaniuk (ur. 10 maja 1981 w Białej Podlaskiej) – polski samorządowiec, w latach 2014–2018 prezydent Białej Podlaskiej, od 2018 do 2019 wicemarszałek województwa lubelskiego, poseł na Sejm IX kadencji.
Życiorys
Syn Tadeusza i Alicji. Ukończył politologię na Uniwersytecie Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie oraz podyplomowe studia menedżerskie w Szkole Głównej Handlowej. Wstąpił do Prawa i Sprawiedliwości, pracował jako dyrektor biura poselskiego Adama Abramowicza. Później został zatrudniony w Towarzystwie Zarządzającym SKOK; został też działaczem fundacji "Kocham Podlasie" Grzegorza Biereckiego.
W latach 2006–2014 był radnym Białej Podlaskiej, w VI kadencji pełnił funkcję wiceprzewodniczącego rady miejskiej. W wyborach w 2014 jako kandydat PiS ubiegał się o prezydenturę Białej Podlaskiej, wygrywając w drugiej turze głosowania z wynikiem 58% głosów i pokonując w niej dotychczas zarządzającego miastem Andrzeja Czapskiego. W maju 2018 zadeklarował, że będzie ubiegał się o reelekcję w wyborach samorządowych w tym samym roku. Nie został wówczas wybrany na kolejną kadencję (otrzymał blisko 47% głosów w drugiej turze), uzyskał natomiast ponownie mandat radnego. W listopadzie 2018 powołano go na wicemarszałka w zarządzie województwa VI kadencji.
W wyborach w 2019 uzyskał mandat posła na Sejm IX kadencji, kandydując w okręgu chełmskim i otrzymując 15 070 głosów. W 2022 powołany na pełnomocnika jednego z okręgów PiS w województwie lubelskim.
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Surfing a wave of adulation since all hell broke loose in late night TV a few months ago, postmodern folk hero Conan O'Brien brought a loose semblance of his old variety show to a grateful Toronto audience.
After taking over David Letterman's Late Night show on NBC, O'Brien improbably spearheaded the most adventurous and influential hour of comedy on TV. Backed by skilled, edgy writers, he thrived on awkwardness, whether his own, or that of strange characters like the Masturbating Bear or, most infamously, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (both of which made appearances in Toronto). O'Brien's eventual graduation to The Tonight Show was well deserved, but as we all know, the whole thing didn't take under NBC's nearsighted watch; Jay Leno unceremoniously reclaimed his soiled throne, forcing O'Brien into a prolonged, contractually enforced exile from late night, transforming the comedian into a scapegoat and symbol for corporate obliviousness and bungling.
Displaying contrary grit, savvy instincts and astounding grace ahead of his winter debut on cable network TBS, O'Brien is doing what no other late night host ever has: he's taking his show on the road with The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour. As spectacle, the tour is a feat. O'Brien's amazing band and back-up dancers/singers are charmingly astounding and energetic (for the finale, O'Brien himself tore through guitar solos after running up to the balcony to get closer to fans), and the show weaves between live and canned comedy bits and songs.
What's odd is how hit or miss much of the comedy in this show really is. With a mix of self-aware self-pity, O'Brien has re-written "On the Road Again," the Elvis Presley favourite "Polk Salad Annie," and "I Will Survive" to mirror his own life's predicaments. There was also an original, "The Girl Who Looked Like Conrad Bain," which O'Brien says he'll complete with contributions from fans. The songs are pleasant enough but don't warrant more than chuckles. Andy Richter remains an odd foil for O'Brien, easily busting him up even as the two interrupt each other's quips, laughing like brothers at their incomprehensibility.
Former writer Deon Cole did a funny stand-up bit, and opener Reggie Watts killed, sending Canada up through his mix of looped beat-boxing, surreal jokes and songs. In fact, aside from O'Brien revisiting a popular TV segment where he pulls a lever to launch bizarre, out-of-context clips from Chuck Norris's Walker, Texas Ranger, Cole and Watts received the biggest laughs of the night.
Though O'Brien must joke about it, his wounds from the public debacle around his show are very real and still open. There was nothing overly heavy about his live show (except for a surprise rendition of "The Weight" that O'Brien and his band delivered, as a Canadian tribute), but there was some noticeable rust on his normally sharp comic instincts. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 58 |
AestheticsTodays Dental News
Aesthetic Crown Lengthening Utilizing a Digital Workflow
Written by: Drs. Justin T. Kang, Catherine Hon, and Leonard J. Resnick and Mr. Justin McElroy June 20, 20228 Mins read2.3k Views
Gingival harmony plays a key role in an aesthetic smile.1 Altered passive eruption (APE) can adversely affect gingival architecture due to the failure of the soft tissue to recede apically to the cervical convexity of the tooth.2 APE is also one of the leading causes of gingival excess,3 or "gummy smile,"4,5 where the patient exposes more than 3 to 4 mm of continuous gingiva upon a full smile. This presents a plethora of clinical challenges, including short clinical crowns, disproportionate interproximal papilla,6 uneven and asymmetric gingival margin positions,7 and invasion of biologic width.5
Coslet et al8 categorize APE into 4 different types, according to the width of gingiva and the relationship between the cemento-enamel junction (CEJ) and alveolar crest (AC). It was found that Type 1B with a wide band of gingiva and CEJ coincident with AC was the most common.3 The recommended treatment for APE Type 1B is aesthetic crown lengthening, which includes an inverse bevel gingivectomy followed by surgical crown lengthening with ostectomy and osteoplasty.
There have been several different approaches to aesthetic crown lengthening, including the use of a proportion gauge9 and fabrication of a clear matrix based on a diagnostic wax-up. The advent of intraoral scanners and planning software has allowed for a digital approach to aesthetic crown lengthening. The following clinical case incorporates digital smile design software, a digital wax-up, and 3D printing in combination with a multi-tissue laser to deliver an efficient and predictable clinical outcome for a patient undergoing aesthetic crown lengthening.
A 21-year-old female patient with a nonsignificant medical history presented to our practice with a chief complaint of "short and discolored teeth." The patient demonstrated congenital enamel hypoplasia resulting in discoloration and cold sensitivity (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Preoperative, full-smile photo of the patient.
She was looking to improve the aesthetics of her smile with fixed restorations. Comprehensive examination revealed a high smile line and short clinical crowns without any signs of wear as well as uneven gingival margins and deficient interproximal papillae between maxillary laterals and canines. The patient was diagnosed as having APE Type 1B per Coslet classification.5
A series of extraoral photos was taken for 2D digital smile design, and 2 different versions were created: one without aesthetic crown lengthening and another with aesthetic crown lengthening (Figures 2 and 3). This was a powerful motivational tool for the patient to preview 2 different clinical outcomes without having to undergo a traditional diagnostic wax-up and an intraoral mockup.10 The patient elected to complete the restorative work with aesthetic crown lengthening to achieve the most optimal clinical outcome.
Figures 2 and 3. Digital smile design without aesthetic crown lengthening (Figure 2), and digital smile design with aesthetic crown lengthening (Figure 3).
Digital Wax-Up
She was scanned intraorally using the iTero Element 2 (Align Technology) in centric relation. The STL file was exported to the laboratory, where a digital wax-up was completed using DentalCAD (exocad GmbH) (Figures 4 and 5).
Figure 5. – Figures 4 and 5. Digital wax-up of the maxillary arch (Figure 4) and in occlusion in exocad DentalCAD (exocad GmbH) (Figure 5).
This digital wax-up was first overlaid with the digital smile design to verify the wax-up with respect to the patient's face for facially driven treatment planning. The digital wax-up was then overlaid with the preoperative STL file to create the dual-zone crown lengthening guide (Figure 6).
Figure 6. A 3D printed pre-op model and digital wax-up.
The surgical guide contained 2 reference points: one for desired gingival margin position and another for desired osseous crest position set to 3 mm from the proposed restorative margin (Figure 7). The pre-op model, digital wax-up, and surgical guide were 3D printed in addition to a clear preparation guide and putty matrix for provisional fabrication.
Figure 7. A dual-zone surgical crown lengthening guide was printed and placed on the pre-op model.
Aesthetic Crown Lengthening
The patient was advised not to eat for 6 hours prior to the procedure in preparation for intravenous sedation. Following sedation, the patient was locally anesthetized using 4% Septocaine (1:100,000 epinephrine) (Septodont) (Figure 8).
Figure 12. – Figures 8 to 12. Pre-op view of aesthetic crown lengthening following administration of local anesthesia (Figure 8). Gingivectomy was completed using the Er,Cr:YSGG laser and dual-zone surgical crown lengthening guide (Figures 9 and 10). Ostectomy and osteoplasty were completed with the Er,Cr:YSGG laser and a round bur on a high-speed handpiece (Figure 11). Final closure was done using chromic gut sutures (Figure 12).
The dual-zone surgical crown lengthening guide was seated (Figure 9), and gingivectomy was completed using an Er,Cr:YSGG laser (Waterlase Express [BIOLASE]) (Figure 10). A full-thickness flap was raised from teeth Nos. 3 to 14 beyond the mucogingival junction to gain access to the facial and interproximal hard tissue. With the surgical guide in place, the biologic width of 3 mm was established from the future crown margin (Figure 11). Festooning of interproximal hard tissue was completed using a round diamond bur on a high-speed handpiece. The flap was replaced using a combination of 4-0 and 5-0 chromic gut sutures via vertical mattress for improved control of the interproximal papillae (Figure 12). The flap was replaced slightly coronal to the desired gingival margin position to account for shrinkage during healing. Postoperative instructions were given, including administration of Ibuprofen 800 mg every 8 hours, followed by Tylenol 1,000 mg for pain management.
Soft-Tissue Modification
The patient was seen for followup at 2 weeks for suture removal and at 8 weeks for soft-tissue modification (Figures 13 and 14). No local anesthesia was required for this visit, and soft-tissue modification was completed using the Er,Cr:YSGG laser to achieve symmetry and to idealize the gingival margin and zenith position.7 Detailed home care instructions were given, including brushing with the Roll technique and flossing only up to the contact area between each tooth.
Figure 14. – Figures 13 and 14. A photo of 8-week postoperative healing, during which soft-tissue modification was completed using the Er,Cr:YSGG laser.
Preparation and Provisionalization
After 16 weeks of healing, the patient returned for preparation and provisionalization. Following administration of local anesthesia, teeth Nos. 5 to 12 were prepared to receive full-coverage crowns using the clear preparation guide, and provisionals were fabricated with Luxatemp Ultra (DMG America) shade A1 using the putty matrix that was based on the digital wax-up.
Whitening of Mandibular Dentition
The patient was advised to "test drive" the provisionals in order to make any necessary adjustments. During this time, the patient whitened her mandibular dentition using Opalescence Go (Ultradent Products) containing 10% hydrogen peroxide solution, which was used for 30 minutes per day for 10 days.
Final Prosthesis
The final impression was taken using Impregum (3M) with a 2-cord technique. The final shade of OM3 using VITA Toothguide 3D-Master (VITA North America) was selected with the patient's input for IPS e.max Press (Ivoclar Vivadent). Crown Nos. 5 to 12 were cemented using NX3 Nexus Third Generation (Kerr Corporation). Occlusion was adjusted, and mutually protected occlusion was verified. The patient was seen for one-week, 3-month, and 12-month post-op visits (Figures 15 and 16).
Figure 16. – Figures 15 and 16. The one-year post-op view with full smile (Figure 15), and a close-up view of the final prosthesis (Figure 16).
APE—one of the main causes of excess gingival display3,5—adversely affects both gingival architecture and tooth proportion. Clinical challenges include aberrant gingival margin position and papilla proportion as well as short clinical crowns and lack of retention and resistance form.5 The treatment of choice for APE is aesthetic crown lengthening, which includes inverse bevel gingivectomy in combination with osteoplasty and ostectomy.
