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Bentonville Film Festival Announces Gala Selections and Competition Films
by: Lauren Krakau
Posted: Apr 11, 2019 / 06:30 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 16, 2019 / 01:46 PM CDT
The Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) announced on Thursday, April 11, its film line up of gala selections and competition films for its 5th edition taking place May 7 through 11.
Joey Travolta's, Carol of the Bells, and Haroula Rose's, Once Upon a River, will be making their world premieres as Centerpiece Screening Selections, according to a BFF press release.
BFF will open on Wednesday, May 8, with a screening of Tom Donahue's documentary, This Changes Everything, at Record North (104 SW A St), the release states.
The film features some of the following names:
Zoe Saldana, Rosario Dawson
Two films will make their world premieres as Centerpiece Selections at the Bentonville Film Festival on Friday, May 10.
Joey Travolta's Carol of the Bells will screen at Record North at 4:00 p.m., with Haroula Rose's Once Upon a River screening at the Skylight Cinema (350 SW A St) at 6:30 p.m.
Carol of the Bells stars Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte as a troubled young man looking for his biological mother, according to the news release.
The film stars a trio of television stars, Donna Pescow, Lee Purcell, and Donna Mills.
Based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Once Upon a River, was described as "one of the most anticipated films of 2019" by Filmmaker Magazine, the release states.
The film is a tale of redemption involving love and loss for a young woman who embarks on a life-changing personal odyssey along the Stark River, according to the release.
Cast members attending the world premiere screening with Haroula Rose will include:
Kenadi DelaCerna
John Ashton
Tatanka Means
Ajuawak Kapashesit
Coburn Goss
Sam Straley
Arie Thompson
Evan Linder
Also in the Narrative Feature Competition will be:
Miranda Bailey's Being Frank
Emily Ting's Go Back to China
Jeremy Teicher's Olympic Dreams
Alex Johnson's Saint Frances
Tom Quinn's Colewell
Flavio Alves's The Garden Left Behind
Miranda de Pencier's The Grizzlies
Amber McGinnis's International Falls
Gregory Dixon's Olympia
Ani Simon-Kennedy's The Short History of the Long Road
Sara Zandieh's Simple Wedding
Tchaiko Omawale's Solace
Jose Daniel Freixas's Vandal
Diane Paragas' Yellow Rose
The Documentary Feature Competition is led by Jaqueline Olive's Always in Season, and Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan's Pahokee, both of which won critical acclaim at this year's Sundance Film Festival, according to the news release.
Rebecca Stern's Well Groomed and Katen Day's Bamboo and Barbed Wire will also help lead the comeption.
Also in the Documentary Feature Competition will be:
Fernando Villena's Any One of Us
Julie Getz's Care to Laugh
Amy Goldstein's Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl
Fanny Veliz's Our Quinceanera
Katie Galloway and Dawn Valdez's The Pushouts
Carl Lindstrom's Queen of Paradis
Linda Midgett's Same God
April Wright's Stuntwomen
Leana Hosea's Thirst for Justice
Linda Goldstein Knowlton's We Are Radical Monarchs
For additional programming and talent updates, ticketing information, or general information about the Bentonville Film Festival, click here.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved legislation to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, to $15 an hour.
Democrats pushed through the bill Thursday with a party-line vote of 231-199, but it has almost no chance in the Republican-controlled Senate.
by Garrett Fergeson / Jul 18, 2019
STONE COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT, KNWA) — Two people are dead and one wounded in a deputy-involved shooting in Stone County.
One of the deceased is a Stone County Sheriff's Deputy according to a release from Arkansas State Police.


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In this series of short articles, a double star in both the northern and southern hemispheres will be highlighted for observation with small telescopes, with new objects being selected for each month.
Perhaps to be classed more as a small cluster than a multiple star the system of 8 Lac (22 35 52.3 +39 38 04) was first noted by Herschel. They form an arch was the comment he added in the Philosophical Transactions paper in 1784. The small telescope user can see four components with relative ease: A=5.7, B=6.3, C=10.4 and D=9.1. AB is 185 degrees, 22".2, AC is 168 degs and 48".3 and CD is 116 degs and 42".4. A fifth star I, is mag 11 and 228 degs and 9".7 from D. It was found by T. Espin in 1906. The remaining four components according to the WDS (where it is known as STF 2922) are either very faint, very close or extremely distant.
Hipparcos had great trouble with the distance to stars A and B which were the only two that it observed, but it seems that they are so remote that the parallax is to all intents too small to measure and means that the main stars are before at least 2000 light years away. The spectral types are early to mid-B so they are probably hot young stars. Thus might indicate that the predominant colour would be white. Chambers makes A and B white but C greenish and D blue. Webb notes that A and B might be tinged with yellow but also makes D blue.
DUN 246 ( 23 07 14.8 -50 41 12) lies in a thinly sprinkled star field according to Ernst Hartung. The stars are magnitudes 6.3 and 7.1 whilst the separation has been slowly decreasing since discovery by Dunlop in 1825. The current position is about 255 degs and 8".7 and the similar proper motions of both stars indicates a long period binary system. A pair of late type dwarfs is reflected in Hartung's colours of yellow for each component. More recently Gould with 35-cm noted the colours are both pale yellow.
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While Recognizing Dangers, California Tells Nursing Homes to Prepare for COVID-19 Patients [UPDATED]
By Maggie Flynn | March 20, 2020 March 23, 2020
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued recommendations for skilled nursing facilities on preparing for COVID-19 — and told them to prepare to receive and care for residents with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infections.
The all-facilities letter (AFL) sent on March 19 tells SNFs to prepare for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that emerged late last year. While noting that "elderly persons and those with chronic medical conditions may be at higher risk for severe illness and death from COVID-19," it directs California SNFs to be ready to take in patients that are confirmed or suspected of having the disease.
MarketWatch first reported on the letter.
Specifically, according to the letter, SNFs in California should:
Prevent introduction of COVID-19 into their facility;
Detect COVID-19 in their facility;
Prepare to receive residents with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection;
Prepare to care for residents with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection; and
Prevent spread of COVID-19 within their facility.
Concerns about bed capacity in the hospital setting are looming as the number of coronavirus cases across the country spikes. Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), noted that the agency's decision to waive the three-day stay rule for Medicare coverage of a SNF stay was designed to ease stress on hospitals.
But while hospital capacity amid a surge of COVID-19 patients is a concern, the risks to those who live in SNFs are significant, as even the ALF letter notes.
For the California Association of Health Facilities (CAHF), the American Health Care Association affiliate in the Golden State, the dangers that the coronavirus poses to the SNF population are too great to make admitting COVID-19 patients a possibility.
"While we recognize the reality of a possible surge of coronavirus patients, the CAHF is not in support of any plan to transfer positive COVID-19 patients to skilled nursing facilities, especially given the fatality rate in older individuals and people with serious and chronic health conditions — the very people we serve," Deborah Pacyna, director of public affairs at CAHF, said in a statement sent to Skilled Nursing News via e-mail.
The CAHF has "urged the state to look at alternate care sites," including closed health care facilities that could be reopened in case of a surge of coronavirus patients, she added.
