The North Arkansas Fly Fishers will present the 22nd annual Sowbug Roundup this Thursday through Saturday at the Baxter County Fairgrounds.
It's Sowbug season once again for the Twin Lakes Area.
The North Arkansas Fly Fishers will present the 22nd annual Sowbug Roundup this Thursday through Saturday at the Baxter County Fairgrounds in Mountain Home.
The event includes expert fly tyers demonstrating how to tie flies, seminars on how and where to fish, fly-casting classes and tying classes. This year's event will feature more than 150 tyers from around the world.
Attendees will find the tyers at the center of the fairground's Educational Building. Tyers will sit down at tables to craft flies in four-hour shifts, with chairs on the other side of the table for visitors to sit and watch. Attendees are encouraged to sit and talk with fly-tying experts as they craft their intricate lures.
Admission to the Sowbug Roundup is $10 and is good for all three days of the event. All seminars and casting classes are free with a paid admission. Children will get in free, and an adult bringing a child will also be admitted for free.
The fly-tying classes offered at this year's Sowbug are already booked solid, class coordinator Ron Beasley said Tuesday.
This year's Sowbug will also include a silent auction and drawings for packages like a Simms wader/boot combo (a $750 value); a fishing/dining/overnight plan (a $700 value); a Tarpon 100 kayak and paddle combo (an $850 value); and a Sage X fly rod, Sage Spectrum reel and choice of line (a $1,300 value). Only 250 tickets for each package will be sold, with each raffle ticket costing $5.
Hats and t-shirts will be given away to kids attending the event. On Saturday, volunteers will hand out various pieces of fishing equipment to children.
The annual Sowbug Roundup is the main fundraiser for North Arkansas Fly Fishers, which uses the proceeds to provide college scholarships to Arkansas students.
The Sowbug Shindig will be held Friday from 6-9 p.m. at the St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church in Mountain. Admission to the Shindig – which features food, entertainment and live auctions – requires a ticket handed out by the North Arkansas Fly Fishers.
The forecast calls for chances of thunderstorms Friday and Saturday.


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Review: The Internship BD + Screen Caps
The Internship is a weak comedy and the only success it manages is the re-pairing of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson who generally have great chemistry, otherwise the script (co-written by Vaughn) is half-baked and the funny moments, while a few, is too far and between. This is not a bad movie by a long shot and might be worthwhile as a time waster, but it's also one you can skip and won't miss.
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The Movie | Special Features | Video Quality | Audio Quality | Overall
Genre(s): Comedy
Fox | PG13/Unrated – 119/125 min. – $39.99 | October 22, 2013
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Writer(s): Vince Vaughn (story), Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern (screenplay)
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Max Minghella, Aasif Mandvi
Theatrical Release Date: June 7, 2013
Features: Commentary, Featurette, Deleted Scenes, DVD Copy, UltraViolet Digital Copy
Audio: English (DTS-HD MA 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Disc Size: 39.6 GB
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Note: This review contains spoilers about the plot.
Vince Vaughn + Owen Wilson + (Rachel McAdams ? Rose Byrne) + (David Dobkin ? Shawn Levy) = The Internship, the matchup of the minds and talents behind the mega-hit comedy hit Wedding Crashers. Unfortunately this mash-up was more miss than hit and doesn't nearly have the staying power of WC. Yeah, there are funny moments, but its one long schtick that never hits its stride. Oh, and its one not so cloaked advertisement for Google…
Billy McMahon (VINCE VAUGHN) and Nick Campbell (OWEN WILSON) are best friends and apparently fast and smooth talkers, respectively, selling high-end watches. But their world is turned upside down when, during a sales pitch, they discover the company they work for has folded. They learn for themselves from their boss (JOHN GOODMAN) they are now unemployed and going into a new technological world with no real skills to speak of.
While Nick gets a job at his brother-in-law's (WILL FARRELL) mattress company, while trying to find job openings, Billy gets the idea to apply for an internship with Google and convinces Nick to join in. Being an internship, there is no pay and the competition is intense with only a few spots eventually leading to full-time employment. Despite being far older, the pair somehow convinces the company to accept them, in part with Billy beefing up their technological skills, and applying to the University of Phoenix as interns must be attending college.
Upon their arrival, they not only meet the best and brightest and quickly realize Billy and Nick are out of their element, and things only become more difficult when teams are formed and they are relegated to the leftovers, albeit brainiacs in their own right: Stuart (DYLAN O'BRIEN), Neha (TIYA SIRCAR), Yo-Yo Santos (TOBIT RAPHAEL) and team leader, Lyle (JOSH BRENER). They're up against it for sure and Billy and Nick knowing nothing about computers, code and the like does not help matters.
And no comedy would be complete without a douche bag/antagonist/villain, this one named Graham (MAX MINGHELLA). I'm certain he won't get his comeuppance at the end… Ah, we've seen this before in numerous other, and oft, funnier films.
One of the problems The Internship has it seems to heavily borrow from other comedies and outside of being a hard-on advertisement for Google, which in itself limits the plot as not to mock the company allowing a production to use their logo and filming on their campus. Don't get me wrong, I like Google and use it on a daily basis, but this is an ultimate (or one of) in product placement.
But beyond the free advertising for Google and all of its products, the biggest issue going against the movie is the comedy is sporadic and the energy level never finds its groove unlike Wedding Crashers which, despite being the same running time (119 minutes), is more even handed and consistent.
With that said, it is nice to see Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson back together and for the most part the chemistry between the two is still there, though Vaughn's fast-talking tended to get on my nerves. The supporting cast is also great starting with Josh Brener whose weird mannerisms never grew old and the lovely Tiya Sircar is cute as a button. With regards to Rose Byrne, she has a couple fun scenes with Wilson but her role and performance is mostly wasted and relegated to forced romantic interest.
Honestly, The Internship is not great but as passable entertainment, I can accept it; a fine way to spend two hours but this is not something you'll want to revisit until it airs non-stop on TBS ("Very Funny"). I didn't hate it because it did manage to get a couple good laughs out of me, just not enough to make it past a passing grade.
The 2-disc set comes in a standard Blu-ray case and with a semi-glossy slip cover. Inside is a DVD/Digital Copy disc (which contains no features and only the theatrical version) for the iTunes version and a slip for the UltraViolet Digital Copy.
Unrated Version (2:05:01; HD) – The unrated version of the film is about six minutes longer and from what I could tell, this version would've gotten an R-rating with one scene containing nudity when the team visits the gentlemen's club.
Audio Commentary – Available only on the theatrical version, Director/Producer Shawn Levy sits down for a relatively straight-forward commentary laying out the idea behind the story and giving some behind-the-scenes bits of trivia.
Deleted Scenes (8:26; HD) includes 8 scenes that were cut or removed. None of them are of great importance and are that funny.
Any Given Monday (17:52; HD) is the only 'making-of' featurette and mainly about the Quidditch scene and a parody of those sports documentaries. It's actually quite extensive for just the one sequence.
Previews – The Wolverine, The Heat, The Way Way Back
VIDEO – 4.5/5
Twentieth Century Fox releases The Internship onto Blu-ray presented in its theatrical 2.35 widescreen aspect ratio and in 1080p high-definition transfer. The picture has excellent detail levels, the colors look well balanced from the darker scenes in the beginning to the vibrancy in the Heaven-like place known as Google HQ. Joking aside, it is a nice looking transfer, nothing phenomenal, however.
AUDIO – 4.0/5
The disc comes with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track is effective but let's face it, this is not the type of movie to test an audio track. The film of course is heavily dialogue-driven and is crisp and clear with the front and rear channels being relegated for side-action or ambient noise such as the score.
OVERALL – 2.75/5
Overall, The Internship is a weak comedy and the only success it manages is the re-pairing of Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson who generally have great chemistry, otherwise the script (co-written by Vaughn) is half-baked and the funny moments, while a few, is too far and between. This is not a bad movie by a long shot and might be worthwhile as a time waster, but it's also one you can skip and won't miss. The Blu-ray provides good audio/video transfers and the bonus material is limited.
Brian Oliver, The Movieman
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Q: VB.NET RFID plug and play pass to variable the rfid code When im using a plug and play rfid reader it th rfid code directly go to textbox that has the focus.
How can i directly pass the rfid code to a variable?

A: Some vendor, providing SDK to handling read event for their product. do you got the SDK?
Typically RFID device just like a keyboard device, you can't take the value directly into variable (except using SDK).
Since you need to capture the value, why don't you let the textbox catch the value, and then you read the value using change() event from the textbox.

