Steering and vibration complaints are not always the result of improper alignment. One possible cause is wheel and tire imbalance. Another possibility is tire lead due to worn or improperly manufactured tires. Lead/pull is defined as follows: At a constant highway speed on a typical straight road, lead/pull is the amount of effort required at the steering wheel to maintain the vehicle's straight path. Lead is the vehicle deviation from a straight path on a level road without pressure on the steering wheel.
Inspect the tires for the proper inflation and irregular tire wear.
Inspect the runout of the wheels and the tires.
Inspect the wheel bearings for backlash and excessive play. Refer to Suspension Strut and Shock Absorber Testing - On Vehicle.
Inspect the ball joints for looseness or wear.
Inspect the tie rod ends for looseness or wear.
Inspect the control arms and stabilizer shaft for looseness or wear.
Inspect the steering gear for looseness at the frame.
Inspect the struts/shock absorbers for wear, leaks, and any noticeable noises. Refer to Suspension Strut and Shock Absorber Testing - On Vehicle.
Inspect the steering wheel for excessive drag or poor return due to stiff or rusted linkage or suspension components.
Inspect the fuel level. The fuel tank should be full or the vehicle should have a compensating load added.
Give consideration to excess loads, such as tool boxes, sample cases, etc. If normally carried in the vehicle, these items should remain in the vehicle during alignment adjustments. Give consideration also to the condition of the equipment being used for the alignment. Follow the equipment manufacturer's instructions.
Satisfactory vehicle operation may occur over a wide range of alignment settings. However, if the setting exceeds the service allowable specifications, correct the alignment to the service preferred specifications. Refer to Wheel Alignment Specifications.
Install the alignment equipment according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Jounce the front and the rear bumpers 3 times prior to checking the wheel alignment.
Measure the alignment angles and record the readings.
Record the "Before" and "After" alignment measurements.
When performing adjustments to vehicles requiring a 4-wheel alignment, set the rear wheel alignment angles first in order to obtain proper front alignment angles.
Adjust alignment angles to vehicle specification, if necessary. Refer to Wheel Alignment Specifications.


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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Puerto Madero in Mexico. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:32:13 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -92.4492 West, latitude 14.6612 North, depth = 74.51 km. Global time and date of event 27/09/18 / 2018-09-27 17:32:13 / September 27, 2018 @ 5:32 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 74.51 km (46 miles). Unique identifier: us1000h3d9. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h3d9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Guatemala (c. 13 550 000 pop), Mexico (c. 112 469 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Tapachula (c. 198 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Coatepeque (c. 45 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from San Pedro Sacatepéquez (c. 40 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Retalhuleu (c. 36 700 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Huixtla (c. 29 300 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ostuncalco (c. 28 900 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was San Andrés Villa Seca, San Miguel Sigüilá, El Palmar.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km SSW of Puerto Madero, Mexico. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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CEO of U.S. Translation Company David Utrilla.
Removing Language Barriers in Hybrid Events with Bridge GCS
Owner and CEO of U.S. Translation Company David Utrilla and technology co-founder Saul Leal announce the launch of Bridge (www.bridgegcs.com), a new Global Communications System (GCS) videoconference event platform that allows for simultaneous interpretation services and personalized chat translation in real-time.
"Bridge is an all-in-one game changing videoconference platform that allows people to communicate in any language, breaking down all language barriers!" -David Utrilla
The global virtual events market was valued at USD 94.04 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23.7% from 2021 to 2028. With 6,500 languages spoken and written worldwide, Bridge's development team knows that companies need a reliable global communications system that allows attendees to participate in large-scale events with ease and comfort. Bridge is the space where you can communicate and create experiences without language barriers in a highly secure environment; it allows attendees to virtually attend an event in their own language from anywhere in the world. The architectural design of the platform was built with each role in mind which is why you can enable six roles at once, including attendees, interpreters, hosts, production crews, technicians, and speakers.
About Bridge:
Bridge is a new, all-in-one innovative global communications system meetings and events platform that allows simultaneous interpretation in unlimited language combinations, multi-lingual captioning, and automatic real-time translation of chats in over eighty languages with access to highly experienced interpreters. It is the only platform that can allow over 75000 attendees at once and provides live AI subtitling translation with an accuracy rating of 85%-92%. The video conference system enables you to view up to six different roles at once in high resolution and uses only a fraction of the bandwidth of other videoconference platforms. It also allows you to integrate with other platforms and systems including CRM and social media. Along with the ability to host interactive events on a global scale, the platform offers gamification that promotes user engagement, networking, and robust analytics that will provide insight on attendance engagement and retain data on how interactive the event was for attendees. Unlike other interpretation platforms, Bridge offers straightforward pricing that is affordable and uncomplicated to understand.
About US Translation:
U.S. Translation Company was founded in 1995 by David Utrilla and has since become one of the leading translation and interpretation companies. USTC has continued researching, investing, and developing state-of-the-art translation and interpretation technologies and tools to provide the highest quality services. USTC is one of few language service providers that offer written translations, verbal interpretations, simultaneous conference equipment, and a platform capable of performing hybrid and virtual meetings. Because of the wide array of services offered, USTC has grown its client base to over 2200 and its linguist base to over 4000. The company takes pride in having a 98% client retention rate and is excited to produce a new innovative platform that is the first of its kind in the virtual event industry.
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HRM youth-led beekeeping project wins $10,000
BEEA Honey with a Heart wins Aviva Community Fund
Kimberly Drisdelle, facilitator of BEEA Honey with a Heart, stands with some of the group's honey. David Whittaker
By David Whittaker
November 22, 2018, 8:11 am ASTLast Updated: November 22, 2018, 11:21 am
BEEA Honey with a Heart lost both of their hives last winter due to weather, which stopped them from collecting and selling honey while they were expanding into three more communities in the summer.
"Really what that meant for us was that we took a hit financially," said Kimberly Drisdelle, the facilitator for BEEA. The two hives that died were ones they were going to harvest during the expansion.
On Tuesday, BEEA learned they won $10,000 from the Aviva Community Fund. Drisdelle said they are now able to manage all five hives and expect a large harvest next year.
BEEA is a three-year-old youth-led enterprise from the not-for-profit Family SOS. Youth aged 12 to 17 feed and maintain beehives before collecting and selling honey at local events and markets. They have hives in Spryfield, Dartmouth North, Dartmouth East, Halifax North and East Preston.
Drisdelle said BEEA has been running on a deficit because they don't have any honey to sell. She hopes the next harvest will change that. But, right now, they're relying on the money won.
"This money has been incredible for us to continue running the program," she said. With the two hives dying she hopes harvesting all five next summer will bring in a profit.
About 18.4 per cent of bee hives were lost in Nova Scotia last winter, according to the Canadian Association of Professional Apiculturists statement of colony losses for 2018.
Despite the financial setback, Drisdelle is using their loss as a teaching moment. She said the youth are able to experience failure and disappointment, which is part of being an entrepreneur.
BEEA also aims to build leadership and entrepreneurial skills, while also raising awareness about the importance of bees.
BEEA participants with Aviva representative after hearing that they won $10,000. Kimberly Drisdelle
"We've seen (the youth) grow, not only in age, but also in terms of their confidence, their networking skills, their public speaking skills — just by offering these opportunities to them," said Drisdelle.
The youth are given different roles so they can effectively manage the hives and market their product. The roles are BEEA Environmentalist, BEEA Entrepreneur and BEEA Leader.
Along with beekeeping, participants also attend sessions on business, entrepreneurship, pre-employment, leadership and environmental issues to help build skills that the youth might not otherwise learn.
BEEA hopes to be able to provide scholarships to program graduates in the future and expand into more at-risk communities in Nova Scotia.