Emergency 1135 Medicaid waivers granted to Washington state and Florida, for instance, allow nursing facilities to continue to receive reimbursements for care provided at alternate sites — including facilities not licensed for care — in the event of an evacuation.
SNN asked the CDPH why it expects SNFs will have to take in COVID-19 patients; whether all SNFs in California should be prepared to deal with such patients; under what conditions a COVID-19 patient can be safely transferred to the SNF setting; and when SNFs should expect to receive such patients.
The CDPH said in response that its guidance in the letter was for SNFs to be prepared to potentially start receiving patients who may require lower-level care, not acute care.
"Hospitals are required to properly care for individuals and discharge them to the appropriate levels of care when a patient is ready for release," the CDPH said. "This includes patients who may have entered with the need for acute care as a result of COVID-19, and are ready to be released."
'We Don't Want to Have an Increase in Deaths'
Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, SNFs have struggled with infection control and prevention, and CMS pledged to crack down by focusing inspections on this issue at the beginning of the month.
At the Kirkland, Wash.-based SNF a COVID-19 outbreak that ravaged residents — largely because of staff working while sick and the sharing of staff members between multiple facilities — resulted in a death toll of 23 as of March 9, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
For Michael Wasserman, the president of the California Association of Long Term Care Medicine and a geriatrician for decades, the ALF issued March 19 "scared the living daylights out of me" because of what happened at the Kirkland facility.
The California Association of Long Term Care Medicine is the state affiliation of AMDA, the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
"We don't want to have an increase in deaths," Wasserman told SNN.
Angie Roberson, the president of the American Case Management Association and the director of case management at the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System in Spartanburg, S.C., told SNN in a recent podcast interview that any patient in the acute care setting that is infectious would not be introduced to a SNF population.
"From a case management perspective, we would be working with our infection prevention staff and those teams of physicians to ensure that our patients are being isolated appropriately in care, the care and treatment that they're being provided, and that we're not moving them until they're no longer a threat to the other community," she said in the interview, which was recorded March 10.
The CDPH letter advises SNFs in California to "institute the appropriate precautions to prevent spread of infection to [health care personnel] and other patients" by ensuring the staff know "standard and transmission-based precautions."
It also recommended ensuring the facility "has adequate supply of facemasks, N95 respirators, face shields or goggles for eye protection, gowns and gloves; place supplies in all areas where patient care is provided."
The letter also called for SNFs to ensure that facilities have "adequate supply of alcohol-based hand rub and that it is easily accessible in every resident room."
But those supplies are already falling low for health care providers all over the U.S. across the care continuum. In a recent call with reporters, the American Health Care Association — which represents more than 14,000 individual nursing homes and senior living communities — predicted that without changes, 20% of the nursing homes in the country will run out of masks and gowns by next week, with a further 20% exhausting their supplies by the following week.
"There just isn't enough out there in the existing stockpiles and supply, and we have done some of our own surveys that suggest really over the next week to two weeks, we're going to see that curve go up dramatically," AHCA chief medical officer David Gifford said.
"Our members are struggling to obtain personal protective equipment, and without proper protection, any introduction of new patients with the coronavirus would compromise resident and employee safety."
As a result, Wasserman told SNN that he was working to contact California Gov. Gavin Newsom to try to push for a change to this directive.
"He's getting bad information right now, whatever's driving this," Wasserman said of the CDPH letter. "He's doing a lot of great things, but when it comes to direction on nursing homes, he's getting bad information."
UPDATE, Monday, March 23: The California Department of Public Health released the COVID-19 Health Care System Mitigation Playbook, which noted that COVID-19 patients should not be sent to long-term care facilities without consulting the local health department.
The state also added that as it will be necessary to designate facilities as receiver sites for such patients, regional health care systems need to begin planning for "this community-level cohorting now." CDPH additionally revised the All-Facilities letter discussed in this story to make changes to guidance regarding asymptomatic health care personnel.
California Association of Health Facilities, California Association of Long Term Care Medicine, California Department of Public Health, MarketWatch
Maggie Flynn
When she's not working, Maggie enjoys running, reading, writing and sports, in no particular order. Favorite things include murder mysteries, Lake Michigan and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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For Sophie Allison, aka Soccer Mommy, color theory is a distillation of hard-won catharsis. The album confronts the ongoing mental health and familial trials that have plagued the 22-year-old artist since pre-pubescence, presenting listeners with an uncompromisingly honest self-portrait, and reminding us exactly why her critically-acclaimed debut, 2018's Clean, made her a hero to many. Wise beyond her years, Allison is a songwriter capable of capturing the fleeting moments of bliss that make an embattled existence temporarily beautiful. With color theory, Allison's fraught past becomes a lens through which we might begin to understand what it means to be resilient.
Clean demonstrated Allison's nuanced approach to lyricism and her disinterest in reducing complex emotional worlds into easily-digestible sound bites. On it, she projected the image of a confused but exceedingly mature teenager -- the type to offer up life-saving advice while cutting class under the bleachers. Clean led Soccer Mommy to sell out tour dates and play major music festivals around the world on top of opening for the likes of Kacey Musgraves, Vampire Weekend, and Paramore. A grueling touring schedule made it so that Allison had to get used to writing on the road, a challenge that exhilarated her. She wrote dozens of songs in hotels, green rooms, and in the backseat of the van. The ones that make up color theory were recorded in her hometown of Nashville at Alex The Great, a modest studio where the likes of Yo La Tengo have recorded, just two miles from her childhood home. Produced by Gabe Wax and engineered by Lars Stalfors (Mars Volta, HEALTH, St. Vincent), color theory's sonic landscape is vast and dextrous, illustrating how much Allison has evolved as a musician and matured as a person over the past year. The melodies on color theory shimmer on the surface, but they reveal an unsettling darkness with each progressive listen.
"I wanted the experience of listening to color theory to feel like finding a dusty old cassette tape that has become messed up over time, because that's what this album is: an expression of all the things that have slowly degraded me personally," Allison says. "The production warps, the guitar solos occasionally glitch, the melodies can be poppy and deceptively cheerful. To me, it sounds like the music of my childhood distressed and, in some instances, decaying." Allison used a sampling keyboard and string arrangements drawn from old floppy discs to lend color theory a timeworn aesthetic. She also opted to enlist her band in the recording process, which hadn't been the case on any of her earlier releases. "At the base of every song on color theory is a live take done to tape. This album reflects our live performance, which I've grown really happy with," she says.
color theory is thematically subdivided into three sections, each of which is named for a color that distills the mood Allison wanted to freeze in time. We begin with blue, a color that evokes a certain melancholy, and for Allison, illuminates depressive episodes and memories of inflicting self-harm. On "circle the drain," she admits that "the days thin me out or just burn me straight through" over a swirling, guitar-driven arrangement that inspires a sense of ease in spite of the distressing lyrical content. The next section is represented by yellow, a color that points to illness, both mental and physical. "My mom has been terminally ill since I was a pre-teen, and I never really found a way to deal with it," Allison says. "On 'yellow is the color of her eyes,' I sing about a period when I was on an international tour and kept feeling like my time with her was ticking away." Lackadaisical from the outset, the song marries its relaxed arrangement with gutting lyrics that will ring true to anyone who has ever witnessed a loved one's health decline.
