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A Mississippi Delta hospital anchors its community. Now it may close.
Greenwood Leflore's financial struggle is the latest challenge in a predominately Black Mississippi Delta community that has been hit hard over the past two decades by the closure of major manufacturers, a teacher shortage in its public schools and steep population loss — there are not enough newcomers to replace the residents who have left or died.
Throughout the town's setbacks, generations of locals have taken their first and last breaths at Greenwood Leflore Hospital. It's also a critical economic engine. In a region where many families struggle to put food on the table, the medical facility is one of the largest employers around.
Over a few weeks this fall, the hospital's situation grew dire, with the interim chief executive, Gary Marchand, acknowledging in a staff memo that it could close before the end of year. On Nov. 4, talks with a larger hospital in Jackson that local officials had hoped would take over Greenwood Leflore fell through.
Marchand estimates the hospital needs $5 million to $10 million to stay open until next summer. While several banks are willing to step in, he said city and county officials will have to assist in obtaining the resources on the hospital's behalf.
"We will not make it into 2023 without funding," he said.
Leflore County Supervisor Board President Robert Collins said finances are already strained, but the county can most likely put up about $3.5 million for Greenwood Leflore. He cautioned that the county won't be able to float the institution long-term.
"We can't generate that money in the county," he said. "We don't have that kind of tax base."
Greenwood City Council President Ronnie Stevenson acknowledged that the city might need to provide aid as well.
He's adamant that he doesn't see closing the hospital as an option, but he is blunt that he doesn't want to "keep throwing water on a sinking ship." At a minimum, he said, the hospital, which lost almost $2 million last month, has to start breaking even.
A more comprehensive fix could arrive in the spring, when Marchand hopes the Legislature will approve a statewide plan to push more Medicaid funding to hospitals.
"We have to find a governmental solution, if we're going to be viable in the long-term," Marchand said.
With the hospital's fate in the balance, the community may have to wait months for an answer.
Some residents have already started looking for physicians elsewhere, but Dr. Roderick Givens, a radiation oncologist who has practiced at Greenwood Leflore for 15 years, said it can be a hurdle sometimes for patients to make it to even local appointments.
Dr. Roderick Givens, who treats cancer patients at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital, is working with other local leaders to keep the facility open. Timothy Ivy for NBC News
Some in Humphreys County, which borders Leflore County, already have to drive longer for health care than they did a decade ago, after Humphreys County Memorial Hospital closed in 2013.
If Greenwood Leflore closes, residents will have to travel to North Sunflower Medical Center in Ruleville, about 31 miles away, or South Sunflower County Hospital, about 28 miles away in Indianola, for an emergency room.
"It essentially equates to a death sentence," Givens said. "A hospital 10 minutes away now becomes half an hour away."
The idea of the hospital closing is grim enough that Sibley has wondered if she should move from the Mississippi Delta town she's lived in since she was a little girl.
"If something happens with them, it happens with me," she said of the hospital.
But making those types of contingency plans means having access to resources, like cash and cars. Nearly 30% of residents in Greenwood and 25% of the population in Leflore County live in poverty. And almost 13% live in homes without a car, according to census data.
Since Greenwood Leflore's labor and delivery unit closed, many pregnant residents have to travel 45 minutes to a satellite hospital of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in neighboring Grenada County to give birth. The only option left in Greenwood is the hospital's emergency room.
This is a community where lower life expectancy rates already meant residents bury their loved ones earlier in life, compared to those born in more prosperous areas.
Residents here know a full tank of gas and reliable transportation won't always be enough to outrun the disparities underlying the state's maternal and infant health crisis.
Mississippi has the nation's highest infant mortality rate, while pregnancy-related deaths here are more likely than the national average. Black women in the state are almost three times as likely as white women to die while expecting, or within a year of giving birth, or their pregnancy's end.
In the Delta, where some counties lack OB-GYNs, pregnant women and newborns are particularly vulnerable.
Kayla Wheeler had several close calls during her pregnancy before safely delivering a baby girl at Greenwood Leflore last year.
The 24-year-old has epilepsy. Shortly after learning she was expecting, she had a seizure in a shoe store and was taken to the hospital.
She was taken again when she was 30 weeks pregnant. Wheeler had just arrived at her sister's house and was preparing to leave for a day trip to Jackson when she looked down and noticed she was bleeding.
Kayla Wheeler with her daughter at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Miss., on Nov. 16, 2022.Timothy Ivy for NBC News
Wheeler had already picked out a name for her little girl. Now, she worried her baby wouldn't make it.
"I thought I was going to lose her," she said.
Her sister's fiancé got Wheeler to Greenwood Leflore within 10 minutes, and she and her baby were fine.
"It's good I got to the emergency room in time. Otherwise, things could have went left," Wheeler said.
When Greenwood Leflore opened in 1906, it initially operated out of a mansion repurposed as a medical facility.
By the time Jordan, the son of a sharecropper and now a state senator, was attending Mississippi Valley State University, a historically Black university in the Mississippi Delta in 1955, the hospital had moved to its third location, a short distance from the town's main street, where it remains today.
Jordan remembers being quarantined there briefly in 1964, after he and his wife, who worked as a nurse, tested positive for tuberculosis, before being transferred to a sanatorium to recover.
Now, Jordan, 89, who has represented Greenwood for almost three decades, said that when he goes to the store, he's often approached by residents with concerns about the hospital's future.
"People up here are in tears almost," he said.
Jordan pointed out that the hospital's financial decline has taken place as Mississippi remains one of 11 states not to adopt Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. Economists have estimated that the first year of increased Medicaid eligibility would bring $1.6 billion in federal funds to the nation's poorest state.
"It's just been an injustice to the poor, rejected and downtrodden," Jordan said.
The retired school teacher is frustrated that lawmakers have not jumped in to address the hospital's crisis. The state Legislature, which normally begins meeting in January, was brought back to Mississippi's Capitol in a special session this month to approve nearly $247 million in tax incentives to a private aluminum mill company.
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Methods employed in our lab
In our lab we use molecular biology as well as biochemical and biophysical techniques to characterize proteins and their interaction partners in molecular detail. We apply a variety of methods, including targeted mutagenesis, protein production and purification (Escherichia coli and insect cells), in vitro transcription and translation, nanodiscs, qPCR, analytical gel filtration, circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and HPLC/FPLC. To explore the molecular structure of proteins, their complexes and interactions we utilize solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.
Some insights into NMR and X-ray crystallography
Protein NMR is a spectroscopic technique used to obtain the three-dimensional structure of a particular protein in solution at atomic resolution. It is also a powerful technique to explore the dynamics of proteins and their interactions with various binding partners (small molecules, nucleic acids, other proteins). Different spectra reveal detailed information about the chemical environment, dynamics and reaction state of a molecule.
The environment of atomic nuclei within a molecule shields an external applied magnetic field at the position of the nuclei. This modulates the resonance frequency of the corresponding spin in an NMR spectrometer (chemical shift). Therefore many similar spins within a protein can be distinguished making NMR spectroscopy a powerful technique for structure determination. A variety of interactions of the spins with the magnetic field and with other spins allows determination of three-dimensional structures, characterization of the dynamics on various timescales, and investigation of molecular interactions of proteins and other molecules.
Additionally, we use X-ray crystallography for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of proteins and their complexes. A highly pure sample is crystallized and the resulting crystal is exposed to an X-ray beam. The crystalline structure causes the X-ray beam to diffract into many specific directions. Analysis of the diffraction pattern allows the calculation of an electron density map into which a structural model of the target biomacromolecule can be built.
Structures determined recently in our lab
Solution structure of the hazelnut allergen Cor a 1.0401 (pdb: 6GQ9). Cartoon representation of the average of the 10 lowest energy solution structures of Cor a 1.0401. The structure reveals the protein fold characteristic for members of the family of pathogensis related (PR-10) proteins. It consists of a seven-stranded antiparallel β-sheet, two short α-helices arranged in V-shape and a long C-terminal α-helix encompassing a hydrophobic pocket. The strong structural similarity with the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 explains why many people allergic to birch pollen suffer from allergic cross reactions after consumption of raw hazelnuts.
Crystal structure of the transcription factor RfaH (pdb: 5OND) from Escherichia coli in complex with the operon polarity suppressor (ops) element, a short piece of single stranded DNA. This structure reveals the molecular basis of sequence-specific recruitment of RfaH to the transcription elongation complex pausing at an ops site. For more information: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.36349
NMR structures of the KOW4-x domain and the tandem domain KOW6-7 (pdb: 6EQY, 6ER0) of the human transcription elongation factor DSIF. DSIF is highly conserved throughout all kingdoms of life and plays multiple roles during transcription. It comprises several KOW domains which fullfil different functions in modulating RNA polymerase II within the transcription complex. Whereas KOW4 interacts preferentially with single stranded RNA and binds weakly to RNA polymerase II subunits Rpb4/7, the role of KOW6-7 remains elusive. For more information: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30042-3
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Spit Blood is the second EP by American rock band The Atomic Bitchwax, released in March 2002 via MeteorCity.

