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Christine Trimble is no stranger to high pressure and stress. As the Vice President of Public Affairs for Qualcomm, she handles national and global public policy challenges for one of the leading mobile technology companies and one of the largest companies in San Diego. But this proud U.C. Berkeley graduate, mother, wife and business leader said nothing prepared her for the September day in 2014 when she was told she had Stage III C invasive ductal carcinoma Breast Cancer.
"I will always look back on that day as the worst of my life. I knew my life had taken an unexpected turn and would never be the same," said Christine. "As informed as I thought I was and had been there for friends fighting cancer—when I was diagnosed I was thrust into an unknown world of breast cancer at a meteoric speed. I had no idea how much I needed to learn. I didn't know what questions to ask and I didn't have the context for the information I was being given." Read More >
Rochelle was Susan G. Komen San Diego's 2015 Co-honorary Survivor.
"More than 10 of my family members had breast cancer."
In 2008, Rochelle was flying to see her dad who was dying from breast cancer. While she was on a layover she got the call he passed before she even got there. Read More >
Fran was Susan G. Komen San Diego's 2015 Co-honorary Survivor.
"I think I walked into this so blind because I didn't know anyone who had cancer."
Unlike Rochelle, Fran did not have any family history of breast cancer so she didn't think she was at risk. Read More >
Robin was Susan G. Komen San Diego's 2013 Honorary Survivor.
Robin Rasmussen Marella was Susan G. Komen San Diego's 2013 Honorary Breast Cancer Survivor. The loss of her mother to breast cancer three years prior to her own diagnosis played a major role in how she advocated for herself during her own battle. She also credits her survival to the support of her family and Komen San Diego.
Lupe Cerda
Lupe Cerda came into our office this week to sign up 43 team members and donated $625. She told us that because she had no insurance and very little money she turned to Komen. Komen's grantee, La Maestra Clinic found her breast cancer and treated her. She sold tamales door to door to raise this money so she could help give back to Komen who helped her. Read More >
San Diego's Deputy Fire Chief Named Susan G. Komen's 2014 Honorary Breast Cancer Survivor
Lorraine Hutchinson's new role set to empower and educate San Diegans and African Americans about the importance of early detection.
Susan G. Komen San Diego announced Lorraine Hutchinson, a Deputy Chief in the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department…
Summoning Up the Healing Spirit…in a Flash
Imagine being on the brink of tremendous nationwide success with your home-grown business, and all of a sudden, you're diagnosed with breast cancer. If you're Lisa Hinkley, co-founder of the San Diego craft beer company Green Flash Brewing Company, you summon up the healing spirit that comes from a husband's support…
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Over the past four years, Irene Oberbauer has raised more than $100,000 for Susan G. Komen San Diego. Put that in real terms: $100,000 funds 800 lifesaving mammograms, 8 complete courses of chemotherapy or 2,000 days of meals for women struggling to put food on the table during treatment…
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Mother Ramos
Mother Ramos' story is told through her daughter, Maria. Here is Maria's story:
Awareness is key…it started out with my Mom telling my Dad she felt a lump…in her late-40's. She had a cyst removed. Then, years later, she made Dad aware she felt something else. In her early 50's she had a mastectomy. From then until….
Meet Lourdes Moreno.
Lifelong professional cook. And in-treatment breast cancer patient since 2012. When 53-year-old Lourdes was diagnosed with breast cancer, she got two doses of bad news—her doctors told her the hot kitchen she worked in was unhealthy, and she needed to stop working in that environment. That day in the doctor's office left her without income. Without health benefits. And with what she thought was a death sentence.
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The 41-year-old mom and grandmother first felt a lump in her breast three years ago at the age of 38. "I was told I was too young to have breast cancer; to stop wearing under wire bras…" Sonia said. "Since there was no history of breast cancer in my family they thought it was most probably a swollen lymph node."
"I was getting older. My breasts were changing," she said, believing that the lump was nothing to worry
My name is Patricia Cacho-Gomez. I'm a 48 year old wife and mother of two.
I just wanted to share my story to let everyone know that no matter what stage you are diagnosed with, there will be challenges you need to fight and be strong.
I'm especially thankful and grateful for my wonderful family. From the day I was diagnosed with the "C" word, Manuel, my husband held me as if he was never going to let me go. His calm manner and patience helped me control my feelings and…
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Meet Walter Nesses. He's our 'David.' Seventeen years young. Thousands of years old in his soul.
You're already familiar with Goliath. Today we call it breast cancer.
This is the story of how Walter has discovered incredible powers to fight cancer starting with the power of one. Walter is a student at the San Diego Jewish Academy. And before we get to Goliath, you should know that just in this past year, Walter has had two brain surgeries performed on him….
Eloisa's Story, told by her daughter Guadalupe:
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Juanita was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer when she was 49 years old. She went from having a tumor in her breast, to having 17 tumors throughout her body, even affecting her blood and lymph nodes. She had been feeling exhausted and sick, but thought it was menopause. When the doctors told her it was stage four, she thought there must be a five, six, seven, and eight. She was all smiling at her first treatment while talking to the other women in the waiting room and…
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Suprabhaatham (സുപ്രഭാതം) is a Malayalam daily newspaper owned and published by Kozhikode Iqrau Publications from Kozhikode on behalf of the EK faction of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama, a Sunni organisation based in Kerala. The daily publishing from Kerala, India. It is the first Malayalam daily to be published with six editions. The word " Suprabhaatham" translates to literally "auspicious dawn". It is the tenth most widely read newspaper daily in Kerala. The newspaper has various editions from Kozhikode, Malappuram, Kannur, Trissur, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Palakkad in Kerala. It headquartered at Francis Road, Kozhikode, Kerala

History
Kozhikode Iqrau Publication has launched the daily on 1 September 2014 by Oommen Chandy, the then Chief Minister of Kerala. It is the first Malayalam daily to be published with six editions. Suprabhaatham has 7 print editions published from Kozhikode, Kochi, Malappuram, Kannur, Thrissur palakkad and Thiruvananthapuram. The daily has readership across Kerala as well as among the ethnic Malayali population of Lakshadweep, Dakshina Kannada, Kodagu and Nilgiri. It is the first Malayalam news which has got initial circulation of more than three lakhs. Late Kottumala Bappu Musliyar was the founding chairman.

Organization
Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi is the Editor. Navas Poonoor is the Managing Editor. A. Sajeevan is the Executive Editor. Sayyid Muhammad Jifri Muthukkoya Thangal is the chairman of the management while Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi, Abdul Hameed Faizee are the directors & CEO. Musthafa Mundupara and director Maniyoor Ahmad Musliyar is the chief patron of suprabhaatham.

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Malayalam-language newspapers
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The 20 Best Films of 2020 Pt. 5 (#1)
First Cow It opens boldly, with three minutes of credits. Just white font on a black screen. When was the last time you saw that outside of a Woody Allen movie? Movies don't have opening credits anymore because we don't have the attention span for it. Or they think we don't. Next, we get the…
December 18, 2020 in Uncategorized.
The 20 Best Films of 2020 Pt. 4 (#5-#2)
My ongoing quest to write as many words about the films of 2020 as possible continues. If you're interested, check out parts one, two, and three. 5. Sorry We Missed You I live in the country, where there's a lot of space between houses. I also have five dogs who all need to be walked,…
The 20 Best Films of 2020 Pt. 3 (#10-#6)
10. Sound of Metal The impressive debut film from director Darius Marder is winning raves for its sound design, which replicates the experience of being hearing impaired, at various levels, for the viewer. Rightly so; it's a neat trick, and it helps to immerse the viewer in the soul of its lead character. But when…
"Pete's Dragon" Will Make America Great Again
In every possible way, Pete's Dragon is a throwback to a simpler time. The family fairy tale, a remake of an unremarkable 1977 Disney movie, takes place in a world where small towns have no chain stores and no one carries a cell phone. It could be the 1950s or just a forgotten town in…
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The Subversive Optimism of "The BFG"
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains a discussion of the plot and ending of "The BFG." Consider yourself warned. For ninety minutes, The BFG is one of the most intimate, apolitical movies Steven Spielberg has ever made. Despite his reputation as a popcorn auteur, Spielberg's work has always carried at least a hint of politics, even…
July 18, 2016 in Uncategorized.
What You Missed in the Summer of '15
Dear Readers, Remember me? No worries if you don't. It has been a slow summer of criticism for me, and for a variety of reasons. First and foremost is that, as I get older, I have less and less patience for the slew of commercial crapola that Hollywood spews out during the warmer months, and so I've…
September 1, 2015 in Uncategorized.
What You Missed in March/April '15
March and April are not the most exciting months for movie-going, with a slew of eccentric indies not strong enough for awards season and the season of summer blockbusters is only just getting started. In the last couple months, I did a little introspection on the subject of racial movies, looked back (and forward) at one…
May 3, 2015 in Uncategorized.
What You Missed in January/February '15
The highlight of my 2015 was giving a speech at the Smithsonian on the Oscars, but I did a little writing, too. In January and February, I reviewed some terrific independent films and shared my thoughts on the real star of Birdman, negative campaigns in Hollywood, the political controversy over American Sniper, and the feminism…
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Committed to providing products that prospective buyers can improve their quality of life with. Products we use and test on our own vehicles before ever bringing to market.
For most people, having an IMA light on and facing the decision of investing in a replacement $2800.00 battery from Honda is already stressful enough. Luckily our Maxx Volts Charging System is a much cheaper and easier solution, while providing critical features over our "competitors".
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MANILA -- Two people in the province of Nueva Ecija and Aurora died at the height of Tropical Storm Kabayan, the Central Luzon Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (RDRRMC) reported.
The RDRRMC identified the fatalities as Raquel Camilo, 57, of Barangay Luzsok, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija, who died due to snakebite, and Samuel Corcoro, 29, of Barangay Debuco, Maria, Aurora, who died due to drowning.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction Management and Council (NDDRMC) also reported that two persons were injured in Ilocos Region, while 63 others remained missing in Ilocos and Central Luzon.
The NDRRMC said that Kabayan, which is now outside the Philippine area of responsibility, has also affected 4,565 families or 22.368 people in the provinces of La Union, Aurora, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Zambales.
Of these, some 1,391 families or 6,480 people have been staying in seven evacuation centers, while a total of 50 barangays are still flooded in the provinces of Pangasinan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Pampanga.
Damage to property and agriculture was estimated at P1,120,716.59 -- a total of P4,101.34 in Pangasinan and P1,116,615.25 in Aurora.
The storm also damaged a total of 131 houses in Central Luzon, said the NDRRMC.


