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OKT3 rescue for steroid-resistant rejection in adult liver transplantation
H. Solomon, T. A. Gonwa, E. Mor, M. J. Holman, J. Gibbs, I. Watemberg, G. Netto, R. M. Goldstein, B. S. Husberg, G. B. Klintmalm
The results of OKT3 use for steroid-resistant rejection rescue in adult liver transplantation were analyzed retrospectively from a single transplant center. Comparison was made with concurrent patients who had no rejection (NR) or steroid-responsive rejections (SR). The records of 290 patients who underwent 323 liver transplants from April 1985 to December 1989 were examined. The first technically successful grafts were used for this analysis (265 grafts). Follow-up was a minimum of 1 year, or until death or loss of graft. All patients received triple-drug induction immunosuppression (CsA, Aza, steroids). Initial rejection was treated with 1 g methylprednisolone bolus i.v., followed by a 5-day taper of steroids from 200 mg to 20 mg. No rejection occurred in 108 (40.8%) and SR in 86 (32.4%), and OKT3 was given for persistent rejection in 71 (26.8%). The age, sex distribution, mean follow-up, and preoperative status were similar in all three groups. The preoperative diagnoses were similar, except for fulminant liver failure, in which 19 of 20 patients experienced rejection (P<0.0001). The median hospitalization stay was 37 days for OKT3, 27 days for SR, and 21 days for NR (P<0.0001). The median ICU stay was similar in the three groups (OKT3, 4; SR, 4; NR, 3). Infections in the first 6 weeks, and in the period of 6 weeks to 1 year posttransplant, were of similar frequency for all three groups. By the Kaplan-Meier estimation, the graft and patient actuarial survival rates were comparable. At 1 year, the graft survival rate was 79.6% for NR, 79.8% for SR, and 67.6% for OKT3. The 1-year patient survival rate was 85.2% for NR, 83.7% for SR, and 84.5% for OKT3. Following treatment by OKT3, rejection was permanently reversed in 42 patients. A temporary response occurred in 12 patients, 16 patients failed to respond to OKT3, 2 patients died during therapy, and 6 of the nonresponders died within 12 months. Additional OKT3 treatment was attempted in 6 patients for persistent rejection within a 1- month interval from the previous OKT3 course. Of these 6, 4 developed lymphoproliferative disorder, and only 1 survived in response to drastic reduction of immunosuppression. In conclusion, OKT3 was effective as rescue therapy for adult liver transplant steroid-resistant rejection. Because of the associated morbidity and expense, OKT3 should be used in a selective fashion. Failure to respond to OKT3 is a serious complication, and should not be managed by prolonged or repeated courses, but rather by alternative means.
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Solomon, H., Gonwa, T. A., Mor, E., Holman, M. J., Gibbs, J., Watemberg, I., ... Klintmalm, G. B. (1993). OKT3 rescue for steroid-resistant rejection in adult liver transplantation. Transplantation, 55(1), 87-91.
OKT3 rescue for steroid-resistant rejection in adult liver transplantation. / Solomon, H.; Gonwa, T. A.; Mor, E.; Holman, M. J.; Gibbs, J.; Watemberg, I.; Netto, G.; Goldstein, R. M.; Husberg, B. S.; Klintmalm, G. B.
In: Transplantation, Vol. 55, No. 1, 1993, p. 87-91.
Solomon, H, Gonwa, TA, Mor, E, Holman, MJ, Gibbs, J, Watemberg, I, Netto, G, Goldstein, RM, Husberg, BS & Klintmalm, GB 1993, 'OKT3 rescue for steroid-resistant rejection in adult liver transplantation', Transplantation, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 87-91.
Solomon H, Gonwa TA, Mor E, Holman MJ, Gibbs J, Watemberg I et al. OKT3 rescue for steroid-resistant rejection in adult liver transplantation. Transplantation. 1993;55(1):87-91.
Solomon, H. ; Gonwa, T. A. ; Mor, E. ; Holman, M. J. ; Gibbs, J. ; Watemberg, I. ; Netto, G. ; Goldstein, R. M. ; Husberg, B. S. ; Klintmalm, G. B. / OKT3 rescue for steroid-resistant rejection in adult liver transplantation. In: Transplantation. 1993 ; Vol. 55, No. 1. pp. 87-91.
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Dr. Joyce Liporace is one of the country's leading neurologists specializing in concerns for women with epilepsy. She attended Clark University for undergraduate school and went on to receive her medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She completed a Neurology residency and Clinical Neurophysiology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Liporace is actively involved in local, regional and national societies including the American Academy of Neurology, the American Epilepsy Society, and the Epilepsy Foundation of America. She has also chaired the Task Force for Women's issues in Epilepsy for the AES. Over the last decade, Philadelphia Magazine has consistently named her one of the top doctors for Neurology.
Dr. Liporace is currently in private practice at Great Valley Neurological Associates at Paoli Hospital in Paoli, PA. She has been widely published including in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Biden Welcomes Son's Guard Unit Home From Iraq
By Brian Montopoli
September 30, 2009 / 2:39 PM / CBS News
Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday welcomed home from Iraq 110 National Guard soldiers – including his son, Delaware Attorney General and Army National Guard Captain Beau Biden.
Biden was joined in Dover by about 800 Delaware residents welcoming home the 261st Signal Brigade, the News Journal reports.
The vice president noted in his remarks that he had been to Afghanistan and Iraq several times in the past year, saying he "got to see our beloved son three times."
Biden, who spoke for about 10 minutes, was joined by his wife Jill and Delaware Governor Jack Markell at the ceremony.
Beau Biden served in Iraq as a lawyer with the Judge Advocate General's office. There is speculation that in 2010 the younger Biden will run for the Senate seat previously held by his father.
That seat is now held by Biden loyalist Ted Kaufman, who was appointed to the seat after Joe Biden became vice president. Kaufman has said he will not run for a full term in 2010.
First published on September 30, 2009 / 2:39 PM
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Brian Montopoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews.com.

