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Locally advanced cervical cancer: Better odds using personalized brachytherapy
Medical University of Vienna
Cervical cancer is the cancer with the fourth highest mortality rate among women worldwide. Locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) is treated with a combination of external and internal radiotherapy (brachytherapy) and chemotherapy. For the first time, a study conducted by a research group at the Comprehensive Cancer Centre Vienna of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital using data from the multicentre EMBRACE-I trial demonstrated the superiority of a targeted approach in brachytherapy. The results have just been published online in the highly respected Journal of Clinical Oncology and are the basis for customized treatment for patients.
Brachytherapy is a special radiotherapy/radiation oncology procedure in which a so-called applicator is inserted directly into or in the immediate vicinity of the tumour as part of a minimally invasive procedure, and the tumour is then irradiated internally by computerized remote control. The Embrace-I study, initiated and managed at the Department of Radiation Oncology at MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna, personalizes brachytherapy for cervical cancer as part of an international consortium with 24 centres in Europe, Asia and North America. Instead of the "classic" brachytherapy for cervical cancer - the same dose for everyone, regardless of the individual tumor spread - the basis for an innovative personalized treatment concept was defined. "This analysis showed that the precise adaptation of the dose according to the tumor volume defined by magnetic resonance imaging is relevant for tumor control. Hypothetical assumptions could thus be clinically confirmed in an international group of more than 1,300 patients," describe the study leaders Maximilian Schmid and Christian Kirisits from the Department of Radiation Oncology the results that have already been published.
Finally, a personal approach
On this basis, the study now being published was able to identify risk factors from the data from the Embrace-I study and correlate them with the dose. "This is the first time we have seen that different brachytherapy doses are required for individual parameters such as different histologies or different tumour sizes," explained study leader Maximilian Schmid. In a planned follow-up study, a risk-adapted customized treatment is now being investigated, where a lower dose is administered in a low-risk situation and is thus presumably safer, while a higher dose is administered in a high-risk situation in order to achieve reliable long-term tumour clearance. "In the future, the new findings will allow us to offer patients customized targeted therapy," said Schmid.
"Watch & Wait" instead of surgery
This study revealed another significant result for patients. In addition to the 98% complete remission rate and the high local tumour control rate of the uterus - 92% after 5 years - as major findings of the Embrace-I study, 81 (out of 1318) patients still had residual tumour 3 months after the therapy ended. In three quarters (60) of these 81 patients, the tumour disappeared after another 3 to 6 months without further therapy. Only in 21 patients did the tumour require further treatment after this period. "Previously, it was common to perform surgery after three months at the latest if tumour remained. Obviously, this is not necessary in a large proportion of patients. We can conclude from this study that a tumour that is still visible 3 months after the end of therapy can also only be observed by means of gynaecological examination and magnetic resonance imaging if it has already shrunk," the study leaders concluded. The long-term outcome was also identical to the group that was previously tumour-free. The patients would thus be spared major surgery.
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Risk Factors for Local Failure Following Chemoradiation and Magnetic Resonance Image–Guided Brachytherapy in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: Results From the EMBRACE-I Study
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Lost Tomb Raider Remake Seemingly Discovered, Made Partially Playable
It belongs in a museum.
By Jordan Oloman
Updated: Jan 7, 2021 8:35 pm
Posted: Jan 7, 2021 1:26 pm
A seeming lost remake of the original Tomb Raider game has been discovered and made partially playable – and it may also have been planned as a possible Indiana Jones or National Treasure game.
As reported by PC Gamer, Tomb Raider: 10th Anniversary Edition is now being preserved on the Internet Archive and is playable with some tinkering. The files include several levels, including Croft Manor, but there are no enemies present.
The build was originally posted by Tomb of Ash, who says in a playthrough video that they were sent the files by an ex-Core Design developer. Per Tomb of Ash, Tomb Raider: 10th Anniversary was being developed for PSP by Core Design, the original creator of Tomb Raider, before it was cancelled in 2006.
Interestingly, these files apparently represent a build of the game created after that cancellation, when Core Design may have attempted to reskin its work and create either a game based on Indiana Jones or National Treasure. Modder XProger has seemingly discovered a main menu screen that includes a National Treaure logo, but an Indiana Jones model. A tweet from Emircan mentions that, in the game's files, the Indiana Jones model on that screen is named 'Cage' (potentially referencing Nicholas Cage, star of the National Treasure series). You can check out multiple videos of the build in action on Roli's Tomb Raider Channel on YouTube.
As for what actually came next for Tomb Raider, publisher Eidos asked Crystal Dynamics to create its own remake of the first Tomb Raider, resulting in Tomb Raider: Anniversary, which launched on PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo Wii and mobile devices in June of 2007.
Here's our review of Tomb Raider: Anniversary, from 2007. In other Tomb Raider news, Crystal Dynamics' Shadow of the Tomb Raider is currently one of the PlayStation Plus games for January 2021.
Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
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Stranger Things Tops 2022 Streaming Charts, Wednesday and Ozark Also Take Top Spots
2d ago - It went running up that hill and it reached the top of it.
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TIP #1: Generally, a pair of pillows always looks empty. So, why not use two pairs, in contrasting patterns, colors, and textures. Pull colors from your room and from the larger pieces you have; like your area rug, artwork or even smaller accessories.


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"Behavioral health is essential to health. This is a key SAMHSA message and is underscored by this data," SAMHSA administrator Pamela Hyde said in an agency news release.
"Promoting health and wellness for individuals, families and communities means treating behavioral health needs with the same commitment and vigor as any other physical health condition," Hyde said. "Communities, families and individuals cannot achieve health without addressing behavioral health."


Travel runs in the family. I grew up in the Salzburg region of Austria, and during my college years spent a year in London, Paris and Brussels studying linguistics. I lived with international families and travelled with them throughout Europe. I took summer jobs at Club Med, Isle Vert, France and worked for Pan Am at the Vienna airport. After college I joined the Austrian Diplomatic Service and was stationed in Vienna, Chicago and Los Angeles. My husband, Peter, is a psychoanalyst and a professor of History at UCLA. Our daughter is the founder of Goldmine Films and lives in Beijing, China. Our son is a Neiman scholar at Harvard and worked for the World Health Organization.
My travel memories are many: spending Christmas in Salzburg with a sled ride to Oberndorf, where "Silent Night" was composed; enjoying a New Year's concert at Konzerthaus performed by Vienna Philharmonics; luxuriating in a junior suite overlooking stellar Lake Como "Villa d'Este". The hospitality was wonderful, the scenery was gorgeous and I even met George Clooney there.
I listen to my client's desires and special needs and live by the motto: Your wish is my command. I enjoy helping people find new destinations and enriching my clients' lives and horizons by creating "wow" moments to make their dreams come true.
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Q: Insert with Entity Framework very slow We have a piece of code that makes a bulk insert using the lib EntityFramework.BulkInsert-ef6-ext.
We are facing some performance issues: The whole process of doing some work + inserting data takes about 150ms. That seems a lot as it was on my developer machine where only I'm working.
I assume that on our production server this process is a lot slower as there is many traffic on it.
My first assumption was that the bulk insert is slower as single inserts when having only a few datarows.
I set up a small test app that traces the time during insert.
Here are my results for 1 row:
Profiler:

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*bulk: cpu (31), reads(1809), duration(29)

*single: cpu(0), reads(13), duration(1)
But looking at the traced time in my c# code shows a completly different picture:
bulk: 85ms
single: 130ms
Now two questions arise:

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*Why is there so much overhead when doing inserts with EF? How can this be reduced?