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International efforts against piracy in Somalia have helped to reduce pirate attacks in the region, according to Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP), which negotiated the recent release of 26 hostages, including one from Taiwan.
The number of Somalian pirates has significantly decreased over the past several years and their weapons are also not as good as in the past, said Ben Lawellin, a project manager for OBP focusing on Somali Maritime Resource and Security Strategy.
This is credited to coordinated efforts by countries around the world to combat piracy in Somalia, in which Taiwan has also taken a part, Lawellin told CNA in an interview Friday.
While there has not been a successful attack on a commercial vessel since 2012, there have been a number of attacks on fishing vessels and there remains a number of hostages still held in Somalia.
Ten Iranians from the FV Siraj (taken in 2015) and three Kenyan kidnapping victims (including a sick lady) remain in the hands of pirates, and a number of AMISOM soldiers remain captives of Al Shabaab.
OBP, launched in 2010 with the intent to develop a response to maritime piracy, is a project of the One Earth Future Foundation, a privately funded and independent non-profit organization based in the United States.
In 2015, Taiwan donated US$166,000 to OBP for the Maritime Communications Initiative, which aimed to establish maritime security centers in five Somali ports over a two-year period to enhance maritime communications in Somalia.
According to Tung Kuo-yu (???), Taiwan's representative to the European Union and Belgium, the initiative allowed Taiwan to establish close contact with OBP, and Taiwan was informed as soon as OBP reached an agreement with Somalian pirates on the release of 26 captives from the Naham 3.
The Omani-flagged fishing vessel was hijacked in March 2012 roughly 65 nautical miles south of the Seychelles. The Taiwanese captain was killed during the hijacking and two of the original crew -- one Chinese and one Indonesian -- later fell ill and died during captivity.
The remaining 26 crew members, from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam, spent much of their captivity on land in Somalia until their release on Oct. 22.
Lawellin, who took part in the rescue mission, described the moment he saw the released captives as the "most touching moment" in his life.
OBP began negotiating for the sailors' release 18 months ago after getting in touch with the pirates via various channels, he said.
Although the negotiation process was full of frustration, with the negotiators facing the risk of being held hostage, they did not give up and eventually reached an agreement with the pirates, he said.


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Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, RE (Greek: Παύλος; born 20 May 1967) is the eldest son and second child of Constantine II, the last King of Greece from 1964 to 1973 and his wife, Anne-Marie of Denmark. Pavlos was heir apparent to the throne of Greece and was its crown prince from birth, remaining so during his father's reign until the monarchy's abolition. As a male-line descendant of Christian IX of Denmark, he is also a Danish prince.
Pavlos was born on 20 May 1967 at Tatoi Palace in Athens, to King Constantine II and Queen Anne Marie. His mother is the youngest sister of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and his father is a brother of Queen Sophia of Spain. His maternal grandparents were King Frederick IX of Denmark and his wife Princess Ingrid of Sweden.
He displaced his older sister, Alexia, born in 1965, as heir to the throne, Greece's order of succession adhering to male-preference primogeniture.
Pavlos was born into a turbulent era in Greek politics. His father, King Constantine II, ascended to the throne on 6 March 1964, aged 23, following the death of his father, King Paul. His mother, the 20 year-old Queen Anne-Marie, gave birth to Pavlos barely a month after the coup d'état which ended democratic rule in Greece over the King's objections on 21 April 1967, ushering in the "Regime of the Colonels", led by Georgios Papadopoulos. In December of that year, King Constantine attempted a counter-coup, but could not rally sufficient military support. Pursued by supporters of the junta, the King fled with his wife, children, mother and sister to Rome. From Rome they went to Copenhagen, and lived with Queen Anne-Marie's mother, Queen Ingrid.
During the years 1967–1973, Greece remained officially a monarchy, with a regency appointed while the King lived in exile. On 1 June 1973, Constantine II was declared deposed and Georgios Papadopoulos became the self-appointed President of Greece.
On 17 November 1974, the Greek legislative election, 1974 was held, resulting in a victory for Constantine Karamanlis and his New Democracy party. Less than a month later, on 8 December, the Greek plebiscite of 1974 confirmed a referendum of the previous year: the majority of Greek voters preferred a republican constitution (69%) to restoration of the monarchy (31%).
Constantine II accepted that his reign was at an end. He and Anne Marie had been living with their family in London for several years. Pavlos' youngest siblings were born in London, Theodora in 1983 and Philippos in 1986.
Pavlos was educated in London at the Hellenic College of London, founded by his parents. He attended the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West, Montezuma, New Mexico, USA, from 1984 to 1986. After training at the British Army's Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards in 1987 on a three-year short service commission. He was promoted to lieutenant in April 1989, and relinquished his commission in April 1990. In 1993 he completed his BA at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and later while sharing a house in Washington, DC he and his cousin, Felipe VI of Spain, then Prince of Asturias, attended Georgetown University where each obtained a Master of Science in Foreign Service in 1995.
As an adult he has lived in New York City and London, working as an investment consultant. He is an experienced bluewater yachtsman and crews on the multi-record-breaking monohull Mari-Cha IV owned by businessman and father-in-law, Robert W. Miller.
Pavlos married British-born heiress Marie-Chantal Miller, whom he had met at a party three years earlier in New Orleans, on 1 July 1995. The Greek Orthodox rite wedding at St Sophia's Cathedral, London drew a rare modern panoply of royalty, but the ceremony proved to be legally invalid and had eventually to be repeated civilly (not normally required in the UK) in Chelsea because of an obscure law requiring that marriages in England be conducted in English.
After their marriage, the couple took up residence in Greenwich, Connecticut, the job that Pavlos obtained with the Charles R. Weber ship-broking company being headquartered there. Later, he went to work at a New York City firm as an investment portfolio manager, before relocation to London for their children's education in 2004.
The couple have five children: Maria-Olympia (b. 1996), Constantine-Alexios (b. 1998), Achileas-Andreas (b. 2000), Prince Odysseas-Kimon (b. 2004), and Prince Aristidis-Stavros (b. 2008).
From birth, Pavlos was the heir apparent to the throne of Greece and as such he was referred to as the Crown Prince of Greece with the style of Royal Highness. Following the deposition of the Greek monarchy in 1973, these titles and styles are no longer legally recognised by the government of the Hellenic Republic. Through his male-line descent from Christian IX of Denmark, he is also a Danish prince with the style of Highness.
Pavlos was a direct descendant of three reigning sovereign monarchs at birth. He was the eldest son of the King of Greece, grandson of the King of Denmark and great-grandson of the King of Sweden, all living and enthroned when he was born. His paternal aunt, Queen Sofía of Spain, was Queen Consort of Spain. His maternal aunt, Margrethe II of Denmark, is the reigning Queen of Denmark.
By male-line descent, he is a member of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg branch of the House of Oldenburg.
Pavlos is a scion multiple times of the "Grandparents of Europe", due to royal intermarriage. As a result, he descends from Christian IX of Denmark through three of his children; in the male line through George I of Greece, in the female line through Frederick VIII of Denmark and through King Christian's daughter Princess Thyra, Duchess of Cumberland. He also descends thrice from Queen Victoria: once through her third son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and twice through her eldest daughter Victoria, Princess Royal.
