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Fantasy Baseball Cafe Forums • View topic - who are some young stud pitchers waiting to be called up?
who are some young stud pitchers waiting to be called up?
Zach Greinke flat out knows how to pitch too.... but I will be watching Sonnastine closely.
How do you make that argument. Greinke is a choke artist.
How do you "choke" on a perenial 100 loss team?
Plus, what makes you think Sonnanstine won't be a choke artist!?
According to MLB.com Bailey might make his debut next Saturday.
DENVER -- Top pitching prospect Homer Bailey's start on Saturday could very well be his final one for Triple-A Louisville.
By next week, Bailey seems likely to finally stand on a Major League mound debuting in a Reds uniform.
"It might be bigger than bobblehead night," Reds manager Jerry Narron joked.
The dominoes to promote Bailey began to fall into place on Saturday when Cincinnati optioned starter Bobby Livingston to Louisville and recalled reliever Marcus McBeth. On Friday, Livingston gave the Reds a solid, 6 2/3-innings spot start in a 4-2 win over the Rockies.
"He did a great job for us," Narron said of Livingston. "I'm sure if we need somebody again, he'll be highly considered."
Because of Monday's off-day, the Reds won't need a fifth starter again until next Saturday against the Indians. But it can't be Livingston. Unless there's an injury, rules state that a player optioned out must wait 10 days before he can be recalled. There was no consideration, Narron said, of using Livingston as a long reliever in the bullpen this week.
"So start checking your board to see who's rested next Saturday," Narron coyly told an assembled group of writers.
With veteran left-hander Eric Milton (left elbow) nowhere close to coming off the disabled list, there are three leading candidates.
"[Victor] Santos, [Phil] Dumatrait and Homer Bailey," Narron said.
Santos, a long reliever and former starter, is the lone option on the big-league roster. The right-hander is 1-0 with a 4.45 ERA in 20 relief appearances. His chances to start would be diminished if he's needed to pitch from the bullpen in the next few days.
Dumatrait is 5-4 with a 3.79 ERA in 11 starts. However, the left-hander is 0-3 with an 8.80 ERA over his last three starts. On Thursday vs. Charlotte, he allowed six earned runs and 12 hits over 4 1/3 innings.
That leaves Bailey, the Reds' first-round draft pick in 2004, who has dominated at every Minor League level. The 21-year-old entered Saturday's start at Durham with a 5-1 record and 1.89 ERA in nine starts. He had walked 21 and struck out 43. But Bailey struggled some in Saturday's start, allowing four earned runs on seven hits and three walks over six innings. He struck out eight batters. The performance upped his season ERA to 2.31.
The organization has been deliberate with Bailey's development to this point. After he was roughed up in Spring Training, he was instructed to use his off-speed stuff more and not rely as much on his mid-to-high 90s fastball.
The Reds have Thursday's starter at St. Louis listed as "TBA," but it would normally be Kyle Lohse's turn since he started vs. Colorado on Saturday. Of course, that assignment would also give Bailey his normal four days rest to pitch as well. But chances are the Reds wouldn't mind the extra ticket sales a Bailey home debut would provide.
First 3 have been pitching well..especially Hurley. Humber hasn't been great, but I don't think Jorge Sosa will keep it up for the Mets.
Sosa has made a lot of adjustments this year. He may continue to surprise a lot of people.
Greinke shows all this potential but then has these absolutely terrible outtings where he gives up 5 or 6 runs (or 4 in .2 IP). Sounds like a choke artist to me.
What's wrong with comparing Sonnanstine with Greinke? They are SIMILAR pitchers in terms of stuff and approach.
would it be better to take a chance on bailey or sonnanstine than to hang on to noah lowry(or maybe scott olson)? I have been wanting to drop him but his numbers have been too good.
Do not forget Jon Lester.
i like lester better than anyone else mentioned in this thread.