There have been several clinical approaches to aesthetic crown lengthening, mostly based on analog methods, including the use of a proportion gauge9 and clear matrix based on a diagnostic wax-up. The proportion gauge, while providing an efficient method of verifying the desired width-to-length ratio of 75% to 80% and an osseous reduction of 3 mm,9 can be laborious for the operator since each anterior tooth has to be measured individually11 and also challenging when incisal edge positions are different from tooth to tooth. While it is based on a diagnostic wax-up, the clear matrix has its limitations when it comes to communicating exact gingival margin and zenith positions to the surgeon. The utilization of digital technology allows for visualization of the desired clinical outcome prior to surgery. This results in clear communication of the position and shape of the gingival margin and zenith as well as the osseous crest location to the surgeon so that aesthetic crown lengthening can be completed in a precise and exact manner.
The advent of digital technology has allowed for a novel approach to aesthetic crown lengthening. Digital smile design, a digital wax-up, and 3D printing provide an opportunity for facially driven treatment planning and an agreement in aesthetic parameters among the restorative dentist, surgeon, ceramist, and patient.
In the case described above, digital technology was able to improve communication between providers, and the incorporation of cutting-edge technology such as the Er,Cr;YSGG laser resulted in an aesthetic and a personalized clinical outcome for our patient.
We would like to thank Calvin Mun from Jason J. Kim Dental Aesthetics Laboratory in Port Washington, NY, for the ceramic work and Dr. Jonathan Mendia of Advanced Sedation in Old Tappan, NJ, for keeping the patient comfortable with intravenous sedation.
1. Fradeani M. Esthetic analysis: a systemic approach to prosthetic treatment. Quintessence Publishing Company; 2004.
2. Goldman HM, Cohen DW. Periodontal therapy. 4th ed. C.V. Mosby Company; 1968.
3. Robbins JW. Differential diagnosis and treatment of excess gingival display. Pract Periodontics Aesthet Dent. 1999;11(2):265–72.
4. Tjan AH, Miller GD, The JG. Some esthetic factors in a smile. J Prosthet Dent. 1984;51(1):24–8. doi:10.1016/s0022-3913(84)80097-9
5. Dolt AH 3rd, Robbins JW. Altered passive eruption: an etiology of short clinical crowns. Quintessence Int. 1997;28(6):363–72.
6. Chu SJ, Tarnow DP, Tan JH, et al. Papilla proportions in the maxillary anterior dentition. Int J Periodontics Restorative Dent. 2009;29(4):385–93.
7. Chu SJ, Tan JH, Stappert CF, et al. Gingival zenith positions and levels of the maxillary anterior dentition. J Esthet Restor Dent. 2009;21(2):113–20. doi:10.1111/j.1708-8240.2009.00242.x
8. Coslet JG, Vanarsdall R, Weisgold A. Diagnosis and classification of delayed passive eruption of the dentogingival junction in the adult. Alpha Omegan. 1977;70(3):24–8.
9. Fletcher P. Biologic rationale of esthetic crown lengthening using innovative proportion gauges. Int J Periodontics Restorative Dent. 2011;31(5):523–32.
10. Jafri Z, Ahmad N, Sawai M, et al. Digital smile design—An innovative tool in aesthetic dentistry. J Oral Biol Craniofac Res. 2020;10(2):194–8. doi:10.1016/j.jobcr.2020.04.010
11. Chu SJ. Range and mean distribution frequency of individual tooth width of the maxillary anterior dentition. Pract Proced Aesthet Dent. 2007;19(4):209–15.
Dr. Kang received his DMD degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his MS in Periodontics from Columbia University. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology. Dr. Kang serves as Clinical Advisor for Geistlich Biomaterials and is a member and reviewer of the e-Poster Committee at the Academy of Osseointegration Annual Meeting. Dr. Kang employs cutting-edge technology, such as an Er,Cr;YSGG laser, for minimally invasive treatment of periodontal disease and peri-implantitis and for aesthetic crown lengthening. He can be reached at justintkang@gmail.com.
Dr. Hon received her DMD degree from University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and completed her general practice residency at the VA Medical Center in East Orange, NJ. Dr. Hon specializes in cosmetic dentistry and Invisalign. When not practicing, Dr. Hon is a busy mother of 2 boys and enjoys playing tennis. She can be reached at hon.dmd@gmail.com.
Dr. Resnick received his DDS degree from New York University (NYU) and continued his training in prosthodontics at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. Dr. Resnick is a dual-trained specialist in both prosthodontics and implant surgery with a special focus on porcelain veneers and cosmetic dentistry. Dr. Resnick enjoys traveling with his family, playing golf, and cooking. He can be reached at leonardresnick@gmail.com.
Mr. McElroy is VP of business development at Midwest Dental Arts in Sarasota, Fla. He completed a digital smile design residency at NYU and has been an active contributor to the digital smile design concept. Mr. McElroy also teaches dental photography and digital workflows across the country. He can be reached at midwestdentalarts@gmail.com.
Disclosure: The authors report no disclosures.
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Q: Upgrading ASP.NET from version 1.1 to 2.0 - Any Gotchas? I know we are really behind the times here, but we are just about to upgrade from .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0.
Thank you for your sympathy.
Anyhow, are there any gotchas we should look out for?
Do you have any general advice before we jump in?
Please do not post telling me to go straight to 3.5: 2.0 is all we're allowed!
We're using mostly C#.
A: Yes. The most important thing for you to know is to use a Web Application Project, not a Web Site. Web Sites use a totally different compilation model and migration is pretty much a disaster. Web Application Projects are much more similar to how things worked in 1.1.
We also had an intermittent problem with redirecting from the login screen, but according to Google, we were basically the only ones who had that problem - we've since resolved it.
Most of the other problems we ran into were small and easy to navigate, and the overall experience was a net improvement.
A: Here is my recommendation before upgrading:
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*If you are used to use Visual Studio 2003, you will need to go for VS2005. You will have to convert the old solutions and projects so that it will be compatible with VS2005. Make sure to have a backup of the project you're going to convert so that you can roll back or even use it as source for any modification you may need to the converted projects.
*If you're developing web applications using .NET 1.1, make sure that all the virtual directories and applications in the IIS is configured to work with ASP.NET 2.0. You may need also to configure a new Application Pool for your .NET 2.0 applications.
*If you're using any third party libraries in your .NET 1.1 projects, you may need to confirm its compatibility with .NET 2.0 projects. Some old libraries used in .NET 1.1 are not compatible with 2.0.
A: One gotcha is home-grown 1.1 implementations of .NET 2.0 stuff (that was missing in 1.1) like RegistryHandler and so forth. Sometimes your newly-ported 2.0 code will look like it's properly using a 2.0 class when it's really using the home-grown version.
A: Deployment is another gotcha, if you're upgrading an already-deployed app. You have to switch the .NET version in IIS from 1.1 to 2.0.
A: I remember we had to change some client scripts, because the way ClientIDs are generated for server controls changed from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0.
I don't remember the exact circumstances, but some IDs which previously wer prefixed ctl0_ became ctl00_...
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A Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) international research scholar in Israel has discovered one reason why so-called flesh-eating bacteria are so hard to stop. Emanuel Hanski, a microbiologist at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and colleagues have found that the success of Group A Streptococcus is due in part to a protein that blocks the immune system's distress calls. The findings, to be published in the October 4, 2006, issue of the EMBO Journal, could lead to new strategies for treating necrotizing fasciitis and halting its rapid destruction of tissue. The paper was published in advance online.
The bacterium, group A Streptococcus, wreaks destruction on muscle and skin tissue in the form of necrotizing fasciitis, which kills roughly 30 percent of its victims and leaves the rest disfigured. Antibiotics and surgical interventions, the known treatments, often fail. Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious but rare infection of the skin and the tissues beneath it.
The work began two years ago, when Hanski developed a mouse model for necrotizing fasciitis. After injecting the mice with a virulent strain of Streptococcus of a type known as M14, isolated from a necrotizing fasciitis patient, the team noticed that unlike most Strep infections, in which white blood cells swarm invading bacteria to clear them from the body, few white blood cells appeared at the M14 infection site. A similar phenomenon had been observed in patients with necrotizing fasciitis but did not receive sufficient attention at the time.
We knew that the pathology of the disease in people was typified by various degrees of a lack of white blood cells," said Hanski. After publishing their findings in the British medical journal The Lancet in 2004, the team began to search for the factor that blocked the recruitment of white blood cells during M14 infection.
They focused on the gene for a Streptococcus peptide called SilCR, after finding that the gene product was turned off in the M14 strain. This gene is supposed to produce a peptide that acts as a signaling molecule that the Streptococcus bacteria use to communicate with each other, said Hanski. Since the bacteria were not producing the peptide, we decided to synthesize it ourselves and give it to mice infected with M14.
The mice receiving this peptide survived at a much higher rate than mice that did not receive it. The team also observed many white blood cells at the infection site in mice receiving the peptide.
Next, the team turned its attention to an important human immune system signaling molecule, interleukin-8. In healthy people, an infection triggers the production of interleukin-8, which acts as a distress call. When the body senses an infection, it creates interleukin-8 to recruit white blood cells to the infection, said Hanski.
In a laboratory culture, the M14 strain of Streptococcus destroyed interleukin-8. But when the team added the SilCR protein to the growing bacteria, the interleukin-8 survived.
The amount of interleukin-8 that survives is inversely related to how much SilCR there is in the culture, said Hanski. This may be one reason why some strains are less virulent than others; they might make more SilCR. It would be interesting to study the amount of SilCR produced by the other strains and to determine their degree of tissue invasiveness. said Hanski.
The link between SilCR and a healthy immune response still did not explain the underlying mechanism. The team knew that SilCR itself did not degrade interleukin-8, so they began to search for the missing link in the chain of events. They expected to find an enzyme that degrades IL-8. Drawing on a database of enzymes and using advanced techniques that measure the levels of gene transcription products in a cell, they soon identified the culprit: an enzyme called ScpC.
The team then created a mutant variation of the M14 strain of Streptococcus that could not produce ScpC. As expected, this strain was much less virulent than the original M14. Only three of 28 mice receiving the mutant strain succumbed to infection, a death rate much lower than that of mice who received the original strain. Mice receiving the original bacteria developed lesions that grew until the mice died; while mice receiving the mutant strain developed only small lesions that spontaneously healed.
The experiments show that SilCR downregulates the production of ScpC, and ScpC is what destroys the interleukin-8, said Hanski. In our strain, M14, SilCR is missing completely, which explains why it is so virulent.
He said the work points to more effective strategies for treating Streptococcus infection. There are different avenues you could explore for treatment, all based on reducing the amount of ScpC the bacteria produces, Hanski said. You could look for a specific inhibitor of ScpC, or you could explore the activity of SilCR more fully and try to boost its action.
A nonprofit medical research organization, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute was established in 1953 by the aviator-industrialist. The Institute, headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, is one of the largest philanthropies in the world, with an endowment of $16.3 billion at the close of its 2006 fiscal year. HHMI spent $478 million in support of biomedical research and $81 million for support of a variety of science education and other grants programs in fiscal 2006. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 61 |
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"This letter is the premier example of the epistolary form of writing, not only in the Pauline body of material and in the New Testament but also in all of ancient literature. It stands first in every list of the Apostle Paul's writings though it was not first in time of composition. This bears witness to the importance of the work both in its theme and in its content."
The scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the words of God revealed and written by the prophets and apostles. 2 Peter 1:10-12 notes: "As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, 11 seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look."
When one considers the words of the Bible, and specifically, the Gospel message of which they compose, we discover that God has ordained the scriptures as His tool for the conversion of sinners. James 1:18 states: "In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures." Such words spiritual raise the dead sinner in the event of saving faith.
We understand from God's work of creation that He verbalized existence into being. Such an act was demonstration of His power as seen in Psalm 33:6 - "By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host."
As one traces other instances of God's power and His speaking forth through the Bible, we begin to witness a correspondence between God's speaking and power. For example, we find God's power and word at the Exodus described in Psalm 106:8 "Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name, That He might make His power known."
The marvel of Paul's opening to Romans is that he explains how Jesus Himself is brought to the sinner in salvation by the Gospel. Unlike all other religions in the world, only Christianity claims that at the verbalization of its core message (the Gospel), its founder (Jesus Christ) is brought to the sinner.