*Is there a possibility to speedup single inserts with EF?
Finally here is my test code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var sw = new Stopwatch();
    long t1, t2 = 0;

    using (var ctx = new TestContext())
    {
        var list = new List<Customer>();

        for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++)
        {
            list.Add(new Customer());
        }

        sw.Start();
        ctx.BulkInsert(list);
        ctx.SaveChanges();
    }

    sw.Stop();
    t1 = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;

    sw.Reset();

    using (var ctx = new TestContext())
    {
        var trx = new TransactionScope();
        ctx.Configuration.LazyLoadingEnabled = false;
        ctx.Configuration.AutoDetectChangesEnabled = false;
        ctx.Configuration.ValidateOnSaveEnabled = false;
        var list = new List<Customer>();

        for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++)
        {
            ctx.Customer.Add(new Customer());
        }

        sw.Start();
        ctx.SaveChanges();
        trx.Complete();
        trx.Dispose();
    }

    sw.Stop();
    t2 = sw.ElapsedMilliseconds;
}

Best regards, Josef

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Q: Why kivy giving diffrent result after apk packaging? This is my Custom Widget:-
<Entry@Widget>:
    size_hint: (1, None)
    height: sp(100)
    canvas.before:
        Color:
            rgba: 1, 1, 1, .65
        Rectangle:
            pos: self.pos
            size: self.size

    canvas:
        Color:
            rgba: 1, 1, 1, 1
        Rectangle:
            size: sp(30), sp(30)
            pos: self.right-sp(50), self.center_y
            source: root.status
    Label:
        id: first_letter
        text: root.name[0]
        color: 41/255, 128/255, 185/255, 1
        pos: root.pos
        font_size: sp(50)
    Label:
        text: root.name[1:]
        color: 41/255, 128/255, 185/255, 1
        pos: first_letter.x+sp(70), first_letter.y+sp(40)
        font_size: sp(30)
        size_hint_x: None
        width: sp(200)
        halign: 'left'
        texture_size: self.size
        text_size: self.size
    Label:
        text: root.date
        color: 17/255, 80/255, 122/255, 1
        pos: root.x+sp(50), root.y-sp(10)
        font_size: 10

and there is main screen:-
class Entry(Widget):
    name = StringProperty('Example')
    date = StringProperty('00/00/0000')
    status = StringProperty('static/right.png')

    def on_touch_down(self, touch):
        super(Entry, self).on_touch_down(touch)
        popup = Mypopup(name=self.name)
        popup.open()
        return True

class MainScreen(FloatLayout):

    def __init__(self, **kargs):
        super(MainScreen, self).__init__(**kargs)
        layout = GridLayout(cols=1, spacing=10, size_hint_y=None)
        layout.bind(minimum_height=layout.setter('height'))
        for i in range(10):
            layout.add_widget(Entry(name='Facebook', date='12/12/2012', status='static/right.png'))
        for i in range(10):
            layout.add_widget(Entry(name='Facebook', date='12/12/2012', status='static/wrong.png'))
        scroll = ScrollView(size_hint=(1, None), height=Window.height)
        scroll.add_widget(layout)
        self.add_widget(scroll)

When i run it in my computer it gives output:-

after packagaing it in apk and install it seems like:-

I want this to look same as in my computer.

A: Different computers with different screen sizes/resolutions may not agree on sizing these things. Sometimes on my personal projects I would hook up a second larger monitor for this reason.
There is always Android studio, which you can use to get an emulator. Just keep in mind that it takes .apk files compiled for x86, not armeabi-v7a. This is handled in your buildozer spec file. Use x86 for emulation, and armeabi-v7a for the phone.


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A Struggle and A Song
by Meg Mangoba
Photos by Angel Pua
A song is but a prose disguised as a poem, recited in melody.
MINTeatro, MINT's Theater organization, staged James Christy's "Egyptian Song" last November 9-10 here at the MINT Playhouse, as their first production for the semester. The play was anchored on the story of Zahia, a rising Egyptian singer, and her brother, Nahal, as they tackled the struggles of Egyptian women.
The audience filled in seats circled on an empty space in the middle, which served as the "stage". Throughout the entire show, only two actors shared the spotlight: one girl and one boy.
The actors were mainly introduced as 'Zahia' and 'Nahal' respectively, but each of them portrayed all of the other characters within the story. Although challenging, the actors were able to distinctly shift from role to role. The show was a staged reading, which made the actors' storytelling more captivating, turning the play into a living, breathing art.
Kyanna Villaruel, MINT-SHS Theater student, who played 'Zahia', was grateful for the experience. "Egyptian Song is such a beautiful piece to work on. I found the message so powerful that I was honestly afraid I wouldn't relay this enough. It was harder than I expected, but after everything, it was all worth it. As Zahia, I had a chance to breathe life into such an innocent and wonderful character," she shares.
Jam Pangilinan, a sophomore MINT Multimedia Arts student, and the 'Nahal' to Kyanna's 'Zahia', shares, "I've always worked behind the scenes for theater productions, and Egyptian Song was my first ever theater gig. I guess I [kind of] feel like Tom Holland in Captain America: Civil War. It was massive and stressful, but I've learned so much and grown tenfold along the way. Acting was exhilarating, and I'm excited to keep sharing these experiences with such great people."
Grade 11 Theater student, Rafael Jimenez, who also plays 'Nahal', felt very lucky to have worked on Egyptian Song. "I find it such an important story, and it's very personal to me. It was the most difficult play that I had to do as an actor, but it was so worth it in the end. Our cast and crew all did a beautiful job and I'm really proud of what we were able to bring to the table."
"The only way that I overcame all the stress and pressure was by thinking that at the end of the play, my perseverance and hard work would be worth it, and I would create something I would be proud of and would remember for the rest of my life," says another Grade 12 Theater student, Xabrina Aquino, who graced the stage as 'Zahia' along with Jimenez. "I learned that you can do almost anything if you set your mind and heart to it," she adds.
For Kiefer Sison, another MINT-SHS Theater student, and the show's director, the hardest part of the production was making the piece "fully resonate with an audience outside of the locale of the story."
"I had to make it universal and powerful. In essence, I had to carry on the playwright's vision and message. I wanted everyone to learn more about the reality beyond the play that you saw," he explains.
For him, the issues raised by the play still persisted up to this day. He believes that through theater, people can learn to understand the world better, adding that, "At the end of the day, we tell stories to teach. We tell them to inspire. We tell them to change. [...] To be able to do that, that's more than I can ever wish for."
Sison closes these thoughts by saying that the play is not finished yet, and he hopes that the lessons it shared won't stop with the curtain call. Indeed, with a beautiful production that pushed boundaries and took risks, "Egyptian Song" won't be remembered as a mere play, but a glimpse of the true stories that still persist today, resonating among the people who watched it. W
Meg Mangoba is a singer-songwriter, slowly making her way into the music industry. Aside from music, she loves food, dogs, taking naps, and daydreaming about the future.
For comments and collaborations, email us at weave@mintcollege.com
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tagged with Play, theater, minteatro, egyptian song, james christy, nahal, zahia, mint, mint college