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Fred Hutch Hosts Inaugural Dr E. Donnall Thomas Symposium
By Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Leading researchers from around the globe visited Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to honor Dr E. Donnall Thomas and to discuss the future of transplantation, gene, and cellular therapies at the inaugural Dr E. Donnall Thomas Symposium.
Rainer Storb
Dr E. Donnall Thomas put newly founded Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on the map in the 1970's through his Nobel Prize-winning work developing bone marrow transplantation as a curative therapy for leukemia.
Last week, leading researchers from around the globe visited Seattle to honor the man and to discuss the future of transplantation, gene and cellular therapies at the inaugural Dr E. Donnall Thomas Symposium.
Thomas, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 92, led research that has been transformative for generations. Among the participants celebrating his legacy was Dr Rainer Storb, one of the original Fred Hutch scientists who worked with Thomas and still heads the Transplantation Biology Program; and graduate student David Granadier, whose poster about regeneration of the thymus gland — a source of disease-fighting T cells — was awarded top prize by conference organizers.
At the start of the symposium, Dr Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., president and director of Fred Hutch and holder of the Raisbeck Endowed Chair, told the gathered experts that their field, which sprang from bone marrow transplantation science, has made it possible today to turn the human immune system on to fight specific cancers.
"It has made a huge difference in the lives of our patients," he said.
Bone marrow transplantation a foundation of immunotherapy
The explosive growth of immunotherapy was highlighted in a keynote presentation by renowned University of Pennsylvania immunologist Dr Carl June, who treated the first patients with CAR T-cell therapy — blood cells genetically engineered to attack leukemia — in 2010.
June traced his interest in the field to his own training at the Hutch in bone marrow transplantation under Dr Thomas, beginning in 1983. Thomas and his team proved that immune cells transplanted from donors were preventing relapse of cancer in recipients through an effect known as "graft-vs.-leukemia." From that insight, that the immune system could be harnessed to control cancer, came the idea of modifying a patient's own immune cells with enhanced tumor-fighting capabilities.
June reflected on the years since those first CAR-T cell transplants, and how a pharmaceutical industry has blossomed around the development of these living drugs. Since his first 2 patients were treated a decade ago, more than 15,000 patients have undergone T-cell therapy using commercial drugs or products in development by academic medical centers.
June noted that researchers have gone beyond the modification of T cells and are now exploring the benefits of engineering other blood cells such as macrophages, fibroblasts and natural killer cells. He discussed studies showing that combinations of these different engineered blood cells might work better.
"I think we are going to see virtually every hematopoietic cell (immature forms of varied blood cells) be synthetically engineered," he said.
June added that the field's current challenge is to scale up manufacturing and rein in costs — by reducing the "vein-to-vein" time it takes between removing a patient's cells, genetically altering them and returning them.
Key to future success of immunotherapy is exploration of ways to tackle solid tumors, which embed themselves behind physical barriers and within a hostile biochemical microenvironment to fend off immune assaults.
The symposium was organized by the Hutch's Immunotherapy Integrated Research Center, or IIRC, a cross-disciplinary organization designed to pool the talents of researchers who work at the lab bench with those who treat patients in clinical trials. While this is the first meeting of its kind, the IIRC plans to hold a Thomas symposium every two years on the Hutch campus.
Dr Geoffrey Hill, scientific director for the IIRC and holder of the José Carreras/E. Donnall Thomas Endowed Chair for Cancer Research, said the cross-disciplinary immunotherapy team was created at a time when immunotherapy research was progressing well beyond blood cancers, tackling the difficult challenges of solid tumors.
"It has served an incredible role in bringing science together across the divisions," he said. "We are way outside of liquid cancers in this field now."
In more than a dozen technical presentations, invited speakers discussed their latest work in the field. It was a deep dive into experiments tackling old problems like graft-vs-host disease — where immune cells from a donor attack as foreign the healthy tissues of a transplant recipient; and studies of newly appreciated issues such as how the microbiome — communities of bacteria in our gut — can affect responses to cancer therapies.
Dr Alexander Marson, of the University of California at San Francisco, described how the new gene-editing technology known as CRISPR could be used to systematically catalog thousands of genetic switches within T cells. The precision of CRISPR gene-editing allowed his laboratory researchers to knock out these switches, known as transcription factors, and infer their function by seeing what happens to the T cells in their absence. Their method allowed them to build a library of 10,000 different switches.
Equipped with this library, their hope is to rev up precisely those T cells involved in immune defenses against cancer.
"We're trying to understand the genetic circuitry of T cells well enough that we can actually rewrite these to improve T-cell therapy outcomes," he said.
Dr Hans-Peter Kiem, director of the Hutch's stem cell and gene therapy program, said the conference also highlighted that gene therapy itself — the effort to cure disease by replacing missing or faulty segments of DNA — grew out of bone marrow transplantation. Holder of the Stephanus Family Endowed Chair for Cell and Gene Therapy, Kiem noted that 41 years ago, Fred Hutch doctors were the first to treat the inherited blood disorder thalassemia with a bone marrow transplant.
"Several speakers, including Dr John Tisdale of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, showed how we can now use a patient's own cells, and correct them using gene-editing technologies, to cure diseases like thalassemia, sickle cell disease or other immunodeficiencies," he said.
The scope of immunotherapies discussed at the symposium included cancer vaccines. Dr Catherine Wu, who heads stem cell transplantation and cellular therapies at the Dana-Farber Cancer institute in Boston, said a goal of therapeutic cancer vaccines is to "drive T cells into the site of tumors, because you need the right soldier at the site of activity to do the work."
Her team is conducting clinical trials of vaccines against several solid tumors, including melanoma, renal cell carcinoma and ovarian cancer. The targets are neoantigens, proteins that appear on the surface of tumor cells that may be highly specific to each individual patient. The idea is to tailor a vaccine to target their particular set of tumor neoantigens.
"Vaccines, if you have the right set of antigens, have the potential to increase the depth and diversity of T-cell responses," she said.
Although these trials are cutting-edge research, Wu said the vaccine work is also rooted in the immunological insights required for successful transplantation.
"I've had a chance to reflect on the large footprint that Don Thomas and the Hutch have had on the field of cancer immunotherapy," she said. "It laid down the foundations for modern immunotherapy in many ways."
Indeed, for many of the attendees, the most inspiring talk of the symposium was that of Thomas' longtime collaborator Storb, who gave an evening keynote talk about his early years when he and his mentor were among a handful of scientists struggling to achieve safe and effective bone marrow transplants.
In 25 minutes, Storb summarized 57 years of his research, which began in 1965 when he came on a Fulbright grant from a research laboratory in Paris to work with Thomas in Seattle.
"I felt more and more removed from clinical activities," Storb said. "I wanted to do something that actually had meaning for patients."
It was a depressing time, working with rats and mice that continually rejected transplanted marrow.
"Most investigators had left the field," Storb said. "It was a really discouraging state of affairs."
Yet Thomas and his small team persisted in the tedious work, gradually uncovering the need to condition the recipients before transplant with radiation or chemicals to destroy the existing marrow, to find compatible matches of donor to recipient, and to find immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection of the graft after the transplant.
In 1971, they transplanted bone marrow into their first patient. "He recovered fully," Storb said. "He is still alive today, 51 years later."
Worldwide, 1.5 million transplants for cancer
Over the course of years, the group expanded, becoming part of the founding team of Fred Hutch in 1975. After several relocations, they moved with Fred Hutch to its current campus in South Lake Union. All the time, they were continuing to refine their procedures, developing tissue typing technologies to match donor and recipient, finding the right drug and radiation regimens to prepare the patient for transplant, minimizing graft-vs.-host disease and fighting infections. Drug combinations they developed became standards of care in a procedure now performed on more than 22,000 patients in the U.S. annually. Worldwide, an estimated 1.5 million patients have received transplants for cancer and other blood disorders.
While the work was painstaking and often tedious, the team was always creative. Early on, Storb needed to test an antibody serum as a drug to prevent graft-vs.-host disease. Known as anti-thymocyte globulin, it could only be grown by injecting immune cells from the human thymus into horses, goats or rabbits. He found a farmer who kept all three animals, on farmland in Redmond that would one day become the site of Microsoft's headquarters.
Storb repeatedly credited Thomas for his leadership and vision.
"Don had this incredible backbone. He always believed in it," he said.
Dr Judith Shizuru, a transplant physician at Stanford, told Storb at the close of his presentation that his influence extends well beyond Seattle, and she thanked him for the care, passion and insight he has brought to the field.
"You are always there to answer questions for us," she said. "You are a hero."
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Q: Pointers dynamic Allocation (core dumped) Please help me where I am going wrong, below is my code, before deleting or freeing x it is working fine but after deleting x it is showing me core dumped. I dont know why. what I have done is that i allocated 2 variables in heap with new keyword but then p=x which means that p now holds the address of x. then I am freeing p and at last I am freeing x. Please help me where I am going wrong.
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){

