A 1-month-old female presented to us with cyanosis and feeding difficulty since birth. Her oxygen saturation was 30%. An echocardiography revealed an infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC )with obstruction at the hepatic vein level (mean gradient of 16 mmHg). There was a moderate sized patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) with a right to left shunt across it, and a moderate sized atrial septal defect (ASD) with right to left shunt.
She underwent rerouting of TAPVC with closure of ASD and PDA on the same day. The pulmonary artery (PA) line was in place for post operative monitoring of the PA pressure. In the post-operative intensive care unit, she was kept sedated and paralyzed, mildly hyperventilated on high inspired oxygen, and received ionotropic supports including milronone. A post-operative echocardiography revealed an unobstructed flow from the pulmonary venous chamber into the left atrium. PA pressure was persistently near systemic levels with frequent pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) crises on minimal stimulation. On postoperative day (POD)1, inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) was added and had to be increased to 40 ppm. Oral sildenafil (5 mg/kg/ day) was started simultaneously. The patient persisted to have PAH crises with resultant systemic hypotension and desaturation.
Extra corporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO) facility is not available at our centre and the patient could not be weaned off the ventilator. Bosentan was started at 15.625 mg (1/8 th of 125 mg tablet) once daily on POD 11. There was a dramatic decrease in PA pressure [Figure 1] after starting Bosentan and iNO could be tapered off and omitted safely 24 hours after starting bosentan without a rebound increase in PA pressure. PA pressure stabilized to less than 50% systemic pressure and there were no further episodes of PAH crisis. The patient was weaned off the ventilator and extubated on POD 18. She was discharged on day 28 with Sildenafil and Bosentan. Before being discharged, an echocardiography revealed trivial tricuspid regurgitation with PA systolic pressure of 35 mmHg.
Post-operative management of neonates with PAH includes oxygen, alkalosis, sedation, paralysis, and inotropic support. Other therapies that are available are inhaled NO, prostacyclin therapy, phosphodiesterase inhibitors, and endothelin receptor antagonists.
Our patient was being treated with maximum strengths of iNO and phosphodiesterase inhibitors and persisted to have PAH and PAH crises until the addition of Bosentan.
Our experience with Bosentan in the post-operative situation in this patient was favorable. As there are no specific guidelines for the dosage of Bosentan in neonates, we used the dose of 15.625 mg/day,  which was well tolerated with no appreciable side effects. The efficacy cannot be proven with certainty but the striking drop in PA pressure and the absence of PAH crisis correlated with the anticipated peak of Bosentan action. iNO could be weaned off successfully only after starting Bosentan.
The side effects are a dose-dependent asymptomatic increase in liver enzymes, mild anemia, and pedal edema. , A disadvantage of Bosentan is its prohibitive cost and difficulty in procurement.
Further studies are required to determine the dosage and document efficacy of Bosentan in the post-operative neonate with PAH.
1. Smerling A, Schleien C, Barst R. Pulmonary Hypertension. In: Nichols, editor. Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children. Philadelphia: Mosby; 2006.
2. Wessel D. Current and future strategies in the treatment of childhood pulmonary hypertension. Progr Pediatr Cardiol 2001;12:289-318.
3. Rashid A, Dunbar Ivy D. Pulmonary hypertension in children. Curr Pediatr 2006;16:237-47.
4. Rosenzweig EB, Dunbar Ivy D, Widlitz A, Doran A, Claussen L, Yung D, et al. Effects of long-term Bosentan in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension. J Am Coll Cardiol 2005;46:697-704.
5. Goissen C, Ghyselen L, Tourneux P, Krim G, Storme L, Bou P, et al. Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn with transposition of the great arteries: Successful treatment with Bosentan. Eur J Pediatr 2008;167:437-40.