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CORRECTION TO THIS ARTICLE: The author of the Feb. 27 letter "Threat of Eminent Domain Overstated" is Kelley Brown MCP '84, not '04.
MIT Alumni Object to Extreme Misrepresentation of Judaism
The organizers of the recent event entitled "Foreign Policy and Social Justice: a Jewish View, a Muslim View" abused their academic right to free speech to spread horrible lies, hurting the MIT community and staining the good name of the Institute. As Jewish alumni, we are disgusted that Dovid Weiss was invited to present a "Jewish" view, despite the fact he is rejected across the Jewish spectrum for his unethical politics and his disgraceful warping of the history of the Holocaust.
Judging by its title, last Thursday's event sounded laudable. It claimed to bring together "scholars" from Judaism and Islam to address issues of social justice in a region of the world significant to each faith and central to modern international relations. Such discussion is fitting and necessary in an academic institution producing its share of future world leaders. However, this discussion must be an honest one if the community is to gain any greater understanding of different cultures and the struggles across the world. The organizers of Thursday's talk failed horribly in this regard. The speaker who presented "Judaism" in 10-250 belongs to a fringe cult ostracized by the Jewish community because of the cult's unacceptable actions and social "values." Dovid Weiss betrays the Jewish people in his words. The organizers of Thursday's event betrayed MIT by painting Weiss as holding a Jewish view.
Some may be quick to counter that Judaism is known for its diversity of opinions, and that Weiss's claims must be viewed as one opinion in many. However, Jews across the spectrum, from secular to traditional, condemn Weiss' cult "Neturei Karta," for attending and lending support to the Holocaust denial conference in Iran. The Jewish world viewed this action as a disgrace to the memory of the six million Jews killed. In the Jewish perspective, no rationale can justify standing at any event that is predominantly (if not entirely) filled with speeches denying the extent or the existence of the Holocaust. Many traditional rabbinical authorities have joined together to place the cult in "cherem," the Jewish equivalent of excommunication, for these and similar actions.
Dovid Weiss does not represent any valid form of Judaism. Inviting him to provide "a Jewish view" is tantamount to asking a de-frocked priest, banned from the Church, to give a lecture on Catholicism. Indeed, his cult is as poor a representative of Jewish values as the Ku Klux Klan is of American values.
In light of Neturei Karta's nearly-universal banishment from Judaism, last Thursday's event is an insult to the idea of the pluralistic forum — far from the "auspicious" ideal so falsely advertised. Neturei Karta regularly employs religious rhetoric and flaunts the "Orthodox" appearance of its members to present its heretical views as "authentic" Judaism. In the guise of free speech, a small, misguided group of MIT students and organizers have joined in the lie.
There are many students on MIT's campus who have not been exposed to the many nuances of Judaism, the complex history of its culture, and how the Jews as a people have adapted to the modern world, embraced science, and have engaged themselves in the greater society. Dovid Weiss does not conform to any of the norms of Judaism in the world. Publicizing him as representing the Jewish people to the MIT community was an action misleading those who do not understand Jewish culture (i.e., those targeted by the event), as well as deeply insulting those people who are a part of Jewish culture.
Thursday, Feb. 22, was a dark day for the MIT community. We hope those misinformed by the liar Dovid Weiss will turn to Jewish students and community members to learn more about the diversity of REAL Jewish views on social justice, in Israel, in the Middle East, and in the world at large. We hope those with sufficient knowledge of the many valid Jewish opinions will come forward to present them to the community. And, above all, we hope this is the last time a small number of MIT community members abuse their freedom of speech to spread serious misunderstandings to the broader community. As future and current leaders in science, technology, policy, and countless other areas of society, we must strive for honest communication to improve our world.
Benjamin D. Cooper '06
Tal M. Fishman '02
Matya Y. Gilbert-Schachter '05
Andrew M. Goldsweig '03
Howard E. Katz '78
Joshua S. Katz '06
Sam N. Korb '04
Daniel D. Leeds '05, '06
Reuven M. Lerner '92
Stuart L. Litwin '81
Eva Lemann Moses '04
Isaac E. Moses '02, '05
Rachel R. Parke-Houben '03
Benjamin Pick '02
Samuel L. Raymond '06
Alex Sherman '99
Maxim Shusteff '03
Michael J. Star '07
Daniel J. Thumim '93
Threat of Eminent Domain Overstated
Justin Wong's column, "Eminent Domain, Imminent Danger," appearing in The Tech on Feb. 20, certainly captured the disruption and perceived unfairness of many property acquisitions through the powerful government tool of eminent domain. On the other hand, it omitted some important facts surrounding eminent domain and American law that might let us step back from the sense of imminent danger proclaimed in the column's headline.
Most of the column is devoted to describing the varieties of disruption that property owners are subject to in eminent domain — replacing a home or successful business or reproducing the happiness that has been accrued by the ownership of one's own home. A couple of slippery slope arguments are also advanced — the potential chilling effect on investment and economic growth of the threat of the loss of one's business property to the government and even the loss of free speech and press if the means of production (to borrow a phrase) of such free expression are subject to arbitrary seizure by the government. However, any eminent domain action, even for undisputed public purposes, like road construction, could have all these negative effects. It is not likely that we would want to throw away such an important tool for creating obvious and necessary public benefits for an advanced urban society, but it does speak to the need for careful procedures for using such a tool and for fairly compensating those harmed by its use.
What brings us to this parade of horrible scenarios the column adduces is the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London. This decision was by no means "an expansive new interpretation of 'public use.'" Eminent domain for public purposes, including for economic development purposes, has been supported by the Supreme Court for more than 50 years (see Berman v. Parker, 1954, and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 1984). In these decisions, the court confirmed that "public purposes" satisfied the "public use" requirement of the Fifth Amendment. The Kelo decision also notes that in Midkiff the court had "long ago rejected any literal requirement that condemned property be put in to use for the general public."
According to Brian W. Blaesser, a land use attorney with the law firm of Robinson and Cole:
The majority based its conclusions that the city's economic development plan [and the property takings incidental to it — KB] served a public purpose on three principle reasons...(a) the plan was an integrated, comprehensive plan; (b) The plan was thoroughly deliberated prior to adoption; and (c) The private developers were required under contract to carry out the provisions of the plan. (Planning & Environmental Law, September, 2005, Vol. 57, No. 9/p.4)
This is the biggest omission in the column: the body engaged in the eminent domain action is not a black box or a deus ex machina — it is the locally elected city government, circumscribed by the need to make findings and publicly deliberate a comprehensive plan for redevelopment, with numerous opportunities for citizens and their elected representatives to comment and approve or disapprove the plan. The local government takes these actions subject to the framework and authority granted to it by the state, which is itself subject to the restrictions inscribed in state and federal jurisprudence.
It certainly appropriate for our elected state governments to decide that promotion of economic development, per se, is not a necessary or sufficient governmental purpose to allow the use of eminent domain in its execution. Many states, prior to Kelo, and some new ones since, have taken this tool out of the hands of local authorities trying to turn around an ailing local or neighborhood economy in which the workings of the private market are unlikely to produce an economic revival necessary to prevent further degradation of the lives and property of the residents. But to suggest that the Kelo decision and the continuing use of eminent domain by local authorities is some kind of new and revolutionary assault on American rights is not correct.