Christ is brought not only in the salvation of sinners, but He is furthermore committed to remaining with the Christian throughout their post-conversion life (what we call sanctification). When we break down Romans 1:3-7, we gain understanding concerning who Jesus is , and why He is so powerful.
A. First, He is the Divine Son in Romans 1:3a. Titus 2:13 reminds us that Jesus Christ is the "great God and Savior". John 1:1 rejoins with the emphasis upon the Son being co-eternal with God the Father. When Jesus Christ is brought forth in the Gospel, we instantly are brought into contact with the Personification of omnipotence itself!
B. Secondly, we find that this Son came to be the man, Christ Jesus, in Romans 1:3b. In having the eternal Son, we now have Him as He is in His glorified humanity. His perfect humanity is accessible to our ever-perfecting, still-needing-to-be-completed humanity. We have the "right man on our side" as the hymn of Martin Luther proclaims.
C. Thirdly, this Son, who became man, came to die and rise from the dead to achieve salvation accomplished, as noted in Romans 1:4. Theologians often speak of Christ's overall redemptive work in two distinct ways: salvation accomplished and salvation applied. The former refers to His once and for all death and resurrection achieved in history (see 1 Peter 3:18). The latter occurs the moment the sinner responds in saving faith to His call in the Gospel (see John 5:24-25; Colossians 3:16).
D. Fourthly, we find that this Jesus calls us by His Spirit to experience salvation applied in faith. Such saving faith in turn ought to lead to a changed life lived out in daily obedience to His Lordship. These realities are spelled out most plainly in Romans 1:6-7.
"There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God's grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith are inseparable experiences of grace."
Therefore, the second reason why the Gospel is so powerful is because of the Person of Jesus Christ brought forth in it.
Today we considered the introduction to Paul's letter to the church at Rome in answer to the question: "why is the Gospel so powerful?" We discovered two reasons: The Gospel is based on powerful living words and the Gospel brings forth the powerful living Christ. Whenever we consider these two reasons together, we understand that upon reception in saving faith, changed hearts and lives result. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 63 |
Study: Los Angeles Keeps Poor Kids Poor Their Whole Lives
By Bianca Barragan May 4, 2015, 11:34am PDT
Los Angeles County is a pretty bad place to be a child in a low-income family, according to a new study by two Harvard economists. Low-income kids who grow up in LA are likely to make even less money as adults than low-income kids growing up in neighboring Ventura or Kern Counties, says the New York Times, discussing the new findings by Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren, who "have long been known for their work on income mobility." With this latest report, "the researchers are no longer confined to talking about which counties merely correlate well with income mobility; new data suggests some places actually cause it." And Los Angeles seems to be one of those places causing it.
Ventura County is just an hour or two up the coast, but it's lightyears ahead of Los Angeles in terms of income mobility. Researchers found that every year a poor child lives in Ventura County instead of the "average American county" adds $100 to their annual household income once they're 26. If a kid lives their entire childhood (here, 20 years) in Ventura County, their annual household income will be about $1,900 above average when they're 26. The younger a child is when they move to Ventura County the more likely they are to go to college and earn more, and the less likely they are to become a single parent.
On the other hand, kids growing up in LA County will live in households that make $2,780 less than average when they're 26 years old. LA County is one of the nation's worst for helping poor kids move upward, better than only 7 percent of the the nearly 2,500 counties surveyed. LA County's effects are more dire for poor boys; they'll be part of households that make $3,180 less than average annually when they're 26. (Poor girls will be members of households that make $2,200 less than average when they're 26.) There isn't much upward mobility for kids from families with average incomes, rich kids, or children of the top one percent in LA County, either, but the differences were most pronounced for poor children.
Chetty and Hendren found five factors related to high upward mobility, which help explain why LA County is so terrible for low-income kids. They were: better schools, "less segregation by income and race" (LA is highly segregated by income), lower violent crime rates, "a larger share of two-parent households," and lower income inequality (LA is a deeply unequal place compared to the rest of the state and the nation). "The broader lesson of our analysis is that social mobility should be tackled at a local level," the two researchers say in their report on the research.
· The Best and Worst Places to Grow Up: How Your Area Compares [NYT]
· Mapping How LA's Rich Decide Where Everyone Else Lives [Curbed LA]
· Los Angeles is the Most Unequal Place in California [Curbed LA]
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import com.sduwh.match.dao.ResearchLogMapper;
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import com.sduwh.match.service.researchlog.ResearchLogService;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import java.util.List;
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Don't you hate it when the one food entree' you want to try doesn't have a fancy picture next to it on the menu? For all of us who are not adventurous "foodies" and need more proof that a dish at a restaurant at least looks good, check out the MenView app for iPhone.
Simply search for the restaurant to view the menu, and the app sections off the entree's into according to its type (appetizers, main dishes, desserts, drinks, etc.). From the looks of it, some of the info is pulled in from the usual suspects: Yelp, Google, etc. But most of it comes from users themselves. If you can't find your restaurant, or a photo of the food you want to try, MenView lets you add the restaurant and upload a photo of the menu item with related information...once you register or login of course. Additional features include the ability to flag a dish as "Looks Good" and/or "Had It" as well as adding comments and sharing the dish with your friends on Twitter and Facebook.
You can flag photos as "inappropriate" just in case folks get a little too tipsy while eating out and decide to upload some "questionable" images. Ultimately, with any app that's mostly comprised of data that is crowdsourced/user-generated, there will be missing, incomplete, and/or inappropriate data. MenView is no exception to the rule, so the more (or less) users join in and populate the app with images, the more (or less) usable MenView will be. It seems like the developers recognize this and have created a "See It Then Eat It" campaign that encourages users to join in to help the database grow. Additional steps include reaching out to restaurants to encourage them to show off what's on their menu during their city's "Restaurant Week".
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Trent Cole to be released by Philadelphia Eagles
The Hunter is on his way out.
By Brandon Lee Gowton@BrandonGowton Mar 3, 2015, 5:30pm EST
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The longest tenured player on the Philadelphia Eagles roster won't be returning to the team in 2015. According to Geoff Mosher of CSN Philly, Trent Cole is set to be released. Adam Caplan reports that Cole will be officially cut within the next 24 hours.
Eagles will have two new starting cornerbacks
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What exactly does the release of Cary Williams mean for the Eagles and their secondary? Let's take a look at this move from a few different perspectives.
Brandon Graham seeking $30 million over 4 years
Should the Eagles re-sign their former first round pick? Will they even have the chance?
Eagles will have two new starting cornerbacks Brandon Graham seeking $30 million over 4 years
This news follows the report from Mosher that negotiations with Cole weren't going well. CBS NFL Insider Jason La Canfora also reported earlier in the day that Cole wasn't willing to take a pay cut.
Cole was due a large salary cap figure in 2015 at over $11.6 million. It was difficult to justify that figure at this point in his career. Philadelphia saves nearly $8 million by cutting the 32-year-old veteran. The Eagles should have about nearly $41 million in cap space as it stands.
The Eagles will need to use some of that space to sign a new starting outside linebacker. Philadelphia could opt to re-sign impending free agent Brandon Graham, but reports indicate that negotiations aren't going well. The only other Eagles outside linebackers under contract include: Pro Bowl starter Connor Barwin, 2014 first round pick Marcus Smith, and Travis Long. Smith only played a total of 105 snaps in his rookie season so he's still a total question mark. The team was high on Long heading into 2014 before he suffered a season-ending ACL injury in late August. Neither Smith nor Long are close to being proven options as a starter.
Cole was originally drafted by the Eagles in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played in 155 games for the Eagles while starting 145 of them. He recorded 85.5 sacks, 436 tackles, and 19 forced fumbles, and one defensive touchdown in his 10-year career.
Cole tweeted this out after the news broke:
Taking trip to new hunting grounds that I'll have chance at a trophy of a lifetime!
— Trent Cole (@Pro_Hunt58) March 3, 2015
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Q: Drupal 8 hook_views_pre_build no effect I'm trying to override some view by using the hook_views_pre_build hook. Following the documentation:
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21modules%21views%21views.api.php/function/hook_views_pre_build/8.1.x
My module is named "mymodule", I've got:
<?php
//... some code that works
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function mymodule_views_pre_build(&$view) {
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}
And that has no effect at all. Trying other hooks works, for example "mymodule_preprocess_page" is ok.
I do a "drush cr" each time, I tried other hook as "mymodule_views_pre_exec" that has no effect. It seems that Drupal 8.1 doesn't execute hook_views_XXX
Anyone can help me to resolve this ?
A: First of all, the doc says:
hook_views_pre_build(ViewExecutable $view)
Try with ViewExecutable $view instead of &$view ?
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Ovarian performance of Barbados Blackbelly and Dorper crossbred ewes in the mirror of body conditions
Gergely Gyimóthy;
Sándor Harangi;
András Kovács
The aim of examination was to detect the puberty and to follow the ovarian cycle of Barbados Blackbelly×Dorper ewes in connection with their body conditions and the effects of meteorological parameters. The blood samples had been taken from 17th of November 2008 untill 08th of June 2009 for analyzing the progesteron concentrations, establishin...g whether they showed perpetual ovarian performance or not. The end of examination
was timed due to releasing the ram in middle of May 2009.
The daily avarage bodyweight-growth is well featured by the bodyweight tendence. The body conditions were evaluated by ultrasound tissue examination.
During the full length of the examination the avarage daily temperature, the avarage humidity level and also the number of daily sunlighted hours were served by the Agrometeorological Observatory of the University of Debrecen.
The bodyweight tendence and the meteorological parameters were correlated to the breeding season of ewes. In conclusion the bodyweights and their tendences at the young age and the body condition parameters measured at certain anatomical areas can influence the length of the breeding season of the ewes. However the number of daily avarage sunlighted hours, the daily avarage temperature and also the humidity did not effect the cyclic ovarian perfomance of the Barbados Blackbelly×Dorper ewes in Hungary.
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With New Heat Treatment, 3D-Printed Metals Can Withstand Extreme Conditions
Technique may enable energy-efficient 3D printing of blades for gas turbines or jet engines
Published: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 - 12:00
(MIT: Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- A new MIT-developed heat treatment transforms the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments. The technique could make it possible to 3D-print high-performance blades and vanes for power-generating gas turbines and jet engines, which would enable new designs with improved fuel consumption and energy efficiency.
Today's gas turbine blades are manufactured through conventional casting processes in which molten metal is poured into complex molds and directionally solidified. These components are made from some of the most heat-resistant metal alloys on Earth. Designed to rotate at high speeds in extremely hot gas, they extract work to generate electricity in power plants and thrust in jet engines.
There is growing interest in manufacturing turbine blades through 3D printing, which, in addition to its environmental and cost benefits, could allow manufacturers to quickly produce more-intricate, energy-efficient blade geometries. But efforts to 3D-print turbine blades have yet to clear a big hurdle: creep.
A thin rod of 3D-printed superalloy is drawn out of a water bath and through an induction coil, where it is heated to temperatures that transform its microstructure, making it more resilient. The new MIT heat treatment could be used to reinforce 3D-printed gas turbine blades. Credit: Dominic David Peachey.
In metallurgy, creep refers to a metal's tendency to permanently deform in the face of persistent mechanical stress and high temperatures. While researchers have explored printing turbine blades, they have found that the printing process produces fine grains on the order of tens to hundreds of microns in size—a microstructure that is especially vulnerable to creep.
"In practice, this would mean a gas turbine would have a shorter life or less fuel efficiency," says Zachary Cordero, the Boeing Career Development Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. "These are costly, undesirable outcomes."
Cordero and his colleagues found a way to improve the structure of 3D-printed alloys by adding an additional heat-treating step, which transforms the as-printed material's fine grains into much larger "columnar" grains—a sturdier microstructure that should minimize the material's creep potential, since the "columns" are aligned with the axis of greatest stress. The researchers say the method, outlined in Additive Manufacturing, clears the way for industrial 3D printing of gas turbine blades.