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, né le  à Tarbes et mort le  à Tarbes, est un joueur français de rugby à XV ayant occupé le poste d'arrière en sélection nationale et au Racing club de France.

Biographie
Jean Clément honore sa première sélection en équipe de France le  contre l'Écosse. Il finit deuxième du tournoi des cinq nations 1921. Son frère aîné Marcel Clément, né également à Tarbes, demi de mêlée, est vainqueur de la Coupe de l'Espérance en 1919 et champion de France en 1920.

Après sa carrière sportive, il s'installe comme instituteur à Soulagnets dans les Pyrénées. Il décède à Tarbes le 10 fevrier 1933 des suites d'une longue maladie.

Palmarès
 Finaliste du championnat de France en 1920 avec le Racing (mais ne joue pas la finale)

Statistiques en équipe nationale
 10 sélections
 sélections par année : 3 en 1921, 4 en 1922, 3 en 1923
 Tournois des Cinq Nations disputés : 1921, 1922, 1923

Liens externes

Notes et références

Joueur international français de rugby à XV
Joueur du Racing 92
Arrière (rugby à XV)
Naissance en septembre 1899
Naissance à Tarbes
Décès en février 1933
Décès à Valence (Drôme)
Décès à 33 ans

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Canonichessa premostratense, il suo culto come beato è stato confermato da papa Gregorio XVI nel 1839.

Biografia
Secondo una tradizione tarda e leggendaria, apparteneva alla famiglia Odrowąż e sarebbe stata parente di san Giacinto. Abbracciò sedicenne la vita religiosa tra le canonichesse premostratensi dell'abbazia di Zwierzyniec ma, desiderando una vita più nascosta, si ritirava spesso in preghiera sulla collina di Sikornik, non distante dal monastero.

Il culto
Le sue spoglie furono individuate nel 1612 e deposte nella cappella di Sant'Anna nella chiesa del monastero; nel 1702 sulla collina di Sikornik fu eretta una capella in suo onore.

Papa Gregorio XVI, con decreto del 23 agosto 1839, ne confermò il culto con il titolo di beata.

Il suo elogio si legge nel martirologio romano al 29 agosto.

Note

Bibliografia
 Il martirologio romano. Riformato a norma dei decreti del Concilio ecumenico Vaticano II e promulgato da papa Giovanni Paolo II, LEV, Città del Vaticano 2004.
 Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum, Index ac status causarum, Città del Vaticano 1999.
 Filippo Caraffa e Giuseppe Morelli (curr.), Bibliotheca Sanctorum (BSS), 12 voll., Istituto Giovanni XXIII nella Pontificia Università Lateranense, Roma 1961-1969.

