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Q: Error: SQLSTATE[42000] Tengo el siguiente error al ejecutar
php artisan migrate
Estoy usando Lumen 5.6

In Connection.php line 664:
                                                                                SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key
  was too long; max key length is 767 bytes (SQL: alter table users
  add unique users_email_unique(email))

In Connection.php line 458:
                                                                                SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key
  was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

A: Ya lo solucioné de la siguiente forma:
Añadí las siguiente líneas de código en app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

public function boot()
{
    Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
}

Descomente la siguiente línea de código en bootstrap/app.php en la línea 81;
$app->register(App\Providers\AppServiceProvider::class);

A: al momento de hacer tu migración, especifica la longitud en los campos de tipo unique y de tipo index, del modo siguiente:
public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email', 30)->unique();
            $table->string('password');
            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

Como notas con una coma le paso una longitud máxima de 30 caracteres a dicha columna con eso se debería solucionar

Como nota te comento que eso se corrige tambien actualizando el mysql
  a la versión 5.7; pero ojo eso se hace solo si tienes respaldo de tu
  base de datos ya que en caso contrario puedes perderlo todo

A: Ami me funciono de la siguiente manera
 public function up()
{
    Schema::create('users', function(Blueprint $table){
        $table->increments('id', 255);
        $table->string('name',255);
        $table->string('email',255)->unique();
        $table->string('password',100)->nullable();
        $table->string('role',100)->default('user');
        $table->rememberToken();
        $table->timestamps();
        $table->engine = 'InnoDB'; // !! Aquii

    });
}

solo coloque la unidad referencia (engine 'InnoDB') y le definí la longitud a cada propiedad de Blueprint

A: En mi caso, al usar Versión MySQL   10.1.45-MariaDB-cll-lve, el problema lo tenía en la base y no en el código, el error básicamente dice que si la clave es única el campo no puede exceder cierta cantidad de caracteres, achique la cantidad, y funcionó.

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medwireNews: The results of two independent trials suggest a role for the prophylactic use of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or beta blockers in patients receiving an anthracycline-based regimen for HER2-positive or HER2-negative breast cancer.
Both sets of findings were reported at the American College of Cardiology's 67th Annual Scientific Session in Orlando, Florida, USA.
The presenter of the first trial explained that their aim was to assess the effects of the ACE inhibitor lisinopril and the beta blocker carvedilol in patients initiating adjuvant trastuzumab for localized, HER2-positive disease as cardiac side effects are common with the HER2 inhibitor.
They found that, in the overall cohort, cardiotoxicity-free survival did not differ significantly between the 149 participants who were randomly assigned to receive lisinopril, the 149 who received carvedilol phosphate extended-release, and the 143 given placebo. Cardiotoxicity was defined as a decrease in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of at least 10% from baseline or a decline of at least 5% to a value below 50%, in both cases with or without heart failure.
But when the researchers stratified the participants by prior receipt of anthracyclines, administration of lisinopril or carvedilol was associated with significantly improved cardiotoxicity-free survival relative to placebo, with corresponding hazard ratios of 0.53 and 0.49.
No such improvement was observed with either the ACE inhibitor or the beta blocker in the subgroup of patients who had not received anthracyclines.
The second trial, which was simultaneously published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, enrolled 192 women with HER2-negative breast cancer who were due to begin neoadjuvant or adjuvant anthracycline-based therapy and randomly assigned them to receive carvedilol or placebo.
In a similar vein to the Guglin et al study, the CECCY (Carvedilol Effect in Preventing Chemotherapy Induced CardiotoxicitY) trial also did not meet its primary endpoint, which in this case was a reduction in the proportion of patients who experienced a 10% or greater decline in LVEF from baseline to the cessation of chemotherapy at 6 months. The rates were comparable for the carvedilol and placebo groups, at 14.5% and 13.5%, respectively.
But Monica Avila (Heart Institute do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil) reported that in carvedilol-treated patients, increases in troponin I levels seen across both treatment groups were significantly attenuated, and the carvedilol group had a significantly lower proportion of patients with troponin I levels above 0.04 ng/mL, at 26.0% versus 41.6% in the placebo arm.
Carvedilol treatment was also associated with a trend towards a lower incidence of diastolic dysfunction than placebo.
Taken together, these findings suggest that "the use of carvedilol might offer a preventive strategy for early onset cardiotoxicity to reduce cardiac injury and the LV remodeling process, but [it] has no impact on cardiac function," Avila and co-authors write.


A Long-serving councillor who originally entered local politics to sort out a problem with her garden will step down after nearly 40 years.
Hilda Gaddum, 74, a Conservative member for Sutton, will not stand for re-election next month.
She took the decision to relinquish her role before 'age and health issue' caught up with her.
Coun Gaddum joined Sutton Parish Council in the early 1980s after it had changed the bulb in a lamppost in her garden from white to an intrusive orange.
She rallied her neighbours to complain but when parish council dismissed their efforts as a 'pathetic little petition' she decided to change things for the better from the inside.
In 1999 Coun Gaddum joined the then Macclesfield Borough Council before it became the Cheshire East unitary authority.
She said: "It will be a wrench and I will miss it and all the delightful people I have met. I have always tried to do the best for the local community and it has been a joy.
"I hope I am remembered as someone people could approach and that always took pride in doing my best. When we got sent a letter talking about our 'pathetic little petition' my husband said, 'one of us will have to go on the parish council, but I'm to busy'.
Coun Gaddum has served on the Peak District National Park Authority and was the first chair of the strategic planning board upon the formation of Cheshire East.
She is also former cabinet member for children and family services and was Mayor of Macclesfield for the year 2016-16.
Upon stepping down Coun Gaddum, whose husband Anthony passed away in 2008, hopes to spend more time with her family.
She has three sons and four grandchildren.