int a;
int *b=&a;
cout<<b<<endl;//address of a

int *x=new int;
cout<<x<<endl;
cout<<*x<<endl;

int *p=new int;

*x=10;
*p=12;

p=x;

cout<<p<<endl;
cout<<x<<endl;
cout<<*p<<endl;
cout<<*x<<endl;

*x=13;
cout<<*p<<endl;

delete p;

*x=14;
cout<<*x<<endl;
cout<<*p<<endl;

delete x;

return 0;
}

A: After p=x;, p and x are pointing to the same location (the one x pointed to originally). Calling delete on either will render the other one dangling and calling delete on it will cause a double free and undefined behavior. p=x will also lead to a memory leak, as the memory previously allocated for p is no longer reachable.
To just assign the values, not the pointers, do
*p = *x;

A: The problem is that you two times delete the same pointer or more precisely the same memory region that is pointed to by two pointers.
After statement
p=x;

the both pointers, p and x, start to point to the same memory region. Then you at first delete p
delete p;

and after that you delete x
delete x;

but the memory pointed to by x was already freed when you deleted p.
And after deleting p all code that follows has undefined behaviour
*x=14;
cout<<*x<<endl;
cout<<*p<<endl;

delete x;

To avoid this problem you could use smart pointer std::shared_ptr
For example
#include <iostream>
#include <memory>

int main()
{
    std::shared_ptr<int> x( new int );
    std::shared_ptr<int> p( new int );

    *x = 10;
    *p = 12;

    p = x;

    std::cout << p << std::endl;
    std::cout << x << std::endl;
    std::cout << *p << std::endl;
    std::cout << *x << std::endl;

    *x = 13;
    std::cout << *p << std::endl;

    *x = 14;
    std::cout << *x << std::endl;
    std::cout << *p << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

The output is
0x95e6008
0x95e6008
10
10
13
14
14

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Bidwell Parkway
Olmsted, Vaux & Co.
Buffalo Park and Parkway System
In 1868, when Olmsted, Vaux & Co. was invited to design a park for Buffalo, the firm envisioned a system of parks connected by "park ways," 200-foot-wide thoroughfares designed for "pleasure travel," allowing passage across the city without having to leave park-like environs. Olmsted and Vaux greatly admired Joseph Ellicott's 1804 plan for Buffalo, which featured strong radial axes inspired by Pierre L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C., and sought to seamlessly extend those thoroughfares in their network of parkways. Lincoln, Bidwell, and Chapin Parkways, known collectively as the West Side park approaches, formed a grand entrance to Delaware Park in the shape of an inverted "Y", with Chapin and Bidwell being the angled branches moving diagonally across the street grid.
Comprising an area of 10.7 acres, Bidwell Parkway runs 2,323 feet northwest through the Elmwood Historic District, from Colonial Circle (originally Bidwell Place) to Soldiers Circle (originally Soldiers Place). Named for the Buffalo-born Civil War general Daniel Bidwell, the parkway consists of two roadbeds separated by an approximately 100-foot-wide grass median dotted with four rows of equidistantly planted elm trees selected for their disease resistance which replaced original plantings. Several sculptures and memorials are installed along the boulevard, including an equestrian statue of Daniel Bidwell, a bronze sculpture, Birds of Flight, by Larry Griffiths, and a stone memorial for World War I soldier John Boechat. The boulevard is lined by stately Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Tudor Revival homes set far back from the road. The parkway was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of a multi-property nomination of Olmsted parks and parkways in Buffalo.
Bidwell Parkway, Buffalo, NY - Photo by Charles Birnbaum, 2012


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Q: loop index comparison is not assembled as expected I'm trying to understand C using GDB, the program I'm debugging is:
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int i;
    for(i=0; i < 10; i++) {
      puts("Hello, world!\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

When I debug it I see that in assembly the value of i is compared to 10 and not 9, I think it's supposed to be compared to 9 since I'm not including 10 in my loop interval. This is the GDB output:
(gdb) x/i $rip
=> 0x100000f36 <main+22>:   cmp    DWORD PTR [rbp-0x8],0xa

The value pointed to by rbp-0x8 is the i value and rbp-0x8 now equals 0 as expected

A: From Wikipedia regarding the cmp instruction:

Performs a comparison operation between arg1 and arg2. The comparison
  is performed by a (signed) subtraction of arg2 from arg1, the results
  of which can be called Temp. Temp is then discarded. If arg2 is an
  immediate value it will be sign extended to the length of arg1. The
  EFLAGS register is set in the same manner as a sub instruction.

