The Xperia E3 is a recently announced budget Android Smartphone by Sony and retails for around Rs. 9,000 in India.
The Sony Xperia E3 features a 4.5-inch shatterproof glass display with a screen resolution of 480×854 pixels that shows up to a PPI of 218. The device is powered by a 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 400 processor and 1 GB of RAM. The Xperia E3 runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system and features 4 GB of internal storage space. There is an option to increase the storage externally via a MicroSD card up to 32 GB. The primary camera unit provided in the device is of 5 MP resolution whereas there is also a secondary 0.3 MP camera unit for selfies and video calls. The Smartphone is powered by a 2330 mAh battery that is nonremovable.
If you own a Sony Xperia E3 already, and if you feel that the hardware specifications of the Xperia E3 are a bit outdated according to current standards, then you are not alone. However, you can try rooting your Xperia E3 and then flash a custom ROM of your choice. However, after rooting your Sony Xperia E3 and before flashing a custom ROM you will require to flash in a custom recovery.
And if you are in search for a guide on how to easily flash a custom recovery on your Sony Xperia E3 Android Smartphone, then you are at the right place as below we bring you a detailed how-to on the same.
Before beginning, we would like to remind you that rooting, installing a custom recovery or flashing a custom ROM is not an authorized process. Doing so and proceeding with the tutorial below will void any kind of official warranty that may have come with your Sony Xperia E3 at the time of purchase. Please proceed at your own risk.
Download the TWRP file for Sony Xperia E3 from here.
Navigate to the TWRP file you downloaded, click the right mouse button and then from the drop-down menu that appears, click the "Open cmd window here" option.
Power OFF your Sony Xperia E3 and then boot it into the fastboot mode by pressing Volume Up+Power keys.
Once the device has entered the Fastboot mode, connect it to your PC.
And in the cmd window, type in the command "fastboot devices" and then type in the command "fastboot flash boot boot RECOVERY.img". Replace RECOVERY with the name of the recovery image file that you downloaded and press Enter.
Wait for the TWRP recovery to be installed on your Xperia E3.
Once completed, your device will then reboot. Wait for the reboot to complete.
Once the reboot completes, you can then disconnect your Sony Xperia E3 from the PC.
And viola! you have now successfully installed the TWRP recovery on your Sony Xperia E3 Android Smartphone.
#ASK Why i cant acces to my recovery, its frustrating and i dont know whyyyy!? can someone help me?
Can use to xperia e3 dual?
You are absolutely on the spot, some very important topic you explained for the Xperia E users including me :) i also have Xperia E.
Once again its a very useful write . Thanks.


I snagged this splatter print tank at Target a few weeks ago and with my coupon got it for $6! Plus, it's not actually a "maternity" cardigan, it's just super stretchy, so it'll last me past August. Woop! I love a good bargain like that.
If there's anything I've learned over the last 7.5 months of pregnancy, and more importantly, over the last 3 months or so as I've really begun to struggle with getting dressed, it's: WORK WITH YOUR STAPLES.
For those who are early in pregnancy or who ever want to get pregnant one day – let me tell you, if there's ONE piece of maternity clothing that you invest in… it's GOOD maternity jeans. Trust me. At the beginning I kept trying to squeeze in to maternity jeans I snagged for $6 or so at a consignment shop and they were awful. Horrendous. Just so uncomfortable. I was stubborn. But then I finally caved, went to Motherhood Maternity, and in an act of desperation asked the sweet sales associate for HELP.
And the second I put on a pair of comfortable, "oh my these actually fit" maternity jeans, my maternity clothing life was changed. Seriously. And I bought two pairs. Best decision EVER.
So, preggo ladies or soon-to-be or one-day-hope-to-be preggo ladies: GET GOOD MATERNITY JEANS.
Then, beyond that, work with STAPLES. Tank tops, cardigans, etc. You don't have to spend a ton of money on maternity clothes to make your wardrobe work with your changing body.
And as this belly is continuing to grow even larger (I'm starting to wonder if it's ever going to stop growing… it just keeps getting bigger by the day), I'm learning that working with comfortable staples is as important as ever. In 95+ degree North Carolina humidity, comfort is KEY and the ability to transition from the heat to frigid air conditioning with the toss on or off of a cardigan is SO important.
So, what do you think? Mamas? Preggos? Gals in general?
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Macy's is turning to mobile checkout options and virtual reality in an effort to get more people in its stores. The former uses the store's app and aims to make getting out of the mall easier. The latter is for designing a room's look with furniture and furnishings.
To use the in-store mobile checkout you'll have to be on the Macy's WiFi network. From there you scan your items with your phone's camera. Before walking out, you'll have to go to a special station near the door to verify your purchases with an employee, but it all sounds relatively painless. Macy's says "most" merchandise will be available with the feature, but that it won't apply to "leased departments" or expensive jewelry.
With the VR tools, you'll layout the rough shape and design of your room with a provided tablet. And once that's set in place, you can place virtual sofas and loveseats around the room before donning a VR helmet and seeing how they "feel" in your space. It almost sounds like a stopgap for Macy's' next application though: augmented reality. Next month, an update will start rolling out for its mobile app, which will enable you to see how a new credenza will look in your room, not a roughshod approximation of it.
Testing for the mobile check-out is rolling out right now and will wrap by year's end, starting with the the New York Bloomingdale's in SoHo. As far as the VR goes, there's a pilot program running in Manhattan, New Jersey and Florida, with it going online in 60 more stores by this fall.