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Books from Rohit Manglik's Reading List to Invest in Before Your Startup Takes Off
Rohit Manglik, an Edupreneur and Founder-cum-CEO of EduGorilla Community Private Limited, pens articles on fields of education and tech.
Running a startup is a task of constant reinvention and relearning. And usually, a startup founder puts in all his sweat and blood into giving his dream a successful flight. But how about investing in books? Won't it be fruitful to go through the records of those who have already tasted the fruits which you are about to bear?
Many successful players of the business community have put pen to paper to allow their successors to peek into the splendid yet horrific corporate world. There are volumes of printed material that showcase the successes and failures of some of the biggest sharks of the entrepreneurial sea. They represent a lifetime of entrepreneurs, the ideas they perceived, the shots they missed, and the opportunities they grabbed.
Here is an inside scoop of some incredible and inspirational publications from Rohit Manglik's reading list that will feed you the wisdom you need to drive your startup to success.
Zero to One – Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel's book holds some satiating morsels of wisdom, innovation, and businesses. It follows the belief that you step into a river only once. Likewise, every moment in business happens just once. The act of creation, as well as the moment of creation, is singular. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't create another Facebook and the next Steve Jobs won't create another Apple.
When one copies a model, he just adds an nth layer to it. However, creating something new takes the world from 0 to 1 and results in something strange and fresh. And that is the most important strength of every business – innovation. And innovation is found in unexpected places. There is no concrete formula for it.
Recommended by entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, the book offers some pertinent insights into the business world and forces the readers to think and ignite possibilities.
Founders at Work – Stories of Startups' Early Days
Founders at Work is basically a collection of fascinating interviews by Jessica Livingston, enticing enough to knock the doors of every entrepreneur's heart. The book records the anecdotes of a diversity of entrepreneurs, right from veterans like Steve Wozniak to the recent ones like Ev Williams.
The 33 chapters recite the tribulations, strategies, downfalls, and upsurges of game runners at Google, Microsoft, WhatsApp, and other billion-dollar companies. It is an account of the hurdles and challenges they faced as a startup and how incredibly they conquered them. It is quite relieving to read that the tech giants too made mistakes, witnessed highs and lows, and even reached the 'give it up all' stage.
Founders at work is a foreword of the extraordinary perseverance of some successful entrepreneurs and their strategies to hold things back and sail through the uncertain times. it is good for a book nerd and ideal for a budding enterpriser – Rohit Manglik
Product Management Books
Hooked – How to Build Habit-forming Products
Nir Eyal's write-up is a must-read for every startup founder, marketer, and product design manager. The book is a result of the years Eyal spent in research, consulting, and practical experience. It is the answer to all those questions that a startup founder looks for and an encyclopedia on building better and influential products.
The contents of Hooked will tell you why some products skyrocket while others are a complete failure, what makes products attractive and what drowns them, and what are the underlying patterns that hook people to products and technologies. Taking a cue from habit-forming products like Twitter, Pinterest, and iPhone, Nir has shared some actionable steps for building lovable products.
The Lean Startup – How Today's Entrepreneurs use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The effective and innovative ideas of Eric Ries are a must-read for every budding entrepreneur who wants to make it big into the business world. The Lean Startup is not just about creating a successful business venture but also about doing all the big things and being less wasteful. Eric's approach to using human creativity to its highest potential and his ideas on making an enterprise flexible and agile are the hallmarks of this book.
Eric suggests that rather than formulating elaborate business plans, startup founders should treat their venture as an experiment and test their vision continuously. This would probably organize the development of their product in a better way. Product management cannot be taught, it has to be learned.
The book challenges the vision that success is a consequence of some big great idea and asserts that it can only be engineered by following the right processes.
The book is hard-won advice for all leaders to bring out the best in their employees – Rohit Manglik
Growth Hacking Books
The Checklist Manifesto – How to Get Things Right
The Checklist Manifesto is a surgeon's perception of failures in the human world and the underlying cause of it. Written by Atul Gawande, the book claims that the knowledge we possess is vast and complex enough to be delivered safely, reliably, and correctly. And it is this 'ineptitude' is what leads us to skip steps while doing different things.
Be it grocery shopping or evaluating a patient, if you miss a single detail you could land yourself into an insidious problem. And the simplest way to avoid it, as suggested by Atul, is a 'Checklist'. The author narrates how a basic checklist can save us from major and minor pitfalls of day-to-day life and organize our work.
Traction – How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares' Traction is a nuts-and-bolts guide for startup businesses to expand their consumer-base and get traction. The authors argue that 'traction' or the prowess to consistently acquire new customers is what draws the line between successful startups and the aborted ones.
The book defines the common framework that entrepreneurs followed to give the world some of the biggest organizations, one that Jimmy Wales used to create Wikipedia and Alexis Ohanian for Reddit. It then explores 19 marketing channels that can lend an entrepreneur some traction for his business.
The tactics, lessons, and examples listed in the book are quite practical and powerful enough to get a grip on your business.
The book offers a four-step framework of creating habits for users and along with it a potential startup – Rohit Manglik
Fund Management Books
Mastering the VC Game – A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Startup to IPO on Your Terms
Mastering the VC Game is Jeffrey Bussgang's guide for every entrepreneur who wants to explore the backdrop of Venture Capital. Jeffrey has played both sides of the VC game and has shared some great stories about Venture Capitalists – the economic hawks.
The book explores the complex relationship between startup founders and VCs and offers some great insights into the mysterious world of 'funding'. Jeffrey has penned down some exceptional pieces of advice by the successful players of this game as well as his own experiences in the book.
Raising Capital – Get the Money You Need to Grow your Business
Andrew J. Sherman's book is a business manual for raising funds, the necessary precursor for the growth of every business. The journal covers the fundamentals of seed capital, early-stage funding, growth funding, and alternatives to traditional funding.
The scope of the book covers all the possible capital sources that an entrepreneur can tap, guidelines for preparing the perfect pitch, the issues that arise in deal negotiation, and financial vehicles like bonds, commercial papers, along with a multitude of real business solutions.
Raising Capital shares some pertinent checklists for raising capital in the different phases of the growth cycle.
The inspirational stories, analogies, and thought-provoking incidents shared by the author appeal to every profession and offer some beautifully written vignettes – Rohit Manglik
Being a startup founder is as hard as fathering a 3-year old kid. The business world is not accommodating enough to let one make mistakes and learn. Hence, the better idea is to learn from the missteps and failures of others. In such a case, these books are a perfect idea to master the business cycle. The insights you will receive from these manuals will pay off in the later future.
Books to Switch Your Mindset From Employee to Entrepreneur
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Making Money Self-Publishing
Lead Generation Books Don't Build Sales... and Here's Why
by Heidi Thorne18
Entrepreneurial Qualities
How to Be Become a Successful Entrepreneur According to Aristotle
by Ravi Rajan13
Ted Dekker: A Summer Reading List
by Cholee Clay3
How to Come up with Successful Business Ideas in the Digital World
The 4 Disciplines of Execution in Acuity Notes
by Jim Hanson1
The One Word Every Business Person Stands By.
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"For Dummies Books" Are Not Just for Dummies
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Karl Gottlieb Mauch (7 May 1837 – 4 April 1875) was a German explorer and geographer of Africa. He reported on the archaeological ruins of Great Zimbabwe in 1871 during his search for the biblical land of Ophir.

Exploration and Great Zimbabwe

In 1871, Mauch arrived at the stone ruins now known as Great Zimbabwe, five years after discovering the first gold mines in the Transvaal. Mauch believed that the ruins were the remnants of the lost biblical city of Ophir, described as the origin of the gold given by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon. He did not believe that the structures could have been built by a previous local population similar to those which inhabited the area at the time of his excavation, and so pressed ahead with his research. Further research on the site (including one of the first archaeological uses of aviation) illustrated that the structures did indeed have African origin.

Because of the ethnocentrism popular in the 19th century, Mauch and his contemporaries have been intensely criticized for their assumptions about the site by modern archaeologists. The Great Zimbabwe site is now considered to have been built by ancestors of the Shona people between the 11th and 15th centuries CE.

Mauch died as a result of a fall from the third floor window of a hotel where he was living. It is uncertain whether the death was accidental or self-inflicted.

In media and popular culture
"The Real King Solomon's Mines" was the fifth episode in World Media Rights' Raiders of the Lost Past docudrama series, and focused on the life of Mauch and his quest to discover the fabled mines. The episode was first transmitted in the UK via the Yesterday channel on 23 November 2012, was directed by Gerry Pomeroy, narrated by Jonny Phillips and featured Ross Owen Williams as Karl Mauch. In the week of its first transmission, the Sunday Times Culture Magazine recommended the episode as a pick of the week.  In North America, the episode was included in the television history series Myth Hunters.

See also
 Eurocentrism
 Africa in Antiquity
 Zimbabwe

References

Bibliography
 Maquet, Jacques. (1972). Civilizations of Black Africa. New York. Oxford University Press.