Altri progetti

Beati premostratensi
Beati polacchi
Beati proclamati da Gregorio XVI


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Blu-ray Review: David A. Prior's 'Mankillers' Is An Action-Fueled Nostalgia Trip!
Written by Jason Price on September 16, 2016
'Mankillers' is now on Blu-ray!
Are you ready for a exciting trip back to the glory days of off-beat action cinema? Then our very own Jeremy Morrison has the cure for what ails you! This week he takes a look at David A. Prior's "Mankillers," now on Blu-Ray from the fine folks over at Olive Films.
Before the review, here is a quick rundown on the synopsis and origin of the Blu-ray materials.
Disclaimer: Mankillers is presented using the best available elements provided by Slasher // Video. Not sourced from an HD Master; remastered from PAL Beta SP and upconverted to BluRay and DVD specifications.
Synopsis: A female homage to The Dirty Dozen, Mankillers features a rag tag group of bottom feeders —murderers, thieves and other assorted miscreants — who, unless they coalesce into a lean, mean fighting machine to stop a rogue agent and the drug cartel that employs him, have the option of a prison cell or the electric chair. It's wall-to-wall action and adventure in Mankillers.
Directed and written by David A. Prior (Deadly Prey, Killer Workout), Mankillers stars Edd Byrnes (TV's 77 Sunset Strip), Gail Fisher (TV's Mannix), Edy Williams (The Naked Kiss), Lynda Aldon (Doctor Detroit), William Zipp (Deadly Prey), Christine Lunde (The Masque of the Red Death) and Suzanne Tegmann (Death Chase).
THE REVIEW: "Mankillers" is pure 80s action! Like most of the Slasher // Video titles released through Olive Films, I hadn't ever heard of "Mankillers." Another title lost amongst the plethora of action flicks released in the 1980s, "Mankillers" doesn't feature any standout stars to my knowledge (I was two when it was released, so maybe I'm wrong?!?), it doesn't feature the tightest of screenplays, and certainly doesn't waste time with a take 2 (presumably). However, this charming take on "The Dirty Dozen" delivers where it counts: entertainment value. The film also features one of the greatest ADR inserts of all-time. I don't know who the grunting man is that we hear inserted into every punch, but his presence is much appreciated by this film fan.
The quality of the disc is what it is. An up-convert to Blu-Ray from an PAL Beta SP, the audio and video shows it's age, but it adds to the nostalgic trip your heart is surely in need of. And let's face it, if you picked up "Mankillers" on Blu-Ray, chances are you're still waving a "VHS IS BEST" flag around, so we won't knock points off this release.
THE VERDICT: Overall enjoyable film with more than enough hot-for-the-era-almost-starlettes running around blowing shit up and shooting cool guns!
Jeremy Morrison – Staff Writer
Co-creator/host of the Acid Pop Cult Podcast, film reviewer, screenwriter, Jeremy has more than eight years experience in television and film production. His childhood fascination with the naked breasts featured in the "Friday the 13th" franchise prepared him for absolutely nothing in life. J-Mo lives by one motto: #wecantallbezacksnyder
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Terror Lawyer Released While Jonathan Pollard Rots
Filed under: Administration,Apology,Appeasement,Bill Clinton,Blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman,Central Intelugence,CIA,CIA Chief,Consequences,Court Order,Defense Department,Director of the CIA,Egypt,Equal Treatment,Equality,Federal Government,First World Trade Center Bombing,George W. Bush,Government,History,Israel,Jonathan Pollard,Lynne Stewart,Muslim Brotherhood,Muslim World,Politicized Findings,President Obama,Secretary of Defense,Secretary of State,Spying,State Department,Terror,United States,US Navy — qwertster @ 3:57 AM
Tags: Blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Compassions Release, Failing Health, Israel, Johnathan Pollard, Judge Rejected Plea Agreement, Life Sentence, Lynne Stewart, Muslim Brotherhood, Spying, Spying for Ally, State Department Intervention, Terror Plans, Terrorist Leaders
The lawyer who represented the Blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman who masterminded and organized the first World Trade Center bombing among other terror defendants, Lynne Stewart, was ordered released due to health problems. Doctors claimed she has less than eighteen months to live as she has been diagnosed with breast cancer that has metastasized to her lungs and bones as well as type-2 diabetes and numerous other health problems. She was originally sentenced to ten years for having passed sensitive information she had received due to her representing the Blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman as well as messages from the Sheik to terrorist leaders and representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Her actions compromised numerous methodologies the United States had in use to monitor and track terror operatives. Among the information she passed on to terrorist leadership in Egypt and the Middle East included actionable information which permitted the terrorists to alter their methods so as to avoid American detection and possibly revealed names of operatives who had given the Americans information thus placing their lives at risk. During her resentencing trial it was revealed that the three judge panel of the federal appeals court had noted specifically that Stewart exhibited a "stark inability to understand the seriousness of her crimes."
Meanwhile, Jonathan Pollard has begun his twenty-ninth year of a life sentence after being convicted of passing intelligence information to an allied power, Israel. While I would not try to minimize his crime, the information he passed has been defined as information of Arab military capabilities and assets and none was concerning any American assets or personnel and the information could have been covered under an agreement between the United States and Israel on information sharing which was ordered ignored by the State Department directing the Department of Defense. Even comparing the sentencing of Jonathan Pollard and Lynne Stewart makes one see that at least one of these two sentences makes little sense. Either Pollard was sentenced way beyond his crimes or Stewart was treated with kid gloves for her crimes. When a person who gave information on enemy military capabilities, assets and locations of the allied nation to whom the intelligence was given is sentenced to life while another who revealed methods and names as well as passing instructions to commit terrorist acts within the United States compromising the nation in numerous ways is sentenced to merely ten years there is some serious inequality in