Track listing

 "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" (AC/DC cover) – 4:12
 "Liquor Queen" – 3:59
 "Get Your Gear" – 5:34
 "Cold Day in Hell" – 6:47
 "Spit Blood" – 4:16
 "Black Trans-Am" – 4:11
 "U Want I Should" – 4:19

Critical reception

Reception was overall moderately negative. Reviews positively rated the first song ("Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap") and the last ("U Want I Should") but felt the remaining tracks were poor quality filler, with the music overall of a lower quality than previous music by the band.

References

External links

2002 EPs
The Atomic Bitchwax albums

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Q: Does long or int in pymongo queries have to match the number type in mongodb? I can't find much of an indication in neither the pymongo documentation or the mongodb documentation.  I'm currently working with python3, and I have one program inserting data and another program that queries it.
Basically, if one program inserts data as a BSON long type (64 bit), can another program query that data with a 32 bit int?
For example, where I write data.

from bson.int64 import Int64
...
coll.insert({'myval': Int64(100)})

And where I read data.

coll.find({'myval': int(100)})

Does this work regardless of how big the int is? Even ignoring if python3 stores the int as a 64 bit?

A: You don't have to manually cast your number to bson.int64 on writing; pymongo will take care of this automatically.
Yes, you can read data with:
coll.find({'myval': int(100)})

or simpler:
coll.find({'myval': 100})

A: The distinction between int64 and int32 in MongoDB is more about BSON storage size. You can query with either type:
Python 3.3.5 (default, Jan 29 2015, 02:00:04)
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>>> import pymongo
>>> c = pymongo.MongoClient()
>>> from bson.int64 import Int64
>>> c.test.int64.insert_one({'int64': Int64(2 ** 32)})
<pymongo.results.InsertOneResult object at 0x7f6ece3f43c0>
>>> c.test.int64.find_one({'int64': int(2 ** 32)})
{'int64': 4294967296, '_id': ObjectId('554fa762fa5bd8782e1698ce')}