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Mississauga, ON – The 2014 Ontario Export Awards gala on Nov. 25, 2014, brought nearly 200 manufacturing, government, association and corporate leaders together to celebrate the province's top exporters.
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Yesterday, in my Reply to Kim Goguen aka "Kim Possible" I noted my frustration with the whole topic of money and moving it around by saying that, "It's like telling me that people can't move widgets from Point A to Point B because Standard Oil still owns all the pipelines in Texas."
Apparently, that flew over many people's heads and caused confusion ---- what was I talking about?
J.D. Rockefeller made his fortune --- not on oil, but on oil pipelines. That is, he didn't get rich on oil, the product, whether crude or finished commodity. What he made his money on was a monopoly of pipeline infrastructure. This was the basis of "Standard Oil". By controlling the pipeline infrastructure old J.D. could move or block the flow of oil and by controlling monopoly interest, he could grant favors to whomever he chose in terms of access to getting oil to refineries and to markets --- both. He could also charge as little or as much as he liked for the pipeline service he provided.
Thus, by controlling the pipelines he could make or break any oil company and even manipulate the prices of crude oil and finished products.
What finally caused the "busting up" of Standard Oil was that they went too far in their monopoly interest activities and their coercive control of the commodity transport and therefore, the commodity supplies.
What I meant by my comment was--- we have the same problem now, with the banks. This is exactly what Kim was describing as her problem --- owning the commodity (oil) and not being able to move it reliably (through the pipeline) because those controlling the transport system (Standard Oil) were blocking and shunting and causing problems.
So, in banking terms, Kim, the Comptroller, is having trouble moving the commodity (money) through the transport system (banks) because the people that own the transport system are, like old J.D., playing games -- blocking, locking, shunting deliveries, etc,, etc,. etc, ------ so I was, in essence, saying ---WTF?
We have been here before. We know how to solve this particular problem. Why isn't someone doing what needs to be done?
And what needs to be done is that Interpol (which controls the U.S. Attorney General's Office) needs to be outted as a criminal organization and shut down. The USAG works for them since 1976, not the President, even though the Department of Justice is a Federal Agency and even though the President appoints the Attorney General.
So we have a key Office in our government under the blatant control of Globalist interests and those Globalist interests have been running a white collar slave market on our shores and harming our people, which is both illegal and unlawful.
Shut the rats down. Kick them out. No more participation in Interpol. No more kidnapping American babies as "alien property" donated to the U.S. Attorney General.
If necessary, do what they do: rename the "Department of Justice" and rename the "Office of the Attorney General" ---- shift the contract over to the "new" Agency and place it back under American control. Just vacate what is there now.
That's Job One. Regain control of the Justice System in this country and stop all the game playing.
So, now we move on to Job Two.
Job Two is analogous to busting Standard Oil. We need to bust the banks that are abusing their privileges and acting as obstructive monopoly interests.
We liquidate them --- or threaten them with liquidation --- under a vast variety of laws and regulations that forbid what they are doing already. If they won't play ball according to the rules, we take the ball away. Boom. Shut their doors, take over their operations, and that is that.
And all that is just a matter of correcting the existing system and bringing the oversight tools (the Justice System) and the commodity transport (the Banking System) back into alignment and control.
If I were President, I believe I could have this problem fixed in less than a week. So.....once again, if a Grandma in Big Lake, Alaska, can see the problem, analyze it in fifteen minutes, develop a general plan of action and be ready to move on it ---- why in blazes is the entire federal "system" all bolluxed up and constipated over this nonsense?
And that's just the existing system. Who says we have to stick with the existing system?
We have the technology and the means to deliver a totally new and "fool proof" banking system to the entire Earth and everyone on it. Kim can just move the old accounts over to the new tech and that really solves the problem once and for all. Put the records onto a new communications platform that is so transparent and user friendly and yet so private and seamless that all the banks will be begging to use it.
Personal law suit s took down probition.
we all file for damages for fraud if applicable .
and now it is easy to do https:///www.inpowermovement.com, so if everyone would just take the time and do it!
robinah, the Notice of Liability produced by inpowermovement is an excellent tool, however and will work for lower level individuals and corporations where their salaries and assets are not so high when compared to the heads of the snakes. With a rigged judicial system, getting remedy is one thing, collecting on it is another. If successful in remedy, there is a good likelihood you won't live long enough to collect. These guys don't play by the rules, hence all this documentation is just being ignored.
We have to realize this is a war of sorts and I'm not sure if a letter to Hitler would have made any difference back in the day or more currently to Bush, Clinton or Obama.
I really think they are testing us. Weather warfare, DEW fires, MSM, open election fraud. There is no way to paper through this unless action goes with it.
We as a society are too empathetic. We keep saying please don't do this. We keep asking permission. Time to act and ask for forgiveness after.
Agreed....I have been saying for years now and recently sent a comment to Trumps website that told him no matter what you do or try to do will ultimately fail because you like all of us have one major problem...A "JUDICIAL WALL" that we just can't get over , under, or any other way....!! If you don't clear up that corrupt problem, you will never make America Great again...!! He sees it more and more, but he doesn't exactly know how to implement it without creating chaos....it has to take place rather quickly because of that...!! The banks now will never play along because they are used to making billions of dollars as long as attorneys are here to protect them...and that's the other problem...!! Attorneys under this system also make obscene amounts of money...!! No one wants to sacrifice anything when it comes to their wealth and how they attained it, or how they attained it...!!
Once Andrew Jackson got rid of attorneys, the banks had no more protection and they only lasted 5 years, which caused the war of 1812...!!!
That sounds great, wish yall could and would work together. There is another man too, who claims he won back our country, his name is Russel Gould and you can find his story on youtube under "War Castles"
Anna after 2020 election she will follow trump and run on the ticket she will "seal the deal"
Joe, oh hell no. She hasnt told us anything in at least a yr or more; keeps all her cards too close to her own vest. And most of us are more than Done with secrecy !
Besides, Im pretty sure we are seeing our very last president to sit in the oval office.
Anna, in your letter to Kim, you stated that you already have the banking system. Does it still have to be tweaked? Has it already had a test run? Currently the acting AG is for a 210 day term with the possible extension of an additional 210 days until a permanent replacement becomes mandatory confirmed by Congress, at least that is what I have heard.
Wouldn't now be the time to make this transition? Or is the justice system under the National unincorporated government not yet in place? We know the existing banks are not going to play ball, there is no point in second chances. They have had 3 life times to do the right thing.... in my opinion.
If only i were president. Then i could fix it.
Come on guys.Did she really just say that?
No more CORPORATE DEAD, old system "BANKS" or Their Dark Shadow Images as "GOVERNMENTS" should Ever be allowed Again to "posess" or "attach" to a living Soul and our Living Real Substance EVER Again!!!! No, No, No!! Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us! No thank you! Let the DEAD Zombie Corporate Banks FEED ON ITS own Corporate DEAD SEA Members! Keep the DEAD ENTITIES completely seperate, as they always should have been to begin with,as Secondary "paper" holders and out of our own living banks, living lives of Real Substance, Original Value. Period.
No more CORPORATE DEAD Middle men "TRUSTS" with zero Accountability to the Living WILL EVER of Living People converting our Living lives or our production/creations "Gifts" into/as Secondary False images "THINGS" to be hoarded or "Lorded OVER" us EVER Again. No MORE False Images Or False Authority BY DEAD CORPORATE ACTORS As "TRUSTEES" requiring the living to relinquish their Natural "Rights" and Their Living "ASSETS" to their DEAD unaccountable "CORPORATE TRUST Accounts" Beast System of Liars, theives of No Trust EVER again. Liquidate and dissolve it ALL Now. It IS All Worthless, Weak and Meaningless to its very Core. Created IN VAIN on Purpose, intentionally! Time to Let Go of All the Past and All its Self Serving FALSE "EGOism's" Vanity and FEARS Now....it Serves No Real truthful purpose in our Living Lives. Never has, never, ever Will. True giving, charity Does NOT, Should Not EVER come with a Negative Cost or Price/Burden "Attached" as a secondary "taxed" "priviledge& benefit" to execute our living Free Will choice in thought, behavior or Deeds...EVER!! No middle man "TRUSTEE" permission or Authority Ever WAS/Is Needed to execute our own Living Gifts produced/Gift giving directly to our chosen living heirs at Also NO Cost or detriment or burden to Be "attached" with a middle man "taxed" "privilege/benefit" to receive!!! No, No, No!!! We Are Now Done with this Shadow, Vain Game!! Game Over!! Rant over. Im sorry, please forgive me. I Love You, Thank you.
More and more I see people with far less money and jobs, businesses closing doors, dollar stores and SAARs food stores thick with people struggling. Car lots are topped up, all new cars, new bank buildings too and the county surviving due to spinning off things like the veterans county fund to private contractors. Few if any have any idea of what is going on, how it happened or where to look, as though it is some mystery acted out by angels when in fact it is recorded and documented acts carried out by men and women with wet signatures. Yet many when shown this rather than converse about it, break in to tirades of conspiracy theories and actually defending the crooks. They love the crooks so much they will not ever even look at what they are doing, or check up on the office requirements the crooks are voted in (once receiving governors appointment for some offices and all are corporate) Even the fact they are corporate is over the top of most peoples heads. Again they seem to encounter a wall and will not listen or even look. Seems simple to me, you got a problem, get on the evidence of it, track it until finding the problem worn out part, wrong part, fraudulent contraband part, or any other part that is in fact worn and "unserviceable" in any way preventing the entire show from running smoothly. Is it any different in repairing any item or thing that has an error?
I prefer to look at the general populace as uninformed. I was educated in high school in business and commerce course. I was informed at an early age of the role of proprietorship, corporate and incorporated bodies. Informed about bookkeeping, banking on the surface, accounting, business law, and economics. Typing, shorthand, business machines, english, penmanship- your signature is to be recognized, not read to avoid counterfeit. 1960's.
Since all this nonsense has been about business/contracts/banking, few of us understand the simple definitions.
My own siblings didn't know how to write a cheque, do bank deposits, withdrawals, budgeting etc. All they understood was cash was used to buy things and if you worked you got paid. If paid by cheque, cash it and be off.
Gullible by design, not choice. The banksters know this, hence our dilema. Note, I have a twin brother of 70 years and still cannot get him to understand. He still depends on the MSM and newspapers to tell him otherwise. What do I know. I had to give up trying to explain to save familial relations.
Be kind in your efforts to inform. It is not easy.
I don't believe anyone or any agency should be in control of money, and never govt....but the private sector isn't any better....!! If govt does have to be in control of it then every single intelligent agency of govt should have only one function.....to oversee every aspect of "money management" along with all the accounting books...every single day to make sure that all money is tracked and accounted for...no more black budgets for the military, or anyone else...!! All law enforcement has to answer all calls of FRAUD no matter how small, and has priority over every other crime in America, because otherwise it will sneak its way in again....Fraud has to be a class A felony, no matter how much was involved...!!!