"In the near future, we envision gas turbine manufacturers will print their blades and vanes at large-scale additive manufacturing plants, then post-process them using our heat treatment," Cordero says. "3D-printing will enable new cooling architectures that can improve the thermal efficiency of a turbine, so that it produces the same amount of power while burning less fuel and ultimately emits less carbon dioxide."
Cordero's co-authors on the study are lead author Dominic Peachey, Christopher Carter, and Andres Garcia-Jimenez at MIT, Anugrahaprada Mukundan and Marie-Agathe Charpagne of the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, and Donovan Leonard of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Triggering a transformation
The team's new method is a form of directional recrystallization—a heat treatment that passes a material through a hot zone at a precisely controlled speed to meld a material's many microscopic grains into larger, sturdier, and more-uniform crystals.
Directional recrystallization was invented more than 80 years ago and has been applied to wrought materials. In its new study, the MIT team adapted directional recrystallization for 3D-printed superalloys.
The team tested the method on 3D-printed nickel-based superalloys—metals that are typically cast and used in gas turbines. In a series of experiments, the researchers placed 3D-printed samples of rod-shaped superalloys in a room-temperature water bath placed just below an induction coil. They slowly drew each rod out of the water and through the coil at various speeds, dramatically heating the rods to temperatures varying between 1,200˚C–1,245˚C.
They found that drawing the rods at a particular speed (2.5 mm per hour) and through a specific temperature (1,235˚C) created a steep thermal gradient that triggered a transformation in the material's printed, fine-grained microstructure.
"The material starts as small grains with defects called dislocations, that are like mangled spaghetti," Cordero explains. "When you heat this material up, those defects can annihilate and reconfigure, and the grains are able to grow. We're continuously elongating the grains by consuming the defective material and smaller grains—a process termed recrystallization."
Creep away
After cooling the heat-treated rods, the researchers examined their microstructure using optical and electron microscopy, and found that the material's printed microscopic grains were replaced with "columnar" grains, or long crystal-like regions that were significantly larger than the original grains.
"We've completely transformed the structure," says Peachey. "We show we can increase the grain size by orders of magnitude to massive columnar grains, which theoretically should lead to dramatic improvements in creep properties."
The team also showed they could manipulate the draw speed and temperature of the rod samples to tailor the material's growing grains, creating regions of specific grain size and orientation. This level of control, Cordero says, can enable manufacturers to print turbine blades with site-specific microstructures that are resilient to specific operating conditions.
Cordero plans to test the heat treatment on 3D-printed geometries that more closely resemble turbine blades. The team is also exploring ways to speed up the draw rate, as well as test a heat-treated structure's resistance to creep. Then, they envision that the heat treatment could enable the practical application of 3D printing to produce industrial-grade turbine blades with more complex shapes and patterns.
"New blade and vane geometries will enable more energy-efficient land-based gas turbines, as well as, eventually, aeroengines," Cordero notes. "This could, from a baseline perspective, lead to lower carbon dioxide emissions just through improved efficiency of these devices."
This research was supported, in part, by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
Read the original article, published on Nov. 14, 2022, by MIT.
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The Advani Identity
Ikram Sehgal
For once ISI is off the hook! By assuming the appointment of India's Deputy PM, Advani has discarded the charade of who is the real power in the country. The source of the defamatory article in TIME magazine recently about Indian PM Atal Behari Vajpayee should not have been a mystery, who else stood to benefit other than Lal Krishan Advani? In conducting a pre-mortem of Vajpayee (the whole anatomy was laid bare), TIME reporter Alex Perry had an impeccable source, for good measure his interrogation by Indian immigration authorities shored up his credibility. That Advani's warped muslim-hunting personality should have his finger (aided and abetted by madcap Defence Minister George Fernandes) as the final authority on the nuclear trigger is scary. Compare the Advani "virility" to the doddering TIME portrayal of "senile" Vajpayee and the thought becomes scarier, this man not only has the penchant but the necessary venom and ruthlessness to initiate a nuclear holocaust in South Asia at the slightest pretext without any inhibitions or qualms whatsoever. His former daughter-in-law, who also served as his confidential secretary for many years, has chronicled his devious, vicious ways in a signed affidavit in a court of law.
India's democracy prides itself in never have lived under the tutelage of the uniform, as if this is somehow different to being under absolute authoritarian rule under civilian garb, were Hitler and Mussolini army generals? And when Indira Gandhi declared emergency, what happened to India's democracy? Germany's Nazis could never be as virulent as India's Rashtria Sevak Sangh (RSS), incidentally both have Swastikas as their cult's symbol. Eminent Indian columnist Kuldip Nayar says that Advani, to quote, "is an RSS hardliner and a vociferous exponent of Hindutva Doctrine", unquote. In layman's terms, Advani is a charter member of a extreme right wing socio-political religious grouping that not only believes in the Hindu religion's absolute supremacy over all other religions, it does not permit other religions to even co-exist. And they say fundamentalism exists in Islam! Despite being in numbers many times less than the Hindus they ruled, Islam's millennium supremacy period is particularly galling for the RSS. When it came to the matter of sacking Gujerat's muslim-killer Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Vajpayee, supposedly very secular, not only succumbed to RSS pressure within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but labelled most muslims in India as "potential terrorists".
Advani is the real genius behind the rise of BJP to a major national party from a small fanatical party. Having a significant Hindu hardline following in almost every constituency they could not translate this solid vote into electoral seats, it was Advani's blatantly anit-muslim long march on Ayodhya (Babri Masjid) a decade ago that acquired for BJP the Hindu religious vote en masse at the expense of the more secular Congress. This was still not enough for BJP to secure the majority for Federal rule over India, a coalition of regional parties held the swing vote. Power has always been in the hands of Advani but the BJP adopted the very pragmatic policy of putting for public display the human face of Vajpayee as "the leader" of the Coalition. The regional parties, having broad secular support, needed this political fig-leaf from the BJP to join the government. Advani accepted a backseat of sorts but the cabinet post of Federal Home Minister consolidated his considerable clout. Advani and his supporters conceded a modicum of real power for the sake of governance.
If one were to put an actual date as to when even the proforma power was lost by Vajpayee to Advani, it would be almost exactly a year ago on July 16, 2001. After lengthy discussions the previous night with Pervez Musharraf in Agra at the Indo-Pak Summit Vajpayee and Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh agreed upon a final draft that would break the deadlock between Pakistan and India over Kashmir. When the contents, the draft became known to Advani, all hell broke loose. Abandoning any pretence of compromise the hardliners went on the offensive against the Pakistanis and Vajpayee supporters alike. While the assembled media persons waited expectantly for the "signing ceremony", Sushmila Swaraj, Advani's "guided missile", came to the Agra Sheraton at about 11 am to assure the media in an extraordinary impromptu "walkabout" Press Conference that there would be no agreement. Given the optimistic anticipation based on positive background briefings from both the camps, nobody paid much attention to her. She had the last laugh. Much after sundown, while some of us waited live on TV panels for follow-up discussions, India's Foreign Office Spokesperson confirmed the breakdown of talks. More surprising, in a rank display of discourtesy, General Pervez Musharraf was not even allowed to address the media, even his farewell call on Vajpayee was obstructed for some time. Many in the Pakistani media sensed the obvious, Vajpayee had become a "gilded" prisoner of his "in-name-only" Deputy.
Alarmed at India's suggested commitment for resolution of outstanding problems with Pakistan, particularly the core issue of Kashmir, the solution of which would deprive BJP's "raison d'étre" for existence, Advani and party staged a civilian coup d'etat and virtually took over controls of government. It has taken them about a year to formalize the arrangement. Vajpayee and Jaswant Singh were immediately made to publicly recant on their Pakistani-friendly initiatives. Events since, like Sep 11, the Dec 13 attack on Indian Parliament and the Gujerat rampage, have helped the hardliners within BJP to effectively sideline the peace-makers. Despite playing the Pakistan-card to the hilt, the BJP suffered severe losses in the State elections, losing absolute control except in Gujerat and Jharkhand. In Uttar Pradesh (UP) they have managed a post-electoral alliance with Mayawati to stay in power despite being trounced badly. The electoral setback has convinced the BJP of the need to go back to the basics that won them power in the first place i.e. a virulent anti-muslim stance that would line up Hindu chauvinism within India behind their electoral wagon, if this means systematic murders of hundreds and thousands of innocents, so be it!. And when their own survival as national electoral entity was at stake, they did not even worry about their regional partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Even dog-loyal Farooq Abdullah is being discarded as a Kashmiri partner, at least publicly. According to Kuldip Nayar, quote, "by the time Vajpayee seeks retirement the allies of the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would have accepted the pre-eminence of Advani. The change will not be difficult. In fact, the original proposal to make Advani Deputy Prime Minister came from George Fernandes, the Samata Party Chairman. It means some opposition parties in the NDA have already been flattened. The support of the BJP's NDA allies to Advani's elevation to Deputy Prime Ministership proves another point, power is a greater and more effective force than opposition to parochialism, anti-secularism and Hindutva. Former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu was quite right when he said that the NDA would accept Advani because power was their ideology, not secularism or democracy." unquote.
The BJP electoral strategy is clear, unfortunately Pakistan is slated to pay a price for it. Most defence analysts are predicting that once the monsoons are over, by the end of July or the beginning of August, the Indians may do something. After all the Indian Armed Forces have been out in the field for 8 months, to what purpose? And what excuse will they give for going back "without teaching Pakistan a lesson"? Particularly when they had vented their manliness so much through the media? With Advani and Fernandes at the helm, war (whether "limited" or "all-out" is a moot point) is not a possibility any more, it is a certainty. Through the monsoons, it would be prudent to keep our powder dry.
Mr. Ikram Sehgal is Publisher and Managing Editor of Defence Journal (Pakistan).
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Fr. Dave Zimmer: Msgr. Thomas McGread — Mentor, Inspiration, and Guide
I suppose I always knew the day would come when Msgr. Thomas McGread would "meet his mentor, inspiration and guide," our Lord and Savior, face to face. Shouldn't we all be anticipating and preparing for the moment, in spite of the fact we know not the day, nor the hour, He will call each of us "home."
For Msgr. McGread, that day was on April 1, 2013. I am most grateful to one of my friends from Catholic Stewardship Consultants who called me immediately with the news of his death. I suspect the timeliness of the call was because CSC knew Msgr. McGread and I have had a number of conversations in the past seven years, and Msgr. McGread always seemed to be interested in our parish and it's progress in embracing the stewardship way of life. It was to be my hope, especially this year, to have one more conversation with him, but that was not meant to be.
I am left with discussing his life and mission of being a mentor, a source of inspiration, and a guide in understanding the stewardship way of life with his friends and colleagues, who knew him very well. They were and still are my link to that faithful priest from Wichita, known as the "Father of Catholic Stewardship" and my "mentor, inspiration and guide."
There is a natural sadness in acknowledging the death of such a priest so dedicated to being a "faithful steward." However, I cannot imagine where I would be now, having not met the man, heard the message from himself and others inspired by him. His humility prevented him from drawing attention to himself, but his commitment to being an advocate and messenger of the spirituality of stewardship will always be a gift I humbly accept and cherish and hope to model.
I cannot imagine where our parish would be now had we not come to know of Msgr. McGread's life work in the area of stewardship. I can't imagine where hundreds of other parishes along with their pastors would be now had they not heard him or the inspiring words he often shared at the Spiritual Life Center in Wichita, Kan., or in his many travels and speaking engagements throughout his priesthood. I wonder where the Conference of Catholic Bishops would have gotten their inspiration and insights when drafting the conference's pastoral letter titled, Stewardship: A Disciple's Response, first published in 1992 and expanded in 2002. It remains the definitive resource to understanding stewardship as a way of life.
I am convinced and know Msgr. McGread's legacy will continue as long as those of us who remain committed to the stewardship way of life acknowledge, recall, and teach what we have gained from his mentorship, inspiration and guidance. We thank God for his presence and our fortunate interaction with his message and his practical wisdom, which he recognized as God's gift to him, but never meant to be private. He shared it with enthusiasm and dedication, despite challenges, opposition, criticism and even at times, rejection. While serving as pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, the parish flourished, becoming the "premier model" of living the stewardship way of life, even to this day. His explanation that the "Textbook for stewardship is the Word of God, the Bible; the classroom of stewardship is the Holy Mass," made perfect sense when I first heard it from Msgr. McGread himself. And, now, eight years later, many along with myself are more convinced of the truth of those words.