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Cannes 2015: A Short History of India's French Connection
Written by: Gitanjali Roy | May 13, 2015 14:24 IST
Aishwarya (left) and Sonam at Cannes 2014
This year, a clutch of Indian films will be screened at Cannes - Miyan Kal Aana, produced by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and directed by his brother Shamas; Neeraj Ghaywan's Masaan and Gurvnder Singh's Chauthi Koot will compete in Un Certain Regard
Of the 18 years that she's been working in the movie business, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has dedicated part of 13 to her appearances at the Cannes Film Festival. This will be her 14th year on the Croisette. Aishwarya has been representing cosmetics giant L'Oreal on the French Riviera since 2002. Since then, her fashion hits and the Indian presence at Cannes have both increased exponentially.
Aishwarya's had some trouble in the past packing for the Cannes red carpet. A series of garish Neeta Lulla saris in the first few years prompted her to eventually switch designers. She began racking up red carpet wins in couture dresses by Armani and Elie Saab, and changed from Neeta Lulla into Abu-Sandeep and finally into Sabyasachi. But it was only last year that Aishwarya set one of the world's most watched red carpets on fire in a series of sensational dresses by Roberto Cavalli.
Over the years, actresses Sonam Kapoor and Freida Pinto have joined Aishwarya as faces of L'Oreal. This is Sonam's fifth year at Cannes. Both have made a splash on the red carpet, photocalls and parties like the one hosted by Chopard in impossibly glamorous outfits by Anamika Khanna, Oscar de la Renta, Elie Saab and the like. (Also read - Cannes 2015: Sonam Kapoor's Beauty and Workout Secrets)
This year, Freida will be absent but her place will be filled by actress Katrina Kaif who was meant to have made her Cannes debut last year but is ending up doing it in 2015.
Actress Mallika Sherawat, a non L'Oreal attendee, manages to make it to Cannes regularly as well - a vaguely astonishing statistic given that nobody can remember the last major film she's been in. Nevertheless, Mallika pops up on the French Riviera every year now, this time invited by FICCI to participate in a discussion on 'Co-Produce in India.'
None of these actresses, however, are as beloved in Cannes as Aishwarya who is received every year by crowds of autograph-hunters shrieking her name as she sashays onto the red carpet. They have no trouble pronouncing her name. Aishwarya also annually chairs the amfAR gala with husband Abhishek.
The continued presence of these red carpet regulars has been punctuated by several other Indian actors. In 2013, a landmark year for India at Cannes, actresses Vidya Balan and Nandita Das served on the jury, and Amitabh Bachchan delivered the opening address at the film festival - in Hindi, no less. Deepika Padukone has been at Cannes, so has Kamal Haasan. Last year, Uday Chopra was in the audience as Grace of Monaco, the Nicole Kidman film he produced, opened the festival. Jackky Bhagnani was an unexpected presence, representing his film Youngistaan. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's films Gangs of Wasseypur and Ugly have played to house full audiences; Dibakar Banerjee-produced film Titli, directed by Kanu Behl, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section last year. The Lunchbox, Miss Lovely, Udaan and Vasan Bala's Peddlers have all made it to the Cannes line-up in recent years. Bollywood made a grand debut in 2002 with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas being screened at the festival. The film's star Aishwarya was a jury member the same year.
Historically, Indian films have been well-received at Cannes although the prizes have dropped off since the Nineties. In 1946, Chetan Anand's acclaimed Neecha Nagar shared the top prize (now known as the Palme d'Or) with David Lean's Brief Encounters. In 1952, V Shantaram's Amar Bhoopali won the award for Best Sound Recording. Bimal Roy's socio-economic tour de force Do Bigha Zameen won the Prix Internationale in 1954. The next year, his Biraj Bahu and the Raj Kapoor-produced Boot Polish were both screened in competition. Baby Naaz won a special award for her performance in Boot Polish. In 1956, Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali put India on the world cinema map for good with the prize for Best Human Document. In 1957, Rajbans Khanna's documentary on Buddha scored a jury prize. In 1983's Mrinal Sen's Kharij won a jury prize and in 1988, Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay! Took home both the Camera d'Or and the Audience Prize. Shaji N Karun's Piravi received a special mention the next year. Murali Nair's Marana Simhasanam's Camera d'Or in 1999 was the last Indian film to bring home an award from Cannes.
This year, a clutch of Indian films will be screened at Cannes - Miyan Kal Aana, produced by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and directed by his brother Shamas; Neeraj Ghaywan's Masaan and Gurvnder Singh's Chauthi Koot will compete in Un Certain Regard. Amy, a docu-film about Amy Winehouse will receive a midnight screening - the British-made film is directed by Asif Kapadia, of Indian origin.
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Le royaume de Nanzhao (chinois: 南诏国; pinyin: Nánzhāoguo, tibétain : Jang) est un ancien État qui a étendu sa domination dans une partie de l'actuel Yunnan en Chine pendant les  de notre ère. Fondée en 737, la dynastie qui a régné sur le royaume fut renversée en 902.

Fondation du royaume de Nanzhao

À l'origine, plusieurs tribus bai étaient établies sur les terres environnant le lac Erhai, non loin de la ville de Dali. Ces tribus s'appelaient Mengshe (), Mengsui (), Langqiong (), Dengtan (), Shilang (), et Yuexi (). Chacune de ces tribus constituait un royaume désigné en chinois par le terme « Zhao » (). En 649, le chef de la tribu Mengshe, Xi Nuluo () fonde le royaume de Damengguo () près du lac Erhai. En 737, avec le soutien de la dynastie chinoise des Tang, Piluoge ()unifie les six « Zhao » et établit le royaume des « Zhao du Sud » ().

Le royaume de Nanzhao resta en contact étroit avec la dynastie des Tang. Il était constitué de deux ethnies : outre les Bai, les Yi, de langue tibéto-birmane. Quelques historiens pensent que la majorité de la population était bai, mais que l'élite, appelée « Cuan »  était yi. Quoi qu'il en soit, la capitale fut établie en 738 à Taihe 太和 (aujourd'hui un village au sud de Dali). Situé au cœur de la vallée du lac Erhai, le site était idéal pour se défendre facilement contre les attaques extérieures. Le royaume était centré sur une région de riches terres cultivées.