Suspicion of Unfairness in Sherley Case
I was heartened by MIT's Feb. 16 pledge to address "the effects that race may play in the hiring, advancement and experience of under-represented minority faculty", to "ensur[e] that our grievance processes are comprehensive, fair and timely", and to "continue to work toward resolution of our differences with Professor Sherley." Yet I remain troubled by MIT's subsequent repeated claims that the grievance process has worked perfectly well in Prof. Sherley's case.
In a 1994 faculty motion about MIT's ill-defined grievance procedures for faculty, Prof. Judith Thomson argued that MIT's ad hoc procedures are unlike "procedures of a kind that are in force in the other major universities across the country" and that "… a faculty member should be entitled, as a matter of right, to present his or her complaint to an elected, standing, Faculty Grievance Committee. …". Our grievance procedures still do not provide for elected members of the faculty as a standing committee with "institutional memory" that would allow "all like cases [to] be treated alike".
Per Prof. Thomson's unsuccessful motion: "… the wheel that squeaks loud gets the grease. Faculty members with high status, or with friends with high status, squeak loud; faculty members without high status, and without friends with high status, make a barely audible squeak, and it is not for them that ad hoc mechanisms are established. Perhaps MIT's decisions about whether to establish ad hoc mechanisms are always made fairly, but it would be no surprise if a suspicion of unfairness remained. …"
Lower-status faculty have included many female and minority colleagues. There's at least one case where the tenure evaluation was marred by sexism and where "friends with high status" (in this case, then-President Paul Gray) had to personally intervene and reverse a tenure denial (The Tech, Feb. 2, 1988). I myself know from my own tenure review that it does help to have "friends with high status" and with courage in order to reverse through ad hoc means an unfair tenure denial. In at least one other case, the previously-unsuccessful candidate — this time, a non-female and non-minority colleague — was awarded tenure in another Engineering unit, and is presently a "faculty member with high status."
A "suspicion of unfairness" may have reasonably arisen in Prof. Sherley's case as follows:
1- The previous Provost, who started handling Prof. Sherley's grievance in January 2005, had strong personal ties with the head of Biological Engineering (BE) and the latter's spouse, another BE faculty — both of whom are implicated in Sherley's complaint.
2- While the grievance was ongoing, the ad hoc grievance committee opened itself to a potential conflict of interest when its chair became Chair of the Faculty as well. The latter is ex officio Chair of the Faculty Policy Committee, he appoints Chairs for the Committee on Graduate Programs and for the Committee on the Undergraduate Programs, he sits on the Committee on Campus Race Relations, and is ex officio member of the Faculty Newsletter Editorial Board.
3- Such choice of the grievance-committee chair as Chair of the Faculty was made by a Nominations Committee headed by a senior BE faculty. At that time, another senior BE faculty was already Associate Chair of the Faculty.
4- The Associate Chair of the Faculty co-signed, along with 19 other BE faculty, a 2/5/07 statement claiming that "race did not play any role" in Prof. Sherley's tenure review.
5- The Provost's Jan. 23, 2006 and Dec. 22, 2006 summaries of the grievance committee's reports contain factual inaccuracies and apparent contradictions. ("Plea for fairness at MIT", The Tech, Feb. 6, 2007.)
6- Confidentiality was breached by the Provost on 12/18/06, when he delivered his negative decision to Prof. Sherley in the presence of an observer who had not been previously involved in the grievance review, who was a stranger to Sherley and who was included in the meeting without prior consultation.
7- Since January 2007, the administration has publicly and repeatedly pronounced itself against Prof. Sherley's complaint, thus removing any neutrality on its part.
Any subset of facts 1-7 may well be divorced from any instance of actual unfairness. Yet, their cumulative effect warrants "a suspicion of unfairness" of the sort that the Thomson motion warned against.
The administration should admit that our grievance procedures may not be fair and should start working in truly good faith with Prof. Sherley toward a fair resolution of their differences. Such steps will contribute to increased fairness for all at MIT, including those who usually "make a barely audible squeak".
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
From Racial Antipathy and Apathy to Racial Sensitivity
On Feb. 16, 2007, on the apropos occasions of MIT's 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration and the conclusion of Professor James Sherley's 12-day fast, the Institute issued a landmark statement on race issues. For the first time, the terms "racism" and "MIT" were finally written in the same breath into Institutional archives beyond its boilerplate. The statement reaffirmed MIT's responsibility for ensuring that all members of its diverse community feel welcome and respected and that its grievance processes are comprehensive, fair and timely.
"[Sherley] has raised issues that reach beyond any single individual or any single institution," commented President Susan Hockfied.
These political gestures, taken at face value, cast a ray of hope against a bleak backdrop of the quintessentially monolithic, monochromatic or at best apathetic ethos on campus. Just two days earlier, Paul E. Gray '54, former chief executive of the Institute and MIT golden jubilee alumnus and career professor, crashed the protest site personally and openly criticized Sherley's hunger strike as "unwise." Then, chemistry professor Keith A. Nelson vehemently condemned Sherley's comparison of himself to the victims of the civil rights struggles as "sickening", adding that he did not consider any of his colleagues "dishonest or outright evil….however racist [their] motivations".
An editorial of The Tech, while acknowledging that an offense might have been committed against Sherley, summarily dismissed Sherley's racism complaints as lacking evidence by mistakenly putting the burden of proof on him, urging that "the Institute owes it to our entire community not to follow the path of appeasement." Another column in The Tech later amplified this sentiment, denouncing Sherley's complaints as "race-baiting" and his reference to the civil rights struggles as "racial hyperbole" and vowing not to "kowtow to the fear of being called a racist". Earlier that week, Chairman of The Tech Michael P. McGraw-Herdeg conceded to The Harvard Crimson that "there had not been too much student reaction to Sherley's protest".
Why such a gaping disconnect between the principals involved and the rest of the campus? For one thing, most casual bystanders could hardly fathom all the complicated facts of the matter, let alone their legality. In fact, under Massachusetts SJC's established three-step burden-shifting test for cases alleging discrimination2, once a complainant establishes a prima facie case of discrimination, the burden shifts to respondents to articulate a reason for their adverse employment decision, before the burden returns to the complainant to show that the respondents' reason is discriminatory. Now, a prima facie case of discrimination has been laid out in "A Plea for Fairness at MIT" dated Feb. 6, 2007. Therefore, the ball is in respondents' court to articulate a legitimate reason for such unfair treatments. As The Tech put it, "MIT owes Mr. Sherley a true and open response to all of his allegations." Until then, the burden of proof remains with the respondents instead of Sherley.
According to a Feb. 6, 2007 editorial in Boston University's Daily Free Press, "Sherley [claimed] he overheard [then MIT provost Robert Brown] say he did not want to grant lab space to a black man.…[Brown] should offer a brief but personal refute to the racist allegations against him.….to counter the attacks". So far, Brown has remained tightlipped.
As President Hockfield rightly emphasized that morning, the spirit of the MIT statement goes beyond the MIT administration and Professor Sherley and "reaches into the larger MIT community … We will only move ahead if we do so together." If there is any validity to her comment, she will have her work cut out to instill, install, and enforce across campus the new spirit of racial sensitivity behind the MIT statement.