While sadness hits us when we think of a loss, gratitude is a much stronger force that provides consolation and assurance when we need it most. I am not sure this is the time for that. What I am certain of is that I am profoundly grateful and blessed that what God has given me and so many others, through an Irish pastor from Wichita, we continue to be a "mentor, a source of inspiration and guide," for the rest of my life. This is another one of God's gifts for which I am most grateful.
Filed Under: Fr. Dave Zimmer
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Occasionally we sling-shot off our route & end up in another part of London. Last year we landed at The Prince Of Wales Pub in Brixton & took the roof off with a Dub clash. DBC meets Coxsone with DJ Mekka & Blacker Dread playing Roots & Lovers. Adrian Jae presented his monthly show "Straight Outta Brixton", Double Agent7 joined in with rare 7″ Rock 'n' Roll & Charlotte Devaney lifted us with classic UK Garage & Jungle. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 77 |
A simple game where you must identify the color of the square in the middle of the screen. The square will shrink for every correct guess. How sharp are your eyes? Can you find the Potato???
I could not find the potato. I did get bonus mode, though. I couldn't figure out what it did - I won again after winning the first time and it didn't seem any different. Fun idea, good execution, not much game (but I guess that's the minimalism). Surprisingly fun.
No potato for me. It's a cute little game though!
Neat game, though it feels kind of like a guessing game at 16... I liked it.
@DaveDobson: I made it so once you unlock bonus mode it will automatically select it for you (I think this is what you were confused about).
@daniel: I was thinking about putting a screamer after you get 16 haha be glad i didn't have enough time!
Neat idea. Could be nicer with some sort of time limit, and with not-so-impossible sizes at the end ;) If the player was forced to be quick, I think even relatively large squares could be mixed up in a panic.
Did not win but... I would totally play the hell out of a fully featured version of this game, if just to prove my superior sense of color matching. Really good for your first LD.
Nice and minimal! Good to know I'm not colourblind :D Great job sticking with the theme!
At first I thought: what a terrible idea! But somehow it worked and I played 5 times until I almost scored 16. Kudos on being original and very minimal!
Very clever game and fits the theme perfectly. Great job! I got to 14 several times, but after that it was really just a guess for me.
Also, you commented on my game that you couldn't play because you have a Mac, well there is now a Web build, so hopefully you will be able to play it.
I'm actually red/green colourblind and I easily got to 12, which as far as I can tell is the most that anybody could do at the game's current resolution. So I don't know how well this game works.
i enjoyed this. very simple idea and kept my attention till i beat it. nice job!
#15, on my monitor, the color that came up might as well have been white. I inspected the pixel's color. It was fffffb.
Interesting. I won after 3-4 tries. The last 2-3 were more luck than anything. It was either semi invisible (yellow) or obviously the dark red. Very interesting visualization.
As a colorblind I have to say, your game is amazing !!!
My eyesight not good enough for the later levels... What a strange game!
It does get frustrating trying to judge the color value of one pixel, but it's a good game. Is it actually possible for colorblind people to play this?
@sittaman thanks so much dude! You are awesome!
@visibleatom Not too sure... I feel like it would depend on the type of colorblind-ness... One of my friends who play tested the game had real troubles with the red/yellow level but had a much easier time with purple/blue level while another friend had the opposite experience.
Very interesting idea, but becomes impossible after not too much, with a low resolution monitor.
I'm unfortunately afflicted with a line of red and yellow dead pixels down the middle of this screen, so the game became quite difficult at about 12. Frustratingly made it to 15 a number of times. Occasionally fucked up and pressed the wrong button and given the movement time it would be nice if it let you change during the glide.
Original idea :) Nice first game on LD!
It's really hard to match color after "11" | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 78 |
Piz Buin Pitschen (Rumantsch) or Kleiner Piz Buin (German) is a peak in the Silvretta Alps. The Piz Buin Pitschen lies western of his higher neighbor the Piz Buin Grond or Großer Piz Buin.
The summit forms the border between Switzerland and Austria and is the second highest peak in Vorarlberg, a state of Austria, and the sixth highest peak of the mountain range after the Piz Linard, the Fluchthorn, the Piz Buin Grond, the Verstanclahorn and the Piz Fliana.
The first ascent was made 1868 by O.W. Stein and his guide Christian Jann.
Geography
The Piz Buin Pitschen lies on the main ridge of the Silvretta alps. It is separated from its more famous neighbour by the Buinlücke (Fourcla Buin), a 3,056 m high mountain pass between the two summits.
Piz Buin Pitschen separates two glacial valleys, the Ochsenthaler Glacier on the north and La Cudera on the southwest of the mountain. While the Ochsenthaler Glacier forms the origin of the River Ill, which first fills the Silvretta Reservoir at the Silvretta High-Alpine-Road and later flows into the Rhine (North Sea). South of Piz Buin Pitschen the water flows in the Inn, which empties into the Danube (Black Sea).
In the west, the Fourcla dal Cunfin separates the Piz Buin Pitschen from the 3210 m high Signalhorn. The pass also allows the transition from the Austrian Ochsentaler glacier to the Swiss glacier La Cudera. The glacier La Cudera flows off towards the Tuoi valley, also Swiss, south of the Piz Buin Pitschen, a side valley of the Lower Engadine near Guarda.
The Silvretta High-Alpine-Road, which connects the two Austrian states Vorarlberg and Tyrol, runs along the banks of the Silvretta Reservoir over the 2032 m high Bielerhöhe. The parking facilities there and the bus connection are the starting point for the access to the Wiesbadener hut, from where the easiest route to the summit starts.
Climbing routes
The Piz Buin Pitschen is climbed in compared to its higher neighbor, the Piz Buin Grond rather rarely. It can be done both in summer as a glacier and rock climb and in winter as ski touring.
The route of the first ascent led from the Silvretta hut (2341 m) over the Silvretta pass to the summit.
The easiest route leads from the Wiesbadener hut (2443 m) in Vorarlberg over the Buinlücke (Fourcla Buin) and the west ridge to the summit. The Piz Buin Pitschen can also be climbed from the Chamonna Tuoi (2250 m) in the Swiss Tuoi valley over the glacier La Cudera and Fourcla dal Cunfin or the Vermuntpass.
The ascent of the Kleine Piz Buin leads in any case over glacier and requires climbing at level II in the UIAA grading system, which can be surpassed by the melting of the glacier.
Name and history
The name Piz Buin is derived from the Rumantsch and means "Ochsenspitze" in German what can be translated with "Ox-peak". This name is supplemented in Rumantsch with Grond and Pitschen to distinguish the two summits from each other. If someone only says "Piz Buin", then normally the Piz Buin Grond is meant.
The first ascent of the Piz Buin Pitschen took place on 24 August 1868 by O.W. Stein and Christian Jann, about three years after that of the Piz Buin Grond. Their path led from Klosters via Alp Spörra and Sardasca to the "Clubhütte", today the Silvretta hut, as O.W. Stein describes in his report. From there they climbed over a crevasse glacier towards the Silvretta Pass, where Stein and his guide decided to climb the Piz Buin Pitschen after a rest at the "Mittagsplatte" (Plan da Mezdi) due to the good weather. Stein reports of a rugged rock ridge. At the top, a little cairn was built, which contained in a paper in a bottle with the names of the two climbers. They chose the descent "north along the ridge".
O.W. Stein stated in his report the height of the mountain with 3264 m.
References
External links
Piz Buin Pitschen on Hikr
Mountains of the Alps
Alpine three-thousanders
Mountains of Vorarlberg
Mountains of Graubünden
Austria–Switzerland border
International mountains of Europe
Mountains of Switzerland
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Head honcho of the Irish Drift Series Graham McNamara had arranged for Ken Nomura to bring his R34 Skyline and fly over Kunny Takahashi to drive the supercharged Sumo Power 350z. Did I mention the Top Secret S15 and Signal Auto S13 brought over for them to drift in as well! As if it couldn't get any better, round 3 of the Irish Drift Series, time attack and a huge car show on top – it was just too much to take in! Most definitely an AutoFest.
Mondello was brought to life early on Sunday morning with the sound of screeching tyres and howling exhausts as the qualifying got underway for the drift competition. Not only were the usual Irish drivers in the lineup, but several European competitors were also in the procession. Brett Castle, 2004 UK Drift Champion was present in his S14a and entrants from the Dutch and English drift series and really gave the feeling that this was an international drift event.
Back by the paddock things were just as impressive with the Irish modified and performance car trade out in force. The websites and car clubs finished off the display with rows of the finest modified metal from throughout Ireland.
After the qualifying there was a time attack event featuring some very fast skylines and Cossies, and then stunt bikes took to the track doing crazy daredevil jumps over burnouts supplied by the drift cars. The crowd was going wild and the grandstands were packed, but the best was still to come.
Ken Nomura exploded onto the track in his Blitz Skyline with Kunny inches away in the Top Secret Sylvia. The drift speed of these cars was awesome and car control second to none – it was clear to see why these guys are the world's best! After filling the entire track with tyre smoke, Kunny returned in the pink 350z and showed even more control and aggression behind the wheel.
The twin drifting (or Tsuiso as its known) then started with the top 16 drivers being seeded from the qualifiers. Competition was fierce with veterans Mark Luney (GTR Skyline), Julian Smith (R32 Skyline) and Damien Mulvey (2004 Irish Champ) were all head to head, and (most proudly) our project AE86 driven by Eric O'Sullivan. The crowds cheered and roared as a fierce drift battle commenced with Mulvey coming first, Eric second, Julian third and Mark in fourth position. Everyone including the Japanese drivers were stunned by these final runs.
We witnessed one of Ireland's great shows – there has quite simply never been anything like it before, and I can only hope they run it again. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 80 |
Support of city businesses helping music festival to flourish
Support of city businesses helping Celebrate Voice to flourish
By Katy Griffin
Celebrate Voice sponsors and supporters: John Rose, Bertie Gore Browne (GBIM), Keith Phillimore (Smith & Williamson), Lynsey Docherty (Celebrate Voice), Jane Kennedy (Wiltshire Life Magazine), Stephen Oxley (Wilsons), Steve Godwin (Salisbury BID) P
SUPPORT from the business community has ensured Salisbury's Celebrate Voice has flourished over the last five years.
The music festival takes place next month from October 25 to November 3.
Founder and artistic director of Celebrate Voice Lynsey Docherty said: "The key to the success of our partnerships is the personal relationships we develop. The sponsors know that I personally keep track of every penny given to the festival, that it is spent wisely, and most importantly, on great art. I ensure that our sponsors are kept up to date on developments, feel part of the process and success of our growing festival, and know that they will be associated with a quality event with which they feel proud to associate their business. We also provide a wide-reaching marketing strategy and excellent client entertainment opportunities."
She says the event has existed on only 3.4 per cent of public funding over five years.
The festival aims to bring world class performers to the city for nightly performances of opera, jazz, folk, cabaret and a cappella as well as creating events where these performers take part in events for, and with, the community.
Lynsey said: "Every year our opera stars perform in a gala concert for older people in our community at the Guildhall, and this year our singers will be out on the streets for the Big Busk, and enabling young people to work with professionals for the Apollo5 a cappella concert. The mix of quality performances and community involvement and participation is a big draw to our sponsors."
Stephen Oxley, Partner at Wilsons, and a principal sponsor of Celebrate Voice 2018 added: "For many decades Wilsons Solicitors has been a strong supporter of the arts in Salisbury. We are delighted to partner with Celebrate Voice as a principal sponsor of this year's exciting programme and wish Lynsey and her team every success."
Local business supporters of this year's festival are principal sponsors, Wilsons Solicitors LLP and The Mark Allen Group, Gore Browne Investment Management, NFU Mutual Salisbury, Smith and Williamson, Southern Independent Medical Practice, John Rose Photography plus the festival received an award from Salisbury City Council and support from Salisbury BID.