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Iron and Titanium Found on 'Ultrahot Jupiter,' an Exoplanet First
By Hanneke Weitering
Artist's impression of the star KELT-9 and its planet KELT-9b, the hottest known exoplanet (Image credit: MPIA)
For the first time ever, astronomers have found iron and titanium in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. The exoplanet, named KELT-9b, is the hottest alien world ever discovered. The planet is so scorching, it's even hotter than most stars.
This sweltering exoplanet, located about 620 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, is what astronomers call an "ultrahot Jupiter." KELT-9b is a giant gas world like Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. But it's way bigger — it has three times the mass and twice the diameter of Jupiter — and it orbits extremely close to its hot parent star, KELT-9.
"Ultrahot Jupiter" is an unofficial term for a hot Jupiter exoplanet with temperatures exceeding 3,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,700 degrees Celsius). They "are so hot that they have some resemblance to being stars even though they're planets," Kevin Heng, an astrophysicist at the University of Bern in Switzerland who participated in the study, told Space.com. KELT-9b can reach temperatures of up to 7,800 degrees F (4,300 degrees C). [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]
An artist's impression of the exoplanet KELT-9b, which orbits so close to its host star that the star's disk appears 70 times larger than our sun in the sky. (Image credit: Denis Bajram/Nature)
This record-breaking heat enabled astronomers to detect iron and titanium in KELT-9b's atmosphere. While researchers have long suspected that these elements are present on some exoplanets — iron is one of the most abundant elements in the universe — it's difficult to detect them in cooler environments because the atoms are mostly "trapped in other molecules," Heng said. However, KELT-9b is so hot that the clouds don't condense in its atmosphere, allowing individual atoms of iron and other metals to fly solo.
Titanium has been spotted in an exoplanet's atmosphere before — but not in its atomic form. In September 2017, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced that they had found titanium dioxide (molecules consisting of one titanium atom and two oxygen atoms) in the atmosphere of an exoplanet named Kepler-13A.
Astronomers can detect different elements by looking at the spectrum of light coming from an object in space. Because the exoplanet doesn't emit its own light, Heng and his team of researchers looked at telescope data collected during a solar transit, when the exoplanet passed directly in front of its star as seen from Earth.
Conveniently, the data already existed before Heng and his co-authors decided to tackle this study. After his colleagues at the University of Geneva used that spectral data to look for hydrogen in KELT-9b's atmosphere, "they actually kept the data in the drawer because there was no reason to search for iron or titanium," Heng said. "Then, a few months ago, we did a theoretical study, which predicted that iron and titanium would be there, and that motivated the search."
Using the year-old data from the Galileo National Telescope in La Palma, Spain, the researchers started hunting for metals in the spectrum of light that shone through KELT-9b's atmosphere over a 4-hour-long transit. This data was collected using a spectrograph instrument called HARPS, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher.
"Different atoms or molecules have a fingerprint when you split the light into a spectrum," Heng said. "Given enough resolution, given good enough data, every molecule has a unique fingerprint." Finding the fingerprints of iron and titanium — elements that Heng and his team already suspected would exist in KELT-9b's atmosphere — would require "a combination of high-performance computing know-how, a careful curation of the spectroscopic databases and meticulous attention to detail," Heng wrote in a blog post on Nature.com (opens in new tab).
Heng's team sought the help of Simon Grimm, an astrophysicist at the University of Bern "who is (among other things) an expert in the computation of the opacities of atoms and molecules," Heng wrote in the blog post. "These opacities are not trivial to compute, because one needs to evaluate the strengths and shapes of millions to billions of spectral lines."
Previous studies that looked at hydrogen in the atmosphere of KELT-9b were able to see a strong hydrogen absorption line in the spectrum without doing a more complicated cross-correlation analysis like Heng and his team had to do to find iron and titanium. Astronomers who collected data to look for hydrogen "lacked the theoretical motivation to conduct a serious search for metals such as iron," Heng wrote.
Another study, published July 2 in the journal Nature Astronomy, showed that hydrogen is actually "boiling off" from the atmosphere of KELT-9b and being sucked into the planet's parent star. "It is possible that heavy metal elements are also escaping because the dramatic hydrogen escape can 'drag' heavy elements to very high [in the] atmosphere," Fei Yan, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the lead author of the study, told Space.com in an email.
While the iron and titanium in KELT-9b's atmosphere was a huge discovery, Heng told Space.com that "the technique itself is really exciting" as well. "This is the same technique that we will use to detect signatures of biology, or biosignatures," Heng said. "On Earth, we think it's oxygen and a few other obscure molecules, but we don't know what biosignatures are in general. If you knew what they were … you could use exactly the same technique to detect these molecules in cooler, smaller planets."
It is unlikely that astronomers will find any signs of life on this hellish planet, but Heng and his team have found some other interesting elements in the spectra from KELT-9b. "I don't want to reveal too much, but we have found other metals," he said. "We are also trying to get Hubble Space Telescope time to search for water as well." The goal is to eventually have "a complete chemical inventory of the planet," he said. Hubble will also be able to provide some insight into the weather on KELT-9b. "There should be violent storms on this planet," he said.
The research was published today (Aug. 15) in the journal Nature (opens in new tab).
Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
Hanneke Weitering
Hanneke Weitering is an editor at Space.com with 10 years of experience in science journalism. She has previously written for Scholastic Classroom Magazines, MedPage Today and The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After studying physics at the University of Tennessee in her hometown of Knoxville, she earned her graduate degree in Science, Health and Environmental Reporting (SHERP) from New York University. Hanneke joined the Space.com team in 2016 as a staff writer and producer, covering topics including spaceflight and astronomy. She currently lives in Seattle, home of the Space Needle, with her cat and two snakes. In her spare time, Hanneke enjoys exploring the Rocky Mountains, basking in nature and looking for dark skies to gaze at the cosmos.
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From feeling into my worth as a quantum being, to reconnecting with my raw journaled truths. From sassy spicy book clubs, to courting dream time visions and blowing bubbles and taking long, luxurious showers. Dusting up my hands with flour in the kitchen. Getting my jam on to live music, or just sinking into an ooey gooey playlist. From downshifting between multiple projects, to witnessing the million shades of maple leaves on the long hill of life.
Twelve women shared some of their innermost inspirations, the paths they pursue when adrift in creative doldrums: Abby, Brandie, Cat, Erin, Heidi, Jaidra, Julie, Lauryn, Majda, Monet, Nancy, and Teejei. Thank you.
And so, coffee in hand, I reread all of your words this morning as my first act of 2016, brimming over with hope and thanks.
I sang for awhile, let the bowl do some singing of her own, then closed my eyes to swirl the names about.
I selected one, opened my eyes, and smiled. The recipient of a seat within the year-long Birthing Ourselves Into Being circle is Monet. Welcome, sister!
I will burn all of the slips later today, and scatter the ashes in my garden. May this be symbolic fuel to all your creative fires in 2016! Sally forth and CREATE!
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Q: sencha touch geolocation get current position not working after 2-3 times on device (iphone 5) I am trying to fetch the current location each time the user clicks a button.
 function checkConnection() {

  // check if there is connection and call the getcurrent position function
        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(onLocSuccess, onLocError);

    }

    function onLocSuccess(position) {

                    var latitude = position.coords.latitude;
                    var longitude = position.coords.longitude;
                    myPosition = new google.maps.LatLng(latitude, longitude);
            //..........
            //..........
            // do something more
            //.....
        }

On the browser this works fine. But on the device (testing on iphone5), after 2-3 times of requesting, this piece of code does not fetch the location. It freezes, resulting in the app to freeze.
But interestingly, if i place an alert inside onLocSuccess it works fine !!!
    function onLocSuccess(position) {

            alert('this alert solves the issue');
            var latitude = position.coords.latitude;
            var longitude = position.coords.longitude;
            myPosition = new google.maps.LatLng(latitude, longitude);
    //..........
    //..........
    // do something more
    //.....
}

What could be wrong ?

