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Disc Disease
Posted on February 16, 2011 March 5, 2018 Topic: Neurology
Authored by: Dr Nick Sharp
This is one of the most common neurological conditions in dogs and it also affects cats occasionally as well. The reason for disc disease being such a common problem in dogs is related to the process of miniaturization that occurred in the canine population once they became domesticated. This process has been associated with a number of side effects. One of these side effects is that many of the dwarf breeds suffer from premature aging of their intervertebral discs.
A disc has two main structural components. There is a tough, outer fibrous layer that gives the spine strength and flexibility and that also keeps the inner, jelly-like nucleus of the disc under pressure. This design of intervertebral discs is ideal for their main function of absorbing and cushioning the forces acting on the spine. However, in miniaturized breeds of dog the nucleus of the disc ages prematurely such that even in young dogs the nucleus becomes calcified and loses its jelly-like consistency. As it solidifies the nucleus is less able to act as an efficient shock absorber and this, in turn, causes the outer fibrous layer to fail. The problem is exacerbated because young animals are often very active and tend to put high stresses on their spines.
Early degeneration of the disc helps to explain why the peak incidence of disc disease in dachshunds is between three and five years of age. This situation is analogous to that seen in human dwarfs who suffer from a peak incidence of disc disease in their late teens and early twenties. Miniaturization of dogs takes many forms and perhaps the most extreme examples are the Pekinese and Shi Tzu. These breeds not only have short, bandy legs but they also have a foreshortened face. The peak incidence of disc disease in the Shi Tzu is even earlier than in the dachshund and occurs between one and two years of age. Even breeds such as the beagle and the Bassett, which are miniaturized forms of foxhound and the cocker spaniel, which is a miniaturized spaniel, are predisposed to disc disease compared to their parent forms or to a non-miniaturized breed such as a German shepherd. Disc disease does occur in large breed dogs but here the age incidence is similar to that found in most people i.e. from late middle age onwards.
There are three main locations affected by disc disease. One type occurs in the neck and is usually called cervical disc disease (see Figures 6A & B, below ). The other type is when the disc disease occurs in the thoracic and lumbar spine (see Figure 7-1, below ). A third type occurs at the base of the lumbar spine and is called lumbosacral disc disease. This is discussed separately under Lumbosacral Disease.
Cervical Disc Disease
The main sign of disc disease in the neck is a severe and often unrelenting pain. This is one of the few conditions that cause animals to scream out spontaneously, even if they only think that someone is going to touch them. In more severe cases there may be a weakness of one front limb. Some animals will develop weakness in all four limbs due to compression of the spinal cord. Severe neurological deficits such as this are not very common in cervical disc disease compared to thoracolumbar disc disease, due in large part to the relative sizes of the bony vertebral canal inside which the spinal cord is contained.
Figure 6: A. CT scan of a dog's neck to show a normal disc space at C3-4. The arrow shows the vertebral canal, which is the hole that the spinal cord runs through. B. The normal scan at C3-4 contrasts to the adjacent C4-5 space where there is a large disc extrusion (arrowhead).
As the pain is hard to control with medical therapy in many dogs, surgery is the preferred treatment option. The prognosis is very good for most dogs with cervical disc disease if they undergo surgery. Dogs that are so weak that they cannot stand to have a more guarded prognosis with or without surgery, as they are more prone to complications such as pneumonia. The most common complication is that some dogs will have continued neck pain for one to two weeks after surgery.
Thoracolumbar Disc Disease
The signs of thoracolumbar disc disease differ considerably between humans and animals. This is because herniated discs in humans occur mainly in the low lumbar area, which is occupied by nerve roots and not by the spinal cord. In dogs, however, the spinal cord extends much further down the spine, and, in addition, most disc herniations in animals occur in the area of the last ribs. Therefore in contrast to humans, in dogs and cats, most disc herniations compress the spinal cord and so cause varying degrees of weakness in the rear limbs. This is distinct from the pain without significant weakness that occurs most commonly with nerve root compression due to disc herniations in humans.
Diagnosis of disc disease is rarely possible using X-rays alone. Many dogs, even those without clinical signs, have changes on X-ray that suggest disc degeneration. Definitive diagnosis, therefore, requires either myelography, CT or MRI. Myelography used to be the standard diagnostic technique but this is an invasive test requiring the injection of a contrast agent around the spinal cord. Myelography has been superseded by either CT or MRI where available, as these newer tests are non-invasive and also very accurate at identifying herniated disc material.
Figure 7-1: CT scans made at of level of the end of the rib cage. A: A normal dog to show the spinal cord surrounded by fat and bone (arrow). B: A dog with a large disc extrusion (arrowhead).
Figure 7-2: Longitudinal (also termed sagittal) MRI of a dog with a large disc extrusion that is evident as a dark mass (indicated by the white arrowhead) situated just in front of the last rib. The spinal cord is shown as the medium dark band extending the length of the image (indicated by the *).
Figure 7-3: Cross-sectional images of a second disc extrusion in the same dog to show compression of the spinal cord. A: The spinal cord is normally surrounded by a fluid-filled space containing CSF that appears white in this image (arrowhead). The darker, bean-shaped spinal cord is sitting in the center of this space. B: A dark mass of herniated disc material (arrowhead) has compressed the spinal cord and deformed it to one side. The pressure caused by the disc material has also shut down the fluid-filled space and pushed away the CSF so that the spinal cord is no longer surrounded by the white halo shown in A.
Treatment for disc disease can be either surgical or non-surgical:
Non-surgical management
Relies on rest to allow the associated inflammation to resolve and to prevent the herniation of further disc material.
Strict rest needs to be maintained by keeping the dog in a small cage for 6-8 weeks and then preventing it from running or jumping for a further month after that.
It is necessary to continue rest for this long period because a disc takes on average about twice s long as a broken bone to heal, as a disc has a very poor blood supply compared to most other tissues including bone.
Despite being confined in this way some animals will continue to deteriorate and lose sensation in their rear limbs.
Overall about 70% of dogs that are weak or paralyzed in their rear limbs will make a good recovery after non-surgical management provided that they have good sensation in the affected limbs.
Overall recovery times for these dogs vary from 6 to 12 weeks before they can walk.
Physical therapy must be limited during this time so that the dog can be rested properly.
Some dogs that respond only make a partial recovery after severe injury while others never recover.
A significant proportion of dogs in this category will be left with mild, residual neurological deficits such as wobbliness of the rear limbs.
About one-third of the dogs that recover suffer a second episode of disc disease later in life.
Non-surgical management is not effective for dogs that have lost sensation to their rear limbs. Only about 5% of these dogs make a good recovery.
Recovery of spinal cord function after non-surgical management depends mainly on the dog compensating for any nervous tissue that has been damaged irreversibly.
NB. Recovery is defined as being able to walk and regain control of urine and feces.
Table 7-1: Results of Treatment for Thoracolumbar Disc Disease
% OF DOGS THAT RECOVER
MANAGEMENT SURGICAL
% weak or paralysed with good sensation in the rear limbs 70% 95%
Recovery times for dogs with good sensation 6-12 weeks 1-4 weeks
Paralysed with no sensation in the rear limbs 5% 50-60%
% of dogs that recover but then suffer a recurrence of disc disease 33% 5%
Figure 7-4: Photograph of the spine of a paralyzed dog undergoing surgery to remove a disc extrusion. A bone of the spine has been removed in a procedure called a hemilaminectomy. The white arrows show the edges of the bone that has been removed in order to expose the spinal cord (small black arrow). This procedure permits the surgeon to remove the large mass of mineralized disc material (large black arrowhead) that is the cause of the paralysis.
Requires myelography, a CT scan or an MRI in order to identify the symptomatic disc.
A window is drilled in the bone(s) of the spine in order to remove the extruded disc material (see Figure 7-4, above). A procedure is usually done at the same time to reduce the risk of recurrence at other disc spaces in the future; this procedure is called a fenestration.
Overall about 95% of dogs that are weak or paralyzed in their rear limbs will make a good recovery after surgical management provided that they have good sensation in the affected limbs.
Recovery times for these dogs vary from 1 to 4 weeks.
Surgery should prevent further deterioration and is associated with a low complication rate.
Physical therapy can be instituted immediately after surgery, which hastens recovery.
Most dogs have minimal or no residual neurological deficits after surgery.
Only about 5% of dogs suffer a second episode of disc disease after surgery.
Surgical management is, therefore, the treatment of choice, especially for dogs that lose sensation to their rear limbs. About 50-60% of dogs that initially lack sensation in their rear legs will make a good recovery after surgery, although they may have residual wobbliness and in some cases a mild disturbance of continence as well.
The most common complication after surgery is the fact that many dogs will develop urinary tract infections until they regain the ability to urinate normally (this also occurs in dogs that do not undergo surgery). About 5-10% of paralyzed dogs that present without pain perception fail to recover because they develop a fatal condition called myelomalacia where their spinal cord loses its blood supply; unfortunately, this usually develops only after surgery has been performed.
Disc disease in cats is less common than it is in dogs and usually occurs only in older animals. Signs are similar to those seen in dogs although sometimes cats with this problem do not show back pain as clearly as do most dogs. The principles of diagnosis and treatment are the same as for dogs.
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For many years Francis Chan was a darling of the evangelical world. A preacher who would bring the uncompromised Gospel of Jesus Christ without apology. He resonated with the youth greatly who were able to see through the lies of mega-churchdom. The bible however reminds us that we must finish the race. We cannot live on being correct yesterday. The devil is always on the prowl looking for whom he may devour and it is even more important for those with a preaching platform to be careful with our doctrine.
There is a reason why those who labor in preaching and teaching are due double honor. It is because they will judged with a higher standard. When Paul says goodbye to the elders at Ephesus he declares that he is innocent of their blood because he did not hesitate to proclaim to them the entire Gospel. The clear inference being that he would be responsible for their blood should his teaching be responsible for them being led astray. An important part of this responsibility is who we choose to stand with. Who we choose to associate with. Who we lend our own credibility to. Our key verse makes this abundantly clear. It is not enough to say that we give instruction in sound doctrine but we must also rebuke those who do not. Many choose to be silent on doctrinal matters that involve other preachers and this verse says they are wrong for doing so. What is worse however, is when we cozy up to wolves and assure our own sheep that there is nothing to fear.
When Francis Chan chose to be a speaker at the IHOP Onething Conference two years ago many correctly called him out for it. He actually admitted at the conference that many friends had warned him about Mike Bickle, the leader of IHOP. Instead of listening to his friends and advisors, he chose to speak anyway and openly declared at the conference that he "loved Mike Bickle." This despite never having met the man before that day. My sincere hope was that Chan would realize the error of this judgment and that we could all look back on it one day as a simple error; a poor decision. That was until this week when IHOP announced that Chan will again be a speaker at the Onething Conference this year. That means that Francis Chan has chosen to share the stage with one of the greatest heretics of our time twice in less than two years. That is enough for me. Please do not fall for the false argument about eating the meat and spitting out the bone. If the bone is rotten, I have no intention of eating the meat that grows on it.
Mike Bickle is a wolf of the highest order. He claims direct angelic visitations. He claims direct audible words from God. He proclaims himself to be a prophet. He surrounds himself with other notable false prophets and embraces some of the most unsound doctrines imaginable openly and proudly. Most who survive the IHOP experience describe it as a cult. Kids are indoctrinated through eastern mysticism and the encouragement of experiential Christianity over doctrinal Christianity. They are heavily steeped in the lying signs and wonders movements and are closely associated with Bill Johnson and the heretical Bethel Church in Redding California. The recent murder of Bethany Deaton revealed only the tip of an iceberg, despite Bickle claiming he knew nothing about any of the details. Strange for a "prophet."