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Here's One New Year's Resolution Your Business Shouldn't Put Off!
As we close in on the end of another year, we approach a period where everyone starts thinking about New Year's resolutions, and businesses start thinking about their goals and setting budgets for 2019.
The problem with setting goals in December is they typically don't get put into action until January/February, so by the time they are up and running, you're already a month or two into the new year.
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Building a new website and improving search engine rankings is a very common goal for a lot of businesses at the start of every new year. It's one of the most cost-effective ways of drumming up new business, but it also requires finesse and patience.
Most businesses underestimate how long it takes to build a new website, but most of all how long it takes to start ranking well on Google and other search engines.
Here at Waimea, we provide a complete website solution that includes design, competitor research, keyword analysis, professional copywriting, hosting, ongoing marketing and much more. Our personal approach starts with an in-depth client interview where we try and understand your business before we do any work at all, and from there, the production process can take anything from 2 to 4 weeks to get your new website live.
But getting your site live is only the first step.
If you want your site to start ranking on search engines, Google and other providers first of all need to crawl your site and it's new pages and content, and then it wants to see it being active over a period of time before it starts giving your site more authority in the rankings.
In fact, many people say it can take the likes of Google a couple of months just to crawl a new website due to the billions of other sites and pages it needs to get through first.
There are a few things we can do to speed up this process, and we've managed to get clients to page 1 on Google within 45 days from going live with a brand new domain and site just recently, but it's never guaranteed. This is why we always tell our new clients to expect to start seeing results only after 2 to 3 months. We'd rather under promise and over deliver than make false promises we can't keep.
So, if you're planning on getting a new website and improving your search engine optimisation (SEO) on your current site, you're already running late, but you can always give us a call today on 0161 696 1101 and get the process started before you break up for the holidays.
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TCA Press Tour, Summer 2010: Day 8
Posted by Will Harris (08/09/2010 @ 1:15 am)
Much as the CBS family of networks split their efforts into two days worth of panels – one for CBS, the other for Showtime and The CW – so did Fox give us some breathing room by placing their presentations for FX's slate of new programming on a separate day. (I wish to God NBC / Universal would take a cue from their peers. I'm so sick of being rushed through a mishmosh of NBC, USA, Bravo, and SyFy series in one long can't-stop-won't-stop day.)
Your personal mileage may vary, but for my money, John Landgraf is one of the nicest network heads currently in the game. He's very low-key, but he's always ready to give you a quote when you're looking for one. Today, he offered up the following bits and pieces about the future of FX.
* "Louie" has been renewed for a second season of 13 episodes.
* Ben Garant and Tom Lennon, late of "Reno 911!," are going to do a pilot for FX called "The USS Alabama." It's another partially-scripted, partially-improvised series, and, according to Landgraf, "It takes place in space on the USS Alabama with a crew of spacefarers who might not be too much brighter than the cops in 'Reno 911!'"
* There are two other pilots in the works as well, the first being "Outlaw Country," which will star Mary Steenburgen. "Some really talented young actors have joined that cast," said Landgraf. "That goes into production in, I think, six weeks. It's a fantastic script. Something we're really, really excited about." The other is "Wilfred," a comedy pilot based on an Australian comedy series, which completed principal photography last week.
* The "Damages" deal done with DirecTV is different from the one that was done with "Friday Night Lights" in that FX will not be offering up the episodes after they've run on DirecTV. "The season that has aired, which was the third season of 'Damages,' is the last season it will air on FX," said Landgraf. "For us, we're also producers on 'Damages.' We've been co-owners and co-producers through FX Productions, and DirectTV felt very strongly. They were willing to underwrite it, and to a very substantial amount financially, they enabled it to move forward. That was the deal that Sony worked on very aggressively, but they wanted it exclusively, so this was really the best and only way for 'Damages' to move forward. So we stepped aside as a network entity, and we're still involved as a production entity."
I don't know that there's any series currently on the air that I feel worse about not watching than "Sons of Anarchy." Everyone tells me it's fantastic, I have every reason to believe that those people are right, and yet I just haven't had the time to go back and revisit the show's first two seasons. But that won't stop me from bringing you the info that creator Kurt Sutter and his cast provided to us during the show's panel, of course.
As far as the "big bad" for Season 3, as it were, Sutter says, "We have a couple dual storylines going in Charming and as well as in Belfast, but I guess if you had to pin it down to one specific adversary, I would say that it's probably the Titus Welliver character, Jimmy O."
What of the theme of the new season? "I don't know if there's one specific overriding theme," said Sutter. "I think the theme is always about family and Jax sort of defining his role as a father and as a partner and as a son and as a member of this club, and the Abel storyline drives us through pretty much the entire season, and…I don't want to give anything away in terms of what that means and where that takes us, but, you know, the thing is our seasons, the actual span of time within our seasons is very short. It's potentially a couple, two or three weeks. So there isn't a lot of time that passes where you can have a lot of things unfold organically. So it is a very concentrated period of time which I think helps feed, I think, the sense of urgency for the tasks that they have at hand this season."
Posted in: 2010 Fall TV Preview, Interviews, News, Pilots, Reviews, Sons of Anarchy, TCA Blog 2010, TCA Press Tour, TV, TV Action, TV Comedies, TV Dramas
Tags: Aisha Tyler, Archer, Ben Garant, Charlie Hunnam, Chase Utley, Chris Parnell, Damages, Dayton Callie, Donal Logue, Glenn Howerton, H. John Benjamin, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jackie Marcus Schaffer, Jeff Schaffer, John Landgraf, Kaitlin Olson, Katey Sagal, Kurt Sutter, Lights Out, Maggie Siff, Mark Boone Junior, Matt Thompson, Michael Raymond-James, Outlaw Country, Rob McElhenney, Ron Perlman, Ryan Howard, Shawn Ryan, Sons of Anarchy, TCA Blog Summer 2010, Ted Griffin, Terriers, The League, The USS Alabama, Thomas Lennon, Tom Sizemore, Wilfred
TCA Tour: FX Executive Session
2010 Year End TV Review: Jason Zingale
Greetings to the New Series: "Terriers"
Greetings to the New Show: "Archer"
Winter 2011 TCA Press Tour: Day 11 – or – The Day The Tour Ended
Posted by Jason Zingale (01/12/2010 @ 3:23 pm)
FX's new comedy series, "Archer," has a decidedly Adult Swim feel to it, and that isn't at all coincidental. Created by Adam Reed ("Space Ghost Coast to Coast," "Sealab 2021" and "Frisky Dingo"), "Archer" is everything you'd expect in an Adult Swim series – from its crude animation style to its adult-themed humor. Still, it might be a little too refined for Cartoon Network's late night line-up, which is why it works so perfectly on a channel like FX. Though the basic cable network has succeeded in making several first-rate dramas over the years, they've yet to crack the comedy nut beyond "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." They may have finally found a worthy pairing in "The League," but if FX hopes to create a Thursday night comedy block to compete with the big boys, "Archer" is exactly what they need.
Set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), a spy agency where espionage and global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other, the series stars H. Jon Benjamin as Sterling Archer, a 007 wannabe who craves the perks of the job without doing any of the work. Joining Archer at the ISIS office is his domineering mother and boss, Malory (Jessica Walter); ex-girlfriend and fellow field agent Lana Kane (Aisha Tyler); head accountant Cyril Figgis (Chris Parnell); lovesick secretary Cheryl (Judy Greer); and human resources director Pam (Amber Nash).
It's a great cast for an animated series, but despite all the recognizable names, it's relative unknown H. Jon Benjamin who steals the show. Anyone who's ever watched cult classics like "Dr. Katz" and "Home Movies" are probably already familiar with Benjamin's trademark voice, but he's an absolute riot in "Archer" and the main reason the show works as well as it does. In fact, while I had already seen the pilot episode months before during its top secret preview on FX, it didn't stop me from watching it again. It's easily the strongest of the first five episodes, although "Training Day," where Archer trains Cyril to become a field agent, and "Diversity Hire," where Malory hires a black-Jewish agent to fill a minority quota, are good as well. There's also an "Arrested Development" mini-reunion when Jeffrey Tambor guest stars as an U.N. intelligence officer in "Killing Utne."
Posted in: Pilots, TV, TV Cartoons, TV Comedies
Tags: Adam Reed, Aisha Tyler, Archer, Archer preview, Chris Parnell, Dr. Katz, Frisky Dingo, H. Jon Benjamin, Home Movies, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Judy Greer, Sealab 2021, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sterling Archer, The League, The Venture Bros.
Greetings to the New Series: "Bob's Burgers"
Well, it's about freaking time…
"Men, Women & Children" trailer
"The League" debuts on FX
Posted by John Paulsen (10/30/2009 @ 11:30 am)
FX's original broadcasting has a reputation for being pretty racy and adult-oriented — after all, this is the network that brought us "The Shield," "Rescue Me," "Sons of Anarchy," "Nip/Tuck" and "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
Last night, "The League" debuted. It's a half-hour comedy that follows a group of friends that are all in a fantasy football league together. One guy is the defending league champ, and his wife doesn't want him to play, even going so far as giving away his lucky draft shirt. Another's wife is supportive, and actually runs his team for him. Then there are the two clueless friends that are either too high or too ill-informed to compete in the league.
But fantasy football doesn't dominate "The League," which is more like "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" for the married, suburban set. It's raunchy, but often funny.
FX is replaying the premiere tomorrow (Saturday) night and before the second episode next Thursday.
Posted in: Reviews, TV, TV Comedies
Tags: FX, The League, The League review
If it's been six months, it must be time for another "Powers" update from FX