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Head Coach Jim Koehr
Seton Coach from 2001 to Present
Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association (VISAA) Coach of the Year – 2018, 2019.
Potomac News and Messenger All-County Coach of the Year ('06-'07 and '09-'10).
Delaney Athletic Conference Coach of the Year fourteen (14) times since 2002.
James H. Robertson Excellence in Coaching award from the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association (NISCA) – 2012
VISAA Executive Committee Secretary from 2005 to 2019.
Host or Co-Host of the VISAA State Championship meet seven (7) times.
Swam competitively at the high school level and at the age-group level for two AAU teams (precursor to USA Swimming) in Northern Virginia.
Former competitor in numerous endurance events including an Ironman Triathlon and the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim (4.4 miles).
Jim and Colleen have had ten (10) children graduate from Seton, eight (8) of whom served as Captain of the Seton Swim Team.
They have their last two (2) children (their 11th and 12th children) currently on the team.
Coach Koehr and his wife Colleen also had their 11th, 12th and 13th grandchildren in the first half of 2021
Coach Patrick Mulhern
Seton Coach from 2004 to 2007 and 2018 to Present
Three (3)-year Captain of the Towson University Swim Team
Towson University Scholar Athlete of the Year
Former Water Polo player, Water Safety Instructor and Scuba Diver
Former Summer League Swim Coach
Patrick and Karen's four (4) daughters all graduated from Seton
Why Patrick Coaches:
"To give back for all that Seton did for my girls"
Coach DD Ross
Swam competitively at the high school, college and master's levels
USA Swimming Coach for Occoquan Swim Club
USA Coaches Safety, CPR and First Aid Certifications
Former Water Safety Instructor
DD and Dave's three (3) sons all graduated from Seton
Why DD Coaches:
"To bring out the best in every child."
Coach Ross Palazzo
About Ross
Graduated from the University of Florida in December 2019 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering
4-time SEC Champion at the University of Florida 2015-2019
Olympic Trials and NCAA Championship Qualifier (200 IM, 400 IM, 100 BR, 200 BR)
Finalist at US National Championships & US Open 2013-2020 (200 IM, 400 IM, 100 BR, 200 BR)
Why Ross Coaches
"I love the sport of swimming, and I am excited to be part of a group that is committed to compete in the Seton way of G-E-M-S. I swam competitively for almost 20 years, encompassing all levels, and I want to help young athletes advance in the sport to achieve their goals."
Coach Kimberly Dalrymple
About Kimberly
Air Force Veteran
Currently attending Law School
Competed at the high school level in Swimming, Basketball, and Volleyball
Enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee
Kimberly is a force of nature volunteering to make Seton School a better place.
Kimberly and Andy have had three children graduate from Seton, two of whom served as Captains for the Seton Swim Team.
Why Kimberly Coaches:
"It's great to encourage students and athletes to do more than they think they can"
Coach Jerry Zadnik
About Jerry
Competed in Crew at the college level.
Competed at the high school level in Swimming.
Enjoys playing Swimming and Rowing to keep in shape
Working primarily with Seton's beginning swimmers, Jerry patience and joy are responsible for countless smiling faces when his swimmers start to see success for the first time.
Jerry and Vickie have had four (4) daughters graduate from Seton and their last two daughters are currently on the team.
Why Jerry Coaches:
"Our family is so thankful to be a part of Seton School. It is good to get involved in a great sport that can push our kids beyond their comfort zone to be more than they thought possible."
Coach Joe Hurley
Seton Coach since 2021
Oldest two children compete on the team with one more planning to come to Seton
Wife Madeleine teaches math at Seton
Enjoys Running and Kayaking
Works as a Senior Director of Statistical Programs at the US Postal Service
Why Joe Coaches:
"It's great to be involved with such a great swimming program. I am honored to be working with Coach Koehr and the other coaches on this team."
Coach Joanne Pretz
Known as the "Godmother of Seton Swimming" as a co-founder of the team in the mid-1990s
Three (3) of Joanne's five (5) children swam on the team in the 1990s and early 2000's, and today, her first of 11 grandchildren is swimming for Seton.
Joanne holds a degree from Western Michigan University with a major in Physical Education specializing in Adaptive PE. She also did graduate work in Adaptive PE and Special Education at Michigan State and Wayne State Universities.
After eight years of teaching and two of five babies, she put away the gym shoes but continued with swimming.
Before Seton, she co-founded the White Sands Tiger Sharks in Alamogordo, NM.
Why Joanne Coaches:
"As a founding member of Seton Swimming it is truly gratifying to see how the efforts of so many have led to today's highly successful program. I am delighted to be back on deck!"
Coach Patrick Heiny
US Marine Officer serving as an infantryman with a deployment to Iraq, two deployments to Afghanistan, and a deployment with the Marine Expeditionary Unit.
Grew up in Orange County, NY swimming year-around with the American Red Cross and playing baseball in high school.
Patrick's first of 5 kids is on the Seton Swim Team this year, with the rest excited to follow.
"I am excited to coach to spend the time with my children as well as to witness our younger generation work hard and push themselves to achieve greatness."
Coach Adam Irving
Previously coached for three (3) years. Back coaching again since 2021.
Multi-sport athlete who today is addicted to golf.
Also coached Seton Lacrosse and Basketball and Chaired the Seton Golf Tournament.
Married 26 years with eight (8) kids and two (2) grandkids.
Multiple kids have swum on the Seton Swim Team, including one (1) daughter this season
Senior Sales Executive for venture capital-backed software firm.
Why Adam Coaches:
"I love to give back to Seton. I learn more from the student swimmers than I can ever teach them. It never ceases to amaze me how the swimmers improve over the season."
Coach Ashley Keapproth, Diving
Seton Coach from 2020 to the present
Dove at George Mason University 2000-2004
Finalist in 1M and 3M springboard in all four GMU Conference Championships
Tennessee State High School Champion and Tennessee State Diver of the Year, 1999
Put herself through law school by coaching diving. Currently practices employment law.
Has experience coaching all levels of diving from beginners through Junior National champions
Lives in Nokesville with her husband and two young children
Why Ashley Coaches:
"My passion is diving, and I want everyone to fall in love with the sport. Diving is great training for life. Divers learn self-discipline, focus, and to push through fear and self-doubt. I am so excited to be able to share my passion with the Seton divers."
Coach Seamus Koehr, Diving
About Seamus
Seton Diving Coach from 2020 to the present
NCAA Diver at the Catholic University of America
Currently attends the Catholic University of America studying in the Architecture program
Currently working toward licensure while employed by Dunning Group Architects in Chantilly, VA
Seton Swim Captain 2018-2019
VISAA State Championship Swim Qualifier
Enjoys spending time with his 11 siblings
Why Seamus Coaches:
"I have played a lot of sports competitively in my life and diving has quickly become my favorite. After only one season of competitive diving at Catholic University, I wanted to share this incredible sport with as many people as possible"
Coach Anne Judge
Coach at Seton since 2021
Participated in every sport available in rural Missouri EXCEPT swimming
Played Division II soccer at University of Dallas
Coached CYO volleyball
Business owner turned homeschool mom and American Heritage Girls Leader who loves to roll up her sleeves and help.
Mike and Anne are new to the Seton community as their first of four kids, Dominic, has started 7th grade this year.
Why Anne Coaches:
"Swimming is a sport the whole family can enjoy. There is no other sport that allows all the kids in the family to participate at the same time. Summer swim at Sudley Club has opened my eyes to the beauty of the sport: it's a life-long activity; it's individual and team based; it builds confidence and skill. I'm grateful for the chance to learn even more and to help the Seton swim community."
Coach Madelyn Zadnik
About Madelyn
Currently a 10th Grader who also swims on the team.
Started swimming at age 4 and started swimming for the Seton team in 7th grade.
Wonderful example to the newer swimmers. She even getting in the water with the kids to demonstrate stroke technique.
Why Madelyn Coaches:
"Though it's hard to get up in the morning every day of the week, I enjoy helping the beginner swimmers and loved seeing improvements big and small. "
Coach Vanessa Oswald
Navy Wife for over 20 years
Mother of five, two of which are currently on the Swimming and Diving Team.
Why Vanessa Coaches:
"Our family is pretty new to Seton, and I wanted to get involved in the school community. I've always enjoyed volunteering, teaching, and coaching. I love to see the kids progress and watch their confidence grow through their hard work and perseverance."
Coach Sandy Osilka
Physical Therapist who enjoys learning the mechanics of swimming.
Cheerleader in high school.
Sandy has two (2) children including one (1) daughter on the team.
Seton Swimming's G.E.M.S.
What makes Seton Swimming special?
"Who has it better than us? Nobody!"
We focus on better. Good takes care of itself.
We help our opponents over the bar that we raised by winning
We offer it up. We love all of our teammates.
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In other news, helped young sass to get out of Djel after he killed a priest there. I am taxing again, until my next extended leave from taxi. And I'm back to PT! There is some exciting stuff in PT now, so it's good time to go off leave.