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REVIEW: Andrew Garfield Gets Tangled Up In the Disappointingly Flat "The Amazing Spider-Man"
"I've got to stop him, because I created him."
Seven years ago, writer/director Christopher Nolan successfully re-launched the Batman series, redefining the caped crusader, and subsequently re-engineered our expectations of a comic book adaptation. And even with the newly re-born The Amazing Spider-Man, it's clear that we are still scratching our heads wondering how he did it.
In director Marc Webb's attempt to reboot the story of the webbed hero, the audience is treated to a fun film exploring the the backstory of Peter Parker, part-time high school dweeb/part-time vigilante, who gets bitten by a radioactive spider and takes on its otherworldly capabilities. And, if you've ever seen a Spider-Man movie you know exactly what that entails--spewing sticky webs around The Big Apple and using them as Tarzan-like travel devices (and weapons), heightened sense of hearing, and remarkable fighting instincts.
In fact, The Amazing Spider-Man is exactly the same movie we've seen before, back when Tobey Maguire donned the red and blue unitard, except this time we have The Social Network's Andrew Garfield in the title role. Admittedly, Garfield's natural awkwardness and and accessibility really work for Parker, but the movie as a whole doesn't really add anything new to what we've already seen and know.
Even Emma Stone as Parker's love interest Gwen Stacy doesn't give the movie the boost it needs to set the bar higher than the original films (presuming that's what it's trying to do).While Stone brings the right amount of quirkiness to the role, her and Garfield's undeniable chemistry comes off a bit stale.
But where the screenplay lacks, the performances try to make up for it. That includes Sally Field as Parker's untimely widowed Aunt May and Martin Sheen as her husband and Parker's beloved Uncle Ben. In addition, Rhys Ifans as the duplicitous villain Dr. Curt Connors and Denis Leary as Gwen's dad help make the film more than what it ultimately is--a redo, but not a redesign of a cult franchise, which is what is needed.
Unfortunately the dmise of the movie lies with the diappoiting screenplay, written by James Vanderbilt (The Losers, Zodiac), Alvin Sargent (who wrote the last two Spider-Man movies, as well as Unfaithful), and Steven Kloves (most notably of the Harry Potter movies). The trio just didn't get it together to breathe new life into an old story.
But, again, after Nolan's Batman reboot enteresd the game, every other reimaginign paled into comparison. So it's possible we are judging The Amazing Spider-Man under marred pretenses, but why can't it even stand in line with the aforementioned franchise? It has the talent, the already endearing subject, but fails to deliver on the promise it had before. Alas, at this point, the audience deserves more than an entertainining, high-flying teenage love story. We deserve an epic adventure, a peek into the soul of a real hero.
Rating: C+
Posted by Candice Frederick at 10:21 PM
Labels: amazing superman, andrew garfield, emma stone, martin sheen, Reviews, rhys ifans, sally field
Lesya said...
That's what I expected to hear.
Brittani Burnham said...
Steven Kloves writing a shitty screenplay? *gasp* That NEVER happens! Seriously, I hate that guy.
I agree with, didn't mix up the formula or bring anything new to the table to make it worth the redux. Garfield is a better fit in the role but that's about it.
Dan O. said...
Totally not needed at all, but it was still very fun and entertaining. Also, Garfield was a nice choice for Peter Parker even if I do miss Tobey Maguire just a tad bit. Just a tad, though. Good review Candice.
Raghav said...
Great review and I like that you go into the screenplay aspect, something I don't do in my reviews. Loved reading it and as you know we are on the same page when it comes to the review of the film.
Dankwa Brooks said...
I'll join the consensus, great review! Some cool action sequences, but I saw it in 3D and shrug, you can wait for the DVD.
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Q: Implementing Kolmogorov-Smirnov 2 sample test using numpy arrays I am currently running some analysis on two data sets. One is a 'background-only' sample that is modeled as a decaying exponential and the other is a "signal" sample that features a single peak on top of this exponential background. I would like to preform a test to see how statistically significant this peak is, i.e. how likely it is that it arose from chance. I thought that a KS 2 sample test would be my best bet here. Here is some minimally working code:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from lmfit import Model
from lmfit.models import GaussianModel, LinearModel, LorentzianModel, ExponentialModel, VoigtModel
from scipy import loadtxt, optimize, stats, integrate

channel, E, counts = loadtxt('NeutronMass/twoleadportopen.tsv', unpack=True, skiprows=30)

amp = 826.
decay = 827.

#background has function form a*np.exp(-x/d)
gen = np.random.normal(background(E, amp, decay), 7)

print(stats.ks_2samp(counts, gen))

"background" is a function defined earlier that is essentially the best fit of the data minus the peak. My thinking here is to generate a random data set that has the same shape as my background and to test my actual data set (with peak, "counts") against it. Just to give an idea, this is what the dataset looks like:

This is all well and good, and the code runs yielding a p value of .00227. This is what I would expect (and hope for). My concern comes in when I preform the same test but switch out the data set with the peak to one without it. Now, I am testing two datasets that are roughly exponential with no peak. Here is an example, the grey is the actual dataset and the green is the randomly generated one:

Now, my p-value is 5.08e-9 - much, much lower than before when I should have expected the opposite. I have been scratching my head over this for quite a while. If anyone could point out where I've gone wrong or tell me a better way to do this, I would very much appreciate it.
Apologies for ugly plots and any unclear parts.