External links

German explorers
Explorers of Africa
German geographers
19th-century German geologists
1837 births
1875 deaths
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
Deaths from falls

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Metastasis of a primary osteosarcoma to the muscles is extremely rare. As there have been few reported cases, the necessity of surgical treatment for such metastatic lesions remains controversial. We present the case of a primary osteosarcoma with development of a solitary metastasis to the trapezius muscle during chemotherapy for pulmonary metastasis. The patient was a 51-year-old man diagnosed with osteosarcoma of the right tibia. After undergoing chemotherapy and femoral amputation, he developed pulmonary metastasis. Chemotherapy was reinitiated, however, after approximately 1 year a palpable tumor was identified in the patient's right shoulder. This tumor grew and was associated with pain in the right shoulder. It was surgically removed 3 years after the re-initiation of chemotherapy. The pathological diagnosis was osteosarcoma with metastasis to the trapezius muscle. Although the patient died of respiratory failure due to pulmonary metastasis 14 months after resection of the metastatic lesion in the trapezius muscle, no new extrapulmonary metastasis was observed after the resection.
The metastasis of osteosarcoma is mainly hematogenous and it has been demonstrated that, at the time of diagnosis, approximately 80% of osteosarcomas have already metastasized if micrometastases are included . The vast majority of metastases occur in the lungs, with metastasis to the soft tissue being extremely rare. We were only able to identify nine reported cases of metastasis to skeletal muscle in our review of the English literature. Here, we present a case in which the patient developed metastasis to the trapezius muscle while undergoing treatment for osteosarcoma.
The patient, a 51-year-old man, consulted a local hospital after noticing idiopathic pain in his lower right thigh. The patient had no medical history of note. A radiography revealed osteolysis with partial ossification (Figure 1a and b) in the region from the proximal tibial epiphysis to the metaphysis. The patient was referred to our department where a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan revealed a bone tumor located in the proximal tibia. A tissue biopsy was performed, revealing atypical spindle-shaped tumor cells and multi-nucleated giant cells, as well as a neoplastic osteoid formation in the interstitial tissue, which led to the diagnosis of osteosarcoma (Figure 1c).
Plain radiography and histological findings of primary osteosarcoma. (a) Anteroposterior and (b) lateral radiographs show a central osteolytic lesion with partial ossification in the region from the proximal tibial epiphysis to the metaphysis. (c) Microscopic examination of the biopsy specimen revealed atypical spindle-shaped tumor cells and multi-nucleated osteoclast-like giant cells associated with a neoplastic osteoid formation in the interstitial tissue.
At this time no apparent metastatic lesions were observed. The administration of preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy with cisplatin (120 mg/m2 on day 1) and doxorubicin (30 mg/m2 on days 1 to 2) was not effective and the tumor continued to grow. On completion of two courses of chemotherapy a pathological fracture occurred and an amputation of the right femur was performed. The histological response rate of the resected specimen was less than 10% of the entire lesion. Following surgery, five courses of adjuvant chemotherapy with ifosfamide (3 g/m2 on days 1 to 4) and VP-16 (75 mg/m2 on days 1 to 4) were administered and the patient was discharged as disease free.During follow-up, a computed tomography (CT) scan at 9 months after discharge revealed multiple metastases in both lungs (Figure 2a), and chemotherapy was re-initiated. The chemotherapy did not result in any marked change in the pulmonary metastases. Although the patient's general condition continued to be good, a tumor was palpated in the right shoulder approximately 1 year later. At approximately 3 years after recommencing chemotherapy, the tumor had grown to 7 cm in size and was causing intense pain. An MRI scan revealed a well-defined and markedly enhanced mass located in the trapezius muscle (Figure 2b, c, and d). Although positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) scan revealed an insignificant accumulation of the tracer in the pulmonary metastatic lesions (Figure 3), the accumulation was comparatively high (standardized uptake value (SUV) of 4.6) in the tumor within the trapezius muscle (Figure 3). With the exception of the trapezius muscle, any accumulation suggestive of metastasis was not found on the PET-CT scan. A thallium-201-scintigraphy revealed a high and even accumulation of the tracer within the tumor in the trapezius muscle. A thermography revealed a 1.5 degree increase in temperature inside the tumor compared with the contralateral side, which was suggestive of high activity.Based on these results, the tumor within the trapezius muscle was deemed to be malignant. As no growth of the pulmonary metastases or development of new lesions was observed, the tumor in the trapezius muscle was surgically removed. An intraoperative review of the tissue specimen by a pathologist showed atypical cell proliferation and osteoid formation, which led to a diagnosis of metastatic osteosarcoma. Consequently, wide and tumor-free resection was performed. Macroscopically, the resected tissue consisted of a solid tumor with bleeding and necrosis (Figure 4a). As with the biopsy specimen and the total cleavage hematoxylin and eosin stain (H & E) specimen, metastatic osteosarcoma was diagnosed (Figure 4b).The integrity of other tissues around the surgery area was damaged (Figure 5a) and the range of motion of the patient's shoulder joint was limited after surgery (flexion: 120°, abduction: 105°) compared with the non-operated shoulder joint. However, the patient's pain was eased after resection of the trapezius muscle metastatic lesion, and a good quality of life was maintained between chemotherapy treatments. Despite chemotherapy, at 14 months post-resection the pulmonary metastases began to grow rapidly (Figure 5b), and the patient died from respiratory failure. No local recurrence (Figure 5a) or new extrapulmonary metastases were observed after resection of the metastatic lesion in the trapezius muscle.
CT and MRI imaging of metastatic osteosarcoma. (a) Computational tomography (CT) imaging of lung metastasis in the early course of the disease. Multiple metastases are seen in both lungs. Axial (b) T1-weighted and (c) T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan shows a heterogeneous, ill-defined mass measuring 73 × 45 × 60 mm in the right trapezius muscle. (d) Gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted image shows a circumscribed signal abnormality in the right trapezius muscle that was moderately enhanced.
FDG uptake in the trapezius muscle but not in the pulmonary metastasis. (a) Anteroposterior and (b) lateral maximum intensity projection PET image demonstrates slight heterogeneous FDG uptake in the tumor located in the trapezius muscle (SUV = 4.6). Accumulation of the tracer in the pulmonary metastases was insignificant, and accumulation suggestive of metastasis was not found on the PET-CT scan, with the exception of the trapezius muscle.
Macroscopic and histological findings of the excised specimen. (a) Gross appearance of the resected tissue showing a solid, white-yellowish tumor with bleeding and necrosis. (b) Microscopic examination of the resected specimen revealed marked proliferation of atypical spindle-shaped tumor cells with neoplastic osteoid formation. As with the biopsy specimen and the total cleavage H & E specimen, metastatic osteosarcoma was diagnosed. H & E, hematoxylin and eosin.
CT imaging 14 months after resection of the muscle metastasis. (a) No local recurrence was observed. (b) The pulmonary metastases began to grow rapidly.
It has been demonstrated that the metastasis of malignant tumors to skeletal muscle is extremely rare, with an incidence of approximately 1% [2, 3]. According to Sridhar et al., muscular metastasis is rare because of the following: (1) the high permeability of tumor cells and great variation in blood flow make it difficult for tumor cells to implant; (2) the movement of skeletal muscles physically destroys tumor cells; and (3) lactate metabolism within muscles and pH-dependent protease activity inhibit tumor cell proliferation in this type of tissue. Lung cancer is the most common primary malignancy to cause skeletal muscle metastasis, followed by hematological malignancies and gastrointestinal cancer [5, 6], with muscular metastasis of bone and soft tissue tumors is extremely rare.
Previous reports have demonstrated that the incidence of soft tissue metastasis due to osteosarcoma is approximately 2% [7–11]. However, this figure includes cases with metastasis to the skin and subcutaneous fat; the actual rate of skeletal muscle metastasis is expected to be much lower. In our review of the English literature pertaining to osteosarcoma with skeletal muscle metastasis, only nine cases have been reported to date [7, 12–18], mostly involving patients who were in a pre-terminal condition with multiple metastases. Contrastingly, in the present case, the pulmonary metastases were controlled and the patient had a good performance status. We believe that this represents an extremely rare case with solitary muscle metastasis localized to the trapezius muscle.
At present, conservative treatment with the systemic administration of anticancer agents along with radiation therapy is often chosen to treat metastatic lesions, and the necessity of surgical treatment remains controversial. Yamada et al. reported a case of osteosarcoma with long-term survival after the resection of a solitary muscle metastasis and concluded that clinical decisions must be made on a case-by-case basis. In the present case, our patient continued to receive systemic anticancer agents after the appearance of a metastatic lesion in the trapezius muscle, but this lesion continued to grow despite good control of the pulmonary metastases. Because there have been few reported cases it is difficult to compare the validity of the metastatic lesion resection that we performed with radiation therapy. However, as a result of the resection the patient was relieved from severe pain, and did not experience any subsequent localized recurrence in the time leading up to his death from respiratory failure more than one year after the tumor resection. We believe that resection of the muscular metastasis in this patient was an effective treatment that enabled him to maintain a good quality of life.
Our patient received systemic chemotherapy for both pulmonary and muscle metastases. Despite achieving good control of the pulmonary metastases, we were unable to control the metastatic lesion in the muscle with chemotherapy. The resected muscle lesion revealed living cells in the majority of the tissue. A previous study demonstrated differing sensitivity patterns to cytostatic agents in cell culture studies of metastatic pulmonary and muscular osteosarcoma, suggesting that therapy may have resulted in positive selection for a tumor clone which is resistant to therapy and/or more metastatic than other subpopulations within the tumor . Although treatment experience is limited owing to the rarity of this condition, our case report illustrates that, depending on the patient's overall condition, resection might be considered as a therapeutic option when treating osteosarcoma with muscle metastasis that does not respond to chemotherapy.
We have presented an extremely rare case of primary osteosarcoma with solitary metastasis to the trapezius muscle that developed during chemotherapy for pulmonary metastasis.
SY, SN, HS, and MY managed the case and drafted the manuscript. SN, TS, IK, and YI collected the findings and participated in the design of the study. AT performed pathological examination and figure preparation. SK was involved in the design and coordination of the study and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.


