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Scavenger Hunter
Genre: Puzzle adventure game
Developer & Publisher: Sagewood Software
PC Requirements: 800 MHz or better processor,
720MB free space, video card and sound card 64MB RAM, Win 9x, WinXP, Win 2000, WinME
by Looney4Labs
Panic time! Your mother-in-law is coming for a visit. You must prominently display that ugly family heirloom vase she gave you last Christmas. You go to the closet to get it, but it's not there. You're positive that's where you put it as soon as you unwrapped it. Nonetheless, it has vanished into thin air! Or has it?
Factoid: The game was originally written as a text adventure in the 1980's.
Thanks to the good folks at Sagewood Software, we now know the truth! An alien race (Scavengers) existing in a slightly different dimension (and thus unseen) have plundered our planet for centuries, taking small objets d'art here and there. (And you thought you were just absent-minded.) Now, it's time for us Earthlings to take back our own.
The Inter Universe Insurance Corporation (IUIC) has formed an elite team of agents called Scavenger Hunters to deal with this persistent problem. You are a member of this dimension-traveling crackerjack group. Your dual pronged mission (should you choose to accept it) is to recover these valuable items and to destroy the worlds the Scavengers build, thereby preventing their return to Earth.
You are on your own and are depending only on your wits, your powers of observation, and your (hopefully keen) sense of direction. The more successful the mission, the more substantial your monetary reward at its end.
Though the story is not deep and never develops beyond the initial information, it does provide the reason for your travels.
Factoid: There are 1,000 plus possible layouts.
Scavenger Hunter is designed to deliver fresh challenges with each new game, and thus to be endlessly replayable. There are currently nine possible worlds, with the potential for more. The engine's artificial intelligence (AI) randomly selects five for each restart, changes all puzzle solutions, and generates a new inventory list. Stolen items are placed randomly. Gates that worked last time may not work this time, and vice versa.
Each game begins in the IUIC office. There you'll acquire an inventory of stolen property as well as a few items to aid you on your quest. Then it's off to the inter-dimensional portal to begin the real exploration.
Investigating new worlds is a big part of the fun -- but initially, I was quite muddled. Each world has multiple arrival and departure points, some functioning and some not. Contributing to this bewilderment was the fact that I often did not know which world I was on. There was no in-game map, no short-term instructions or goals, and no non-player characters to interact with. I was alone!
I possessed a device which should have alleviated some of that perplexity, but it has no instructions and I did not understand its functioning. However, before starting my second game, research using both Sagewood's excellent hints file and GameBoomers' Hints forum taught me its use and it became a great help.
Also, by the second game I learned to draw a detailed map of each world. Enjoyment increased; befuddlement decreased. Lucking onto a book identifying the worlds enabled me to feel a bit less lost in space.
Though the dual prong mission adds depth to the game, it necessitates revisiting each world at least once. It is possible to end the game without collecting all the stolen spoils and without destroying any worlds. Thankfully, it is impossible to die.
Factoid: This version of Scavenger Hunter was 7 years in the making.
Puzzles:
As is to be expected, a large part of the game involves searching for stolen objects. Additionally, you will need to find keys to doors or safes, etc.
You'll also encounter logic puzzles. Most are pretty straightforward and well integrated, although a few seemed motiveless. For instance, I found a diagram in one area. I could interact with it, and since it was an adventure game, I did. But, if I'd really been on that world seeking stolen property, I would have had no reason to do that.
That particular puzzle proved to be multi-stepped and I needed help to complete it. It was by far the most difficult puzzle in a collection ranging from easy to "please help me, somebody."
There are a few mechanical flip-the-lever type puzzles, including one which is spread out a bit. You must flip a lever, then change locations to see the effect, and then go back and do it all again. That type of puzzle is a bit tiresome, and thankfully, there aren't many of them.
Scavenger Hunter has no mazes, unless you consider the entire game to be a maze. My first game conveyed that impression, but mapping the second game alleviated the sensation.
In addition, there are no sound puzzles, no sliders, no timed puzzles, and no running, jumping, climbing, or shooting. I never pixel hunted, but noted some dark areas.
One puzzle type requires basic color discrimination. Sagewood Software included a visually challenged person and a person with red-green color blindness in the beta testing, leading me to believe these won't pose a problem for most folks.
Factoid: The 1980's version was written on an IBM PC with 640k of memory.
Ambiance:
The worlds run the gamut from the strangely peregrine to the almost familiar. Some provide an intriguing sense of the unusual while others felt as though Aunt Martha had just stepped out to borrow some sugar from her closest neighbor.