So the cmp instruction sets a flag if the left value is less than, greater than, or equal to the right value.  If you check the next instruction, you'll probably find that it's jge, meaning it jumps out of the loop if i <= 10

A: Probably the next instruction is jump if equal or greater jge.
Compilers usually do these kinds of changes. There is nothing to worry about. For example in this case compiler change the (human expected)"jump to the loop head" to "jump out of the loop". I assume it is better to compile a code to the first kind, in order to make the optimization step easier.
If it was compared with 9, the next instruction would be jump if not lower or equal jnle.

A: It is because you are starting at 0. 0, the lowest limit is the first element in the loop and 9, the uppermost limit is the tenth. Hence i is compared to 10.
If you do i=1, i<=10, then you will get what you desire. Although both these approaches mean the same.
I hope this helps.


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Making Memories from the Front Steps
by abingtonnews April 6, 2020 April 7, 2020
On left: Katie O'Neill photographs from a safe social distance (photo by Michele Christian) On right: Front Steps Project with the Sweeney Family: Tim, Joshua, Lauren and Jocelyn (photo by Katie O'Neill)
When Dorothy Gale returned from her trip to Oz, she had a realization: "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."
If Dorothy was living in modern-day Abington and settling into new routines in an effort to stop the spread of the COVID-19 vorus, she may amend that to looking no further than her front steps.
Across the country, families and photographers are taking part in The Front Steps Project, where photographers take pictures of families on their front steps, porch or in front of their home from a safe social distance. Instead of charging a fee, photographers are simply requesting a donation to benefit those in need during the outbreak.
Abington photographer Katie O'Neill was excited at the opportunity to join this creative movement.
"I wanted to be part of the Front Steps Project to help lift spirits and raise money to support different causes related to COVID-19," said O'Neill. "I will be donating the proceeds to a couple of town food banks as well as to someone local making homemade masks."
The response has been overwhelming. O'Neill has been able to work with families — and sometimes their pets — from Abington, Brockton, Hingham, Holbrook, Braintree and Whitman. Her photos depict real families and real life, creating memories for families who've had their lives turned upside dow by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lauren Sweeney, of Abington, was one of the families who took part in the Front Steps experience.
"We were thrilled with Katie and loved the fact that our family has a picture to look back on once this entire thing is behind us," she said. "As an added bonus, our donation went to the Abington Food Pantry and to purchase material for face masks."
As current news reports the United States is preparing for a surge in COVID-19 cases over the next couple of weeks, most photographers are pausing their Front Steps projects in an effort to encourage everyone to stay at home. O'Neill has decided to pause after this week as well, but not without praising the generosity of the community.
"I think this project has truly raised spirits and everyone involved has been so generous and happy to help out their community," said O'Neill.
"It really gives people a sense of purpose in this uncertain time. I get chills just thinking about how special this project really is."
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QSpyView™ is a powerful visualization and monitoring facility, which allows embedded developers to rapidly create virtual Graphical User Interfaces to monitor and control their embedded devices from a host (desktop) computer. The interfaces created by QSpyView™ can visualize the tracing data produced by QP/Spy™ and can also send various commands to the embedded target.
QWin™ is a simple GUI toolkit for prototyping (dual-targeting) embedded systems on Windows in the C programming language. QWin™ allows you to build realistic embedded front panels consisting of LCD displays (both graphical and segmented), buttons, and LEDs. QWIN is based on the raw Win32 API to provide direct mapping to C for easy integration with embedded code.
QP Development Kits (QDKs) are separate QP ports and examples for various embedded processors, toolsets, and boards.
Starting with QP release 5.4.0, all officially supported ports and examples are bundled into the QP downloads, as opposed to being distributed as separate QP Development Kits (QDKs). The QDKs released for earlier QP versions are called "legacy-QDKs" and are available for download from .
The "legacy-QDKs" are not recommended for new projects. The "legacy-QDKs" do not come with commercial support from Quantum Leaps, although questions about "legacy-QDKs" are welcome on the Free QP Support Forum.
How to Find QDK You Want?
<cpu> denotes a QDK for standalone QP for the given embedded CPU type, such as AVR, M16C, R8C, etc.
<rtos> denotes a QDK for QP running on top of a given RTOS, such as eCos, VxWorks, etc.
<toolset> denotes a port to specific toolset, such a IAR, GNU, Renesas, etc.
<board> denotes that the examples are for the specified boards, such as SKP3607, YRDKRX62N, etc.
<version> denotes the compatible version of the QP framework.
NOTE: All QDKs have been developed and tested with the specified <version> of the QP framework. A QDK might work with the newer QP version as well, but might require some modifications.
Download the QDK that you like and check its <version> number.
Download and install (unzip) the corresponding QP <version>. For example, if your QDK file starts with qdkcpp_ and ends with _4.5.02, you should download and install QP/C++ version 4.5.02.
Unzip the QDK to a temporary directory.
Copy the contents of the QDK directory to the QP installation directory. For example, if your QDK unzipped into directory qdkcpp_avr-iar_4.5.02, you should copy the content of this directory inside the QP/C++ installation folder (typically, inside C:/qp/qpcpp/). Note that you will need to give your consent to overwrite the already existing directories examples/ and ports/.
Every "legacy QDK" contains the "QDK Manual" in PDF in the main directory of the ZIP archive.