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2008 Russian Premier League
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The Russian Premier League 2008 was the 17th edition of the Russian Football Championship, and the seventh under the current Russian Premier League name. The season started on Friday, 14 March 2008 with a match between Terek and Krylia Sovetov in Grozny. Krylia Sovetov won 3–0. The first goal of the season was scored by Krylia Sovetov's forward Yevgeny Savin.
Due to Russia's participation in UEFA Euro 2008, the season was interrupted from 16 May until 5 July.
The champions were determined on the 27th matchday, 2 November 2008. Rubin claimed their first championship title in Russian Premier League, defeating Saturn 2–1 away, with Savo Milošević scoring in the 89th minute to claim the title for his club. Rubin became the third (and second consecutive) non-Moscow club to become Russian champions.
The last round of matches was played on 22 November 2008.
14 clubs placed 1–14 in Russian Premier League 2007 and 2 top clubs from 2007 season of Russian First Division took part in the league:
Source: RFPL (Russian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd matches won; 3rd head-to-head (points, matches won, goal difference, goals scored, away goals scored); 4th goal difference; 5th goals scored; 6th away goals scored; 7th position in previous season or decision game
1Since both finalists of Russian Cup 2008–09 qualified for the UEFA Champions League 2009–10, Krylia Sovetov earned a spot in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2009–10.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
On 16 December 2008 Russian Football Union named its list of 33 top players:
Igor Akinfeev (CSKA)
Sergei Ryzhikov (Rubin)
Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit)
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Anatoliy Tymoschuk (Zenit)
Sergei Semak (Rubin)
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For a Europe With Little Leverage, Dangers Abound in US-Iran Conflict
January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020 CAIN BURDEAU
EU, Europe, Iran, military, Trump administration
Mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades in Tehran on Monday. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
(CN) – More chaos at its doorstep, heightened risk of attacks by Islamic terrorists, more fraying of relations with the United States, more exposure of its weakness on the international stage: For Europe, the escalating conflict between the U.S. and Iran poses a range of dangers.
The assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone last week has left European leaders scrambling to keep both sides from going to war and also seeking to keep alive a nuclear deal with Iran that serves as a centerpiece to Europe's interests in the Middle East.
"It is a package of problems" for Europe, said Gordon Friedrichs, a political scientist at the University of Heidelberg, in a telephone interview Wednesday.
Most immediately, the conflict puts at risk European troops stationed in Iraq to train and assist Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting remnants of the Islamic State.
Several European countries – including Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands – have soldiers in Iraq. Missile strikes on American bases on Wednesday highlighted the risk they face and those troops are being moved out of danger. European officials said no soldiers were wounded in Wednesday's missile strikes.
Besides the danger to troops, Europe faces an increased risk of attacks on European soil by Islamic terrorists or even by Iran and its allies. There are numerous American military bases throughout Europe and they could become targets if the conflict worsens.
"Europe is fully exposed to this, including things that could happen on European territory," Ian Lesser, the head of the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a think tank, said in a telephone interview.
"Europe faces on its periphery not just conflict but durable chaos," he said.
Terrorism is a top concern in Europe, which suffered a series of terrorist attacks after the Islamic State group emerged in 2014. There is fear that this conflict with Iran could force the withdrawal of European and American troops from Iraq, thereby allowing the Islamic State to regroup and target Europe with new attacks.
This possibility grew more real after Iraq's parliament on Sunday backed a proposal to force foreign troops to leave the country. Many Iraqis are angry that the U.S. assassinated Soleimani and a top militia leader on Iraqi soil, and they worry that Iraq will be dragged into another war by the Americans.
Besides the risk of terrorist attacks, the meltdown in the Middle East may provide new fuel to far-right politicians in Europe who are gaining in popularity throughout the continent by portraying Middle Eastern and African immigrants as potential terrorists. These far-right politicians are upending European politics and raising concerns they could weaken the European Union.
"This could become a political debate domestically again," Friedrichs said. Terrorism could "emerge as a pressing issue" used by far-right parties like the Alternative for Germany, he said.
President Donald Trump walks outside the White House on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressiveness against Iran also does more damage to the deteriorating relationship between Europe and the U.S.
"A lot of the questions, concerns, that Europeans have had about American policy-making in recent years are really underlined in this crisis," Lesser said. "It underscores for Europe this concern over American unilateralism in areas of European interest."
Although European leaders sounded restrained in reaction to the killing of Soleimani, many European leaders are angry at Trump for first dropping out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and now escalating tensions with Iran.
"The Trump administration has recklessly ignored the concerns of allies," Friedrichs said. "This is another example of how the Trump administration treats allies and this makes Europeans uneasy about their current cooperation with the U.S."
Trump's hawkish White House is pursuing a so-called "maximum pressure campaign" against Iran. Top advisers to Trump, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, want to topple Iran's government.
European leaders, meanwhile, have favored easing tensions with Iran. In 2015, the EU played a key role in a deal with Iran backed by then-U.S. President Barack Obama designed to limit Iran's nuclear weapons program in exchange for an easing of international sanctions. But Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reignited tensions.
"The Europeans have a completely different understanding of how to engage and confront Iran," Friedrichs said. "I don't think there is much common ground right now" between the U.S. and EU.
He said it was highly unlikely that Europe would back Trump's aggressive tactics against Iran.
"I also don't think the Europeans have domestic support for any strategy close to Trump's," Friedrichs said.
For now, the main aim for Europeans is to revive the nuclear deal, which is at risk of collapsing altogether after Soleimani's assassination and a declaration by Iran that it would no longer abide by restrictions to uranium enrichment set out by the deal.
"The EU will want to keep the deal alive," Lesser said.
Still, despite the differences between the U.S. and Europe over the nuclear deal, Lesser said the two sides are opposed to Iran's aggressive policies in the Middle East. Iran is blamed for backing terrorist and rebel organizations throughout the Middle East in a drive to expand its influence in the region.
Lesser said Europeans also viewed Soleimani as a threat and a key figure behind Iran's backing of terrorist groups. Soleimani was the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force, which conducts operations outside Iran's borders, making it a key player in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
"On some of these issues, the EU has been as hawkish as the U.S.," Lesser said. "I don't think there is a lot of daylight between the U.S. and Europe on Iran policy, setting aside the nuclear deal."
Because Europe is so much closer to the Middle East than the U.S., it also has a lot more reason to fear the conflict intensifying, Lesser said.
"Above all they don't want this to spin out of control," he said. "They do not want to see further escalation of this situation even if they share a lot of the complaints."
But there is little the Europeans can do to make sure things work out the way they want them to, experts say.
"For all the European stakes, they don't have a lot of leverage," Lesser said.
"I think the diplomatic leverage of the European countries has to a certain extent diminished under the Trump administration, mostly because the Trump administration doesn't believe in talks with Iran," Friedrichs said. "I think Europe is in a really weak position."
Europe also does not have a lot of influence over Iran, in part because an initiative to bypass American sanctions and allow European businesses to conduct limited trade with Iran on humanitarian grounds was ineffective. The initiative failed largely because European companies and banks were unwilling to risk angering the U.S.
"Iranians believed and trusted the EU in the past," Friedrichs said. "This has pretty much evaporated."
Europe also is constrained because of its military reliance on the U.S. in the Middle East and the lack of a comprehensive policy in the region.
Friedrichs said Europeans will be hesitant in backing the U.S. in its conflict with Iran.
"As of now, I don't think Europeans think it wise to come up with large-scale military support of the U.S.," he said.
But he added that Europe's position will depend on how the conflict evolves. "As of now, the European Union cannot do much except to offer their perspective," Friedrichs said.
Lesser said Europeans may be more willing to support a U.S. initiative in the region to provide military protection to ships, particularly oil tankers, passing through the Persian Gulf.
"That is where there could be unity," Lesser said.
Friedrichs said the dilemmas Europe now faces are the result of the EU failing to develop a Middle East strategy.
"The European Union lacks a coherent Middle East strategy and a coherent Iran strategy," he said, adding that is partly due to Europe's fears of making mistakes in the region.
Friedrichs said Europe is now home to many refugees and immigrants from the Middle East who have fled conflict and poverty and that the EU "needs to consider this domestic constituent when formulating a foreign policy strategy."
"So it is hard to come up with a strategy without alienating Middle Eastern populations," he said.
"It has slept on certain issues, it has lost sight of certain pressing issues," he said about the EU. "They have engaged in a reactionary foreign policy rather than a proactive foreign policy."
For now, the hope in Europe is that war is averted, Trump is voted out of office in November and a Democratic president is willing to revive the pivotal nuclear deal.
(Courthouse News reporter Cain Burdeau is based in the European Union.)
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<#
.Synopsis
   Adds resource to specified collection in Configuration Manager
.DESCRIPTION
   Adds resource to specified collection in Configuration Manager
.EXAMPLE
   Run script without parameters
.EXAMPLE
   Another example of how to use this cmdlet

    THIS CODE AND ANY ASSOCIATED INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR
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#REQUIRED FOR SCCM SCRIPTS
$SCCMSitePath = "DYC"
$CMServer = "dyatl-pscmom06.dynutil.com"
Import-Module (Join-Path $(Split-Path $env:SMS_ADMIN_UI_PATH) ConfigurationManager.psd1)
#Set current directory to SCCM site
Set-Location -Path $SCCMSitePath

Function Add-ResourceToCollection {
    [CmdLetBinding()]
    Param(
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For the leaders responsible for herding cats, keeping the wheels on the cart and getting "the work" done. We understand the seeming paradox of great creative, strong cultures and happy clients…with that of increasing efficiency, scalability and profitability. The truth is that neither can exist without the other. We help managers balance these competing forces by creating a Middle Way that rejects extremes, and that instead focuses on the harmony of contradictions to create a balanced organization.


Hollywood is more than just bars and activities that are more appropriate for adults. In fact, there are plenty of things to do in Hollywood with kids. There are even Hollywood Blvd attractions for kids as well. Read on to learn more about fun, family friendly activities to enjoy in Hollywood.
At this amusement park and fully functioning movie and television studio, there is plenty to keep the family entertained. From exciting thrill rides to exciting shows, there's something for everyone. When you get your tickets online, you can save!
Did you know that there are fictional characters that have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? That's right, it's for more than just famous actors, but for famous characters as well! See if your kids can find their favorite characters such as Winnie the Pooh, Shrek, Donald Duck, Kermit the Frog, The Simpsons, Snow White, Mickey Mouse and more!
When it comes to watching a movie in Hollywood, there are plenty of options to choose from. The TCL Chinese Theater is a famous Hollywood landmark that also features one of the biggest IMAX screens in the West Coast as well as movies in 4D. The El Capitan Theatre is another family friendly theatre that not only shows up and coming movies but also screens classic Disney movies on the big screen. They often also have fun, pre-movie entertainment! Visit the website for upcoming movies.
The CA Science Center is a fun way your kids can learn about the exciting world of science. From hands on demonstrations to 3D movies, there's so many things for your kids to learn about. For a fun and educational experience, the Science Center is a great option.


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[http://www.royalroads.ca/people/george-veletsianos Link to George's faculty bio at Royal Roads University]
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1.1.2 Registration Info and Links
1.1.4 Schedule
Please take some time to reflect on the four tracks that are outlined below and consider where you would like to contribute. When you register, you will register for one track which will run all day Saturday.
The four areas of focus for the workshop are:
The Theory and Practice of Feedback in Distance Learning
Facilitated by John O'Brien (OLFM), Kelly Warnock, and Ken Monroe (Instructional Designers), participants in this track will investigate and recommend strategies to ensure that OL students are adequately supported in their learning through the effective use of feedback in a distance learning environment.
Facilitated by Rajiv Jhangiani (OLFM), Ron McGivern (Associate Dean, Arts), and Terry Anderson (Keynote Speaker, AthabascaU), participants in this track will investigate and recommend strategies for finding, repurposing and using Open Education Resources in distance learning.
Encouraging Deeper Approaches to Learning
Facilitated by Loretta Teng (Instructional Designer) and Colin Madland (e-Learning Facilitator), participants in this track will investigate the idea of students' approaches to learning and will provide contextualized resources for the design and facilitation of structured learning activities that promote deeper approaches to learning.
Sound/Video Camp
Facilitated by the Open Learning Media Team (Bob Byrne, Jon Fulton and Rob Swanson) and the Innovation Lab (Brian Lamb), participants in this track will investigate and implement hands-on techniques and strategies for creating and implementing audio and video resources in distance learning environments.
Participants in each track will record their recommendations in the Distance Technologies section of the Teaching and Learning Portal of the wiki, which will remain open to the public as a resource, and will make a brief 10 minute presentation at the final plenary session of the workshop on Saturday afternoon.
We are very grateful to be able to host two keynote speakers for this year's workshop, both of whom are accomplished and well-regarded researchers and writers in the area of teaching and learning via distance technologies.
Terry Anderson, PhD, is currently a professor and researcher in the Centre for Distance Education and the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Centre at Athabasca University - Canada's Open University. Terry has been active in distance education development, delivery, education and research since 1985. He has published widely in the area of distance education and educational technology and has co-authored or edited nine books and numerous papers. His most recent works are published under Creative Commons licensing and these texts as well as works by other distance education authors are available in the Issues in Distance Education series from Athabasca University Press - in print and as free PDF downloads.
Terry has been the editor of the International Review of Research on Distance and Open Learning (IRRODL) for the past 11 years. IRRODL has emerged as the most widely read and cited scholarly journal in distance education and is proudly licensed under Creative Commons. IRRODL articles are all blind peer reviewed and after acceptance are published in HTML, PDF, MP3 (audio) and EPUB (mobile) formats.
Link to Terry's faculty bio at Athabasca University Link to Terry's Blog, Virtual Canuck
Link to George's faculty bio at Royal Roads University