Elizabeth Pollard at Gore Browne Investment Management said: "We are delighted to partner with Celebrate Voice which brings a dynamic and diverse range of vocal talent to the Salisbury community."
Tickets via Wiltshire Creative's ticket office on 01722 320333. For more information go to celebratevoice.co.uk
Tickets are available via Wiltshire Creative Ticket Office (01722 320333). Full programme details can be found at www.celebratevoice.co.uk.
Suspicious incident involving fortune teller and shop break-in reported to police | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 81 |
Home » Pakistan » Ranks of Pakistan Air Force PAF Officers in Order Badges
Ranks of Pakistan Air Force PAF Officers in Order Badges
Pakistan Air Force is abbreviated as PAF which is an important branch of Pakistan armed forces. Its primary role is to protect the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its secondary role is to provide air logistics support to the Pakistan army and the Pakistan Navy. Many talented men and women are serving Pakistan Air force with great commitment.
Pakistan Air force was established with the independence of Pakistan which played an important role in the wars of 1965 and 1971. With the passage of time, modernization took place in this defense force of Pakistan. PAF have trained and talented individuals to face any kind of critical situation. Today PAF has 20 fighter Squadrons, an automated network of Air Defense Radars, complex maintenance facilities and an elaborate administration setup.
Pakistan Air force provides many facilities to its employees including health and medical facilities. You can join Pakistan Air force as an officer through different types of commission as Permanent Commission (PC), Special Purpose Short Service Commission (SPSSC) and Short Service Commission (SSC). You can join in the branches of Administration and Special Duties, General Duties Pilot, Air Defense, Engineering, Logistics, Information Technology, Education, Accounts, Legal department and meteorology.
Pakistan Air Force offers you wide range of work opportunities so that you can put to use in building a successful career. Whether you have passed intermediate or graduate the doors of opportunities are always open in Pakistan Air Force for males as well as females. You can be a pilot because PAF makes you rise high in your career and test your potentials. You can be an Engineer or Doctor because PAF provides you all the opportunities to excel in your profession. PAF is not all about aircraft or pilot but you can join different occupations because they are many disciplines through which you can not only earn professional efficacy but also grow personally with a sense of achievement.
Ranks in PAF:
There are different ranks in Pakistan Air force. Ranks of Pakistan Air Force are royal air force structure, though ranks for other ranks personnel and insignia differ. Insignia for officer ranks were changed from the British influenced ranks to a Turkish style one on 5 July 2006. Pakistan Air Force is headed by air chief marshal.
Here are given below different ranks offered to those officers who join PAF. Officer rank badges are displayed on the shoulders.
PAF Commissioned Officer Ranks
Air Chief Marshal (ACM)
Air Marshal (AM)
Air Vice Marshal (AVM)
Air Commodore (Air Cdre)
Group Captain (Gp Capt)
Wing Commander (Wg Cdr)
Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr)
Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt)
Flying Officer (Flg Off)
Pilot Officer (Plt Off)
PAF Junior Commissioned Officers Ranks
JCOS / AIRMEN RANK STRUCTURE
Assistant Warrant Officer
Airmen Ranks
Chief Technician
Senior Technician
Corporate Technician
Junior Technician
Senior Air craftman | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 82 |
Registration is now open for the Camden, New Jersey 2016 GradNation Community Summit – Forging Links Between Social-Emotional Learning & Academic Achievement: A Community Wide Imperative – on Thursday, October 13, from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at Rutgers University – Camden campus.
School faculty and administrators are especially encouraged to attend and develop their SEL-Achievement Action Plan during the day.
The Camden, New Jersey 2016 GradNation Community Summit is one of just 100 GradNation Community Summits planned nationwide across four years. The GradNation Community Summits campaign is sponsored by America's Promise Alliance to increase the U.S. high school graduation rate through local collaborations. According to the New Jersey Department of Education, in 2015, 89.7% of New Jersey high school students graduated in four years, extending an upward trend in statewide graduation rates since the Class of 2011. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 83 |
These gorgeous earrings are made with clear Swarovski bicone crystals and white freshwater pearls that are wire wrapped onto sterling silver chain to form a beautiful cluster. The earrings have sterling silver earring hooks.
These earring will make a bride look even more lovely on her special day. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 84 |
C.E.O, DJ, promoter, producer, and radio personality, Roody Lubin better known as DJ Uneek, stands in charge of his own path. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, DJ Uneek, came to the US in his adolescent. Although he had an upbringing in a very musically-influenced home, he didn't pursue entertainment as a career of choice in the beginning. Too hard to stay away from, his love for music kept burning inside of him; so he eventually embarked on his passion. With the influence of DJ Master Track, also known as DJ Dominique, a very popular Disc-Jockey in the Haitian Music Industry, DJ Uneek learned how to beat match, pitch control, transition, etc…He soon branched out on his own and started his career as a DJ playing at a many events in his community. Years later, he decided to take on a new venture by starting an online radio station called, KreyolJAM.com – A station that cover various styles and genres of music with a focus on the Haitian-Caribbean sound to embrace his culture. KreyolJAM.com provides a platform for unknown artist to showcase their talent and music. Hence, the reason for the station's slogan, "Your MUSIC, Your STATION".
The People's Favorite on the turntables, his authenticity has displayed that you're in the presence of someone who's the real deal whether you're working with him or booking him. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 85 |
package io.datakernel.launchers.crdt;
import io.datakernel.bytebuf.ByteBuf;
import io.datakernel.codec.StructuredCodec;
import io.datakernel.codec.json.JsonUtils;
import io.datakernel.common.parse.ParseException;
import io.datakernel.config.Config;
import io.datakernel.crdt.CrdtData;
import io.datakernel.crdt.local.CrdtStorageMap;
import io.datakernel.di.annotation.Optional;
import io.datakernel.di.annotation.Provides;
import io.datakernel.di.module.AbstractModule;
import io.datakernel.eventloop.Eventloop;
import io.datakernel.http.*;
import io.datakernel.http.loader.StaticLoader;
import io.datakernel.promise.Promise;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
import static io.datakernel.codec.StructuredCodecs.tuple;
import static io.datakernel.http.AsyncServletDecorator.loadBody;
import static io.datakernel.http.HttpMethod.*;
import static io.datakernel.launchers.initializers.Initializers.ofHttpServer;
import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
public abstract class CrdtHttpModule<K extends Comparable<K>, S> extends AbstractModule {
@Provides
AsyncHttpServer server(Eventloop eventloop, AsyncServlet servlet, Config config) {
return AsyncHttpServer.create(eventloop, servlet)
.initialize(ofHttpServer(config.getChild("crdt.http")));
}
@Provides
StaticLoader loader(Executor executor) {
return StaticLoader.ofClassPath(executor, "/");
}
@Provides
AsyncServlet servlet(
CrdtDescriptor<K, S> descriptor,
CrdtStorageMap<K, S> client,
@Optional BackupService<K, S> backupService
) {
StructuredCodec<K> keyCodec = descriptor.getKeyCodec();
StructuredCodec<S> stateCodec = descriptor.getStateCodec();
StructuredCodec<CrdtData<K, S>> codec = tuple(CrdtData::new,
CrdtData::getKey, descriptor.getKeyCodec(),
CrdtData::getState, descriptor.getStateCodec());
RoutingServlet servlet = RoutingServlet.create()
.map(POST, "/", loadBody()
.serve(request -> {
ByteBuf body = request.getBody();
try {
K key = JsonUtils.fromJson(keyCodec, body.getString(UTF_8));
S state = client.get(key);
if (state != null) {
return Promise.of(HttpResponse.ok200()
.withBody(JsonUtils.toJson(stateCodec, state).getBytes(UTF_8)));
}
return Promise.of(HttpResponse.ofCode(404)
.withBody(("Key '" + key + "' not found").getBytes(UTF_8)));
} catch (ParseException e) {
return Promise.ofException(HttpException.ofCode(400, e));
}
}))
.map(PUT, "/", loadBody()
.serve(request -> {
ByteBuf body = request.getBody();
try {
client.put(JsonUtils.fromJson(codec, body.getString(UTF_8)));
return Promise.of(HttpResponse.ok200());
} catch (ParseException e) {
return Promise.ofException(HttpException.ofCode(400, e));
}
}))
.map(DELETE, "/", loadBody()
.serve(request -> {
ByteBuf body = request.getBody();
try {
K key = JsonUtils.fromJson(keyCodec, body.getString(UTF_8));
if (client.remove(key)) {
return Promise.of(HttpResponse.ok200());
}
return Promise.of(HttpResponse.ofCode(404)
.withBody(("Key '" + key + "' not found").getBytes(UTF_8)));
} catch (ParseException e) {
return Promise.ofException(HttpException.ofCode(400, e));
}
}));
if (backupService == null) {
return servlet;
}
return servlet
.map(POST, "/backup", request -> {
if (backupService.backupInProgress()) {
return Promise.of(HttpResponse.ofCode(403)
.withBody("Backup is already in progress".getBytes(UTF_8)));
}
backupService.backup();
return Promise.of(HttpResponse.ofCode(202));
})
.map(POST, "/awaitBackup", request ->
backupService.backupInProgress() ?
backupService.backup().map($ -> HttpResponse.ofCode(204)
.withBody("Finished already running backup".getBytes(UTF_8))) :
backupService.backup().map($ -> HttpResponse.ok200()));
}
}
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Ingredients: 30mL Bundaberg Rum UP Pineapple Juice Fresh Pineapple Method: Pour 30mL Bundaberg Rum UP into a tall glass Fill up with ice Top with Pineapple Juice Garnish with fresh pineapple chunks Enjoy!
INGREDIENTS: 100mL Prosecco 15mL SKYY Vodka 30mL cranberry juice 3 raspberries for garnish METHOD: Ensure all your ingredients are cold. Pour the SKYY Vodka, cranberry juice and prosecco into champagne flute. Garnish with 3 raspberries on a long tooth pick. Enjoy!
Ingredients: 90mL Gin 15mL Tintara McLaren Vale Shiraz 1 tbsp dark rum 4 dashes of orange bitters Method: Pour the gin, rum, orange bitters and Tintara Shiraz into a cocktail shaker half-filled with cracked ice. Shake to combine the ingredients Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with cherry peppers (optional) Enjoy! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 87 |
Somersworth, N.H. — New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a 2020 candidate, endorsed federal implementation of a third gender listing for Americans who identify as non-binary. Speaking at an LGBTQ-focused meet and greet in New Hampshire on Friday, Gillibrand emphatically said "yes" about recognizing "X" as a third gender marker.
Palana Belken, a transgender woman and organizer for the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, asked Gillibrand the question and applauded her quick answer.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights organization in the U.S., non-binary is an "adjective describing a person who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman."
Belken said her question originated from the efforts of New Hampshire State Rep. Gerri Cannon, a transgender lawmaker who recently introduced two similar identification bills at the state level to present this third option on birth certificates and driver's licenses.
The potential federal change is important, Cannon said, because states have differing implementation of the "X" identifier.
"Right now, especially non-binary people, when they go to one state to another some state trooper may take a look at a license with an 'X' on it and go, 'What is this?'" Cannon said.
A handful of states, including Maine, Oregon, California and Colorado, plus the District of Columbia and New York City, recognize a third option for gender identity.
Gillibrand is on a campaign swing through New Hampshire this weekend, with stops Saturday in Exeter, Keene and Hanover. | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaC4'} | 88 |
I'm looking for information on where I can find/obtain the article written by IIRR Jim E Clark Sr "Handloading for Accuracy in the S&W M52" printed in Gun Digest and also The Best of Gun Digest.
I am not sure what year this article was written.
Thank you in advance for any information you can supply.
Thank you all for your the comments on this thread!
I used to have Gun Digests going back that far and I recall the Hebard and Bellah articles. Gil Hebard's piece, which includes a little reloading information, is reprinted in the Pistol Shooter's Treasury.
That little book includes an article by Jim Clark 'Reloading .38 and .45 Pistol Ammunition' reprinted from American Rifleman.