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Android: Netrunner Organized Play
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Android: Netrunner Scene in Malaysia
By Yongster, January 28, 2013 in Android: Netrunner Organized Play
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I am a Netrunner fan from Malaysia and i am writing this to share some info on the Android: Netrunner (ANR) gaming scene here for the past 4 months. I consider myself as the official Tournament Organizer (TO) in Malaysia and it is quite worrying to see this is happening.
At the moment, our Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/groups/androidnetrunnermalaysia/) has reached its 47th member and we hope to see it grow gradually. Our group has been tapped by the only official distributor of FFG games and were given special priced for Core Sets and Data Packs.
We had our first congregation of players in form of Core Set launch party on 16th Dec recently with a brand new coreset as its main prize and we had 10 participants only. It was promising. And after that we had a "H@ckthon" tournament at a newly open shop during its opening weekend. 12 players participated. It was also the first time Game Night Kit were given as prize. 2 weeks after that we called for another shop initiated tournament with store credits as give aways and sadly there were no participants at all.
Last Sunday (27th Jan) we did another tournament with Game Night kits as the main prize. We ha 8 players turned up.
This is quite alarming as we love this game but it seems that it is not growing at the rate that is promising.
Few factors that we feel contributed to this:
1. Distribution of games were not as aggressive and we believe there were disputes between distributor and game shops. Some game shops are pro official distributor and some are not. Hence, the supply of the game night kits and data packs are always an issue.
2. Many of players were weary of FFG's LCG format - AGoT and WI and believe that this game will share the same fate with them. It just dies off because of inconsistency of supply.
3. Organized play incentive is less attractive to players to come for tournaments. Players rather play at home casually and play with friends. Game night kits? a new playmat? so what?
4. No shops here is registering for the regional plays and the registration closes in 2 days time..
if this goes on, i guess this game WILL fade off ..
Please share with me how other gaming groups or tournament organizer does things to keep this game alive..


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Compare & Contrast The Stones & Little Walter
As you'll have spotted unless you were called away to another planet over recent days, the Rolling Stones have unveiled the first single from their upcoming blues covers album 'Blue & Lonesome.' It's a version of Little Walter's 1955 recording with his band the Jukes for the Checker label, 'Hate To See You Go.' We thought we'd put them back to back so that you can see how the two recordings measure up.
The original, by the bluesman born Walter Jacobs in Marksville, Louisiana in 1930, was the b-side of his September 1955 single for the Chess subsidiary Checker, 'Too Late,' Walter had been having a run of hits for the label, starting with the 1952 R&B No. 1 'Juke,' the first of 14 consecutive top ten hits on that Billboard chart.
Strangely, 'Too Late,' written by Willie Dixon, didn't make the grade, missing out on the R&B listing altogether in spite of the fact that its predecessor, the Bo Diddley composition 'Roller Coaster,' reached No. 6 and Walter's following single, 'Who,' went to No. 7.
The Stones' great new version of this lesser-known blues gem will be on the Blue & Lonesome album, to be released on 2 December. Pre-order your copy, and listen to the two versions of the song, below.
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Defender Mickey Demetriou says Shrewsbury Town's trip to Leicester City for the Second Round of the Capital One Cup will be a welcome break from League football.
Town head to the King Power Stadium on Tuesday night (7.45pm kick-off) looking to reach Round 3 of the competition by beating Premier League opposition.
Micky Mellon's side, who are unbeaten this season, overcame Championship club Blackpool in the First Round game at the Greenhous Meadow.
Town have shown positive league form as well in the new campaign and were close taking all three points from Northampton Town on Saturday.
However, Demetriou, who has featured in all of the last three games, believes now is a good time for a cup fixture to come around.
"It's nice to get away from the league, especially after Saturday," said Demetriou.
"Everyone's looking forward to it, obviously it's a Premier League team and a Premier League ground. It has been for a long time, they've just fallen through a little bit.
"They've got themselves back up there and they belong there.
"It will be a big game for us and a big test as well to see if we can step up to another level.
"I haven't played at Leicester's ground before and neither have some of the other lads either, so we're all looking forward to it."
Demetriou never featured in the 1-0 victory over Blackpool in Round 1 but believes Town, after seeing their performance in the game, can cause problems for the Foxes despite their Premier League status.
"I missed out on the Blackpool game but we were the much better side against them," said Demetriou.
"I think the Leicester game will be a bit more difficult than the Blackpool one, but we know that if we play well and to the top of our standards then we'll give them a good game.
"It's the best thing about the cup competitions, you always want to face a big team in the early rounds.
"If you do win then it's happy days and you've caused a big upset.
"You're not expected to win when you go up against a Premier League team, so you can release yourself a bit and play without any pressure on.
"A cup run would be nice and we've still got the FA Cup and the Johnstone's Paint Trophy to come."


CLAREMONT, Calif. — And that's the sweep! The Cal Lutheran bats could not be stopped, Saturday afternoon, as the Kingsmen completed the sweep of the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, taking both games of the double header 12-4 and 9-7, respectively.
Overall, the Kingsmen added three more home runs and nine doubles to the season total. Finding their groove all day long, senior Weston Clark notched three doubles and one long ball in the two contests, while sophomore Daniel Parr hit two doubles and homer of his own.
The weekend marks the third straight series victory in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the Kingsmen, bringing them to 15-4 overall and 7-2 in conference play.
The Kingsmen made things look easy in game one, clinching a 12-4 victory over the Sagehens in game two of the three-game set. For the fifth time in the last six games, Cal Lutheran collected double-digit hits and tied their second highest hit total with 20.
Leading the way, junior Daniel Stauffer and Clark recorded three RBIs apiece. Clark went 2-for-5 at the plate with a double, three RBI and his third home run of the year. Also with big afternoons, Parr was 3-for-4 at the plate with two doubles, two RBI and three runs and junior Cortez Espinoza was a perfect 3-for-3 in the eight spot.
On the bump, senior Chris Kovach earned his second win on the season behind the slew of the run support. The starter allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits while walking two and fanning two in five innings of work. Holding things down the remainder of the contest, sophomore relievers Clay Rickerman and Zach Hardman pitched four innings of one-run ball to secure the series victory for the Kingsmen.
Behind the pitching staff, the offense came out the gates roaring, tacking on four runs in the top of the first alone. And though Pomona-Pitzer got two on the board in the bottom of the second, Clark responded with a solo shot over the right field wall to make it a 5-2 contest.
The runs continued to roll in as the Kingsmen added three runs in the sixth and four more in eighth just for added insurance. Although the Sagehens managed to dig out two more runs, the deficit was too deep, giving up the 12-4 victory to Cal Lutheran.
Hoping to salvage the sweep, Pomona-Pitzer roughed up Kingsmen starter, sophomore Scott Roberts, in the first with six runs for the early lead. However, junior Troy Frazier picked him up with his best outing of the year, sailing through six shutout innings to give the Kingsmen the opportunity to remain in the game.
His team did just that as every batter in the starting lineup contributed to collect 15-hits. Junior Matt Sciumbato led with three hits while juniors Ryan Probst and Chris Spohr added two RBI apiece.
Down 6-2 heading into the sixth, Probst ignited the team's rally with his first home run in a Cal Lutheran uniform, a two-run shot to center that cut the deficit to two. Three batters later, Clark doubled to right and Sciumbato followed with a sacrifice fly to knot things up at six.
Two frames later, Parr came up with the go-ahead run – a solo blast to left center – also his first of the year. Add on a two-RBI double from Spohr in the same inning, and the Kingsmen were up 9-6 heading into the ninth.
Looking to close things down, junior Christian Slattery allowed a solo shot to the Sagehens' Jack Hanley before striking out Kevin Lo to secure the 9-7 with his seventh save of the year. Also with a new notch in the win column, Rickerman earned his first win of 2019 with a perfect 1.1 innings between Frazier and Slattery.
The Kingsmen return to Ullman Stadium, Tuesday afternoon, against the New Rochelle Blue Angels in a non-conference matchup at 3.p.m.