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The Geneseo Central School District is a public school district in Geneseo, New York, United States.  The district encompasses 70 square miles.  "Geneseo" in the Seneca language means "pleasant valley".

Description
The classrooms and library include computers. The school campus consists of three adjoining buildings and has a 600-seat auditorium, two gymnasiums, a pool, and a lighted playing field for track, football and soccer. A new entryway and lobby were added in 2006 as part of a 9.9 million dollar renovation project. The project also provided upgraded heating, ventilation and air conditioning, new lights, ceilings and floors. High school science classrooms were also reconstructed and modernized during this project.  All classrooms are equipped with a digital projector and most rooms have an interactive whiteboard.

Grades K-5 enroll about 400 students. The middle school/high school houses grades 6-12. Grades 6-12 contain about 500 students. The district currently has 178 staff members. The elementary school and high school have 76 staff members each.

The district  offers foreign language classes, music, and art. The schools have three guidance counselors and two psychologists.

Geneseo's President of the Board of Education is Jenn Mehlenbacher.

History

In 1820, the first school in Geneseo was built in the center of town on land donated by James Wadsworth and William Wadsworth. The Wadsworths had purchased tens of thousands of acres from the Seneca tribe of Native Americans around 1790. In 1779, during the American Revolution, the Senecas fled Geneseo because of the Sullivan Expedition.

In 1932 the school became a museum when the state college opened Holcomb School. This school later closed and became the Welles Building, now part of the State University of New York at Geneseo campus. Holcomb School was named after Dr. Winfield A. Holcomb, a president of Geneseo State Normal School, a predecessor of today's SUNY school.

Holcomb School was moved to a new building, which was torn down in 2012 to make room for a sports building for the College at Geneseo.

Geneseo's high school opened in 1830. It was located on the east side of the village. It was at first called Livingston County High School, and later the Geneseo Academy. It closed in the early 1870s. This was because Geneseo State Normal School opened a high school within its building.

In 1930 Geneseo began building a high school again to replace the Normal School's high school. The new high school building was built on 79 acres of land donated by the Wadsworths, and opened in 1933. The building is now known as the Doty Building.  The high school moved to its present location in 1974.

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Schools in Livingston County, New York
Education in Livingston County, New York
Public elementary schools in New York (state)
Public middle schools in New York (state)
Public high schools in New York (state)
School districts in New York (state)