A: Home Button Implementation using Google map api v3

A: Your code seems correct. I guess, there is some other issue behind the app freezing. Still you can try and check this once,
getCurrentLocation : function() {
        var me = this;
        if(navigator.geolocation){
            navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
                me.latitude = position.coords.latitude
                me.longitude =  position.coords.longitude;

                // User's location'
                me.position = new google.maps.LatLng(me.latitude, me.longitude);
            });
        } else {
            Ext.Msg.alert("Sorry, browser does not support geolocation!");
        }
    }

A: Finally used settimeout. This works !
 function onLocSuccess(position) {

      setTimeout(function () {
          var latitude = position.coords.latitude;
          var longitude = position.coords.longitude;
          myPosition = new google.maps.LatLng(latitude, longitude);
          //..........
          //..........
          // do something more
          //.....
      }, 50);
  }

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HomeCity NewsVeteran actor Vikram Gokhale passes away at age of 77
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Veteran film, television and stage actor Vikram Gokhale on Saturday died at a city-based hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment for the last couple of weeks, the hospital authorities said.
Gokhale, 77, was admitted to the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital here earlier this month following health complications. His mortal remains will be kept at the Balgandharva Auditorium in the city and the last rites will be performed at the Vaikunth crematorium in the evening, a family friend of the actor said.
Gokhale, an artist equally at home in theatre, television, and movies, acted in several Marathi and Bollywood films, including the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer "Agneepath" (1990), "Bhool Bhulaiyaa" (2007), "Natsamrat" (2015) and "Mission Mangal" (2019). His latest release is the Marathi film "Godavari".
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In the United States, 10% of pregnancies are complicated by diabetes mellitus (DM). Intrauterine DM exposure can have long-lasting implications for the fetus, including cardiovascular morbidity. Previously, we showed that fetal endothelial colony forming cells (ECFCs) from DM pregnancies have decreased vessel-forming ability and increased senescence. However, the molecular mechanisms responsible for this dysfunction remain largely unknown. The objective of this thesis was to understand how Mesenchyme Homeobox 2 (MEOX2) interacts with pathways that regulate cell cycle progression and migration, and how this interaction results in impaired vasculogenesis in DM exposed ECFCs. We tested the hypothesis that upregulated MEOX2 in DM-exposed ECFCs decreases network formation through impairments in senescence, cell cycle progression, migration, and adhesion. MEOX2 is a transcription factor which inhibits angiogenesis by upregulating cyclin dependent kinase inhibitors. Here, data show that nuclear MEOX2 is increased in DM-exposed ECFCs. Lentiviral-mediated overexpression of MEOX2 in control ECFCs increased network formation, altered cell cycle progression, increased senescence, and enhanced migration. In contrast, MEOX2-knockdown in DM-exposed ECFCs decreased network formation and migration, while cell cycle progression and senescence were unchanged. Adhesion and integrin expression defects were evaluated as mechanisms by which MEOX2 altered ECFC migration. While MEOX2-overexpression did not alter adhesion or cell surface integrin levels in control cells, MEOX2 overexpression in DM-exposed ECFCs resulted in an increase in α6 integrin surface expression. Similarly, MEOX2-knockdown in DM-exposed ECFCs did not alter adhesion, though did reduce α6 integrin surface expression and total cellular α6 mRNA and protein levels. Together, these data suggest that alterations in cell cycle progression and senescence are not responsible for the disrupted vasculogenesis of DM-exposed ECFCs. Importantly, these data suggest that altered migration may be a key mechanism involved and that altered cell surface levels of the α6 integrin may modify migratory capacity. Moreover, these data suggest that the α6 integrin may be a previously unrecognized transcriptional target of MEOX2. Ultimately, while initially believed to be maladaptive, these data suggest that increased nuclear MEOX2 in DM-exposed ECFCs may serve a protective role, enabling vessel formation despite exposure to a DM intrauterine environment.