It does not mention the Model 52. I would not expect it to, Jim Clark was then in the business of converting Colt .38 Supers to .38 Special and the Smith was his only competitor.
Thank you for the information on where to find Clark Sr Thank you for the information on where to find Clark Sr article!It may not mention the M52, but it would be a great addition to my collection on loading for the .38 spl.
And many more interesting articles that are relevant to today's shooting styles.
If interested someone may have a pdf of this article they would be willing to share.
Thanks to all the comments on this thread!!
I use an old RCBS .38 Spl expander die that does the job perfectly. Remember, I DON'T size the case at all (the rounds still drop almost all the way into the barrel and the slide always shoves the rest of the round into the chamber). Alternatively, I would go to Lee and get a custom expander, as they are almost certainly the cheapest.
Now, my three M-52s may have larger grooves then others, for all I know (never bothered to slug 'em since there was never any leading issues—just accuracy issues).
I recently purchased an old RCBS 38spl wadcutter die set (all steel not carbide) and haven't tried it yet. Seems to measure slightly larger diameter on the expansion plug than my LEE 38/357 die set.
dronning wrote: +1 on the Remington for my M52-2, I'd add Precision Delta with match lube to the M-52 "they work great" list but the Remington's are way cheaper.
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The Ides of March
The Ides of March (2011)
Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers
George Clooney as Gov. Morris
Paul Giamatti as Tom Duffy
Marisa Tomei as Ida Horowicz
Jeffrey Wright as Sen. Thompson
Evan Rachel Wood as Molly
Grant Heslov
Rated R for pervasive language
October 5, 2011 |
"The Ides of March" tells me something I already knew: that the experience of running an American political campaign is crushing for body and soul. By the time a winning candidate survives more than a year of primaries and the general election, it is a wonder he has the strength remaining to govern. The film also raises the question of whether it is possible for any candidate to win and yet remain true to his original values.
Although the movie stars George Clooney, well-known as a Democrat, it doesn't target or even really consider Republicans. It takes place entirely within a Democratic primary campaign, and although our feelings about who is good and bad may evolve, they're all Democrats.
The central character is Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling), who as a press secretary is required to more or less lie as a living. He works for Pennsylvania Gov. Mike Morris (Clooney), an idealistic liberal. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Paul Zara, his seasoned campaign manager; Michael Mantell is Sen. Pullman, Morris' opponent, and Paul Giamatti is Tom Duffy, Pullman's campaign manager. A strong cast. Perhaps because the screenplay is based on a play ("Farragut North" by Beau Willimon), it contains some front-of-the-stage monologues that Hoffman and Giamatti make plausible under the closer scrutiny of a camera.
All of these men, except young Stephen Meyers, are realists. They're cynical, compromised and sometimes underhanded, but all in the cause of something they believe in. The Gosling character believes mostly in himself. Like many staff members of powerful men, he confuses reflected glory for the thing itself and dreams not so much of Gov. Morris winning as of being able to rise in the staff ranks and take over Zara's job.
This all happens in the pressure-cooker atmosphere of the Ohio primary, where the big picture is painted in tiny vignettes: campaign stops, hand-shaking, speech writing, sleep loss, and bone-deep exhaustion that drives the characters almost to the breaking point. Imprudent sex under these circumstances is explicable, and Stephen puts the moves on a young intern named Molly (Evan Rachel Wood). This allows him to use her naivete to learn information she doesn't realize she should ever, ever share. He also develops a cagey relationship with a journalist (Marisa Tomei), as they work each other for information.
The screenplay, written by Clooney, Grant Heslov and Willimon, is ingenious in the way it meshes personal and political ambitions, especially when Duffy, the manager of the rival campaign, reaches out and tries to recruit Stephen over to his side. His motives are suspicious: Does he really want the guy, or does he know that a job offer is a useful ploy? Certainly Stephen is on the make and looking for openings to his advantage.
Clooney as director seems attracted to stories about smart men under pressure ("Good Night, and Good Luck," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"). He draws back from action and plunges into intrigue. Here he conceals certain of Stephen's inner workings (some planned, some improvised) to great effect, as the young man reveals an amorality that surprises even the hardened pros he works under. The last shot of the film, a closeup of Ryan Gosling, held for a long time, is chilling.
The movie really reveals no new information. Now that campaign managers shuffle between cable news shows and write their own books, few secrets stay in smoke-filled rooms (and besides, hardly anyone smokes anymore). There isn't the feeling, as there was with "Primary Colors" or "Nixon," that we might be getting the inside story on actual candidates. "The Ides of March" is more about the nature of modern media politics, and younger players who are strangers to idealism.
The movie's strength is in the acting, with Gosling once again playing a character with an insistent presence. In roles as different as this one and "Drive," he has a focus that sees through others and focuses on his character's goals. That intense conviction works in many ways; remember him in "Lars and the Real Girl," where he played a secretive loner who fell in love with a love doll and found this companion a help in re-entering society.
Hoffman has a great scene here with Gosling, in which he discovers the true nature of his situation. Jeffrey Wright has a small but important role as Sen. Thompson, whose influential endorsement cannot be bought but may be available for rental. Clooney the director brings his actor's experience to the job and attends closely to performance. The impression remains, however, that he believes this movie to be more of an expose than it is. The next presidential election is more than a year away, and yet many people seem already worn down by it.
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TEDxSanAntonio Salon: Intellectual Stimulus You Don't Have to Apply For
By Iris Dimmick | August 8, 2013
The collective conscious attempts to describe the creation of meaning. Heavy. Photo by Iris Dimmick.
At last night's free TEDxSanAntonio Salon event at Geekdom, about 80 attendees were asked a seemingly innocent question: "How do you create meaning?" To some, answers came easily, others – myself included – were at a loss for words. How does one even start to answer that question with only two small PostIt notes?
In my mind, I was left with even more questions: Who am I creating meaning for – myself or everyone? Is meaning even "created?" Is meaning inherent to the human experience? I could have spiraled into a trance-like state, staring at the wall, taking the assignment way too seriously – but luckily I had company in a few good friends and new acquaintances to brainstorm and joke around with. Snacks and a pretty decent wine and beer selection certainly didn't hurt the light-hearted mood either.
It felt a bit cheesy at first, like an activity for a high school philosophy class – but it got us talking and thinking on a higher level and that's the whole point of these mini-TEDx events.
Organizers also hope to build momentum and buzz for the 2013 TEDxSanAntonio talk on October 12 at Rackspace. Tickets to see the 15-20 soon-to-be-announced speakers are expected to be around $50. [Click here for registration and application information.]
Have you become acquainted with TED yet?
TEDxSanAntonio is an independently organized program that carries on the "ideas worth spreading" mission of the national TED nonprofit: "A conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design." Through TEDx, local communities can follow the entertaining and intelligent presentation format of TED talks (live or recorded) to "introduce your friends, school, community or workplace to a world of new ideas – and foster rich and inspiring connections and conversations."
Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, North Korean refugee Joseph Kim, beatboxer and inventor Beardyman are but a few examples of the caliber of speakers who have graced the stage at past national conferences.
Locally, TEDxSanAntonio speakers have included the likes of Mayor Julián Castro, bionic exoskeleton creator Eythor Bender, journalist and former Current Editor Elaine Wolff, rancher and artist Linda Perez, and Rivard Report's very own co-founder, butterfly evangelist, and (now) CPS Energy Integrated Communications Director Monika Maeckle.
[Read more here: Ideas Worth Spreading: TEDx San Antonio Celebrates Three Years]
To use the TEDx name, certain rules must be followed and local chapters must obtain a license. TEDxSanAntonio was starting in large part thanks to the organizing efforts of Susan Price, local web producer, USAA veteran and entrepreneur/founder of Firecat Studio. Now in its fourth year, Price and a core group of TEDxSanAntonio volunteers have begun to organize several, smaller salon TEDx talks. Last night's event was the guinea pig, Price said, and one things for sure – "there is plenty of demand."
The first TEDxSanAntonio salon hosted by Geekdom. Photo by Iris Dimmick.
Geekdom's meeting space (one of many) was packed with 80 people who registered within a few weeks of the salon's announcement a couple of months ago, Price said. "Forty-five people are on the wait list … we hate to turn people away, but we've reached capacity."
TED also requires its sanctioned salon events to be less than 100 people to keep the setting it intimate and distinct from the 500 person cap on this year's TEDxSanAntonio main event. During a recent volunteer meeting, "we decided that we wanted more frequent talks and found the salon event to be a perfect fit," Price said.
Originally, Cynthia Phelps volunteered her home as the first venue – sticking with the original concept of "salon" ("an assembly of guests in a fashionable household, especially a gathering of major literary, artistic, and political figures from the 17th to the early 20th centuries").
TEDxSanAntonio volunteer organizers Susan Price (left) and Cynthia Phelps stand in front of a few conversation visualizations at the local chapter's first salon event. Photo by Iris Dimmick.
"I didn't even know what a salon was," Phelps, a local mobile health application developer and entrepreneur, said laughing. Sounds fancy – but she was shooting for something a bit more casual. She and Price were overwhelmed with enthusiastic responses early in the planning process and decided that a more formal venue would be required.
They approached Nick Longo, Geekdom director, and the downtown co-working space became the first TEDxSanAntonio Salon venue sponsor.
Last night, the anatomy of "meaning" was explored by two (pre-recorded) TEDx speakers: Michael Steger at TEDxCSU's presentation "What Makes Life Meaningful" dove into the human need to find meaning in their lives and the benefits (emotional and physical) of living meaningfully, while the second talk from Chip Conely's, "Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile," proposed (among other things) that governments and societies are measuring the wrong metrics – GDP should be GNH: Gross national happiness. The workplace especially should begin to apply Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to employer/employee relationship – what Conely calls the Transformational Pyramid.
After the pair of 18-minute presentations, tables of eight audience members were then encouraged to discuss and explain – by using markers and poster boards – how they create or give meaning.
Amid beverages, snacks, and inspired conversation, most tables came up with what looked like mind-maps of concepts and ideas.
Attendees varied by age, educational, socioeconomic, and professional statuses – all hungry for intellectual stimulation. Photo by Iris Dimmick.
The next TEDx salon event will be about American body image, hosted by local mom, freelance writer, and general "tinkerer," Kim McDonald. She'll be sharing two relevant TEDx talks (required by TED) and will likely host a panel/audience discussion afterwards, she said. Inspired by the Sundance Film Festival-premiered film "Miss Representation", and a history of friends and family with eating disorders and body image issues, McDonald agreed to host the event in the Spring.
"It's an intimate topic, so we'll be looking for the just the right venue," McDonald said.
This is McDonald's first year volunteering with TEDxSanAntonio. She moved here a few years ago and attended the 2011 talk.
"I'm on Twitter a lot, that's how I found out about cool stuff happening in town … I eventually made friends that told me about (TEDx)," McDonald said. "I was intimidated by having to apply (for an invitation) … but it's really just a formality that TED requires. I've heard that it's not 'hard' to get in – global (TED) probably, but not here."
As the evening drew to a close, Post-it Notes and poster board clung to the walks with the words, drawings and musings of what – without context – seemed to be the ramblings of a poet with a 80 different styles of handwriting.
"We succeeded in the social side of the event, for sure," Phelps said as she thought about what to do with the end result. "We need to work out the 'doing' part."
Iris Dimmick is managing editor of the Rivard Report. Follow her on Twitter @viviris or contact her at iris@rivardreport.com.
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4 thoughts on "TEDxSanAntonio Salon: Intellectual Stimulus You Don't Have to Apply For"
Rebecca Helterbrand on August 9, 2013 at 9:00 AM said:
So proud of Susan, Cynthia and the passionate team of volunteers who pulled off the first-ever TEDxSA Salon event! More to come!
David Lopez on August 9, 2013 at 10:37 AM said:
Meaning is created through thoughts, emotions, and distortion. It is created with patterns, shapes, sizes, and weights. It is developed by process, procedure, imagination, curiosity and wonderment. It is ambiguous, fleeting, nerve racking and painful.