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Troubled Grandson Of J. Paul Getty Dies At 54
February 8, 2011 / 11:40 AM / AP
LONDON (AP) - J. Paul Getty III, the troubled grandson of a multibillionaire oil magnate who lost an ear in a grisly kidnapping, has died. He was 54.
His son, Balthazar, confirmed the death through a publicist. The statement says J. Paul Getty III died Saturday in England, surrounded by family.
Born into vast wealth, J. Paul Getty III gained notoriety when he was kidnapped in Rome in 1973. When the family reportedly stalled on paying a ransom, the kidnappers cut off part of his ear, sending the severed organ to a newspaper to prove they had taken him captive.
The oil heir, then 16, was freed after five months in captivity and a payment of $2.7 million.
He later suffered a stroke while undergoing treatment for alcohol abuse in 1981.
First published on February 8, 2011 / 11:40 AM
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Through my love for research on health and relaying information to our community members, I have found there is a new, positive trend in businesses, throughout the world.
More and more businesses are becoming purpose-driven. They are not compromising values for profit. This is called conscious capitalism. Their bottom line is, "Does our product benefit people and the planet?" They hire people who care about how they impact the bigger world picture.
The voices of their employees count. In turn, the employers pay well. Everyone goes to work with inspiration. This is a big key to emotional and mental health, and happiness, because we give so much of our time to our work.
Businesses can be powerful tools to create change. Imagine businesses on Kaua'i operating this way, and our residents — who hold great power to vote with their dollars — supporting the businesses that create products and services which make the world a better place.
What we purchase creates demand. We can be conscious consumers. We can ask ourselves if we really need a given product and if what we are doing the right thing. In turn, businesses will serve the market. We can shift toward products sustainably sourced, manufactured and distributed. We can do an Internet search to find out about the values of any given products or companies.
What does it mean to be conscious consumers? When we buy a product, we consider its short- and long-term impacts on the environment.
Let's consider plastic packaging as part of the picture. There is a "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" in the Pacific Ocean almost twice the size of Texas. One-fifth of the garbage is thrown off ships or oil platforms. The rest comes from land. The trash is mostly made up of a variety of plastics.
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Rain causes these chemicals to move from land to our water table and into aquifers providing drinking water. Our aquifers are so deep and large that once contaminated, it is hard to clean them up.
Our winds averaging 8-9 miles/hour carry sprayed chemicals. Sometimes, "dust devils", or wind vortexes, pick up the chemicals and transport them miles away. This can affect our children in nearby schools and hospitals, our rivers, drinking water and ocean life.
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Keeping our air and drinking water clean and safe is a priority. We can do this by making wise choices in the products we use.
Instead of farming with dangerous pesticides and herbicides, our fertile lands could be used for sustainable farming of health-promoting, high-demand, profitable crops such as cacao, olena (turmeric), ginger and coconuts.
In order to make change in the world, we need to begin in our own homes and work within our communities. If every community worldwide did that, the human race would stand a chance. Many scientists say we are at a tipping point for survival as a race.
May Kaua'i become an example to the world.
Uma Sivanathan is the founder of the nonprofit organization, Mana'olana Center for Health and Healing. She can be reached at manaolanacenter@gmail.com.