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Speedy delivery makes rotational IMRT the technique of choice
By Cristen Bolan
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has become the method of choice for treating complex-shaped planning target volumes (PTV).1 During the last few years, rotational IMRT (rIMRT) techniques, such as volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) and helical tomotherapy have become widely available, delivering similar or better-quality treatments compared to conventional fixed-field IMRT (cIMRT).
Several studies have compared rIMRT techniques to helical tomotherapy and cIMRT. These comparisons focus on treatment plan quality based on satisfying target coverage while respecting defined organs-at-risk (OAR) criteria, target dose homogeneity, and treatment delivery efficiency.1 What sets rIMRT apart from helical tomotherapy and cIMRT are the faster treatment times.
Radiation oncology centers worldwide have implemented the VMAT technique using the following systems, RapidArc™ and TrueBeam™ by Varian Medical (Palo Alto, CA); the VMAT™ system by Elekta (Stockholm, Sweden); or the Smart-ArcTM, a module for VMAT available on the Pinnacle3 treatment planning solution from Philips Healthcare (Andover, MA). The distinguishing feature of these rIMRT systems is the treatment delivery time, which is much faster than that of cIMRT. In VMAT delivery, both dose rate and gantry rotation speed can vary, and these additional degrees-of-freedom increase the capability of beam intensity modulation.2
"The advantages of reduced treatment time are a reduction in interfraction motion, improvement in patient comfort, and an increase in patient throughput," noted Jonas D. Fontenot, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Baton Rouge, LA.
The Mary Bird Perkins facility was an early adopter of Elekta's VMAT system, initiating its VMAT program in mid-2009. Today, doctors treat all of the conditions that can be treated with cIMRT, including prostate, head and neck, lung, and brain and spinal cord cancers. In the last 18 months, they have started to use VMAT for lung stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).
"SBRT is a hot topic in radiation oncology right now, and we are finding a lot of applications for VMAT. It has almost completely replaced cIMRT at our center," said Fontenot.
Fontenot explains that the quality of the dose distribution that the patient receives with a VMAT plan is comparable to cIMRT. "It is not a matter of improving the dose received by the patient; however, the real benefit is the efficiency with which the treatments can be delivered. Studies from our group and others have shown that VMAT treatments can be delivered in 1/3 of the time as a cIMRT plan," he said.
"If we were treating a patient with prostate cancer with cIMRT, we would probably need to use 7 or 9 fields, and a plan like that would take approximately 9 or 10 minutes to deliver. Contrast that with VMAT, where we can deliver the same quality treatment in a single arc that takes about 1-and-a-half minutes to deliver (Figure 1). Comparatively speaking, it's quite a bit faster, which has several advantages."
The University of Alabama at Birmingham radiation oncology program, which works with Varian's RapidArc system as well as the TrueBeam platform, was looking to broaden its SBRT program and to do hypofractionated frameless stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
"The linacs can expand our SBRT program. They enable single and multifraction, hypofractionated frameless SRS treatments, offer better image-guidance over time, and more provide efficient treatments elsewhere in the body. We acquired the TrueBeam system for its efficient administration of SRS," explained John B. Fiveash, MD, Radiation Oncologist, Department of Radiation Oncology, Associate Professor and Vice Chairman for Academic Programs, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Designed for image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery, TrueBeam is a fully-integrated system designed from the ground up to treat moving targets at higher treatment delivery speeds with a dose delivery rate of up to 2,400 monitor units per minute. The system improves precision through better synchronization between imaging, patient positioning, motion management, beam shaping, and dose delivery technologies by performing accuracy checks every 10 milliseconds throughout an entire treatment.
"The greatest savings is in higher dose-per-fraction cases," said Dr. Fiveash. As he recalls, the amount of time spent on a very-high-dose treatment for lung or liver surgery used to take 60 to 90 minutes. Today, with TrueBeam, they are scheduling high dose-per-fraction treatments in 30-minute time slots.
For some anatomical sites, quicker treatments can lead to greater accuracy as patients are more comfortable and less likely to move during the therapy. In prostate cancer, for example, gas patterns or rectal or bladder filling can move the target on the organ, and faster treatments leave less time for error caused by movement (Figure 2).
"If you have treatments lasting 10 to 12 minutes, 25% of the patients will have motion of the prostate > 3 mm. If you have a treatment that lasts a minute or two, it's about 5% or less. A quick treatment with RapidArc or flattening filter free mode (FFF), if you're doing stereotactic treatments in particular, has the advantage of accuracy," said Dr. Fiveash.
With the FFF mode, the number of beam pulses per second remains the same (360 pulses/second at the maximum dose rate); however, the absence of attenuation due to the metal filter results in higher photon dose in the central portion of the beam. This means that the same dose could be delivered up to 4 times faster for this energy.3
A recently published study found that the 6-MV flattening filter-free mode (6F) of the Varian TrueBeam enables faster dose delivery and shortens treatment time, which is especially beneficial for stereotactic radiosurgery.4
"You can combine RapidArc with FFF mode and can do beam time in < 5 minutes. For multiple targets, it's a big time saver. If you are treating multiple tumors, like metastases, it could take 2 to 4 hours on a Gamma Knife, but we can do that in 15 minutes," Dr. Fiveash indicated. "That allows you to do extremely fast treatments for SRT and SBRT, all in a conventional time slot or 2 times lots. As a result, you can treat 4 to 5 patients in an hour."
The ability to use the FFF mode on the TrueBeam system (Figure 2) is an important feature for doctors at UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA. "I was excited about getting TrueBeam because of speed, the quality of the on-board imaging, and because it has the whole FFF technology," said Arno J. Mundt, MD, Professor and Chair at UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA.
The actual beam-on time for treating prostate cancer has dropped to 60 seconds. "The total time at a minimum would be 3 minutes—that includes going from one fixed-beam position to the next. RapidArc is much faster compared to static IMRT, which had a beam-on time of 3 to 5 minutes. And now it's 60 seconds. It is a significant improvement in speed," pointed out Todd Pawlicki, PhD, Director of Medical Physics at UCSD. "If you have more complicated targets, for head and neck cancer and for lung, the time savings can be even greater."
As Dr. Mundt indicates, the advantages of speed correlate more to patient comfort than to better outcomes.
"Improving the delivery of treatment is not necessarily associated with better outcomes because you can spare tissues very well with conventional IMRT," he said. "However, even if you have the same sparing [of organs at risk], I would opt for the speed to make the treatment better quality. The longer a patient is on the table, the more you will have problems immobilizing the patient for accurate treatment delivery. You want to get the patient on and off the table in the shortest amount of time to provide a better quality treatment."
Advantages of throughput
The shorter treatment times also improve throughput, said Dr. Mundt, adding that there are several advantages to increased throughput. First, the less time the patient is on the table, the less discomfort the patient experiences and the lower the potential for movement (Figure 2). Second, from a hospital administrative standpoint, throughput is crucial for running an effective clinic. This may in turn enable the clinic to treat more patients per day.
"When treating the majority of your patients with VMAT, there can be an increase in throughput," noted Koren Smith, MS, DABR, Medical Physicist, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, where patients are treated on both Elekta's VMAT system and the TomoTherapy by Accuray Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA).
Similarly, at UCSD Moores Cancer Center, where RapidArc and TrueBeam are employed, clinicians are treating 40 to 50 patients per single linac per day. "It has significantly increased our patient throughput," said Dr. Mundt.
The role of helical tomotherapy
Helical therapy technology has been available since 1993, when Mackie et al developed a rotating fan-beam technique using a dedicated helical tomotherapy system.5-6 Today, however, the faster delivery speeds of rIMRT systems may have outpaced the slower treatments helical tomotherapy provides.
Nonetheless, many clinicians believe the better dose distribution and quality treatment plans achieved with tomotherapy outweigh faster treatment times. "The high conformality of the radiation dose with respect to the risk to critical organs is one of the advantages of using tomotherapy. It avoids critical structures very well while hitting the target," said Dr. Matthew West, Chief Physicist at Tulsa Cancer Institute, Tulsa, OK, who has over 10 years of experience working on TomoTherapy systems.
A recently published study comparing rIMRT to cIMRT and tomotherapy, showed rIMRT and tomotherapy were both advantageous with respect to OAR sparing and treatment delivery efficiency, at the cost of higher dose delivered to normal tissues.1
These results align with the results found by clinicians at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where approximately 20% to 25% of patients are treated on VMAT or TomoTherapy systems. "We have done planning studies on VMAT and TomoTherapy, and they are comparable. The planning objectives are met on both types of plans and while small differences can be seen, there are not major differences," said Smith.
The average 'beam on' time for VMAT when treating the prostate or pancreas, using a single-arc, and conventional fractionation, such as a 1.8Gy to 2Gy fraction size, is < 2 minutes, indicates Smith. On TomoTherapy, however, the beam-on time for a typical prostate patient is 2 to 4 minutes. Yet Smith considers the treatment times on TomoTherapy to be very reasonable.
"TomoTherapy is very effective, and it is not an outdated technology. In a lot of planning comparisons, it can deliver more homogenous dose to the target while sparing critical structures more than other types of delivery," Smith reported.
While there have been several technical advances in rIMRT systems, helical tomotherapy has recently undergone a system overhaul. In October 2012, Accuray Inc. launched its new TomoTherapy H Series, including the TomoHDA System, designed with faster planning, faster delivery, and increased quality. Some of the key features of the TomoHDA system include TomoEDGE Dynamic Jaws technology, designed to provide added flexibility in treatment delivery by sharpening dose fall off and accuracy.
"The advantage of TomoTherapy with respect to OAR is the high conformality, especially with TomoEdge or dynamic jaws. The efficiencies arise from the TomoTherapy process. Dose falls off much faster in a superior and inferior direction than it used to, and it also provides much tighter dose distribution," West pointed out.
Wiezorek et al also concluded that the overall treatment plan quality using tomotherapy seemed better than the other treatment planning technologies.1
According to the lead author of the study, Tilo Wiezorek, PhD, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany, the advantage to tomotherapy is a higher degree of freedom compared to VMAT techniques or fixed-beam IMRT. However, he added, "A fixed-beam IMRT plan with a mixture of high photon energy (eg, 15MV) and lower energy (eg, 6MV) in combination with a preoptimized beam-angle setup very often offers better dose distributions for PTVs with a strong asymmetric position in the body and for high-weight patients, too. Especially for retreatments of patients with previous dose impact this offers a better choice," said Dr. Wiezorek.
Recent improvements to the TomoTherapy system may give it an edge when it comes to accuracy and even speed. New TomoEDGE Dynamic Jaws technology combined with VoLO Planning, a graphics processing unit (GPU)-based treatment planning solution, enables high-speed parallel processing for both dose calculation and optimization. VoLO leverages advanced graphics processing technology and a new calculation algorithm to significantly reduce treatment-planning times and add flexibility in developing even very complex radiation therapy plans.
"VoLO has sped up the time it takes to turn around a treatment plan," said West. "On the older system without VoLO, before we even started planning, it could take between 30 minutes and 4 hours, depending on how complicated the case was. Now with VoLO it only takes 2 minutes before we start planning."
He continued, "When you look at the efficiencies, the system is very simple. Unlike a conventional accelerator, there are no ancillary components or special modes for special types of treatments, so whether you're planning a prostate, brain, breast or stereotactic case, you plan it and treat them the same. The efficiencies come in terms of ease of workflow and safety."
"The simplified process—no machine treatment aids, no transfer of planning data—allow dosimetry to utilize the same general planning approach independent of treatment type. The therapists can focus on the patient and their setup. The treatment data isn't transferred from one computer to another, but is verified by physics prior to treatment. Ultimately, this attention to patient setup and image guidance allows clinicians to reduce treatment margins and minimize dose to critical structures," said West.
The dose factor
Since the goal of radiation therapy is to administer a therapeutic dose of radiation to a target while limiting the side effects caused by delivering the dose to surrounding tissues and vital organs, there is an ongoing pursuit in radiotherapy to achieve an optimal dose distribution.