I expected and embraced the unfamiliar. But the nearly normal combined with the absence of non-player characters created a disturbing atmosphere, as if I had come home for a visit only to find everyone whisked away, leaving me alone and friendless. I enjoyed seeing what was around the next corner or in the next room, but I craved more information about these Scavengers who have so ransacked our planet.
The Castle World provided the most immersion, engendering the need to look over my shoulder as I softly crept down the dungeon stairs. The gently moving water in the moat refreshed me. Many worlds yielded small, unexpected-but-delightful discoveries. For instance, on one planet I stumbled across a crystal garden growing in neat rows. On another, heart shaped leaves brought an "oh" moment. While on a third, board games sporting punny names added a soupçon of whimsy.
Factoid: There are 4,600 images in this game.
Scavenger Hunter's graphics are uncomplicated and uncluttered. Though not the norm, some areas are intentionally dark. Like all slide show style games (at least the ones I've played), there are a few awkward camera angles.
You'll search mostly static locations with the exception of a few animations, such as a key turning in a lock, a door opening, or a lever turning. Though not affecting gameplay, lever animations sometimes resulted in the surrounding area darkening briefly.
I had difficulty differentiating yellow and orange on most signposts. Using the position of the indicator instead of the color solved this. Though it did not affect puzzles, it did initially affect my navigation.
Window reflections were skillfully done, often causing me to try to alter my angle to see what else might be just beyond my sight.
Factoid: The game's lilting soundtrack is written by Glen Soulis, brother of one of the developers.
The background music is pleasant and light, changing with each location. It looped quite often, which had the unfortunate effect of making me feel hurried and tense. Lovely as it is, it resulted in a less immersive gaming experience.
Ambient sounds are well done – for instance, the cool whoosh when a portal activates. However, they are often overshadowed by the background music. There is little speech, but when it occurs the voice is feminine and pleasant.
Factoid: The Artificial Intelligence used in this game was produced by the husband and wife team of Hugh and Anne Gregory.
Scavenger Hunter features a first person view point, point and click navigation, and is presented in slide show style a la Myst. It comes in a jewel case with one CD which does not need to be in the drive to play, and includes a small paper manual. Its smart cursor automatically changes to indicate directions and possible actions.
A right click and/or the ESC key brings up the Main Menu, allowing you to disable transitions and real-time effects, if needed. This is where you'll find the save, load, and exit buttons. I greatly missed the ability to change the relative levels of the background music and the ambient sounds.
Happily, you can save at will, without limit, and name your own saves. Additionally, the game is ALT+TAB friendly and includes subtitles.
A zip icon allows rapid transitions between two points. Though this feature does not work inside buildings, using it outside speeds up gameplay.
Although the interface is fairly intuitive, it has one feature which became annoying with repetition. To examine any inventory item, you must click on inventory, then the magnifying glass, and drag that icon to the item. Left clicking without the magnifying glass would have been easier.
The "new game" option provides links to information on the Scavengers, icon identification, and allows you to check your screen settings for optimal game play.
I experienced no glitches and the game needs no patches.
I e-mailed the company once when I thought I had found a dead end. Their response was fast and friendly. It turned out the problem was with me and not the game.
Factoid: The original 1980's version was borne of the author's frustration with the lack of replay value in most adventure games of that time period.
Nit picking:
Sadly, the manual does not inform the player of the hint file or the background information, nor include the website address. While not necessary to the game, this material enriches the experience. Best case scenario would be to include this information on the CD or to at least point it out.
Scavenger Hunter takes longer than expected to start, load a saved game, or exit. I mention this only because there is no busy icon to indicate the program is working. While this fact is included in the manual, it's a bit disconcerting in practice.
Factoid: The number of treasures are selected at random by the AI with each restart.
For the majority of my first game, I was frustrated and lost. By my second game, thanks to some research and better understanding of the mechanics of the game, these problems cleared up and I enjoyed myself rather more.
Normally, lack of story is a negative for me. But the ever-changing nature of this game uses that negative in a positive manner. This game can be played intensely or dipped into while waiting for the latest-and-greatest to arrive. Since there is no detailed story to remember, time between gaming sessions is not critical. In addition, the broad range of puzzles makes it a good choice for family play.
At day's end, Scavenger Hunter rewards the dedicated agent with a well earned rest and issues an invitation to come back and do it all over again.