sentencing which should be obvious to anybody. Additionally, Lynne Stewart has never apologized or stated she had any regrets over her actions and has gone so far as to claim she had done nothing wrong as she was simply serving her client and conscience while Jonathan Pollard has admitted his crimes and apologized and shown contrition. As far as the argument that Ms. Stewart is in failing health, so is Mr. Pollard. Where President Clinton had promised to release Pollard as part of the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians but after the Israelis held up their half of the bargain President Clinton laughed in Prime Minister Netanyahu's face and called him a sucker for having believed Pollard would actually be released. President George W. Bush likely asked his father, former President Bush, and his father's advisors, the same advisors who had convinced the Judge in Pollard's case to throw out the agreement of a plea bargain and throw Pollard in prison for life. I hold President George W. Bush responsible for not taking the effort to research Pollard's case himself and instead relying on slanders from those who were responsible for the life sentence.
I know that there will be those who will claim that the people from the State department knew of other crimes and that Pollard had turned over to the Russians the names of twenty American agents from the CIA. There is one problem with claiming that Johnathan Pollard had revealed the names of American agents anywhere, let alone Russia. Pollard was a Naval photographic evaluator who studied spy plane and satellite photos and discerned rocket launching, air defense, and other military potential targets. His clearance was limited to the level necessary to complete those kinds of evaluations and interpretations. He had no clearance nor could he have ever had access to information such as the names of active agents or any other CIA information. His clearance was limited to Naval photographic files and the actual photographs, nothing more. He not only did not have any clearance for information on CIA spies, he had no access to any information from the CIA unless the CIA sent photographs to the Navy to be inspected and interpreted for information, an unlikely but possible scenario, but personnel information would have been far beyond any access that Pollard was cleared to receive. He worked at a Naval operations center and likely never even set foot in any CIA building anywhere or at any time. Perhaps if Johnathan Pollard had instead given information to the Muslim Brotherhood he would have been freed long ago, but he foolishly gave the information to the Israelis and did it without receiving the huge sums of money some have claimed. He has stated that what he had done was a bad error in judgment and he expressed remorse all to no avail. Yet without any contrition or remorse Lynne Stewart is going home and I am willing to bet she lives well past the eighteen months that she is claimed to have remaining to her. Where I feel sympathy for her illness, I still am suspect that soon we will hear of her remarkable turnaround and her cancer having gone into remission, meanwhile her serving of her sentence will also have gone into remission.
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Matt was born in Sydney and moved to Melbourne at the age of four. He grew up in the south-eastern suburbs and attended a Pentecostal church where his dad was the senior pastor. At University, he studied a Bachelor of Commerce and Arts at Monash, did his Honours in Philosophy at Melbourne Uni, and completed his Master of Divinity at Ridley College.
During his time at Ridley he met his wife (Ceridwen), was received as a communicant member of the Anglican Church and he started to pursue ordained ministry. He was ordained in 2016 and did a three-year curacy at RAFT Anglican Church before joining St John's and St Paul's in 2019. He has been married to Ceridwen for five years and has a son, Levi (3 years), daughter Jemima (1 year), and another daughter on the way.
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I would like to have someone follow me around every where I go, click my fingers and the exact meal or snack I want for this detox is there. Hey presto!!
But sadly this is not the case for myself and for most others I'm assuming. But if this were to be true, would you then change your habits?? Even if was for only 6 weeks. I really believe if this was the case, and it came free with the detox programme, or any health regime for that matter, most people would jump at it. So could it be the organising and the learning process that we have to go through? Is it more daunting than the change of foods themselves??
My main concern was that I was going to have more of a headache from organising my food, than I was from quitting coffee along with the actual detoxing process!!
But so far so good, with no major headache from either. In fact, I'm having fun with the whole thing and enjoying the challenge! Yikes, is that normal??
My diet isn't going to vary that much while I'm on the detox. I'm doing whats easiest and within the guidelines, as cost effective as possible, and I'm also making sure I eat 4-6 times a day, depending on how I've trained and how hungry I am.
6.30am. The builders renovating next door are my daily alarm clock, with the jack hammer going off like a woodpecker on steroids!
I drink half a litre there and then and take half with me and have it through the morning.
Usually I use Cleo Pateras bath milk. But milk is out for the detox.
100-150ml of 100% pure coconut milk.
Makes for an interesting smoothie without the milk, but perfectly fine. My main concern is to keep the calories up, as there are no breads, starches etc on the detox.
7.25am. Out the door for the day.
10.15am. I've trained a couple of clients, and off to the local cafe at the uni'.
2.00pm. After taking a boxing class and then training myself, I eat the following.
Lima beans, chic peas, lentils. Basically any beans I get my hands on.
I fry the onion in a wok with some coconut oil (awesome stuff to cook with) and curry paste. Add chicken – fry for 5min. Add veggies and coconut milk. Cover and simmer for 10-15min.
Regarding the beans, I soak them for a few hours then boil for 30-40min, then mash them with butter – delicious.
Depending on how much I cook, this will give me 3-5 meals.
3.30pm – 6.30pm I'm snacking on either cashews, or 180 Balls (ingredients to follow) or I will have a 180 smoothie.
The days do vary, but not that much. Each Sunday I make something that will get me through most of the week, and mid week i'll try something new. If the new dish is worthy and passes the test of my taste buds for qualification, I will make a bulk version in the following days.