Expansion militaire

En 750, Nanzhao se rebelle contre la dynastie Tang après que des ambassadeurs du roi Ge Luofeng  eurent été maltraités par le préfet chinois. Gu Luofeng fait tuer le préfet. En représailles, les Tang envoie une armée contre Nanzhao durant l'été de 751, mais cette armée, conduite par Yang Guozhong  et comptant  hommes, est sévèrement battue à Xiaguan . (La même année, les Tang avaient également été défaits par les Arabes à la bataille de Talas en Asie centrale. Ces événements affaiblirent la dynastie tant à l'intérieur qu'à l'extérieur de la Chine). Aujourd'hui, la Grotte du Général  (à deux kilomètres à l'ouest de Xiaguan) et le Tombeau des Dix-Mille Soldats  (dans le parc Tianbao) témoigne de l'ampleur du combat. En 754, une seconde armée est envoyée, qui arrive cette fois par le nord, mais qui est également vaincue.

À cette époque, Ge Luofeng fait allégeance aux Tibétains qui ont alors encore beaucoup de poids dans la région. Cette mesure apporte quarante années de stabilité à la région. En tant que vassal du Tibet, le roi de Nanzhao est appelé "jeune frère" du roi tibétain Trisong Detsen (vers 755-797) qu'il doit aider militairement et financièrement. En même temps, il annexe à son royaume 42 groupes ethniques qui font encore aujourd'hui partie de la Chine.

Au total, à partir de 680, le royaume de Nanzhao est passé sous le contrôle tibétain. Les Tibétains voient leur suzeraineté reconnue après 703. En effet, pendant l'été de 703, le roi du Tibet, Düsong Mangpojé a résidé à Oljag (Ol-byag) à Ling (Gling), sur la partie supérieure de la rivière du Yangtze, avant de procéder à l'invasion de royaume de Nanzhao. Les Tibétains renforcent encore leur contrôle entre 750 et 794, date à laquelle les Nanzhao se retournèrent contre leurs suzerains tibétains avec l'aide de la Chine pour vaincre l'armée tibétaine.

Vers 789, les chinois donnent le titre de princes du Yunnan aux rois de Nanzhao.

Plusieurs batailles eurent lieu contre les généraux chinois Tsui Ning et Wei Kao, sans que l'État ait été mis en danger. En 794, la diplomatie chinoise remporte un succès : le roi Yi Mouxun 异牟寻 change d'alliance et attaque les Tibétains à Kunming avec l'aide de Wei Kao.

Aux alentours de l'an 800, le royaume de Nanzhao était devenu un État relativement centralisé, bien qu'on puisse distinguer à l'intérieur six entités de peuplement principales. Nanzhao imite le modèle politique et culturel chinois, mais a également subi des influences tibétaines et indiennes. Dans cette contrée fertile protégée par des montagnes, la population s'accroît, ce qui permet au Royaume de connaître une certaine extension au , d'abord en direction de la Birmanie, puis dans le reste du Yunnan, vers le sud dans la partie septentrionale du Laos et de la Thaïlande, et enfin vers le nord en direction du Sichuan.

On peut esquisser rapidement les étapes de cette extension. Vers 800, l'État de Pyu, au nord de la Birmanie, était vassal de Nanzhao. Cet affaiblissement de Pyu favorise l'immigration des Birmans dans cette région et conduit finalement à la fondation de Pagan. En 832, l'État pyu de Sri Ksetra, dans le cours inférieur de l'Irrawaddy, est occupé. Un peu avant, en 829, la ville de Chengdu est prise et pillée, ce qui permet au royaume de Nanzhao de revendiquer l'ensemble de la province du Sichuan avec ses abondantes rizières. Finalement, Li Deyu, ministre de l'empereur Wuzong (règne 840-846), parvient à stabiliser la frontière de la Chine des Tang pour une trentaine d'années. Outre la Birmanie et le Sichuan, les rois de Nanzhao se sont intéressés au Nord-Viêt Nam et à la province chinoise de Lingnan. L'enjeu était le commerce maritime le long de la côte jusqu'au Haut-Yangzi. Vers 861, le roi de Nanzhao demande de traiter sur un pied d'égalité avec la Chine, autrement dit il souhaite se voir reconnaître le titre d'empereur.

Déclin et fin du royaume de Nanzhao

Plusieurs expéditions militaires ont lieu en direction de Hanoï (alors appelé Shenglong), et de durs combats opposent, de 858 à 866, les troupes de Nanzhao aux préfets chinois de cette région. Nanzhao lèvent des troupes dans l'État vassal de Pyu. Les Chinois confisquent même des navires marchands pour financer cette guerre. Hanoi est plusieurs fois prise et perdue. Finalement, le Chinois Kao Pien remporte une victoire et le théâtre des opérations se déplace vers le Sichuan

Après une attaque chinoise manquée contre Nanzhao (865-867), ce dernier garde provisoirement le contrôle de la province du Sichuan. Mais en 873, Nanzhao est chassé du Sichuan et fait retraite vers le Yunnan. En 875, Kao Pien est dépêché sur place, après quoi la pression se relâche. En fait, le royaume a connu son apogée avec la prise de Chengdu et n'a cessé de décliner lentement ensuite.

Les agrandissements territoriaux du royaume de Nanzhao furent de courte durée. Malgré tout, deux rois portèrent le titre d'empereur ('Huangdi' 皇帝). En 880, Nanzhao conclut même une alliance matrimoniale avec la Chine des Tang affaiblie par la rébellion de Huang Chao 黄巢.