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J.D. Crowe, Bluegrass Banjo Icon, Dead at 84
With his band the New South, the Kentucky native expanded the often constrictive boundaries of bluegrass and spotlighted players like Keith Whitley, Jerry Douglas, and Tony Rice
J.D. Crowe onstage at Stagecoach Music Festival in 2008. The banjo player has died at 84.
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J.D. Crowe, a pioneering banjo player with his progressive bluegrass group the New South, died Friday morning, according to a post on the musician's Facebook page. He was 84.
"This morning at around 3 a.m. our dad, JD Crowe, went home," Crowe's family wrote. "Prayers needed for all during this difficult time."
A seminal figure in the bluegrass world, Crowe was a disciple of Earl Scruggs and played banjo in Scruggs' three-fingered style. Yet he was also an experimentalist and pushed the genre outside of its traditional, at times constrictive, boundaries. In 1975, he released one of bluegrass's most important albums in J.D. Crowe and the New South, simply known among fans as "0044," its catalog number on Rounder Records.
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Led by the fast-picking Crowe, New South was an acoustic powerhouse, a band that became airtight by playing five nights a week at the Holiday Inn in Lexington. Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas were both members, as was Tony Rice, the wildly influential flatpicking guitarist who died last Christmas — a year and a day before Crowe's death.
"We had gotten to the point that we knew what each other was thinking by just looking at each other, and that's a great feeling to have," Crowe told Rolling Stone in 2020. "Tony was very good at paying attention because whatever he was playing he wanted it right, as good as he could get it. I loved that because there's so many pickers that don't feel that way."
Born James Dee Crowe in Lexington in 1937, the musician got his start working with a giant of bluegrass, the guitarist Jimmy Martin, in the early Fifties. Crowe would play gigs with Martin in Ohio and, later, Detroit while shuttling back and forth to Kentucky to finish school. In 1958, Martin and Crowe enlisted guitarist Paul Williams, and the trio developed a following by playing radio shows like the Louisiana Hayride and the Wheeling Jamboree.
Crowe left Martin in 1961 and returned home to Lexington, where he ran across the musicians Doyle Lawson and Bobby Slone. Together they formed the group the Kentucky Mountain Boys, which evolved into the New South in the Seventies. While Skaggs, Slone, Rice, and Douglas all appear on 1975's "0044" with Crowe, the New South had an ever-changing lineup, including future country star Keith Whitley, who played guitar and sang on the band's albums My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame and Somewhere Between.
Along with expanding the scope of bluegrass with the New South, Crowe also worked to preserve the genre's traditions and legacy. In 1981, he recruited players like Tony Rice and Doyle Lawson to release The Bluegrass Album, a collection of classics by Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and others.
Crowe toured and cut albums throughout the Nineties and into the next century. In 2006, he released the LP Lefty's Old Guitar with yet another iteration of the New South, earning him his second Grammy nomination. (He was previously nominated, and won, in 1983 for Best Country Instrumental Performance.)
Crowe was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2003. He retired from touring in 2019, but continued to perform and record.
The news of Crowe's death resonated throughout the bluegrass community. "We lost one of the greatest banjo players ever to pick up the five," banjoist Bela Fleck tweeted. Billy Strings called Crowe an "absolute legend" and cited his tone, taste and timing. "The space in between the notes he played and the way he rolled them out just kept the band driving, running on all cylinders like a V8 engine," the guitarist tweeted. "He was just the best bluegrass banjo player out there."
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Nov 19, 2021 Updated Nov 19, 2021
Jurors on Friday found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges against him. Rittenhouse had testified that he acted in self-defense when he shot three people, two fatally, during unrest in Kenosha last year.
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KENOSHA, Wis. — Kyle Rittenhouse's legs gave out under him as a clerk read the verdict of a jury that had been deliberating for close to 3 1/2 days — not guilty on all counts.
Rittenhouse, 18, had pleaded self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice in the U.S.
He was charged with killing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and seriously injuring Gaige Grosskreutz with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle on Aug. 25, 2020, in the unrest that unfolded in Kenosha following the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a white Kenosha police officer.
Kyle Rittenhouse closes his eyes and cries as he is found not guilt on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Kenosha News, Sean Krajacic)
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Rittenhouse and his legal team steadfastly held that the Antioch, Illinois, teen was in Kenosha to help protect businesses from rioters and acted in self-defense when confronted by Rosenbaum, Huber and others.
"He wants to get on with his life," defense attorney Mark Richards said. "He has a huge sense of relief for what the jury did to him today. He wishes none of this ever happened. But as he said when he testified, he did not start this."
As soon as the first verdict was read, Rittenhouse's legs began to shake violently, he broke into tears and he started to collapse. Crying, he hugged defense attorney Corey Chirafisi. In the gallery, his mother Wendy Rittenhouse began to cry quietly. Across the aisle, Huber's girlfriend Hannah Gittings was crying as well.
The verdict in the politically combustible case was met with anger and disappointment from those who saw Rittenhouse as a vigilante and wannabe cop, and relief and a sense of vindication from those who regarded him as a patriot who took a stand against lawlessness and exercised his Second Amendment right to carry a gun and to defend himself.
Appearing outside his Racine law office after the verdict, Richards spoke of the "living hell" Rittenhouse went through, but said little about the men who were shot. As he did during the trial, Richards painted Rosenbaum as the villain of the case.
"I don't want to speak ill of the dead, but he wasn't a nice person and everyone knows it," he said.
Kyle Rittenhouse's mother, Wendy, reacts as her son, Kyle Rittenhouse, is found not guilt on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.
Richards criticized the way prosecutors handled the case and took a shot at Rittenhouse's original attorneys, John Pierce and Lin Wood. He also said he didn't believe Rittenhouse regretted coming to Kenosha on the night of the shootings armed with an AR-15-style rifle strapped to his chest.
"I don't believe he does," Richards said. "You know, if he had to do it all over again and the same thing was going to happen and your life was going to be put in a living hell for a year and you're not going to know whether you are going to be a free man, he would say I'm not going to go. But we can't undo time."
Kenosha County Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, the lead prosecutor in the case, said his office was disappointed with the verdict but it "must be respected."
"We are grateful to the members of the jury for their diligent and thoughtful deliberations," Binger said. "The Kenosha community has endured much over the past 15 months, and yet we remain resilient and strong. We ask that members of our community continue to express their opinions and feelings about this verdict in a civil and peaceful manner."
Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger, center, holds his gaze to the ceiling as he waits for a verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial to be read at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.
Rittenhouse had faced the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the most serious charges against him.
Going in, many legal experts said they believed the defense had the advantage because of provisions favorable to Rittenhouse in Wisconsin self-defense law and video showing him being chased at key moments. But as jury deliberations continued, there was growing speculation that Rittenhouse could be convicted on some of the charges or that the jury could be deadlocked.
Richards, the defense attorney, said that Rittenhouse wants to be a nurse and that he is in counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder and will probably move away because "it's too dangerous" for him to continue to live in the area. Asked whether his client would keep a low profile, Richards said, "I hope so."
President Joe Biden called for calm, saying that while the outcome of the case "will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken."
Ahead of the verdict, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced that 500 National Guard members stood ready in case of trouble. But hours after the jury came back, there were no signs of any major protests or unrest in Kenosha.
Kyle Rittenhouse tells prosecutor Thomas Binger that he didn't intend to kill anyone when he shot three people, two fatally, on Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha. "I did what I had to do to stop the person who was attacking me," he said during Binger's cross-examination on Wednesday.
As he released the jurors, Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder assured them the court would take "every measure" to keep them safe. None offered any comment when reporters called out questions about the verdict.
Huber's parents, Karen Bloom and John Huber, said the outcome "sends the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street."
Gittings, Huber's girlfriend, said before the verdict she was not hopeful that Huber — who she and supporters felt had acted as a hero in trying to stop Rittenhouse after he shot Rosenbaum — would receive justice.
Hannah Gittings, the late Anthony Huber's girlfriend, right, cries after Kyle Rittenhouse is found not guilt on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.
"Honestly, I am just ready for it to be over and done with at this point," Gittings said as she waited in the courthouse hallway earlier in the week while the jury was still deliberating. "It's just really a closure thing for me, because no matter what the outcome is, it won't change anything."
Gittings said she felt people were so wedded to their opinions of Rittenhouse's actions that the verdict would not shift their beliefs. "That's the big discrepancy that I hope people will wake up to," she said. "It's two sides of fearmongering."
Racine criminal defense attorney Pat Cafferty thinks jurors likely put weight on Rittenhouse's own words said during the trial.
"I think the jury focused on Rittenhouse's testimony and believed him when he said he had no choice but to do what he did," Cafferty said. "That combined with the video evidence they relied on. And once they found him not guilty on the first count, the dominoes fell from there."
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is Black and a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, denounced the outcome. He, like many civil rights activists, saw a racial double standard at work in the case.
Kyle Rittenhouse enters the courtroom to hear the verdicts in his trial. He was found not guilt on all counts at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.
"Over the last few weeks, many dreaded the outcome we just witnessed," Barnes said. "The presumption of innocence until proven guilty is what we should expect from our judicial system, but that standard is not always applied equally. We have seen so many black and brown youth killed, only to be put on trial posthumously, while the innocence of Kyle Rittenhouse was virtually demanded by the judge."
Political figures on the right welcomed the verdict and condemned the case brought against Rittenhouse.
Mark McCloskey, who got in trouble with the law when he and his wife waved a rifle and a handgun at Black Lives Matter protesters marching past his St. Louis home in 2020, said the verdict shows that people have a right to defend themselves from a "mob." Now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, McCloskey attracted attention from the media and demonstrators when he appeared outside the courthouse earlier in the week.
Republican Mark McCloskey, a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Missouri, was the center of attention for some demonstrators and members of the media outside the Kenosha County courthouse Tuesday, as jurors inside continued deliberations in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. Warning: This unedited video contains explicit language.
Fifteen minutes after the verdicts, the National Rifle Association tweeted the text of the Second Amendment.
The Kenosha case was part of an extraordinary confluence of trials that reflected the deep divide over race in the United States: In Georgia, three white men are on trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, while in Virginia, a trial is underway in a lawsuit over the deadly white-supremacist rally held in Charlottesville in 2017.
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1828.mshaffer.com › Word [abomination]
ABOMINA'TION, n.
1. Extreme hatred; detestation.
2. The object of detestation, a common signification in scripture.
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. Prov.xv.
3. Hence, defilement, pollution, in a physical sense, or evil doctrines and practices, which are moral defilements, idols and idolatry, are called abominations. The Jews were an abomination to the Egyptians; and the sacred animals of the Egyptians were an abomination to the Jews. The Roman army is called the abomination of desolation. Mat. 24:13. In short, whatever is an object of extreme hatred, is called an abomination.
Evolution (or devolution) of this word [abomination]
A-BOM-IN-A'TION, n.
Extreme hatred; detestation. – Swift.
The object of detestation, a common signification in Scripture. The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. – Prov. xv.
Hence, defilement, pollution, in a physical sense, or evil doctrines and practices, which are moral defilements, idols and idolatry, are called abominations. The Jews were an abomination to the Egyptians; and the sacred animals of the Egyptians were an abomination to the Jews. The Roman army is called the abomination of desolation. – Matt. xxiv. 13. In short, whatever is an object of extreme hatred, is called an abomination.
A*bom`i*na"tion
The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution.
Antony, most large in his abominations.
Shak.
A cause of pollution or wickedness.
Syn. -- Detestation; loathing; abhorrence; disgust; aversion; loathsomeness; odiousness. Sir W. Scott.
ABOMINA'TION, noun
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs 15:8.
3. Hence, defilement, pollution, in a physical sense, or evil doctrines and practices, which are moral defilements, idols and idolatry, are called abominations. The Jews were an abomination to the Egyptians; and the sacred animals of the Egyptians were an abomination to the Jews. The Roman army is called the abomination of desolation. Matthew 24:15. In short, whatever is an object of extreme hatred, is called an abomination
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deponent
DEPONENT, a.
1. Laying down.
2. A deponent verb, in the Latin Grammar, is a verb which has a passive termination, with an active signification, and wants one of the passive participles; as, loquor, to speak.
DEPONENT, .
1. One who deposes, or gives a deposition under oath; one who gives written testimony to be used as evidence in a court of justice. With us in New England, this word is never used, I believe, for a witness who gives oral testimony in court. In England, a deponent is one who gives answers under oath to interrogatories exhibited in chancery.
2. A deponent verb.