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Hadd Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History
1) (co. Kent). Vert on a fesse betw. three crosses crosslet fitchee or, as many bucks' heads cabossed az.
2) Gu. three stags' heads cabossed ar. betw. the attires of each a cross formee of the last.
Origin, Meaning, Family History and Hadd Coat of Arms and Family Crest
Hadd Coat of Arms Meaning
The two main devices (symbols) in the Hadd blazon are the cross crosslet fitchee and buck's head. The three main tinctures (colors) are vert, gules and or .
The deep green colour that is so often observed in heraldry is more properly known as vert. According to Wade, the use of this colour signifies "Hope and Joy", but may also represent, rather delightfully, "Loyalty in Love" 1. It has other names also, the French call it sinople, perhaps after a town in Asia Minor from where the best green die materials could be found 2. More fanciful heralds liked to associate it with the planet venus and the precious stone emerald 3. More strangely, there is some evidence that the term prasin was anciently used, being the Greek for the vegetable we call the Leek!
Red in heraldry is given the name Gules, sometimes said to be the "martyr's colour"4. The colour is also associated with Mars, the red planet, and the zodiacal sign Aries 5. Later heralds of a more poetical nature would sometimes refer to the colour as ruby, after the precious stone.6.
Or is the heraldic metal Gold, often shown as a bold, bright yellow colour. It is said to show "Generosity and elevation of the mind" 7. Later heralds, of a more poetic nature liked to refer to it as Topaz, after the gemstone, and, for obvious reasons associated it with the Sun 8. In drawings without colour it is usually represented by many small dots, or by the letter 'O' 9.
No other symbol appearing in heraldry is subject to as much variation as the cross 10. Mediaeval Europe was a deeply religious and Christian and many of the nobility wanted to show their devotion by adopting the symbol of the cross as part of the arms. Since no two arms could be identical there arose many variants of the cross. The cross crosslet is one of these, having an additional cross bar on each arm. 11 Wade suggests that these additional crossing signify "the fourfold mystery of the Cross". 12 The final addition fitchee simply means pointed, and indicates that the lower end is pointed, as if it is to be struck into the ground. 13
The chief is an area across the top of the field 14. It appears in many different forms and can itself be charged with other charges and ordinaries, 15, being treated almost as if it were a completely separate area. In its simplest form it can be clearly identified. Early examples include the award by Henry III of England to the knight Robert de MORTEYN BRETON of Ermine, a chief gules.
1 The Symbolisms of Heraldry, W. Cecil Wade, George Redway, London, 1898 P36
2 A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, J.H. Parker, Oxford, 1894, Entry:Vert
3 Boutell's Heraldry, J.P. Brooke-Little, Warne, (revised Edition) London 1970, P 27
5 Understanding Signs & Symbols – Heraldry, S. Oliver & G. Croton, Quantum, London, 2013, P53
6 A Complete Guide to Heraldry, A.C. Fox-Davies, Bonanza (re-print of 1909 Edition), New York, 1978, P77
9 A Complete Guide to Heraldry, A.C. Fox-Davies, Bonanza (re-print of 1909 Edition), New York, 1978, P76-77
10 Boutell's Heraldry, J.P. Brooke-Little, Warne, (revised Edition) London 1970, P 47
11 A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, J.H. Parker, Oxford, 1894, Entry:Cross Crosslet
12 The Symbolisms of Heraldry, W. Cecil Wade, George Redway, London, 1898 P103
13 A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, J.H. Parker, Oxford, 1894, Entry:Fitché
15 A Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, J.H. Parker, Oxford, 1894, Entry:Chief


The Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex Baseball Tournament bracket has been released, and Delaware Valley has been awarded the No. 2 seed.
Pope John, which lost to Delaware Valley in the quarterfinals, was named the top seed. Both Pope John and the Terriers, which advanced to the semifinals last year, have byes into the quarterfinal round.
Hunterdon Central, which won last year with a 9-3 victory over Voorhees, is the No. 12 seed. Wallkill Valley is the third seed and Voorhees is the No. 4 seed. Warren Hills, Hackettstown, Phillipsburg, Lenape Valley and North Hunterdon round out the top nine seeds, which receive byes into the second round.
The first round is slated to start Wednesday and the second round is set for Saturday. The quarterfinals will be played on April 27 and the semifinals will be on May 4. The final is scheduled for 11 a.m. May 11 at Phillipsburg.