The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year.
March 2 - King Kong premieres at Radio City Music Hall.
March 11 - 42nd Street sparked a comeback for musical film.
June 6 - The drive-in theater was patented in Camden, New Jersey.
September 6: Daily Variety, a trade newspaper, is published for the first time in Hollywood.
October 10: John Wayne appears as Singin' Sandy Saunders in Riders of Destiny.
December 29: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appear on screen together for the first time in Flying Down to Rio.
The book Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox is published, detailing what William Fox considered to be the conspiracy that had forced him from control of Fox Film in 1930.
Including subsequent re-issues, RKO's King Kong has worldwide rentals of $5.3 million.
The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of the awards. This was the last time that the Oscars' eligibility period was spread over two different calendar years, creating the longest time frame for which films could be nominated: the seventeen months from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933.
This Is America the first full-length documentary feature film ever made.
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^ a b "The Year in Pictures". Variety. January 2, 1934. p. 3. Retrieved April 30, 2018.
^ "The "Drive-in" Movie" (PDF). Electronics. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. 6 (8): 209. August 1933. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
^ "British Film Institute - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
^ Hofler, Robert (October 28, 2008). "Depression Doesn't Stop Daily Variety". Variety. Retrieved April 23, 2018.
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^ a b Glancy, H Mark (1995). "Warner Bros Film Grosses, 1921–51: the William Schaefer ledger". Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television. 15.


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Q: Solving equation related to fourier integral I have a doubt in the attached solved example (The underlined part)
If I compare following two equations as given in the attachment
$$e^{-a}=\int_0^\infty f(x)\cos(ax)\,dx$$ and
$$g(x)=\frac 2 \pi \int_0^\infty A(\alpha)\cos(\alpha x)\,dx$$
I see following three comparisons:
$$f(x)=A(\alpha)$$
$$x=\alpha$$
$$a=\alpha$$
So I am unable to understand the comparisons given in the attached text. Also last two comparisons of $(x=\alpha)$ and ($x=a$) cannot hold good at the same time. So I request clarification on how these comparisons are done

A: The Fourier cosine transform and inversion together give you
$$
     g(y) = \frac{2}{\pi}\int_{0}^{\infty}\left(\int_{0}^{\infty}g(x)\cos(sx)dx\right)\cos(sy)ds
$$
And you want to solve for $f$ such that
$$
                  e^{-a}=\int_{0}^{\infty}f(s)\cos(sa)ds
$$
Therefore,
$$
            f(s) = \frac{2}{\pi}\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-x}\cos(sx)dx.
$$

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January 7, 2016 by garethjames
Has there ever been a musical based on a documentary film before? This 2006 Off-Broadway-to-Broadway show, getting its UK premiere at Southwark Playhouse, is based on the film of the same name, a true account of the mother-daughter relationship of Edith & Edith Bouvier Beale, Long Island socialites with connections to the Kennedy's.
After a brief prologue looking back, the first act is set in 1941, their heyday hosting parties and mixing with the rich and famous. Young Edie is betrothed to the future president's elder brother Joseph Kennedy (may be true) and her cousins include a young Jaqueline (Kennedy nee Bouvier – definately true). Big Edie's dad is an eccentric retired major, perhaps even a bit barking. They even have an in-house pianist to accompany Big Edie in her vocal entertainments. Think Philadelphia Story with eccentricity scaled up 10-fold.
In the second half we move forward 32 years to 1973. Mother and daughter are recluses, living with 54 cats in filthy surroundings unable to look after themselves. The press have made the connection with the former first lady and the neighbours protest. Their only friend is a teenage handyman whose motivation is ambiguous and who Big Edie has an unhealthy attraction to.
The difference between the two acts is extraordinary, very much a show in two halves. For me this is its flaw. I can see the necessity of showing their heyday, but a whole act seems to overplay it and rob us of more depth to the story at the heart of the piece – the psychology of the mother-daughter relationship and how they got that way.
That said, there is so much to admire and enjoy that it's an unmissable evening. Chief amongst this are the performances. Producer Danielle Tarento and Director Thom Southerland must have wet themselves when they secured Sheila Hancock and Jenna Russell for the leads; it's hard to imagine a pair more suited to these roles and they are both sensational. Russell combines pathos with tragi-comedy and quirkiness to give a performance that is a career highlight, even in her illustrious career. Hancock's stage presence and audience engagement are extraordinary; she completely inhabits the role.
As if that wasn't enough, Aaron Sidwell follows his brilliant turn in American Idiot with a brilliant pair of performances, as dashing young naval man Joseph Kennedy and the teenager who befriends the ladies, and Rachel Anne Rayham is hugely impressive as Little Edie in 1941. There's superb support from Billy Boyle as dad / granddad, Jeremy Legat as the pianist and friend and Ako Mitchell as two generations of household staff. I don't know which pair of girls played the cousins, but they were superb.
The surprisingly big 10-piece band make a lovely sound (and the venue's former sound problems seem to have gone, as they had in Grand Hotel). Tom Rogers impressive design is a touch cramped in the first act but suitably chlaustrophobic in the second. Thom Southerland's staging is as good as we've come to expect from him.
Southwark Playhouse starting the year on a high. Don't miss.
Posted in Theatre | Tagged Aaron Sidwell, Ako Mitchell, Billy Boyle, Danielle Tarento, Jenna Russell, Jeremy Legat, Rachel Anne Rayham, Sheila Hancock, Southwark Playhouse, Thom Sutherland, Tom Rogers | 2 Comments
on January 7, 2016 at 9:56 am | Reply kevin wilson
please note it's Thom Southerland at all mentions in your Grey Gardens review!
on January 7, 2016 at 10:54 am | Reply garethjames
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Q: C++ xstring _Large_string_engaged() const exception Hope everyone is doing ok.
So I am making a simulation of a shop where a customer enters a shop, does shopping, cashes out and then de-spawns. A customer is spawned after a random amount of time. I am using Linked List to store these customers. This program uses SFML for graphics.
So I wanted to test my code to have a look at my progress and in order to speed things up, I reduced the amount of time taken for a customer to spawn, the customers started spawning at a fast rate.
So somewhere along the program when there are so many customers at a time, my program stops and gives me the following exception from the xstring header file:
bool _Large_string_engaged() const {
    return _BUF_SIZE <= _Myres;
}

This exception only appears when a lot of customers have spawned inside the shop at a time. However I think this exception isn't due to spawning a lot of them but in fact when it comes to deleting them or something. Here is the part of the code after which I started facing this error:
void CashOutCustomer() {
        SPointer = head;
        while (SPointer) {
            SPointer->customer.customer.setTexture(SPointer->customer._customer);
            SPointer->customer.CashOut(&cashier1, &cashier2, &cashier3);
            if (SPointer->customer.DeleteTime) {
                this->DeleteCustomer(SPointer); Count--; cout << "Count: " << Count << endl;
            }
            SPointer = SPointer->next;
        }
    }

    void DeleteCustomer(ShopStruct *S) {            //Fix deleting
        ShopStruct *TempNext, *TempPrev, *TempDelete;
        if (head == S) {
            TempNext = S->next; head = TempNext;
            TempDelete = S; S = head;
            head->previous = nullptr; TempDelete->customer.~Customer();
        }
        else if(S->next == nullptr) {
            TempDelete = S; S = S->previous; S->next = nullptr; TempDelete->customer.~Customer();
        }
        else {
            TempNext = S->next; TempPrev = S->previous; TempDelete = S;
            TempNext->previous = TempPrev; TempPrev->next = TempNext;
            S = TempPrev; TempDelete->customer.~Customer();
        }
    }