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Q: django form methods are for validation only or not? While I am studying the new django docs on class-based views, I notice this example code:
# forms.py
from django import forms

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField()
    message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

    def send_email(self):
        # send email using the self.cleaned_data dictionary
        pass

The fact of seeing send_email as a method of ContactForm really annoys me. I have always thought form methods should be for validation purpose and methods that consume forms (like send_email in this case) should be in the views layer. Am I missing anything here? Or should the example be corrected?

A: There is no correct answer for this one. It really depends on your coding style. Using a form for more than just validation is as valid as doing this method in the view.
The above example has some kind of advantage though. Lets say you have one model and you want to use different forms (with different logic) for it. Instead of putting the logic in the view and check which form is now used it probably better to put this logic on the form level.

A: There is nothing wrong with the example. For any but the simplest of cases, your form will contain only cleaning methods; most forms do extra validation and other actions. In the end, it is just a Python class and you can do whatever you would like in it; there is no "rule" except maybe DRY.
We have form methods that validate against external services, call other procedures and trigger workflows. For such complicated logic, it is best to embed it in to the form class as it increases reusability of the code. Developers working on the view simply use the form class as a library and don't have to worry about exotic validation requirements. In this case, it actually promotes DRY.
When we have to update the logic we only update the form class's "private" methods (those prefixed with _). This keeps the "public" interface (documented by django) intact and all view code using that form doesn't have to be updated.

A: The first time I got the same weird feeling was when I encountered the LoginForm from django.contrib.auth that also verifies that the user's browser is capable of working with cookies aside from managing the credentials passed in.
Personally, I agree with you. I'm more inclined to think that the view should be the responsible actor for performing the action of sending the email rather than the form and that  send_email should be a method defined in the view.
But, then again, you can easily observe how a lot of us use Django differently or have a different approach to solving the same problems. Due to the fact that we have different concerns in mind when developing our applications, it's quite possible we have a different understanding of how certain framework components are meant to be used, which is a bit of a moot point. In the end, what's important to acknowledge is that it's possible to delegate some of the heavy-lifting from the view to the form in  a manner that's well-defined.