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Samson & Gert 6 is het zevende cd-album van de serie Samson en Gert. Het album verscheen op 21 juni 1996. Op het album zijn de stemmen van Danny Verbiest als Samson en Gert Verhulst als Gert te horen. De teksten zijn van Danny Verbiest, Gert Verhulst, Hans Bourlon en Ivo de Wijs. Alle muziek is van de hand van Johan Vanden Eede. In sommige liedjes zingt het koor De Wamblientjes mee o.l.v. Johan Waegeman . Dit album scoorde geen hits.

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Dit album stond van 6 juli 1996 tot 7 juni 1997 (43 weken) in de Ultratop 50 (Vlaanderen) waarvan het 1 week op nummer 1 stond.

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Muziek van Samson en Gert


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Dr. Yung is a medical oncologist who specializes in treating patients with breast cancer.
My role as a medical oncologist is to provide the best information to patients and their families and then to help them through the process of decision making. I try to be mindful of my patients as whole people and listen to them without biases to help them through all the challenges of cancer care.
Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology Division, University of Washington School of Medicine
Assistant Member, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
BS: University of Nebraska
MD: Harvard Medical School
Clinical Internship: Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Residency: Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Clinical Fellowship: Medical Oncology, Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts
Research Fellowship: Medical Oncology, Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute.
Provider's Story
Dr. Yung is a medical oncologist that believes everyone has a story, and that often times that story is influenced by medical health.
"I want to use my social skills and science abilities to try to provide medical care for people that empowers them to live their best life," she says.
Dr. Yung realizes the impact that a cancer diagnosis makes on a person's life. She feels that it is an honor to provide care to patients and their families during such an important time in their lives. "My research focuses on the effect of lifestyle on cancer, quality of care, patient reported outcomes, prevention and survivorship," she says.
In addition to the connection she feels to her patients, Dr. Yung is helping to implement new treatment options through Seattle Cancer Care Alliance's clinical trials program. She believes that offering research opportunities to patients is an important part of the care provided at SCCA. "Already in my career, I have seen amazing developments in breast cancer therapy in regards to more effective and less toxic therapies," she says. "I remain dedicated to both improving cancer outcomes and reducing side effects."
Dr. Yung's oncology research and expertise extends to the University of Washington School of Medicine where she is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Oncology, as well as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where she is an assistant member in the Clinical Research Division.
In her free time, she enjoys being with her husband and two young sons, practicing yoga, cooking, hiking, reading and gardening.
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What's your dream phone like? Snapdragon 820 SoC, 6 GB RAM, Android 7.0 Nougat, 5.5-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED Always On Display, 16 MP + 8 MP camera combo, 128 GB internal storage and 3500 mAh battery, right? Well, to the best of our knowledge, there doesn't exist a phone with the kind of specs we mentioned right now. But, if it would exist, we would just crave to have one. However, it looks like the folks at Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) wanted to make something more powerful, and hence, they have introduced the Turing Phone Cadenza with specs one would haven't even dreamt of.
The Turing Phone Cadenza has been announced by TRI CEO Steve YL Chao through a mailing list newsletter. The phone is a part of the Outer Blueprint program which is focused on integrating AI (artificial intelligence) into smartphones.
Now, to start with the specs, let us tell you that they are unbelievable and one might think this as fake. But, these specs have been outlined by the company in its newsletter, so here they are. The Cadenza is powered by two unannounced Snapdragon 830 SoCs which are coupled with 2x 6 GB of LPDDR4X RAM (total 12 GB RAM).
The device will run on Swordfish OS that incorporates deep machine learning and is based on Sailfish OS. For photography, you will get 60 MP iMAX 6K Quad Rear Camera with Triplet Lens/T1.2 and for selfies and video calls you will have 20 MP Dual Front Cameras at your disposal.
Well, if you have camera which can shoot 6K, you definitely need massive amount of storage. Isn't it? Well, TRI lets you enjoy 1 Terabytes of storage (512 GB internal storage + 512 GB via microSD card) on the device. If a phone boasts such insane specs, it definitely needs a lot of juice to keep running, hence, TRI will provide 100 wh battery which will get power from three different sources – a 2400 mAh graphene supercapacitor battery, a 1600 mAh Li-Ion battery and a hydrogen fuel cell.
The only thing believable about this phone would be its display. It will have a 5.8-inch Quad-HD display. We hope it to be Super AMOLED though. Oh, and did we say it will let you use four SIM cards? Yes, it will.
"TRI foresees a new machine with far more computing power to serve our daily needs when we need them the most, thus we've dreamed up and have begun development of what we call a "perfectly designed device."" said Steve YL Chao, CEO, TRI.
TRI expects this phone to release sometime in 2017. Well, let's see how they pull this off. Do let us know what you think about this phone with such unbelievable specs.