Short List:
Puzzle adventure game
1 CD in jewel case
Paper manual included
Point and click navigation
Smart cursor
ALT+TAB friendly
Save at will
Unlimited saves
1st person perspective
Slide show style
Puzzles, transport patterns, and stolen booty randomly generated for each new game
Downloadable hint file
No dying
Inventory, mechanical, and logic puzzles
No stand alone mazes
No sound, slider, or timed puzzles
Pure adventure, no action
No pixel hunting but some darkish areas and careful observation needed
Very basic color discrimination puzzles
Background music pleasant, but repeats often
Very little voice acting
No non-player character interaction
Ambient sounds okay, but often overpowered by music
Stable with no patches needed
Fast and friendly customer service
Does not display a busy icon when opening, loading a game, or exiting
My Computer Specs:
Win XP Professional SP1
3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4
1 GB Dual Channel DDR400 SDRAM
DirectX Version: 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)
Scavenger Hunter is an Independent production of Sagewood Software, and can be purchased at the game's website.
design copyright © 2007 GameBoomers Group


BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. - Morgan County World War II veterans were honored with the unveiling of a new memorial on Sunday during a Veterans Day ceremony attended by more than 1,000 people.
Robert Hawvermale, chairman of the Morgan County, W.Va., World War II Veterans Association, spoke with emotion during the ceremony.
All 1,147 Morgan County citizens who served from Dec. 7, 1941, to Dec. 31, 1946, are listed on the memorial, he said.
The new monument is across from the Magistrate Court building on the Fairfax Street Green.
Hawvermale is a veteran of the Korean War, and he and other American Legion members talked about honoring the World War II veterans.
"Sixty years had gone by and they needed to be properly recognized," he said.
The granite monument was funded by a $150,000 grant from the West Virginia State Legislature, he said, with the help of state Sen. Walt Helmick, D-Pocahontas.
"Sen. Helmick came and sat down with the committee, and we asked for his assistance," Hawvermale said. "He was a lifesaver on this."
Helmick, Del. Daryl Cowles, R-Morgan, and former Del. Charles Trump attended the ceremony, along with other town and county officials.
"We deemed it to be important and appropriate," Helmick said before the ceremony.
The 16-foot monument is similar to the World War I memorial on the Fairfax Street Green, except for the World War II service symbol of the eagle spreading its wings on the top of the monument, Hawvermale said.
He said the monument was designed by committee member and World War II veteran C. Edward Middlekauff, who served in Europe.
Middlekauff's voice also broke with emotion during the ceremony.
He explained that the small gold pin depicting an eagle inside a wreath was awarded to the American military forces that were honorably discharged after World War II.
"The GIs referred to it as the Ruptured Duck," he said.
Middlekauff was born and raised in Hagerstown and moved to Morgan County in 1950.
He said he was in the 26th Infantry Division in 1944 and was with Gen. George Patton's 3rd Army in Normandy. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, Belgium.
"We relieved the besieged town of Bastogne that was circled by the Germans on Dec. 26 in 1944," Middlekauff said.
He was awarded the Purple Heart and the Silver Star.
Middlekauff said the original idea was to add the World War II veterans to the existing monument that was erected in 1925 on the Fairfax Green, which honors World War I veterans and those from previous wars. But there was not enough space to place 1,147 names.
He said the first war monument is an important part of the community, and the committee did not want the new memorial to overshadow it.
Both monuments "complement each other and add to the beauty of the town," he said.
Hawvermale said World War I veterans in 1943 erected a plywood monument with 800 hand-lettered names, representing the number of World War II Morgan County citizens that served at that time.
The 16-by-8-foot-high monument stood where the Magistrate Court building is now, on the corner of Fairfax and Mercer streets.
"Time took its toll," he said.
When the committee began gathering the names of those who served, it was made more difficult by the fact that U.S. military service records stored in St. Louis were lost in a fire in the 1960s, he said.
Hawvermale said Middlekauff got the 800 names from a photograph of the plywood monument by using a magnifying glass and then published them in the local newspaper to find other county citizens who served during World War II.
Veterans and families from as far away as California, Nevada and Texas were contacted, Middlekauff said.
"As far as we know, we got everybody on the monument that served," he said.
"This was an honor to build," said Don McClure, owner of Gordon's Memorials in McConnellsburg, Pa., who erected the memorial.
He said it took more than two years to make the monument, which weighs about 30 tons. He said it was sculpted by a company in Barre, Vt., from granite found there.
Soon after the ceremony was over, many people began getting rubbings of their relatives' names that are cast in raised bronze letters on the memorial.
Sisters Carol Potter Miller and Diane Potter Fox got a rubbing of their father's name, Melvin I. Potter. He served in Burma and was one of Merrill's Marauders, they said.


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Celtic supremo, Rangers chief, a Texan, former lawyer and media guru - meet the key players who can shape future for Scottish football
We profile the main men who hold the aces in the reshaping of Scottish football
By Stephen Halliday
Tuesday, 14th April 2020, 7:30 am
Dundee managing director John Nelms.
When it comes to political intrigue and in-fighting, Scottish football is so very often in a league of its own.