Book — x, 332 pages ; 24 cm.
Chapter 12. "The First Victim of the First World War": Franz Ferdinand in Austrian Memory Paul Miller Afterword Pieter M. Judson Index.
The end of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy marked a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities. Yet after the dust had cleared, this transformed landscape still bore many traces of its imperial past. Breaking with traditional histories that take 1918 as a strict line of demarcation, this collection focuses on the complexities that attended the transition from the Habsburg empire to its successor states. In so doing, it produces new and more nuanced insights into the persistence and efficacity of imperial institutions, as well as the sources of instability in the newly formed nations.
Book — viii, 406 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Chapter 14. Concluding Thoughts on Central and Eastern European Bulwark Rhetoric in the 21st Century Paul Srodecki Index.
The "bulwark" or antemurale myth-whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other-has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes and overlaps between sociocultural and religious formations, Rampart Nations delves deeper to uncover the mutual transfers and multi-sided national and interconfessional conflicts that helped to spread the bulwark myth through Europe's eastern periphery over several centuries. Ranging from art history to theology to geography, this volume offers new ways of understanding the political, social, and religious forces that continue to shape identity in Eastern Europe.
Book — xvii, 260 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Chapter 4: Did Bohemian Jagiellonians exist?
Remembering the Jagiellonians is the first study of international memories of the Jagiellonians (1386-1596), one of the most powerful but lesser known royal dynasties of Renaissance Europe. It explores how the Jagiellonian dynasty has been remembered since the early modern period and assesses its role in the development of competing modern national identities across Central, Eastern and Northern Europe. Offering a wide-ranging panoramic analysis of Jagiellonian memory over five hundred years, this book includes coverage of numerous present-day European countries, ranging from Bavaria to Kiev, and from Stockholm to the Adriatic. In doing so, it allows for a large, multi-way comparison of how one shared phenomenon has been, and still is, remembered in over a dozen neighbouring countries. Specialists in the history of Europe are brought together to apply the latest questions from memory theory and to combine them with debates from social science, medieval and early modern European history to engage in an international and interdisciplinary exploration into the relationship between memory and dynasty through time. The first book to present the Jagiellonians' supranational history in English, Remembering the Jagiellonians opens key discussions about the regional memory of Europe and considers the ongoing role of the Jagiellonians in modern-day culture and politics. It is essential reading for students of early modern and late medieval Europe, ninteenth-century nationalism and the history of memory.
1952 : die Sicherung der kommunistischen Herrschaft im Grenzgebiet / Anke Geier.
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2018.
558 2.2. The Empire and the Steppe Peoples 2.3. Fugitives from the East 2.4. Avars or Pseudo-Avars? 2.5. The Advance of the Avars 2.6. Byzantium and the Turks 2.7. The Discovery of Europe 2.8. Decisive Years 2.9.
3. The New Power, 567-90 3.1. The First Attack on Sirmium 3.2. Between Peace and War 3.3. Baian's Alliance with Byzantium 3.4. The Conquest of Sirmium 3.5. 583/84: Avar Raids and Symbolic Politics 3.6. 585/86: Slavic Raids and the Bookolabras Affair 3.7.
5. The Balkan Wars of Maurice, 591-602 5.1. Maurice's Campaign and the Date of the Wars 5.2. The Avars on the Offensive 5.3.
593: Attacks on the Slavs North of the Danube 5.4.
594: The Limits of the Slavic War 5.5.
595: The Illyrian War 5.6. The Avars' Western Policy and the Slavs 5.7.
598: Only the Plague Can Stop the Avars 5.8.
7. The Seventh Century 7.1. Consolidation and New Offensives 7.2. The Surprise Attack on the Emperor 7.3.
8. The Century of the Griffin 8.1. Ways of Life in Archaeological Evidence 8.2. The Hierarchy of the Late Avar State 8.3. Limes Certus: The Avars and the West 8.4. The Collapse of Avar Power 8.5. Why Did the Avars Disappear? 8.6. Conclusion Appendix: Amount of Subsidies Paid by Byzantiumto the Avars Abbreviations Notes Sources Bibliography Index.
The Avars arrived in Europe from the Central Asian steppes in the mid-sixth century CE and dominated much of Central and Eastern Europe for almost 250 years. Fierce warriors and canny power brokers, the Avars were more influential and durable than Attila's Huns, yet have remained hidden in history. Walter Pohl's epic narrative, translated into English for the first time, restores them to their rightful place in the story of early medieval Europe. The Avars offers a comprehensive overview of their history, tracing the Avars from the construction of their steppe empire in the center of Europe; their wars and alliances with the Byzantines, Slavs, Lombards, and others; their apex as the first so-called barbarian power to besiege Constantinople (in 626); to their fall under the Frankish armies of Charlemagne and subsequent disappearance as a distinct cultural group. Pohl uncovers the secrets of their society, synthesizing the rich archaeological record recovered from more than 60,000 graves of the period, as well as accounts of the Avars by Byzantine and other chroniclers. In recovering the story of the fascinating encounter between Eurasian nomads who established an empire in the heart of Europe and the post-Roman Christian cultures of Europe, this book provides a new perspective on the origins of medieval Europe itself.
Book — xiv, 223 pages : map, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe takes the familiar view of Eastern Europe, families, and conflicts and stands it on its head. Instead of a world rife with civil war and killing, this book presents a relatively structured environment where conflict is engaged in for the purposes of advancing one's position, and where death among the royal families is relatively rare. At the heart of this analysis is the use of situational kinship networks--relationships created by elites for the purposes of engaging in conflict with their own kin, but only for the duration of a particular conflict. A new image of medieval Eastern Europe, less consumed by civil war and mass death, will change the perception of medieval Eastern Europe in the minds of readers. This new perception is essential to not only present the past more accurately, but also to allow for medieval Eastern Europe's integration into the larger medieval world as something other than an aberrant other.
Book — xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Terry Cox is Professor of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His current research projects are on civil society and social policy in Eastern Europe.
Acclaimed historian, and retired Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European History at the University of Glasgow, Geoffrey Swain, has written extensively on the history of Russia and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century, in particular on Russia during the Civil War, Latvia during the first years of Soviet rule, and the career of Josip Broz Tito. Esteemed for his pursuit of historical enquiry which went "against the grain" of commonly accepted views of communism in power, significantly, Swain also explored the strength or coherence of some of the alternatives that emerged to the paths actually taken, themes which, in their own way, run through this collection of essays, featuring contributions predominantly from papers delivered at the 7th CRCEES Research Forum in July 2015. Honoring the critical tradition and at times contentious work of Geoffrey Swain, this volume comprises seven original articles offering alternative insights into the complexities of Russian, Yugoslav and Latvian history, which are complemented by three essays reviewing his work, it's context and implications. This book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Christian Herdt aus Nackenheim : oder : Wer verlässt schon freiwillig eine Weingegend?
Futok : Familie Herdt und ihr "Gwölb"
Nationalismus : von der deutschen Minderheit zum "Herrenvolk"
Wer kennt Gakovo, Rudolfsgnad, Jarek ...?
Kalte Heimat : oder : "Ich wäre lieber kein Donauschwabe gewesen"
Das zweite Dach : "Raus aus den Baracken"
Meine Eltern in der "Neuen Heimat"
Estella : "Meine Heimat ist im Himmel"
Futok, Futog : "Wen suchen wir hier?"
Mein Donauschwabien : "Jetzt ist es ein Teil von mir"
Book — xvi, 184 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Introduces the centuries-old history of Muslim communities in Eastern EuropeThe history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, survival, telling of the resilience of these Muslim communities in the face of often restrictive state policies and hostile social environments, especially during the Communist period. Next, their subsequent revival in the aftermath of the Cold War, and last, transformation, looking at the profound changes currently taking place in the demographic composition of the communities and in the forms of Islam practiced by them. The reader is shown a picture of the general trends common to the Muslim communities of Eastern Europe, and the special characteristics of clusters of states, such as the Baltics, the Balkans, the Visegrad states, and the European states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).Key FeaturesPlaces Muslim communities of Eastern Europe within their historical and pan-European context, establishing them as belonging in and to EuropeProvides an overview of the history and current trends in Muslim communities in 21 post-Communist Eastern European countriesAnalyses the situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe on a country-cluster basis (North-Eastern Europe: Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Moldova; the successor states of Yugoslavia: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia; South-Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Romania; Central Europe: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia)Provides an overview of the emerging trends in conversion to Islam among Eastern Europeans.
Pro-russische Trolle und Kritik am "Medienmainstream"
"Der Westen verliert den Informationskrieg"
Part 5. Travelers to strange lands.
5. Unexploded OrdnanceInterlude: Stepping Backward, Leaping ForwardPart II: Leaping Forward6. Reinvention of Self7. The Talented Tenth8. The New Dissidents9. The Next Generation10. Creating New WorldsConclusion: The Future of Illiberalism.
In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain was torn down - from politicians and scholars to trade unionists and grass roots activists. What he discovers makes for fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, reading. From the Polish scholar who left academia to become head of personnel at Ikea to the Hungarian politician who turned his back on liberal politics to join the far-right Jobbik party, Feffer meets a remarkable cast of characters. He finds that years of free-market reforms have failed to deliver prosperity, corruption and organized crime are rampant, while optimism has given way to bitterness and a newly invigorated nationalism. Even so, through talking to the region's many extraordinary activists, Feffer shows that against stiff odds hope remains for the region's future.


If technology were more like the fashion world, this fall would be the "in" season for small, color tablets. The runway shows would feature Amazon's Kindle Fire HD in September, Apple's iPad Mini in October and Barnes & Noble's Nook HD, available now.
Among this tablet trio, the Nook HD stands out with the highest-resolution small screen, and its redesigned interface continues to prove that Barnes & Noble, no doubt still a bookseller in the minds of some consumers, is taking software quite seriously.
Plenty of people will use the Nook HD for reading e-books or digital magazines and watching videos. To truly compete as a small tablet, however, it needs more apps: Only 10,000 apps are available for the Nook HD, while Amazon's Kindle Fire HD runs some 35,000 apps and Apple's App Store boasts over 275,000 iPad apps. The Nook HD has apps for Twitter, Dropbox and Flipboard, but none for Facebook, Yelp or Pandora.
The device's high-resolution screen (1,440 by 900 pixels) is a great way to watch video.
The Nook HD and the Kindle Fire HD, which both have 7-inch screens, start at $199. At that price, the Nook has half the storage of the Kindle Fire HD but the Kindle has preloaded ads. The 7.9-inch-screen iPad Mini starts at $329.
I've been using the Nook HD for the past week, and many of its new features make it a more complete, finished device. In particular, I liked how up to six people can share the device while maintaining separate accounts for privacy, though all must share the same payment source. Neither the Kindle Fire HD nor the iPad Mini has such a feature. This means Mom can keep her mystery novels from her 11-year-old, and she won't see her 11-year-old's games and apps. Content can also be shared among all users, and passwords are optional.
The Your Nook Today screen shows content suggestions based on user preferences — and the weather.
Barnes & Noble now offers Nook Video, where people can buy or rent content. Movie prices are comparable to Amazon Instant Video, though Amazon offers 48-hour rentals after the time the movie starts compared with Nook rentals, which are for 24 hours. Apple's iTunes movies cost less for some HD versions, such as "Ocean's Thirteen" and "Disclosure," which each cost $14.99 on iTunes vs. $19.99 on Nook Video or Amazon Instant Video.
Another new feature is Nook Catalogs, which lets users download free catalogs. Fewer than 100 company catalogs are now available, though this number should reach 100 in the next month, said a spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble. I downloaded Uncommon Goods, one of my favorite gift catalogs, and navigated directly from the catalog's pages to the company's Web site so I could buy items.
I used a new Scrapbook feature to virtually tear out and save pages from magazines and catalogs with a two-finger, downward swipe. I named one scrapbook "Gift Ideas." This can be shared across user profiles for gift-giving coordination.
Nook HD still has its flaws.
It's missing the front-facing camera found on rival devices, and this will disappoint Skype users. Newly designed digital newspapers, which users can subscribe to and receive automatically as editions become available, feel stripped down. The pages and sections in The Wall Street Journal on my Nook HD felt disjointed and too much like books; indeed, the Nook HD's version of the Journal excluded all videos.
The Nook HD allows several separate accounts on one device, and content can be shared across accounts.
On the device's browser, some videos didn't work in the small-screen player on WSJ.com and NYTimes.com, and videos on CNN.com didn't play without first downloading Adobe Flash Player. A Barnes & Noble spokeswoman said certain videos now only play in full-screen view on the browser. An update to fix this is planned.
In another unexpected wrinkle, I ran into an Android error message a couple of times. The Nook HD runs on a retooled version of Google's Android operating system, but no regular user should see Android-specific messages.
On the upside, the screen of this Nook HD is stunning. Text in e-books was clear and sharp. I watched "The Bucket List," and its scenes of snowcapped mountains looked breathtaking. At 1,440 by 900 pixels, the Nook HD's screen is better than Amazon's Kindle Fire HD (1,280 by 800) and especially the iPad Mini (1,024 by 768).
But as I watched the film, I noticed two things: One, the Nook HD speakers are loud enough for basic tasks — like email sound notifications — but didn't sound sufficiently loud for this movie and another one I watched. I plugged in my headphones, and the movie sounded fine.
Two, the back of the Nook HD feels soft, like other Nooks, but its frame is made of a plastic that makes it feel less refined than the polished, solid construction of the iPad Mini and Kindle Fire HD.
There are several ways to navigate the Nook HD interface. By tapping a little silver "n" just below the device's screen, I always returned to my home page, which showed recently opened books, newspapers, magazines, apps or daily editions of newspapers in something called the Active Shelf. Five circular icons at the bottom of the screen guided me to different sections of the device: Library, Apps, Web, Email or Shop.
A circle at the top right of the home screen called "Your Nook Today" suggests content each user might like based on preferences. Users must select at least one of these preferences during setup of the device. I think most will appreciate this feature, because it makes it easier to discover books and other content.
Barnes & Noble's Nook HD makes up for its ho-hum physical build with a remarkably good screen, and it does a nice job of helping users discover more content. But to play in prime time, it needs more apps that matter and fewer quirks.