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Arbor Networks Website
Is your network ready for GDPR and PoPI?
Over recent years, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have become one of the biggest cyber-security headaches for CIOs and CSOs. Each year, these attacks grow in numbers, becoming bigger and more damaging.
Previously, the primary DDoS fears were the business disruption and reputational damage that they caused. DDoS attackers harness the power of thousands (sometimes even millions) of devices – each 'hijacked' with malicious software – to flood the servers of their targets, and bring down their online systems.
But now, the introduction of new legislation is raising the stakes even further, propelling the issue of DDoS attacks to the top of boardroom agendas. The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May, likely to be followed soon by the enforcement of South Africa's equivalent to this legislation, the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act.
Both sets of legislation aim to protect consumers' personal information, imposing rigorous laws on how organisations gather and use personal data, increasing levels of transparency, giving individuals greater control over how their data is used, and ensuring mandatory disclosure of any breaches.
Specific reference to DDoS
Bryan Hamman, territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Arbor Networks, which specialises in advanced DDoS protection solutions, explains that the new PoPI Act draws heavily on the intent and construct of Europe's GDPR.
"As our local legislation evolves and formalises, it's instructive for local firms to look at GDPR as the benchmark to achieve international compliance standards. Most legal opinion suggests that if an organisation is in full compliance with GDPR, then it will automatically ensure compliance with PoPI."
Under the new GDPR legislation, organisations that operate in Europe or do any business with European citizens must take stringent measures to protect the availability of their network, and secure the data that it carries, among many other compliance considerations.
While most of the GDPR headlines tend to highlight the crippling fines that companies could face (up to 20 million euros or four percent of annual turnover) if they are found in violation, Hamman says one of the less-understood provisions relates to network availability.
In fact, article 32 of the regulations specifically refers to 'the ability to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services' and the 'ability to restore the availability and access to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident.'
In recital 49, the regulations go on to specifically refer to denial of service attacks, which Hamman believes shows the importance of organisations protecting themselves from this type of attack, as part of an orchestrated end-to-end security strategy.
"Though DDoS attacks have been on the rise, their explicit reference in GDPR illustrates how important they have become to security professionals and regulators alike," says Hamman. "The network is the lifeblood of the modern organisation, and any threats are treated extremely seriously by lawmakers."
Staying in-line with new legislation while combating increasingly sophisticated DDoS attacks is a tough ask for security pros, he adds. "Modern DDoS attacks have evolved a long way from their origins, now often interlacing volumetric, TCP state exhaustion and application layer attack vectors."
"This type of complex attack renders standard defences – like firewalls, WAFs, load balancers, and IPS/IDSs – almost completely useless against DDoS onslaughts.
"Companies must place a concerted focus specifically on DDoS, with layered, intelligently automated protection strategies that harness the latest technologies to provide instant warning of any new attacks."
He highlights four key pillars to Arbor's DDoS defence approach:
· Arbor Cloud and 24/7 Security Operations Centre… detects and mitigates volumetric attacks upstream before hitting the organisation.
· Arbor APS… which stops so called 'low and slow' application layer attacks dead in their tracks.
· Arbor Cloud Signaling™… which intelligently routes traffic to secure clouds (preventing on-premise infrastructure protection from being overwhelmed).
· Arbor ATLAS Intelligence Feed… which sends continual alerts to security teams to inform them of developing threats and trends.
"The reality is that DDoS attacks are here to stay, and there is no 'silver bullet' that can eradicate the industry of this scourge, once and for all. Anyone with an internet connection, some cash to burn, and a grudge to bear, can theoretically launch an attack against your organisation.
"In fact, considering the new regulation's emphasis on network protection, hackers may well intensify their DDoS efforts, in an effort to cause even more chaos and damage to their victims, which are now liable for hefty regulatory fines," Hamman warns.
For more information about Arbor in Africa, please contact Bryan Hamman at [email protected].
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This work builds on prior research investigating the relationship between cognitive conflict and learning (e.g., Doise & Mugny, 1984), the links between motivation, affect, and cognition (e.g., Forgas, 2001; Schwarz & Clore, 2007), and the mechanisms underlying conceptual learning (e.g., Chi & Ohlsson, 2005; Nokes & Ross, 2007). Although much prior work has investigated each of these areas separately, few studies have tried to build connections across all three. We hypothesize that conflict scenarios that increase engagement, arousal, and positive affect will facilitate participants' deep processing of discourse through a variety of cognitive mechanisms including inference generation, elaboration, analogy, and the framing and re-framing of the information discussed. Participants in such scenarios are expected to develop more complex and coherent knowledge of the issue and to learn both their own and their opponent's side of the issue. In contrast, conflict scenarios that decrease engagement, arousal, and induce negative affect should lead to less robust learning. Participants in these scenarios are expected to focus on their own side of the debate, ignoring their opponent's view, and to engage in shallow cognitive processing strategies such as rehearsal of their own argument.
How do students learn when engaged in a debate? Do they integrate their own viewpoint with that of their opponent, or focus only on their own side? Does the format of the debate affect this? Also, what motivational and affective factors play into this? How do student goals (like performance or mastery goals) influence what information gets processed? Do different affective experiences lead to different patterns of learning?
Our first study has a 2 x 2 design.
Our dependent variables will consist of various measures of learning, gathered after the debate. These measures include a multiple-choice test, as well as an essay. Both of these will be evaluated in terms of how well a student has learned his side of the debate, as well as how well he has learned the other side, and how well he has integrated the two.
We will also gather measures of affect during the debate. This will be used as a dependent variable to see if our manipulations relating to the debate structure influence the affective reactions experienced. We will also be able to affective response as a predictor of learning, or as mediating variable between debate and learning. These affective measures will come from analysis of the vocal parameters of speech of each participant, as well as by analysis of facial cues.
We predict that focusing the debate on the substance of the arguments will produce a more coherent representation of both sides of the argument. We also predict that the free-form debate will lead to better learning of both sides, as the participants must be engaging with what a participant is saying more actively, and respond more immediately and thoroughly than when they have a minute between speaking turns.
In terms of affect, we expect that positive affective reactions to cognitive conflict will produce systematic processing of an opponent's arguments, which in turn will facilitate learning these arguments and developing a more complex cognitive representation of the discussion topic. In contrast, negative affective reactions will produce superficial processing of the opponent's arguments coupled with rehearsal of one's own arguments. When negative affect is mild, interactants are unlikely to learn the opponent's arguments or to develop a complex representation of the topic. Moreover, when negative affect is strong, interactants may actually show cognitive regression -- less complex representations of the topic after interaction than before.
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The Illegality of Recruiting Former Civilian JTF Members Into the Nigerian Army, By Kennedy Emetulu
I think the National Assembly should invoke its constitutional powers immediately and begin to look into this recruitment. It must immediately investigate the present composition of the Nigerian Army along the lines of its mandate under section 219(b) to ensure that the composition of the armed forces of the Federation reflects the federal character of Nigeria in the manner prescribed in section 217 of our Constitution.
I have just read about the recruitment of 250 former Civilian JTF members into the Nigerian Army. This should worry all peace-loving and law-abiding citizens, home and abroad.
First, let me make one thing clear. The members of the Civilian JTF are patriots and national heroes who must be compensated for the gallant work they've done and are still doing with the Nigerian Armed Forces to combat Boko Haram. But whatever the form the reward must take, it must not and should not have included a special recruitment into the Nigerian Army in the manner it has been done. The membership of the Nigerian Army is not a reward to anybody for whatever they have done for Nigeria. The Nigerian Armed Forces are collectively the greatest symbol of our national unity, and recruitment into their ranks is constitutionally and lawfully determined.
Section 217(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999) states: "The composition of the officer corps and other ranks of the armed forces of the Federation shall reflect the federal character of Nigeria". In giving effect to the above, section 219(b) of the Constitution states that the National Assembly shall "establish a body which shall comprise such members as the National Assembly may determine, and which shall have power to ensure that the composition of the armed forces of the Federation shall reflect the federal character of Nigeria in the manner prescribed in section 217 of this Constitution".
So, clearly, the drafters of the Constitution, being very much aware of the volatile history of our Armed Forces and the fragility of our ethnic relations, envisioned and sought to create a truly national institution. They did this not only by specifying in the Constitution the character of the composition of the Armed Forces, but they also mandated the National Assembly to ensure that this is so at all times. These constitutional mandates for composition and active oversight by the National Assembly do not give any room for derogation.
The Armed Forces, also very much aware of this, have traditionally followed the principle in practice by ensuring that its recruitment is done nationally through a national recruitment process that requires equal quotas from all states of the federation and a mix of recruits, officers and other ranks in units. This recruitment of the Civilian JTF members is the first time the Army will recruit only from one area/region/state. This is a bad precedence. It must not be allowed to stand.
While I do not believe the charge of them being Boko Haram militants, we cannot ignore the fact that these are people all from the area that the present Chief of Army Staff hails from. What kind of Army are we creating if people can be recruited this way in blatant disregard of the Constitution?
Of course, as I stated earlier, I fully understand that the state must show gratitude to the Civilian JTF members, but should recruitment into the Army be the answer? I mean, it's obvious that all those who joined did so because they simply needed a job, not because they set out to choose the military as a career. They did not take up arms to fight Boko Haram because they wanted to join the military; they did primarily to protect themselves, their families and their communities. Naturally, in the harsh economic situation and in the state of unemployment in the country, it would have been unconscionable to throw back these guys into their neighbourhoods without proper compensation, but this payback should not be in terms of an easy recruitment into the Army.
What the authorities should have done was to sit down with them to first find out what they really want to do. I'm sure there are many of them who would have wanted to further their education. Those should have been given scholarships to pursue education. Then there would be those who possibly want to learn a trade or pursue a business. Those too should have been supported along those lines. Then those who choose to join the military should have been prepared for the next national recruitment into the army as part of the process already in place in line with the federal character mandate in the Constitution. They should not have been given any special recruitment dispensation to join the Army against the law. If the above policy I am suggesting had been followed, we would have had a better programme of reward and compensation for the boys, something more meaningful than just dumping them in the army as recruits. They would have been more useful to Nigeria with such a diversified reward system that would have likely guaranteed them a brighter future than throwing them in as recruits of the army, irrespective of their individual talents and dreams.
In all I state above, I have not dealt with the danger this poses to the nation communally. I mean, there are people murmuring already that these recruits are actually Boko Haram militants being brought into the Army through a backdoor as some kind of settlement. Then there are those who say this is Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai recruiting mostly members of his own ethnic group or people from his region into the Army through the backdoor. While I do not believe the charge of them being Boko Haram militants, we cannot ignore the fact that these are people all from the area that the present Chief of Army Staff hails from. What kind of Army are we creating if people can be recruited this way in blatant disregard of the Constitution? What happens tomorrow if civilians join to help the army in other sections of the country to contain a similar insurgency in their region? Would we also be recruiting those persons into the Nigerian Army the same way? Where will that lead us?
I think the National Assembly should invoke its constitutional powers immediately and begin to look into this recruitment. It must immediately investigate the present composition of the Nigerian Army along the lines of its mandate under section 219(b) to ensure that the composition of the armed forces of the Federation reflects the federal character of Nigeria in the manner prescribed in section 217 of our Constitution. This type of sectional recruitment must be totally discouraged.
Kennedy Emetulu can be reached through kemetulu@googlemail.com.
Idris: Witch-hunting As An Axe of Policing, By Shola Oshunkeye
Magaji Abdullahi: The Governor That Never Was, By Jaafar Jaafar
Government Without Governance: When the State Fails In Its Fundamental Objectives, By Chris Ngwodo