But even for those of us long accustomed to the rancorous disputes which have regularly bedevilled the national sport at executive and boardroom level down the years, the mayhem unleashed by the Scottish Professional Football League's resolution aimed at ending season 2019-20 has been bewildering to behold.
The claims and counter-claims of the parties involved over the past few days have sparked and fuelled a fresh batch of conspiracy theories among those who are perfectly willing to buy into the kind of agenda-driven narrative which Scottish football has turned into an art form.
It seems even more unedifying than ever, given it is set against the current backdrop of the Covid-19 crisis which has raised such serious doubts over the financial viability of so many of the SPFL's 42 member clubs.
The row over Dundee's vote which never was (or was it?) has brought new key figures into the spotlight as the SPFL attempts to find a way forward. Ahead of today's emergency board meeting, we profile some of those who have now emerged as key players in this latest political drama.
MURDOCH MacLENNAN
Since his appointment as chairman of the Scottish Professional Football League in the summer of 2017, MacLennan has largely been conspicuous only by his lengthy periods of silence.
The 71-year-old media executive has appeared content to remain extremely low profile in the role, certainly in comparison to his predecessors Ralph Topping and Lex Gold who adopted a more hands-on and publicly visible approach. That all changed over the past few days as MacLennan put his name to the SPFL's robust rejection of calls from Rangers for an independent inquiry into the voting process and the suspension of SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster and legal counsel Rod McKenzie.
It's not the first time Glasgow-born MacLennan, a former managing director of Associated Newspapers and chief executive of the Telegraph Media Group, has crossed swords with Rangers. The Ibrox club previously called for his suspension as SPFL chairman in 2018, citing what they claimed had been undisclosed business links between MacLennan, as non-executive chairman of Independent News and Media, and Celtic's major shareholder Dermot Desmond who held a major stake in the Dublin-based company.
ROD McKENZIE
Ever since the inception of the Scottish Premier League back in 1998, McKenzie has been an integral figure in and around the boardroom table of the governing body.
It was with Harper Macleod, the leading Scottish law firm of which he was a co-founder in 1988, that McKenzie initially provided legal advice to the SPL following the top flight clubs' breakaway from the Scottish Football League. From 2002, he alone became the SPL's principal lawyer.
McKenzie has subsequently advised a succession of chief executives, chairmen and board members of the SPL through major issues such as the collapse of the Setanta TV deal in 2009, the fall-out from Rangers' insolvency in 2012 and the merger with the SFL to form the SPFL in 2013.
Having retired from Harper Macleod, McKenzie was appointed as the in-house legal counsel for the SPFL in January 2018. Twice named Scottish Solicitor of the Year, he also serves on Scottish Rugby's disciplinary panel.
McKenzie now finds himself in the cross hairs of Rangers after he ruled that the alternative resolution they submitted ahead of last Friday's vote was not competent.
JOHN NELMS
Perhaps not since Maurice Johnston joined Rangers has a signature in Scottish football caused as much of a stooshie as the one John Nelms flourished on Dundee's now notorious voting slip last Friday. The managing director of the Dens Park club is now being painted as the man with the fate of the SPFL and many of its other 41 members in his sole control.
Nelms, from Austin in Texas, has been running the show at Dundee since 2013 when his business colleague Tim Keyes bought the club through their Keyes Capital investment company. Having previously spent two years of his childhood in Scotland, when his his father worked at Faslane Naval Base and the family was based at Rhu, Nelms later returned to the country to play a trial match for East Fife, after being spotted playing by the Fife-based father of a fellow student at university in Chicago.
His tenure at Dundee has been turbulent, with one promotion and one relegation. Nelms was a director on the SPFL board from 2018 to 2019 and his phone is sure to have been red hot with calls from the current incumbents over the past five days.
STEWART ROBERTSON
It was just three days after the SPFL's initial decision to suspend football on 13 March that Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson moved to make clear the Ibrox club's position on how the outcome of the 2019-20 season should be determined.
A mild-mannered and measured individual in the experience of anyone who has met him since his first involvement in football as a Motherwell director back in 2002, Robertson struck a more strident and robust tone when he declared that final league standings could only be declared when all 38 games are played. "Any attempt to finish the season with a significant amount of games still to play, impacts upon the integrity of sport in Scotland," said Robertson at the time.
The 54-year-old, currently a member of the SPFL board who have rejected his stance, remains determined to derail the current resolution before clubs and have an alternative adopted.
PETER LAWWELL
If Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell possessed even half of the Machiavellian skills he is credited with on the lunatic fringes of Scottish football's social media, the decision-making processes of both the SPFL and Scottish FA would be completely under his spell.