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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Skeleton extraction, also known as skeletonization, is a task focused on providing a simple representation of an object by extracting the skeleton pixels from the given binary or RGB image~\cite{liu2021adaptive}. Nowadays, skeleton extraction is widely used in many fields, including object recognition~\cite{yang2016object}, pose estimation~\cite{wei2016convolutional} and motion forecasting~\cite{wang2021simple}, etc. Traditional methods are usually divided into three categories: morphological thinning methods~\cite{zhang1984fast}, geometric methods, and distance transform-based methods~\cite{panichev2019u}. These classical methods usually provide low accuracy results and are sensitive to noise at the edge of the shape. In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence, some deep learning-based skeleton extraction approaches have been proposed, which usually treat extracting skeleton pixels as a classification problem. These methods take the binary or RGB image as input and directly predict the skeleton pixels, which avoids complex post-processing. But how to improve the performance of deep learning-based methods is still a challenge.

As shown in Figure~\ref{fig:badcase}, a typical skeleton extraction network fails to predict skeleton pixels in the plain area of the input shape image. On the one hand, the kernel size of convolutional layers is limited, thus the pixels in the plain area can't adopt the guidance from object shape. On the other hand, purely shape inputs lose most structure information in the object (except the boundaries), making it hard to determine the label of pixels in the center of objects.
\begin{figure}

	\includegraphics[scale=.45]{images/dlgc_badcase_inspect.png}
    \caption{Badcase Analysis. For each subfigure, left is the binary shape input and right is the predicted skeleton of a basic UNet. Since there is no texture information in this scenario, structure information is crucial to final predictions. However, the center area (the red boxes) of binary shape image is lacking structure information, prone to broken and finely skeletons.}
    \label{fig:badcase}

\end{figure}

In this paper, we propose Context Attention Network (CANet) to alleviate the aforementioned problems. In order to extract contextual cues efficiently, we modify the vanilla UNet with several vital updates, which is proved to be useful to improve the accuracy of skeleton extraction. Besides, we find that using the distance transform image that contains more information about object structure as input can ease the difficulty of skeleton extraction, further improving accuracy. With these novel optimizations, CANet outperforms existing methods and other participants on the Pixel SkelNetOn benchmark.

\section{Related Work}
Traditional methods of skeleton extraction are usually divided into three parts. For example, Zhang et al.~\cite{zhang1984fast} propose a fast parallel thinning algorithm, which iteratively removes the boundary and corner pixels of the object. After several iterations, only a skeleton of the object remains. Lu et al.~\cite{H1986A} improve this method by preserving necessary and essential structures which should not be deleted. However, these classical methods usually provide low accuracy results and are sensitive to noise at the edge.

Recently, many deep learning-based approaches have been proposed. Shen et al.~\cite{2017DeepSkeleton} propose a fully convolutional network, which is designed to extract the skeleton in different scales from multi stages. In~\cite{demir2019}, the authors use a vanilla pix2pix model with distance transformation preprocessing to extract the skeleton pixels. This preprocessing can reduce the learning difficulty of the network. Panichev et. al \cite{panichev2019u} introduce a U-Net based approach for direct skeleton extraction and get high performance. In~\cite{tang2021distance}, the authors continue to study preprocessing methods and propose to use Smooth Distance Estimation (SDE) and Edge Transformation to preprocess the input data, which wins the 1st place in the Pixel SkelNetOn 2021 Challenge. Nguyen~\cite{nguyen2021u} makes improvements to the original U-Net architecture using the attention mechanism and exploiting the auxiliary tasks, which also got excellent performances.

\section{Method}
In this section, we will introduce our main method and the tricks used to improve model performance, which contains network design, data processing, and loss strategies.
\subsection{Network Design}
\begin{figure*}
\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.4]{images/pic1.png}
    \caption{Context Attention Network: Our network is based on an encoder-decoder structure. Each stage of the encoder and decoder has a sequence of 3 ResBlocks. We add context attention block at stages 3-5 of the network. At the end of each encoder stage, max pooling is applied. The decoder stage contains a transposed convolutional layer, concatenated with a corresponding output of the encoder stage. At the end of the encoder stage, a $1 \times 1$ convolution is applied to generate skeleton predictions.}
    \label{fig:fig1}

\end{figure*}

\begin{figure}
\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.3]{images/pic2.jpg}
    \caption{Context Attention Block: This Block is combined with spatial attention and channel attention. Firstly, matrix multiplication is adopted to acquire the correlation between every position of the feature map. Then we use channel attention to reassign channel weight.}
    \label{fig:fig2}

\end{figure}

Following~\cite{demir2019}, we treat the skeleton extraction as a pixel-wise binary classification problem. The input is binary images without texture, which contains less information and can be regarded as a low-level task. Therefore, we use UNet network~\cite{ronneberger2015u} as the baseline model. Based on this vanilla architecture, we make several optimizations to improve its learning capabilities. The model structure is shown in Figure~\ref{fig:fig1}.

\noindent \textbf{Residual Block.} In order to improve the effectiveness of the model, we replace the dual convolutional block (DualConvBlock) in UNet with the residual block (ResBlock)~\cite{he2016deep} since the residual structure can integrate semantic features of different convolutional layers while preventing the model from over-fitting. Specifically, we replace each DualConvBlock with 3 ResBlocks in all stages of encoder and decoder.

\noindent \textbf{Context Attention Block.} In the neural network design, the attention module has become a powerful architecture to improve the model effect. SENet~\cite{hu2018squeeze} adaptively recalibrates channel-wise feature responses by explicitly modeling interdependencies between channels. Non-local~\cite{wang2018non} adopt spatial attention module to acquire the correlation between every position of the feature map. Inspired by these ideas, the Context Attention block contains spatial and channel attention simultaneously. As shown in Figure~\ref{fig:fig2}, the long-range space dependence is captured by matrix multiplication~\cite{wang2018non}. Then we use channel attention to reassign channel weight. ReLU function is added to increase the non-linear of the model~\cite{hu2018squeeze}. At the same time, in order to reduce the calculation of the model, the number of channels in the middle convolutional layer is reduced to 1/16. Applying Context Attention Block at the beginning of the network hurts the performance, thus we only deploy it in the higher stages(3-5).

\subsection{Data Processing}

\begin{figure}
\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.45]{images/shape_vs_dt.png}
    \caption{Comparison of the binary shape image and the output of the distance transform. Pixels in the latter are more distinguishable, making the skeleton extraction easier.}
    \label{fig:shape_vs_dt}
\end{figure}

Initially, the binary shape image of the object is used as the input. However, as shown in Figure~\ref{fig:shape_vs_dt}, we find that the output of the distance transform applied to the shape image contains more intuitive information closer to the skeleton of the object and can reduce the learning difficulty of the network. Meanwhile, we find that there are some holes in the output of the distance transform. The prediction has been significantly improved after filling the holes in the image. Then we try to concatenate the original image, the image with distance transform and the outline extracted by canny algorithm~\cite{1986A}, but unfortunately, the score is lower than expected. Following~\cite{tang2021distance}, We also try to replace distance transform with soft distance transform (SDE) but do not have a good result.

\subsection{Loss Design}

Following~\cite{nguyen2021u}, Auxiliary loss is adopted to boost the performance of the model. Feature maps with different resolutions extracted from each stage of the decoder are fed into a $1 \times 1$ convolutional layer to get low-resolution prediction results. The losses calculated from low-resolution skeletons with down-sample ground truth are added to the final loss.

In terms of the loss function, we use the combination of Dice Loss~\cite{milletari2016v} and Focal Loss~\cite{lin2017focal} in our experiments to optimize the network because skeleton extraction is a data-imbalanced task.