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"""Test KTensor functions."""
import pytest
import numpy as np
from numpy.testing import assert_almost_equal

from tensortools import KTensor

def test_norm():

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    U = KTensor([rs.randn(55, 3) for _ in range(3)])

    assert_almost_equal(U.norm(), np.linalg.norm(U.full()))


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NEWS - Tuesday, February 3, 2004
(RUMOR) - Xbox 2 Set To Go Multiprocessor?
A source at Microsoft has revealed that its Xbox 2 console is set to use multiple PowerPC processors in parallel - while the hard drive may be supplied as an optional extra instead. This information confirms reports received from developers over the past weeks, with the first solid facts about the Xbox 2 slipping out after Microsoft briefed a number of its key development partners on the current state of the system. Our sources indicate that the console will use "four or more" of the IBM PowerPC processors, an architecture which will force game developers to significantly rethink the way that games are programmed in order to take full advantage of it. It seems likely now that all three next generation consoles will utilise multiple powerful processors - with Sony's PS3 expected to use up to eight of its new Cell microprocessors, the Xbox 2 now known to be a multi-processor architecture, and Nintendo's "N5" (about which, admittedly, little is known) also likely to follow down the multiple PowerPC route, as Nintendo also has a deal with IBM and will almost certainly end up using very similar chips to Microsoft.
Source: http://news.designtechnica.com/


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There's a popular expression in the United States that says, "You have to grab the bull by the horns." The expression is not meant to be taken literally because grabbing a bull by its horns would be a dangerous- if not deadly proposition. Rather, "take the bull by the horns" symbolizes taking control of a situation. However, as we all know, there are situations we cannot take control of, but we must place our faith in God and let Him guide us.
*Ram's horns were used to make shofars.
*Horns were used to carry anointing oil.
*Horns symbolized a ruler or nation's authority or power.
For any horned animal-whether it be a bull, a ram, a goat, an elk, or deer, horns can represent strength. In the Old Testament, there is an expression "The horn of my salvation" that we will examine. Throughout the Old Testament and even in the New Testament, people such as Moses, Miriam, Deborah and Barak, Hannah, and even Mary, the Mother of Jesus, sang songs of victory and deliverance that the Lord had provided.
"And Hannah prayed and said: 'My heart rejoices in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation." (1 Samuel 2:1, NKJV, emphasis mine).
Hannah realized that her strength did not come from within herself, but her strength was exalted in the Lord. As Hannah prayed and praised God, God strengthened her and brought forth the miracle of Samuel's birth.
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"The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold." (Psalm 18:2, NKJV, emphasis mine).
"For You are the glory of their strength, and in Your favor our horn is exalted…But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him, and in My name his horn shall be exalted." (Psalm 89:17, 24, NKJV, emphasis mine).
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The New Yorker dives into Americans' love affair with the garage. The head of Atlanta's transit agency has called for $100 Billion in transit improvements. This model can estimate zoned density and help cities improve their housing policies.
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Exports of grain cargoes from Ukraine
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The exports of agricultural products from Ukraine, in particular the exports of grain cargoes, became almost single direction of foreign economic activity of the country, which still shows the positive dynamics. Moreover, there are all signs for continuation of the upward trend in the reporting market segment in the nearest future.
In terms of the upward tendencies of export volumes of Ukrainian grain cargoes, it is useful to analyze the current market situation, and estimate the prospects of further development of the segment, including its export infrastructure.
The new study of APK-Inform Agency analyzes the export segment of five major agricultural crops - wheat, barley, corn, rapeseed and soybeans, which are highly export-oriented ones. In 2014, the reporting crop volumes covered nearly 87% of the general export supplies of Ukrainian grain cargoes, including its by-products.
Plan of the study
1. Dynamics and directions of export grain supplies from Ukraine
1.1. General export dynamics
1.2. Export geography
1.3. Ratings of exporters of the major crops
2. Transport maintenance of the export supplies of grain cargoes
3. Export shipment of grain cargoes by the major ports of Ukraine
4. Characteristics of the transshipment capacities of Ukraine and its effectiveness
5. Prospects for the exports of grain cargoes from Ukraine, and development of the port transshipment capacities
Summary & Conclusions
Appendix 1.1. Monthly dynamics of the grain export supplies for 5 recent years
Appendix 1.2. Monthly dynamics of the oilseed export supplies, and grain & oilseed by-products for 5 recent years
Appendix 2.1. Monthly dynamics of the major crops supplying from Ukraine to the TOP-10 of countries-importers in 2015
Appendix 3.1. Supplied volumes of the major crops from Ukraine by the TOP-10 of companies-exporters
Appendix 4.1. Main characteristics of grain terminals in Ukraine
Appendix 5.1. Forecasts of changes of the major crops supplying by the key countries-importers of Ukrainian commodities
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Villamartín Pequeño (llamada oficialmente San Xoán Degolado de Vilamartín Pequeno) es una parroquia y un barrio español del municipio de Barreiros, en la provincia de Lugo, Galicia.

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 Aguá (A Aguá)
 Aldea de Abajo (A Aldea de Baixo)
 Aldea de Arriba (A Aldea de Riba)
 Cabana da Vella (A Cabana da Vella)
 Regueira (A Regueira)
 Cabanas (As Cabanas)
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Flight Training | Flying on a PPL
Private Pilot Course. Aviation Careers
ByBen November 27, 2020 November 4, 2022 Reading Time: 4 minutes
If you're looking for a private pilot course to help with your studies then there are several available but this new course is about the inspiration and the motivation to learn to fly and to keep flying once you're qualified. It's also about the opportunities available to you in terms of aviation careers and the future of the airline industry in the post-2020 world.
Here is my private pilot course. It's entitled "Learn To Fly. Private Pilot Licence. Aviation Careers."
I have compiled this course using a combination of re-recorded YouTube material from a few years ago, updated and edited, and new material written specifically for the course.
If I were in your shoes and about to pay money for a course I would want to know what experience the instructor had to give such a course so here is a brief history of my association with aviation.
My first flight experience was in the 1960s when I had a ride in a Bell 407-D that my father had hired to spray fertiliser on some trees he had planted in North Wales.
It was nearly 20 years before I flew again. Having been given the book Illusions by the aviator and author Richard Bach and I sought out more of his work. I avidly read his earlier work; Gift of Wings, Biplane, Stranger to the Ground, and Nothing by Chance.
My Private Pilot Course
Inspired by these books and with a desire to do something exciting and adventurous in my otherwise dull life I arrived at Southampton airport (in Hampshire, England) for a trial flight in 1984. My first solo was on the 4th July 1985. The following year I did a static line parachute jump to raise money for charity.
Although I was instantly hooked it took seven long years before I finally gained a PPL, a Private Pilots Licence. It's easily possible to gain a licence in seven months and if you're really dedicated and, weather permitting, you can do it in seven weeks.
I started my training in Grumman AA5-A Cheetahs and completed in a Cessna 150. I have also logged time in the following aircraft types: Pitts S2A, Piper PA28 and Cub, Cessna 150/152/172, Harvard T6G and IIB, Extra 300, de Havilland Tiger Moth DH82, Scottish Aviation Bulldog, and an MT-03 autogyro. I've also had a ride in a Magni M-16 gyrocopter but unfortunately that was not logged.