The trend to lower radiation exposure to patients has been reinforced by industry organizations, such as MITA, The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, and Image Wisely. Therefore, radiation dose is another important consideration when comparing rIMRT to cIMRT and helical tomotherapy.
The perceived benefit of the VMAT radiotherapy delivery technique over IMRT is a reduction in delivery time, but VMAT also uses fewer monitor units (MU), resulting in a lower patient total body dose. A study comparing the delivery efficiency and time for the IMRT and VMAT plans for a series of prostate cases found VMAT plans resulted in a statistically significant reduction in the rectal V25Gy parameter of 8.2% on average over the IMRT plans.7 These reductions in rectal dose were achieved using 18.6% fewer MU and a delivery time reduction of up to 69%.7 Therefore, in addition to speed, the lower cumulative MU of the VMAT system is important for patient safety because it reduces the overall amount of radiation.
"A secondary advantage of VMAT with respect to cIMRT is that VMAT units require less MU, which is a measure of how much radiation is produced by the accelerator. Fewer MU means lower amounts of leakage dose outside of the treatment field. The patient receives lower doses out of field, which corresponds to a theoretical reduction to treatment related cancers. It is like the ALARA principle," indicated Fontenot.
Lowering radiation to patients is not exclusive to rIMRT. Although conventional MU verification calculations are not applicable to TomoTherapy treatments,8 Fontenot points out that helical tomotherapy delivers highly conformal dose distributions.
"Tomotherapy utilizes a similar delivery approach and delivers highly conformal dose distributions, which lets us deliver a very high dose of radiation to the target, and a very low dose of radiation to the surrounding critical structures. Tomotherapy relies on treating the tumor from several different directions, which involves irradiating larger volumes of normal tissue albeit at much lower doses," said Fontenot.
"When you're comparing VMAT and tomotherapy on the basis of low dose volumes, we've had studies indicating that there are some tradeoffs. The intermediate dose range on tomotherapy is a little better, and VMAT is a little better in the low to very-low dose range."
Fontenot says the jury is still out on which one is better at sparing normal tissue at low to intermediate doses, and how those differences translate into risks of secondary cancers.
Is it a tie?
With so many variables involved in radiation therapy, Dr. Wiezorek is reluctant to declare a winner.
"From my point of view, we cannot proclaim a principle advantage of rIMRT versus cIMRT," said Dr. Wiezorek.
While in many cases the reduced delivery times on rIMRT offer a significant advantage, this time advantage may be limited in some complex cases.
"Rotational techniques offer faster treatments for low complex targets, such as prostate cancer, or high complex and symmetrical PTVs, like head and neck with 3 dose levels. However, for high complex and symmetrical PTVs, rIMRT is faster only if TomoTherapy is used or only if a maximum of 2 arcs are used for VMAT. If some regions have to be blocked, rotational techniques do not significantly speed up the treatment," said Dr. Wiezorek.
However, with recent advances in rIMRT systems and tomotherapy technology, these techniques may soon outperform cIMRT in both speed and accuracy.
Wiezorek T, Brachwitz T, Georg D. Rotational IMRT techniques compared to fixed gantry IMRT and tomotherapy: Multi-institutional planning study for head-and-neck cases. Radiat Oncol. 2011;6:20.
Otto K. Volumetric modulated arc therapy: IMRT in a single gantry arc. Med Phys. 2008;35: 310-317.
Varian TrueBeam – Flattening-Filter-Free Mode. http://sudentas.com/physics/varian-truebeam/flattening-filter-free/. Accessed August 7, 2013.
Wang JZ, Rice R, Mundt AJ, et al. Feasibility and advantages of using flattening filter-free mode for radiosurgery of multiple brain lesions. Pract Rad Onc. 2012;2, e165-e171.
Mackie TR, Holmes T, Swerdloff S, et al. Tomotherapy: A new concept for the delivery of dynamic conformal radiotherapy. Med Phys. 1993;20: 1709-1719.
Zuang T, Huang L, Qi P, Yu J. Radiation therapy: Clinical application of volumetric modulated arc therapy. App Rad Onc. 2013;2.
Hardcastle N, Tome WA, Foo K, Et al. Comparison of prostate IMRT and VMAT biologically optimised treatment plans. Med Dosim. 2011;36:292-298.
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All participants will gain the following:
An understanding of the theory and pedagogy of experiential education and how it relates to academic rigor, student engagement, and classroom enhancement.
Three days spent in discipline-specific intensives, learning how to apply and integrate experiential education pedagogy into the classroom. Groups are facilitated by an expert teacher from each discipline (click here to review facilitator bios).
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Registration Fees & Notes:
Priority Member Registration (from registration opening date to 1/22/18): $1400
Only ISEEN member schools have access to registration until 1/22/18.
Members: to find your access code, please log into the ISEEN website; and select "Institute Access Code" from the center-screen dashboard.
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Registration fee is inclusive of all meals and workshops.
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The History discipline group may also appeal to art history, geography and other social studies teachers.
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Itinerary & Travel Logistics:
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Queen Bed & Private Bath (1 person/room) 6 Rooms Available: $80.00 per night x 4 nights = $320.00 total (should you want to add a partner in this room the double occupancy rate increases to $100 per night x 4 nights = $400 total).
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Daraja Children's Choir joins together with athletes
Randi Heaton, Reporter|April 11, 2019
Women's soccer team gather for picture with Daraja Children's Choir from Uganda before an afternoon of soccer. Photo credits: Chelsea Knaack
Between the games and singing, everyone around was grinning ear to ear in the presences of 17 children from Uganda in the Daraja Children's Choir. The women's soccer team was able to play soccer with the singers as well as watch them perform.
Daraja is a group of children from ages 9-13 that come to the United States from Uganda and tour across the southern region leading worship at churches, schools and other events while sharing Christian discipleship.
Ryan Spence, women's soccer head coach, was in charge of organizing the afternoon of soccer between the two groups. Spence said he felt it was important for players to get involved in something important to his family while still getting community service hours.
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"I hope it was able to show people a different side of things and allow people to see life in a different way," Spence said. "While the players may be here to go to school, play soccer and then leave, I think it's important that our players know there are things they can do here to set them up to be better people."
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Chelsea Knaack, women's soccer assistant coach, said she enjoyed the afternoon of playing soccer with the children. She said watching the kids faces when they saw the players was amazing.
"It's cool to have the kids come and see a different life that they don't get to experience at their home especially for the girls," Knaack said. "In Africa girls don't get many opportunities, it was beneficial to allow them to see our players, as women and allow them to connect together."
The second part of the event was the choir concert where the children performed for more than a hundred students and members of the community at the Colonial Church.
Sarah Stewart, chemistry junior, was among the players that attend both events. She said she gained a different view of the world seeing them come from where they came from and still being that happy and joyous.
"Seeing their raw sport come through them while they were worshiping was amazing. They were on their knees crying just because of how much they were feeling their faith and the spirit," Stewart said. "It really made us open our eyes to their genuine happiness, carefree sprint and thankfulness. It really helped the team to see that and humble us."
RESPONSES FROM THE PLAYERS:
Tayler Schott, biology sophomore, with Ester, Daraja Children's Choir member after playing soccer. Photo by Randi Heaton
Tatum Sharp, education sophomore | "All the kids brought pure joy to me, that's for sure."
Avery Lewis, education junior | "Something as simple as playing soccer with the kids from Daraja choir made a huge impact in my life. Each and every child was not only full of pure joy, but they have some of the most grateful heart I have ever met. Meeting these kids and hearing them sing is something I wish everyone could experience."
Emma Ortega, nursing sophomore | "The Daraja Children's Choir really opened my eyes to how privileged we are here. These kids have come for poor backgrounds but are filled with joy and love."
McKenna Williams, psychology junior | "I enjoyed it because their joy is contagious. They show that no matter what hardships people have gone through, God is always the bigger and better solution."
Tayler Schott, biology sophomore | "Playing with these kids made me realize how the small things really make a difference in life. These kids have nothing and being able to play soccer and bring them joy is the least I can do for the kids."
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The Son review – Frightening tale of teen depression
By: Sabrina Lemer
The Son written by Florian Zellercompletes his trilogy of plays about a single family entity. Following its sold out run at the Kilm Theatre, the play has moved to theThe Duke of York theatre until the beginning of November. The good news is you don't need to see all of the other plays to enjoy this one.
The Son is extremely powerful and well acted. Dealing with mental illness, teens and just the everyday struggles that we face trying to navigate through this journey called life are the topics at hand.
The Son looks at fractured relationships, broken marriages and the idea of new beginnings. Can you ever really start again? Can we just press rewind and have a do over? Really learn from our mistakes and do it right…the second time? Where can we find that t blueprint too managing to be a perfect partner and parent?
In this case it's Nicholas, a well to do teenager whose struggling but know one can really understand why. Nicholas can't quite cope with school and his day to day life. His mother has reached her breaking point turns to her ex husband for a much needed break from the darkness that has permeated her life. Nicholas turns to his father, Pierre. Pierre made a fresh start in his own life and has a new love and a new young son to try and find the normalcy he craves but can't seem to find. Although Pierre tries to be the father he believes is his best, things have already spiralled out of control. There's a lot about this idea of being middle class and really nothing to complain about but the pain is unexplainable for Nicholas and this pain reverberates onto the entire family. Though there is this very linear feeling of cause and effect within the story I still really enjoyed it.
I loved the way in which the set was used, the perfect Parisian apartment immaculately decorated which slowly starts to accumulate mess and debris and know one is even aware that's its happening. Just like Nicholas, it's slowly falling apart yet everyone is too caught up trying to do the right thing to notice the place crumbling around them.
This play that runs an hour and forty-five minutes with no intermission ( my favourite type of show) should not be missed. If you don't mind a tale that's dark, deep, very real and messy, this is one for you.
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U.N. members agreed Friday on a two-year budget that includes a $950 million spending cap aimed applying pressure for management reforms — a top priority for the U.S. and the European Union.
Dec. 24, 2005, 1:34 AM UTC / Source: The Associated Press
U.N. members agreed Friday night on a two-year budget that includes a $950 million spending cap aimed applying pressure for management reforms — a top priority for the United States and the European Union.
The General Assembly's budget committee scheduled an immediate meeting and was expected to approve the agreement.
U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called the approval a victory for the United States. Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, whose country holds the EU presidency, said he wouldn't claim victory for the 25-member bloc but for the United Nations.
The agreement was reached after weeks of intense negotiations and a final round of meetings in the private office of General Assembly President Jan Eliasson. Ambassadors from wealthy and developing nations who had been at odds over the budget emerged together and announced that a deal had been reached.
Earlier, the powerful Group of 77, which represents 132 mainly developing countries, said it would only agree to a $1.3 billion cap on U.N. spending. Several key members, including Egypt and India, also objected to any link between the new budget and management reform, which is a top priority for the United States and European Union.
The fight over the U.N. budget had become entwined with the battle over implementing the broad reforms that world leaders agreed to at a U.N. summit in September. Reaching agreement on the nuts and bolts of the reform programs and how they will be implemented has so far proved divisive and time consuming.
Earlier this month, Bolton called for an interim U.N. budget of three or four months rather than the usual two-year budget so member states would have time to approve and fund management reforms expected early next year.
Several American congressmen have threatened to withhold U.S. dues to the U.N. if reforms are not enacted, which would deal a crippling blow to the world body.
Bolton's interim budget got no support from other members. Instead, Japan, Canada, Australia and New Zealand came up with a new proposal calling for a two-year budget of $3.8 billion, but imposing a $950 million spending cap for 2006.
Some reforms have already been approved. On Tuesday, a new U.N. Peacebuilding Commission was established to help countries emerging from conflict manage the difficult transition to stability and development. Annan also signed a directive to protect whistleblowers.