Some points to note:
These functions keep running in a while loop. This while loop is for SFML to keep the graphics window running.
I ONLY face this exception when I speed up the spawning of the customers.
My guess is that the program is too fast due to the SFML while loop because of which the memory gets filled up quickly or something. However I am not sure so I would like to know why and when this exception appears. What does this exception represent?
I appreciate all the help. Thank you!
EDIT:
It seems that this exception appears whenever I speed up the spawning of the customers. It has nothing to do with the deletion of customers. So I am going to post the whole class of the shop (which is a linked list):
struct ShopStruct {
Customer customer;
ShopStruct *next, *previous;
};

class Shop {
private:
    ShopStruct *head, *SPointer;
    int ShopLimit; float SpawnTime;
    Clock clock;

public:
    int Count, g = 0;
    Aisle aisle1, aisle2, aisle3;
    Cashier cashier1, cashier2, cashier3;

    Shop() : aisle1("A", "B", 1, 2), aisle2("C", "D", 3, 4), aisle3("E", "F", 5, 6) {
        head = nullptr; Count = 0;  ShopLimit = 20; SpawnTime = 0;
        srand(time(0));
    }

    void CreateCustomer() {
        if (!head) {
            head = new ShopStruct;
            head->previous = head->next = nullptr; Count++;
        }
        else {
            Customer c;
            ShopStruct* NShop = new ShopStruct; NShop->next = nullptr; NShop->customer = c;
            SPointer = head;
            while (SPointer->next)
                SPointer = SPointer->next;
            NShop->previous = SPointer; SPointer->next = NShop;
            Count++;
        }
    }

    void SpawnCustomer(bool isOpen) {
        float y;
        y = clock.getElapsedTime().asSeconds();
        if (g == 0 || !isOpen) {
            SpawnTime = rand() % 2; //change to 16 and 7
            clock.restart(); g = 1;
        }
        else if (Count <= 30 && isOpen && y >= SpawnTime) {
            this->CreateCustomer(); g = 0; cout << "Count: " << Count << endl;
        }
    }

    void CustomerShop() {
        SPointer = head;
        while (SPointer) {
            SPointer->customer.customer.setTexture(SPointer->customer._customer);
            SPointer->customer.WalkShop(&aisle1, &aisle2, &aisle3, &cashier1, &cashier2, &cashier3);
            SPointer = SPointer->next;
        }
    }

    void drawCustomer(RenderWindow *M) {
        Sprite temp;
        SPointer = head;
        while (SPointer) {
            M->draw(SPointer->customer.customer);
            SPointer = SPointer->next;
        }
    }

    void Restock(RenderWindow *M) {
        aisle1.RestockStack(1285, 1530, 230, "A", "B", 1, 2, M);
        aisle2.RestockStack(1285, 1530, 495, "C", "D", 3, 4, M);
        aisle3.RestockStack(1285, 1530, 785, "E", "F", 5, 6, M);
    }

    void CashOutCustomer() {
        SPointer = head;
        while (SPointer) {
            SPointer->customer.customer.setTexture(SPointer->customer._customer);
            SPointer->customer.CashOut(&cashier1, &cashier2, &cashier3);
            if (SPointer->customer.DeleteTime) {
                this->DeleteCustomer(SPointer); Count--; cout << "Count: " << Count << endl;
            }
            SPointer = SPointer->next;
        }
    }

    void DeleteCustomer(ShopStruct *S) {            //Fix deleting
        ShopStruct *TempNext, *TempPrev, *TempDelete;
        if (head == S) {
            TempNext = S->next; head = TempNext;
            TempDelete = S; S = head;
            head->previous = nullptr; TempDelete->customer.~Customer();
        }
        else if(S->next == nullptr) {
            TempDelete = S; S = S->previous; S->next = nullptr; TempDelete->customer.~Customer();
        }
        else {
            TempNext = S->next; TempPrev = S->previous; TempDelete = S;
            TempNext->previous = TempPrev; TempPrev->next = TempNext;
            S = TempPrev; TempDelete->customer.~Customer();
        }
    }
 };


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Barton Miller
Barton Miller is an American computer professor who is credited for the modern term "fuzz" or "fuzzing" because of his 1988 class project. He (et al) published "An empirical study of the reliability of the UNIX Utilities in the ACM." With relatively simply (by todays standards) fuzzing, they were "able to crash 25-33% of the utility programs on any version of UNIX that was tested".
He received his B.A. degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1977, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 and 1984. Professor Miller is a Fellow of the ACM.
He is interested in distributed and parallel program performance and tools, binary code analysis and instrumentation, computer security, scalable systems, operating systems, software testing.
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
Keith Bostic
Keith Bostic is an American Software Engineer and one of the key people in the history of Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX and Open Source software. In 1986, Bostic joined the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He was one of the principal architects of the Berkeley 2BSD, 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite releases. Among many other tasks, he led the effort at CSRG to create a free software version of BSD UNIX, which helped allow the creation of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
Bostic was a founder of Berkeley Software Design Inc. (BSDi), which produced BSD/OS, a proprietary version of BSD.
Reported an overflow in passwd.c of 4.3BSD bin/passwd.c which was published as CA-1989-01 by CERT Advisory.
Bostic is the author of nvi, a re-implementation of the classic text editor vi and many other standard BSD and Linux utilities.
http://www.cert.org/historical/advisories/CA-1989-01.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Bostic
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Barnaby Michael Douglas Jack
Barnaby Jack was a New Zealand hacker, programmer and computer security expert. He was known for his presentation at the Black Hat computer security conference in 2010, during which he exploited (also called jackpotting) two ATMs and made them dispense fake paper currency on the stage. Among his other most notable works were the exploitation of various medical devices, including pacemakers and insulin pumps.
Jack died a week before he was to give a presentation on hacking heart implants at the Black Hat 2013 conference scheduled to be held in Las Vegas.
He published the "Win32 Buffer Overflows (Location, Exploitation and Prevention)" paper in Phrack 55.
His death has a foul play (he was assassinated / killed).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnaby_Jack
Joshua Lospinoso
Joshua Lospinoso is a software engineer who created Beamgun which is used for defeating PoisonTaps, USB Rubber Ducky and other Rogue Network Adapters.
Finished his B.S., Economics with Honors at United States Military Academy at West Point
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jalospinoso
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Vladimir Reznichenko
Vladimir Reznichenko is the creator of Php Inspections (EA Extended) which is a Static Code Analysis tool for PHP available as a PhpStorm plugin.
Not much is known about him aside from his static analysis tool
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https://twitter.com/kalessil
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Ashfaq Ansari
Ashfaq Ansari is the founder of HackSys Team code named "Panthera". He has authored "HackSys Extreme Vulnerable Driver" and "Shellcode of Death". He has also written and published various white papers on low level software exploitation.
He is a fanboy of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
https://twitter.com/HackSysTeam
http://nullcon.net/website/goa-2017/training/windows-kernel-exploitation...
https://github.com/hacksysteam
James Forshaw
James is a security researcher in Google's Project Zero. He has been involved with computer hardware and software security for over 10 years looking at a range of different platforms and applications. With a great interest in logical vulnerabilities he's been listed as the #1 researcher for MSRC, as well as being a Pwn2Own and Microsoft Mitigation Bypass bounty winner.
He has spoken at a number of security conferences including Black Hat USA, CanSecWest, Bluehat, HITB, and Infiltrate.
https://github.com/tyranid
https://recon.cx/2016/speakers/james_forshaw.html
https://twitter.com/tiraniddo
http://nullcon.net/website/goa-2017/speakers/james-forshaw.php
Swaroop Yermalkar
Swaroop Yermalkar is an Indian security researcher who is an active member of NULL, an open security community in India, and is a contributor to the regular meetups and Humla sessions at the Pune chapter. He has written articles for clubHACK magazine and also authored a book, "An Ethical Guide to Wi-Fi Hacking and Security" and the iOS security book 'Learning iOS Penetration Testing'.
He is also into bug bounty hunting.
He also gives talks and training on wireless pentesting and mobile app pentesting at various security conferences such as Hacks in Taiwan (HITCON), EuropeanSec, GroundZero, c0c0n, 0x90, DefconLucknow, and GNUnify.
https://twitter.com/swaroopsy
https://null.co.in/profile/456-swaroop-yermalkar
Dan Geer
Dan Geer is a computer security analyst and risk management specialist. He is a 1972 graduate of MIT with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as a 1988 Harvard graduate where he received his Doctor of Science (Sc.D) in biostatics. Geer was a key contributor to the development of the X Window System, as well as the Kerberos authentication protocol while a member of the Athena Project at MIT in the 1980s. Shortly after, he created the first information security consulting firm on Wall Street in 1992; followed by, organizing one of the first academic conferences on electronic commerce in 1995.
In 2003, Geer's 24-page report entitled "CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly" was released by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA). The paper argued that Microsoft's dominance of desktop computer operating systems is a threat to national security. Geer was fired (from consultancy @Stake) the day the report was made public. Geer has cited subsequent changes in the Vista operating system (notably a location-randomization feature) as evidence that Microsoft "accepted the paper."
Geer's Law: Any security technology whose effectiveness can't be empirically determined is indistinguishable from blind luck.
He is also the past president of the USENIX Association, where he earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Geer
https://www.blackhat.com/us-14/speakers/Dan-Geer.html
Matthew Green
Dr. Matthew D. Green is a cryptographer and security technologist. He designed several cryptographic tools, including Charm, a framework for rapidly prototyping cryptosystems, and a Functional Encryption library that provides implementations of several new Attribute Based Encryption schemes. Dr. Green led the team that developed the first anonymous cryptocurrencies, Zerocoin and Zerocash. His research team has exposed flaws in more than one third of SSL/TLS encrypted web sites as well as vulnerabilities in encryption technologies, including RSA BSafe, Exxon/Mobil Speedpass, EZpass, and automotive security systems.
He served as a senior technical staff member at AT&T Laboratories/Research in Florham Park, NJ.
He writes the Blog "A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering".
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/about-me/
https://isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/