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The purpose of this study is to disclose why Amsterdam, New York -- like thousands of other cities in the United States -- has shunned restoration. It is hoped these findings will prove the worth of the ordinary old buildings and that the revitalization of the urban fabric does not follow from demolition and newness.
Andrews, Raymond Joseph William, "Restoration versus Demolition: Case History of Amsterdam, New York" (1974). Architecture Master Theses. 18.


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John Andrew (born 6 May 1993) is an Irish professional rugby union player who currently plays for Ulster as a hooker.

Born in Ballymena, he was part of the Ballymena Academy team that won the Ulster Schools' Cup in 2010. He represented Ireland at under-19 level, and was part of the Ireland squad for the 2013 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, making one start and four appearances from the bench. He came through the Ulster academy system, made his first senior appearance for the province in a friendly against Exeter in August 2014, and signed a development contract in March 2015, and a full senior contract in April 2017. He made his first competitive senior appearance against Ospreys in September 2015, Primarily a backup to Rory Best, and later Rob Herring, he had a strong season in 2020–21, making more appearances than usual and scoring seven tries. He signed a contract extension in January 2021.

References

External links
United Rugby Championship profile

ItsRugby profile

1993 births
Living people
Irish rugby union players
Rugby union hookers
Rugby union players from Ballymena
Ulster Rugby players

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Judas Priest Announce New Album, 2018 North American Tour
October 23, 2017 Vince Bellino
Breaking News Firepower, Heavy Metal, home featured, judas priest, Rob Halford, tour dates.
Heavy metal icons Judas Priest have announced via Facebook that their 19 studio album, Firepower, "will be arriving in early 2018." Firepower follows 2014's Redeemer of Souls. Along with the album, Judas Priest have announced a 25-date North American tour. Support will be provided by Saxon and Black Star Riders. View dates below:
3/13/2018 Wilkes Barre, PA Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza
3/15/2018 Youngstown, OH Covelli Centre
3/17/2018 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
3/18/2018 Washington, DC The Anthem
3/20/2018 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
3/22/2018 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
3/25/2018 Ottawa, ON The Arena at TD Place
3/27/2018 London, ON Budweiser Gardens
3/28/0208 Oshawa, ON Tribute Communities Centre
3/30/2018 Orillia, ON Casino Rama
3/31/2018 Detroit, MI Detroit Masonic Temple
4/3/2018 Milwaukee, WI Riverside Theater
4/5/2018 Green Bay, WI Resch Center
4/8/2018 Bloomington, IL Grossinger Motors Arena
4/10/2018 Casper, WY Casper Events Center
4/11/2018 Loveland, CO Budweiser Events Center
4/15/2018 Kent, WA ShoWare Center
4/17/2018 Portland, OR Veterans Memorial Coliseum
4/19/2018 San Francisco The Warfield
4/22/2018 Los Angeles, CA Microsoft Theater
4/24/2018 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre
4/26/2018 Tulsa, OK BOK Center
4/28/2018 Dallas, TX The Bomb Factory
4/29/2018 Sugarland, TX Smart Financial Centre
5/1/2018 San Antonio, TX Freeman Coliseum
Can't get enough Judas Priest? Check out Metal Gods: A Tribute to Judas Priest now!
Dying Fetus, Ringworm and Genocide Pact Announced for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST
Get tickets NOW to see Dying Fetus, Ringworm and Genocide Pact demolish the Foundry in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 2 as part of the Metal & Beer Fest official PRE-FEST!
Rush Drummer Neil Peart Dead at 67
Decibel is deeply saddened to report the death of Canadian rock icon and former Rush drummer Neil Peart.
Temple of Void to Release "Ravenous Eyes in the Distance" Via the Decibel Flexi Series!
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, January 6 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from death-doom dealers Temple of Void.
Album Review: Midnight – 'Rebirth by Blasphemy'
Midnight take their sacrilegious heavy metal earworms overground and to the next level.
I always like to refer to Type O Negative as "Flock of Assholes." But we have somewhat better haircuts.
- Peter Steele, Type O Negative (Issue #69)


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Разпространение
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Източници