A fortified bowl of soup could help pregnant mothers to reduce their child's risk of developing asthma, say scientists.
Scientists have modified a range of commercially available soups to boost vitamin E levels.
They hope pregnant women consuming the products will have babies with built-in protection against the inflammatory disease.
more at risk of developing asthma by the age of five.
sun-dried tomatoes, sunflower oil, beans and lentils, to canned soup.
pregnancies will be given three bowls of vitamin E-enhanced soup a week.
Another group of 25 women will eat ordinary soup, but neither will know what variety they are getting.
Lung function tests performed on the mothers' babies during the first week of life will look for any early signs of asthma.
The treated soups contain about 3mg of vitamin E. They are designed to raise daily intake of the vitamin from the current national average of 8mg to around 15mg, which is recommended for good health.
inexpensive, acceptable and safe public health dietary intervention.
The soups come in three flavours – cream of tomato, lentil and tomato, and three bean and pasta.
During the study the researchers will keep track of the women's diets with food diaries and blood tests.
Prof Devereux said it is not certain that vitamin E alone protects against childhood asthma. For this reason it is important to use natural sources of the vitamin containing a rich mixture of nutrients rather than a supplement.
'It could be the vitamin E, it could be the vitamin E in combination with a number of other nutrients,' Prof Devereux added.
He presented details of the research today at the British Science Festival at the University of Aberdeen.
A successful pilot trial would be followed by a much larger study involving around 1,500 pregnancies, said Prof Devereux.
The soups are being produced in collaboration with Scottish food company Baxters.
Prof Devereux insisted the company was not acting out of purely selfish motives.
'There may be a commercial advantage, but equally it could fall flat on its face,' he said.
In the UK, 10%-15% of children and 5%-10% of adults have been diagnosed with asthma. More than five million members of the population receive treatment for the condition, including 1.1 million children. In 70% of childhood cases, the disease persists into adulthood.
Current treatment focuses on controlling the symptoms of wheezing, breathlessness and coughing.


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Semiconductor sales to drop 3.6% in 2023 on poor consumer demand, Gartner says
Market on track to grow 4% to $618 billion this year
Semiconductors are important components in electronic devices and particularly in electric and self-driving vehicles. Reuters
The global semiconductor market, which was upended by Covid-induced supply chain problems in 2020 and last year, is projected to drop 3.6 per cent in revenue next year on poor consumer demand and weakening economy, a report has found.
Semiconductor revenue is forecast to reach $596 billion next year, down from the previous prediction of $623 billion, US research company Gartner said.
However, the market is on pace to grow 4 per cent this year to $618 billion.
"The short-term outlook for semiconductor revenue has worsened," said Richard Gordon, vice president at Gartner.
"Rapid deterioration in the global economy and weakening consumer demand will negatively impact the semiconductor market in 2023."
Semiconductors are important components in electronic devices and, particularly, in electric and self-driving vehicles. They are used to manage functions such as navigation and parking, and for monitoring engine performance.
Car makers, particularly, have been affected as the lack of chips had halted production in factories around the world.
The global semiconductor shortage will drive nearly 50 per cent of the top 10 car makers to design and produce their own chips by 2025, Gartner said in an earlier report.
Supply chain disruptions, severe chip scarcity and trends such as electrification of vehicles and autonomy, will propel manufacturers to reduce their reliance on traditional chip makers. This will give car makers more control over their product road map and supply chains, according to Gartner's latest report.
Semiconductor sales to hit $676 billion in 2022 on strong demand, Gartner says
Semiconductor sales could hit $600bn in 2022 on strong demand
Worldwide chip sales surged 26 per cent to hit an all-time high of $553 billion last year, making the wider electronic component industry one of the winners from the pandemic, Euler Hermes, a subsidiary of German financial services company Allianz, said in a report this year.
Currently, the semiconductor industry is divided between consumer-driven markets and enterprise-driven sectors.
Market weakness is due mainly to a decline in disposable income caused by rising inflation and interest rates, Gartner said.
It is also affected by the reprioritisation of consumer discretionary spending to other areas such as travel, leisure and entertainment, which are having a negative knock-on effect on technology purchases.
Meanwhile, enterprise-driven markets such as networking, computing, industrial, medical and commercial transportation, have, so far, been relatively resilient, despite a looming macroeconomic slowdown and geopolitical concerns.
"The relative strength in the enterprise-driven markets comes from strategic investments by corporations that are looking to strengthen their infrastructure to continue supporting their work from home workforce, business expansion plans and ongoing digitalisation strategies," Mr Gordon said.
The memory chip market, in particular, is witnessing faltering demand, swollen inventories and customers pressing for considerably lower prices. As a result, the market will remain flat this year and is forecast to decline 16.2 per cent in sales in 2023.
The worsening economic outlook is also negatively impacting smartphone, personal computers and consumer electronics production which is positioning the DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip market for oversupply during the first three quarters of 2023.
Gartner expects DRAM revenue to decrease 2.6 per cent to reach $90.5 billion in 2022 and a further decline of 18 per cent next year to reach $74.2 billion.
Though the deterioration in the macroeconomic environment will weaken consumer demand, Gartner expects relatively better semiconductor consumption from business investments.
"Consequently, markets such as industrial, telecom infrastructure and data centre will be less impacted by consumer sentiment and spending in the short term," Mr Gordon said.
The ongoing chip shortage and increasing future demand are expected to help chip makers such as Intel, Qualcomm and GlobalFoundries among others.
GlobalFoundries, the world's third-largest semiconductor manufacturer owned by Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Company, capitalised on the market conditions and listed on New York's Nasdaq in October last year to raise $2.6 billion.
GlobalFoundries' chief executive Thomas Caulfield at the start of trading of the company's shares on the Nasdaq, on Thursday, in New York. Photo: Screengrab
Updated: November 30, 2022, 5:30 AM


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Q: Why is Mongo unable to use my keyfile to set up Replicaset authentication? I am attempting to enable authentication on a MongoDB Replicaset running on an Openshift Cluster. As far as the documentation is concerned my setup should be okay, but I am getting the following error:
{"t":{"$date":"2022-01-21T17:42:38.738+00:00"},"s":"I",  "c":"ACCESS",   "id":20254,   "ctx":"main","msg":"Read security file failed","attr":{"error":{"code":30,"codeName":"InvalidPath","errmsg":"error opening file: /etc/mongo/replkey: bad file"}}}
I haven't been able to find any solution searching around online, so if anyone has any ideas as to what the problem could be I would appreciate the help.
I created the key file using: openssl rand -base64 756 > replkey
My docker file:
FROM mongo:4.4.12-rc1-focal
RUN apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 2930ADAE8CAF5059EE73BB4B58712A2291FA4AD5
COPY ./replkey /etc/mongo/
RUN chmod 400 /etc/mongo/replkey && chown mongodb:root /etc/mongo/replkey