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Marwice (niem. Marwitz) – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie zachodniopomorskim, w powiecie gryfińskim, w gminie Widuchowa.

31 grudnia 2008 r. wieś miała 204 mieszkańców.

Wymieniona po raz pierwszy w 1283 w dokumencie Księcia Pomorskiego Bogusława IV. W 1827 wydarzył się pożar, który strawił całą wieś wraz z kościołem. Po pożarze domy we wsi odbudowano szczytem do ulicy. Takie domy zachowały się jeszcze w północnej części wsi. Nowy kościół zbudowano w 1834 i jest to jedyny w okolicy przykład szachulcowej zabudowy sakralnej. W kościele zachował się dzwon z niemieckim napisem świadczącym o tragicznym pożarze w 1827. Ponadto we wsi  kilkusetletni dąb szypułkowy - pomnik przyrody o obwodzie 490 cm. Na wschód od wsi wczesnosłowiańskie grodzisko. Przez wieś przebiega trasa rowerowa. W 1959 podczas prac polowych jeden z mieszkańców odnalazł skarb prawie 400 srebrnych monet z lat 1580 – 1629 (belgijskie, austriackie, duńskie, szczecińskie, kamieńskie, bydgoskie, strzałowskie, węgierskie i z Hamburga – można je oglądać w Muzeum Narodowym w Szczecinie na Wałach Chrobrego.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość administracyjnie należała do województwa szczecińskiego.

We wsi stoi zabytkowy kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny.

Zobacz też
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Marwice (województwo zachodniopomorskie)

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HARTINGTON — Just like snow and cold temperatures arrived early this week, another early winter tradition will make its way here Friday.
The 18th annual Hartington Candlelight Christmas is set for Friday.
A snow date of Sunday, Nov. 18 has been announced, but the latest National Weather Service forecast indicates that might not be a concern. Temperatures are expected to reach highs in the 50s on Thursday and the thermometer should get into the high 40s on Friday.


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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discharged from the hospital after latest medical procedure
Posted: Jul 31, 2020 6:28 PM EST
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from a New York City hospital on Friday after her latest medical procedure, the court said. By Ariane de Vogue and Caroline Kelly, CNN
(CNN) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was discharged from a New York City hospital on Friday after her latest medical procedure, the court said.
"She is home and doing well," a statement from the court's public information office read.
Ginsburg had been hospitalized earlier this week for a nonsurgical procedure to replace a bile duct stent that was originally placed last year, the court said. It was her second trip to the hospital in July, and comes two weeks after the 87-year-old justice announced her cancer had returned.
Earlier this month, Ginsburg was treated for a possible infection at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after having a fever and chills, undergoing an "endoscopic procedure to clean out a bile duct stent that was placed last August," the court said at the time.
Ginsburg also announced on July 17 -- after the Supreme Court had completed a blockbuster term -- that a scan in February had revealed lesions on her liver.
According to her statement, the pancreatic cancer Ginsburg was treated for in 2009 has returned again, this time in her liver, and she tried one of the new immunotherapies for cancer, but it failed to shrink the tumors. The biweekly chemotherapy she is undergoing is yielding "positive results," she said at the time.
Due to her age and long medical history, Ginsburg's health has drawn widespread interest given her status as a liberal icon. The prospect that President Donald Trump could name a third justice to the Supreme Court would also be a major election issue.
Ginsburg has had several bouts with cancer. She had radiation therapy for the pancreatic cancer in 2019 and had some tumors taken out of a lung in 2018. She had colon cancer in 1999.
But Ginsburg has proven adept at doing her job without interruption despite her health issues. When the justices heard oral arguments by telephone in May due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ginsburg participated from her hospital room while recovering from a benign gallbladder condition.
This story has been updated with additional background information.
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If you can't even concede that Florida is a perennial swing state than I'm not sure why you engage on these threads. This is a forum, not an Ed Krassen tweet where everyone already agrees with the partisan view spouted.
Snooze, where is the log sawing emoji.
When`s the last time a governor was a democrat in Florida?
If you don't believe me how about Nate Silver?
"That's not all that surprising in a perpetual swing state like Florida."
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You obviously missed him "tweaking" his model during Tuesday night after it made the Republicans favs. They were matched at 1.3 to win the house on Betfair.
Last edited by SlimChance; 10th November 2018 at 1:20 AM.
4chan was the first link I found to the tweet.
If you are tweaking your model in the middle of an event to get your desired result then put your model in the bin and start again. That applies to any field not just politics and Nate Silver.
Mathematically it's always close, but still tends to give you the same type of result 80% of the time regardless of the efforts made there. I think there's a lot of hardcoded votes there with very little flux. I think it also has one of the best voter suppression regimes in America as well (although Georgia might have usurped their crown on that one!).
Think this might hit the nail on the head. Good old Nate and his crew had nice forecasting templates for each State, where among other info they have a partisan lean. In Florida's case it is 5,4% Republican. Yet their own forecasting model came out for about a 70% chance of a Democrat winning the senate race. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...enate/florida/.
That thing about hard coded votes could be spot on which might go a way to explain the 80% result regardless of the effort.
Fact is no Democrat has been gov. in Florida since 1998 when Jeb Bush won the race. At that time for the first time you had a Republican led state legislature and a Republican gov. They enacted all kinds of legislation to make Florida as attractive as possible for wealthy older/retired voters. It accelerated in country migration in big chunks.
Lots of other interesting stuff in there. Today one in five people is a senior and net migration is skewed toward old. According to this paper one in four will be a senior by 2040.
Seniors are traditionally more conservative and in Florida they seem to have some of the more rabid Trump voters especially among women. The Trumpettes et.al.
In the short/medium term It's going to take a lot of felons (assuming they will vote and vote Democrat) to move the needle in the other direction.
Who knows, if that sick in the brain maniac Trump has any kind of success with his "immigration policies" external migration (out of country) might slow down as well.
He already has 5500 military personnel stationed at the Mexican border to squash the invasion from south of the border. To paraphrase the wannabe great emperor "If they throw rocks it's like holding a gun".
Great. So we are all agreed that it is factually correct to call Florida a swing state. Let's move on.


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Q: Start a Windows application and feed in username and password automatically I have a set of apps that I would like to open on startup. They require a username and a password in order to login. Once you feed those in and press LogIn, a confirmation message asks to confirm whether you want to login or not.
Can this be done using CMD or PowerShell ?
eg:
> Start <path>/App1 | Username ; Password | Press OK
> Start <path>/App2 | Username ; Password | Press OK

A: Maybe this is helpful for you:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

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    $win32UserDLL = Add-Type –memberDefinition @"
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    public static extern bool BringWindowToTop(IntPtr hWnd);
"@ -name "Win32SetFocus" -namespace Win32Functions –passThru

    switch( $action ) {
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            [void]$win32UserDLL::SetFocus($mainWindowHandle)
        }
        'BringWindowToTop' {
            [void]$win32UserDLL::BringWindowToTop($mainWindowHandle)
        }
    }
}

$appName = "myApp"

$handle = (Get-Process | where { $_.ProcessName -like $appName }).MainWindowHandle | where { $_ -ne 0 }

$handle

win32UserDLL -mainWindowHandle $handle -action SetFocus

[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("Username")
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{TAB}")
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("Password")
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{ENTER}")

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Lisiny – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim, w powiecie rypińskim, w gminie Rogowo.