I own and run PrivatPilotsLicence.org and LoveAir.co.uk, and I'm the administrator for the Facebook Groups Student Pilot Community and Private Pilot's Licence – PPL And Beyond.
I'm also a volunteer director for the Daedalus Aviation & Heritage Group based at Solent Airport (EGHF) in Hampshire, England.
In 2013 I started flying drones and later gained the requisite UK certification for flying them commercial and for a while I had an aerial photography business before selling it. I have another course on Udemy called "How to start and run a successful drone business".
I make videos that promote aviation and have helped several aviation businesses to market themselves – see Redspan.com.
I continue to be inspired by my uncle who was in the Fleet Air Arm and flew all kinds of aircraft from the piston aircraft of the 1940s to the jets of the 1950s and 60s. He was still flying a Cessna 150 at the age of 90. He was the last pilot to fly the Corsair KD431 from a carrier deck to land. The aircraft is now on display in the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, Somerset.
Also, my late father-in-law who joined the RAF as a fitter in the 1930s and served in Iraq, England, and Germany. Having started a career working on Westland Wapitis he retired many years later with the rank of Squadron Leader.
I am by no means an aviator of vast experience, far from it, which is why I haven't included the technical side of flying but I have a lifelong love of aviation and hope to inspire you to start flying, to motivate you to keep going, and to show you how to avoid some the mistakes I made and therefore how to save yourself time and money in the process.
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UAV and Light Aircraft Sharing Airspace
ByBen January 11, 2018 August 15, 2022 Reading Time: 3 minutes
UAV and light aircraft sharing airspace has led to concerns over risk on the one hand and innovation on the other. Every month in the UK new drone pilots are emerging to enter the commercial world from the growing number of unmanned aviation training centres. UAV (unmanned aviation vehicles) or RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft systems)…
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Gyrocopter Training Near Me (USA)
ByBen January 11, 2022 January 18, 2023 Reading Time: 5 minutes
If you've ever typed the search phrase 'gyrocopter training near me' into a search engine then congratulations for being someone with a sense of adventure. Once you've found somewhere that offers flights in these aircrafts your life will probably change for the better in all kinds of ways. Learning to fly a gyroplane can be…
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Advanced PPL – The Instrument Rating
ByBen May 2, 2012 August 15, 2022 Reading Time: 4 minutes
For the determined pilot seeking to expand his/her privileges, after the Private Pilot's Licence comes the Instrument Rating. The Instrument Rating allows you to fly in inclement weather, or weather that doesn't meet the definition for VFR flight. With an Instrument Rating, you can fly under the instrument flight rules or IFR flight rules. Whereas…
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ByBen October 8, 2015 August 15, 2022 Reading Time: 4 minutes
Flying in an airliner is exceptionally safe. However, there are always potential risks in flying and some may be less obvious than others. The health and wellbeing of the flight crew is something that may pass through the minds of passengers, but its importance is probably considerably less than such issues as terrorism or the…
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Online PPL Ground School Courses
ByBen May 16, 2019 Reading Time: 4 minutes
There are many online PPL ground school courses available these days but as with all teaching products it's the experience of the instructor that counts as well as the style of delivery and ease of use. Are you struggling with the ground school subjects for the Private Pilots Licence exams? Do you find book learning…
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Gyrocopter Training Cost UK – Where to fly and train for a PPL(G)
ByBen June 21, 2022 January 18, 2023 Reading Time: 11 minutes
In this post I explain why you should go for a flight in a gyrocopter, where you'll find some gyrocopter training in the UK, and what it costs to complete a course that leads to a licence. My Gyrocopter Flying Experience in a Magni Gyro So far I've only had two flights in a gyrocopter….
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(Family Features) Like many with the condition, Kathy Bennett suffered for over a decade with a damaging, often-misdiagnosed disease — silent reflux. Also called laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPR), silent reflux is often confused with heartburn or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), as well as the common cold and allergies, because of its puzzling symptoms. However, LPR is more severe than simple heartburn and can seriously damage the throat and voice box.
What makes LPR unique is that a weakened sphincter in the upper esophagus allows stomach acid to move past the esophagus into the throat, voice box and lungs. In Bennett's case, her condition was not effectively treated for 15 years, which led to painful damage to her throat tissue.
Many people take heartburn medicines, such as Prilosec (omeprazole) or Nexium (esomeprazole), to manage acid reflux symptoms, but there is little evidence that these medicines relieve LPR symptoms. Unlike GERD patients, most people with LPR have a healthy esophagus and may not experience heartburn, according to research published by the "International Archives of Otorhinolaryngology." Studies also show that long-term use of these medicines may increase risk of stroke, bone fractures, heart attack and kidney damage.
Symptoms of LPR include nighttime regurgitation, throat irritation, constant cough or throat clearing, hoarse voice, difficulty swallowing, postnasal drip and sleep loss.
Bennett eventually spoke with her doctor about the over-the-counter device.
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In the year 2005, more than 200 children lost their lives in the U.S after having been forgotten in cars. It seems almost impossible that a parent could forget her child in the car. However the truth is that, many mums forget their children in cars for various reasons. The dangers of forgetting children in cars, includes both intentionally or unintentionally leaving a child in a car.
A mother drives her baby to the shop down the street. She rushes into the bank to get some work done, the child is all alone in the car at that point of time. It is a hot day and the mother turns on the air condition in the car. There is a large queue at the bank, the mother has to wait longer than she anticipated. The toddler in the car grows restless, he starts to play with things in the car. He accidently pushes the air conditioner switch and this turns the unit off. The car starts to heat, the toddler faints. The mother returns from the bank and rushes her child to the doctor. There are dozens of cases where children are left alone cars, many accidents go unreported. In this safety related article, we talk about children being left alone in cars and suggest ways to reduce this occurence.
One important thing to understand is that, there are cases where parents voluntarily leave children alone in cars. In this case the act of leaving the child alone in the car is not accidental, the parent chose to leave the child unattended. If the law does manage to reach it's arm to such incidents, it should first of all come down heavily in cases where parents, baby sitters or other elders intentionally leave a child alone in a car.
A mother drives her 1 year child to the post office, she leaves the engine turned on and lets the child sit alone in the car. Expecting the work at the post office to take no more than a few minutes, the mother leaves the child alone in the car. It is a cold winters day and the heating system in the car has been turned on to keep the child warm. The child starts getting bored or scared after sitting alone in the car for few minutes. Like a normal child, he finds something interesting to play with and in this case plays with the colorful keys of the heating system. The system turns off and the car starts cooling due to the cool weather outside. The mother comes back about 5 minutes later and notices that the child is almost unconcious. She rushes the baby to the doctor who just manages to save the child's life. Incase we forgot to mention, the mother did shed a few tears probably to wash away the feeling of guilt!
Here is another tragic story, this one did not end so well for the child who was left alone in the car. This is yet another case where the parent intentionally left the child alone in the car, it had nothing to do with being forgetful. The mother drives the child to the bakery, it is a hot and humid day. The child is left alone in the car with the cooling system turned on. The child gets restless as the mother has been away for almost 10 whole minutes. The restless arms and legs of the young child strike the switches of the cooling system, the system shuts down. The temperature inside the car keeps rising, the hot sun makes things worse. The mother returns a few minutes too late and sees that her child is dead.