Dice Loss is commonly used in semantic segmentation tasks, which is defined as below:

\begin{equation}
L_{dice} = 1 - 2\frac{\sum_{i}y_ip_i + \epsilon}{\sum_{i}y_i+\sum_{i}p_i+\epsilon},
\end{equation}
where $y_i$ is the target label, $p_i$ is the predict result and $\epsilon$ is a small constant to avoid division by zero (We set $\epsilon=1.0$ in all experiments).

Besides, we use weighted focal loss, which is defined as below:

\begin{equation}
L_{focal} = W_{pos} p^{\gamma}log(p)+ W_{neg}(1-p)^{\gamma}log(1-p),
\end{equation}
where $W_{pos}$ and $W_{neg}$ are the weights of positive and negative class respectively, $p$ is the probability that the sample belongs to positive class and $\gamma$ is the focusing parameter.

The final loss formula is:
\begin{equation}
L_{total} = \lambda_{dice} L_{dice} + \lambda_{focal} L_{focal},
\end{equation}

Where $\lambda_{dice}$ and $\lambda_{focal}$ are hyperparameters to balance the value of losses. We set $\lambda_{dice}=1.0$ and $\lambda_{focal}=100.0$.

\section{Experiments}
In this section, we first detail our experimental settings, followed by a comparison between our method and other methods. Then we conduct the ablation studies with different parameters. Finally, we visualize the results of our approach.
\subsection{Experimental Settings}

\noindent \textbf{Datasets.}
Our model is trained on the Pixel SkelNetOn Dataset provided by the SkelNetOn 2022 Challenge~\cite{demir2019}. Pixel SkelNetOn Dataset contains 1,725 binary images with resolution $256 \times 256$, which splits into 1,218 training images, 241 validation images and 266 test images. We divide the training dataset into the training set and the split-test set as a ratio of 80\%:20\%.

\noindent \textbf{Implementation Details.}
The SGD optimizer with a learning rate of 0.02 and cosine annealing algorithm is used. We also use the F1 score to evaluate the model performance. Following~\cite{nguyen2021u}, adaptive threshold selection is adopted to select the best threshold on the split-test set.

\subsection{Main Results}
Our method is compared with participants shown on the Pixel SkelNeton leaderboard. As shown in Table~\ref{tab:vs_competitors} and in Table~\ref{tab:vs_competitors_final}, whether in development or final phase, our method outperforms current methods with a large margin.

\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Leaderboard of Pixel SkelNetOn Challenge (Development phase).}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c}
\hline
Rank & Team name & F1 score \\
\hline
\textbf{1} & \textbf{huangzixuan0508(Ours)} & \textbf{0.8220} \\
2 & neptuneai & 0.7972 \\
3 & lv.zf & 0.7935 \\
4 & \_likyoo & 0.7846 \\
5 & Young\_Ji & 0.7400 \\
6 & kyriemelon & 0.6745 \\
\hline
\hline
- & 1st Place of Pixel SkelNetOn, 2021 & 0.8129
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{tab:vs_competitors}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Leaderboard of Pixel SkelNetOn Challenge (Final phase).}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c|c|c}
\hline
Rank & Team name & F1 score \\
\hline
\textbf{1} & \textbf{huangzixuan0508(Ours)} & \textbf{0.8507} \\
2 & Young\_Ji & 0.8359 \\
3 & lv.zf & 0.8333 \\
4 & jiliushi & 0.8299 \\
5 & \_likyoo & 0.8289 \\
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{tab:vs_competitors_final}
\end{table}

\subsection{Ablation Study}
In this part, we record our attempts to improve model performance in different ways, including network design, input format, and loss design.
\subsubsection{Network design}
Table~\ref{table:network} shows the results of different network architectures. After adding ResBlock, the representation ability of the model is improved, thus the F1 score is raised from 0.788 to 0.801. When Context Attention Block is added to the deep stages of the model, high-level semantic features can be weighted in spatial and channel dimensions, which improves the skeleton extraction score. At the same time, we find that the results get worse when adding Context Attention Block to the shallow stages of the model. Usually, the shallow layers are used to extract low-level features without high-level semantic information, and this ability may be adversely affected by attention modules.

\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Ablation experiments on network architectures. ``RB'' means ``ResBlock'', ``CA'' means ``Context Attention''. ``1-5'' means stage1 to stage5, ``3-5'' means stage3 to stage5.}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l|c}
\hline
Network Architecture & F1 score \\
\hline
UNet & 0.788 \\
UNet + RB & 0.801 \\
UNet + RB + CA 1-5 & 0.801 \\
UNet + RB + CA 3-5 & \textbf{0.806} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{table:network}
\end{table}

\subsubsection{Data Processing}
Table~\ref{table:input} shows the results of different input formats. Initially, we use 80\% training data of binary shape image and get a score of 0.806. We try to use the instance segmentation network~\cite{wang2020solov2} to predict the shapes of RGB images in Image SkelNetOn Challenge. 2630 images were selected and added to the training set. Unexpectedly, the score is decreased, due to the inconsistent data distribution from different datasets. In terms of the input data format, images processed by distance transform are used as the input with a score of 0.803. After the hole areas are repaired, the score is further improved to 0.822. Furthermore, we also try to concatenate binary images and the outputs of distance transform as input data, but the score is not improved. We also implement
the Soft Distance Transform used in~\cite{tang2021distance}, but the results get worse.
\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Ablation experiments on the input data format of the network.}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l|c}
\hline
Input data & F1 score \\
\hline
Shape & 0.806 \\
Shape + RGB & 0.777 \\
Distance & 0.803 \\
Shape + Distance & 0.794 \\
Repaired distance & \textbf{0.822} \\
Soft distance & 0.799 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{table:input}
\end{table}

\subsubsection{Loss}
In this part, we show the influence of different loss functions. From Table~\ref{table:loss} we can find that combining Focal Loss and Dice Loss improves networks' accuracy. Besides, we find that the weights of positive and negative samples are important for skeleton extraction. Specifically, adjust $W_{pos}$ from default 50 to 0.01, $W_{neg}$ from 0.1 to 0.99 can further improve F1 score from 0.782 to 0.788.

\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Ablation experiments on loss strategies.}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l|c}
\hline
Loss & F1 score \\
\hline
Focal Loss ($W_{pos}$=50.0, $W_{neg}$=0.1) & 0.778 \\
Dice Loss & 0.770 \\
Dice Loss + Focal Loss ($W_{pos}$=50.0, $W_{neg}$=0.1) & 0.782 \\
Dice Loss + Focal Loss ($W_{pos}$=0.01, $W_{neg}$=0.99) & \textbf{0.788} \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{table:loss}
\end{table}

\subsection{Visualization}
We visualize the predicted skeletons of our method and the baseline method in Figure~\ref{fig:vs_baseline}. With the help of techniques proposed in CANet, the skeletons of plain area can be recovered successfully.
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
	\includegraphics[scale=.45]{images/dlgc_vs_1_3_w_caption.png}
    \caption{Qualitative comparison. Here, we compare CANet with the baseline on the validation dataset.}
    \label{fig:vs_baseline}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusion}
In this paper, we propose the Context Attention Network for skeletonization. With only 80\% of the training data and a single model, our method achieves 0.822 and 0.8507 on the F1 score metric during the development and final phase of Pixel SkelNetOn Challenge, ranked as top-1 on the leaderboard. But in some cases, the problem of line breaks has not been well solved. In the next step, we will further explore the model structure and data processing method to reduce line breaks in the prediction process.