En 902, la dynastie qui régnait sur le royaume de Nanzhao est renversée. Trois autres brèves dynasties lui succèdent rapidement, jusqu'à la prise de pouvoir de Duan Siping 段思平 en 937, qui établit le royaume de Dali.

Religion

Le royaume de Nanzhao, à l'image de la Chine des Tang, a été fortement imprégné de bouddhisme, comme le montrent des inscriptions de cette période. Certains disent que la bouddhisme Acarya de Nanzhao était apparenté au bouddhisme tantrique Ari de Bagan (Birmanie).

Liste des souverains de Nanzhao

 649-674
 674-712
 712-728
 728-748
 748-778
 778
 778-808
 808/09
 809-816
 816-824
 824-859
 859-877/8
 877/8-97
 897/8-902/3
 902/3-903 Yeshi

Voir le lien avec les rois de Li Jiang et les Naxi.

Voir aussi
Les rois tibétains de cette période :
 Düsong Mangpojé
 Tridé Tsuktsen
 Trisong Detsen
Les empereurs chinois de cette période :
 Tang Daizong
 Tang Dezong
 Tang Wuzong

Notes et références

Ancien État en Chine
Histoire du Tibet
Ancien royaume en Asie
État fondé en 737


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"He worked out today and he didn't skate, so we'll see how he is tomorrow," Sutter said.
When asked about what caused the illness, Sutter referenced the hit he took on Saturday.
"He got hit. It was nothing. It was like an upper-body, and it was not serious, and then when we went to have our meeting he was sick, so we just told him to stay at the hotel," he said.
Nausea and vomiting are among the symptoms of concussions, and because Sutter referenced the the hit when asked to expand on the nature of his illness, it is possible to deduce that the 36-year-old defenseman could be battling some concussion-like symptoms.
Mitchell has four assists and a plus-6 rating in 33 games this season.