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Macron Warns of Heightened Tensions if U.S. Exits Iran Deal
French president wants to pursue new expanded agreement with Tehran
Paul Beckett
BiographyPaul Beckett
Updated April 25, 2018 7:37 pm ET
WASHINGTON—French President Emmanuel Macron said it was his "bet" that President Donald Trump would withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal, a move that he said would lead to a period of heightened tensions with an outcome that was hard to predict.
Mr. Macron also said that his proposal for an expanded agreement with Iran, which he has pitched during a visit to Washington this week, was in part designed to provide a framework for discussions and not leave a void should Mr. Trump decide by his May 12 deadline to withdraw.


Dan Reedy's retirement after more than 37 years at the Kendall County Farm Bureau is what's set off a recent push for a merger with the Grundy County Farm Bureau.
The Kendall County Farm Bureau building at 111 E. Van Emmon St. in downtown Yorkville has served as its headquarters since its construction in 1937.
To put things into perspective, "M*A*S*H" was the number one show on TV, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was killing it at the box office and Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" was burning up the music charts the week of June 1, 1981, when Dan Reedy began his job as manager of the Kendall County Farm Bureau.
Reedy, a Sandwich resident, retires from the bureau after more than 37 years on Feb. 15, coinciding with plans to merge the county association with its affiliate in Grundy County and close the Kendall County office in downtown Yorkville.
Reedy said the office at 111 E. Van Emmon St. has served as Kendall County Farm Bureau headquarters since 1937, when it was built. There was an active slaughterhouse in the building's basement up until the late 1960s, and the affiliated meat locker plant in the building was active until 1975 or so, Reedy said.
"Downstairs in the basement, the smokers are still in the walls," he said.
Reedy said one of his former employees recalled the smell of the slaughterhouse when she worked there starting in 1964.
Reedy is originally from downstate Lovington, Illinois, a burgh of approximately 1,200 people located about a half-hour drive southeast of Decatur. His parents were involved in county government – his mom worked at the courthouse and his father served on the county board, he said. He graduated from Illinois State University in Normal in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in animal sciences.
Reedy farmed for eight years before deciding to go into association management, and worked for the state farm bureau organization for four months before taking the job in Kendall County. Reedy said he got the job in Kendall County following a tragedy. He said the previous farm bureau manager, a young man in his early 20s, was killed in a car accident the day after being hired for the job in May 1981.
The organization has affiliates that include Country Companies insurance, FS, and Prairie Farms Dairy, Reedy said. The bureau also offers a variety of programs such as ag in the classroom, he said.
Reedy said there are approximately 3,500 members of the Kendall County Farm Bureau, with about 450 of those being full-time farmer members.
When he began his tenure in 1981, the total membership number was the same – while the county's population was 37,000 compared to 126,000 today – although there were more farmer members, around 850 to 875, he said. Reedy said Grundy County's membership numbers are similar to Kendall, but it has around 650 farmer members.
Reedy said that while the farm bureau board members are young, the county is losing farmer members quickly.
Reedy said technology and production in farming have changed since he started the job in 1981.
The agricultural economy has its own challenges and struggles these days, Reedy said, with the Chinese retaliatory tariffs on soybeans and other measures.
Reedy said that despite the challenges of farming, the agriculture department at his alma mater, ISU, has grown over the last five to 10 years.
He said the idea of agriculture as a career was on a downtrend when he first joined the farm bureau, noting that while he was a school board member in his hometown, the school district cut its ag program in the late 1970s.
Reedy said the definition of agriculture has expanded over the years, however, to a scope beyond farming.
Reedy gave a local example of the FFA (Future Farmers of America) program at Newark High School, led by Joe Steffen.
Reedy said agriculture involves "anything that's growing," including landscaping, horticulture, the sciences, flowers, veterinary medicine and food science. Food science classes have taken over what once were "home ec" classes in some high schools, he said.
Reedy said there are so many jobs in ag-related fields in Illinois that the universities that have ag programs aren't graduating enough people to fill them all.
"The options are unreal," he said.
Reedy said he will miss the people he has dealt with at his job, and that he has made lifelong friends in Kendall County since he started his job so many years ago.
Reedy said he's been involved with the 4-H programs and has seen farmers' kids grow up to take over their fathers' farming operations.


The day has finally arrived! I touched down in Dublin on the 11th of February took a few days of R&R out in the countryside and now I'm writing this blog post from the Dublin Convention Center where they are hosting the first ever Dublin Tech Summit.
I'm having a spectacular time, everyone is so warm and friendly!


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Yes, I now joined the "Sunday Currently" hype! I read a lot of blogs with this link-up and I was so pumped to make my own and I guess I am about to do it. I seriously don't know how to start but, first, "The Sunday Currently" tag or link-up was made and popularized by the blogger Siddathornton. The first time I saw posts like these was on Tumblr. If you want to join, click here!
Reading: My Daily Bread and Holy Bible.
Writing: My very first "Sunday Currently" entry and notes for my Science test which, I'm kinda nervous of!
Listening: to "Just Give me a Reason" by Pink ft. Nate Ruess and "Remain" by Royal Tailor NONSTOP! I just wonder why "Remain" didn't trend like any other songs right now. The song has a very heart melting meaning and the rhythm is just….. uggghhh I just can't explain how good this song is.
Thinking: about the last game i had on League. I was so fed, only one item left to buy actually, but we still lose! Before that game, I had 2 games and met new friends. We had a skype group call and it was so fun!
Smelling: the candle that I just lit on top of my desk, it's the Yankee Candle "Cinnamon Vanilla".
Hoping: that we can move to a new and bigger apartment by next week and my mom and dad can enter a new job.
Loving: the phone case my cousin gave me for my birthday. It is "Sona" from League and she is my favorite support champ.
Needing: a very long time for answering my pace….. I am homeschooled, that is why.
Feeling: super "kilig" with ALDUB, I keep on replaying yesterday's "kalyeserye" and those scenes when Alden hugged Maine a couple of times! Omg, just please be together forever!
Clicking: (and also scrolling) youtube videos that might entertain me for a while before going to sleep.
I hope you peeps had a great Sunday, just like me! Have a good night and sweet dreams!