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An organic insecticide is more damaging to non-target insects than synthetics
Molly Chiu
Houston, TX - Feb 23, 2022
Very low concentrations of the popular organic insecticide Spinosad have profound effects on beneficial insect species, including vision loss and neurodegeneration, new research led by the University of Melbourne and Baylor College of Medicine has found.
The study, published in eLife, used the vinegar fly Drosophila to analyse the impact of chronic exposure to low concentrations (0.2 parts per million) of Spinosad and the resulting physiological impacts on the brain and other tissues.
Spinosad is commonly used to control insect pests, including thrips, leafminers, spider mites, mosquitoes, ants and fruit flies, in both commercial and domestic settings.
"Within a matter of 20 days, tiny doses of Spinosad can have an alarming impact on the brains of adult Drosophila. Observing sections of brain tissue under microscope demonstrated there was an average of 17% of the fly brains destroyed due to exposure," said Dr. Felipe Martelli from Monash University, who completed this work as part of his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne. "Neurons that serve vital functions die, leaving large vacuoles, fluid-filled sacs, in the brain. This leads to neurodegeneration, blindness and behavioural changes in adult vinegar flies. Due to the Drosophila's genetic and biochemical similarities to other insects, the research indicates that these impacts could be translated to other beneficial insects such as bees," Martelli said.
As a natural substance made by a soil bacterium, Spinosad is often thought to be less harmful to beneficial insects and is frequently used as an alternative to synthetic insecticides, according to study co-author, Professor Philip Batterham, from the School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne.
"There is often an assumption that organic equates to safer, but our study finds this isn't the case," Batterham said. "Spinosad is now registered for use in over 80 countries, and it poses a far greater risk to beneficial insects than previously thought. Concerningly, the low concentration levels used in this study is what would be commonly found in groundwater or in the air through incidental exposure."
"Based on earlier work by our research group using similar techniques to this study, Spinosad was found to have a much greater negative impact on vinegar flies at far lower doses than imidacloprid, a synthetic insecticide that has been banned in Europe for its impacts on non-target insects including honeybees," Batterham said.
"While this study does not aim to pin the blame on Spinosad, it does show that having an organic label doesn't always mean safer. All insecticides, no matter their source, need to be rigorously studied for any unintended ecological impacts," Batterham said.
Martelli's research was enhanced by the opportunity to do experiments in the lab of a global leader in neuroscience, Dr. Hugo Bellen, corresponding author and distinguished service professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor.
"The striking biological features that are associated with low levels of Spinosad resemble some slow progressive neurological diseases in which lysosomes are expanded, also called Lysosomal Storage Disease. These genetic diseases have also been associated with Parkinson's Disease, and there are interesting similarities in the pathogenic mechanisms caused by mutations in these genes and Spinosad," Bellen said.
A collaboration between the University of Melbourne, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas, this study adds to a growing body of evidence indicating that insecticides are contributing to the global decline in population sizes of many beneficial insect species.
"Large-scale insecticide application is a primary weapon in the control of insect pests in agriculture but we know that around the world, insect populations are decreasing in size by about 1% each year; this decrease is largely in insects that are not pests," Batterham said.
"When you look at insect species disappearing, it's almost like randomly pulling blocks out of a Jenga tower; its destabilizing ecosystems making them vulnerable to collapse."


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mRNA Corona vaccines: A step towards normality
von Dr. Martin Fabry | Nov 21, 2020 | Allgemein
The second Corona wave
As the second Corona wave is accelerating in Europe and the US, thereby forcing us again to restrict our social interaction to a bare minimum, the announcements in recent days by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna of highly effective vaccines protecting against the SARS-Cov2 virus has sparked hope that we are at a turning point of this pandemic. Both vaccines are the result of cutting-edge research and illustrate the immense progress of the life science industry in recent years. However, while the initially results presented are promising, many questions remain to be answered before governmental approval and distribution can start.
Adaptive immune response protects from previously encountered infections
Long-lasting immunity towards viruses and other pathogens is orchestrated by the adaptive immune system. When we encounter an infection, the immune system identifies the threat and launches a highly targeted response that leads to the generation of an immunological memory protecting us from repeated infections with the same pathogen. Research over the last century has greatly improved our understanding of the relevant molecular processes. Cells produce proteins that make the complex processes within our cells possible. The information encoding the specific sequence of different amino acids that ultimately fold into proteins is found in our DNA. Genes are transcribed into messenger RNAs (mRNAs), which are delivered to ribosomes that assemble proteins based on the information carried by the mRNA molecule. Viruses hijack this endogenous machinery for replication and spreading throughout the body by providing the information necessary to assemble new virus copies within infected cells. However, the adaptive immune system identifies infections by scanning protein fragments presented on the cell's surface, which mirrors the content of all proteins present within the cell. Once a foreign protein is detected, the adaptive immune system is activated, and a targeted response is launched leading to the generation of multiple highly specialised cell types able to kill off infected cells or produce neutralising antibodies.
mRNA-based vaccines: a new frontier in immunology
Vaccines train the adaptive immune system to identify previously unknown pathogens and induce highly targeted and long-lasting memories. This can be achieved by either infecting humans with a weakened or inactivated strain that induces an immune response while reducing pathogenic responses to a minimum, or by presenting virus-derived particles to the adaptive immune system thereby simulating an actual infection.
Live attenuated vaccines are available since the 1950s and induce excellent immunological responses leading to long-lasting immunity against targeted pathogens. However, since individuals are infected with an active virus, this strategy has several risks. Weakened strains have the potential to revert back to a more pathogenic form and cause diseases. This is a particular concern for patients with weakened immune systems and life vaccines are generally not given during pregnancy due to safety concerns. Additionally, designing virus strains that are unable to cause pathogenic responses but induce sufficient protection takes a lot of time and elaborate safety testing procedures. A more recent vaccination strategy is the injection of virus-derived particles that are recognised by the immune system but are insufficient to induce an infection.
The immunogenic trigger is, however, less likely to induce long-lasting immunity and often requires booster shots. Additionally, the production of virus-derived particles is complicated, and development of the ideal formulation usually takes several years.
The recent development of mRNA-based vaccines has the potential to overcome some of the limitations of "classical" immunisation strategies. Many viruses, such as SARS-CoV2 consist of a lipid-protein layer that allows the uptake of the genetic information in form of RNA by host cells. mRNA vaccines strongly resemble these viruses. Instead of the entire virus genome, however, the mRNA encodes only a specific protein fragment found on the virus' surface that has been shown to induce strong immunological responses in patients infected with similar corona viruses.
mRNAs can be easily generated in large quantities in vitro. RNA is then packaged into lipid-based nanoparticles that, similar to viruses, can enter cells. Following uptake, the mRNA is translated giving rise to virus protein. Fragments of these endogenously translated proteins are then presented on the cell surface. The immune system recognises these foreign fragments and initiates an immune response leading to the generation of virus-specific immune cells and the generation of neutralising antibodies (Figure 1).
Figure 1: mRNA vaccination platform
mRNAs are transcribed in vitro incorporating modified nucleotides that increase translational efficiency and improve stability. Modified mRNAs are then packaged in lipid-based nanoparticles and are injected into patients. Following cellular uptake of nanoparticles, cells produce SARS-Cov2 spike protein. Fragments of spike protein are presented on the cell surface and recognised by the adaptive immune system as "foreign" leading to an immune response. (modified from Verbeke et al., 2019)
mRNA vaccines induce strong immune responses
The recently announced vaccines against SARS-Cov2 by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna utilise this mRNA-based vaccination platform and consist of mRNAs encoding the spike protein used by the virus to enter host cells. Additionally, the mRNA structure of the BioNTech vaccine BNT162b1 is modified to increase stability and protein translation efficiency, thereby increasing the amount of virus protein produced and ultimately presented on cell surfaces. Initial clinical phase I/II trails demonstrated the induction of an immune response following two intramuscular injections with the mRNA vaccine (Figure 2). The presence of virus-targeting antibodies is a strong indication for an effective protection against virus infection. However, whether the immune response is sufficient to prevent the development of COVID symptoms in patients had not been demonstrated until now. Pfizer/BioNTech, as well as Moderna, announced preliminary results of their phase III clinical trials recently, strongly suggesting a protection from 90% and 94.5% of COVID infections in vaccinated subject groups compared to placebo controls respectively. This a major step forward to bring this pandemic to an end by building up immunity within the population without risking deleterious COVID symptoms. However, while the initial results seem promising, the full studies have not finished yet nor have results been published in peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, how long both vaccines protect from infection can only be addressed in the following months and years. Further information is therefore necessary to allow the approval of these promising candidates in the very near future by the EMA or FDA.
Figure 2: Immunogenicity of BNT162b1
Bar graph shows IgG antibody concentration in participant serum specifically binding the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the spike protein of SARS-Cov2. Participants in groups of 15 were vaccinated with the indicated dose levels of BNT162b1 (n = 12) or with placebo (n = 3) on days 1 (all dose levels and placebo) and 21 (10-μg and 30-μg dose levels and placebo). Responses in individuals who received the placebo for each of the dosing groups are combined. The 28- and 35-day blood samples were obtained 7 and 14 days after the second vaccination. Sera were obtained before vaccination (day 1), and 7, 21, 28 and 35 days after the first vaccination. Human COVID-19 convalescent sera (HCS, n = 38) were obtained at least 14 days after PCR-confirmed diagnosis and at a time when the donors were asymptomatic (Modified from Mulligan et al., 2020).
Logistical challenges for vaccine distribution
Assuming the vaccines are as effective as initial results suggest and approval is fast-tracked, the logistics of rapidly administrating the vaccines to potentially billions of people is a logistic challenge unlike anything ever encountered. The distribution of mRNA-based vaccines is complicated due to the high temperature sensitivity of mRNA. Both vaccines have to be kept below freezing point with the BioNTech vaccine requiring -80°C and the Moderna vaccine requiring -20°C for long-term storage. This will be not only challenging for shipping vaccines to industrial countries with established cold chains but especially for developing nations lacking access to appropriate facilities. Licencing patent agreements between the pharmaceutical industry and struggling nations could allow for more local production thereby reducing the need for elaborate storage strategies.
The development of both vaccines is a huge accomplishment for science and, providing both candidates prove safe and effective once all studies have been concluded, might soon start to turn the tide in this Corona crisis. However, while production has to be ramped up and distribution as well as legal challenges have to be addressed, we will still have to wait for a significant amount of time before we will see wide-spread vaccination programs accessible globally.
References and resources:
Verbeke, R., Lentacker, I., De Smedt, S.C., and Dewitte, H. (2019). Three decades of messenger RNA vaccine development. Nano Today 28, 100766.
Mulligan, M.J., Lyke, K.E., Kitchin, N., Absalon, J., Gurtman, A., Lockhart, S., Neuzil, K., Raabe, V., Bailey, R., Swanson, K.A., et al. (2020). Phase I/II study of COVID-19 RNA vaccine BNT162b1 in adults. Nature 586, 589–593.
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حوض غسل العينين في حالات الطوارئ.
He stopped at the sink to wash the blood off his hands.
Why don't you meditate over the sink and wash the dishes?
You wash in a sink.
Throw them in the sink, wash them.
I'm having to wash everything in the sink.
Go wash them in the sink.
And you can wash your hands in the sink if you want.
ويمكنك غسل يديك علىالمغسلة أذا أردت!
I couldn't help but notice you didn't wash your hands in the invisible sink.
Please don't wash your hands in the sink.
I eat over the sink so I don't have plates to wash.
Did you wash your hair in the kitchen sink?
And she used to wash his hair in the sink when he couldn't wash it for himself anymore.
Bring him to the sink, hold his shaft, wash it and squeeze it open.
You know, when you wash your hair in the sink, they call it a Puerto Rican shower.
Yes, we're the little elves that wash the dishes in that sink.
نعم، نحن الجان يذكر أن غسل الأطباق في هذا الحوض.
Every time I used a knife and put it in the sink, she'd have to wash it right away.
كل مرة أستعمل سكيناً، ثم أضعها بالحوض يجب عليها أن تغسلها في نفس اللحظه.
I'll have to wash my hair in the kitchen sink to get to work on time.
How many times have we told the kids, we wash spoons in the tub, knives and forks in the bathroom sink?
Reaching down to wash my hands, I suddenly saw it was a urinal I was touching, not a sink, when my fingers felt its true shape.
البائع، الذي كنت مرتاحا لأني وجدته في المتجر كان في الحقيقة تمثال عرض انحنيت لأغسل يداي وفجأة رأيت مبولة كنت ألمسها وليست مغسلة عندما رأيت أصابعي بشكلها الحقيقي.
النتائج: 22. المطابقة: 1. الزمن المنقضي: 52 دقائق.