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These colours and the way you have embossed more than one layer is awesome Jen. We love your take on Teneale's sketch.
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A range of fretboard (or chord) diagrams for the guitar are provided in the Fretboard Diagrams palette in the Advanced Workspace.
You can create a chord diagram for any fretted, stringed instrument by editing an existing one. It can be saved to a custom palette for future use if required.
Select a note in voice 1 and double-click a fretboard diagram from a palette.
Drag and drop a fretboard diagram from a palette to the desired position in the score.
When a fretboard diagram is selected, it can be edited in the Inspector.
Adjust the number of instrument strings, using "Strings".
Adjust the fret position number using "Offset".
Adjust how many frets to display (height-wise) using "Frets".
Place the finger dots. Click on a fret to establish a dot; click again to remove the dot.
ii. Hold Shift and click on the fret where you want the barre to begin. Note: Only one barré can be applied per diagram; a partial barré must end on the first string.
iii. To delete a barre, click on the black dot where the barre begins.
Adjust the size: Use the "Scale" property.
The position of the fretboard diagram can be adjusted in the usual way in Edit mode, or you can edit the X- and Y-offsets in the Inspector.
Color and Stacking order can be adjusted in the "Element" section at the top of the Inspector.
Certain default properties of fretboard diagrams (barre thickness, vertical position, scale, fret-number font-size and position) can be adjusted from the Style submenu: select Format→Style…→Fretboard Diagrams. Any changes made here affect all existing diagrams, as well as those applied subsequently.


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Books|The Waxing and Waning of America's Political Right
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The Waxing and Waning of America's Political Right
By JACKSON LEARS SEPT. 28, 2009
One puzzling feature of American politics is that the people who call themselves conservatives seldom want to conserve anything. The modern conservative movement promotes radical transformation while ignoring classical conservative ideas — for example, Edmund Burke's respect for established institutions and customs, for continuity with tradition and for incremental change.
The recent history of the American right, writes Sam Tanenhaus, involves the triumph of "movement conservatism" over the Burkean version. In his view "the paradox of the modern Right" is that "its drive for power has steered it onto a path that has become profoundly and defiantly un-conservative," and that has finally led to electoral disaster, political irrelevance and "rigor mortis."
This obituary is premature, but the story leading up to it is deftly told. "The Death of Conservatism" is an expanded version of an essay that originally ran in The New Republic. It traverses several decades of complex political change, so inevitably it neglects some important topics. What remains is an elegant brief history of the modern conservative movement, as unsparing in its critique of liberal hubris as of revanchist resentment.
Mr. Tanenhaus, editor of both The New York Times Book Review and the Week in Review, traces the origins of modern conservatism to revulsion against the policy intellectuals who came to power during the New Deal. While ideologues on the right worried about this mandarin "new class," moderate Republicans made their peace with it and cheered Eisenhower to victory in 1952. "When at last conservatives gained a foothold within the establishment, political and intellectual," Mr. Tanenhaus writes, "it was because they had earned their way."
Agreeing to play the game by New Deal rules, they accepted progressive taxation, some government regulation of business and the rudimentary welfare state created by the Democrats.
But the right-wing ideologues sensed a sellout. The young William F. Buckley raged against "atheistic socialists" at Yale, defended Joseph McCarthy and argued — with some justification — that the "liberal consensus" functioned as a closed system rather than as an arena for open debate. The mandarins of the center scoffed. The historian Richard Hofstadter characterized the "pseudo-conservative revolt" of McCarthyism as the unleashed irrationality of "mass man."
In 1960 the title of a book by the sociologist Daniel Bell announced "The End of Ideology." Since Democrats and Republicans agreed on fundamentals like government-business partnership and a bipartisan cold war, Mr. Bell wrote, politics had become about managerial procedures rather than ideological commitment.
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Seldom have the perils of premature obituary been so quickly revealed. Even as Mr. Bell wrote, conservatives were on the move — in Orange County, Calif., and other Sunbelt suburbs, on college campuses, and eventually in the "Draft Goldwater" movement that led to his nomination in 1964. Barry Goldwater's defeat as president gave centrist liberals more cause to congratulate themselves.
But the euphoria was not to last. "The liberal sun, even as it steadily enlarged, swerved off its consensus course and strayed into the astral wastes of orthodoxy," Mr. Tanenhaus writes. He shrewdly identifies the hubris at the heart of midcentury liberalism — the tendency to transform pragmatism from a method into a metaphysic and an unassailable truth backed by experts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 report, "The Negro Family," for example, deplored the "tangle of pathology" afflicting urban blacks. While black leaders accused him of complicity with "the white power structure," Mr. Tanenhaus writes, "Moynihan's analysis implied there could be no honest disagreement with him, or with the social science that informed his thinking." Like Buckley, New Left radicals began to expose the stultifying effects of consensus as they attacked the slogans of national mission used to justify the war in Vietnam. The supposedly pragmatic liberals retreated into their own orthodoxy.
As the liberal consensus collapsed in 1968, Richard M. Nixon won by posing as a moderate. But he could not keep his resentments in check for long, and they led him to the abuse of executive power that ended in scandal. "Even as he destroyed his own presidency," Mr. Tanenhaus writes, "he released the furies of movement politics most conspicuously with us today."
Rage at Nixon's alleged maltreatment provoked right-wing Republicans' resurgence, led by "the tribune of this new polarity," Ronald Reagan. His election in 1980 inaugurated three decades of rule by the right, culminating in the catastrophic overreaching of President George W. Bush, the most dedicated movement conservative ever to occupy the White House.
As the Bush administration crashed and burned, Mr. Tanenhaus argues, the Democrats moved right, creating a pragmatic consensus — one suited to the Burkean temper of the times: cautious, incrementalist, wary of speculative schemes and imperial adventures. As the Obama administration adapted its thinking to a conservative age, he concludes, movement conservatives retreated into impotent protest and angry oblivion.
"The Death of Conservatism" is a persuasive intellectual history of the right, but it omits a lot of institutional history and ignores money and power altogether. A fuller history would have paid attention to Lewis F. Powell Jr.'s 1971 memorandum to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "Attack on the American Free Enterprise System." Powell, soon to be a Supreme Court justice, urged friends of capitalism to retake command of public discourse by financing think tanks, reshaping mass media and seeking influence in universities and the judiciary.
This did happen in the decades to follow. What had once been far-right fantasies — abolishing welfare, privatizing Social Security, deregulating banking, embracing preventive war — became legitimate policy positions, emanating from institutions that cost a lot of money to maintain: the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Fox News Network, as well as numerous corporate lobbying organizations and university professorships. Money talked.
None of this ideological infrastructure has disappeared. Whether the Obama administration can stand up to its power remains to be seen. Despite popular support for a robust public option in health care coverage and even a single-payer system, the airwaves are pervaded by the buzzwords of the market — competition, incentives, consumer choice. Foreign policy, too, remains dominated by right-wing assumptions. Whatever President Obama's intentions (and it would be a mistake to underestimate him), he will find the imperial presidency difficult to repudiate. The bureaucratic labyrinths of the national security state will be dismantled no more easily than the hundreds of American military bases around the world, many of them shrouded in secrecy. Nor will it be easy to challenge the assumptions that underlie empire: the humanitarian dreams of interventionists in Mr. Obama's own party and the relentless Republican demands for toughness. Here as elsewhere, the right wields far more power than its weak popular support warrants. Reports of its death have been exaggerated.
THE DEATH OF CONSERVATISM
By Sam Tanenhaus
123 pages. Random House. $17.
Jackson Lears is editor in chief of Raritan: A Quarterly Review and the author, most recently, of "Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920."
A version of this review appears in print on September 29, 2009, on Page C4 of the New York edition with the headline: The Waxing and Waning of America's Political Right. Today's Paper|Subscribe