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Outstanding Directors Overview
March 3, 2016 · by thecondorpress	· in Condor Press.	·
By Jocelyn Gallardo
Thursday the 11th, at the Arlington Theater, a red carpet event took place for the 31st Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF). This red carpet honored some of the outstanding directors of the year that were nominated for some of the specific films that they had directed. Coraline Crannell, Emily Krumholz, and I went to the SBIFF red carpet to interview these directors, as well many more that hadn't been nominated.
There were five directors that were up for the award. The directors included George Miller (director of Mad Max), Tom McCarthy (director of Spotlight), Alejandro González Iñárritu (director of The Revenant), Adam McKay (director of The Big Short), and Lenny Abrahamson (director of Room). Unfortunately, we were only able to interview George Miller, Adam McKay, and Lenny Abrahamson. Although this was the case, all of these directors are very talented and have accomplished a lot over the course of their lives.
George Miller is a very successful film director whose films vary from Happy Feet to Mad Max. Although he is very successful right now, he didn't always see himself as a film director. Miller is an Australian film director and screenwriter. But before Miller was a film director he was a medical doctor at St. Vincent's Hospital. To become a doctor he studied at the University of New South Wales, but then later studied film at Melbourne University in 1970, and then acting at the University of California in Los Angeles in 1971. In addition, he has won many awards including Australian Film Institute awards, Los Angeles Film Critic Award, and Chauvel Award. Some of the big movies he has directed are Babe and Twilight Zone: The Movie.
Moving away from George Miller, one of the other big film directors is Tom McCarthy whose full name Thomas Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy is another very successful film director, actor and screenwriter who has been doing his job since 1992. He was raised in New Providence, New Jersey, and was one of five children. He is a graduate of New Providence High School, and was the graduating class of 1988 at Boston College.
One of his most recent films was a film called Spotlight, which got him the Outstanding Director of The Year Award. Spotlight also got him the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Some of the films he has acted in are films Meet the Parents, Good Night, and Good Luck, and Law and Order. In addition to his acting, he has written/directed Many films that include The Station Agent, The Visitor, and Win, Win. Moving away from some of his adult films, he also co-directed the Disney and Pixar film Up with Bob Peterson and Pete Docter. He also wrote the film for the film Million Dollar Arm.
One of the other directors that won the award was Alejandro González Iñárritu. Iñárritu was born in Mexico City, and for a time traveled across the Atlantic ocean which he said helped with his job as director. He started his career as a host at a Mexican radio station called WFM. Later, he became a producer at a Mexican television program called Televisa. He is now a Mexican film director, screenwriter, film producer, and composer. He is also the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director which he won, and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing. Some of the films that he has directed are 21 Grams, Babel, and his most recent one, Revenant which has gotten him many nominations. In fact, because of Revenant he won the Best Director Award this year.
Moving aside from Iñárritu, another director is Adam McKay. Adam is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian, and actor. Before he started directing, he was the head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for two seasons. He had originally auditioned to be on stage, but didn't make the cut. Instead, he landed his two year job as the writer. He graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn State and Temple University, but dropped out from the university a semester-and-a-half before he was set to earn his bachelor's.
Some of the movies that he has directed are Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Step Brothers, The Other Guys, The Big Short and Anchorman: The Legend Continues. All but one of his many films had the very famous actor, Will Ferrell in it. This film was The Big Short which has been nominated for many award including the Academy Award for Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. He also helped rewrite the script for the Marvel Studios feature film Ant-Man which was directed by Peyton Reed.
Finally, our last director is Lenny Abrahamson. Abrahamson is an Academy Award nominated Irish film and television director. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was raised Jewish. he studied at Trinity College Dublin where he was elected a scholar in Mental and moral science. He was then later offered a scholarship to study for a PhD in Philosophy at Stanford University in California. However, he did not finish going to school for his PhD. Instead he went back to Ireland to take up filmmaking. He ended up directing commercials and a popular series of adverts for Carlsberg. Finally, in 2004, he came out with his first film entitled Adam & Paul. Some of the other films that he is best known for are Garage, What Richard Did, Frank, and Room. In fact, Room is the movie that got him the Outstanding Directors of The Year Award.
Overall, all of these directors are amazing, and have worked hard to get to where they are now. Their accomplishments are absolutely incredible, and they will always be known for the the amazing directors that they are. For those of you who didn't get to go to this event, remember, there is always next year!
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Posted: Feb 11, 2015
Bacterial armor holds clues for self-assembling nanostructures
(Nanowerk News) Imagine thousands of copies of a single protein organizing into a coat of chainmail armor that protects the wearer from harsh and ever-changing environmental conditions. That is the case for many microorganisms. In a new study, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered key details in this natural process that can be used for the self-assembly of nanomaterials into complex two- and three-dimensional structures.
Caroline Ajo-Franklin, a chemist and synthetic biologist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, led this study in which high-throughput light scattering measurements were used to investigate the self-assembly of 2D nanosheets from a common bacterial surface layer (S-layer) protein. This protein, called "SbpA," forms the protective armor for Lysinibacillus sphaericus, a soil bacterium used as a toxin to control mosquitoes. Their investigation revealed that calcium ions play a key role in how this armor assembles. Two key roles actually.