Melanochromis


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Little "Beat Boxer" Boy
Deion Blackman isn't exactly the Little Drummer Boy - he's a beat boxer and he's not so little anymore. But like Little Drummer Boy, from the same titled Christmas song, Deion can certainly hold a beat and he does it without a drum.
I met this young man from Cold Lake First Nation a few years ago in a course I was taking at the University of Alberta. He was 19 or 20 and his father and I were friends already, having met through the Circle for Aboriginal Relations.
Deion's father, James, told me his son was a very talented beat boxer. I actually had no clue what he was talking about back then, since I've never been involved with hip hop music. Turns out, beat boxing is the ability to mimic percussion instruments using one's mouth, lips, tongue and voice (Thanks Wikipedia!).
Last winter, while Deion was campaigning for a spot on the Cold Lake First Nation council, I joined him and his father, along with a few other friends and family for a supper at a hotel restaurant. We were the only customers in the restaurant that evening, so I decided to put Deion's talents to the test. While I sang a slow ballad, Deion provided the background percussions, adjusting the sounds to the tempo and mood on the fly. It was incredible!
Fast forward to this summer when I was trying to explain to Chris Burke-Gaffney and Vince Fontaine - my partners in musical crime - my vision for including Deion in the song, O Holy Night. Chris smartly suggested we switch to Winter Wonderland to get the most out of the kid and the rest was history.
We are all very pleased with Deion's contribution to this piece, and he has expanded his musical circle through Brendan Lyons, our Edmonton studio and engineer. Get a taste of Deion's talent by playing the audio below or visit Sandra's Store to hear his beat in Winter Wonderland on the Aurora 12 album.
Listen to Deion Beat Boxing


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The Political Scene: The Evolution of Islamic Extremism
On this week's Political Scene podcast, the New Yorker staff writer Jon Lee Anderson joins host Dorothy Wickenden to talk about the current status of the war against Islamic radicalism. The two discuss the ways in which terrorism is expanding across the Middle East, the dystopian vision of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and the limited impact of ISIS's defeat in the Syrian town of Kobani.
"Once again they have been stopped on the Turkish border, but they have found ways in which to appear to be important," says Anderson. "In this rarefied media world that we live in, what gets more headlines: The fact that ISIS was pushed out of Kobani or this horrific hostage situation with the Japanese journalist and the Jordanian pilot?"
You can listen to the full episode in the stream above. You can also subscribe to the podcast for free on iTunes or via RSS. Listen to the latest episodes of all New Yorker podcasts here.
The New Yorker offers a signature blend of news, culture, and the arts. It has been published since February 21, 1925.
Libya on Edge
By Jon Lee Anderson
Letter from Syria
The War Within
As Syria descends into civil war, can its rebel factions unite against the government?


Stevie Spring recently gave a talk at our agency.
I knew Stevie from GGT.
Stevie had done a law degree before getting into advertising.
After GGT, she went on to be Chairman of Y&R.
Then CEO of Clear Channel, the massive poster contractors.
Then CEO of Future: the publishing giant with 17,000 employees in the UK and USA.
What I always liked about working with Stevie was there was no flannel, no waffle.
She would take a problem on board, turn it over, walk around it, and eventually have an insight.
Then explain it in the clearest, simplest language.
So anyone could understand it.
Most people don't have Stevie's level of thinking.
Because they don't have that level of confidence.
Which is why they depend on waffle.
To disguise the lack of thinking.
I always wondered where Stevie's confidence came from.
While she was giving the talk I found out.
Someone asked Stevie who her heroes were.
Then she went on to explain why.
When Stevie and her sister were little, their mum left home.
This left her dad to bring up two young daughters on his own.
Unusual nowadays, but the was the 1950s.
Stevie's dad worked for the railways.
He downgraded his job so he could finish at 3pm every day.
That way he could make sure the girls had a proper home.
Stevie's dad was working class.
But a side that isn't portrayed by the media.
And with a sense of humour, a lightness.
Stevie said, he didn't treat the girls as babies.
He treated them as intelligent human beings.
Capable of understanding, and using their minds to work things out.
The most influential thing for Stevie was they would have regular formal meetings about virtually everything.
At these meetings, Stevie's dad was Chairman, and would keep minutes.
Her sister Sandi was Secretary.
And the dog was The Committee.
Issues were raised, and discussed in a rational manner.
For instance, if anyone wanted something, say a bike, that was tabled for discussion.
The financial situation was examined.
Dad's wages were (say) £10 per week, rent was (say) £4 per week, food £2.50, clothing £1.50.
That left £1 per week for unallocated expenditure.
If the bike cost £18, was that the best use of the money?
How many people would benefit?
What were the alternative uses of that money?
Everyone examined and discussed the various implications.
Eventually a consensus was reached that worked for everyone.
Also on the agendas for these meetings, Stevie's dad would add a broader issue.
Or the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Or the National Health Service.
Did they work, were they fair?
But she didn't realise her mind was being trained.
To be able to look at any situation in life.
Not to be frightened of calmly and logically understanding it, unpacking it, and repacking it.
Also, because her dad worked for the railways, they got free train travel.
And her dad would make sure they made maximum use of all the opportunities for free entertainment and education.
So he might take Stevie and Sandi to Manchester to see a free art exhibition.
Or they might go to Birmingham to see a free film or hear a free talk.
And they'd bring their free library books to read on the way.
They'd go all over the country to see and do really interesting things.
Things they wouldn't have seen or done otherwise.
Because Stevie's dad treated having no money as an opportunity, not a problem.
All you had to do was use your brain.
And that was the most important thing Stevie's dad taught her.
And if you use your brain, you don't have to be frightened of anything.
Which is where Stevie's confidence comes from.