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Chernobyl: 7 People Who Played a Crucial Role in the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
From the 25-year-old with his finger on the wrong button to the grizzled Communist Party apparatchik who thought evacuation was for sissies
Adam Higginbotham
The unit control desk of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in April 1983, three years before the disaster. (Credit: Sovfoto/UIG/Getty Images)
When the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986—precipitating the worst nuclear disaster in history—it resulted almost entirely from human factors.
As the real history of that fateful event continues to be revealed, those factors loom large. Would the Chernobyl explosion, which occurred close to the border between then-Soviet republics of Ukraine and Belarus, have happened if the deputy chief engineer on duty that night wasn't sleep-deprived? Or if the plant's administrative head hadn't succumbed to pressure to cut corners or cover up an earlier accident? How many fewer people would have fallen ill if government officials hadn't dithered over the question of evacuation? And how much of the broader region might have avoided radioactive fallout if Soviet decision-makers weren't so steeped in a culture of secrecy and fear? In his new book Midnight In Chernobyl, author Adam Higginbotham reconstructs the catastrophic events through the experiences of the people who lived through it. Here are seven key protagonists at the heart of the tragedy:
Viktor Brukhanov
Director of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station
Viktor Brukhanov at a sitting of the USSR Supreme Court, 1987.
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Viktor Brukhanov had devoted most of his adult life to the communist dream of bringing electricity to the USSR. Appointed to head the Chernobyl nuclear project when he was just 34 years old—and the site of the future plant was nothing more than a deserted field knee-deep in snow—Brukhanov was soft-spoken and well-liked by his staff, but overworked and brow-beaten by his Communist Party bosses. By the spring of 1986, he was nonetheless on the brink of personal triumph: The Chernobyl plant was among the best-performing nuclear stations in the Soviet Union; and Pripyat, the city he had had built to house the plant workers and their families, stood as a beacon of progress—a magnet for specialists from all over the USSR.
With the approach of the May Day holiday, Brukhanov, now 50, was expecting news of a promotion to Moscow, along with state awards for the plant—despite being forced to cut corners and cook the books to meet quotas, and having helped cover up a serious plant accident in 1982. A year later, Brukhanov had also signed off on the launch of the station's newest and most advanced reactor, Reactor Unit No. 4, even though a key required safety test hadn't been carried out. When the test was rescheduled to take place during a regular maintenance shutdown of the reactor on April 25, 1986, Brukhanov's deputy—a Party loyalist who had learned what little he knew of nuclear physics from a correspondence course—didn't even bother to tell his boss it was happening.
As the administrative head of the entire Chernobyl enterprise, Brukhanov would be held personally responsible for anything that went wrong at the plant. When he first glimpsed the scale of the destruction of Unit Four, his first thought was: "I'm going to prison."
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Anatoly Dyatlov
Deputy chief engineer for operations at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station
Anatoly Dyatlov (seated, leaning forward) is among six defendants attending trial for their role in the Chernobyl disaster.
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One of the most experienced nuclear engineers at the Chernobyl station, Anatoly Dyatlov had arrived in Ukraine from the top-secret Laboratory 23 in the Soviet Far East, where he had overseen a team installing reactors in the USSR's growing fleet of nuclear-powered submarines. But the manner Dyatlov had developed while working at the military laboratory didn't endear him to the young civilian staff of the nuclear power plant. They found the gray-haired Siberian harsh and dictatorial. And although Chernobyl workers respected him for the depth of his knowledge, many feared or even detested him, his insistence that they unquestioningly follow his orders to the letter and the power he wielded to punish those who disobeyed him.
On the night of the accident, Dyatlov was responsible for overseeing the long-overdue safety test on Reactor No. 4. By the time it finally began, in the small hours of April 26, he was sleep-deprived and as ill-tempered as ever. When the young reactor engineer, Leonid Toptunov, made a mistake soon after taking over at the controls on the midnight shift, Dyatlov insisted on continuing with the test—even though Toptunov, and safety protocols, suggested otherwise.
Leonid Toptunov
Senior Reactor Control Engineer, Fifth Shift, Reactor No. 4
Vera Toptunova, the mother of Leonid Toptunov, who was a senior reactor control engineer at the Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant when it exploded on April 26, 1986, mourns over his grave at Mitino cemetery in Moscow.
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A graduate of the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute—the esteemed Soviet counterpart to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Toptunov was just 25 years old when he took the controls of Reactor No. 4 on the night of the accident. Well-trained, independent-minded and something of a ladies' man, the mustachioed Toptunov—Lenya to his friends—had written his graduate thesis on fine points of reactor physics and knew that under certain circumstances the equipment under his control could be capricious and difficult to master. But he had also been a senior reactor operator for just two months and had never before piloted the reactor through the difficult shutdown process before. He was unaware of the numerous design faults that made accidents not merely possible, but likely, during the normal course of operation.
A series of crucial missteps ensued, any one of which would not in themselves have caused a disaster. But in this case, they fell together in a deadly confluence.
Before the ill-fated test began, Toptunov somehow skipped a step in the process of assuming control of the reactor, accidentally allowing its power output to fall almost to nothing. His training suggested he shut the reactor down, ending the important test before it had even begun. But Anatoly Dyatlov, the senior manager in the room, threatened Toptunov, forcing him to increase the reactor's power toward the level required for the test. That decision made it susceptible to "reactor runaway," a terrifying process that, in a split second, could lead to a core meltdown or explosion. At the end of the test, which lasted just 36 seconds, Toptunov pressed the shut-down button of the emergency safety system—the system vulnerable to the most serious of the reactor's design faults—inadvertently precipitating its destruction. The resulting power surge inside the core led to a pair of explosions that blew the massive concrete lid off the reactor and destroyed the roof and upper reaches of the building around it.
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Valery Legasov
First deputy director of the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
Valery Legasov, Nuclear Energy Institute First Deputy Director (right), was active investigation expert of the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.
A happily married father of two grown children, Valery Legasov was 49 years old at the time of the accident and approaching the pinnacle of his career at the top of the Soviet scientific establishment. He had won all but one of the state's most prestigious prizes for his work and expected to be appointed head of the Institute of Atomic Energy as soon as his boss and mentor, the octogenarian nuclear chief Anatoly Aleksandrov, retired. The son of a leading Party ideologue, Legasov was a true believer in communism and politically beyond reproach. Living in a grand villa a short walk from his office at the Institute, he was also a keen athlete who skied, played tennis and wrote poetry in his spare time.
He learned that an accident had occurred at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine during a regular Party meeting on the morning of Saturday April 26. A radiochemistry specialist, he knew little about nuclear reactors, but was ordered to join a government commission, flown to the scene to take control of the emergency and immediately put in charge of containing the consequences of the explosion.
What Legasov witnessed in Chernobyl would change the course of his life: The chaos and incompetence he saw shook his confidence in socialism. The radiation dose he received shattered his health. And his subsequent attempts to reform the Soviet scientific system destroyed his career.
Boris Scherbina
Deputy chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers; chairman of the government commission in Chernobyl
A memorial plaque for Boris Scherbina on a house in Tyumen where he lived.
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A grizzled apparatchik at the head of the USSR's fuel and energy industries, Scherbina was preparing to give a speech to workers in an oil field near the border with Kazakhstan when he received an urgent summons from Moscow: to fly to Ukraine to take charge of managing the developing disaster in Chernobyl. At 66—balding, bulldog-faced and sure of himself—the minister was an old hand in the ways of the system, its patterns of absurd quotas and preposterous deadlines. As chairman of the government's Chernobyl commission, Scherbina was responsible not only for bringing the catastrophe under control but investigating its consequences. Without his approval, nothing could happen inside the Exclusion Zone that soon surrounded the remains of Reactor Number Four.
Arriving on the scene on the evening following the explosion, he projected the brash confidence expected of senior Soviet managers. Not only did he disregard the need for personal radiation protection, but he dismissed calls for immediate evacuation of the city of Pripyat as the wayward opinions of panic-mongering weaklings. It was not until almost 36 hours after a pillar of toxic radionuclides began pouring from the wreckage of the reactor that the city's residents were finally allowed to leave.
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Ludmilla Ignatenko
Wife of Sergeant Vasily Ignatenko, member of the third watch, Pripyat city fire station
Ludmila Ignatenko mourns the death of her husband as she attends the first commemorative ceremony in homage to liquidators who died from exposure to radiation in the first few weeks after the catastrophe.
Arriving in Pripyat in 1979, fresh from school at the age of 16, Ludmilla took a bed in a student dormitory and a job as a pastry chef in the canteen of the Chernobyl nuclear plant. Soon after, she met Vasily Ignatenko, a young fireman at the city's Paramilitary Fire Station No. 6. Stocky and thick-set, Ignatenko was charming and talkative—and the champion athlete of the brigade, a regular in the competitive firefighting championships held throughout the USSR. The couple married in 1983 and moved into a small one-bedroom flat in the annex above the fire station reserved for members of the brigade and their families. They gathered blueberries and wild mushrooms in the countryside around the city and barbecued in the garden with their friends from the station. Ludmilla became pregnant with twins, but miscarried; by the spring of 1986, she was expecting once again.
On the night of April 25, the couple was planning a visit to Vasily's parents, who lived in a village across the border in Belarus, to help them plant a crop of potatoes. He had already received a signed permission slip granting him leave beginning at four in the morning of the 26—in time for the first train out of town. But at around 1:30 a.m., Ludmilla heard three trucks preparing to leave from the station, so she called down to her husband from their balcony to ask where they were going. "The nuclear power plant is on fire," he said. "Go to sleep. I'll wake you when I get home." He never returned.
Maria Protsenko
Chief architect of the city of Pripyat
Maria Protsenko, circa 1986.
Courtesy of Maria Protsenko
Born to Sino-Russian parents in China, raised in the Soviet Union, but excluded from the Communist Party by her foreign birth, Protsenko brought an outsider's zeal to her work in Pripyat before the accident. Working with scant supplies of precious materials, she imparted beauty and individuality to the standardized buildings of the city. Short but formidable, she patrolled the streets with a ruler, berating construction teams for shoddy workmanship and lashing them with invective as she oversaw plans to expand Pripyat from a town of 50,000 to one of 200,000.
As radiation from the explosion of Reactor No. 4 began to engulf the town, Protsenko was responsible for organizing the evacuation. She planned the escape of every family from each apartment block in Pripyat; and, as more than a thousand buses arrived to take them to safety, she stood at the entrance to the city with a map and gave the drivers instructions on where to go. As the last one departed, Protsenko remained behind, convinced by Party assurances that the citizens would soon return to the homes she had helped build.
Months later, she would still be at her desk in the heart of the newly-created 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone when a KGB officer arrived. His request? To help map a fence intended to permanently seal off the city she helped create from the outside world.
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Over the next couple of months our employers will likely be asking for a copy of your "Proof of Completion" certificate as part of your start package as a condition of employment. This means that without providing this certificate you may not be able to work. Local 873 has been communicating with our employers that we will be doing our part over the next couple of months by informing our membership of this new requirement and providing training opportunities to bring our members and non-members into compliance by July 1, 2014. We have also expressed to our employers that they must be flexible and understanding of the nature of our industry and work with the Local and our members to ensure we are all in compliance by the July deadline. We expect that our employers, should they make this a condition of employment either prior to or after the July 1st deadline, allow employees who are unable to provide the certificate a reasonable amount of time to take this training and provide the certificate before denying them the opportunity to work.
The training consists of two modules: one for supervisors and another for workers. If you are hired in a supervisory position you will have to provide proof of completion for the supervisor module. If you are hired in a non-supervisory capacity you will only need to provide proof of completion for the worker module.
Local 873 is also making it a mandatory requirement for our members to provide the Union office with a copy of your "Proof of Completion" certificate. Much like other mandatory certifications (WHMIS), the Union needs to have a copy of this certificate on file so that we can confirm your certification with an employer if need be, and to ensure that we are doing our part by dispatching only certified workers. Additionally, by keeping your "Proof of Completion" on file at the Local 873 office, it will ensure that you will always have a copy to access down the road should you lose your original.
These modules are easily accessed online and take approximately 40-45 minutes to complete. They are not difficult but serve an important purpose in informing and reminding workers and supervisors of their obligations when it comes to workplace safety.
You will receive a "Proof of Completion" certificate once you complete the on-line training. You must save and/or print the certificate before exiting the module, otherwise you will have to retake the training to get the certificate. The Ministry of Labour will not store your certificate, or keep a record of training. Please make sure that you keep a record of this training to provide to employers when completing your deal memo.
1. Email the PDF version to the Training Coordinator and make sure to provide your name and department in the email.
2. Fax a copy of the certificate and provide your name and department on the cover sheet of the fax.
3. Mail a copy of the certification to the union office address.
4. Deliver a copy of the certification to the union office receptionists.
We strongly urge our members and non-members to complete this mandatory training as soon as possible to help avoid any disruption in the workplace, and more importantly to avoid any chance of a member being denied the opportunity to work as a result of not having this certification.
Please feel free to contact the union office if you have any questions regarding this training.