Welcome to the very delicious November 2010 GMR AotM!
Let us give thanks – it is time for The Hitmen's long-lost SMASHFACE! You didn't even have a clue how much you needed this.
Twenty years ago I went into a small studio with Arnie, Joe, Bill and Dan. This is what we came out with. It combined their fine musicianship and general weirdness with what was probably the pinnacle of my eight-track recording/production skills. As songwriters go, Joe was pretty much a weirdo, but you can't listen to The Stuff without thinking there is something wrong with Arnie as well. And no matter how weird they got, Arnie sang them with aplomb.
This record was really fun to make. We didn't worry too much about whether they could do every little bit live, we just made the coolest damn record we could. We pulled in your basic Northwest cast of thousands to sing, to play some bits here and there, and to help make SMASHFACE the masterpiece that it is.
I love this record. I love it even more now than I did then. I think it totally holds its own after all this time and I AM NOT WRONG! Of course, when this came out, it didn't do boo. Plain and simple, these guys didn't have a live following and were not able to develop one. If you wanna sell records that mattered then and it still matters.
But this is the evidence and you are the witnesses: The Hitmen had their shining moment and made their one great record. Then they grew up and got on with life. I don't think you can complain about that.
PS. I ramble on further about this album in the liner notes for It Crawled From the Basement: The Green Monkey Records Anthology.
PPS. Despite what Arnie thinks, This Must Be the Place is sublime.
L to R; Mark Palmer, Lead Vocals, R. Guitar; Joe Leonard, L. Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals; Dan Swank, Bass, Backing Vocals; Bill Bowman, Drums, Backing Vocals.
On The Stuff: Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow, Keith Livingston, Backing Vocals; On My Love Ran Out: Jeff Kelly, Piano; Mike Jones, Clarinet; On This Must Be the Place: Jimm McIver, Backing Vocal; The Angelic Voices (This Must Be… and I Can Fly): Ava Chakravarti, Marie Chauvan,Wendi A. Dunlap; The Ice Age Choir: Jon, Ken, Keith, Jimm, and Mark from above, also Casey Allen, Tony Driscoll, Todd Davis and the Guy from Handful of Dust.
Remastered by Tom Dyer at TDS Productions 2010.
Recorded at TDS Productions, January 1990.
Basic trax recorded with Conrad Uno at Egg Studios.
Perfect Pain and Tiger Carpet originally released 1988 as Green Monkey single GM031, Engineered by Keith Livingston, Produced by Tom Dyer.
Instrumental is previously unreleased. Recorded at Egg Studios 1988 by Conrad Uno, produced by The Hitmen.
Original cover art and photography by Ben Thompson. CD cover work by Carlton IV. Inside art for Perfect Pain/Tiger Carpet single by Mark Palmer & Joe Leonard.