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There is an abundance of phantoms in the Hamptons. Everyone either has a secret identity or hidden agenda. So it seems a masquerade ball is timely because you can't see behind the masks, just as you don't know what is real and who you can trust – ever.
It has been six weeks since Padma was taken by Trask to a secret location, along with the finished copy of Carrion, supposedly in exchange for the safe return of her father. The exchange hadn't gone as planned and Nolan has spent six weeks using all his cyber-genius to track her down, but to no avail. It turns out her disappearance didn't go unnoticed either – the police had been investigating, and Nolan was at the top of their suspects list. There appears to be no other suspects, and so, sadly, our poor Nolan remains as "the list".
Since Jack agreed to be Conrad's "Joe the Plumber", the governor-in-waiting has managed to close the gap between him and his opponent but he still needs to win more "working class" votes. Using the Stowaway as his town hall for a Q&A session with the locals, Ashley suggests a little cheating could go a long way to helping Conrad win some more votes, starting with having people pre-submit their questions so that they can prepare their answers in advance and they don't encounter any unpleasant surprises. But not wanting to take any chances, Ashley gives Conrad an ear-wig so that she and Jack can be in his ear giving him tips to help him along.
Armed with Nate's recording of his conversations with Conrad, Jack is determined to pretend to play nice with Conrad while he carries out his own revengenda. While he is still mad at Emily for not telling him the truth about Amanda's intentions to take down the Graysons for framing her father, he is still BFFs with Nolan. With Nolan's help, Jack manages to not only sabotage Conrad's Q&A session, but at the same time, secures an election campaign promise that could see the David Clarke case re-opened and receive a posthumous Presidential pardon should the conspiracy theories prove to be correct (it will be interesting to see how the Graysons weasel their way out of this one when Conrad wins – and we all know this is the inevitable next step, right?).
It's Halloween time but you would never catch the Hamptons elite wearing superhero costumes (perhaps because they believe themselves to be better than superheroes?) but they are always ready to party. This time, it's the annual Grayson Masquerade Ball and we are reminded that this annual ball was cancelled last year while Daniel was being tried for murder. So much has happened in the twelve months since. While Victoria is sorting out her party acceptances, Ashley delivers a few from campaign HQ, one of which is suspiciously postmarked 1973 and reads "FROM YOUR LOVING SON" and it wasn't from Daniel.
Victoria Grayson isn't scared by much, which is saying a lot considering the amount of evil she has committed in her life. But with the possibility of her illegitimate firstborn son finding her, even the Queen of the Hamptons is frazzled enough that she faints (into the strong, murderous arms of none other than the very suave-looking Aiden) in the middle of her ball. Did she really see her son? Well, no, because she gave up her son not long after he was born in a convent, with a promise from the Sister who helped her that she would never tell the baby who his real mother is and that she would never tell her what became of him. But meanwhile, Emily milks this opportunity to its fullest, knowing Victoria's children are her weakness, spooking her with this faceless man.
Someone in the writers room is determined to make Nolan suffer. First, they made him fall for a psychopathic killer, then it is revealed that his former CEO and lover gave him up to the Graysons, causing him to lose his beloved Nolcorp. And now, since declaring his love for Padma, Nolan suffers even greater heartache as Aiden manages to lure Trask out of hiding and forces him to reveal (at gunpoint) where they had taken Padma – but alas, it was all too late. The Initiative had killed her and her father – and at the same time were trying to frame Aiden for their murders. How have they managed to underestimate Aiden? A little choke-hold and a twist of the arms and it's bye bye Trask!
While the Grayson Masquerade Ball is not as sinister as Eyes Wide Shut, you would never mistake who's the good and who's the evil at this ball – Victoria looking the Queen of the party in a black lacy number while Emily is resplendent in white. And then there's Charlotte, still mourning the sudden death of her half-sister, lets rip an awesome right hook that almost TKO'd a bitchy party guest who dared to poke fun at Amanda.
Jack has been the sweet innocent (if not slightly clueless with all that was going on right under his nose all this time) one in amongst the crazy revenging but now things are set to change. He is ready to take down Conrad Grayson and has decided that Ashley may be useful to his cause. They are both backing Conrad for the same reason – they are trying to milk as much out of him as possible while Jack is also trying to avenge Amanda's death and prove her father's innocence – to finish what she started. Meanwhile, Ashley needs to prove that she had nothing to do with Amanda's death (although legally that could be questionable if she knew as much as she did, even if she didn't know what any of the information she held meant at the time). This makes for an interesting new alliance and one that I certainly did not see coming. Where will this go? Will Ashley ultimately give Jack up if it means she could climb the social ladder even further?
Now that Emily knows where Victoria had gone to have her baby all those years ago, what is she going to do? The last scene we saw as Victoria walks away was Emily taking the seat she had just vacated and confessing to the Sister that she was pregnant and needed help. What will this mean? How will she use this poor nun to help her cause?
Photo: Colleen Hayes for ABC. Written by Valerie Leung. Share your Revenge theories with her on Twitter (@valshopaholic) and read her blog LibragirlRules.com.