Meaning is created through more meaning. Meaning is meaning. It's confusing!
Iris Dimmick on August 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM said:
You should have been there, David!
Susan Price on August 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM said:
Thanks to everyone for participating in this first Salon, and huge thanks to Cynthia Phelps, Geekdom, and the hardworking crew of TEDxSA volunteers. This experiment taught us a lot. We're open to hearing your ideas for future Salons.
If you enjoy discussing ideas, keep a watch for our future Salons and consider requesting an invitation to our main event Saturday, October 12, 2013. Tickets will likely be $65, and we do have some fellowship (free) tickets to award. There will also be a viewing party at the D. R. Semmes YMCA at Tripoint this year to gather and watch the livestream from the event and discuss the ideas. Folks who can't dedicate the full day, don't want to "apply" to attend an event, or don't have the ticket price, we've got you covered this year, thanks to the TriPoint Y! | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 92 |
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Q: class toggling [jQuery/CSS] I have built a simple flexbox layout and I am trying to get my navigation to toggle when it is 570px or less to just have a button which says "Navigation" in it.
When that button is clicked, it should toggle the class of hidden from the li's, however, it doesnt want to do this and I am quite puzzled!
As you can see from my code, I am running a conditional statement on the $(window).width() to see if it is <= 570 and then running an else statement for any sizes larger.
Can anyone figure this out because I can't for some reason.
Here is my CSS and jQuery.
CSS:
.hidden {
display: none;
}
/*
Nav Styles
*/
nav.nav-container {
display: flex;
width: 100vw;
background: #333;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
flex-wrap: wrap;
padding: 20px;
}
nav.nav-container > .nav-img {
justify-content: flex-start;
margin: 0 5px;
}
nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list {
list-style-type: none;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
flex-wrap: wrap;
flex-grow: 200;
justify-content: flex-end;
max-height: 2000px;
}
nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a {
text-decoration: none;
}
nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li.nav-item {
color: #ffffff;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 20px;
text-align: center;
padding: 20px;
}
nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li.nav-item.active {
background: #666;
text-decoration: underline;
}
nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li.nav-item.active:hover {
background: #999;
}
nav.nav-container > button.open-btn {
border: 0;
width: 100px;
height: 40px;
display: none;
background: #000000;
color: #ffffff;
border: 1px solid #ffffff;
outline: none;
}
/*
Content Styles
*/
section.content {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
font-size: 20px;
}
section.content > div.left {
flex-grow: 1;
margin: 10px;
}
section.content > div.right {
flex-grow: 1;
margin: 10px;
}
.section-title {
text-align: center;
font-size: 250%;
}
/*
Basic Responsive Styles
*/
@media (max-width: 570px) {
/*
Nav Responsive Styles
*/
nav.nav-container {
padding: 0;
}
nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list {
flex-direction: column;
max-height: 2000px;
}
nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > li{
}
nav.nav-container > button.open-btn {
display: block;
margin: 15px;
flex-grow: 1;
}
/*
Content Responsive Styles
*/
section.content {
flex-direction: column;
}
}
As you can see, it is basic flexbox styling plus a media query to change the flex-direction, etc and also to show the button for the nav toggling.
jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
if ($(window).width() <= 570) {
$('nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li').addClass("hidden");
$('nav.nav-container > .nav-img').addClass("hidden");
$('.open-btn').on('click', function() {
$('nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li.nav-item').toggleClass("hidden");
});
} else {
if ($('nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li').hasClass('hidden')) {
$('nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li').removeClass('hidden');
}
if ($('nav.nav-container > .nav-img').hasClass("hidden")) {
$('nav.nav-container > .nav-img').removeClass("hidden");
}
}
});
Oh and a link to my codepen also if you want to see the HTML, CSS and jQuery together too!
http://codepen.io/skulldev/pen/RPyEQa
Thanks in advance for any responses.
SD
A: A few things were changed from the previous code and during the hybrid with shans' answer. Once I fixed the problems in shans' answer, I went forward to change to using the $(window).resize(function(){}); and with that plus the changes in variable scope, everything now works it seems!
$(window).resize(function() {
var nav_li = $('nav.nav-container > ul.unstyled-list > a > li');
var width = window.innerWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
if (width <= 570) {
nav_li.hide();
$('.nav-img').hide();
$('.open-btn').on('click', function() {
nav_li.toggle();
});
}
if (width > 570) {
$('.nav-img').show();
nav_li.show();
}
});
You can see the full layout and code changes in my codepen: http://codepen.io/skulldev/pen/RPyEQa
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Fairness, not fear needed on transgender bill
Lawmakers should reject the politics of fear and adopt practical solutions that respect and protect all our youth.
Fairness, not fear needed on transgender bill Lawmakers should reject the politics of fear and adopt practical solutions that respect and protect all our youth. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://tnne.ws/1prgXVu
Ryan Thoreson Published 8:05 a.m. CT March 15, 2016 | Updated 9:06 p.m. CT March 15, 2016
Ryan Thoreson is the Yale Law School Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at Human Rights Watch.(Photo: Submitted)
Limiting transgender students' access to shared facilities is a solution in search of a problem.
In school restrooms, like any restroom, students are not exposing their bodies to each other.
Transgender youth aren't harassing their peers, but in fact face physical violence themselves.
This week, Tennessee lawmakers are slated to consider a dangerous bill that would limit transgender students' access to restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota recently vetoed a similar bill amid concerns that it was unnecessary and opened the state to costly litigation. In the first two months of 2016 alone, comparable proposals have been introduced in 11 other states. Half of those have stalled or been voted down, but the others are still before state legislatures in Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Lawmakers in North Carolina have indicated they may still introduce a bill of their own, and a group in Washington recently filed a statewide ballot initiative that would restrict access to bathrooms and locker rooms for transgender people.
After the veto in South Dakota, opponents of transgender equality are now trying to make Tennessee the first state in the country to pass this type of legislation. As they consider the bill before them, lawmakers in the state have good reason to follow Gov. Daugaard's lead.
Laws limiting transgender students' access to shared facilities are a textbook case of solutions in search of a problem. In recent months, I've interviewed hundreds of students, teachers and administrators about transgender issues in schools, including dozens of transgender students across the U.S. who would be directly affected by these policies if they were adopted. If legislators truly care about student privacy and safety, as they claim they do, they should reject these misguided bills.
It's not necessary to limit access to shared facilities to protect privacy. In school restrooms, like any restroom, students are not exposing their bodies to each other. In restrooms, locker rooms and showers, legislators could support simple measures like stalls or curtains to protect all students' privacy without discriminating against transgender kids.
These bills would not advance student safety, but they would further stigmatize transgender students who have a hard enough time in school as it is. Lawmakers have been unable to point to any instances in which transgender youth harass, intimidate or bully their peers in shared facilities. On the other hand, there is widespread documentation that transgender youth themselves are vulnerable in schools and are often subjected to verbal and physical violence at the hands of their non-transgender peers. The raft of invasive bathroom legislation threatens to make that worse.
The South Dakota bill, like the bill that Tennessee is considering, would have required transgender students to use facilities that match their sex assigned at birth. In South Dakota, students with a different gender identity could have requested another accommodation — for example, using a school nurse's bathroom — but could not have used shared facilities that match their gender identity. Tennessee's bill is even more draconian, and does not allow for any accommodations for transgender students at all.
A transgender girl is less safe when she is forced to use boys' facilities, where she may well be exposed to harassment, bullying, and physical or sexual assault. And forcing transgender students — whose peers may not know they are transgender — to out themselves by requesting alternative facilities would jeopardize their privacy and safety too.
When transgender students feel stigmatized or unsafe because of restrictions on their bathroom access, they may avoid using bathrooms at all. Imagine the impact on a student's health and academic performance of having to go all day, every day, without access to a bathroom. The best option is to allow transgender students to use the bathroom where they feel most safe and comfortable.
When lawmakers ignore pragmatic, simple solutions, it suggests that their actions owe more to their own prejudice or misplaced discomfort than genuine concerns about privacy and safety. In South Dakota, lawmakers indicated as much when they responded to practical critiques of their bill by calling transgender students "twisted," speculating that their presence in shared facilities would traumatize their peers, and suggesting that restrictions on transgender students were necessary to protect "young, innocent girls."
The harmful stereotypes some South Dakota lawmakers peddled were rejected by many of the students supposedly in need of "protection." Hundreds of students wrote South Dakota's lawmakers to oppose the bill. They made it clear that they don't feel threatened by policies to ensure that all students are able to access facilities safely and comfortably.
Fortunately, Gov. Daugaard stood up for sensible, inclusive solutions in the face of fear-mongering. His veto sent a message that the dignity, privacy, health and safety of transgender students matter, and that message has not gone unnoticed by the youth it affects. As opponents of transgender equality shift their focus to Tennessee, lawmakers should be emboldened by Gov. Daugaard's example, reject the politics of fear, and adopt practical solutions that respect and protect all our youth.
Ryan Thoreson is the Yale Law School Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at Human Rights Watch.
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The crawler-transporter is positioned under the mobile launcher platform with the Ares I-X rocket.
The crawler-transporter is positioned under the mobile launcher platform with the 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket. The rocket is prepared to leave the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on its way to Launch Pad 39B. The move to the launch pad, known as "rollout," began at 1:39 a.m. EDT.
The transfer of the pad from the Space Shuttle Program to the Constellation Program took place May 31. Modifications made to the pad include the removal of shuttle unique subsystems, such as the orbiter access arm and a section of the gaseous oxygen vent arm, along with the installation of three 600-foot lightning towers, access platforms, environmental control systems and a vehicle stabilization system. Part of the Constellation Program, the Ares I-X is the test vehicle for the Ares I. The Ares I-X flight test is targeted for Oct. 27. For information on the Ares I-X vehicle and flight test, visit http://www.nasa.gov/aresIX. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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Students are required to use the Pre-participation - Physical Examination Form provided. NO OTHER Physical Examination Form can be accepted. A new physical exam must be given prior to each school calendar year.
J. Frank Dobie High School Longhorns Fall 2017 Team Tennis
5 (Saturday) J. FRANK DOBIE EXES 9 a.m.
8 (Tuesday) at Dawson (Pearland) 9 a.m.
8 (Tuesday) WILLIS 4 p.m.
9 (Wednesday) Friendswood 9 a.m.
10 (Thursday) at San Antonio Clark (Northside Tennis Center) 4:30 p.m.
10 (Thursday) at San Antonio Harlan (Northside Tennis Center) 4:30 p.m.
11 (Friday) at San Antonio Reagan 8:30 a.m.
11 (Friday) at Converse Judson 5 p.m.
15 (Tuesday) KATY 3 p.m.
16 (Wednesday) at George Ranch (Richmond) 9 a.m.
17 (Thursday) CLEAR FALLS 9 a.m.
18 (Friday) CLEAR CREEK 2:30 p.m.
22 (Tuesday) CLEAR SPRINGS 2:30 p.m.
25 (Friday) at Dickinson 3 p.m.
29 (Tuesday) at Clear Brook (Friendswood) 2:30 p.m.
1 (Friday) ALVIN 3 p.m.
8 (Friday) MORTON RANCH 3 p.m.
15 (Friday) COPPERAS COVE 8:30 a.m.
15-16 (Friday-Saturday) 7TH ANNUAL REMEMBERING IKE CLASSIC (Galveston) TBA
19 (Tuesday) * WEST BROOK 3 p.m.
22 (Friday) * at South Houston 3 p.m.
26 (Tuesday) * SAM RAYBURN 3 p.m.
29 (Friday) * at Pasadena 3 p.m.
3 (Tuesday) * DEER PARK 3:30 p.m.
6 (Friday) * LA PORTE 3 p.m.
10 (Tuesday) * at Memorial (Pasadena) 3 p.m.
16-21 (Monday-Saturday) AREA PLAYOFFS TBA
23-27 (Monday-Friday) REGIONAL PLAYOFFS TBA
1-2 (Wednesday-Thursday) U.I.L. CLASS 6A STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (College Station) TBA | {'redpajama_set_name': 'RedPajamaCommonCrawl'} | 99 |