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Munson: Farmer leaves $10 million and lots of questions behind in western Iowa
By Kyle Munson;
PORTSMOUTH, Ia. –
The late Edwin Skalla's eccentricity is writ large here among the rolling farmland of western Iowa that he loved — land that he bought chunk by chunk through the decades until he had amassed more than 1,200 acres.
He emblazoned it atop a barn for all to see.
Drive Iowa Highway 191 north from Persia to Portsmouth in Shelby County, and the distinctive roof is easy to spot just west of the road.
Skalla painted his nickname there in giant red letters — B-U-D — across the barn's southern-facing slope.
It's not a professional paint job. Skalla was such a renowned miser that he wouldn't have coughed up the cash for that. No, this "Bud" is scrawled in homespun script, similar to the faded white letters still discernible on both sides of the barn on the vacant farmstead several miles east where Skalla lived.
It's just one of many quirky, enduring mysteries about Skalla, who was 92 when he died Nov. 26 in the hospital in Harlan. His name has been on everybody's lips in western Iowa, thanks to last month's shocker that he had willed some $10 million to 13 Catholic churches stretching from Council Bluffs to Denison.
Almost nobody saw it coming.
So while the "Bud" billboards remain the obvious sign of his life here, in the years ahead his fortune will help sustain, if not transform, thousands of Iowans whom he never met.
By all accounts — even the anecdotes of his own sisters, closest friends, and neighbors — Skalla remains an enigma beyond the typical loner bachelor farmer who qualifies as an unlikely next-door multimillionaire disguised in scruffy bib overalls.
You tend to hear variations on a phrase in Shelby and Harrison counties: "Bud was Bud."
THE 'CRUSTY EXTERIOR'
St. Mary's in Portsmouth — where Skalla grew up and attended Catholic school — receives its own 282.72-acre farm south of town, where the "Bud" barn stands vigil for passing motorists. It has been appraised at nearly $3 million.
All 13 churches will split the proceeds of another 858.28 acres to be auctioned off Saturday in five separate parcels. Each church could receive $500,000.
"He must have had inside of him a very generous heart," said Father John Dorton, the priest who leads the flocks in Portsmouth, Panama and Westphalia. "But he certainly had a crusty exterior and hid it quite well from most people."
For the decade that Dorton has served here, he assumed the barn he routinely drove by was the work of some farmer who "had a love affair with Budweiser."
Only upon Skalla's death did Dorton realize that it was the mark of the recluse whose auction at the parish will lure a throng of farmers and antique collectors.
"Part of the story," Dorton said, "is the dichotomy between the public image and the will he left. It's amazing when you stop to think about it."
Perhaps 50 mourners showed up at Skalla's funeral — considered by some to be not only a result of the farmer outliving many of his peers but also the fruits of a sour, solitary life.
THE RENOWNED MISER
Fellow farmer Clarence Reinig was a friend and confidant who became Skalla's co-guardian as the old bachelor transitioned into a nursing home in Harlan, where he spent the last 13 years of his life.
"I don't think I can connect the two together as far as saving it for later," Reinig, 79, said of Skalla's lifelong refusal to pay for lunch — followed by his posthumous magnanimity to local churches. "It's just the way he was."
Skalla didn't even like to share his stash of candy bars after he was confined to the nursing home.
Local farmer Scott Gau harvested as much as 80 percent of Skalla's land for 30 years. His grandparents had been neighbors with Skalla's parents.
Gau, 52, was the rare person who was privy to Skalla's irreverent sense of humor. He once asked Skalla why he nailed buckets and lids to his fence posts. The inscrutable farmer once affixed a chair to the roof of his house.
"Just something to make them talk, Scott," Skalla told him. "Something to make them talk."
Skalla's frugality was forged during a Great Depression childhood in a rural family of eight children near Portsmouth. Only two sisters — Roseann Brummer of Logan, 88, and Sylvia Keppford of San Jacinto, Calif., 90 — survive him. Both are widows.
A self-described tomboy, Keppford would help her brother set gopher traps on their way to school. Then they'd slice the paws off the dead critters and preserve them with salt in a baking powder can until they had 10 pairs to take to the courthouse in Harlan to get a nickel per pair bounty.
"In his own way, he was a good person," Brummer said of her brother. She also called him a "good Catholic," although he never set foot in most of the churches that will receive his money.
The pivotal event of Skalla's life was a car accident just outside Portsmouth when he was about 20 years old — probably before 1943. He was the passenger in a car with two friends.
"The bridge railing went right through the car and swiped him alongside of the head," said Ray Chipman, 82, a retired banker who managed Skalla's business affairs for the last 18 years and served as his guardian along with Reinig and Brummer. "If it would've been a little bit further over it could've decapitated him."
Skalla was in a coma for 13 days. Some people — including his sisters — believe the wreck permanently altered Skalla's personality.
He dated in his 20s, but apparently became disenchanted with the notion of marriage after a breakup with a longtime girlfriend.
"She got tired of waiting on him because he spent too much time in the field," Chipman said.
THE ENDLESS CHATTER
Skalla was a tightwad when it came to everything except: a) a fancy car, and b) terraces to conserve his beloved soil. Skalla's light blue 1988 Lincoln Continental Mark VII with low miles will be on the auction block Saturday.
Last month, Chipman and Reinig combed through Skalla's farmhouse, which had stood vacant for 13 years.
The farmstead in recent weeks has seen a parade of pickup trucks with potential bidders. Two farmers rolled up within a single hour late last month and reported how the cafes and barrooms of western Iowa have been abuzz:
Who's going to buy the land?
How much will it bring?
Was Bud trying to buy his way into heaven?
"It just goes 'round and 'round and 'round," one farmer said of the chatter.
The situation for these Catholic churches isn't so dire that Skalla's philanthropy is an 11th-hour intervention that will keep their doors open, Father Dorton said. But financial stability is possible.
St. Boniface Catholic Church in Westphalia, with its 126-foot steeple atop the hill in this town of barely more than 100 residents, was dedicated in 1882 and could rate as one of the most beautiful houses of worship in the state. It's on the National Register of Historic Places.
On a Wednesday morning last month, just 14 people were sprinkled throughout the sanctuary as the furnace whooshed and pews creaked. Darlene Wilwerding — whose son is a priest at St. Patrick's in Council Bluffs, which also will receive a cut of Skalla's money — led the unison rosary before Father Dorton began Mass.
"He's making more news now than he probably made all his life," Vicki Schmitz said of Skalla after the service.
THE UNUSUAL WILL
Some of the news has focused on who did and didn't receive money. A copy of Skalla's will shared by Brummer lists the names of 48 friends and relatives due sums ranging from $100 to $25,000 apiece. (Recipients had to outlive him, otherwise their money reverted back into the estate for the churches; 14 of the 48 died before Skalla.)
Neither of his sisters receives a penny.
"I have no desire to read it because I wasn't mentioned, and that's the way he wanted it," Keppford said.
Her neighbors, Brummer said, have told her they are sorry she wasn't included in the will. But she suggests her late brother is really the one to be pitied.
"I think that he got so much that he just didn't trust anybody," she said. "It's just too bad because with so much money he could've really had a good life. "
Gau wasn't surprised to be excluded from the will of a man whom he considered to be an adopted grandfather.
"People around the Portsmouth area thought I was going to get it all," Gau said. But Gau "would've died of shock if I would've had even $5 in there."
One of Skalla's catchphrases about money was, "Easy come, easy go. Hard to come by, hard to let go."
He loved to count his money, but he also was racked with doubt about it: Why was he going to all this trouble just so people could fight over it later?
"In some ways I really feel sorry for Bud," Gau said. "You would think he had the world by the ass, and he did. But what good is all that if you're not really satisfied and happy?"
In that sense, Gau reckons that his friend was protecting him from what he perceived as the headache of an easy windfall.
THE LAST YEARS
The reclusive farmer became even more isolated after falling backward trying to walk up just three steps into his kitchen some 13 years ago, beginning a downward spiral into failing health.
Chipman and Reinig dragged Skalla to the doctor, where soon he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and was forced to leave behind his beloved farm for the safety of a nursing home.
Chipman visited at least twice weekly at Elm Crest Retirement Community in Harlan, and Brummer and others also regularly visited.
Skalla was chauffeured to his farmstead to sit and gaze out across his land while he was still mobile.
But Parkinson's gradually robbed Skalla of his independence.
First it took his legs, then his right arm, his voice and even his ability to swallow.
Even so, Skalla remained protective of his estate — or suspicious or even paranoid, depending on whom you ask. He occasionally tangled with the meticulous, dutiful Chipman but also wept when Chipman was stricken with prostate cancer in 2010.
Through his arrangement with Chipman, Skalla approved every payment until almost the day of his death.
"He couldn't sign his name, but he would make a squibble on the check," Chipman said.
How at last to explain Skalla's most visible signature, "Bud," atop the barns?
One version of the lore says Skalla wanted his parents in heaven to be able to look down and see all that their son had accomplished.
Gau reckons it was more for the earthly notoriety among neighbors — marking Skalla's self-made fortune compared to his days trapping varmints for 5 cents apiece.
Or maybe he just wanted to keep everybody guessing. Regardless, Bud remains inscrutable in death.
"He would just be tickled pink if he knew he would be getting all this attention," Gau said. "He should've done this before he died."
Then again, the last thing a recluse wants is more attention than he bargained for.
Kyle Munson can be reached at 515-284-8124 or kmunson@dmreg.com. See more of his columns, blog posts and video at DesMoinesRegister.com/munson. Connect with him on Facebook (Kyle Munson's Iowa) and Twitter (@KyleMunson).
The sale of Edwin "Bud" Skalla's 858 acres in Shelby and Harrison counties will take place in a region where the average dollar value per acre last year was $9,449. Iowa's richest farmland ($10,960 per acre) remains in northwest Iowa.
"It's kind of hitting a peak point that I think we're going to see land values plateau across the state on average," said Shane Ellis, an Iowa State University Extension economist based in Carroll.
The auction is 10 a.m. Saturday conducted by Schaben Real Estate at St. Mary's Parish Center in Portsmouth. In addition to land, items will include: three men's diamond rings (appraised at $475, $725 and $1,250), a men's Rolex watch (worth $625), 1953 John Deere 60, 1988 Lincoln Continental Mark VII Bill Blass Edition, 1949 Willys Jeep, and 60 silver dollars, among many other coins.
THE CHURCHES
These 13 Catholic churches in western Iowa are the primary recipients of Edwin "Bud" Skalla's estate:
Council Bluffs — St. Patrick's
Defiance — St. Peter's
Denison — St. Rose of Lima
Dunlap — St. Patrick's
Earling — St. Joseph's
Harlan — St. Michael's
Logan — St. Anne's
Missouri Valley —
Neola — St. Patrick's
Panama — St. Mary's
Portsmouth — St. Mary's
Westphalia — St. Boniface
Woodbine — Sacred Heart