Podział administracyjny
W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa włocławskiego.

Demografia
Według Narodowego Spisu Powszechnego (III 2011 r.) liczyła 57 mieszkańców. Jest 26. co do wielkości miejscowością gminy Rogowo.

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Wildlife trafficking ruins lives and threatens security and economies around the world.
The illicit trade in wildlife products is predicated on the deaths of defenseless iconic animal species, many of which face extinction as a result of this rapidly growing enterprise — and its effects are felt far and wide.
The scale of the problem has exploded in recent years, and policymakers are working to turn the tide before it's too late. A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would help clamp down on this illegal trade — and protect U.S. security in the process.
Here are a few things you probably didn't know about wildlife trafficking.
1. Wildlife trafficking poses a threat to international security.
The killing of African elephants for ivory is linked to organized crime, and many believe it is linked to the funding of terrorist networks. Areas controlled by militants and gangs are used as staging areas for smuggling illegal ivory, and the profits from poaching are used to fund weapons purchases. In 2012, Sudanese raiders, believed to be members of the notorious Janjaweed militia, killed an estimated 300 elephants in Cameroon's Bouba N'Djida National Park. The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), one of Africa's oldest, most violent, and persistent armed militias, has been linked to elephant slaughters in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Ivory trafficking is also believed to provide funding to Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group.
Wildlife trafficking is a global problem not limited to Africa. As the head of the Elephant Trade Information System told The New York Times, Asia is the source of much of the demand for trafficked wildlife goods — and home to many organized crime syndicates responsible for trafficking of wildlife from Africa and other regions.
2. The loss of iconic species is worse than you think.
It was a story as absurd as it was sad: In April, news outlets reported that an aging northern white rhino in Kenya had been placed under 24-hour armed guard in a last-gasp bid to save the species. In 1960, there were as many as 2,300 of these animals in the wild; there are now just five. Hunted for their horns — wrongly believed to have medicinal properties — many species of rhino are at dire risk of extinction.
Elephants also confront severe threats. The animal so closely identified with Africa is being slaughtered for its ivory at the pace of nearly 100 animals a day across the continent; according to a recent study, the population of forest elephants in central Africa fell by 62% between 2002 and 2011.
Tigers, meanwhile, are sought by poachers for nearly every part of their bodies, from their pelts to their teeth — even male tigers' penises are considered to have medicinal value. The world has lost more than 90% of wild tigers in just over a century, a number that is likely to grow.
3. Protecting these animals in the wild is extraordinarily difficult.
Animals know no borders. Even if they did, the species hunted by poachers traverse some of the most remote and inaccessible habitats on Earth. Monitoring these areas is challenging in the best of circumstances — and much trafficking activity happens outside of wildlife areas, according to experts.
In the worst of circumstances, it is a deadly enterprise. The rangers who patrol Africa's protected areas are up against heavily-armed poachers. Between July 2013 and July 2014, 56 rangers died on duty, with poachers and militia responsible for 29 of those deaths, according to the International Ranger Federation. Often equipped with little more than a rifle, a few bullets and a machete, rangers routinely square off against poachers carrying military-style equipment such as AK-47 rifles and night vision goggles.
4. Wildlife trafficking is also killing local economies in Africa.
How bad is it? The loss to tourism of a single elephant over its lifetime is more than US$ 1.6 million, according to a recent report from the iworry campaign of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. These animals are truly worth more alive than dead.
5. The U.S. is actually poised to do something about this — and you can help.
A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives — H.R. 2494, the Global Anti-Poaching Act — seeks to support global anti-poaching efforts and to strengthen the capacity of partner countries to counter wildlife trafficking. The bill strengthens wildlife enforcement networks; enables the withholding of aid to countries that fail to adhere to international agreements on the illegal species trade; makes wildlife trafficking violations subject to money laundering and racketeering prosecutions; and authorizes provision of security assistance and equipment to help African countries fight wildlife poaching and trafficking.
You can also get regular updates from Conservation International on these and other issues by signing up here.
Bruno Vander Velde is CI's editorial director. Want to read more stories like this? Sign up for email updates here. Donate to Conservation International here.
As long as there are people willing to pay for animal parts, those animals will be under siege. The hunters would simply stop hunting them should the profits disappear. It's truly sad for the tigers and elephants and it may not be long before we put them on the extinct list along the hundreds of others that are no more in recent decades.
Simply heartbreaking. I've been following animal conservation news for a while now (been reading more about elephants and tigers lately) and it just makes me so sad.
Tigers are on the endangered species list. Between 2000 – 2010 alone, more than 480 cases of tiger smuggling were uncovered through analysis of the conservation agencies WWF & TRAFFIC. It is estimated that there are only 3000 to 4,200 tigers left in the World as remaining populations decline. Most of these animals live in India.
Please stop trafficking. Protect our wildlife.
On July 27 Nabire passed away in a zoo in the Czech Republic.. so now there are only 4 northern white rhinos remaining… a real tragedy to loose such a magnificent creature.
I am so disgusted and angered by the devastating losses of all wildlife and, particularly, all of the endangered species. It is disgusting that they are threatened by poaching because of some people's stupid, unjustified beliefs that their body parts serve any kind of medicinal purpose. And what is even worse is that Africa allows these rich, egotistical idiot hunters to kill these endangered species all in the name of greed and love of money. They should be ashamed of themselves and all should be locked up behind bars. It is an outrage that they allow this stupidity to continue. So sad that it won't be long before our future generations will only be able to see these majestic animals in books. All because of GREEDY, MONEY HUNGRY MEN.
Please try very hard to get the power of our Congress behind the opposition to the slaughtering of wildlife, particularly in Africa.
How do we become a co-sponsor?
NOTHING will change until we get a new Congress with members that actually CARE about wildlife. Look how the GOTP party is always trying to gut our Endangered Species Act so they can take our US PUBLIC LANDS that the wildlife live on and give it away for free to cattle ranchers, mining, oil and gas and logging interests.
I don't think they give a damn if elephants, lions, tigers and any other species become extinct because they would disappoint their rich trophy hunting buddies.


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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy.
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, and has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting's novel qualities include the subject's expression, which is frequently described as enigmatic, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism.
The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the north side of the entrance of the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed. It is also the only known sculpture created by a prominent name from the Renaissance era that was installed in St. Peter's Basilica that was accepted by the Chapter of St. Peter.
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. David is a 5.17-metre marble statue of the Biblical figure David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. David was originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, but was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo Vecchio, the seat of civic government in Florence, in the Piazza della Signoria, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504. The statue was moved to the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, in 1873, and later replaced at the original location by a replica.


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Katekyou Hitman Reborn. GREAT anime, in my opinion.
I'll have to give it a watch!
No problem, it's too bad no one cosplays (or sells) the true forms of the rings (I guess those would be a lot harder to make).