My Statefulset portion of the deployment:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  name: mongodb-rs
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: mongodb-rs # has to match .spec.template.metadata.labels
  serviceName: mongodb-rs
  replicas: 1
  podManagementPolicy: Parallel
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: mongodb-rs
        role: mongodb-rs
        environment: prod
    spec:
      serviceAccount: mongo
      affinity: # control where pod is deployed
        podAntiAffinity: # repel away from these kinds of pods
          preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
          - weight: 100 # higher means its more important
            podAffinityTerm:
              labelSelector: # match based on labels of pods
                matchExpressions:
                - key: app
                  operator: In
                  values: [ "kafka", "mongodb-rs" ]
              topologyKey: kubernetes.io/hostname
      terminationGracePeriodSeconds: 10
      containers:
        - name: mongodb-container
          image: <registry url>/mongodb:authtest
          imagePullPolicy: Always
          command:
            - "mongod"
          args:
            - "--auth"
            - "--port=27017"
            - "--dbpath=/mongo-disk"
            - "--replSet=mongodb-rs"
            # - "--smallfiles"
            # - "--noprealloc"
            - "--bind_ip=0.0.0.0"
            - "--keyFile=/etc/mongo/replkey"
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: 100m
              memory: 512Mi
          ports:
            - name: mongodb-port
              protocol: TCP
              containerPort: 27017
          volumeMounts:
            - name: storage
              mountPath: /mongo-disk
        - name: mongodb-sidecar
          image: <registry url>/mongo-sidecar:<image tag>
          resources:
            requests:
              cpu: 5m
              memory: 96Mi
          env:
            - name: KUBERNETES_POD_LABELS
              value: "role=mongodb-rs,environment=prod" # must match with .spec.template.metadata.labels
            - name: KUBERNETES_NAMESPACE
              valueFrom:
                fieldRef:
                  fieldPath: metadata.namespace
            - name: KUBERNETES_SERVICE_NAME
              value: "mongodb-rs"
            - name: MONGO_PORT
              value: "27017"
            - name: MONGO_CONFIG_SVR
              value: "false"
            - name: MONGO_SSL
              value: "false"
  volumeClaimTemplates:
  - metadata:
      name: storage
    spec:
      accessModes: [ "ReadWriteOnce" ]
      storageClassName: "ibmc-vpc-block-10iops-tier"
      resources:
        requests:
          storage: "200Gi"


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TSS Reindeer was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1897.

History

This ship was one of a pair, the other being TSS Roebuck, built by the Naval Construction and Armaments Company in Barrow-in-Furness in 1897. She was launched on 1 May 1897.

In an inauspicious start to her career, she collided with the Brodick Castle in Weymouth Harbour on 3 September 1897.

She was put in reserve in 1925 when new steamers St Julien and St Helier arrived. She continued in occasional service, and on 12 March 1926 struck the entrance to Jersey Harbour. She was cut up at Briton Ferry in 1928.

References

1897 ships
Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built in Barrow-in-Furness
Ships of the Great Western Railway

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I was searching for a Property and found this listing (MLS® #M121967). Please send me more information regarding 140-142 Lester, Moncton, New Brunswick, E1C4T7. Thank you!
I'd like to request a showing of 140-142 Lester, Moncton, New Brunswick, E1C4T7 (MLS® #M121967). Thank you!


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Q: Aggregate zoo time series of tweets from multiple accounts I've managed to confuse myself to a standstill when it comes to aggregating or binning a zoo object in R because I'm new to working with R and in particular working with time series data.
Can anyone help me out?
I have a number of dataframes which gives the creation dates of a tweets and its ID for a number of specific twitter accounts
str(temp)
'data.frame':   1528 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ id_str    : chr  "605698007263260672" "605681239408963584" "603854670856069120" "601792133297786880" ...
 $ created_at: POSIXct, format: "2015-06-02 12:30:32" "2015-06-02 11:23:55" "2015-05-28 10:25:47" "2015-05-22 17:49:59" ...

I don't know how frequent the tweets were (the spacing between creation date values) but I then need to create a dataset which contains
 TimeSeries AccountName NumOfTweets
   2010-01   MyTweeter    45
   2010-02   YourTweeter  5

I would like to group according to the week or month created and count how many there were and plot them to show how a number of accounts compare to each other in number of tweets and sustained activity since records began.
Any advice on how to handle merging or joining time series so I can plot them with the time series on the x axis and the number of tweets on the Y
Random sample of observations taken using select_n() and provided below using dput
dput(sample.df)
structure(list(id_str = c("235710687006035968", "148522094328680448",
"555743466945523712", "139818931253813249", "601792133297786880",
"391194341978669057", "455754624859779072", "139640022696603648",
"182085980864528384", "372375117130526720"), created_at = structure(c(1345032781,
1324245401, 1421334542, 1322170405, 1432313399, 1382102973, 1397495344,
1322127750, 1332247655, 1377616120), class = c("POSIXct", "POSIXt"
), tzone = "")), .Names = c("id_str", "created_at"), row.names = c(882L,
1363L, 33L, 1478L, 4L, 536L, 180L, 1489L, 1116L, 635L), class = "data.frame")

Example of desired output but need help in calculating the aggregate and merging multiple dataframes (1 per Account) into a suitable end data structure for plotting

A: Does this resemble what you are looking for? First, convert created_at to monthly and count the observations (tweets) by ID and month:
# To have some counts > 1 and several observations per ID
set.seed(123)
df2 <- data.frame(sample(df$id_str, size = 50, replace = T),
                    sample(df$created_at, size = 50, replace = T))
colnames(df2) <- colnames(df)
# Convert to months
df2$Month <- strftime(df2$created_at, format = "%Y-%m")
result <- aggregate(df2$id_str, by = list(df2$id_str, df2$Month), FUN = length)
colnames(result) <- c("ID", "Month", "nTweets")
head(result)
#                   ID   Month nTweets
# 1 139640022696603648 2011-11       1
# 2 139818931253813249 2011-11       1
# 3 148522094328680448 2011-11       1
# 4 182085980864528384 2011-11       2
# 5 391194341978669057 2011-11       1
# 6 455754624859779072 2011-11       2

Then you can plot the result for example using ggplot:
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(result, aes(x = Month, y = nTweets, group = ID, color = ID)) +
    geom_line(size = 2)

Note that the x-axis is not correctly spaced here because some months have no observations. I suppose this is not true for the complete data.

A: Following Khl4v's code and a bit of trial and error
Firstly Convert the char column "created_at" to a Date object using the required formatting string so it can be recognised as a date value
MyDataFrame <- mutate(MyDataFrame,created_at = as.POSIXct(created_at, format="%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %z %Y"))

Now convert it to the Year-Month value before creating a new dataframe called df2 with a character string "Tweets" we will shortly count next as the year-month value changes
df2 <- data.frame("Tweets",strftime(MyDataFrame$created_at, format = "%Y-%m"))

Rename the column names to be something more user friendly
colnames(df2) <- c("Tweeter","TimePeriod")
Count using the aggregate function the number/length of times in columnd Tweeter for each change in the column value of TimePeriod
result contains the group i.e year-month and the number of times there was a tweet
result <- aggregate(df2$Tweeter, by = list(df2$TimePeriod), FUN = length)

Add another column to the result to store the name of the tweeter account used
result  <- mutate(result ,Account ="MyTwitter")

Rename the column names to be more user friendly
colnames(result) <- c("TimePeriod","Tweets","Tweeter")

plot the result using ggplot and rotate the x labels so they are a bit easier to read
ggplot(result, aes(x = TimePeriod, y = Tweets, group = Tweeter, color = Tweeter)) + geom_line(size = 1) + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, vjust = 0.5, hjust=1))


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Khalid Achieves an R&B First on His Way to the Number One Album in the Country
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Luna stealing the show
Cardi B And Bruno Mars Share The "Please Me" Video
Another perfect pairing for the GRAMMY winners
Cardi B Shares a Family Photo and Details on the "Please Me" Video
A clip for her Bruno Mars collaboration is coming very soon
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The singer will appear in court on March 8th
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Despite harsh criticism over the Academy's handling of hip-hop and R&B music categories, Cardi B and Childish Gambino led the way for the genres.
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The R&B singer gets "Honest" about how he got the news
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The two-time GRAMMY Award-winner had battled brain cancer