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Greg Knott, Libertarian, 12,070 votes
Jerry R. Lucas, Write-In, 69 votes
Out of 225,532 votes casts, the margin of victory was 22,687 (10.06%)
Todd Young (i)*, Republican, 59,327 votes
Todd Young (i)*, Republican, 165,322 votes
Shelli Yoder, Democratic, 132,848 votes
Kathy Lowe Heil, Republican, 4,607 votes
Mark G. Jones, Republican, 3,293 votes
Bill Bailey, Democratic, 55,016 votes
Ralph Mike Frey, Libertarian, 6,777 votes
2016–U.S. Senate (Class 3) WON
Marlin Stutzman, Republican, 324,429 votes
Out of 985,565 votes casts, the margin of victory was 336,707 (34.16%)
Todd Young*, Republican, 1,423,012 votes
Birch E. (Evan) Bayh, III, Democratic, 1,157,692 votes
Lucy Brenton, Libertarian, 149,367 votes
James L. Johnson, Jr., Write-In, 519 votes
Out of 2,730,590 votes casts, the margin of victory was 265,320 (9.71%)
In the 8 races for which we have results, Todd Young had a record of 8-0. That includes a record of 4-0 in 4 general elections, and 4-0 in 4 primary elections.


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Game of Thrones Oreos are coming just in time for the final season
Gonna eat my feelings now that GOT is ending...
Updated: 1:23 PM CST Feb 26, 2019
Megan Schaltegger
Courtesy of Richard Levine / Game of Thrones SOURCE: Courtesy of Richard Levine / Game of Thrones
According to popular food Instagram account @CandyHunting, Game of Thrones Oreos (and winter, of course) are coming. So if you needed something to console you about the series ending, this news is for you. Alongside a somewhat grainy shot of the reported package design, the post promised: "Yes, these are legit. The image is from a very reputable source. No, these are just normal Oreos in a redesigned package. No, these are not exclusive to a particular store." The caption continued: "Game of Thrones Oreos will be out sometime before the debut of the final season on April 14. I really want to see these built up in the opening sequence. Winterfell, King's Landing, Oreo package, the Wall... Or maybe Daenerys munching on some Oreos while riding Drogon."The new Nabisco collaboration—which will supposedly include the dark GOT-inspired packaging, house names, and all—is not the first promotional push in honor of the series' return. It looks to be a part of the show's continued #ForTheThrone campaign, as they've already teamed up with Urban Decay for a show-themed line and with Bud Light for a Super Bowl commercial.And while we don't know exactly when the Oreos will be hitting shelves, it's definitely before GOT's April 14 return. So if there's any good news here, it looks like we can start planning our premiere party menu...
According to popular food Instagram account @CandyHunting, Game of Thrones Oreos (and winter, of course) are coming. So if you needed something to console you about the series ending, this news is for you.
Alongside a somewhat grainy shot of the reported package design, the post promised: "Yes, these are legit. The image is from a very reputable source. No, these are just normal Oreos in a redesigned package. No, these are not exclusive to a particular store."
The caption continued: "Game of Thrones Oreos will be out sometime before the debut of the final season on April 14. I really want to see these built up in the opening sequence. Winterfell, King's Landing, Oreo package, the Wall... Or maybe Daenerys munching on some Oreos while riding Drogon."
The new Nabisco collaboration—which will supposedly include the dark GOT-inspired packaging, house names, and all—is not the first promotional push in honor of the series' return. It looks to be a part of the show's continued #ForTheThrone campaign, as they've already teamed up with Urban Decay for a show-themed line and with Bud Light for a Super Bowl commercial.
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And while we don't know exactly when the Oreos will be hitting shelves, it's definitely before GOT's April 14 return. So if there's any good news here, it looks like we can start planning our premiere party menu...