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Scottsdale Job Network (SJN) is hosting its first ever event in the West Valley at Glendale Community College. This is an exciting opportunity for us to continue our partnership with Maricopa County Community Colleges and we appreciate their support.
Join us on Thursday, June 4th for an evening workshop on internet tools for job search. This is also an opportunity for SJN members in the West Valley to network with us in a local venue!
Smart Ways to Use the Internet During Your Search
You probably know that networking in-person is the single best thing you can do to accelerate your job search. You might be finding it hard to get face-to-face meetings, and very easy to spend your whole week in front of the computer! Come to this SJN seminar to understand how to make maximum use of the powerful tools available through the internet, with the understanding that the goal is to get you hired.
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This workshop is provided through collaboration between SJN and Glendale Community College.
This Intermediate-level seminar is best for those who already have a basic understanding of and familiarity with LinkedIn and other tools such as Google. If you have never used LinkedIn, start with this link: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/linkedin.htm.
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Thursday, June 4th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm
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I've been sharing a lot of house pictures on Instagram lately and wanted to share them to my blog as well. This picture of the flowers in the sink may be my favorite of all time. What is it about flowers in a sink? I am just starting to get the hang of this photography thing and am kind of loving it. (I use a Canon Rebel T6i) I also love the before & afters of our front entryway, too. One of my most favorite parts of our remodel. Links to the plants and lights are shared below.
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Online Scouting Registration — Available to everyone!
The initial phase of the BETA test for online registration has been completed. This exciting tool is now available for every unit in our Council to use. There are three vital points to remember if we are going to implement online registration successfully in our Council.
Every registered unit leader and COR must have a valid email address in Scoutnet.
Every unit must have a leader who updates their pin in BeAScout.org.
Have good communication. Someone must be assigned to check regularly to see if applications are awaiting review and submission.
Complete Your Preparation Checklist: It is critical that you complete all items on the checklist for your Scouting role to ensure you are granted the necessary permissions to work within the online registration system. To have the appropriate access, your role, council name, and a valid email address must be listed correctly in your My.Scouting Tools profile.
Please visit http://www.scouting.org/onlineregistration.aspx for checklists and instructions available for employees and volunteers at the council, district, and unit level.
Review Training Videos and How-To Documents: Learn how to use the application manager, review an application, and process youth and adult applications by watching the training videos at http://www.scouting.org/onlineregistration.aspx. There, you'll also find how-to documents that provide application manager and invitation manger instructions at the council, district, and unit level.
Update Your "Contact Us" Pin in BeAScout.org: Unit leaders must update their pin in BeAScout.org. Instructions for unit leaders are available at http://www.scouting.org/onlineregistration.aspx.
Need Help? An FAQ document is available at http://www.scouting.org/onlineregistration.aspx. For questions not answered in the FAQ, please reach out to your council online registration contact. If you need assistance completing the preparation checklist, please contact the Member Care Contact Center at myscouting@scouting.org or 972-580-2489.
Scouting has a terminology all its own, so sometimes it is difficult to follow official instructions. The Council staff are happy to translate. Feel free to call or email us or stop by the office for help. The instructions often refer to the "Key 3." In your ward, the first of those "Key 3" is your chartered organization representative, aka COR or CR. In units sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that is the counselor in the bishopric who is over Scouting, and it will be the same individual for Cub Scouts (8–10 yr old boys), Boy Scouts (usually 11–13 yr old boys), Varsity Scouts (14-15 yr old boys), and Venturers (16–18 yr old boys).
The other members of the Key 3 are the committee chair and the unit leader. In LDS units, a member of the bishopric will call the committee chair, who takes care of or assigns many of the organization details like calling meetings, registering youth and leaders, and making sure leaders are trained. The bishopric may call one individual for all four groups or as many as 4 different individuals. Most often in LDS units one person is called for the Cub Scout pack and another works with all of the units that serve boys 11–18 years old.
The unit leader is the Cubmaster, the Scoutmaster, the Varsity coach, or the Crew Advisor—basically the main leader who works with the boys on their activity night.
Each of the Key 3 has the right to designate other members of the committee as "delegates" who have the same leadership rights in my.scouting.org as the Key 3.
the right person. This will allow them to designate a specific individual to be in charge of registration.
That person who is in charge of getting people registered will then be able to send invitations to join the unit to new boys and leaders . Boys who live in your neighborhood will be able to find your unit by going to "Be a Scout" at scouting.org. The "Key 3" and their delegates will be able to see the online applications that have been submitted, review and approve them, and submit them to National.
Click on these illustrated instructions Instructions to manage settings to become familiar with the process. If you need help, your district staff member will be glad to work with you to get online registration running smoothly. As we discover weaknesses, we will work with the National help desk to find solutions. We invite you to partner with us by sharing your experiences. We will incorporate your suggestions and discoveries into our training and articles to make registration simple and painless.
In LDS units, the fees are all paid for by the Church. How will this be handled with the online registration?
I just found the answer in the training page.
For those who haven't seen the answer yet, it will still be paid for by the LDS Church. When an individual applies to register in an LDS unit, the "fees due" will show $0.00. The LDS Church is billed directly for all individuals registered in their units.
Yay! This is great. What about merit badge counselors? Can we get them registered online?
We can only register people in Unit positions at first, but maybe that option will come later.
We have a separate cub and Boy Scout committee chair. Will they both be able to have access to this? Also, if our cub committee chair sets up our membership chair (on our cub committee) as a "delegate" is that going to mess up our Boy Scout committee?
The units are separate in my.scouting.org, so what you do in the Boy Scout troop will have no impact on the Cub Scout pack unless you do the same thing in the pack. If you want to make your Cub Committee Chair a delegate in your other units, that individual will have to be registered in those units. I should also have pointed out that if you want to make someone a delegate in the Troop, Team, and Crew, you have to go into each of those units individually. The next big thing we are asking for is that the data base for LDS units be organized so that all of the units can be managed together. I will be excited when that day comes.
I did not see what stakes are given this option? Is the Spanish Fork South stake included?
The Stakes that will pilot this program and help us make sure it is ready to go are: Roosevelt, Jordan Willow, Lindon, Pleasant Grove East, Provo West, Spanish Fork Canyon Ridge, Green Valley, and Washington Fields.
Hi, I'm the Committee Chair with a unit in the Washington Fields Stake. When delegating Registration Authority, which Functional Position do I delegate?
Based on the instructions above, it sounds like I should choose "Key 3 Delegate"; however, there are other Functional Positions that have Registration and Membership in the titles of the positions so I want to make sure I chose the correct Functional Position to delegate.
If you want them to be able to have all of the tools you have, you will need to designate them as "Key 3 Delegates". That gives them rights as both "training manager" and "member manager". That is probably the most common option because most people feel like the more tools they give their committee members, the better they are able to help manage the program. I believe the "Registration Inquiry" and "Unit Membership Chairman" will both have the same rights, those needed to maintain the online registration in the unit, but I am waiting for confirmation from the national help desk because both of those are new functional positions created for online registration.
I received information from National about the positions we can assign people to in my.scouting.org, and an individual would have to be registered as a key 3 delegate to manage online registrations. Both the registration inquiry and unit membership chair positions give people "view only" rights regarding applications. They will not be able to process them.
When will Provo East Stake be able to do online registration? I have a lot to do with four Cub Scout Packs so hoping it is very soon.
Ty, online registration is still in Beta testing and we, the office staff, are still learning about it. You are welcome to begin using it immediately. As you have questions, call or come by our office and we will give you the best help we can. The tools are active right now, but again, be aware that this is a Beta test and there may be glitches. We anticipate that the Beta test will end and online registration will be available to everyone sometime this Fall.
Unit leaders will need to be diligent about keeping the newest people in the right positions. I guess it's just a matter of taking one person out and substituting the new person? Is there a limit on the number of people who can be given rights?
Any updates on when this online registration beta testing will be complete. Any new information on when it will be available to "everyone"??? We are super excited to have this tool available to the Units in our Stake!
Your Stake President can opt in at any time. We are accepting all stakes who are ready to start and adding them to the BETA test. He can contact your DE or send me a message at susan.cheever@scouting.org and I will put him in touch with the right people.