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Study Finds Wearable Electronic Device May Reduce Mobility Issues in Parkinson's Disease
A wearable electronic device, called 'cueStim', designed by researchers at NUI Galway to prevent or relieve Freezing of Gait, a movement abnormality associated with Parkinson's disease. Photo: NUI Galway
Jan 23 2019 Posted: 09:52 GMT
Wednesday, 23 January, 2018: Engineers and scientists at NUI Galway in collaboration with clinical professionals from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) have carried out a clinical study which has produced promising results for people with Parkinson's disease with mobility issues.
The research found that 'fixed' rhythmic sensory electrical stimulation (sES) designed to prevent Freezing of Gait (movement abnormality), significantly reduced the time taken for a person with Parkinson's disease to complete a walking task and the number of 'Freezing of Gait' episodes which occurred, helping them to walk more effectively. The study involved a group of people with Parkinson's testing how effective the sES electronic device was in helping them to manage this debilitating motor symptom of Parkinson's disease. The findings of the study were published in the Journal of Healthcare Engineering.
Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin and the research team from the Human Movement Laboratory in CÚRAM at NUI Galway have a programme of research developing a suite of unobtrusive, wearable electronic devices to help manage this debilitating motor symptom of Parkinson's disease. As part of this work, the project team have developed a novel wearable electronic device worn around the waist, called 'cueStim', designed to prevent or relieve Freezing of Gait, commonly described by people with Parkinson's, as a feeling as if their feet are stuck or glued to the floor preventing them from moving forward.
The condition gained prominence recently when Billy Connolly spoke of his fear of being unable to move freely on stage in his documentary Made in Scotland.
Speaking candidly about the abnormality, the much loved comedian said: "I didn't know how standing there would feel...I discovered that I got kinda rooted to the spot and became afraid to move. Instead of going away to the front of the stage and prowling along the front the way I used to do I stood where I was."
NUI Galway Co-investigator, Dr. Leo Quinlan, from Physiology in the School of Medicine at NUI Galway, said: "These results are very encouraging as they show that cueStim reduced Freezing of Gait episodes and the time to complete a walking task in an independent clinical assessment with a pilot home-based study carried out by NHSGGC."
Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin, said: "We are now seeking additional clinical partners to work with NUI Galway in carrying out a comprehensive long-term clinical evaluation of cueStim in enhancing the quality of life of people with Parkinson's disease through a funded programme of research."
The clinical study was designed by Dr Anne-Louise Cunnington, Consultant Geriatrician and Ms Lois Rosenthal, Movement Disorder Specialist and Highly Specialised Physiotherapist, both from NHSGGC, and involved the participants completing a home based self-identified walking
Ms Lois Rosenthal, NHSGGC, said: "Freezing of gait is one of the most frustrating and difficult symptoms for patients to suffer and specialists to treat. This common feature of Parkinson's is not improved by Parkinson's medications, and is inconsistently responsive to cueing techniques trialled by physiotherapists. This collaboration between NUI Galway and NHSGGC explored a novel intervention and results were very encouraging. We now need a larger scale study to further evaluate effectiveness and real-life practicality."
The cueStim system was developed by Dean Sweeney as part of his PhD studies in the Discipline of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway. The results provide evidence that sensory electrical stimulation cueing delivered in a "fixed" rhythmic manner has the potential to be an effective cueing mechanism for Freezing of Gait prevention.
The study was jointly funded by Science Foundation Ireland and the Framework 7 programme of the European Commission and was carried out in collaboration with Stobhill Hospital and Glasgow Royal Infirmary within NHSGGC.
To read the full study in the Journal of Healthcare Engineering, visit: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jhe/2018/4684925/.
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The two on the left were treated with iron; the darker one was premordanted, while the lighter one sat in an iron afterbath for about thirty minutes.
The brown skeins were treated with copper; again, the darker one on the left was mordanted before dyeing, while the lighter one was immersed in a copper afterbath.
Care must be taken not to use too strong a mordant solution, as I understand it can damage the fibres over time.
I premordanted the skeins by weighing the fibre and using about 7% of that weight when measuring out the mordant, plus an equal amount of cream of tartar. The afterbaths were made with a quarter teaspoon of mordant dissolved in three cups of boiling water. I'm keeping the solutions in labelled jars, should I want to use them as afterbaths again.
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Dit geslacht is monotypisch, dat wil zeggen dat het maar één soort heeft namelijk Cesa waggae (Sharpe, 1898) uit Somalië.

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Fortum and Uniper reaching first milestones in strategic "One Team" cooperation
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FORTUM CORPORATION PRESS RELEASE 10.5.2021
Fortum and Uniper have jointly finalised the first planning phase in the three strategic cooperation areas of Nordic hydro and physical trading optimisation, wind and solar development, and hydrogen. Under the proposed plans, Fortum would lead the operations of both companies' Nordic hydro assets in the future. Uniper, meanwhile, would take the lead in the development of both companies' wind and solar as well as hydrogen business.
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One Team: Nordic Hydro and Physical Trading Optimisation
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The combined Nordic hydro and physical trading optimisation activities would be led by Simon-Erik Ollus, head of Fortum's Generation division. These businesses employ around 400 people mainly in Sweden and Finland.
One Team: Wind and solar development
Fortum and Uniper plan to establish a joint organisation for European onshore wind and solar activities. The initial focus will be on the most attractive European markets, starting from existing core regions. As announced in December 2020, Fortum and Uniper plan to grow a sizeable portfolio of onshore wind and solar-based power generation, primarily in Europe. The target is to build 1.5-2 Gigawatt of new capacity by 2025.
The combined approach for European onshore wind and solar would establish a joint renewables development business under the leadership of Uniper. It would bundle the competences in solar and wind development, asset and operations management as well as expansion planning and commercialization to fully leverage the existing competences and different geographical footprints of both Uniper and Fortum. A special focus would be taken on project development to enable sizeable growth through a build-operate-transfer (BOT) business model and selective investments on balance sheet.
Fortum's and Uniper's combined wind and solar activities would be led by Uniper's CEO Klaus-Dieter Maubach.
One Team: Hydrogen business
Uniper is an industry pioneer in the development of hydrogen capabilities. Uniper's presence throughout the hydrogen value chain, combined with Fortum's strong presence in the Nordic countries, gives both companies the opportunity to take a leading position in the future hydrogen market. According to the plan, the joint approach for the hydrogen business under the leadership of Uniper will include the complementary technical and commercial capabilities of both companies. The new operating model for hydrogen will facilitate the development of a joint project and deal pipeline.
Building on this first mover position, Fortum's and Uniper's combined hydrogen business would be led by Uniper's COO David Bryson.
Creating cooperation benefits for both companies
In December 2020, Fortum and Uniper announced that they have together identified cooperation benefits with a positive cash impact of approximately EUR 100 million annually on a consolidated Group basis. More than EUR 50 million of these annual benefits are estimated to be achieved by the end of 2023, with full effect of ca. EUR 100 million annually in 2025. The estimated cooperation benefits for Fortum and Uniper cover a wide variety of business initiatives – "One Team" Nordic hydro and physical trading optimisation activities being one of the main sources of estimated long-term benefits. As a whole, the benefit realisation in identified cooperation areas has proceeded as planned during the first quarter 2021.
Fortum Corporation
Fortum News Desk, newsdesk [at] fortum [dot] com, +358 40 1982843
Per-Oscar Hedman, News Desk Sweden, per-oscar [dot] hedman [at] fortum [dot] com, +46 702 147 545
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Uniper Press Team, info [at] uniper [dot] energy
Roger Strandahl, Uniper Sweden, +46 725 16 19 16
Georg Opperman, Spokesperson Uniper, +49 178 439 4847
No decisions have been taken yet on concrete measures described hereon as these need to be further elaborated and assessed by Fortum and Uniper. Any final decision will be taken separately in the best interest of Fortum and Uniper, respectively, and all their stakeholders. All business cooperation between Fortum and Uniper is subject to the arms-length principle. The proposals for One Team organisations announced by Fortum in December 2020 are based on assessments made independently by both Fortum and Uniper. Fortum and Uniper have committed to the Group strategy in the best interest of the respective company and all their stakeholders.
About Uniper
Uniper is an international energy company with around 12,000 employees in more than 40 countries. The company plans to make its power generation CO2-neutral in Europe by 2035. With about 35 GW of installed generation capacity, Uniper is among the largest global power generators. Its main activities include power generation in Europe and Russia as well as global energy trading, including a diversified gas portfolio that makes Uniper one of Europe's leading gas companies. In 2020, Uniper had a gas turnover of more than 220 bcm. Uniper is also a reliable partner for municipalities, public utilities, and industrial companies for developing and implementing innovative, CO2-reducing solutions on their way to decarbonising their activities. As a pioneer in the field of hydrogen, Uniper is active worldwide along the entire value chain and is implementing projects to make hydrogen usable as a mainstay of energy supply. The company is headquartered in Düsseldorf and currently the third-largest listed German utility. Together with its main shareholder Fortum, Uniper is also the third-largest producer of CO2-free energy in Europe.