The following is a copy of the Address given by Dr. Doug Rokke, former head of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project,at the National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition 17th Annual Leadership Breakfast, at the U.S. Senate CaucusRoom on November 10, 2000. Adrian Cronauer was Master of Ceremonies. Distinguished Members of Congress, Coalition Leaders, Fellow Warriors, and Guests -- It isa distinct honor to address you today. During the Gulf War I was the U.S. Army healthphysicist assigned to 12th Preventive Medicine AM theater command staff and the 3rd U.S.
Army Medical Command headquarters. I was recalled to active duty 20 years after serving inVietnam, from my research job with the University of Illinois Physics Department and sentto the Gulf to ensure that all military and civilian personnel were prepared for the anticipatednuclear, biological, chemical, and environmental exposures. I also was assigned to twoequally vital special operations teams: Bauer's Raiders and the Depleted UraniumAssessment team. The preparations for war take many forms. Infantry soldiers learn and practice their combatskills, truck drivers practice maneuvering their rigs to make sure they can deliver supplies,and medical personnel prepare to treat the expected combat casualties. Ideally, preparationsare driven by intelligence reports. However as the recent bombing of the U.S.S. Cole shows,commanders may ignore intelligence information and not protect either their personnel orequipment. Prior to the start of Operation Desert Storm military intelligence reports andthreats issued by President Saddam Hussein suggested that nuclear, biological, and chemicalwarfare and environmental hazards (NBC-E) would be employed to win battles. As we prepared for the battle in the Deserts of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq, medical andcombat unit commanders realized that medical personnel must be able to provide emergencymedical care to conserve the fighting strength in an NBC-E environment. This required anassessment of medical capabilities. Four deficiencies were identified. First, an assessment of existing emergency medical response capabilities in the staging areas located within Saudi Arabia revealed the need to respond to medical emergenciesresulting from combat to disease and non-battle injuries (DNBI). Second, an assessment of medical personnel arriving in Southwest Asia verified that most of them did not have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to providemedical care for the expected nuclear, biological, chemical, and environmental(NBC-E) casualties much less the conventional weapons casualties. Third, we verified that that most operations personnel needed a NBC-E defense refresher course that was specifically designed for verified threats. Fourth, we needed to design and construct decontamination facilities, prepare standard decontamination procedures, and train personnel to provide immediate personnel andequipment decontamination. Consequently, Bauer's Raiders, the 3rd U.S. Army Medical Command theater NBC-Especial operations planning and teaching team was formed. Each team member had priorcombat experience and was a qualified medical and NBC-E instructor. This team alsodesigned and supervised the construction of the NBC decontamination facilities andprovided operations assistance throughout the echelons above corps, corps, and coalitionforces. Since 1991 numerous Department of Defense reports have stated that medical and tacticalcommanders were unaware of the probable NBC-E exposures and never told about themedical and environmental consequences of these exposures. That is a lie! They were told!They were warned! Immediate and long-term medical care was recommended. The threats,health and environmental consequences, and medical care recommendations were providedin written messages and during courses such as the 3rd U.S. Army Medical Command &ARCENT Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties, the NBC-E defenserefresher course, the Combat lifesaver course, and the Decontamination procedures coursewhich we taught to over 1200 military personnel in the theater between December 1990 andFebruary 1991. I gave the classified threat briefing, specifically identifying the anticipatedNBC-E exposures, taught the NBC-E defense refresher course, the combat lifesaver course,and decontamination procedures course. Thus I can confirm that commanders knew what toexpect and how to be prepared! Another important fact is that although Department of Defense officials have stated over andover that the vital chemical and biological logs were misplaced or lost, U.S. GovernmentAccounting Office representatives and the Pulitzer prize winning author Seymour Herschhave verified that these logs were ordered destroyed in Florida during December 1996 whileCongressional committees were conducting hearings on potential exposures. As the DU assessment team health physicist and medic I was responsible for planning andimplementing DU (Uranium 238) contaminated equipment and terrain clean up and forproviding medical care recommendations for exposed personnel. As we surveyed thebattlefield it became obvious that we had serious equipment, terrain, and medical problemsrequiring immediate action. Although effects of uranium exposure have been identified, theeffects from combat exposure during ODS were unknown. We had over 100 friendly fireU.S. casualties and several hundred others with verified exposures because of their U.S.
Department of Defense assigned duties. We also observed what is known as "Tours Are Us".
This event was numerous individuals visiting and climbing all over contaminated anddestroyed equipment and terrain without wearing any protection. I immediately contactedunit and the theater medical command staff to recommend medical care for all exposedindividuals. Consequently, the theater occupational health physician wrote and thendistributed immediate medical screening and care guidelines on June 13, 1991. As verifiedby GAO officials, it was ignored then and still is today. Upon our return to the United States our team continued to recommend immediate medicalcare for DU exposures. I described DU hazards and exposures and once more recommended immediate medical care during an Occupational Medicine conference held during February1992 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Based on reports the GovernmentAccounting Office issued recommendations for medical care, environmental remediation,and training during January 1993. On June 8, 1993, the Deputy Secretary of Defense ordered then Secretary of the Army TogoWest to "complete medical testing of personnel exposed to DU contamination during thePersian Gulf War". During August 1993, then Brigadier General Eric Shinseki signed theorder on behalf of the Army. This order, in most cases, is still disobeyed without anyaccountability. A Headquarters, Department of the Army memorandum dated October 14,1993 specified DU exposures that required medical screening and care. Although thesedirectives and Army regulations require medical screening care for those exposed to uraniumcontamination, representatives of the Department of Defense and Veterans affairs continueto deny or delay medical screening and care. Today, affected individuals include military personnel from all nations that were involved,civilian non-combatants and even residents of Vieques, Puerto Rico, Okinawa, Tennessee,Kentucky, Kosovo, Serbia, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia. The wartime and now peacetimedecision that you could just shoot solid rods of uranium 238 (DU) anywhere withoutproviding medical care for all exposed persons and without cleaning it up is a crime againstGod and the citizens of the world. Recently, the U.S. Navy willfully used DU munitions during peacetime exercises on thePuerto Rican Island of Vieques in violation of laws and regulations. Still there is noaccountability for these actions that spread radioactive waste that causes indiscriminate harmto all that are exposed for 4.5 billion years unless contamination is cleaned up. I ask: Wouldany of you want hundreds if not thousands of rods of solid uranium weighing up to 10pounds each lying in your backyard? Of course not. So why should it be anywhere? Depleted uranium was only one of the verified exposures which also included chemicalwarfare agents, biological warfare agents, pesticides, industrial chemicals, endemic diseases,sand (El Eskan disease), food borne illnesses, water borne illness, organic and inorganicbyproduct compounds from oil well fires, airborne particulates, asbestos, cleaningcompounds, low level radioactive materials, and then the deliberate immunizations and drugsdesigned to protect individuals from verified threats. Many exposures were caused by our deliberate actions. We knew where Iraqi chemical andbiological chemicals were stored. So as General Schwarzkopf wrote in his autobiography ItDoesn't Take a Hero , we decided to blow them up with artillery rounds and aerialbombardment. Consequently chemical, biological, and radiological warfare materials werereleased. We had specifically discussed this anticipated consequence and that medical carewould be required for any exposures. Consequently, with these releases, thousands ofchemical agent alarms were going off all the time all over the battlefield documentingexposures. A couple of weeks ago, DOD officials announced that they were modifying theexposure list again. It seems peculiar that 10 years after the fact and ten years after alarms went off that theexposure list is modified once more based on DOD analysis. Why can't the assumption be made if an individual was near an alarm that went off that they were exposed? Yet, today,DOD officials still claim the alarms were all false alarms. If the alarms are ineffective who isresponsible and why are they still in use? Because the logbooks were lost according to DODofficials, so there is no record of who was exposed based on alarm activation reports. Thusofficial denials continue to conflict with reality. And yet we wonder why confidence in DODleadership has eroded! During the battle as enemy industrial and agricultural facilities, schools, businesses, andhospitals were destroyed, individuals were exposed to released hazardous materials. Then aswe prepared for battle, conducted battle, and cleaned up after the battle we exposed oursoldiers to more hazardous materials. For example, after the completion of the ground war, asenior logistics officer and I were sent into Iraq by LTG Franks to clean up the 7th Corpshazardous waste dump. It was a total mess with observable releases and spills resulting inadditional adverse health and environmental effects. We also decided, based on the verified threats, to immunize our troops against a whole hostof diseases and biological warfare toxins such as anthrax and botulism. If immunizations hadbeen maintained rather than giving individuals four or five or even more simultaneousimmunizations we could have reduced adverse effects on the immune system. But we didnot. We gave individuals numerous shots at the same time and then did not keep track ofwhat was given or what adverse reactions occurred. We messed up immune systems beforedeployment. Basically, after we declared war we had to immunize everyone. As I administered hundredsof anthrax and botulinum shots in Saudi Arabia, I could only wonder why we were orderednot to record any information. Once more, our actions to protect individuals against averified threat ignored common sense. Today we know that the anthrax manufacturingprocess was never inspected and approved by the FDA before 1993 and today the FDA stillhas not approved the facility. We also know that there are adverse short term and probably long-term effects. The anthraxvaccine that we administered was licensed for prevention of cutaneous and not respiratoryanthrax. Then just within the last month, Department of Defense officials finally admittedafter continued denials that an illegal adjuvant, squalene, was used instead of alum in somevaccine batches. Consequently, we probably reduced the ability of the immune system tofight off the multitude of exposures that occurred. Pesticides proved to be yet one more problem. Although, pesticides were ordered fromofficial Department of Defense sources, they did not arrive in sufficient quantities so wewere required to buy them on the open market to control a verified threat. Consequently,who knows what we actually used and what adverse effects could be related to their use? The confirmed nerve agent threat resulted in the use of PB, which is actually a reversiblebond nerve agent, in an attempt to reduce the effects of chemical warfare nerve agents suchas Sarin, VX, Soman, Novachuks, and Multiple 7. PB can be compared to sprayinggumdrops with Raid or Black Flag and then eating them. We expected adverse reactionsfrom consumption of PB because it is a carbamate pesticide compound. Therefore, we madesure that NBC operations and medical personnel knew of potential adverse effects. Again, we knew there would be health effects and yet commanders decided to ignore our warningsand force individuals to eat PB tablets. As part of our discussions we also identified andwarned about the anticipated interactions between pesticides, nerve agents, and drugs such asPB (pyridiostigmine bromide / mestinon). Official Department of Army medical recordsconfirm that over 50% of the individuals who took the PB got sick with nerve agent effects.