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Q: PHP - Access JSON data value in array I'm sorry if this is newbie question but I don't understand how to access the [ids] value in the JSON array via PHP.
Why is this not working?
$jsonResponse = json_decode($response,true);
print $jsonResponse[2]["ids"];

This is the JSON array:
Array
(
    [0] => analytics#gaData
    [1] => https://www.googleapis.com/analytics/v3/data/ga?ids=ga:123455&dimensions=ga:eventCategory,ga:eventAction,ga:eventLabel&metrics=ga:visits,ga:pageviews&start-date=2013-01-01&end-date=2020-01-01
    [2] => Array
        (
            [start-date] => 2013-01-01
            [end-date] => 2020-01-01
            [ids] => ga:123455
            [dimensions] => ga:eventCategory,ga:eventAction,ga:eventLabel
            [metrics] => Array
                (
                    [0] => ga:visits
                    [1] => ga:pageviews
                )

            [start-index] => 1
            [max-results] => 1000
        )

    [3] => 1000
    [4] => 9

A: There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your code. Your code should be printing, what seems to me, the object ga:123455 if the code is executed. When printing this, this object will be converted to a string. PHP will do (string) ga:123455 (invoke the __toString() method on ga:123455) to convert an object to a string. If this method is absent, there must be a warning that ga:123455 cannot be converted to a string. __toString() might also return an empty string.
I would suggest debugging it by doing print var_dump( $jsonResponse[2]["ids"] ); and print var_dump( (string) $jsonResponse[2]["ids"] );.