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Ha introdotto nuove tecniche chirurgiche e si è battuto per l'affermazione in campo sociopolitico di teorie scientifiche in materia di salute pubblica. Attento ai temi dell'etica medica e allo studio della realtà individuale, è considerato un medico filosofo. Ricordato inoltre come fondatore della Società di Medicina e Chirurgia di Porto.

Biografia

Famiglia e formazione
Antonio D'Azevedo Maia nacque a Porto il 9 Febbraio 1851 e vi morì il 2 Maggio 1912, all'età di sessantuno anni. Immatricolatosi nel 1869 alla Scuola Medico-Chirurgica di Porto, si laureerà nel 1874, all'età di ventitré anni, con un'estesa dissertazione dal titolo Nem o organicismo nem o vitalismo exclusivos são verdadeiros (Né l'organicismo né il vitalismo esclusivo sono veri), opera di grande interesse scientifico per il valore e la modernità delle tesi sostenute.

Nel 1877 sposa Norberta Cândida Pereira de Sousa dalla quale, l'anno successivo, avrà un figlio, Adriano, che diventerà un brillante uomo politico.

Ambiente storico-culturale
Gli anni della formazione di Antonio Maia, dal 1851 al 1868, furono caratterizzati, in Portogallo, da significativi avvenimenti sul piano storico-politico. Tre mesi dopo la sua nascita, il 1º maggio 1851, un'insurrezione militare rovesciò il governo di Costa Cabral, dando inizio alla Regeneração ("Rigenerazione"). Antonio D'Azevedo Maia vive la Rigenerazione: la sua formazione accademica e i suoi ideali sono profondamente segnati da questo movimento, che si proponeva di instaurare il liberalismo. Di certo anche la storia della medicina portoghese beneficiò del clima di rinascita che si respirava sul piano politico, trovando proprio in Antonio D'Azevedo Maia un'importante figura di riferimento.

Medico
Antonio D'Azevedo Maia viene ricordato come uno dei principali fautori del processo di modernizzazione della medicina portoghese del Novecento. A questo proposito è opportuno citare il "primo grande intervento ginecologico" nel 1888: un'ovariectomia per fibrosarcoma.

Le conferenze che organizzerà per la SUM (Sociedade União Médica, Società Unione Medica) e le discussioni iniziate tra i gruppi guidati da Antonio D'Azevedo Maia e Ricardo Jorge appassionavano profondamente la classe medica di Porto, dando origine più tardi alla Società di Medicina e Chirurgia di Porto, la cui inaugurazione avvenne il 26 aprile 1897.

La lotta alla tubercolosi
Intanto nel 1879 Albert Neisser scopriva il gonococco e un'ondata di discussioni in campo medico coinvolse le giovani menti d'Europa. Uno dei problemi più discussi nell'amministrazione della sanità pubblica era la tubercolosi ed i suoi effetti di incremento della mortalità. Antonio D'Azevedo Maia vive quest'epoca di fermenti in campo scientifico mentre tiene il Corso per la Cattedra di Medicina legale della Università di Porto. Organizza in quegli anni per la SUM diverse conferenze aventi ad oggetto la tubercolosi, criticando l'assenza di regolamenti di profilassi fondati e praticabili da parte del Governo.

La Società Unione Medica trattò ampiamente la problematica della tubercolosi polmonare e proprio Antonio D'Azevedo Maia espose le prime considerazioni scientifiche sul contagio della "malattia del torace", affermando che gli studi sviluppati in questo campo sarebbero stati di enorme interesse per le generazioni successive di medici. Antonio D'Azevedo Maia presentò alla seduta della SUM dell'8 febbraio 1898 diversi studi che aveva raccolto negli ultimi anni e affermando che
Si riferiva all'emanazione del decreto-legge del 12 aprile 1894 che imponeva la denuncia alle autorità in caso di contrazione della malattia e che, a detta di Antonio D'Azevedo Maia, era un provvedimento con previsioni impraticabili e quindi inutile.

Intanto, nel 1882, Robert Koch scopriva l'agente eziologico della tubercolosi noto come il bacillo di Koch (Mycobacterium tubercolosis). Più tardi, durante la terza conferenza organizzata dalla Società Unione Medica, Antonio D'Azevedo Maia focalizzò l'attenzione sui due profili di analisi che sono alla base della sua teoria. In primo luogo sostenne che la diffusione della tubercolosi non era stata sufficientemente dimostrata in quanto sussisterebbe una fragile relazione tra la presenza del bacillo di Koch e la comparsa di lesioni tubercolari nel corpo. In secondo luogo, che il bacillo della tubercolosi, potendo essere trattato sia come ospite del corpo, sia come agente migratorio e quindi trasmissibile, non giustificasse appieno la tubercolosi umana. Antonio D'Azevedo Maia ha sviluppato importanti riflessioni circa la predisposizione per l'insorgenza della tubercolosi negli esseri umani, sottolineando come tale patologia potesse essere ereditaria o acquisita. Ha evidenziato, infine,  l'importanza di alcune misure di igiene pubblica, dalla sputacchiera alla polvere impiegata per la disinfezione domestica e di alcuni canali della città. Per quanto attiene al trattamento terapeutico della tubercolosi, Antonio D'Azevedo Maia propose la combinazione di "medicamenti bacillicidi", che provocano la morte del bacillo, e "medicamenti bacillifugi", che rendono l'ambiente incompatile con la vita del bacillo e quindi ne prevengono la comparsa.

Docente universitario
La dissertazione di uno studente dal titolo Brevi Considerazioni sui Segni della Morte documenta che Antonio D'Azevedo Maia, già nel 1875, era docente del Corso di Patologia Generale per la Cattedra di Medicina Legale della Scuola Medico-Chirurgica di Porto. Nel 1880 è ordinario di Fisiologia; nel 1891 di Clinica medica. Sempre nel 1891 Maia esaminò Laurinda de Moraes Sarmento, che fu la prima donna ad essersi iscritta alla Scuola Medico-Chirurgica di Porto e ad aver concluso un percorso accademico di durata quinquennale.

Si possono distinguere quattro fasi dell'attività di docente universitario di Antonio D'Azevedo Maia:
 dal 1875 al 1880 ricopre diversi ruoli, prima figura come "messo in attesa", quindi come Segretario della commissione d'esame ed infine come docente del Corso di Patologia Generale. In questo periodo seguì diversi studenti ed ebbe modo di affidare tesi quali: Rheumatismo articular agudo (1875), Do Eucalyptus Globulus. Seus effeitos na economia humana (1876), Salinas sob o ponto de vista hygienico (1876), Um caso clinico de epithelioma da lingua (1876), Da patogeni da Febre (1877), Algumas palavras sobre Thermometria clinica (1878), Breves considerações a acção physiologica do sulfato de quinina (1879);
 dal 1880 al 1888 è ordinario di Fisiologia, considerata una cattedra molto prestigiosa;
 quello dal 1888 al 1908 è il periodo di maggiore stabilità, nel quale porterà, in qualità di Ordinario di Clinica medica, la Scuola e la Società mediche di Porto alla loro massima affermazione;
 dal 1908 al 1911 già ritiratosi dall'insegnamento, partecipa ancora alla vita accademica presiedendo commissioni universitarie e accademiche.

L'esperienza didattica portò Antonio D'Azevedo Maia a sviluppare quelle intuizioni giovanili, espresse già nella sua tesi di laurea, rendendolo un personaggio chiave della storia della medicina portoghese del Novecento. Lo si ricorda infatti come ispiratore di quei giovani medici che costituirono il punto di riferimento per lo sviluppo della scienza medica portoghese per oltre un secolo.

Opere

Né l'organicismo né il vitalismo esclusivo sono veri

Antonio D'Azevedo Maia dissertò la sua tesi di laurea dal titolo Nem o organicismo nem o vitalismo exclusivos são verdadeiros (Né l'organicismo né il vitalismo esclusivo sono veri) nel 1874. Si tratta di un'opera dallo spiccato interesse scientifico, che presenta tesi molto avanzate per il tempo in cui furono concepite. Vengono trattati i due sistemi medici: l'organicismo e il vitalismo, di cui Antonio D'Azevedo Maia critica le pretese di esclusività e di veridicità. Egli sottolinea quanto il tentativo di "semplificare la medicina" per "ridurla" a "scienza esatta" significhi "negare l'esistenza scientifica della biologia".