Oh well, another anticipated adverse health effect to ignore. Food and water problems were all over. We could not ensure that Saudi government suppliedfood preparation and serving personnel met even basic U.S. public health requirements. Wesaw too many food borne health problems which once more caused adverse health problems.
Severe diarrhea was observed in troops eating at the mess hall located in the tent camp justoff of King Abdul Azziz Airfield in Riyadh during December of 1990. I was one of the casualties. We traced the problems to contaminated food. Similar problemsoccurred all over the theater of operations through at least May 1991. At one time duringApril we had so many at KKMC that were sick and because we did not have the medicalsupplies required to treat them, we just let them ride it out without medical care. That waswrong! We do not even know if some type of biological agent was introduced via sabotageinto our food supply or if troops crossed contaminated areas. We do know that food waspurchased and served that had been grown in night soil which is untreated sewage. Weestablished strict rinsing and cleaning requirements during food preparation. However,without complete control of food preparation personnel, we do not know if these guidelineswere followed. Water borne problems occurred during bathing, drinking, food preparation, anddecontamination. Rashes were observed in troops taking baths at Eskan Village and so wehad to order no baths or use of chlorine to sanitize the bath water. This created a problem forfemale hygiene efforts. Even with use of chlorine to sanitize the water before use, rashesabound! The Star Lighter showers which used water from a box which was open to the airalso caused problems, especially when water mixed with oil well combustion byproducts orother contaminants was used for bathing and washing clothes. We reported skin irritationupon taking a shower at King Kahlid Military City (KKMC) and other areas. Uniforms andclothes must be kept clean, yet my own DU team had to use the Star Lighters to clean ourclothes while we took showers. So more contamination was spread on the ground. We didnot have alternative choices to wash our contaminated clothes. The Service and Supply(S&S) Bath unit would not let us near their equipment and rightfully so for safety. I wonderhow we will keep uniforms and equipment clean in the future? The burning of the oil wells as Iraqi forces retreated was an excellent tactical operation.
Health and environmental problems started immediately. Members of our unit weredispatched to conduct an initial assessment of potential risks. It was obvious that incompletecombustion of inorganic and organic compounds was occurring and that these were beingreleased into the air and onto terrain causing immediate respiratory and skin problems. Thereleased mixture was so thick that we used sticks to scrap the junk out of our nose, ears, andmouth. We reported immediate splitting headaches, breathing problems and burning skin.
Official on-site medical command reports said that exposures were causing immediateadverse health problems. Consequently, we, by unanimous agreement, prepared, issued, anddistributed the medical command directive that no one should be exposed to any oil well fire byproducts without respiratory and skin protection. We tried, yet, history proves that this directive was disregarded and now we suspect that theobserved illnesses are caused in part by oil well fire byproduct exposures. Today, the full listof byproducts has been published and any first year environmental chemistry or otherstudent studying hazardous materials would agree that you should never expose anyone toeven one of these pollutants much less the entire combination. Once again, hazards wererecognized, warnings were issued, and recommendations ignored. As we provided emergency medical care we wrote reports identifying respiratory problems,rashes, diarrhea, neurological, bone muscle injury, immediate problems from PB use, andimmediate problems from oil well byproduct exposures. These medical problems wereannotated into individual medical records as they occurred. Although medical records didexist before individuals and units were redeployed the records disappeared. Oh well, if thereis not any diagnosed evidence of adverse health effects . . . there is not any problem. Medical personnel who performed the redeployment physicals deliberately ignored reportedproblems and denied that any exposures occurred. I tried to get my verified exposures listedbut they said none occurred and refused to list the exposures or treat my respiratory and rashproblems. Once we returned to the U.S. the observed health concerns forced the U.S. Department ofDefense to initiate the Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program (CSEPP). I went throughthe program during which serious medical problems were found that my VA physicians nowknow were caused by wartime exposures. Yet, despite my best efforts the CSEPP programphysicians refused to provide the medical tests required to verify known exposures.
However, even the diagnosed problems that they did verify were never placed in my officialmilitary medical file. My medical reports, along with hundreds of others, were separated, locked up in a specialroom at Noble Army Hospital, Fort McClellan, Alabama, until I was told they were there andI was finally able with intervention to obtain these secret files during the fall of 1997. Theywere sent to me in the mail. I then had my Army Reserve Command Chief Nurse review themedical evidence and insert them into my official military medical file. Yet, it is worse. As we completed the Depleted Uranium Burn Test at the Department ofEnergy Nevada Test Site in November 1994, DOE medics performed a radio-bioassay on methat found 5,000 times the permissible level of uranium in my body. Then they never told mefor 2.5 years. Again a deliberate action to deny medical care by preventing correlation ofexposures to adverse health effects! I am painting a picture that shows we knew about the threats, warned commanders about thethreats, recommended medical care that was and is still ignored, and that our leadership hasabandoned the troops for political purposes. Yet it gets worse. While preparing to conductour command level briefings and courses two senior Army medical officers came fromAberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland to make sure we limited our information tocommanders and medical personnel. In other words, do not tell them -- they will not know --and we will not be responsible. These two senior officers went to my unit commander and told him to force me to stopmaking sure the commanders and troops knew about the hazards and were ready to respondto the anticipated exposures and consequence health and environmental problems. After thatfailed they went to the 3rd U.S. Army Medical Command Staff to force us to stop and thatfailed! There were and still are dedicated professionals who care! Yet despite our best effortsthe exposures occurred and today individuals are sick and medical care was and still isdenied! Exposures will continue because despite our efforts environmental remediation hasbeen delayed or not completed. To paraphrase 1950's television program title; "I Was There!" We knew. We warned. Wewere ignored. Today we are still ignored. Today, too many individuals around the world aresuffering and dying because of our deliberate actions. In simple words, the battlefield was atoxic soup to which all civilians and military were exposed. Reported, observed, and verifiedmedical problems include: respiratory problems, rashes, cancer, dental problems, eyeproblems, muscle weakness, neurological problems, birth defects, sexual dysfunction, kidneyproblems, memory problems, pain, cardiac problems, blood problems, thyroid problems,liver problems, and immune system failures. Although, official denials continue, when you see the same health problems over and overagain in individuals from around the world then we must acknowledge a cause and effectrelationship and accept responsibility to provide medical care. Today, many of us, including scientists, physicians, pastors, and others who decided to speakup about what occurred, why it occurred, what should have been done years ago, and whatshould be done now, have lost jobs, experienced retaliation, and been threatened byDepartment of Defense, Department of the Army, and Department of Veterans Affairsofficials. The direct and indirect threats, warnings, and attacks also have been directed to ourfamily members to bring pressure on us to stop demanding accountability. This is all about liability! Therefore the truth must be suppressed! If what happened isacknowledged, then specific individuals within our government and other governments willbe required to accept responsibility for the consequences of deliberate actions. The healthand environmental problems are not limited to Iraq or surrounding areas. Similar adversehealth and environmental effects have been identified within and around U.S. militaryinstallations or Department of Energy facilities in Alabama, Washington, California, Alaska,Tennessee, Korea, Panama, Germany, Philippines, Maryland, Nevada, Florida, andespecially surrounding the U.S. Navy range on the Vieques, Puerto Rico. I recently had thefather of a warrior stationed in California come up to me while I was eating supper in arestaurant outside Chicago to ask for help in obtaining medical care for his family who wassick from exposures. Another dangerous location is Calhoun County (Fort McClellan) Alabama. Extensive PCBcontamination mixed with contamination from DOD activities and the potential release ofnerve and mustard agents during weapons incineration without any effective emergencyresponse threatens the residents and the environment. DOD and Army representatives havetold the residents of Calhoun County to just close their doors and windows and hold theirbreath in the event of releases. Oh my god! Recently, Denver Colorado residents were faced with the discovery of a bomb containing thenerve agent Sarin in a garbage dump. Somehow, Army officials had lost it! Then in a newpress report dated November 1, 2000 the Army admitted that there may be more lost Sarinbombs lying around the Rocky Mountain facility. No wonder very few individuals trustDOD Leaders. No matter where I go, I encounter individuals or families members seeking help. I receivetelephones call day and night. Individuals approach members of my family asking for help.
Physicians and scientists attending an international conference this past weekend atManchester, England described, discussed, and carefully verified the serious adverse healthproblems from chemical, biological, and radiological materials releases. The cancer rates, birth defects, neurological problems, respiratory problems, rashes, kidneyproblems, and many other medical problems seem to be increasing throughout Iraq, Kuwait,Serbia, Korea, England, France, Australia, Canada, Japan, the U.S. and the Vieques, PuertoRico. Basically the official denial of exposures and consequent adverse health and environmentaleffects has been ongoing for years. The dilemma is that we made decisions based on verifiedthreats and the tactical situation which were correct at that time, but then since 1991 DODand VA officials have ignored the consequences of these decisions and refuse to acceptresponsibility for current adverse health and environmental effects. The evidence exists andis increasing so we must acknowledge the adverse health and environmental effects of ouractions. So what are our national obligations? Two hundred and twenty-four years ago, theMinutemen of Massachusetts responded to a call to arms and our Nation was born. Now, tenyears after the Gulf War and the abandonment of our nation's military personnel and theirfamilies, recruiting and retention to fill our military forces with dedicated men and women isfailing because Warriors have been denied earned medical care and too many are living onfood stamps! Our nation is at risk! I and others have sent numerous messages to the Honorable Dr. Bernard Rostker, DeputySecretary of Defense, who was not there, whose staff was not there, and whose staff stillignores the warnings and recommendations of those of us who were there, for political andeconomic reasons. It is painfully obvious that DOD and VA officials have no intention ofaccepting responsibility for what has happened! The reason is very simple. If theyacknowledge what happened to our nation's heroes and accept responsibility for medicalcare and environmental remediation then these same officials must acknowledge theconsequences of our actions on non-combatants and enemy forces around the world. Wesuggested that Dr. Rostker, Secretary of Defense Cohen, or President Clinton state that: During the Gulf War essential decisions to protect our warriors and win the war were made basedon the tactical situation and verified threats. Today, we know that those decisions and ourdeliberate actions have resulted in serious adverse health and environmental consequences. Wecan no longer ignore the consequences of our deliberate actions. We apologize to our warriors,our warrior's families, and the citizens of the world. We resolve to provide medical care ormedical care recommendations and complete environmental remediation. Although, we have offered this solution many times it is ignored! We owe the combatveterans of our nation the medical care they earned! We must provide all warriors witheducation and training to ensure combat readiness and prevent a repeat of what has occurred.