The truth is that, leaving a child alone in the car can be dangerous irrespective of it being intentional or accidental. However there is no denying the fact that accidents where children are intentionally left alone in a car, can be easily avoided. All would have been fine if the parent or elder commiting this horrible act would show more care and compassion for the child.
Let us now ramble about cases where children were accidentally left alone in a car. The results can be just as disastrous so we cannot take such 'accidents' lightly. A mother drives her baby to the baby sitter's home (more like a creche). The child is asleep in the back seat of the car. The mother intends to drop the child at the creche and then drive on to work. Half way through the drive, there is an urgent call from the office. The morning meeting has been preponed and she is expected to make her presentation in the next 30 minutes. Forgetting about the baby asleep in the back seat, she drives straight to the office and parks the car in the parking lot. She hurries out of the car and rushes to the lift, the baby is now asleep and forgotten in the car. After an hour, the mother gets a call from the father, he wants to remind her to ask the creche to keep orange and citrus juices away from the baby. The mother then remembers the baby and rushes to the parking lot, fortunately the baby is safe.
Another interesting and almost unbelievable story related to children being forgotten in cars. A family with 3 children heads off for a holiday at the beach. The youngest child is less than a year old. The family drives back home in the evening, the two children jump out of the car, the mother carries the picnic bags and other stuff back into the house. The father drives the car into the garage, parks it and downs the shutter. The youngest child is fast asleep in the car, the family safe and sound at home. It was only an hour later that the mother noticed that the child was missing. They check in the garage and the child is seen feebly banging at the door of the car. The doctor needed an entire night to look after the child and ensure that she was out of danger.
In June 2011, The Times Of India one of the country's leading newspapers, reported a tragic incident. A young kid was left alone in the car as the family were busy preparing for and celebrating a wedding celebration. A mechanical fault in the door of the car is believed to have prevented the child from opening the car. The automobile had dark tinted glasses that made it tough for anyone outside to notice the kid who died of suffocation.
We do not have any statistics to show the number of neglectful and heartless parents who have been legally tried for such offences. It is not easy to prove and prosecute such cases in court. Even in the worst of cases where the child dies, there are numerous activists who claim that sentencing the parents in court would not bring the dead child back. If this is a reason for letting the parents go free, murder would be the best way to settle any dispute between people.
Let us now discuss ways to reduce or even eliminate such sad disasters from occuring. The main thing is that elders and parents need to understand and feel the dangers that their actions can bring. Children continue to be exposed to such dangers, people keep wondering how parents can be so cruel, the law continues to be shy when it comes to such cases.
The cases where parents or elders intentionally leave children alone in cars can be remedied quite easily. Stop doing this and if you know someone who is doing this, send them the link to this article and let them realize how dangerous it can be. People who continue to leave children alone in cars even after reading this article, should be shunned by society.
Now coming to ways to reduce the possibility of forgetting a child alone in the car. If you leave your baby in the baby seat on the back seat when driving, keep the nappy bag or anything belonging to the child on the front seat next to you. It is very likely that you would notice the bag and be reminded of the baby in the car. Paste a neatly printed sign below the car door handle near the drivers seat, let it clearly and boldly say "DO NOT FORGET THE BABY'.
Technology has also come to the help of forgetful parents and elders. An interesting device is the two part alarm, one portion fits on the baby seat in the car. The other portion gets attached to your key chain. When you get down from the car and walk away, a beeping alarm will be sounded if the distance between the two parts of the alarm is more than a few feet. The idea is that, the portion from the baby seat needs to be taken off the seat and locked into the portion attached to the key chain. This is ofcourse helpful only in cases where the child is accidentaly left alone in the car.
This ramble on leaving children alone in cars has two objectives. The first and most important is to make people aware of the dangers. The article then discusses ways to reduce such accidents. Email us at easyrambler@rocketmail.com with any comments that you might have.


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Titletown High follows the nation's winningest high school football team as they tackle age-old rivalries, teenage romance and real-life drama while vying for a championship title under infamous head coach Rush Propst.
Season 1 (episodes: 8)
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What is the genre of Titletown High?
The tv-show belongs to the genres of Sport, Reality-TV.
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Lumira portfolio company Antios Therapeutics raises $96 Million in a Series B financing
Altamash Hashmi April 12, 2021 Portfolio News, Antios Therapeutics
Antios Therapeutics, Inc. ("Antios") today announced the successful completion of a $96 million Series B financing. The proceeds from this financing will support the ongoing Phase 2 clinical program which is evaluating the potential for the Company's lead clinical candidate, ATI-2173, to be a backbone of a once-daily curative regimen for chronic hepatitis B. ATI-2173 is a novel, orally administered, liver-targeted Active Site Polymerase Inhibitor Nucleotide (ASPIN) that can shut down HBV polymerase activity and viral replication.
The financing was led by Soleus Capital with participation from new major investors RA Capital Management, Adage Capital Management LP, Pontifax and Aisling Capital as well as other healthcare focused funds, Altium Capital, Amzak Health, Granite Point Capital Management, LP, and LifeSci Venture Partners and participation from all of the original Series A investors including Lumira Ventures, CAM Capital, Delos Capital, Domain Associates and Sixty Degree Capital. David Canner, Partner at Soleus Capital and Iyona Rajkomar, MBBS, CFA, Partner at Pontifax, are joining the Board of Directors.
"ATI-2173 has already demonstrated potent on-treatment and durable off-treatment effects in our Phase 1b study in patients with chronic hepatitis B," said Greg Mayes, Chief Executive Officer of Antios. "Those results will be presented at an upcoming major medical conference. With this financing we are now well positioned to continue to highlight how ATI-2173 may become the backbone of a curative regimen for HBV which remains a significant unmet global public health need. We look forward to working with new and existing investors to advance ATI-2173 forward in development."
Guy Levy, Chief Investment Officer of Soleus Capital said, "Despite significant progress in recent years, HBV remains an area of high unmet medical need. Given the mechanistic rationale and impressive early data, we believe ATI-2173 could play an essential role in developing curative regimens for the millions of people suffering from chronic HBV infection. We are excited to partner with the experienced team at Antios to help bring this therapy to patients."
About ATI-2173
ATI-2173 is a novel, orally administered, liver-targeted Active Site Polymerase Inhibitor Nucleotide (ASPIN) molecule designed to deliver the 5'-monophosphate of clevudine to the liver. This L-nucleoside's active 5'-triphosphate has unique antiviral properties as a non-competitive, non-chain terminating HBV polymerase inhibitor that distorts the active site of HBV polymerase resulting in potent HBV antiviral activity and extended off-treatment suppression of HBV DNA. ATI-2173 targets the liver, delivering high levels of the unique 5'- triphosphate while limiting systemic exposure to the parent L-nucleoside. ATI-2173 has the potential to become an integral part of a curative combination regimen for chronic hepatitis B.
About Antios Therapeutics Inc.
Antios Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative therapies to treat and cure viral diseases. Antios is currently developing ATI-2173, aiming to provide chronic hepatitis B infected patients with a curative combination regimen.
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