L'opera si apre con un'"avvertenza preliminare" nella quale l'autore fa chiarezza riguardo alle "circostanze altamente sfavorevoli in cui è stata realizzata". Si tratta, probabilmente, delle considerazioni che, all'orecchio della commissione, sarebbero potute sembrare più adatte ad un filosofo piuttosto che ad un medico. Dopo tali avvertimenti l'autore inizia ad esporre le sue tesi, strutturando l'opera in tre parti. Nella prima cerca di dimostrare le tracce dell'influenza che la filosofia ha costantemente esercitato nei secoli sulla medicina, spiegando che l'interpretazione inverosimile di un fatto sperimentale scaturisce dall'organicismo e dal vitalismo. Nella seconda parte esamina rapidamente le applicazioni patologiche e terapeutiche dell'una e dell'altra delle dottrine esclusive. Nel terza, infine, aggiunge alcune considerazioni al fine di dimostrare che dalla fusione tra organicismo e vitalismo, spogliati delle rispettive pretese ontologiche, emerge un sistema razionale che definisce la modalità più adeguata per ricercare la verità. Antonio D'Azevedo Maia è convinto che la scienza, per proseguire il suo processo evolutivo, prenda continuamente spunto da dottrine tra loro antitetiche; in quest'ottica la medicina senza la filosofia, quindi l'etica, non può esistere. Non è un caso che l'autore inizi la trattazione citando Galeno: "Ogni medico è allo stesso tempo filosofo".

Il diritto primo dell'ammalato

Antonio D'Azevedo Maia tratta frequentemente il rapporto medico-paziente, analizzandolo sotto le lenti dell'etica e della bioetica. La medicina, secondo Antonio D'Azevedo Maia, ha quindi l'obbligo di trattare il paziente non solo nella dimensione del microscopico e quindi della malattia, ma anche nella prospettiva della complessità della sua realtà individuale, pensieri e sensazioni inclusi. Nella concezione dell'Autore, se venisse a mancare lo studio della realtà individuale e prevalesse lo studio del microscopico, quindi della microbiologia, si attuerebbe un "frazionamento infinito" che avrebbe come unico risultato l'annullamento del paziente in quanto entità reale. Ecco spiegato quindi il primo diritto dell'ammalato: il diritto di essere considerato innanzitutto come individuo.

Pubblicazioni
Antonio Maia è anche autore di diverse pubblicazioni in forma di articolo su rivista. Tra questi è da segnalare O gonococco em medicina legal: um discurso pronunciado na noite de 21 de junho de 1897 por Antonio D'Azevedo Maia in Conferencia realisada na Sociedade União Medica do Porto em sessão de 14 de junho de 1897 pelo socio titular Arthur Cardoso Pereira. Il titolo completo di questo libretto è O estado actual da questão do gonococco na medicina legal e os processos da sua investigação. A propósito de dois casos medico-legaes nos tribunaes militares portuguezes. Si tratta della conferenza, sviluppata in più sessione, nella quale Antonio D'Azevedo Maia espone le sue tesi ed osservazioni sulla "lotta alla tubercolosi".

Note

Bibliografia
 Antonio Coimbra, A modernização da medicina portuense na primeira metade do século XX (continuação), in «Nortemédico», anno 11 - n. 3, 2009, pp. 34–37
 Laurinda de Moraes Sarmento, Breves Considerações sobre Hygiene do Vestuario Femino, Porto 1891, pp. 128
 Melania Anna Duca, Oporto. XIX Secolo, Nuovi itinerari di Storia della medicina, in Antonio D'Azevedo Maia - Né l'organicismo né il vitalismo esclusivo sono veri, Levante Editori, Bari 2012, pp. 23-51
 Antonio Maia Gonçalves, Para uma História Médica Portuense II, in Nortemédico, anno 2 - n. 3, 2000, pp. 18-21
 Antonio D'Azevedo Maia - Nem o organicismo nem o vitalismo exclusivos são verdadeiros, Porto 1874, pp. 80
 Bernardino Vicente Pinheiro Ramos, Breves Considerações sobre Signaes da Morte, Porto 1875, pp. 36
 Andreia Reis, Doenças Infecto Contagiosas, in A Circulação de Informação Médica. Análise da revista médica portuense "A Medicina Moderna" (1894-1898), Porto 2009, pp. 221

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Police body camera hearing delayed
Jim Redden
Thursday City Council meeting is cancelled, postponing hearing on potentially controversial pilot project funding.
A City Council hearing scheduled for Thursday on a police body camera pilot project was cancelled late Tuesday.
Mayor Ted Wheeler's office said there seemed to be a lot of confusion surrounding the request for proposals to be considered by the council, so they wanted to give the other members of the counci more time to hear about it and have a chance to understand it better.
A hearing on the measure introduced by Wheeler, who is Police Commissioner, has not yet been rescheduled. Here is a summary of the issue:
What is the City Council considering? A measure to authorize $1.6 million for a pilot project for body cameras for Portland police had been on the agenda for Thursday, March 14.
Why is this important? Some criminal justice experts believe body-worn cameras are one of the best tools for understanding what police actually do in the field, especially after controversial incidents, such as police shootings. Video of such incidents can provide a more reliable record of what led up to them, how the police reacted, and whether the reactions were justified.
Why just a pilot project? Despite their obvious benefits, body-worn cameras are controversial.
Some law enforcement authorities argue the videos do not always give a complete picture of what happened. There may be other people or vehicles outside the range captured on video. They also can malfunction.
Some civil libertarians say police use of such cameras can be invasive, capturing video of people in crisis in private locations without their permission.
And the actual costs of operating a bureauwide police camera system are not yet known, including the cost of storing and editing requested video for public release.
How long has the council been considering the issue? The use of such cameras came to prominence after a series of controversial officer-involved shootings nearly a decade ago. A 2013 survey of 500 police agencies found that less than 25 percent used them. Then-President Barack Obama voiced support for them and the U.S. Department of Justice made $23 million in grants available for pilot projects.
The Portland Police Bureau first began looking into them in 2014, seeking public feedback in 2015. The council approved $834,000 in one-time funds and $1.6 million in ongoing funds in the 2016-17 budget, but not all of the money was spent. Instead, the Oregon Legislature decided to weigh in on the issue, holding hearings and eventually setting guidelines for their use.
Other law enforcement agencies in the region already have deployed such cameras, including the Oregon State Police, the Washington County Sheriff's Office, the Beaverton and Hillsboro police departments, and the Portland State University Police Department.
When could the pilot project begin? If the council approves the ordinance, the project could begin in early 2020, following more public outreach by the police and additional approval by the council.
What can I do? The ordinance is introduced by Mayor Ted Wheeler, who is the police commissioner. His office number is 503-823-4120 and he can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., @tedwheeler, and Mayor Ted Wheeler, 1221 S.W. Fourth Ave., Room 340, Portland, OR 97204
You can read the ordinance at http://tinyurl.com/yytqlqbv.


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Q: Return 'next' and print message from a tryCatch function to skip to the next loop iteration I want to use tryCatch() to check if packages are installed from within a loop, and then return next to break out and skip to the next iteration of the loop if the package failed to load or install. At the same time, I want to return a message to the console reporting this. I can do one, or the other, but I am having trouble figuring out how to do both at the same time. For example, this work:
package_list<-c("ggplot2", "grid", "plyr")

for(p in package_list){

  # check if package can't be loaded
  if(!require(p,character.only=TRUE,quietly=TRUE,warn.conflicts=FALSE)){

    write(paste0("Attempting to install package: ",p), stderr())

    # try to install & load the packages, give a message upon failure
    tryCatch(install.packages(p,repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/"),
             warning = function(e){write(paste0("Failed to install pacakge: ", p), stderr())},
             error = function(e){write(paste0("Failed to install pacakge: ", p), stderr())})
    tryCatch(library(p,character.only=TRUE,verbose=FALSE),
             warning = function(e){write(paste0("Failed to install pacakge: ", p), stderr())},
             error = function(e){write(paste0("Failed to install pacakge: ", p), stderr())})

    # try to install & load the packages, skip to next loop iteration upon failure
    tryCatch(install.packages(p,repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/"),warning = next)
    tryCatch(library(p,character.only=TRUE,verbose=FALSE),warning = next)
  }
}

But this requires running each command twice; once to fail and return a message about the failure, and then again to fail and skip to the next item in the loop.
Instead, I would much rather perform both actions with a single function, like this:
for(p in package_list){
  if(!require(p,character.only=TRUE,quietly=TRUE,warn.conflicts=FALSE)){
    tryCatch(install.packages(p,repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/"),
             warning = function(e){print(paste("Install failed for package: ", p)); return(next)})
    # ...
  }
}

However, this fails because you cannot use next from within a function:
Error in value[[3L]](cond) : no loop for break/next, jumping to top level

Is there a way to both return the desired message, and issue the next command from within tryCatch() in order to perform this function?