"Calcium ions not only trigger the folding of the protein into the correct shape for nanosheet formation, but also serve to bind the nanosheets together," Ajo-Franklin says. "By establishing and using light scattering as a proxy for SbpA nanosheet formation, we were able to determine how varying the concentrations of calcium ions and SbpA affects the size and shape of the S-layer armor."
Details on this study have been published in the journal ACS Nano ("Ion-Specific Control of the Self-Assembly Dynamics of a Nanostructured Protein Lattice").
Many bacteria and archaea encase themselves within a self-assembling protective shell of S-layer proteins, like chainmail armor. The process is a model for the self-assembly of 2D and 3D organic and inorganic nanostructures.
In the microbial world of bacteria and archaea, external threats abound. Their surrounding environment can transition from extreme heat to extreme cold, or from highly acidic to highly basic. Predators are everywhere. To protect themselves, many bacteria and archaea encase themselves within a shell of S-layer proteins. While scientists have known about this protective coating for many years, how it forms has been a mystery.
Ajo-Franklin and her colleagues have been exploring self-assembling proteins as a potential means of creating nanostructures with complex structure and function.
"At the Molecular Foundry, we've gotten really good at making nanomaterials into different shapes but we are still learning how to assemble these materials into organized structures," she says. "S-layer proteins are abundant biological proteins known to self-assemble into 2D crystalline nanosheets with lattice symmetries and pore sizes that are about the same dimensions as quantum dots and nanotubes. This makes them a compelling model system for the creation of nanostructured arrays of organic and inorganic materials in a bottom-up fashion."
In this latest study, light-scattering measurements were used to map out diagrams that revealed the relative yield of self-assembled nanosheets over a wide range of concentrations of SbpA and calcium ions. In addition, the effects of substituting manganese or barium ions for calcium ions were examined to distinguish between a chemically specific and generic divalent cation role for the calcium ions. Behzad Rad, the lead author of the ACS Nano paper, and co-workers followed light-scattering by light in the visible spectrum. They then correlated the signal to nanosheet formation by using electron microscopy and Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), a technology that can provide information on molecular assemblies in just about any type of solution. The SAXS measurements were obtained at the "SIBYLS beamline (12.3.1) of Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source.
The binding of calcium ions to SbpA proteins starts the process by which the SbpA self-assembles into nanosheets. Ca2+ binds to SbpA with an affinity of 67 µM.
"We learned that only calcium ions trigger the SbpA self-assembly process and that the concentrations of calcium ions inside the cell are too low for nanosheets to form, which is a good thing for the bacterium," says Rad. "We also found that the time evolution of the light scattering traces is consistent with the irreversible growth of sheets from a negligibly small nucleus. As soon as five calcium ions bind to a SbpA protein, the process starts and the crystal grows really fast. The small nucleus is what makes our light-scattering technique work."
Ajo-Franklin, Rad and their co-authors believe their light-scattering technique is applicable to any type of protein that self-assembles into 2D nanosheets, and can be used to monitor growth from the nanometer to the micrometer scales.
Given the rugged nature of the S-layer proteins and their adhesive quality - bacteria use their S-layer armor to attach themselves to their surroundings - there are many intriguing applications awaiting further study.
"One project we're exploring is using SbpA proteins to make adhesive nanostructures that could be used to remove metals and other contaminants from water," Ajo-Franklin says. "Now that we have such a good handle on how SbpA proteins self-assemble, we'd like to start mixing and matching them with other molecules to create new and useful structures."
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Silent siege
Suzanne Ibrahim is a well-known Syrian poet, author and journalist. The everyday life and rights of women have dominated her writing and journalistic work. She left Syria in 2018 after having been threatened and attacked by both the regime and the rebels because of her texts. She arrived in Östersund, Sweden as a guest writer. Below is an extract from her upcoming book where she has collected journal notes from the war in Syria.
November 29 2018 Text: Suzanne Ibrahim Translation from Arabic: Ghias Aljundi
"Grandchildren of Khalid" Friday Protests, 22 July 2011
At my house in the Qaboun Suburb of Damascus
I woke up at eight. I drank my coffee as usual. I was alerted to the lack of mobile coverage when I wanted to charge my phone. I tried to call Homs, as I do every morning, but I discovered that the landline was also silent. I looked through the window to the street, it was full of calmness and stillness. Not even the sound of one car! I was surprised and asked myself: Will it be another bad Friday?!
The weather was hot, a gentle breeze shakes the leaves of the huge tree under my window. No movement… no voice… even the doves had disappeared.
A white butterfly flying, the sound of the water pump's motor, and the voice of the imam at the mosque began to rise. The sound of a shop's metal shutter getting louder. A pickup car, another car's horn. The branches of the small green tree are sway in the breeze. The butterfly hovers around the huge tree.
A report on the channel "Alarabiya" from the Syrian border with Iraq, which monitors the movements of Syrians in the village Albagous, which overlaps both Syria and Iraq. The village is in the province of the city of Boukmal, whose centre, according to the report, has been besieged by the Syrian army. Many minarets announced the noon prayers, followed by the Friday sermon, which I did not understand at all.
The news of the demonstrations began to appear on Al-Jazeera: Daraa-Al-Keswa-Idlib, while official Syrian television refuted the news via its network of correspondents. In the breaking news, I read: limited gatherings in different areas of Idlib.
I listen carefully and look through the window. My range of vision is short, as the street runs south about 50 meters ending on a corner, and the north side extends ten meters to turn towards the Tishreen area. There is no other way other than this window to see if a demonstration had begun in the neighbourhood, but I did not hear anything. The place from which the demonstration usually begins is about one kilometre away from my house. The wind plays a role in delivering the sound sometimes. I heard more than once the roar of cheers after the worshippers left the mosque following Friday prayers, like many nights after the evening prayer, demanding the overthrow of the regime.