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FTC sues to block Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of Arm
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Jen-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during the company's event at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019.
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The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition of Arm from SoftBank on antitrust grounds.
The deal has faced scrutiny from regulators since it was announced last year. The U.S. action is the biggest hurdle it has faced yet, and threatens whether the deal will be completed.
"The proposed vertical deal would give one of the largest chip companies control over the computing technology and designs that rival firms rely on to develop their own competing chips," the FTC said in an announcement.
Nvidia stock was up over 2% on Thursday before the announcement, and did not move significantly on the news. The FTC complaint is not yet public.
Arm is a core supplier of architecture technology to most semiconductor companies. Its Arm instruction set is at the core of nearly all mobile processors powering smartphones, including those made by Apple and Android devices that use Qualcomm chips.
But the company's role in the chip industry was historically as a neutral supplier, raising concerns that Nvidia could cut off competitors from essential Arm technology. Some of Nvidia's processors also use Arm-designed cores and its Arm architecture, although the company is best known for graphics processors, which use different architecture.
"The complaint alleges that the proposed merger would give Nvidia the ability and incentive to use its control of this technology to undermine its competitors, reducing competition and ultimately resulting in reduced product quality, reduced innovation, higher prices, and less choice," the FTC said in its statement.
The FTC also said that Arm's licensees, which include Nvidia's competitors, share competitive information with the technology firm. The FTC's lawsuit focuses on chips for driver assistance, networking products, and ARM microchips for cloud computing companies. The FTC voted unanimously to issue the complaint, it said.
The deal has also received scrutiny overseas. The European Commission announced an in-depth investigation into the deal in October.
"As we move into this next step in the FTC process, we will continue to work to demonstrate that this transaction will benefit the industry and promote competition," an Nvidia representative said in a statement.
"NVIDIA will invest in Arm's R&D, accelerate its roadmaps, and expand its offerings in ways that boost competition, create more opportunities for all Arm licensees and expand the Arm ecosystem. NVIDIA is committed to preserving Arm's open licensing model and ensuring that its IP is available to all interested licensees, current and future," it continued.
Previously, the company said that it expected the Arm transaction to close in 2022. The FTC said on Thursday that it expected an administrative trial to begin in August 2022.
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Feds Investigating Doctors In Heath Ledger Death
It is now being reported that two doctors are under investigation by US authorities regarding the death of Ausi actor Heath Ledger.
Ledger passed away back on January 22 after taking an accidental overdose of prescription medication. He was only 28 years old.
Oxycontin and Vicodin were two of the drugs found in his system, and it is believed that a doctor in California and another in Texas provided him with the drugs.
"It's an ongoing investigation," a law enforcement source says. "It's not clear if there was any wrongdoing."
Authorities are trying to figure out if the drugs were given to Ledger by the doctors without a prescription, which would make it illegal.
"We are investigating doctors in Los Angeles and Texas with regard to Ledger's prescriptions," a source told People.


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Home » Lifestyle » Noughts & Crosses is returning for a second series: here's everything we know so far
Noughts & Crosses is returning for a second series: here's everything we know so far
The highly anticipated adaptation of Malorie Blackman's YA novel is returning for a second BBC series. Here's everything we know about it so far.
Noughts & Crosses was the book series that dominated many of our teenage lives and cemented Malorie Blackman as one of Britain's best authors of young adult fiction. So naturally, when the BBC released the TV series adaptation, we were all over it.
Nineteen years after the publication of the first book in Malorie Blackman's seminal young adult novel series Noughts & Crosses, the story of star-crossed lovers Sephy and Callum made its way onto our screens in a six-part BBC One adaptation.
Full of tension, clever ruminations on race and prejudice and surprise twists, the first series of Noughts & Crosses captivated audiences and now, it's returning for a second instalment.
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The shocking season one finale saw Callum and Sephy fleeing Albion and, of course, Jack Rowan and Masali Baduza will return as the forbidden lovers for season two.
Here's everything we know about the second series of Noughts & Crosses so far…
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What will Noughts & Crosses season two be about?
Fans of the book series were surprised (in a good way) that the first series finale saw Callum and Sephy end up together. The tragedy of the book didn't quite play out on screen but we did get copious amounts of suspense, action and revelations.
The BBC synopsis for season two says:
"Jack Rowan and Masali Baduza will return as Callum and Sephy, now desperately attempting to flee Albion in search of a new life together, while the city they left behind ignites in the wake of Sephy's 'kidnap' and the devastating events of series one."
We know that Sephy is pregnant but how did Jude (Callum's brother) make it out alive after that confrontation with Dorn? Will Sephy and Callum be able to fully escape and grow their family in peace? It's safe to say, questions are swirling in our minds and we're sure season two will provide some anticipated answers.
Sephy and Callum, the two main characters in Noughts and Crosses.
Who will star in Noughts & Crosses season two?
Paterson Joseph (Sephy's dad Kamal Hadley), Helen Baxendale (Callum's mum Meggie McGregor), Bonnie Mbuli (Jasmine Hadley), Jonathan Ajayi (Lekan), Josh Dylan (Jude McGregor) and Kiké Brimah (Minerva Hadley) will all reprise their roles from the first series.
Masali Baduza, who plays Sephy, says: "The journey continues! I'm grateful for the opportunity to return to Sephy's story with our talented cast and crew."
Jack Rowan, who plays Callum, also says: "I'm buzzing to be returning as Callum in the next series of Noughts & Crosses. The show means a lot to me and it's an honour to have brought Malorie Blackman's creation to life on screen. Here's to the continuation of a story we hold very close to our hearts. Looking forward to getting the team back together!"
Joining Noughts & Crosses for series two will be Jasmine Jobson (Top Boy, Surge) as Cara, an enigmatic new figure in Jude's life, and Robert Hands (Endeavour, Jonathan Strange) as Clem.
Helen Baxendale (Meggie McGregor) is one of the many characters returning for Noughts & Crosses series two.
What has been said about Noughts & Crosses season two?
Malorie Blackman, author of the Noughts & Crosses novels, says: "I am delighted that Noughts & Crosses is returning for a second series. So many people have asked me, 'So what happens next?'. Now they will find out!
"Having read the scripts, I think I can safely say that even those familiar with the Noughts & Crosses series of books will find surprises, suspense and so much to savour."
Preethi Mavahalli and James Gandhi, executive producers for Mammoth Screen, say: "We are delighted to be able to reunite our passionate and loyal cast and crew, led by writer Lydia Adetunji and director Koby Adom, for a second series. It is a privilege to revisit Malorie's much-loved characters and bring Callum and Sephy's iconic love story to its epic conclusion."
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When and where will Noughts & Crosses season two be available to watch?
While a release date has yet to be announced, we do know that filming for the four-part second series will begin next month in South Africa. The series will also air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
Catch up with Noughts & Crosses series one on BBC iPlayer now.
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