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1933 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
Championship details
All-Ireland Champions
Kerry (3rd win)
All-Ireland Finalists
Losing team
Provincial Champions
The 1933 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the fifth staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.
Kerry entered the championship as defending champions.
On 24 September 1933, Kerry won the championship following a 4-1 to 0-9 defeat of Mayo in the All-Ireland final. This was their third All-Ireland title overall and their third in succession.[1]
All-Ireland Minor Football Championship[edit]
Kerry v Mayo
24 September 1933 Final Kerry 4-01 - 0-09 Mayo Croke Park, Dublin
^ "All-Ireland Minor Football Championship: Roll Of Honour". RTÉ Sport. 19 November 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
All-Ireland Minor Football Championship
Connacht Championship
Leinster Championship
Munster Championship
Ulster Championship
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5.000 Tons Detlefon epletion Evo Wave Intangible Assets e The b s t of Redker Company at December 31, 2005, is Patent (70,000 cost less $7.000 a rtition) S1000 Franchise (548.000 castless S19.200 amortization) Total 591. The patent was acquired in January 2008 and as a useful life of 10 years. The franchise was acquired in January 2005 and also has a useful life of 10 years. The following cash transactions may have affected intangible assets during 2009 Jan. 2 Paid $45.000 legal costs to successfully defend the patent against infringement by another company. Jan-June Developed a new product, incurring S140,000 in research and development costs. Apatent was granted for the product on July 1. Its useful life is equal to its legal life. Sept. 1 Paid S0,000 to an extremely large defensive linens to appear in commercials advertising the company's products. The commercials will air in September and October - Oct. 1 Aequired a franchise for S100,000. The franchise has a useful life of a years. Instructions: (a) Prepare journal entries to record the transactions above. (h) Prepare journal entries to record the 2009 amortization expense. (c) Prepare the intangible assets section of the balance sheet at December 31, 2009 43,000 / 420w 10, -5,300
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Sea Power: The U.S. Navy and Foreign Policy
The U.S. Navy's dominance of the world's oceans has made it an indispensable foreign policy tool as well as a guarantor of global trade, but a mix of challenges is raising difficult questions about i…
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Haiti's Troubled Path to Development
Hobbled by foreign interventions, political instability, and natural disasters, the former French colony has long suffered from underdevelopment.
Backgrounder by Rocio Cara Labrador
The FBI's Role in National Security
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been reoriented toward counterterrorism in recent years, but continues to face charges of overreach.
Backgrounder by Zachary Laub
The Presidential Candidates: In Their Own Words
This regularly updated guide features transcripts from the Republican and Democratic presidential debates as well as select foreign policy speeches, op-eds, and interviews of the candidates.
Iraq: The war's price tag
This publication is now archived. How much has the war in Iraq cost?Congress has so far appropriated about $123 billion for the war in Iraq in addition to the military's standard operating expenses c…
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The economic climate and border security concerns have fueled the immigration debate in the U.S. congressional elections. This Backgrounder examines races where immigration is playing a role and the …
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Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) (aka, PIRA, "the provos," Óglaigh na hÉireann) (UK separatists)
The provisional Irish Republican Army, or IRA, is an outgrowth of an older group known as the Irish Republican Army, which fought an insurgency that successfully challenged British rule in the whole …
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The Rise of Political Opposition in Japan
Opposition victory in Japan's 2009 parliamentary election served as a watershed moment in the country's electoral politics. Analysts say political change in Tokyo could result in a possible shift in …
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Sen. Hillary Clinton's foreign policy team included veteran Clinton administration officials seeking to revive U.S. leadership through a balance of soft and hard power.
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Terrorism and Counterterrorism
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The "war on terrorism" is often portrayed as playing out on the streets of Baghdad or in the mountains of Afghanistan. But New York City is another important battleground and could provide lessons fo…
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Mark 14:13 Cross References
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And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,
He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters and tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?' And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there." And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, 'The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'" And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.
And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him,
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
saying, "Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' you shall say this: 'The Lord has need of it.'" So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them. And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the colt?"
Mark 11:2-3
and said to them, "Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'"
For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, 'Go,' and he goes, and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."