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Ben Hardy & The Ohio Adventure
By Sean Kleefeld | Sunday, July 04, 2010 2 comments
Something a little different for the United States' Independence Day: Ben Hardy & the Ohio Adventure. This was a comic strip by Jim Baker that began running in The Columbus Dispatch starting in September 1952. It relayed the story Ohio's settlement and rise to statehood. Although it's obviously a very white-washed look at things -- hardly surprising given the culture of the 1950s -- Baker does do an excellent job, I think, combining comic storytelling with education. Many of the attempts at educational/historical comics I've seen rely very heavily on conveying facts and figures. They end up being illustrated textbooks really. But Baker use the Ben Hardy and Tracker Dean characters as protagonists that witness the unfolding events, a method similar to what was later seen in Forrest Gump. I think this makes for an effective technique for keeping the story moving along without bogging readers down with lots of dry facts and figures, though Baker does provide some of that with the accompanying "Border Notes."
Baker himself was born in Kentucky, but raised in Ohio and studied political science and art at DePauw University in Indiana. He eventually settled down in Worthington, Ohio and began working for The Columbus Dispatch in 1947. I can find record of Baker authoring about a dozen books all focusing around the American frontier in the late 1700s/early 1800s, primarily the Ohio and Mid-West regions. Presumably, all of them are drawn similar to what you see below. I can't find a record of Baker's death, but he continued publishing at least through 1976.
These examples come from a 1965 comic book collection of the Ben Hardy strips that Baker self-published.
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Lon said...
I was going through some of my deceased father's things who was the managing features editor of the Columbus Dispatch, and found several full color master prints of this comic strip enclosed in some sort of sales folder. These are mint condition other than they are folded in half to fit into the folder. Anyone have any clues if these are worth anything?
Lon.
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- Harput
(Detail of a relief at Karatepe)
You may wish to see an introductory page to this section with a map first.
Harput is located in between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, so its region could be most correctly called Mesopotamia (between the rivers), but from a geographical viewpoint the town is situated in the Anatolian tableland at an altitude of some 3,300 ft and it is not regarded as part of (Upper) Mesopotamia.
We reached the crest of the slopes and saw below us the rich and smiling plain of Kharput bounded by mountains, through which wound the silver streak of the Euphrates.
Gertrude Lowthian Bell - Amurath to Amurath - 1911
Hazar Golu, the lake from which the River Tigris originates, seen from the Diyarbakir-Istanbul flight (above) and from the Diyarbakir-Elazig road (below)
Today the landscape of eastern Turkey is characterized by many artificial lakes which were created by dams on its two rivers. Hazar Golu, a few miles south of Elazig, is an exception. It is a natural lake surrounded by mountains reaching 8,000 ft, which in mid May 2009 were still covered with some snow, an indication of the frigid winters of the tableland.
The lower town, Mezreh is the seat of government of the vilayet (..) At Kezerik, half-an-hour to the south-east of Mezreh, two finely-cut inscriptions, commemorating the expedition of Domitius Corbulo in a.d. 65, are built into the walls of a ruined church. They are well known, but I, coming from far beyond the limits of the Roman empire, turned aside with pious enthusiasm and read the high-sounding titles of Nero, as one who glories in their achievements of his own people: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator Pontifex Maximus, the words rang out with greater splendour from those remote stones than from any lying within the walls of Rome. Bell
Eventually Nero reached an agreement with the Parthians to establish a buffer state (Armenia) between the two empires.
Harput seen from modern Elazig
Kharput is set upon the summit of the hills beyond Mezreh. The castle, standing upon the highest crag, guards a shallow ravine wherein is stretched the greater part of the town, but the houses climb up on to the rocky headlands overhanging the plain and, from below, the mountain seems to be crowned with a series of fortresses. Bell
During the second half of the XIXth century most of the inhabitants of Harput migrated to a new town in the valley (today's Elazig); the migration was caused by scarcity of water supply, but also by conflicts among the various religious and ethnic communities living in the old town.
View of the fortress (the rocky castle), also in the image used as background for this page
The castle, for all its frowning walls and bastions, is nothing but a heap of ruins within. I looked in vain for the dungeons in which Sukmin, the son of the Turkman officer Ortuk, founder of the Ortukid dynasties, imprisoned Baldwin of Edessa and Jocelyn of Courtney in the early years of the twelfth century. The Crusaders, gathering together their forces, seized the fortress in 1123 and held it until Balak, Ortuk's grandson, recaptured it and threw the garrison over the battlemented rock into the plain below. Bell
The isolated rock, upon which a castle was built later on, has been a fortified site since the IXth century BC. Harput was part of the Byzantine defensive system, but after the 1071 battle of Manzikert, the region was occupied by Turkish tribes. Harput became part of a small emirate ruled by the Cubuko who were vassals of the Sultanate of Rum; later on the town was occupied by the Artukids, who were based in Mardin and Diyarbakir; Harput was ruled by a separate branch of the Artukids and during this period, the town flourished and its main monuments were built. In 1234 Harput was annexed by the Sultans of Rum, but in 1243 the Mongol invasion weakened their power and the town was eventually included in Dulgadir, an emirate based in Maras.
View of the western side of the fortress
In 1465 Harput fell to Uzun Hasan, leader of the Ak Koyunlu (White Sheep federation), Turkmen tribes to whom Timur had assigned the region of Diyarbakir; the Ak Koyunlu came in contact with the Ottomans and they tried in vain to prevent the (last) Byzantine Empire of Trebizond from falling into Ottoman hands; Uzun Hasan established relations with the Republic of Venice in order to contain the expansion of their common enemy. In 1473, at the battle of Otluk Beli, Sultan Mehmet II led his army to a great victory against the Ak Koyunlu: the battle showed that the Ottomans had an edge on their eastern enemies: they used cannon and rifles whereas Uzun Hasan mainly relied on light cavalry.
Harput remained however in possession of the Ak Koyunlu; in 1507 it was occupied by the Safavids, who ruled over Persia from 1502 to 1722; their control of the town lasted only until 1516 when the Ottomans annexed Harput and the whole region; this occurred after the 1514 battle of Caldiran, in which Ottoman rifles and cannon exterminated the Safavid cavalry. Ak Koyunlu and Safavids regarded the use of cannon and rifles as dishonourable behaviour for a warrior.
Details of the fortress
The plain is exceedingly fertile; it is scattered over with villages about half of which are inhabited by Armenians, who suffered cruelly in the massacres of 1895. Bell
Harput housed a large Armenian community who lived at the foot of the fortress; in the region several villages were inhabited almost entirely by Armenians; relations with the Muslim population were relatively good, because the Ottoman system of millet (religious community) granted the Armenians a certain degree of self government. The Armenians had no reason to support the Safavids, the only enemy the Ottomans had in the east, and they were loyal to the Sultan.
The situation changed during the XIXth century: in 1827 during the course of a war with Persia, the Russians advanced south of the Caucasus and conquered Erivan in Eastern Armenia; soon after a war with the Ottoman Empire broke out; the Russians attacked on two fronts: along the Black Sea coast and from their newly acquired bases south of the Caucasus. The war was decided by the Russian advance towards Constantinople which forced the Sultan to sue for peace, but Russian forces entered Anatolia and conquered Kars and Erzurum. These were returned to the Ottomans by the peace treaty which ended the war, but the Sultan had to recognize Russian sovereignty over Eastern Armenia (which previously was a Persian possession). In the XVIIIth century the Russians had acted as patrons of the Greeks living in the Ottoman Empire, they now started to declare themselves protectors of the Armenians.
Ruins of the town
The eastern side of the hill drops steeply into a deep valley filled with houses which are terraced one above the other. The streets are so narrow that a cart can hardly pass along the cobbled ways; very silent and peaceful they seemed, the shops heaped with cherries, the cool breezes stirring the vine tendrils that wreathed together overhead. Bell
The Russian penetration in the Caucasus led to an early case of ethnic cleansing with large numbers of Muslims abandoning their homelands to start a new life in Anatolia; the move was in part fostered by appeals by the Sultans, who thought that in this way they weakened the Russian economy. The Ottoman government however did very little to help the refugees and many perished on their journey towards Turkey.
These events stirred resentment against the Christian communities living in the Ottoman Empire; animosity against the Armenians increased after the 1877-1878 war with Russia, when the Tsar placed his Caucasus army under the command of several generals of Armenian descent. In February 1878 the Russians occupied Kars and Erzurum. The intervention of Britain, France and Germany forced the Russians to mitigate the peace conditions they had imposed on the Sultan; the Russians retreated from Anatolia with the exception of Kars, which was annexed to their empire.
A massacre of Armenians at Harput was reported by the New York Times in the following article:
THE MASSACRE AT HARPUT
The news of the massacre at Harput and the sacking of the mission premises there, is in some respects the most serious that has come from Turkey. Harput is a city of about 30,000 inhabitants in the centre of one of the largest plains of Eastern Turkey. It is the seat of Euphrates College and a centre of somewhat extensive missionary operations throughout the whole section. It has as a rule been a quiet city, not subject to the disturbances that have become more or less chronic in other places, and in the main Armenians and Turks have lived at peace. The American missionaries have always been on good terms with the Government, which has frequently sought their counsel in question of perplexity arising from the relations between Turks and Christians. They have also been on cordial terms with the Armenians of the old Church, so much so that they have joined in many services and have counselled together in public affairs.
(..) Until a few days ago there was no indication of special danger when, not hearing from Harput, Minister Terrel telegraphed and received answer that the missionaries were alive but in great danger. Since then the blow has fallen. According to the telegrams from Sofia, Bulgaria, probably based on letters from Constantinople, there has been a massacre, and the American buildings have been sacked (..) the significance lies in the fact that the Turkish Government made no attempt to protect them. To suppose that the Armenians attacked them is nonsense. To suppose that the Moslems did, with the certain knowledge that they would meet the regular troops, is equally nonsense. Harput is the seat of a Mutessarif Pasha, and within an hour's ride there is a strong garrison perfectly capable of holding in check any number of men who sought to commit such a crime. That they did not is indicative of a purpose on the part of the Government to throw to the winds all promises of protection or reform. It makes more plainly true than ever that the central Government at Constantinople, even the Sultan himself, has not only connived at, but has directed the whole course of massacre.