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Xeon Phi To Get 3X Speed Bump, Omni Scale Fabric
June 23, 2014 by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Intel is showing off a few more of the feeds and speeds of its forthcoming "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi chips and talking a bit about the future network fabric that will be paired with these compute engines as well as its flagship Xeon processors.
The current "Knights Corner" parallel X86 processor has up to 61 Pentium-style P54C cores implemented on a die and is available only as a PCI-Express 2.0 coprocessor, plugging into a system much like a graphics card or GPU accelerator does. These coprocessors are being adopted to accelerate parallel workloads in financial services and in various kinds of simulation. Their uptake could expand considerably once the future "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi chips come out.
The Knights Landing chips have been in development for a few years now, and with them Intel is going one step further and making the Xeon Phi available as a standalone processor in its own socket as well as in a separate card that links with server processors through PCI-Express 3.0 links. Intel revealed that information about Knights Landing back at the International Super Computer 2013 conference in Leipzig, Germany a year ago, along with the fact that Knights Landing would be etched in its 14 nanometer processes and would have on-package memory that would boost the memory bandwidth. At the SuperComputing 2013 conference last fall, Intel divulged that the Knight Landing chip would be surrounded by high-bandwidth, in-package memory for very fast memory access for the many cores on the die – what it called near memory – as well as DDR memory linked to the chip on the same printed circuit board – what it called far memory. Shortly thereafter, Intel said that it would include ports for future interconnect fabrics on both the Xeon and Xeon Phi chips.
Ahead of ISC'14 this week, where Rajeeb Hazra, a vice president in Intel's Data Center Group and general manager of its Technical Computing Group, is doing the keynote, Intel let a few more details out about the Knight Landing chip. Charles Wuischpard, who used to run system maker Penguin Computing and who is now vice president and general manager of the Workstations and High Performance Computing unit in the Data Center Group, walked through the new details of the system.
We now know a few more things about Knights Landing, and we also see why Intel has been putting out information in bits and pieces for so long. The latest specs on the Knights Landing chip confirm some of the rumors that were going around late last year about the device, which we now know will ship in commercial systems sometime in the second half of 2015.
The Knights Landing chip will be based on a modified variant of the "Silvermont" Atom core, which among other things is used in the eight-core "Avoton" C2000 processor. These low-power cores will have four threads per core, just like the modified Pentium P54C cores in the original Xeon Phi had. The modified Silvermont core will also include 512-bit AVX vector math units. Intel is not being specific about the number of cores that will be on the Knights Landing die, but Wuischpard did say that it will have at least as many cores as the current Knights Corner Xeon Phi chip. If you look into the details, Intel also adds that the cores in the Knights Landing chip will be compatible with the "Haswell" Xeon instruction set, with the exception of the TSX transactional memory feature.
The clock speed on the Knights Landing chip was not revealed, either, but Wuischpard said that the Knights Landing chip would have more than 3 teraflops of peak theoretical double-precision floating point math capability, which is about three times the oomph of the Knights Corner coprocessor it replaces. Given that Knights Corner was implemented in 22 nanometer processes and Knights Landing will be etched in 14 nanometer processes, and that clock speed increases really increase the heat, it is reasonable to expect that most of the performance gains will come through radically improved cores, more of them, slightly higher clock speeds, and the memory bandwidth that comes from that memory on the Knights Landing package.
Intel says that it will have at least 16 GB of that near memory close to the Silvermont cores on the Knights Landing chip package, and that this will offer at least five times the bandwidth of DDR4 main memory that is on the circuit board but not on the package.
"It turns out that one of the choke points in many applications used today is I/O and memory bandwidth, and this is specifically designed to remove that bottleneck."
This "ultra high bandwidth" memory is being jointly developed by Intel and memory maker Micron Technology, and Wuischpard would not comment if this memory was based on Hybrid Memory Cube stacked memory. Micron confirmed in a separate announcement that the on-package memory is derived from the technology used in HMC Gen2 memory. Intel and Micron say that this on-package memory takes up one third of the space and is five times as power efficient as GDDR5 graphics memory used in Xeon Phi and GPU accelerators, and takes one half the energy per bit as DDR4 memory and does so in half the physical space.
The Silvermont cores will no doubt have their own layers of cache memory to keep the data being staged from far and near memory and down into the cores. The specs for that cache have not been announced. Intel has not revealed the maximum DDR4 memory capacity supported on the Knights Landing, but does say in a statement that the chip will "support DDR4 system memory comparable in capacity and bandwidth to Intel Xeon processor-based platforms, enabling applications that have a much larger memory footprint."
Intel plans to offer the Knights Landing Xeon Phi processor on a PCI-Express adapter card as well as for a standalone processor in a socket of its own inside of a system. It is not clear which one will come first, or if they will both be launched at the same time.
The other big announcement at ISC'14 this week in Germany is that the Xeon Phi chips will include ports for Intel's future Omni Scale fabric.
Intel is not providing a lot of information about the future Omni Fabric, but Wuischpard said that it was not InfiniBand as we know it and that it was not the "Aries" dragonfly interconnect that Intel bought from Cray a few years ago, either.
Wuischpard said that Omni Scale "retained some of the flavor" of the prior generation True Scale, but "is really distinctive in that it is a non-InfiniBand solution."
Intel has made its own Ethernet network adapters for many years, and it bought Fulcrum Microsystems for its Ethernet switching ASICs and QLogic for its True Scale InfiniBand switch and adapter chips. The Cray Aries interconnect – and importantly, the engineering team that created it – was icing on the cake. And Omni Scale, as the name suggests, is leveraging technology Intel acquired from Cray and QLogic as well as its own networking know-how to create the Omni Scale fabric. Whatever it is, Omni Scale will look enough like True Scale QDR InfiniBand for applications coded for the latter to be compatible with the former. Intel will also provide a full set of open source software tools for Omni Scale.
"Over the last four months, our business with True Scale has done tremendously well," Wuischpard. "We think that based on publicly available information we have been gaining share in the market. In part this is because our customers want to get to Omni Scale and we are providing an upgrade path."
Throughout 2015, Intel will roll out PCI-Express host adapter cards supporting Omni Fabric networking, and it will also make edge switches and large director switches to lash nodes and networks together. Intel will also have silicon photonics cables and connectors that support Omni Fabric, and it is reasonable to assume that such ports will in fact first appear on the Knights Landing chips.
The neat thing about the future Knights Landing chip is that with the main memory (both the unspecified near memory and the DDR4 far memory) and the network ports on the chip, the Xeon Phi is a standalone, self-contained unit of compute, ready to be plugged together into clusters. And that, presumably, is precisely what many enterprises and supercomputing centers will want to do for running workloads.
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23rd of June, 2018
Debutant's Phoenix Challenging for Zadar Royal Cup Crown
(Saturday 23rd June, Zadar) – Tina Plattner, Ed Baird and the crew of 2018 52 SUPER SERIES debutants Phoenix have given themselves a fighting chance of winning the second circuit regatta of the season after delivering another consistent, low scoring day at the Zadar Royal Cup in Croatia. If she could steer the new generation Botin design to overall victory and leave closest rivals Platoon and Luna Rossa in the shade, she would mark a hatful of 'firsts', including being the first female helm ever to win a TP52 circuit regatta and the first helm to triumph at their first ever 52 SUPER SERIES regatta as well as being the first ever South African team to win on the world's leading grand prix circuit.
As she stepped from the Phoenix to enjoy the 'sundowner' at Zadar's D-Marin Dalmacija's chic Portus Beach Club, which is as much part of her personal decompression routine as the hard and fast performance processes that America's Cup winner Ed Baird has helped establish among the hugely experienced crew, Plattner remains quietly low key, bubbling with enthusiasm at already having wildly exceeded all her expectations.
"There'll be no more than two drinks and go to bed early tonight." She grins, "We will take tomorrow the same as we've taken every other day. We'll go out there, we'll have fun, and just take it a race at a time."
Across two very different races today – one in a gentle NW'ly and a second in a brisker, exciting 15 to 20kts strong thermal – Phoenix finished fourth in the first contest and then won the breezier race. Their five points aggregate for the day was only matched by three times champions Quantum Racing, the winners of last month's season opener in Šibenik, just down the coast. With Harm Müller-Spreer's world champions Platoon racking up 14 pts for the day, and Luna Rossa 12, the Plattner family's Phoenix leads into Sunday's finale by three points over Platoon, and five on Luna Rossa.
Of their strategy for Sunday's showdown with two of the circuit's big guns, Baird cautions:
"We have to see what kind of day it is, so far every day has been a little different. There's been strange things going on out there. Nobody is familiar with this race course so we're just trying to not make too many mistakes."
Baird has been decisive, but measured in their choices on a challenging new race area teams. They have stayed out of trouble and the boat handling has been well up to scratch, commensurate with an outfit that benefited from 10 hard days of two boat training and tuning before early May's PalmaVela regatta and the Šibenik regatta, which father Hasso steered.
Luna Rossa dropped from the regatta leadership to third after their two weakest results of the event, tactician Vasco Vascotto explaining:
"The reality is that we sailed worse than usual. The last race I think is the first time in the season that we lost boats, we slipped down the fleet, but the first race was okay, we made a couple of mistakes but this can happen, it was very shifty today. The last race we missed opportunities. This is the game though and tomorrow we need to go on the water and learn from the lessons that we had today and try to make it a little better."
Andy Soriano's Alegre team won their first race of the season on the Alegre when they passed Gladiator at the top of the final run, while Phoenix once more timed their passage to gain the right of the first beat well and enjoyed a good early advantage.