In this article, we'll get a bit more technical and discuss specific procedures about how access events and video events are supplied to law enforcement in the case of emergencies or investigations, and auditors in the case of audits. We'll first discuss what sorts of events require a paper trail, and what sorts of paper trails they need, and then how access control might supply these.
What types of events require audit trails?
There are broadly two types of events that require an audit trail of events: Unexpected events, and scheduled audits.
The first event that you'll need an audit trail for is an unexpected event with negative consequences. This could be a burglary, a workplace violation, or any sort of complaint that needs to be backed up by some real evidence.
Unfortunately, as the name suggests, you can't foresee these events. This means is that you should have your event and audit trail constantly active and recording information. We'll go through what this implies in a later section.
At any office in the United States, there will be some sort of quarterly audit regarding finances, compliance, and office usages at the very least. This can be the SOC2 audit, a PCI audit, or any other of the various ones out there. And while you'll know when the are scheduled, they will require a full audit trail of your systems for whatever aspect of your business they are investigating. As a result, it's useful (and mandatory, if you want to avoid fines) to have some sort of perpetual and uninterrupted audit trail.
What length of audit trail is required?
Depending on the particular audit or investigation you are subjected to, there are also different lengths of trails required. Some might only require a week, whereas the bigger ones, like the SOC2 and PCI, will require a full year of access logs. You should keep this in mind when choosing how to store your data.
How does access control supply its required logs?
Different audits require different logs, and it would go outside the scope of this article to discuss all of them (and outside the scope of our expertise!) We will, however, discuss what access logs are required for any sort of audit that covers office usage and compliance.
What are the features of an event audit?
Typically, an event audit has to be provided in one of two formats: either a CSV file or an XLS data sheet. It essentially has to be remotely exportable and has to be able to be sent via email immediately. This means that your access provider should give you the option to export your data easily because manually filling in a data sheet with all access events would be a real headache. It should be as easy as clicking an "export" button, as on the Kisi dashboard, pictured below.
Beyond just giving you the data, the information should be formatted correctly. It should have all the required pieces, like timestamps, users, access events, success (or not), door accessed, and it should be in an easily identifiable and readable format. Moreover, it should be downloadable by any authorized user, in case the primary administrator is unavailable at the time it's required. A good benchmark for data is shown below, in Kisi's event exports.
What's the future of event exports for audits?
In the future, there are two main tracks of innovation that we see: In compliance software, and in access control software.
In the world of audit compliance, we think there should be software that can integrate directly with access control, and pull events directly from the logs when requested to do so. So while the audit agency, or police, would not have access to your access control software, they would be able to view logs that they are legally allowed and required to view.
The next is in access control software. Companies like Kisi are constantly improving their systems and software, and as they do so, one of the realms of improvement is in data tracking and visualization. It's likely that often only a specific subset of all your access logs will need to be pulled, so giving you the flexibility and power to view only what you need, in an easy way, is certainly attractive and useful.
At any company, audits are inevitable, and access events will be one of the main features under scrutiny. As a result, it's important that your access provider makes the process of pulling event logs and data as easy as possible, and that they grant you all the data you may need.


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Q: How to narrow testing examples in `torch.utils.data.DataLoader` I want to load mnist data using
test_dataset = datasets.MNIST(root='./mnist_data/', train=False, transform=transforms.ToTensor(), download=False)

test_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset=test_dataset, batch_size=1, shuffle=False)

However this code will load all 10000 test examples of hand written datapoints. Is there any opportunity to have test_loader exactly in the same type and to narrow its loading only to 100?
I tried intuitively to do:
test_loader.dataset = test_loader.dataset[0:99]

But I obtained error:
ValueError: only one element tensors can be converted to Python scalars

Because python doesn't understand object test_loader.dataset[0:99].
Could you please help me solving this issue?

A: You may approach to this a bit differently. For example use a loop to iterate 100 times and in each iteration you can get a sample from a dataset. It may look like this:
test_dataset = datasets.MNIST(root='./mnist_data/', train=False, transform=transforms.ToTensor(), download=False)

# make it iterative object

test_dataset_iter = iter(test_dataset)

# then you can get a sample by `next` function

for _ in range(100):
   image, label = next(test_dataset_iter)

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Stress in the workplace costing UK businesses
As many as one in five employees (19.6 per cent) have taken time off work due to stress, with more than a quarter (28.8 per cent) saying they feel stressed at work all or most of the time.
According to a study by serviced office provider Business Environment, one fifth (21 per cent) of employees take work home at least one to two times a week with factors such as unrealistic deadlines, pressure from above and lack of support cited as the biggest culprits in causing stress.
The back-to-work blues make Monday the most stressful day of the week for more than a third of workers (36 per cent), while Thursday is voted the calmest day in the office.
The findings underline the negative effects stress can have in the workplace. One in twelve (almost 8 per cent) admit that they have shouted at a colleague as a result of stress, while 3 per cent have thrown something across the room and 2 per cent said they have sworn in front of a client or customer.
David Saul, managing director at Business Environment says that many companies have slipped into creating a culture where employees are expected to work all hours at any cost.
'This research clearly shows that this is actually having a detrimental effect, not only on employee health and wellbeing, but also on the wider business with billions being lost in days taken off sick.
'I believe all employers have a responsibility to challenge the status quo and cultivate an office environment where employees feel supported by senior staff and able to voice concerns before stress levels go through the roof. Of course, there will be times when employees are required to go above and beyond, but this should never be at the detriment to their health.'
The research also reveals that popular tactics used to de-stress at work include taking a short walk to get fresh air (43 per cent), calling friends or family (32 per cent) and having a rant in private (28 per cent). Nipping out for a cigarette or exercising are also popular responses.