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Liquid-metal particles enable heat-free soldering at room temperature
Colin Jeffrey
New liquid-metal particles that have practical applications in heat-free soldering and electronic circuit damage repair(Credit: Iowa State University)
Researchers at Iowa State University have produced novel micro-sized particles filled with liquid metal that retains its liquid state at room temperature and are able to meld with each other. The new form of liquid/solid hybrid has practical applications in heat-free soldering and electronic circuit damage repair.
The discovery of this new metallic form was made when researchers looked for a way to prevent liquid metals from returning to their solid state, even at temperatures below the point at which they normally solidify. Known as "undercooling,", the technique has often been used to analyze the inner workings of metal structures and to look at alternative ways of processing metals. However, the greatest hurdle in this area is that it is difficult to create significant amounts of stable quantities of these undercooled metals.
Looking at this problem in a different way, the Iowa State team hit on the idea of shrouding minute droplets of liquid metal with a thin, uniform coating that held the liquid inside a sort of particle capsule, to form a balanced batch of particles containing undercooled liquid metal.
To create these particles, the researchers used a high-velocity rotary cutting tool to slice the liquid metal into minute droplets and then suspend them in an acetic acid/diethylene glycol mixture. When the particles were exposed to oxygen, the surface of the material oxidized and created a bubble with the liquid metal trapped inside. Once the oxidization was complete, the team then polished this layer until it was smooth.
"We wanted to make sure the metals don't turn into solids," said assistant professor Martin Thuo. "And so we engineered the surface of the particles so there is no pathway for liquid metal to turn to a solid. We've trapped it in a state it doesn't want to be in."
Unlike metal glues used as solder which join two disparate substances together, such as Boston Northeastern University's MesoGlue, the Iowa State material is created using liquid-metal particles of the same metals. In this case, Field's metal (an alloy of bismuth, indium and tin) and other particles containing an alloy of just bismuth and tin were used to produce the liquid metal bubbles.
Only about the size of red blood cells at round 10 micrometers in diameter, these bubbles were tested by the team to repair microscopic defects, to perform micro-soldering, and to join macroscopic pieces of metal together in heat-free soldering.
"We demonstrated healing of damaged surfaces and soldering/joining of metals at room temperature without requiring high-tech instrumentation, complex material preparation or a high-temperature process," said the team in their paper.
Thuo has filed a patent on the technology and formed a start-up company to help bring this new product to market, and he is currently working on testing and improving the electrical conductivity and mechanical reliability of the new liquid-metal material.
The team's paper appears in the journal Scientific Reports.
Source: Iowa State University
Assistant professor Martin Thuo holds up a vial of the liquid-metal particles he and his group created – behind him are, left to right, Simge Cinar, Jiahao Chen and Ian Tevis (Credit: Christopher Gannon)
New liquid-metal particles that have practical applications in heat-free soldering and electronic circuit damage repair (Credit: Iowa State University)
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Xarelto Settlements: How Long to Settle Xarelto Cases?
How Long Will It Take to Settle Xarelto Cases?
The first Xarelto bleeding lawsuits were filed against Bayer and Johnson & Johnson in early 2014, and there are now more than 23,000 claims brought on behalf of individuals who suffered severe or fatal injuries.
Since the drug makers have refused to make reasonable attempts to settle Xarelto cases, hundreds of individual cases are being prepared for trials in waves, and it is expected that the U.S. District Judge presiding over the litigation may begin remanding claims to courts nationwide if settlements are not reached.
All of the complaints involve similar allegations that the drug makers failed to properly research the Xarelto bleeding risks with this new-generation anticoagulant, or adequately warn about the lack of an effective reversal agent to allow doctors to control bleeding events that may develop among users.
In December 2014, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) centralized all cases filed throughout the federal court system as part of a Xarelto MDL in the Eastern District of Louisiana, where U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon will oversee pretrial proceedings and potential settlement discussions.
As part of the coordinated pretrial proceedings, Judge Fallon selected a small group of "bellwether" cases that were prepared for early trial dates, which have failed to move the parties closer to settling cases.
Negotiations to settle Xarelto cases are based on what a jury is likely to award to each individual case, including an assessment of the relative strengths of the lawsuit.
If individual plaintiffs are successful establishing their claim, a jury would take into account the nature of the claimed injury from Xarelto, the severity of the damage and the economic impact of the injury when determining the amount of compensation to be awarded.
In a Xarelto wrongful death case, the losses suffered by the surviving family membes will be considered, including the loss of love, affection, and companionship.
The personal injury lawyers at Saiontz & Kirk, P.A. provide free consultations and case evaluations to help individuals determine whether they may be entitled to pursue a Xarelto settlement for bleeding problems that may be caused by the drug's side effects.
After contacting our office toll free at 1-800-522-0102 or requesting a free case review on-line, the facts and circumstances surrounding your potential Xarelto injury case will be reviewed and evaluated by our lawyers.
If it is determined that you or a loved one may be eligible for financial compensation, it is your decision whether to hire our law firm. All lawsuits are handled by our Xarelto attorneys under a contingency fee agreement, which means that there are never any fees or expenses paid unless we are successful obtaining a settlement or other recovery in your case.
I was just watching tv, and saw an add about a settlement being reached . My father was put on that nasty drug back in December 2013 . He suffered a Gi.bleed in the early summer of 2014 and was admited to the Hospital for treatment . Dad was on this drug for 6 months .
Approximately 5 months ago my wife was placed on xeralto (without consulting me, her spouse) and very suddenly on February 22, 2015 she began bleeding internally and the doctor on duty was not able to control or stop the bleeding. Within minutes after the bleeding occurred the doctor informed me that they would not be able to revive her and she passed away.
Richard I am so sorry for your loss. My mom was also on Xarelto and she had a doctors appt in the morning. That night when I got home from work my daughter and grandchildren found her unresponsive on the couch. Within 3 hours she passed away from a brain hemmorhage. This is a horrible drug that needs to be taken off the market so no other loved ones will be lost.
Sorry for your loss!! My Mother was diagnosed with AF once in her life in June of 2015. received 2 shock a treatments, the first shock did not work but with medication the second shock treatment worked. Mom was put on xerelto she did not take this long at all just six months and a half. My Mother passed away July 2 2015 and in the hospital they were giving her blood they said she passed away due to cardiac arrest. This drug is very dangerous and doctor's need to stop prescribing it. You could see she was losing blood Moms eyes were black all around..
Why is this taking so long, patients are clearly dying in the same way. My mother had an irreversible hemorrhage.Is it possible to sue the spokesman as well for endorsing death? Bayer needs to be kicked good and hard. If I had a case would it interfere if I wrote a letter to the judge in Louisiana? I don't care how old my mother was, she was a human being!
Please get this deaddly medicine off the market, Bayer has deep pockets!
I was put on coumadin back in 2010, in 2011 i was taken off and put on xerelto in 2012 i suffered a nasty internal bleeding episode i was hospitalized 4 days, i was kept on zerelto in May of 2014 i suffered a stroke was hospitalized till June 10th, on July 2nd 2014 i suffered a heart attack and to this day i continue to take xerelto cause the doctor says it helps to control Afib, i m constantly in and out of the hospital due to this medication cause there is nothing else that will help me i guess they have a death wish for me, hopefully in the end this issue will be addressed and neutralize and all of us victims to this sole called life saver get compensated for being a test rat.
My husband took xeralto 02/04/2014 had a doctor apt on 3/4/2014 was called almost immediately from the doctor office and said she couldn't understand the sudden kidney failure when I were fine a month ago. Xeralto took my husband life in exactly one month on the medicine.
My wife was put on Xarelto in June 2015. She passed away from uncontrolled internal bleeding on July 29, 2015.
My wife passed away from taking Xarelto last year. She was on it for 6 months.It wont bring her back but someone needs to pay for her death.
My 64 year old husband went on Xeralto a few months ago. He has had 4 vein spurting episodes since then and lost a lot of blood. He had never had this prior to taking this medication. We thought it would be better than Coumadin my Mom was on, but not now. How do we know he's not bleeding internally?
I was on axeralto for three months, I started having blood in my stool so I call the doctor and was taken off the medication. I had a colon exam and they found two small polyps that were negative. And diverticulosis and they think the axeralto could have caused the bleeding with this, plus hemorrhoidal possible bleeding. The polyps were the type that could turn to cancer so now I need to be tested in three years. I have a case pending if they feel that they can prove it's caused by axealto. I'm sure glad I went off of the medication when I did. Sorry for some people's lost.
in 2011 i suffered was was thought to be a spider bite on my leg. After about three to four weeks of trying to be my own Dr. my mother finally pleaded with me to go to the e.r. because i pretty much looked like I was on the the doorstep of death. After getting checked out by the e.r. Dr.'s I was told i had deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and had to remain in the hospital until the could bring my leg infection to an end and deplete the blood clot. So after 8 or 9 days in the hospital i was finally released and was told i would have to get my ir levels checked every week to get the right perscribed dose of cumidin. While my vacation in the hospital, 2 times a day a would have to get my blood drawn for that reason. well the hospital staff would have to call in the special nurse to use the vein imaging machine to get blood drawn because it is super difficult to find my veins to draw blood. So when i went to the cumidin clinic the first and last time because of that reason, I was prescribed Xarelto. Just because on it a patient does not require their ir levels to be constantly maintained. Which i thought was great because I really couldnt find the spare time to go get stabbed 10 to 15 times by blood thirsty nurses and even afford to miss work o get that done.I believe it was like my third or forth week on Xarelto and I just returned back to work with my co-worker from lunch. We were standing at the back of his vehicle and i noticed a good 7″-10″ puddle of blood on the ground and it was getting bigger. This was a no joke puddle, Ive never seen this much blood. I stopped and grabbed him and asked him if he was bleeding and he said no. Then he saw my boot on my right foot was supporting a good stream of blood. I pulled up my pant leg and in a kinda complete shock saw my whole sock was just overfilled and thats when i put pressure on my foot and realized my freaking foot was in a boot of blood. I immediatley ran to the restroom and took off my boot, sock, and began to take the bandage off my just about healed spider bite when streams of blood started to shoot out of my leg. It was unbeliveable to me because I truly didnt even feel any of this happening. So i ripped my shirt off and managed to stop the hemraging vein and left work. I went to the e.r. and the dr.s had no idea what the cause or problem was. So i finished my perscription with no more incidences. All except a five year battle with a infected leg wound that has never healed. Im blaming Xarelto. From 2011 yo now its been a constant battle with keeping this at a point to where i dont just get my leg amputated. Im truly sorry for those who have suffered even worse tragadies from this.
What sickens me about this situation is the fact that people have been dying from Xarelto since at least 2013 and nothing has been done about it by the company that producing this drug. It makes me so angry that they would continue to recommend this drug to people and that they have not taken it off the market. I wish someone would advertise more about the deaths and dangers of this drug. NO ONE SHOULD TAKE THIS DRUG and I keep telling everyone I know about it. But obviously, the all mighty dollar is worth more to this company that a person's life – therefore I hope the attorneys are able to BLEED them dry. My mother passed away on Dec. 31, 2013 after taking the drug for less than 3 months – they could not stop the bleeding at the hospital. Please spread the word how bad this drug is to people.
I watched my mother, my only living relative literally vaporize in front of me' After 20 years in medicne I knew what happened. She had jusy experienced a massive stroke. I called and EMS shook their heads as they lifted her ought of her house on a tarp. The usaul driving time is 15 minutes, we were their in 10. I waited and waited in the triage area. Finally a Chaplain came out to greet me. I just wanted to check grip stength and all that goes with a stroke. The Neurologist aked me to step out of the room. He said she might rebound for 60 days and the palliative care after. That damn drug was rushed through the incompetent FDA. No way to stop the bleed. Sure enough she fought and fought to live but on her 87th day I had to make the decision to halt all treatment. She died in my arms. The issue as I see it is NO ATTORNEY wants just a few cases. They want more to suffer and die or vecome gravely injured before lighting the fire on these pharma's that are out to kill off the elderly, the one's who built America. Advertisements were all over TV, but time is limited! That'a a fallacy, if you did the right thing the cases would have been in court. The legal system is just as unethical as the drug companies. If you or a loved one are on that excuse for a population reducer get off of it now! I hope you attorney's and judges who sit in your big offices get an oppoprtunity in your own life to experience something this horrible!M|any have suffered emotional and financial hardships.Shoe the LOVE here and show me the money. It can be pulled off of the market! Is this called JOB SECURITY?
I was put on Xarelto in February 2013. I was on it when the doctor took a fasting test for my checkup which included CBC. My hemoglobin was 6.4. If I hadn't had that test, I don't know what would have happened. It couldn't have gone too much lower without causing serious problems. I still have trouble with my hemoglobin level, and have to have the ulcers cauterized that are bleeding. I don't think they should ever put a drug on the market, and say no bloodwork is needed while taking it.
I had a knee replacement and also put on xarelto. I began noticing the bruising/bleeding under my skin and kept asking is this okay. I was told over and over again it was fine with bruising up my stomach and back. I developed a pulmonary embolism also. I had to have 2 units of blood Tran fused as long. But everything is OK. Really.
My wife was prescribed Xralto June 2012 because she was allergic to warfarin. She was on Xralto for six months, then suddenly developed internal bleeding that caused her death in January 2013. The ER physician said that he could not have saved her even if he had been present when the visible signs appeared.
I was placed on Xarelto for afib in late January, 2014. I developed severe rectal bleeding within two days and subsequently developed massive internal bleeding.I had to have two pleural effusions drained and had a cardiac tamponade which required pericardial draining immediately. My body remained extremely swollen for a month, in and out of six hospitals and rehab for four months. Developed pneumonia four times since then.
Nobody should ever be placed on this drug! I nearly died from it and am lucky to be alive; and quite grateful. This was the worst experience of my life.
When a person is placed on a blood thinner for the first time, Eliquis is the least harmful. Xarelto is too harsh!
I'm 23, suffered a PE, was sent home the next day on this medicine, within three days I began coughing up blood. Found myself back in ICU with two tears in the lower chamber of my lung that were bleeding. They couldn't do anything because there isn't a reversal. I spent a week in the hospital, I lost my job from missing all this work. This drug is to risky. If you have the option choose to avoid it.
My dad was on xelrelto for almost a year. He was admitted for GI bleed. On day seven he suffered massive stoke on right side of brain and several small on right side of brain.
I brought my daddy home on hospice and he passed away September 27th. My heart I'd broken and my mind is infuriated that they put patients on medication knowing there is nothing to stop the side effects. This drug should be removed until they develop something to offset the side effects.
My mother was put on xarelto in July 2015 for Afib and in May 2016 she had knee surgery that was still bleeding 2 and a half weeks later. They opened it up and cleaned it out and resutured it. In July all of a sudden she was in so much pain she could hardly walk. The orthopedic kept saying there was nothing wrong. Finally in Oct 2016 we went to another orthopedic and had fluid taken out and discovered a bacteria called Morganella had been growing since May. She had to have the knee replacement removed and 6 weeks of iv antibiotics. She has been in a rehab this whole time because she is not supposed to put weight on it till she gets another knee replacement. She had fluid taken last week to make sure the infection is gone so she can have surgery. She has also had to go to the hospital for low platelets and the Thursday before Christmas almost died. I read a few weeks ago that Xarelto can cause infections in surgical wounds. She has now been taken off and put on Coumadin. Hopefully she can get the surgery soon. She has been thru hell the last several months. The 29th of this month she runs out of insurance days for the rehab which she will need after the surgery too. I really want somebody to be held accountable for this but 2 lawyers now have said we have no case. I find that hard to believe.
I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. I have the same problem. I had 3 separate bleeding incidents.
I almost died the first time, and had to have blood transfusions each time.
This is a very dangerous pill.
I was put on xeralto back in July because I suffered from a pulmonary embolism I am 36 years old. 3 weeks after Being on the drug I ended up in the hospital with a collapsed lung and had to have an emergency procedure done because I had a lot of pressure on my heart. A couple of weeks after I was at the er for medical reasons and the dr that prescribed me xeralto in the first place said mr. Couture I was surprised to hear about the complications you had from the medication. I said excuse me she said well I seen you were admitted in the hospital for a collapsed lung it was due to the medication it caused your lung to bleed that's why it collapsed. I was shocked to hear her say this I went through living hell only to find out it was the meds that was suppose to help me caused me more problems.
My mother had A-fib and was put on Xarelto in early 2014, the end of February 2014, she suffered a massive stroke. She went to the hospital and by the grace of God survived this first stroke. While in the hospital, she suffered a GI bleed. The doctors could not stop the bleeding, they packed her and gave her 7 units of blood. This nearly killed her but miraculously she survived. She went to a Rehab facility for about 2 months and came home. One night she had chest pains, I took her to the ER and they did a cardiac Cath on her. While under anesthesia, she suffered another massive stroke on the opposite side thus rendering her into a coma. My mother was a very active 72 year old lady who was still running her own business prior to being on Xarelto. She saw the television commercials and liked the idea of being able to eat greens and to not have the monthly finger sticks like on Coumadin.
I lost my mother July 25th, 2014. I will never recover, the holidays are horrible and I dread mother's day.
To all of you who has lost a loved one to this drug; my heart goes out to you. Please accept my condolences.
This is a terrible drug and even though my mother will not be brought back, this drug company needs to pay.
Scott, I am so sorry about your mother. Please know you are not alone. I lost my mother as a result of this horrible drug. Just try to take it day by day, it's all we can do.
I was on xarelto it caused a bleed in my brain. I have memory loss. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks. This drug should be taken off the market.
my loving mother in law was taken off her blood thinner and put on xarelto for 6 months before she died she was having awful nose bleeds and blood in her stool by the time the doctor decided to look into her issues she passed away this is an awful drug in needs to be taken off the market my mother in law never had issues with bleeding until she was prescribed this drug we miss her dearly..
Good Afternoon, My sister was put on xarelto in May 2018 and had a massive stroke and brain hemmorage on July 5, 2018 – at which time her brain bled until she died July 6, 2018. My sister was 51 years old. Her name was Julie. My life has been changes forever and I cry every minute of every day. I don't understand how big companies ruin peoples lives like this and they don't seem to care. I just want the big drug companies to say sorry and admit that they might have been wrong. My sister and I are a year apart and she had many more years until the day she took xarelto.
My husband was on xeralto for about a month .I woke up early one morning and he was hemorageing out of his mouth very very bad!y.Ambulance took him to hospital where the doctors told us there was nothing they could do.He never woke up and passed away eleven days later.He was put on xeralto for a blood clot in his leg.Our doctor told us he was putting my husband on this drug because he was told you did not need to take a blood test as often as when taking other blood thinners. I hope and pray this is taken off the market and the makers lose every court case as they are nothing but money hungry who care only about there own pocket.