Tina Plattner revealed,
"It is quite a daunting fleet to try to come and step into for the first time. You should have seen us last week all eight of them were saying 'don't be so nervous it'll be okay!"
And of helping to settle the driver's butterlflies Baird explains:
"That's a matter of just making sure we're ready for the situations that come up. We tried really hard in Palma and before this event here to just go through as many of the situations that we could and put Tina in the pressure positions and kept saying to her and the whole team 'this whole sport is about making mistakes, we're going to make mistakes, it's just about making a few less than the other guys. You have to realise you can't put the pressure on yourself to be perfect. It's never going to happen. We're not perfect at all, there's lots of things we can do better, but we're good enough at the moment to be doing well."
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Tina Plattner (RSA) and Ed Baird (USA) on Phoenix:
Why is it going so well?
Ed – Because Tina has listened, paid attention, learned, and is doing a fantastic job now on the race course and we have a great team behind her that's making it work!
Tina – Ed makes some really good decisions, tells me where to go along with Paul, it's the team, we have a really good team on the boat, we just go out there and have fun and try anew every single time we go out. It is quite a daunting fleet to try to come and step into for the first time. You should have seen us last week all 8 of then were saying 'don't be so nervous it'll be okay!"
What's the hardest part out there, aside from minimising mistakes?
Tina – staying focused for the whole hour of the race from the pre-start to the end, and never doubting that what Im being told is the right thing, keep on looking at the sails and keep going forward and listening to Ed and Paul and trust them that what they're telling me is what I'm meant to do.
Vasco Vascotto (ITA) tactician Luna Rossa (ITA):
What's the strategy for tomorrow?
Vasco – "Tomorrow we need to just go sailing nicely, as we did earlier. I think we have better speed than we did in Sibenik – the young guys are getting better every day and the old guys are unfortunately getting older and older every day… this is the game!
Luna Rossa training program?
Vasco – "I lost some kilos, am getting fitter and stronger every day, we all are."
What are you thoughts about Phoenix?
Vasco – "Phoenix is doing great but it's not a surprise for me, Ed is a very smart, experienced guy – he is older than me [laughs] – and he is doing a nice job, the boat is fast, and in this kind of shifts it's just a matter of sailing well around the course and he is doing fantastic. I hope tomorrow he will make a couple more mistakes so we can be in front."
Victor Mariño (ESP) Platoon (GER):
Victor – "Today was tough because it was very unstable wind and big shifts, we had good starts but in the end we were not so lucky or didnt choose exactly the right places so in the end we were spit out, but it was not too bad because we recovered in the end. It was a difficult day of racing and to not be last or second last is a really good result for everyone in the competition. These channels are so narrow, with the islands, the breeze, the mountains, the right to left, the picture can change in ten minutes. If you are on the wrong side because the left was paying originally than you are lost (or last!). Tomorrow the forecast will be very similar, so it will be tricky. At the moment every race counts, not just for this overall regatta but for the overall series result. Also, everything is practice for Cascais, the worlds, so the strategy is not only to look at the results here of the racing, but to learn about the boat and keep learning."
News Overview Race 6 – Win for Phoenix Sees the South African Team Lead into Zadar Super Sunday HIGHLIGHTS: Day 4 – 52 SUPER SERIES Zadar Royal Cup
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GOP Convention
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"What we have in front of us in an arduous task, to say the least," Republican district attorney nominee Mike Kavanagh told a GOP nominating convention Saturday morning at Ulster Town Hall. About 100 persons attended the one-hour session, about a third of what Democrats pulled at their convention earlier that week.
Kavanagh has been chief assistant district attorney under Holley Carnright for the last four year. Nominated by county clerk Nina Postupack. Kavanagh, 48, said it has been his life-long ambition to be Ulster County District attorney, a position held by his father, Michael, for more than 20 years.
"No other candidate is as qualified as I am," he said in apparent reference to Democratic nominee David Clegg of Woodstock. "We will ask voters to choose experience over politics and that's how we will win."
Democrats enrollees outnumber Republicans by about 16,000 in Ulster. GOP party chairman Roger Rascoe said after the convention that he has been in contact with Conservatives Party and Independence Party leaders and expects they will support Kavanagh. Conservatives will meet Monday at 7:30 at Esopus town hall.
Kavanagh spoke to the personal sacrifice running for county office entails for a young family. "I'll miss a few soccer matches this summer, some softball games," he said, turning to his daughters, Regan, 10, and Aislin, 8 and his wife, Jennifer. The family lives in Saugerties.
Kavanagh closed with a shot at Clegg, a trial attorney for some 40 years and a candidate for congress last year. "You have to care about this job. You have to want this job," he said. "This office can never be a consolation prize," he said to cheers from the gathering
The convention did not nominate candidates for county executive or county judge, leaving that task to a committee on vacancies. Nominating petitions will begin circulating next week with final submission April 4. Roscoe said he had a "few people interested in those positions."
The convention also nominated 19 candidates for county legislature, leaving four vacant, as had Democrats.
The only surprise at convention – Kavanagh had declared days before – came with the announcement that the legislature's senior member, Richard Gerentine of Marlboro, would not seek a 15th term in November. Gerentine, 66, said family considerations lead to his decision. "I lost a brother last year," he told reporters. "That puts things in perspective." Alice Tipp of Saugerties served 30 years.
Gerentine was a member of the powerful ways and means committee of the legislature and served as its chairman for most of his tenure He also served as legislature chairman in the mid-2000s.
Marlboro building inspector Thomas Corcoran has been endorsed by town Republicans to succeed Gerentine.
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If a patient with multiple myeloma progresses on a lenalidomide (Revlimid)-based regimen, it does not mean oncologists should completely forgo the class of immunomodulatory (IMiD) agents, according to David S. Siegel, MD, PhD.
When patients become refractory to certain drugs, physicians may believe they need to move on to a different class of agents, he added. However, a study presented at the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting challenged this hypothesis.
In the trial, patients who progressed on lenalidomide were treated with a pomalidomide (Pomalyst)-based regimen. Results showed that the overall response rate (ORR) was 77.7%, with 33.9% of patients demonstrating a very good partial response or better. The clinical benefit rate was 85.7%. The ORR was 80.6% in the efficacy-evaluable population, 75.0% in lenalidomide-refractory patients, and 76.2% in patients with 2 prior lines of therapy. The 9-month progression-free survival (PFS) rate was 86.3%.
Patients received pomalidomide at 4 mg daily on days 1 through 21, low-dose dexamethasone 40 mg daily (20 mg/day if aged >75 years) on days 1, 8, 15, and 22, and daratumumab (Darzalex) at 16 mg/kg intravenously on dexamethasone-dosing days of cycles 1 and 2, days 1 and 15 of cycles 3 through 6, then day 1 of cycle 7 and beyond.
In an interview with OncLive during the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting, Siegel, chief of the Division of Myeloma at John Theurer Cancer Center and Hackensack University Medical Center, further discussed the potentially practice-changing trial.
This clinical trial grows out of a previous experience with the combination of pomalidomide and dexamethasone in patients who are progressing on lenalidomide-containing regimens; this was the first cohort of the study. What those data suggested is that there really is no letdown in terms of efficacy to pomalidomide when it immediately follows lenalidomide-based regimens.
This is a practical issue—having a large number of drugs that are active in myeloma—but the reality is that there are 3 main classes we are dealing with: proteasome inhibitors, IMiDs, and monoclonal antibodies. If we accept this dogma that we have to switch classes, we are very much limited in what we can do. The first cohort [of this trial] suggested there was no drop-off in staying within class.
This particular trial is relatively early; these are patients after first and second relapse. We're seeing that there is a higher response to the combination of pomalidomide, daratumumab, and dexamethasone in this trial than we have seen in other trials; this is somewhat unexpected because the patients are progressing on lenalidomide. Ultimately, the moral of the story is that becoming refractory to a certain drug in a class doesn't mean you have switch to a different class. A patient progressing on lenalidomide should not impact your expectations for pomalidomide or pomalidomide-based regimens.
Biologically, this is a very important question. Why should being refractory to lenalidomide not impact response to another immunomodulatory agent? We presume the mechanism of action is largely the same, so it offers us a very enticing question that needs to be addressed.
Why was there a preconceived notion about switching classes of drugs?
It is just instinctive. If you look at the chemical structure of lenalidomide and pomalidomide, you would not be able to tell the difference. These are very similar molecules; they are engaging the same receptor. Why should it not impact one after the other? Therefore, this is a very interesting question we have to figure out. Perhaps there are ulterior mechanisms that we aren't aware of, or perhaps it is just has to do with dosing.
We will have continued follow-up on these patients. We will have more mature data as we move forward. The median PFS wasn't met in this trial, so we hope to report that within the year. As we move around the drugs we have and start to use them in different situations, this is going to very important. We will start to use many daratumumab-based regimens in the frontline setting and so on.
What is the key takeaway from this study?
The most important take-home message for the community is that the idea that we have to say, "This patient was just on lenalidomide, so we have to go to a non-IMiD agent-based regimen," is not necessarily true. We have said this about other classes as well. For example, exposure and response to bortezomib (Velcade) probably has nothing to do with carfilzomib (Kyprolis). We have to teach oncologists who are treating [patients with] myeloma that there are other factors to take into consideration.
Siegel DS, Schiller GJ, Samaras CJ, et al. Pomalidomide plus low-dose dexamethasone plus daratumumab in relapsed/refractory myeloma after failure on lenalidomide-based treatment. In: Proceedings from the 2018 ASH Annual Meeting; December 1-4, 2018; San Diego, CA. Abstract 3271. ash.confex.com/ash/2018/webprogram/Paper111920.html.