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CANTON, MA (June 27, 2018) – Dunkin' Donuts today announced the selection of a unit within Publicis Media as the agency partner for its U.S. media buying and planning. The team, a bespoke unit of Publicis dedicated and named for Dunkin' Donuts, will pull resources from across Publicis Groupe's Digitas and Blue 449 to handle the account.
The agency's responsibilities will include working closely with Dunkin' Donuts' company leadership, franchise leadership and existing partners on all national and local media-planning and buying. Publicis Media will leverage its unique assets in data, creativity, media and technology to optimize campaigns and personalize targeted media efforts across all channels.
"Dunkin' Donuts is an iconic American brand and we're thrilled to partner and help them continue to win consumer attention, loyalty and growth through transformative marketing solutions spanning investment, strategy, content, data and analysis and more," said Jodi Robinson, President of Digitas North America, and executive lead of the Dunkin' Donuts team.
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The Wolpertinger is a mythical creature in Bavaria – an animal that can run, swim and fly. The people and location factors in the county of Dingolfing-Landau are a lot more real, but equally versatile!
Dingolfing-Landau embodies the happy symbiosis of innovation and tradition. Its most conspicuous side – the one with the greatest external appeal and local impact – is the county's standing as a global industrial center. The BMW Group is leading the charge, employing more than 19,000 people here at its biggest production plant in the world. Yet for all the high tech, the county remains a farming region at heart, a place where traditional values are honored and nature is still intact. A keen environmental awareness is reflected in the composition of its energy supply, of which 87 percent is generated from renewable sources – the highest proportion of any county in Bavaria.
Undeveloped countryside, verdant hills and valleys, historic cultural highlights and any number of recreational options make Dingolfing-Landau the perfect place to relax and unwind. One main attraction for tourists is the central Vilstal valley around the lake of the same name, although the county is also a mecca for cyclists (thanks to a 572-km network of clearly signposted cycle paths). The region's biggest draws are the Bayern-Park theme park and the Caprima water park, which together welcome more than 300,000 visitors a year.
Cultural offerings include seven award-winning museums and private collections ranging from Stone Age Venus statues to Goggomobils. The "Growing Rock" of Usterling ranks among the top 100 geotopes in Germany and is also well worth a visit.
The county of Dingolfing-Landau is situated right in the center of Lower Bavaria, but also in the very heart of Europe. The A92 freeway provides fast links to Munich Airport to the west and Austria and the Czech Republic to the south and east. The B20 national highway – the second most important north-south link in Bavaria – also runs through the county. Heavy investment in the transport infrastructure has had a positive influence on the quality of this location, where the presence of automotive players such as BMW, ELDRA and Mann+Hummel is complemented by a strong agricultural sector. The company accommodates the biggest European field vegetable area, for example. The produce is processed on site by companies such as Develey. Firms interested in moving to the area can look forward to attractive land prices and an array of positive incentives.
Heinrich Trapp
Phone: +49 (0)8731 87-00
E-mail: vorzimmer@no-spam-pleaselandkreis-dingolfing-landau.de
Nadja Beutlhauser
Economic Development Officer
Phone: +49 (0)8731 87-129
E-mail: nadja.beutlhauser@no-spam-pleaselandkreis-dingolfing-landau.de
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