The reality is that Lawwell is no more or no less than a highly skilled administrator and CEO who looks after the strategic interests of his club with relentless resolve and acumen. Celtic's success on the pitch and balance sheet off it are testament to his success.
While no longer a member of the SPFL board, Lawwell will inevitably be a key player in the myriad discussions which take place between clubs and the governing bodies in the current crisis. He outlined Celtic's position in public on 19 March, stressing a preference for the season to be completed if possible but for 'a fair and reasonable solution' if not.
With the Scottish champions 13 points ahead of Rangers at the top of the Premiership when football was suspended, Lawwell would not surprisingly expect that solution to see Celtic's ninth consecutive title confirmed.

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The girl simply turns up one day and gets into the back seat of the 1943 Rikuo. She doesn't seem to have a name, but then nobody else does, either. The driver and the passenger drive away without even speaking to her, and that's how they come to be together. A little further down the road, they run into Suzuki, so called because that's the name of her machine, and they agree to conduct a cross-country race all the way to Nagasaki. Winner gets the other bike.
Shinohara's "Two Car" is mostly about this race, which is an odd race in that nobody much seems to want to win. The driver and the passanger have devoted their lives to racing and winning with their customized and rebuilt Type 97, and Suzuki identifies intimately with her bike, yet they keep stopping to help each other along the road, as if the road would be unbearably lonely if that other car weren't sometimes in view.
What I liked about "Two Car" was the sense of life that occasionally sneaked through, particularly in the character of Suzuki. She is the only character who is fully occupied with being herself (rather than the instrument of a metaphor), and so we get the sense we've met somebody. That, and some of the racing and road scenes, and the visual texture of the manga, makes it worth reading.


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USA/B&W-70 m./Dir: Edward Sutherland/Wr: Francis Martin & Walter DeLeon/Cast: Peggy Hopkins Joyce (Herself), W.C. Fields (Professor Quail), Edmund Breese (Dr. Wong), George Burns (Dr. Burns), Gracie Allen (Nurse Allen), Franklin Pangborn (Hotel Manager)
Despite W.C. Fields' tremendous success as an eccentric juggler on the Vaudeville circuit, as a sketch comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies, and as a Broadway thespian in Poppy, film stardom was more elusive. The bigwigs at Paramount Studios doubted the Great Man's ability to carry a feature on his own, so they stacked the deck by forcing W.C. into multi-star vehicles that ensured boffo box office. In International House, for example, Fields was required to share screen-time with Peggy Hopkins Joyce (an untalented but notorious divorcée), Burns and Allen, Rudy Vallee, Cab Calloway (performing "Reefer Man"), and even Bela Lugosi. Still, International House is the best of Fields' early all-star movies, because the director, Eddie Sutherland, allowed Fields free reign to improvise and embellish his scenes.
As Professor Henry R. Quail, Fields drunkenly pilots his Auto-Gyro (half airplane/half helicopter) thousands of miles off-course. He's headed for Kansas City, but he lands in Wuhu, China, just as his supply of beer runs out. Luckily, there's plenty of booze to be had at Wuhu's International House Hotel; and with a full tank of giggle juice, Fields is at his belligerent best. The film tends to sag when the Great Man is off screen, but it's worth riding out for Fields' 100 proof hijinks.
Incidentally, Fields often succeeded in slipping dirty lines past the censors. In International House, when Peggy Hopkins Joyce asks what she's sitting on, Fields picks up a cat and replies, "Ah, it's a pussy."
Drinks Consumed-- Beer, champagne, whiskey, and a variety of other hard liquors (based on the scattered empties)
Intoxicating Effects-- Drunk flying, destruction of property, public disturbance, hiccups
Potent Quotables--QUAIL (to a valet): Hey, "garcon." Bring me a drink.
VALET: Water, sir?
QUAIL: A little on the side… very little.
Video Availability--DVD, as part of the W.C. Fields Comedy Collection Vol. 1 (Universal)
Similarly Sauced Cinema--Other multi-star movies featuring Fields include If I Had a Million (1932), Six Of A Kind (1934), and the wonderfully loony Million Dollar Legs (1932).
W.C. Fields Comedy Collection, Vol. 2 (The Man on the Flying Trapeze / Never Give A Sucker An Even Break / You're Telling Me! / The Old Fashioned Way / Poppy)


A 54-year-old male with a three-month history of a tender right neck mass associated with right-sided headaches, epistaxis, otalgia, diplopia, and paresthesias of the right face and tongue, was referred to the otolaryngology for further evaluation. The patient reported fevers, night sweats and weight loss. A fine needle aspirate of the dominant right neck mass yielded a preliminary diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma. The patient was then referred to the radiology for diagnostic imaging.