New York Times - November 17, 1895
I sat long into the night and gazed upon the shattered crags of Kharput and the hollow plain, clothed in abundance of fruits, and sheltered by its ring of noble hills. What is it that leads to massacre? whence does that sudden frenzy spring, whither vanish ? Like a tornado it bursts over the peaceful earth, blots out the daily life of town and village, destroys, uproots and slays - and passes. Bell
Harput was eventually abandoned by almost all of its population; today its remaining buildings are scattered in the most peaceful rural environment; the inhabitants of Elazig come to Harput for their picnics, to take photos of the castle and to enjoy the view over their town.
Ulu Cami, the main mosque, was built in the XIIth century; it had a tall minaret, which in part collapsed and was rebuilt in a leaning position. Its older part is decorated with fine brickwork. While it is true that a large part of Anatolia was conquered by the Arabs in the VIIth century, there is almost no evidence of the mosques they built, because the Byzantines destroyed them when they regained control of the region; this explains why Harput's Ulu Cami is one of the oldest mosques in the country.
(left) Mansur Baba Turbesi; (right) Ulu Cami minaret
A kumbet is a tomb with a high conical/pyramidal roof. They can be found in all the towns which belonged to the Sultanate of Rum. Harput is not very far from Divrigi, a town which has several kumbets.
(left) Arap Baba Camii; (right) its portal
Baba is a generic term of reverence for an elder of the town; Arap means Arab or darkly skinned; there is very little knowledge about who actually was the man for whom in 1279 Seljuk Sultan Kaykhusraw III built a small mausoleum and a mosque above it.
To a large extent the building is a modern reconstruction, but it retains an elegant portal; unfortunately the stones used for it were too soft and they have lost their mouldings.
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THAILAND: Failure of justice for human rights defenders
Urgent Appeal Case |Thailand | March 18, 2016
ISSUES: Human rights defenders, Impunity, Rule of law,
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learnt that the only person facing charges in the murder case of human rights defender Mr. Chai Boontonglek, has been acquitted by the Wieng Sra Provincial Court. Mr. Boontonglek was murdered on 11 February 2015, and is the fourth human rights defender killed in Khlong Sai Pattana community since 2010. His case highlights the persistent impunity in attacks on human rights defenders, as well as the urgent need for their protection.
Mr. Boontonglek was a land rights defender of Khlong Sai Pattana community, Chaiburi district, Surat Thani province, southern Thailand and a member of the Southern Peasants' Federation of Thailand (SPFT).
On 11 February 2015, Mr. Boonthonglek was shot six times and killed in front of his family in Khlong Sai Pattana community. On 21 May 2015, the Wieng Sra public prosecutor filed a charge against only the motorcyclist involved in the shooting, even though the police had arrested the shooter and target pointer as well. According to the prosecutor, "We had no concrete evidence to prove their guilt."
The lack of charges led to the fear of threats, resulting in some of Mr. Boontonglek's witnesses and their legal team filing a petition requesting witness protection in June 2015. They subsequently received protection from the Chai Buri police station, Surat Thani province. "The perpetrators – which the community believe may be linked to the local authorities in the area – are still out there, which means another killing could take place," said some members of the SPFT Steering Group.
On 28 and 29 January 2016, the Wieng Sra Provincial Court examined the witnesses in criminal case no. 1273/2558 related to Mr. Boontonglek's assassination.
During the witness examination of January 28-29, Mr. Boontonglek's relative called four witnesses for examination. These witnesses testified to the relation between the defendant, the shooter and the target pointer. The defendant's three witnesses only confirmed that they were with the defendant during Mr. Boontonglek's murder.
On 15 March 2016, the Wieng Sra Provincial Court acquitted the defendant, which means that no one has been held accountable for Mr. Boonthonglek's killing. The trial court held that prosecution witnesses could not properly identify the defendant, and that a cap and gun collected from his house could not be positively identified as belonging to the man who had been involved in attacking Mr. Boontonglek.
Mr. Boonthonglek's relative intends to appeal the verdict, which must be done within 30 days.
Mr. Boontonglek is the fourth human rights defender from Khlong Sai Pattana community to have been murdered since 2010. On 11 January 2010, Mr. Somphom Pattaphum was brutally shot and killed inside Khlong Sai Pattana community land. Two years later, on 19 November 2012, two women land rights defenders, Ms. Montha Chukaew and Ms. Pranee Boonrat, were assassinated and their bodies mutilated on the road to Khlong Sai Pattana community, which passes through an expired palm oil concession land. Nevertheless, no charges were filed nor legal proceedings pursued against anyone involved in these murders.
The defendant, Mr. Santi Wanthong, was formally indicted on the following charges: murder of another person (section 288 of the Thai Criminal Code); jointly premeditated murder (section 289 of the Thai Criminal Code); possession of a firearm without a permit (section 371 of the Thai Criminal Code); and possession of ammunition for a firearm without a permit (sections 7, 8 and 72 of the Gun, Ammunition, Explosive Substance, Firework and Artificial Gun Weapon Act).
The SPFT was formed in 2008 and campaigns for the right to agricultural land in the Khlong Sai Pattana community and Permsub area, in Surat Thani Province and other areas in the region.
Please write a letter to the following government authorities to urge them to ensure justice and effective remedies for human rights defenders. Please also be informed that the AHRC is writing a separate letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders calling for their intervention into this matter.
Dear ___________,
Name of victim: Mr. Chai Boonthonglek
Names of alleged perpetrators: Mr. Santi Wanthong and two unknown persons
Place of incident: Khlong Sai Pattana Community, Chaiburi District, Surat Thani Province, south Thailand
Case details: Criminal case no. 1273/2558, the Wieng Sra Provincial Court, Surat Thani province, southern Thailand
I am writing to voice my deep concern regarding the lack of accountability for killings of land rights activists in Thailand. On 15 March 2016, the Wieng Sra Provincial Court's acquittal of the only person facing charges for the killing of Mr. Chai Boonthonglek highlights the urgent need for the Thai authorities to protect human rights defenders in the country.
Mr. Boontonglek was a land rights defender of Khlong Sai Pattana community, Chaiburi district, Surat Thani province, southern Thailand. On 11 February 2015, he was murdered by gunmen but the Wieng Sra public prosecutor filed a charge against only the motorcyclist involved in the shooting, because they could not collect enough concrete evidence to against the shooter and target pointer.
During the witness examination on 28 and 29 January 2016, Mr. Boontonglek's relative, as co–plaintiff with the Wieng Sra public prosecutor, called four witnesses for examination. These witnesses testified to the relation between the defendant, the shooter and the target pointer, while the defendant's three witnesses only confirmed that they were with the defendant during Mr. Boontonglek's murder.
In addition, the lack of charges against the other suspects led to the fear of threats, resulting in some of Mr. Boontonglek's witnesses and their legal team filing a petition requesting witness protection in June 2015. They subsequently received protection from the Chai Buri police station, Surat Thani province.
I was concerned to learn that on 15 March 2016, the Wieng Sra Provincial Court acquitted the defendant. Although Mr. Boonthonglek's relative intends to appeal the verdict at the Appeal Court, it is clear that no one has been held accountable for Mr. Boonthonglek's killing. At the same time, it represents the failure of the State in protecting those trying to uphold social and economic rights in Thailand.
This failure is highlighted by the fact that Mr. Boontonglek is the fourth human rights defender from Khlong Sai Pattana community to have been murdered since 2010. Three other SPFT activists have been killed: Montha Chukaew and Pranee Boonrat in 2012 and Somporn Pattanaphum in 2010.
As a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Thailand has the obligation to respect, protect, and fulfill the rights protected under these treaties. Moreover, Thailand will undergo review by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in early June 2016; I therefore reiterate the urgent call to the Thai authorities to address human rights violations, defend land rights of its citizens, and protect its natural resources.
I wish to point out that Article 12(2) of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders outlines the obligation for the State to "take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by competent authorities of everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration." I exhort the government of Thailand to pay serious heed to the rights of human rights defenders under the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.
Hence, I urge the Thai authorities to:
1. Call on the Thai Royal Police to undertake exhaustive and independent investigations into the attack against Mr. Chai Boonthonglek and to punish the perpetrators, as a fundamental means of preventing such attacks;
2. Call on the Ministry of Justice, as coordinator for human rights defenders protection, to work with other state agencies such as the Department for Special Investigations to prioritize the cases of killings of SPFT and other land rights defenders. Given the gravity of land rights defenders being continually killed and the de-legitimisation of human rights defenders' work by local authorities, it is necessary that national level authorities with a clear and comprehensive objective to work against the standard of impunity faced by land rights defenders in the South of Thailand take up this case and the case of other land rights defenders killed or forcibly disappeared;
3. Call on the Director General of the Rights and Liberties Protection Department to grant reparations for the families of the deceased human rights defenders; and
4. Call on the Thai authorities to urgently adopt effective measures to protect the life and physical integrity of human rights defenders who are threatened, and to ensure that these measures are decided on in consultation with the defenders;
I trust you will take prompt action in this matter.
1. General Prayuth Chan-ocha
Head of the National Council for Peace and Order
Royal Thai Army Commander-in-Chief
Rachadamnoen Nok Road
Bang Khun Phrom
E-mail: prforeign@gmail.com
2. Mr. What Tingsamitr
Chairman, National Human Rights Commission
The Government Complex Commemorating His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary 5th December
B.E.2550 (2007), Building B 120 Moo 3
Chaengwattana Road
Thoongsonghong, Laksi Bangkok 10210
E-mail: amara@nhrc.or.th
3. Mrs.Tuenjai Deetes
National Human Rights Commissioner
The Government Complex Commemorating His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary 5th December, B.E.2550 (2007), Building B 120 Moo 3
Email: niran@nhrc.or.th
4. Mr. Paiboon Khumchaya
Minister of Justice
Tel: +66 2 14-5100
Email: callcenter@moj.go.th
5. Mrs. Kannika Seangthong
Rights and Liberties Protection Department
120 Moo 3 Rajaburi Direkriddhi Building
The Government Complex Commemorating His Majesty the King´s 80th Birthday Anniversary 5th Changwattana Road Tung Song Hong Laksi
Tel: +66 2 1412707 +66 2 1412707
Email: savestanan@yahoo.com
6. Mr. Wonnsiri Phormchana
Surat Thani Provincial Governor
Surat Thani City Hall Mueang
Surat Thani 84000
Tel : +66 7 727 2176
Fax : +66 7 728 5990
Countries : Thailand,
Issues : Human rights defenders, Impunity, Rule of law,
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