A: Use message() rather than write(..., stderr()); it takes several arguments that do not have to be paste()ed together.
Use tryCatch() to return a status code, and act on the status code; the following
for (i in 1:10) {
    status <- tryCatch({
        if (i < 5) warning("i < 5")
        if (i > 8) stop("i > 8")
        0L
    }, error=function(e) {
        message(i, ": ", conditionMessage(e))
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    }, warning=function(w) {
        message(i, ": ", conditionMessage(w))
        2L
    })
    if (status != 0L)
        next
    message("success")
}

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From Chaos to Eternity
1. Ad Infinitum
2. From Chaos to Eternity
3. Tempesta di Fuoco
4. Ghosts of Forgotten Worlds
5. Anima Perduta
6. Aeons of Raging Darkness
7. I Belong to the Stars
9. Heroes of the Waterfalls' Kingdom
10 Flash of the Blade (Iron Maiden cover, digipack Bonus Track)
Fabio Lione (vocals)
Luca Turilli (guitars)
Tom Hess (guitars)
Alessandro Staropoli (Keyboards)
Patrice Guers (bass)
Alex Holzwarth (Drums)
Christopher Lee (Narrator)
Legendary Tales (1997)
Symphony of Enchanted Lands (1998)
Dawn of Victory (2000)
Power of the Dragonflame (2002)
Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret (2004)
Triumph or Agony (2006)
The Frozen Tears of Angels (2010)
Released 20/6-2011
Reviewed 23/6-2011
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rhapsodyoffire.it
lucaturilli.com
alexstaropoli.com
It doesn't matter how much you'd like to give Rhapsody of Fire a hard time because you always have to admit that this band always deserve some credit for what they've accomplished. They might have spent their 15 years as a band making a series of album with dragons, magical swords and other mystical creatures, but they've also made some really good albums with an innovative sound mixing classical music with metal. Unfortunately it's not only the music we remember but the crazy statements, childish lyrics and strange music titles as well (everything from "epic fantasy metal" to "the grand masters of epic symphonic Hollywood metal" and "film score metal"). Sadly it's also the sad truth that we remember the albums as much for their superb usage of classical melodies and harmonies combined with the electric guitars as a pouring streams, dancing children and their many storyteller voices.
Rhapsody of Fire has a quite stunning record of sales and chart positions where every album they've released has been at the charts at least in one country (but they're yet shy of reaching the top ten) and to do that whilst being an Italian power metal band is quite impressing considering what era this band comes from. They've kept themselves in the top spot of modern hard rock bands, even though they've been a somewhat less interesting conversation since changing their name in 2006 and then the thing that happened with Magic Circle that forced them to take a two year hiatus from releasing albums. However, a new Rhapsody of Fire album always turn a lot of heads and here is the eight album by the Italians, which also is the final episode of their fantasy tale they've kept going since album one.
The initial idea was to call Rhapsody of Fire muppets, wimps and childish pussies. Their fantasy theme was somewhat fun and interesting in the beginning, but the longer it's been running the more tragic and pathetic it's become. I don't know if Rhapsody has finally grown up or if they're about to make up a new fantasy theme for their next album, but as they announced the release of 'From Chaos to Eternity' they also made it very clear that this was the end of their fantasy tales and that the next album will be a result of them moving forward from the tale about the Emerald Sword they've kept going during two stories and eight albums. Their saddened and almost heartbreaking tone as they declared this and how big this was for the band made me realise that all though Hallowed makes fun of everyone and anyone, maybe this was the time to actually show some respect. And by that I think I've done so, now let's skip ahead to my review of the album:
'From Chaos to Eternity' continues where 'Frozen Tears of Anger' left of and narrator Christopher Lee explains to us all how we ended up where we start this album. Now, Daniel had quite an interesting point on Lees performance on the last album (read his review by checking the link in the discography), which was "his voice is as fun to listen to as it is to vomit all over your home and then clean it up" and I don't see it anything differently. Christopher Lee sounds as he himself has been vomiting all over his home (and had to clean it up) and it's pretty close that I do the same when listening to him. He sounds like a 90 year old man with the mind of a three years old, running around with a stick that he fantasies of being a laser sword. As usual when it comes to Rhapsody, their music is filled to the limit with classical arrangements and virtuoso guitars in the neo classical school built around the fast power metal this band has made themselves known for. However, it's not unusual that spoken word parts that are minutes long and scenery mood sounds that's there to specify our location are cramped in to the story just to further give room for their story. The band themselves say it's been decreased for this album, and maybe it has - I can't really tell, but I think it's as much as it's always been even though it's made by electric guitars this time instead of orchestras or Alexander Staropolis keyboards.
Daniel also said in his review of 'Frozen Tears of Anger' that it's been heading downhill for this band since 'Dawn of Victory' and also this I can concur with, to some extent. I think what's really been moving downhill is the level on which w e can take this band seriously. To me it feels as if things only gets more and more ridiculous with every album, which is due both to the fact that they've done this for so long without altering the story (even though the music has change quite much) but also because it seems as if they with every album goes further and further in to it and does it more for real with every album. The want to make their music grand and mighty, but everytime they try to do so I look at my feet shamefully after snorting at it. This album makes me feel they've sunk really low until I remember that this is suppose to be their final episode of this, the ending of it all and then I start to think that maybe Rhapsody of Fire has simply put more effort in to making this exaggerated simply because it's the conclusion and final part. Seen to other popular culture, that's truthfully often an excuse for the makers to loose all boundaries and make something completely unduly. However, if that's the case it doesn't make it any less silly, all though perhaps more understandably. And because of this I look even more closely for the positives with the album.
Above all I think it is the best of the songs that are this albums biggest plus, just as the weakest songs are the biggest minus (since they really suck big time!). The album have nine songs and have a decent playing time ticking in at just above 37 minutes. That is until the almost 20 minutes long conclusion track called Heroes Of The Waterfall start and makes the album just shy of the hour. The song in itself consist of five acts that is very different to eachother in character, but keeps together story-wise (at least somewhat better than the other songs). In this mess Rhapsody even have a part where they use shouting as vocals, which is very uncharacteristic to this band and normally has its place in thrash metal. This gigantic song feels almost like a hurricane and goes in to different states of chaos with different narrator voices and speaking parts that just traps this song inside some sort of geek-cage where it gets deeper and deeper inside. Christopher Lee groans and moans like he was about to have an orgasm and around him there are tales of Dargor and whatever to the infinite. The album, which until this song was a pretty good one, ends with this endless negative spiral that takes them to a level that deserves all kind of criticism. In my opinion, Rhapsody would have ended the album better if they so were to spend ten minutes farting instead of this over ambitious and over geeky piece.
So much for the positive? Well, I'm sure you'll like this album if you normally like this band. The real question, though, is whether or not this is the best album you've ever heard? It isn't. Is it the best album you've heard from Rhapsody of Fire? Most likely no. So is it at least the best Rhapsody of Fire album the last ten years? I don't expect you to think that either. 'From Chaos to Eternity' is sometimes amazing and sometimes embarrassing and all in all it gives them a grade right in the middle. I think the most positive we can take from this album is that this is probably the last thing we'll hear from Christopher Lee on a Rhapsody of Fire album. It's also an album that at least hints of Rhapsody growing up slightly. The door is open at least, now all they have to do is walk through it.
Regardless, the ending of the Rhapsody fantasy tales goes down with a crash, boom and a bang - and probably the most ridiculous album so far from the Italians. I for one think that compared to the earliest albums, the flame of this band has somewhat died away
Label - Nuclear Blast
Three similar bands- Manowar/Dark Moor/Luca Turilli
Rating: HHHHHHH
Reviewer: Caj Källmalm