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S. C. Jordan1, K. Kucher2, M. Bagger2, H. Hockey3, K. Wagner4, N. Ammerman1, J. Choi1, A. Vo1
1Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Ctr, Los Angeles, CA, 2Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, 3Biometrics Matters Ltd, Hamilton, New Zealand, 4Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
*Purpose: Awareness of drug-drug interactions is critical in management of organ transplant recipients. However, there is little understanding of the possibility of biologic agents interfering…
Two-Year, Single Center, Retrospective Review of Herbal Supplement Use in Living Kidney Donors
N. Persun1, D. Johnson1, A. Leonberg-Yoo2, J. Bahrainwala2, P. P. Reese2, D. M. Collins3, M. Houston3, A. Naji4, J. Trofe-Clark1
1Pharmacy, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2Renal Division, Perelman School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 3Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 4Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Herbal supplement use in the evaluation phase of live kidney donors (LKD) poses challenges to providers. No formal management guidelines exist. Herbal supplements can…
A Novel Apparatus Mimicking Hypertensive Kidney With Primary Cultured Human Kidney Cells Using Rotational Force: Application To In Vitro Drug Screening In Kidney Transplant Recipients
Y. Kim1, S. Lee2, J. Moon1, J. Kim1, M. Yu3, C. Lee4, Y. Kim1, S. Yang5, J. Jeong1, J. Seon1
1Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2Biomedical Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 3Internal Medicine, Hanyang University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 4Internal Medicine, Cheju Halla General Hospital, Cheju, Korea, Republic of, 5Kidney Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
*Purpose: Cell culture is an essential part of the development for various medical technologies such as identifying the cause of the disease and developing new…
The Safety Of Adjuvant Chemotherapy In Kidney Transplant Patients With Urothelial Carcinoma
Z. Wang, J. Xiao, Y. Zhu, J. Lin, Y. Guo, Y. Tian
Capital Medical University,Beijing Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
*Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the safety of adjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine plus cisplatin in kidney transplant patients with urothelial…
A Retrospective Matched Case-Control Study of Medical and Psychiatric Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Bipolar Disorder
A. GOSWAMI BANERJEE1, S. Hamel2, R. Weinrieb1, S. Dave1, V. Johnson3, D. Sawinski4, J. Trofe-Clark3
1Psychiatry, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2Vanderbilt Univ. Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 3Pharmacy, Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 4Renal, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Management of kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) with bipolar disorder (BD) is complicated by risk factors for non-adherence, complex medication regimens and limited published guidance.…
Use of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists in Kidney Transplant Recipients with Type 2 Diabetes
A. Kukla, J. Hill, M. Merzkani, A. Bentall, E. Lorenz, W. Park, P. Shah, N. Issa, M. Stegall
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: GLP-1 receptor agonists have been shown to improve glucose control and diabetes-related comorbidities, including obesity, cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease, in non-transplant patients.…
Anti-IdeS Antibodies in IVIg and Its Effect on IdeS Activity
A. Runström,1 S. Järnum,1 S. Jordan,2 L. Winstedt,1 C. Kjellman.1
1Hansa Medical AB, Lund, Sweden; 2Comprehensive Transplant Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
ObjectiveEvaluate how and why intravenous gamma globulin (IVIg) affects IdeS-cleavage of IgG.IntroductionIgG degrading enzyme of Streptococcus pyogenes (IdeS) cleaves human IgG in two steps, first…
How To Handle a Missed or Delayed Dose Intake? A Pharmacokinetic Study of Cyclosporine and Tacrolimus in Renal Transplant Patients


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"The value of art is realized not by who quotes the highest price for it, but by its relevance that remains in every generation"- Jeevan KC
Born and brought up in Hetauda, Jeevan KC grew up far from the humdrum of city life in Kathmandu. Although art came into his life quite early, he missed the huge opportunities that existed in the art scenario in Kathmandu. It was only fifteen years ago that he sought recognition for his art. He was driven by his passion rather than profits he could reap from his art, until his peers influenced him to take that road.
A master of his work, Jeevan KC's style is exquisite and contemporary, focusing on a theme of peace, integrity, and morality. His style is original, and is called the "no-brush art". He believes in using tools and instruments with different colors to give a texture that portrays cave art. His originality is mainly highlighted by the texture as it reflects resilience through time and different types of weather, depicting the texture from Ajanta Caves in India.. His mentor was the late RN Joshi, a renowned artist and founder of Park Gallery, the first modern art gallery in Nepal. KC began his career by training himself in digital painting.