Confronted with images of birds swathed in crude oil and prognostications that the Gulf region's fishing and tourism industries might never recover, the urge to form a posse, so to speak, to rout out those responsible and hold them accountable is all too human.
But are we Americans shocked enough yet by the enormity of this calamity to own up to our personal role in it? After all, it's ultimately our nation's energy-intense lifestyle and attachment to fossil fuels that gives companies like BP and our government the implicit go-ahead to pursue oil at the risk of the very kind of disaster now ensuing.
Unless you're a physicist or energy wonk of some sort, hearing that the average yearly per capita energy consumption in the United States in 2008 was 337 million Btu probably tells you little about your energy footprint. Knowing that a Btu is an energy standard equivalent to 252 calories -- about what's contained in a Snickers candy bar -- is probably of little help either.
That's why Professor of Physics Richard Wolfson of Middlebury College has been giving demonstrations for the last decade which impart a real gut-level, hands-on feel for the energy it takes to support the typical American lifestyle.
His demonstration is simple but ingenious. A volunteer is asked to turn a hand crank which, through a geared system, drives an electric generator connected to two 100-watt incandescent light bulbs.
The upshot is that a typical person can turn the crank fast enough to light one 100-watt light bulb, but not two. To add to the muscular feel for the effort required to turn the crank, Wolfson points out that it takes roughly the same energy output as doing deep knee bends at a rate of one per second.
The question then posed is how many such energy servants does it take to power the typical American lifestyle?
Answering this requires some simple math, starting with the yearly energy consumption of 337 million Btu per capita which is equivalent, in more familiar units, to 99 thousand kWh (kilowatt hours). Dividing this by the number of hours in a year tells us that an American typically consumes energy at an average rate of 10 kW which is equal to 100 human energy servants (i.e. 100 x 100 watts).
This is Wolfson's message: The average U.S. resident enjoys a lifestyle requiring the equivalent of 100 personal energy servants cranking away 24/7.
This is just one person's share of what it takes to takes to heat, cool and light our homes, fuel our cars, cook and refrigerate our foods, and run our home appliances plus that individual's portion of the energy that makes possible the many shared benefits of our society that do not show up on home gas and electric bills – like the energy used to grow and transport foods to market and to produce all manufactured goods.
It's obvious that a person is not drawing on 100 energy servants all the time. For instance, it takes roughly 750 energy servants to keep a typical gasoline car traveling at a speed of 50 mph compared to, say, two energy servants to power a 40-inch TV. But, 100 is the number of energy servants working day and night on one's behalf when energy consumption is averaged around the clock.
The high standard of living Americans enjoy only partly explains their high energy consumption. Europeans enjoy a similar standard of living but use the equivalent of only 49 energy servants. The world average is fewer than 25 energy servants per person.
A century ago Americans consumed energy at less than one-third the current rate.
The American lifestyle, still powered more than 85 percent by fossil fuels, has much to do with the BP oil disaster: After all, BP was just doing for us the dirty work of finding a new cache of energy servants.
Americans deserve blame for failing to conserve energy far more than we do and for not demanding of both the government and industry that the nation convert rapidly to renewable energy sources like, solar, wind, biomass and geothermal. Failure to do so could mean the unthinkable, that the Gulf oil spill will soon enough fall to second or third place among the worst oil disasters in U.S. history.
This article appeared in Surf City Voice, June 16, 2010, Orange County, California, and subsequently on Mosko's website boogiegreen.com.
You did a great job with this energy-slave article. Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, R-Maryland, has done many such comparisons of energy use and human power in his innumerable peak oil presentations.
I believe your last paragraph gives too much credit to techno-fixing the petroleum lifestyle. It turns out that renewable and alternatives forms of energy cannot substitute much for petroleum's energy or petroleum's infrastructure. So it's far more essential to pursue energy curtailment on all levels -- especially when we picture what's happening in the U.S. Gulf and with the global climate. And there's those oil wars on the other side of the world that we don't want to think about.
The lightbulb example is certainly illuminating, in every sense. :) Here's another idea: maturity. I'd like us to look at how we ended up sharing guilt with the likes of BP, because that's not who we are. Basically, I think, we did what we were told. We focused on staying young, on self-improvement, on the gadgets and widgets and cars and homes and jobs and clothes and leisure activities we were told were the best, the ones we HAD to have. All this kept us preoccupied while we ate the food they prepared for us and drank the water.
Oh, dear, did we drink the water? I'm afraid so. What we're guilty of is allowing ourselves to be kept childlike and distracted, to buy the BS. What we need first is our maturity -- to take back control of our own lives and livelihoods, starting with our food and water and moving out from there.
What do we really need versus what have they imposed upon us? It's hard to see at first (our job really pays them, not us, etc.) but ultimately it leads us away from their oil and other toys, and away from their control.
I didn't choose the high-energy technological lifestyle that awaited me when I was born. This lifestyle was contrived in corporate boardrooms by pudgy white men as a business plan to keep their wealth coming in. So, I'll pass on feeling responsible, thank you.
Maybe, though, the lube job on the Gulf of Mexico can be an occasion to think about and act on the necessity of curbing human reproduction. We can be sure that the human population--and it's energy consumption, which is elegantly illustrated in this piece--will shrink one way or another. Which way shall we choose?
You may not have chosen the high-technology lifestyle, and you may think it was imposed on you, but you could have choosen not to participate in a great deal of it once you knew what the consequences were for our planet. We do have the intelligence to know when we are being sold a bill of goods by "pudgy white men in suits", but turning down the goodies was more than most of us had the gumption to do, so instead we choose to believe we aren't responsible, that our high-tech lifestyle is just something that was imposed on us and we had no choice in the matter.
Then we would need 300, even slaves have to eat and sleep.
Horses largely replaced slaves and servants when slavery became a no-no, I expect we would need a paddock of them each, at least a billion horses in America if oil dried up tomorrow.
We can be emotionally persuaded (media) The American Dream.
Those of us who have awakened from the Dream by the light of a new day dawning are finding ways to live beyond the industrial corporate state. If you're awake, gently nudge your brother. And don't buy no shame! Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly down the evolutionary Path. And don't worry about it! Righteous judgement and conscious lifestyles take time. Be a model of courage and confidence. That's all we can do. Then we can choose to wait on the Lord for the rest.
Come on! With the money pissed away on war over the past decade we could have created an alt.energy infrastructure, built railroads, tax rebates for home alt.energy systems, tax rebates for organic farmers, etc. etc. etc.
Dont even talk to me about my "responsibility" if you arent going to severely criticize the Military-Industrial Complex and the Imperial egomania of the elites and the utterly immoral greed of the super-rich, all of whom do whatever they want with this country and its wealth. Start using your media platform to vigorously oppose the war and organize a General Strike. Otherwise, we dont need to hear this for the millionth time. Sheesh!
To Hell with who's to blame! Just do the right thing. Not for me to judge your success or failure about that. That's between myself and my God and yourself and your God. But may it come easily.