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Citabria wing rebuild and cover
This wing had a leaky fuel tank problem. When removing some fabric, we found lots of missing nails, cracked ribs and other problems. All fabric was removed and the spars were found to have serious dog-legs in them : They were never trammeled properly. Because of the crooked spar, the original rebuilder did this to the central aileron hinge to make it fit! They added almost 3/8" worth of shims and pop-riveted it back together.
This was done by a licensed A&P. The owner reported an odd behavior in flight whenever the the stick was moved past a certain point: this was the aileron popping up and down as it went over-center due to the crooked hinge alignment. All fixed now, but it shows that even good looking rebuilds may hide serious flaws.
Callair progress
The Callair wings have been reassembled and covered. Final assembly is underway. Not having drawings available meant that a lot of head scratching was called for occasionally.
New spars being made for the Callair. Several laminations of spruce are required. There are no drawings available so we have to work from the existing wing.
The fuselage fabric is done, apart from N-numbers and some trim color.
This is the kind of thing you don't want to find. Water got trapped between the sheet metal and spar and caused this. (This is the underside of the wing.) The factory should have put drain holes there. However, I don't think they ever expected these airplanes to be flying and working after 50 years. These spars will all have to be replaced. Straightforward, but it will take some time. A lot of the sheet metal will also get replaced. AFter all this, these wing should be good for another 50 years
The Stearman with its new wing fabric is back in the air. Shiny new star and red stripe.
Making good progress on the Callair glider tug. This is not a restoration job, but a typical clean up and repair before covering kind of job. It's a working airplane, not an Oshkosh award winner. So we compromise on the hours we can afford to spend on this, but not on the quality of the work we do. This needed some tubes in the rear that were corroded and a huge amount of general clean up work; it spent all of its life outside.
As long as the wind blows and there are taildraggers...
Speaking of Stearmans (Stearmen?) - A few days ago, another one (Corona is knee deep in these, it seems) had a slight mishap when it groundlooped at Chino. Spar damage and it will need new fabric over about a third of the outer wing. This will be good as new soon. Doing the repairs with the wing still attached makes it more tricky, but taking these off is a major job.
In the near future, another interesting project:
These are brand new wings for a Boeing Stearman. The best workmanship I have ever seen and we'll make sure the fabric covering will be up to the same standard.
We've started stripping down the Callair and there is plenty of evidence of a hard working life. The fabric, while still strong in places looked terrible all over and there were countless patches and plenty of dirt and light corrosion to be cleaned up.