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Armorial Bookplates sold for £1.12 each.
I have been following with interest the sale, on Ebay, of an album of armorial bookplates. With a starting price of just 99p (It was always going to sell for far more than that) the album was described as "Ex Libris Album 135 x Bookplates C19th Early C20th British & American".
The vendor described it as an album (10" x 8") of approx. 135 Bookplates dating mainly from 19th & early 20th Centuries. The album belonged to one Edith Oldham 1855-1946 and seems to have been handed down to F. Oldham with the date 1962 on the inside front cover. The album is broken and the contents range from poor to good condition with many old sellotape stains and several plates with missing corners. The bookplates were said to be thought to originate from the UK with a proportion from the USA plus the odd European example. They consist of armorial designs and later pictorial images.
With seven bidders making ten bids the hammer fell at £148.77 plus £4.50 UK delivery. Assuming that the winning bidder resides in the UK that makes an average price of £1.12 per bookplate. I wonder if it was purchased by a dealer who will now split them up and offer them for sale individually?
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Labels: Bookplates, Heraldry under the hammer (sold)
Bookplate exchanges
I have today received a number of bookplates (as part of an exchange) from Pierre Daniel De Losada Y Marth, Madrigal Heraldo de Arms De Castilla Y Leon. Included in the package were a number of Losada bookplates executed by Chirac, 1992, Zdenko Alexy, 1992, Zdenko Alexy, 1992 and Agry 1984. Here is but one of the plates, the remainder can be found in the The Cheshire Heraldry Gallery.
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William Henry Bellot F.R.C.S.E. Surgeon Royal Cheshire Militia
This is the bookplate (in my personal collection) of William Henry Bellot F.R.C.S.E. Surgeon Royal Cheshire Militia. William was gazetted 5th October 1852 as receiving a commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County palatine of Chester; William Henry Bellot, gent, to be surgeon.
This bookplate is incorrectly described in the Rylands collection as being parted per fess Gules and Argent.
"Description: The Bellot Family coat of arms. The blazoning is as follows: The shield is parted per fess, the upper armorial is red and the lower silver. Three cinquefoil flowers appear in chief across the upper armorial. Underneath appears the motto 'Spes Me Sustentat'.
The Visitations of 1663 describe this coat as being Argent, on a chief Gules three cinquefoils of the field [Bellot] and Daniel King, in his Kinderton Roll tricks them as Bellot (Bellet) Argent, on a chief Gules three cinquefoils pierced of the field.
Here he is using the motto Spes Me Sustenat (Hope Sustains Me) and this motto is also used in the bookplate of a number of books in the Rylands Library "Bellot Collection" where other bookplates bearing an alternative motto 'Toujours Bellot' (Always Pretty) can be found.
Image from the Rylands Library "Bellot Collection" where other bookplates bearing an alternative motto 'Toujours Bellot' (Always Pretty) can be found.
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Usurpation?
I came across this advertisement this morning in a local government journal and it resurrected my feelings of unease about the lackadaisical way in which the ownership and use of arms is treated in England; I couldn't help thinking (once again) that this simply would not be tolerated in Scotland.
These are the arms of the Earl of Derby and are certainly not the arms of any town council. Sadly and with much regret in 1984, the then Garter King of Arms declined to ask the Court to rule against the assumption of unauthorised arms by a local authority, doubting whether the precedents would give jurisdiction (A New Dictionary of Heraldry (1987) Stephen Friar p 63).
[quote from Wiki] Hence, although the Law of Arms undoubtedly remains part of the law of England, and although the Court of Chivalry in theory exists as a forum in which it may be enforced, there is difficulty in enforcing the law in practice (a point made in Re Croxon, Croxon v Ferrers [1904] Ch 252, Kekewich J). The absence of a practical remedy for the illegal usurpation of arms in the law of England does not mean that there are no rights infringed, merely that it not within the jurisdiction of the common law Courts to act and the Court which is so empowered does not now sit.
Armorial bearings are incorporeal and impartible hereditaments, inalienable, and descendable according to the law of arms. Generally speaking (there have been very rare examples of patents in which the arms are granted to descend with some different limitation), this means they are inherited by the issue (male and female) in the male line of the grantee, though they can be inherited as quarterings by the sons of an heraldic heiress, where there is no surviving male heir, provided her issue also have a right to bear arms in their own male line. [End Quote]
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