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Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico - Akron Art Museum - Online Collection http://akronartcollection.org/media/Previews/Americtech/BW_photo/1975.1.jpg Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico Arguably one of the best-known images of the American landscape, this photograph shows a small village on a plain beneath an expanse of darkened sky. The moon has just risen over distant snow-capped peaks, which are topped by a bank of clouds. What gives the scene its extraordinary brilliance are the rays of the late afternoon sun illuminating the cloud bank and turning the crosses in the church cemetery a blazing white. Adams reprinted this popular image over the years, at first allowing random clouds to appear in the sky. It was not until the 1970s, when he printed the sky as an almost cloudless dark-toned expanse, that he felt he had achieved an effect equal to his original visualization of the scene.
Adams was often inexact in the dating of his pictures. An astronomer friend, Dr. David Elmore, finally came to the rescue. By studying astronomical data, Elmore determined that 'Moonrise' had been taken between 4:00 and 4:05 P.M. on October 31, 1941. Whatever the specific date or time of day, this image remains a timeless metaphor of the stillness of the American landscape and the magical character of its light.
(San Francisco, California, 1902 - 1984, Carmel, California)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico , 1942 (printed early 1970s)
15 1/2 in. x 19 1/2 in. (39.37 cm x 49.53 cm)
Purchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John A. McAlonan Trust Fund
Arguably one of the best-known images of the American landscape, this photograph shows a small village on a plain beneath an expanse of darkened sky. The moon has just risen over distant snow-capped peaks, which are topped by a bank of clouds. What gives the scene its extraordinary brilliance are the rays of the late afternoon sun illuminating the cloud bank and turning the crosses in the church cemetery a blazing white. Adams reprinted this popular image over the years, at first allowing random clouds to appear in the sky. It was not until the 1970s, when he printed the sky as an almost cloudless dark-toned expanse, that he felt he had achieved an effect equal to his original visualization of the scene.
Witkin Gallery, New York, New York
Purchased by Akron Art Institute (Museum), 1975
1997 - 1998: "75th Anniversary Celebration of the Collection" 11/15/97 - 1/11/98, Akron Art Museum
1989: "Ansel Adams: A Selection of Classic Images." 4/8/89 - 6/11/89, Akron Art Museum
1985: "Partners in Purchase: Ohio Museums and the NEA." 9/25/85 - 9/29/85, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Signed on mount in pencil, "Ansel Adams" LR
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941 (printed early 1970s)
Driving in the Chama River Valley toward Santa Fe at the end of an unproductive day, Ansel Adams observed an extraordinary vista off to the east. Unable to find his exposure meter and eager to capture the scene before it disappeared, he quickly calculated the footcandle power of the moon's rays and exposed the film for one second at f/32. He later wrote that he had tried for another exposure, but as he "pulled out the slide the sunlight left the crosses and the magical moment was gone forever."1
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico is arguably one of the best-known images of the American landscape. The photograph shows a small village on a plain beneath an expanse of darkened sky. The moon has just risen over distant snow-capped peaks, which are topped by a bank of clouds. But what gives the scene its extraordinary brilliance are the rays of the late afternoon sun illuminating the cloud bank and turning the crosses in the church cemetery a blazing white. Adams reprinted this popular image over the years, at first allowing random clouds to appear in the sky. It was not until the 1970s, when he printed the sky as an almost cloudless dark-toned expanse, that he felt he had achieved an effect equal to his original visualization of the scene.
Adams's passion for spectacular landscape had begun in his youth, when he spent summers in Yosemite National Park, and continued throughout the 1920s and 1930s when he returned there and to the Sierra Nevadas to photograph the majestic lakes and peaks of these western ranges. In his early years he was equally devoted to music and photography, but a 1930 meeting with Paul Strand settled his indecision about which of the two would become his profession. In 1941 his expertise in landscape photography drew the attention of Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, who employed him to document other American national parks; he made Moonrise while fulfilling this commission.2
Like many artists and photographers, Adams was often inexact in the dating of his pictures. An astronomer friend, Dr. David Elmore, finally came to the rescue. By studying astronomical data, Elmore determined that Moonrise had been taken between 4:00 and 4:05 P.M. on October 31, 1941. Whatever its specific date or time of day, this image remains a timeless metaphor of the stillness of the American landscape and the magical character of its light.
- Naomi Rosenblum, 2001
1. Adams, with Alinder, 273.
2. Under the New Deal, instituted during the tenure of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the government sponsored a variety of documentary projects, the best known being that of the Farm Security Administration. The purpose of Adams's project was to provide mural-size enlargements for the offices of the Department of the Interior in Washington. Adams received $22.22 a day for a period of 180 days' work and retained ownership of the negatives with no restrictions on their future use. On the same trip, he did a commercial job in New Mexico for the U.S. Potash Company and made exposures for himself. See ibid., 271.
Adams, Ansel. Yosemite and the Range of Light. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979.
———, with Mary Street Alinder. Ansel Adams: An Autobiography. Boston: A New York Graphic Society Book, Little, Brown, 1985.
Alinder, Mary Street. Ansel Adams: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.


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Q: Distribute air apps without recompiling I'm developing an air image viewing application for Windows and Android that will allow some special users to import bitmaps to it. The user can click on a button, browse to a bitmap stored locally and then the app saves the image to the documentsDirectory.
Later on, other users (let's call then common users) will get this already compiled app and view the images imported by the special users.
My question is how can I make the app save the images within it without recompiling it?
Any ideas are welcome! Thank you all!

A: The only option I can think of, is to make a web server to store and load the images by those users. That's because the images will be stored in the documents or cache directory of the device which means that there is no automatic way to bring them to other devices.
You need a web server that the images will be uploaded and saved, and later on retrieved by other clients. It's called centralized assets system.