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Il Clearwater (in lingua inglese Clearwater River) è un fiume che scorre a nord dell'Idaho nel nord-ovest degli Stati Uniti ed è un affluente dello Snake.

Geografia

Ha un corso di 119 km e venne esplorato dalla spedizione di Lewis e Clark agli inizi del XIX secolo.

La diga Dworshak venne costruita sul fiume Clearwater nei primi anni 1970.

Il confine tra gli Stati di Washington e Idaho è stato definito dal meridiano passante per la confluenza del fiume Clearwater e dello Snake, nei pressi di Lewiston.

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Fiumi dell'Idaho


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'Airbnb of boats' comes to this Florida Spring Break destination
By Sheri Kotzum | 315-4353 | @DestinLogSheri | skotzum@thedestinlog.com
Headed to Florida for Spring Break 2019? Or maybe planning your summer vacation? Up your 'Airbnb' game by booking a boat.
With spring break in full swing and the summer season fast approaching, an online boat rental service is hoping to alleviate the stress of finding and comparing boat and watercraft rentals.
GetMyBoat is a website (GetMyBoat.com) that lists hundreds of boat and watercraft rentals in select destinations. The self-proclaimed "Airbnb of boats" enables renters to browse boats and water-related experiences based on location, boat type, features, amenities and cost.
"Pretty much anything that can be booked on the water, we either offer it or are seeking owners who do offer it and they can list it on our platform," said Valerie Streif, the social media coordinator for GetMyBoat.
There are 53 listings in Destin, with everything from charter fishing trips, paddleboards, personal watercraft, pontoon boats and private yachts. Renters can compare prices and experiences, write reviews and interact with boat owners through the site's messaging feature.
"We have some incredible boat owners offering rentals and excursions in Destin, available for a range of budgets and interests," Streif said.
Streif said they hope locals will also take advantage of their services to find an affordable option when they feel like spending time on the water.
Prices range from $25 per person to $450 per hour, depending on the type of boat and water activity.
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Boat owners are able to list their vessel and/or services on the GetMyBoat platform and set their own rates. Streif said GMB doesn't charge owners for their listing, but the website collects a 7 percent fee for every booking.
"If you do own a boat and you want to offset your ownership costs, you can rent it out when you aren't using it and someone else pays to use it for a weekend or just one day," Streif said.
Founded in San Francisco in 2013, GetMyBoat is the world's largest marketplace for boat rentals and water experiences with 108,000 boats in 184 countries, according to its website.
Although the GetMyBoat service is relatively new to the Destin area, Streif said the company wants to expand their services and grow in the area over the next year.
"We're aiming to make it easier for Destin residents to make money off their boats/watersports equipment when they aren't using it and make it easier for visitors to Destin to get out and enjoy the water with ease."
For more information about GetMyBoat or to browse their selection of boats and personal water craft, visit their website at GetMyBoat.com
This story originally published to thedestinlog.com, and was shared to other Florida newspapers in the GateHouse Media network.


'The 100' and 'Continuum' alum Tanaya Beatty will join the third-year medical drama.
NBC's The Night Shift is adding a new series regular.
The 100 and Continuum alum Tanaya Beatty has joined the third-year medical drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Beatty will play Dr. Shannon Rivera, a recent medical school graduate who volunteered at the reservation clinic where she impressed Dr. Jordan Alexander (Jill Flint), who recruited her to intern at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. Shannon is spunky and outspoken and doesn't have a problem speaking her mind — some people will love her, others not so much.
For Beatty, the role marks her follow-up to HBO mini Lewis and Clark, where she played Sacagawea. Her credits include features Words and Pictures as well as Twilight: Breaking Dawn — Part 1. On the small screen, her work includes recurring roles on The CW's The 100 and Syfy's Continuum. She is repped by the Characters Talent Agency and LINK Entertainment.
Beatty joins Scott Wolf, who was upped to series regular for season three, and Jennifer Beals, who boarded the drama in the recurring role of Dr. Syd Jennings.
The Night Shift, produced by Sony Pictures Television, focuses on the lives of the doctors and staff members who work the overnight shift in the ER at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. The drama will return to NBC in 2016; a specific date has not yet been determined.


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BREAKING: The F-22 Stealth Fighters Were Just Deployed!
by noah 2 years ago 2 years ago
Major news alert!
F-22 stealth fighters were just deployed and are heading to Qatar, amid increasing tensions with Iran.
The United States Air Force has dispatched top-of-the-line F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, as it beefs up its forces in the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran https://t.co/uUC34VWbBO
— CNN (@CNN) June 29, 2019
Trump deploys F-22 Raptor fighters to Middle East amid Iran tensions https://t.co/VOyaImU3YH via @MailOnline
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CNN reports the following:
The United States Air Force has dispatched top-of-the-line F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time as it beefs up its forces in the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran.
A statement and photos from US Air Forces Central Command said the stealth jets arrived at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Thursday. The Air Force did not give the total number of F-22s deployed, but a handout picture showed at least five the warplanes over the base.
"These aircraft are deployed to Qatar for the first time in order to defend American forces and interests in the US Central Command area of responsibility," the Air Force said.
The F-22 movement comes a week after an Iranian surface-to-air missile shot down a US droneover the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the drone was in its airspace, but Washington claims it was over international waters.
Defense analyst Peter Layton, a former Australian Air Force officer now with the Griffith Asia Institute, says the likely mission of the F-22s in the event of full-scale hostilities with Iran would be targeting Tehran's surface-to-air missile batteries, especially the S-300 system, its best air defense.
"The S-300 batteries would be the first target of the first wave to thereby open up airspace for following attacks" by other less stealthy US aircraft, Layton said.
In that sense, the presence of the F-22s is a strong deterrent to any further escalation in tensions by Iran, said Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center.
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"It means (the US) is looking to stop something, not to initiate something," he said.
The downing of the US drone was just the latest in a series of provocations between the US and Iran. The US has also blamed Iran for explosions on two oil tankers this month near the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most vital strategic shipping routes, as well as on four commercial ships off the coast of the United Arab Emirates last month. Iran has categorically denied responsibility for the ship attacks.
Following the attacks Washington moved around 2,000 troops, an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the region. The F-22s are the latest additions to that buildup.
The twin-engine F-22 can be configured for air-to-air or air-to-ground missions.
F-22s #deployed to #Qatar for the first time in order to defend American forces and interests in the @CENTCOM area of responsibility. https://t.co/7aGBztTGKe#AirForce #USAF #Aviation #F22 #Raptor@DeptofDefense @usairforce @grandslamwing pic.twitter.com/CMPcaPggjU
— US AFCENT (@USAFCENT) June 28, 2019
And from the Times of Israel:
The US has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said Friday, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran.
The Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters have been deployed "to defend American forces and interests," the US Air Forces Central Military Command said in a statement that did not specify how many of the hi-tech planes had been sent.
A photo handout showed five of the jets flying above the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
Tehran and Washington have been locked in an escalating standoff since US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from a multi-party 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Tensions spiked last week when Iran shot down a US drone over sensitive Gulf waters following a series of tanker attacks that Washington blamed on Tehran, which has denied involvement.
Since then the arch-foes have been locked in a war of words, which escalated this week when Trump announced new sanctions against Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Iran has threatened to abandon some of its commitments under the nuclear deal unless the remaining partners — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia — help it circumvent US sanctions and especially sell its oil.
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