He has received recognition from many artists around the world, and has also been invited to hold a solo exhibition of his works in New York. Besides the wide recognition abroad, he also won many accolades in Nepal when he participated in art competitions conducted to commemorate the King and Queen's birthdays during their reign. Currently, he is preparing for an exhibition of his works in Australia.
Jeevan's art is a result of his honesty and perseverance, but most importantly, his deep passion towards his work. He does not wish to entangle himself with the politics that are enclosed within the art scenario in Nepal, but aspires to spread the magic of his art around Kathmandu as well.
A hidden gem of the art world in Nepal, Jeevan KC is one of the most respectable artists and his undying love and passion towards his work deserves a brighter spotlight and a wider audience of appreciation.


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by Wisconsin Hearing Aid Centers | Aug 2, 2021 | Hearing Loss Articles
The men and women who serve our country in uniform too often suffer debilitating physical, mental, and emotional challenges after their service is finished. While healthcare for veterans is a continuing discussion, relatively little attention has been paid to the most common disabilities diagnosed in veterans: Hearing loss and tinnitus.
Even if you factor in age and occupation, there's a 30% higher chance of veterans having severe hearing impairment compared to non-veterans. Hearing loss, related to military service, has been reported at least back to the second world war, but it's far more prevalent in veterans who have served more recently. Veterans who have served recently are generally among the younger group of service members and are also as much as four times more likely to have hearing impairment than non-veterans.
Why Are Service Personnel at Greater Risk For Hearing Impairment?
The answer is simple: Exposure to noise. Sure, some occupations are noisier than others. For instance, a librarian will be working in a fairly quiet environment. Thet would likely be exposed to volumes ranging from a whisper (around 30 dB) to average conversation (60 dB).
For civilians who are at the other end of the sonic spectrum, such as an urban construction worker, the hazard rises. Sounds you'd constantly hear (city traffic, about 85 dB) or periodically (an ambulance siren's about 120 dB) are at harmful levels, and that's only background noise. Sounds louder than 85dB (from power tools to heavy equipment) are common on construction sites according to research.
As noisy as a heavy construction site is, active military personnel are regularly exposed to much louder noises. In combat scenarios, troops are exposed to gunfire (150 dB), grenades (158 dB), and heavy artillery (180 dB). And it's not quiet at military bases either. On the deck of an aircraft carrier, noise levels can range from 130-160 dB; engine rooms might be inside (and no jets), but they're still incredibly loud. Noise levels for pilots are high too, with helicopters on the low end (about 95-100 dB) and the majority of jets and other aircraft going over 100 dB. Another worry: One study discovered that exposure to some types of jet fuel appears to cause hearing loss by disrupting auditory processing.
Our service men and women don't have the choice of opting out, as a 2015 study clearly demonstrates. In order to complete a mission or perform daily activities, they have to cope with noise exposure. And even the best performing, standard issue, hearing protection often isn't enough to protect against some of these noises.
How Can Veterans Address Hearing Loss?
Noise related hearing loss can be alleviated with hearing aids even though it can't be cured. The loss of high-frequency sound is the most common kind of hearing loss among veterans and this type of impairment can be treated with specialized hearing aids. Tinnitus is often a symptom of another health issue and though it can't be cured, there are also treatment options for it.
In serving our country, veterans have already made lots of sacrifices. Hearing shouldn't have to be one of them.
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Blasphemous Holy Week: Canal Sur utilizes the video game music without permission on a video clip
Any person who recognizes the Holy Week Spanish and has played Blasphemous, you will have found similarities greater than remarkable. The Sevillian Workshop The Game Kitchen has based its successful Blasphemous in some of the highlights of Andalusian culture, something that is observed both in the number of the penitent, the lead character of the video game, or in the soundtrack Journey.
This video might delight any type of follower of Holy Week, yet we are required to mention a 'yet' in this relationship: Canal Sur has not requested permission to The Game Kitchen to use the songs of your game. Although this is reason enough to end the courts, the Sevillian research has actually merely commemorated the recognition of blasphemous by its cultural part and has provided a little touch of attention to the television channel to get in touch with designers for future celebrations.
Southern Canal has used the music of the trailer of the last expansion of blasphemous and precisely from that we involve speak, of the songs so particular of blasphemous. Tones and also instruments used in distribution are extremely comparable to those that star in the processions of Holy Week in Andalusia, and also it seems that the renowned television channel of this area has actually realized it. Recently, South Canal has actually released a video clip on Twitter to promote the return of the celebration after the issues of the pandemic, something that has actually accompanied with the songs of the last Blasphemous trailer committed to its new expansion.