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Serbia: 'Public Competition' by Law May Now Enable Animal Welfare Groups to Present Proposals to Authorities for Their 'No Kill' Stray Animal Numbers Control Programmes.
Posted on May 29, 2010 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Today there has been some good news arriving from Serbia.
Campaigners have been waiting since 2002 for a verdict, but now, the Constitutional Court of Serbia has officially demanded that there must be a Public Competition – Tendering for the catching of stray dogs and cats in Subotica city.
Subotica city is finally starting to / having to act in agreement with the court, by allowing public competition for the process of catching strays in the city. Until now, this process has been very much a closed shop type set up, with shinter (dogcatcher) firms having a stranglehold on the awarding of stray animal contracts. Every year, shinter firms would effectively be awarded millions of dinars to undertake the rounding up, catching and killing of all stray dogs and cats in the city. There was never any real plan or progress towards a policy of reducing stray animal numbers through a long term sterilisation programme. In effect, a sterilisation programme to reduce stray animal numbers over a period of time was not to the benefit of these organisations. Their approach to the stray numbers was one of kill, kill, kill.
Effectively the shinter management policy was one of – strays could continue to reproduce on the streets; shinter teams could be paid annually from the public purse to continually round them up and kill all the animals, and as a result the authorities could continue to inform a largely uneducated public (on this issue) that they are doing everything in their power to try and control stray animal populations. It all looked good for those involved and was financially very beneficial. Almost a never ending way of being financially supported to solve an issue, but an issue which never diminishes no matter how much money is thrown at it.
But as we, the animal welfare lobby have always argued, stray animal numbers can never be reduced unless a long term sterilisation programme is introduced somewhere into a system which aims to eventually eliminate or at least very drastically reduce stray animals from the streets. With a sterilisation programme, stray numbers will gradually reduce over a period of time – ie. a sterilised (stray) animal cannot reproduce and thus continue to constantly add further to the large numbers of strays in cities.
As a result of this new public competition / tendering scheme, it is hoped that the current large costs involved in stray animal 'control', which could be argued does not really work in controlling numbers and always results in large numbers of animal deaths, can now be diverted into a sterilisation programme aimed at long term animal numbers reduction – a positive programme for the future and one which will especially be of benefit to the animals; as the programme will definitely be a 'no kill' strategy.
And so now, animal welfare campaigners in Subotica city can commence work to produce a proposal programme of stray animal control for the city using 'no kill'; a programme which will be much more financially beneficial to the authorities and tax paying public of the city. Whilst not wanting to provide detail of their proposal, as this site is frequently visited by governments and authorities who may learn from the proposals when compiling their own bid, animal welfare campaigners will at last be given the opportunity to present a programme / plan for stray animal control which will include:
Sterilisation of animals taken in from the streets to ensure that these animals cannot contribute further offspring to the numbers which exist at present
Vaccination of same animals to ensure both animal and public safety from infectious disease
Microchipping of each animal; including owned (but roaming) pet animals, to compile a database to allow identification of animal owner should it be collected from the street
If animals are ever returned to the streets, then identification tags (such as a small high visibility ear tag) to be fitted to every animal that has been sterilised. This to provide immediate identification to catchers that the animal in question has previously been caught, sterilised, vaccinated and microchipped and that it is NOT necessary to capture this animal again
Public education schemes to inform of the benefits of long term sterilisation programmes, especially where expenditure from the public purse is involved
Production of very strong and durable shelters for (captured street) animals who once sterilised will be kept in facilities such as the 'Delta' shelters used in Brcko district, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Delta shelters are made of straw bales, cement and wood, which although cheap to produce, especially using schemes involving authority prisoners for manpower / labour, can provide strong, warm and weather protective shelters for the animals that reside within them.
Photos – Low Cost but Very Effective – 'Delta' shelters as used in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Pictures with thanks to 'ARKA' animal welfare.
It is envisaged and hoped that the proposal presented by animal welfare campaigners in Subotica city will provide a long term solution and a very forward looking scheme which will over time, ensure that the numbers of stray animals in the city are reduced.
As we have always stated, the continual killing of stray animals does nothing to reduce stray animal numbers. Killing strays in any location in any part of the country simply creates a void in that specific region which within a matter of days or a few weeks maximum, then allows stray animals from other outlying areas to venture into the location, which always amplifies the risk of diseases being spread and always guarantees that within a short time, the region in question gets provided with a new, fresh crop of fertile, unsterilised animals arriving, to search for possibly more food which they always seek, to continue to procreate and as a result further contribute to the never diminishing pyramid of stray animals in that particular area / region.
The Results of NOT Sterilising Stray and Pet (Owned) Animals – there IS NO RESULT, only a constant supply of animals to fill any void left by those which have been killed by authorities.
Killing strays does not reduce stray animal numbers; a programme of sterilisation and vaccination ensures that animal numbers reduce over time and disease risk is minimised.
Subotica campaigners who produce this proposal for an effective, no kill stray animal numbers reduction programme, are then in a position to be able to share their data with other campaigners throughout the nation; making every one of the 170 communities be able to present a no kill sterilisation programme to their local authority through the public competition process.
The public education programme must be geared to the education of all citizens about the positive aspects of animal sterilisation, including their own pets, the necessity for responsible pet ownership, and using the microchip database which is proposed (and undertaken during sterilisation), a scheme which could allow for fining irresponsible owners who let their animals wander the streets. Small fines by this system could be fed back into further funding of schemes and databases used for such purposes.
Currently, campaigners are initially looking at Subotica as the first of (hopefully) many cities throughout Serbia in which they can now propose stray animal control programmes to regional authorities. It does not matter which city is first, it is only important to address the management of stray animal numbers using a scheme which will be financially beneficial in the long term, whilst also of benefit to citizens throughout the country.
The government and authorities to date have not grasped effective management and control of stray animal numbers throughout Serbia. It is now hoped that through the public competition process the animal welfare movement can show the government a scheme which they, the government, should have accepted and instigated many, many years ago.
That is a NO KILL programme of sterilisation, vaccination, microchipping and identification for the stray animals of Serbia.
Maybe now a change on the horizon …
for the benefit of all stray animals in Serbia.
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Use Of The Death Penalty In Saudi Arabia
EDM number 201 in 2017-19, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 17/07/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Administration of justice, Human rights and Middle East.
That this House is extremely alarmed by recent executions in Saudi Arabia and reports that further executions, possibly followed by crucifixion, may take place soon; notes with considerable concern assertions made by human rights organisations that many on death row have been tortured or otherwise coerced into signing confessions and denied many fair trial guarantees, and that some have been sentenced to death for alleged activity that should not even be considered criminal, such as participating in demonstrations; is appalled that those who were juveniles at the time of their alleged crimes are facing the death penalty, in contravention of international law; further notes also that the death penalty sadly continues to be in use, and misused, in many other countries, including Iran where prisoners convicted of petty drugs offences continue to be executed; asks the Saudi Government to quash its death sentences and establish an official moratorium on executions immediately; and calls on the Government to make representations to the Saudi Government to end its use of the death penalty and to bring its judicial system in line with international standards as a matter of urgency.
This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.
Ann Clwyd 17/07/2017 Cynon Valley Labour Proposed
Tom Brake 17/07/2017 Carshalton and Wallington Liberal Democrat Seconded
Joanna Cherry 17/07/2017 Edinburgh South West Scottish National Party Seconded
Brendan O'Hara 17/07/2017 Argyll and Bute Scottish National Party Seconded
Alistair Carmichael 17/07/2017 Orkney and Shetland Liberal Democrat Seconded
Peter Bottomley 17/07/2017 Worthing West Conservative Seconded
Stephen Gethins 17/07/2017 North East Fife Scottish National Party Signed
Lady Hermon 17/07/2017 North Down Independent Signed
Jim Cunningham 17/07/2017 Coventry South Labour Signed
Ruth George 17/07/2017 High Peak Labour Signed
Jim Shannon 18/07/2017 Strangford DUP Signed
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