I hate to admit it but I've never been to Menorca - the other Spanish Islands etc I've done over and over again, so I'm so much looking forward to staying at the Barcelo Hamilton Hotel. Es Castell between Tuesday, 28th June and Friday, 9th July.
I've been a Theatrical Agent for over fifty years and have a new new book out "The Gresh-A Lifetime In Show-Biz!" and worked with the biggest TV and Film stars of an era when "Personal Appearances" were the main and stores like Woolworth's used our services to supply the Stars for their store refurbishment openings.
Can you suggest any way I might be able to promote my book whilst in Menorca? is there an english speaking radio station that might care for an interview? I'm still working as a broadcaster on BCB (Bradford Community Broadcasting) and do After Dinners and my own one man Stand-Up based on the stories in my book. Hope you may be able to help and I look forward to having your publication in good time so I can see where the best places are to visit whilst I'm on your Island.
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Bookshop Genres Overcoming Systemic Prejudice and Discrimination: Achieving Success Through Ethical Resilience by J. Dawson Williams D. Min.
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Who Beat the Old Man in Damascus?
Monday April 15th, 2019 by Al-Modon (Lebanese news website)
A photo, which appears to show an elderly man who was hit in the face by traffic police, has caused an outpouring of anger on social media reports Al-Modon.
The traffic directorate in the Syrian capital Damascus has hurried to deny news that has circulated about a painful image showing traffic police beating and insulting an elderly Syrian man in Damascus, which has stirred anger on social media. This denial points to a new strategy pursued by the Syrian regime of trying to burnish its image and relieve frustration in the areas it controls, following the deterioration of services and the dire economic situation.
A few years ago, official departments and regime agencies would not have issued any comments about what was occurring on social media. This was probably not due to Syrian state agencies being occupied with more important matters, but instead because of a media strategy based on creating the illusion of an ideal state whose image was trying to be distorted by prejudiced people.
The strategy is based on denying all news and reports circulated on social media that expose the exploitation and contempt shown by the regime at all levels, after the pace of the war in the country has slowed over the last two years. Pro-regime sites such as Syria Today have worked to contradict these "rumors" and the "biased" information that harms the image of the "Syrian state," which they describe as a "civilized" state. This does not mean they will deny dangerous military or political information, but rather the images of everyday life circulated on social media, which show the extent of the misery in regime-controlled areas, whether in terms of manifestations of poverty, long lines to obtain basic goods, or similar sights.
This misery appears clearly in the recent image of traffic police speaking with the driver of a taxi alongside a man of advanced years in a squatting position putting, his head in his hands. A girl is also shown in the wing mirror of her car, as she records the scene, which pro-regime pages described as inappropriate treatment of a Syrian citizen.
In the usual copy-and-paste manner, the pro-regime sites said: "This is not how citizens should be treated by traffic police. The driver, who is of advanced years, is hit in the face, in full view of people." The Interior Ministry called for an investigation into the scene. The man had fallen to the ground following the blow, in the presence of two police officers. The incident took place in the Azbakiyeh area.
The incident sparked a reaction from social media, with people expressing their discontent about the traffic police's inappropriate treatment of citizens and their lack of even the smallest amounts of respect for the passersby who gathered to watch the scene unfold. The police statement denied this, however, saying that what happened was only a, "problem between a taxi driver and the driver of a truck, who was holding up the traffic."
The statement added that: "What appears to be the driver on his knees in front of the police, resulted from low blood pressure because of the exchange occurring between him and the other driver." This sparked widespread scorn among regime loyalists themselves, who pointed out in comments, that the policeman hadn't hit him, but the other policeman who is present is believed to be from the anti-riot police.
Later, the old man appeared in a video in which he said he was not struck by any traffic police in Damascus. Some commenters believed the man was forced to record the video, which was broadcast on intelligence agency pages on social media. Other commenters said that the police officer who was wearing military clothes had been the one who struck the man—not the traffic police who appear in the video.
This article was translated and edited by The Syrian Observer. Responsibility for the information and views set out in this article lies entirely with the author.
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