On Al Jazeera, an eyewitness (Ayman) said: Ten thousand demonstrators went out in Kfar Nobbel, and the army besieged and occupied the city, arresting and shooting randomly. Syrian TV says: Gunmen fire on civilians and riot police in Kfar Nobbel, Idlib. It also reports on a limited gathering in the Al-Kaswa suburb of Damascus, stating that there were no more than 150 people, contrary to what Al-Jazeera said.
Al-Jazeera: Mass demonstrations in the heart of the city of Hama demanding the departure of the Syrian regime. Mass demonstrations in Lattakia demanding the departure of the Syrian regime and demonstrations in Homs go peacefully without confrontation with security—according to an eyewitness, Abu Sultan of Rastan. Sources to Al-Jazeera: Syrian security besieged the neighbourhood of Qaboun in Damascus.
Two doves pick up seeds, the male moves around the female. Still it was quiet with no life on the street.
I read in the book "Lilit" that there was no religious war at all before the emergence of monotheism. The term "modern paganism" was created to describe the main feature of the intellectual trend of modern society, and this is a trend alive in the majority of intellectuals.
The intellectual freedom demanded by modern thinkers was available during the days of pagan religion, as it was called. There may be more than twenty gods in a society, and the appearance of a new god was not a serious problem that called for a destructive war. Thus, the new paganism becomes equal to intellectual freedom in all fields, especially religion.
I thought: We are living a misguided paganism! Each Religious sect draws a shape of a single God, gives it a name, and interprets the Qur'an as it wishes. Pluralism is a natural trait, not monotheism! They demand political, economic, and cultural pluralism. How can we accomplish this in the light of religious monotheism, in which each side attacks the other side, and maybe this religious sect would grant someone forgiveness from its religious ivory tower, but not equality?
I thought: In my next novel I can introduce Sheherazade, Lilith, Atalanta the hunter girl, the Prairie Girl, and Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly over the Atlantic… they will be my heroines!
6:30 PM. Communications are still cut off. A shy movement in the street. The doves stood on the iron bars of the windows, cleaning themselves. A pleasant smell wafted into my nose. It was the smell of hubble bubble—tobacco with honey flavour—emanating from my neighbour's house, who was seated on his balcony just under my window. The night passed quietly, and the 21 day moon was shining low on the horizon.
And all communications were still down.
I woke up before the dawn prayer. I immediately checked to make sure the communications were back, but my hope vanished. The mobile phone network and landlines were as silent as a cemetery. I looked through the window to see the moon that had risen in the sky. The morning star was dancing, perhaps Venus or Mars. I could not sleep again easily because of the loud noises of dawn prayers emanating from the many mosques surrounding me.
I was still in my secluded room, isolated from the world. I made a firm decision to go out to contact my parents and make sure that everyone was safe. I whispered in secret: Could it be possible that Salah did not try yesterday to make sure that I am fine? Did he come? Has he been denied entry after reading in the news about the siege of the neighbourhood?! From here I cannot see anything, and I dare not go out from home on Fridays since the outbreak of the protests.
After a morning bath, I started to get myself ready to go out, and my heart still whispered: Salah may come… what if he arrives after I have left the house, and there is no way to communicate?
Shortly before eleven o'clock, my friend Salah arrived, excited. He told me about the situation in the neighbourhood, checkpoints spread over every corner and street. He tried to enter the area twice yesterday evening, but the soldiers at the checkpoints prevented him for his own safety, and some of them reassured him: If your relative is in her home, there is nothing wrong with her!
I decided to leave with him, taking the laptop with me, to spend some time outside the house so that I could contact my family and friends. They must be worried by now. From my house to the main road (less than one kilometre away), we passed through five military checkpoints, whose personnel checked our identity cards and some asked us to open the back of the car.
The line of cars grew. Once we reached the main road, the mobile coverage returned—the reception was blocked in my neighbourhood only—and I made a quick call to my family. We went to Linas cafe in Abu Rummaneh (Central Damascus), spending two hours there. I contacted my parents again, opened the Internet via 3G, bought some of the necessary essentials, and after that we went back, going through the same checkpoints again.
At one of the checkpoints, I saw a small, narrow high metal table with a machine gun on it and a soldier behind it. It caught my attention that the majority of the soldiers at the checkpoints we passed were barely twenty. Everyone was in their full battlefield uniforms, despite the extreme heat, and carrying their rifles.
In some of the soldiers' hands were white papers, which I later realised were lists of the wanted, so they could check identity cards against the lists and then allow people to pass through. Some of the soldiers narrowed the street by placing garbage containers in the way, so only a single car could hardly pass through. Even the minibuses operating the line from Qaboun to Al-Thawra were inspected.
A boy arrived carrying an aluminium jug, a small cup, and a straw, used for drinking a local drink called Mate (a drink originally brought from Argentina by Syrians who lived there), and gave them to a soldier. In front of the soldier was a juice bottle in which he kept ice water, I mean a frozen block of water. He was pouring some of the water, which had melted in the heat, over the cloth covered centre of his helmet.
Another checkpoint, near the supermarket where I shop, had several soldiers. It's located at the small bridge fifty metres before my house, and some soldiers lie on the ground in the shade of a wall to escape the flames of the July sun.
The soldiers did not check my identity—maybe they were not looking for the names of wanted women. Salah brought me home and then he left. I continued my day normally and spent my night quietly.
The next morning, I went to work.
The soldiers, the checkpoints, and the guns had completely disappeared.
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