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Don't link to the same page more than once in a post.
Only link to pages with relivant information, no more linking to Adobe every time you mention their name.
Link at the first logical mention of the subject.
The first two are Web Accessibility common sense, and the third is really preference. I find that other blogs tend to link at the earliest opportunity, and therefore this is where I expect links to be. Making things easy to read is as much meeting readers' expectations as it is the wording. Professional News and Corporate websites tend to invert this rule, because their purpose is to keep you reading their stuff for as long as possible, and not go following links off half-way through reading.
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Basketball Wives' star's ex-boyfriend arrested on assault charge
August 30, 2018 | by Monica Otayza
The ex-boyfriend of "Basketball Wives" star Jennifer Williams was arrested and charged with physical assault after previously being accused of punching his ex-restaurant employee.
"Welcome to Sweetie Pie's" star Tim Norman was imprisoned in a Harris County, Texas jail last August 23 after a court found him guilty of assaulting his ex-restaurant employee just last year. However, after having his fingerprints taken and staying in jail for a few hours, he was bailed after paying $500.
Norman was previously charged with misdemeanor assault by the District Attorney of Harris County, Texas. According to the police, on April 16, 2017, he punched a guy named Horace Hodges in the face. The man was a former chef at Sweetie Pie's whom Tim closely worked with.
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— YBF CHIC (@TheYBF) August 28, 2018
According to Hodges, he was talking to his boss about paychecks for other employees, when things got escalated and Norman's temper rose until he punched him in the left eye.
Norman's ex-girlfriend Jennifer Williams was at the restaurant that day, and while she told the police that while she did not see the assault happening, she confessed that Norman had told her that he punched Horace just minutes after the chef left the scene.
'Basketball Wives' Star Jennifer Williams Says Ex-Boyfriend Tim Norman is Abusive https://t.co/tEG0SelzOL
— TMZ (@TMZ) January 29, 2018
After the situation happened, Horace told the cops that he wanted to press charges for what had happened, and the District Attorney supported him during his case.
While an arraignment has been set for later this month, he is currently out of jail due to the $500 bond he paid to get out.
Prior to his assault court case, Tim went viral after his "Basketball Wives" ex-girlfriend accused him of still stalking her after their separation. She went to court numerous times trying to deal with his stalking, and she has opened up about how his alleged behavior has been affecting her.
A post shared by Jennifer Williams (@jenniferwilliams)
"I need a permanent restraining order to get this guy out of my life forever. It's taking a toll on me. It's really wearing me down. I haven't been sleeping well. My mind is all over the place. I'm nervous. I still don't want to walk my dog after dark."
While Jennifer insists that she was not lying about the whole ordeal, Tim says otherwise. His side of the story was that he was upset by how the "Sweetie Pie" producers were forcing him to propose to his then-girlfriend. When he chose not to, she became upset. He even goes so far as to accuse his ex-girlfriend of trying to run over him with her car and slashing his tires. To add to these accusations, he claims she even stole money from him after she got upset that he wouldn't help fund her business dealings.
'Basketball Wives' star Jennifer Williams is suspected to be happy in love
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— Jennifer Williams (@iamjennifer) June 1, 2018
Although we have no clue who was telling the truth between the two of them, Norman's issues with Williams is the least of his concerns now that he has a court case on his hands.
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Interface IntComparator

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This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface IntComparator

A comparator for natural ordering of primitive int.

Field Summary

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Modifier and Type
Field and Description

static IntComparator
NATURAL

The instance of this comparator.

static IntComparator
REVERSE

The instance of this comparator for the reversed ordering.

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int
compare(int a,
       int b)

Compares A and B along the order of this instance.

default boolean
eq(int a,
  int b)

Return true if A is equals to B.

default boolean
gt(int a,
  int b)

Return true if A is greater than B.

default boolean
lt(int a,
  int b)

Return true if A is less than B.

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NATURAL

static final IntComparator NATURAL

The instance of this comparator.

REVERSE

static final IntComparator REVERSE

The instance of this comparator for the reversed ordering.

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compare

int compare(int a,
            int b)

Compares A and B along the order of this instance.

Parameters:

a - value A

b - value B

Returns:

result of comparing

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default boolean gt(int a,
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Return true if A is greater than B.

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default boolean eq(int a,
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Return true if A is equals to B.

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Config set up for the CKEditor.
I was not able to recreate this issue on Win10 with FF 44.0. Used CKEditor 4.5.6 and SCAYT 3.1.8019 (downloaded from http://ckeditor.com/addon/scayt).
Can you provide details which versions do you use (and what options you have enabled in SCAYT)?


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Which Windows 10 should your business install? This one
In one sense, Windows 10 is the "end of history." There will be no Windows 11 — or 12, were Microsoft to decide . Windows 10 is it!
One the other hand, despite its immutable name, Windows 10 changes all the time. Constant updates can't really be escaped by Home version users, whereas admins mete out updates for Pro and Enterprise users who are attached to an update server (that is, either Windows Server Update Services or System Center Configuration Manager). Update management and troubleshooting is literally part of the cost of doing business with Windows 10.
Then there are the major versions of Windows 10: 1507 ("RTM"), 1511 ("Fall Update"), 1607 ("Anniversary Update"), and 1703 ("Creators Update"). This bestiary raises a big question: If you're running a business, which of these versions of Windows 10 should you deploy? Here are the basics:
For business use, you want the CBB (Current Branch for Business) servicing option. Not some Insider Ring beta, of course, nor just a CB (Current Branch). The CBB is what you need because versions designated "CBB" have been put through the wringer — many months on millions of users' computers — to shake out the bugs. Think of the CBB as the result of a massive unpaid beta testing cycle. Right now, 1507, 1511, and (as of late November) 1607 have been granted CBB status.
Just last week Microsoft announced that version 1507, the first-ever Windows 10 launched on Jul. 29, 2015, would . You should not be running this version. If somehow you've managed to block updates to 1507 to prevent it turning into a later version, stop that right now. It's unfinished and not particularly stable. Upgrade!
Version 1511, which was granted CBB status on Apr. 8, 2016, is pretty much the same deal as 1507. It's an old and incomplete version. Our best guess is that it will go off support in early 2018. Time to update sooner rather than later.
Version 1607, the so-called Anniversary Edition, is today's Windows 10 gold standard. Microsoft released it on Aug. 2, 2016, and granted it CBB status on Nov. 29, 2016. This is the last Windows 10 version that — and it actually earned a , primarily for its .
Version 1703, the Creators Update, is currently in beta but should be available in a couple of months. It's anybody's guess when 1703 will reach CBB status, but figure on four months or so after release. You've probably heard about the features that give this version its name, such as the drafting features that work hand in glove with , Redmond's first all-in-one desktop. As InfoWorld's Galen Gruman has said, . But at the same time, the Creators Update promises improved security, better device management, and greater admin control over updates — not to mention new analytics features for admins to gain insight into how users work with Windows 10.
So you might say that Windows 10's continuous improvement seems to be accelerating. Yes, there are annoyances: Patch management has been a hassle, end-user data collection has stoked privacy fears, and it has taken awhile for new major versions to become stable. And, well, some of us still find the UI cloying compared to that of Windows 7, and the unfinished stuff like Cortana or the Edge browser sometimes make you wonder what they're smoking in Redmond. But that's kind of beside the point.
to leave behind any previous Windows you may be clinging to. Just make sure that, at this juncture, you're running the Anniversary Update. You might also make a habit of checking regularly to see which problematic patches and updates he has flagged this week.
One final note: If you're super-conservative, you might want to consider the LTSB (Long-Term Servicing Branch) servicing option. This is the slowest-moving branch of Windows 10. You get security and bugfix updates automatically, but not feature updates, and you need to install new versions manually. The Anniversary Update 1607 has been granted LTSB status; we don't know if Creators Update will ever be given LTSB status (1511 never made LTSB).
Microsoft sees LTSB as being for mission-critical systems only — after all, labor-intensive updates defeat the ability to deliver the latest features quickly. But if you want to avoid disruption at all costs, it's worth considering.
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module Metior

  # This error is raised when a file cannot be found for a specifc report (or
  # one of its ancestors)
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  # @author Sebastian Staudt
  class FileNotFoundError < RuntimeError

    # Creates a new instance of this error
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      super "'%s' could not be found in report :%s." % [ file, report.name ]
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  end

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  # This error is raised when a VCS is requested that is not known to Metior
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  # @author Sebastian Staudt
  class UnknownVCSError < RuntimeError

    # Creates a new instance of this error
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  end

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  # @author Sebastian Staudt
  class UnsupportedError < RuntimeError

    # Creates a new instance of this error
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    # @param [Module] adapter The VCS adapter
    def initialize(adapter)
      super 'Operation not supported by the current VCS adapter (:%s).' % adapter.id
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  end

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Enjoy splish-splash fun with this Chad Valley Pirate Ship Bath Toy. Coming complete with a cannon water shooter and spinning water wheel, this toy features plenty of varied activities for hours of bath based enjoyment.
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The Library of Congress > Chronicling America > The alert.
-v. 1, no. 34 (Dec. 17, 1897).
Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 6 (June 11, 1897).
Other ed. available: Alert (Amherst, Neb. : Amherst ed.).
The Miller gazette. [microfilm reel] (Miller, Neb.) 1897-19??


Ideal 7th floor looking south to the Dunlawton Bridge. Sit on your balcony overlooking the golf course and watch the boats cruise the Halifax River. Floor to ceiling windows. Pet friendly up to 20 lbs. No charge for laundry located on each floor. Grocery shopping, banking, golf, pickle ball, tennis, all just just steps away. So convenient.
Listing courtesy of Noel Cox of Landmark Properties Sales & Management.