The particularities of blasphemous have actually drawn in attention to an excellent handful of players, something that has actually specified of producing a docudrama devoted to its growth. When it comes to the journey of the penitent, in our analysis we have actually highlighted the interesting globe that has been developed from the workplaces of The Game Kitchen, although we assume that does not wind up benefiting from all its prospective .
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UCI Track Champions League preview: Cycling tournament kicks up a gear in London
Posted on 3 December 2021 by Yoseph Kiflie
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com – 06/11/2021 – Cycling – UCI Track Champions League Round 1 – Mallorca / Velòdrom Illes Balears, Palma, Spain – Germany's Lea Friedrich leads in the first round of Keiren heats.
This week sees the UCI Track Champions League come to London for the final two rounds. The new track cycling series was launched with the aim of building the sport's global profile outside the Olympic cycle.
The competition is divided into Sprint and Endurance categories. The former consists of Sprint and Keirin races, the latter of Elimination and Snatch races.
Points are given based on how riders finish in each race. The leader after each round wears a light blue jersey.
There are an equal number of men and women for the sprint and endurance, 18 each. There is also equal prize money, with the €500,000 prize pot being split evenly.
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com – 27/11/2021 – Cycling – UCI Track Champions League, Round 2: Panevezys – Cido Arena, Panevezys, Lithuania – Leaders after Round 1, Katie Archibald, Corbin Strong, Emma Hinze and Harrie Lavreysen.
In the Sprint categories, Emma Hinze and Harrie Lavreysen hold commanding leads. Neither has finished below 2nd in any of the races so far.
Harrie Lavreysen's lead continues what has been an dominant year, having won gold in both Sprint and Keirin events at the Track World Championships in October, and getting gold and bronze at last summer's Olympics.
The top three in the women's sprint mirrors the podium at the World Championships, but Emma Hinze hasn't had it all her own way this year. Canadian Kelsey Mitchell beat the German in the semi-finals at the Olympics on her to Sprint gold.
The men's Endurance has been by far the closest category, with Sebastián Mora holding a slender two-point lead over Corbin Strong.
Corbin Strong had an ominous start in Mallorca, winning both the Elimination and the Snatch to lead after Round One. However, he struggled in the second round, and Spaniard Mora took advantage by winning both races in Lithuania.
In the women's endurance, Brit Katie Archibald comes to her home track as leader. Having been fourth in the first-round sprint race, she has not looked back, winning every race since then.
Brits to look out for
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com – 27/11/2021 – Cycling – UCI Track Champions League, Round 2: Panevezys – Cido Arena, Panevezys, Lithuania – Ed Clancy, Sophie Capewell, Rhys Britton and Katie Archibald of Great Britain.
The Track Champions League has been illuminated by the crowd's support of local riders, with Sebastián Mora and Vasilijus Lendel delighting crowds. Expect to see something similar at Lee Valley.
The obvious name will be Katie Archibald, due to her dominance in the Endurance.
There are other Brits on show too. Three-time Olympic champion Ed Clancy announced his retirement in Tokyo this year, with the Track Champions League serving as a "last hurrah".
With this most likely being the final time he'll race in London, expect to see a massive reception from the crowd.
Clancy is competing in the Endurance category, and is joined by fellow Brit Rhys Britton.
Picture by Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com – 27/11/2021 – Cycling – UCI Track Champions League, Round 2: Panevezys – Cido Arena, Panevezys, Lithuania – Rhys Britton of Great Britain and Kelland O'Brien of Australia during the Men's Scratch race.
The 22-year-old is a Snatch race specialist. He got a bronze at the World Championships and made the podium in both rounds of the Champions League.
Finally, Sophie Capewell is competing in the Sprint. The 23-year-old comes into the Track Champions League having won bronze in the Team Sprint at the Track World Championship.
And that's just warm up! @SophieECapewell @BritishCycling #UCITCL pic.twitter.com/Rffn5KyjGM
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For other uses, see Orestes (disambiguation).
Orestes (died 28 August 476) was a Roman general and politician of Pannonian ancestry, who was briefly in control of the remnant Western Roman Empire in 475 and 476.
Born to a Roman aristocratic family from Pannonia Savia, Orestes was son of Tatulus, a pagan, and son-in-law to Romulus, who served as comes in the Western Roman Empire. After Pannonia was ceded to Attila the Hun, Orestes joined Attila's court, reaching high position as a secretary (notarius) in 449 and 452. In 449, Orestes was sent by Attila twice to Constantinople as envoy to Emperor Theodosius II.
In 475, Orestes was appointed magister militum and patricius by Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos. This proved to be a mistake on the part of Nepos. By August 28, 475, Orestes, at the head of the foederati levies, managed to take control of the government in Ravenna, which had been the de facto capital of the Western Roman Empire since 402. Julius Nepos fled without a fight to Dalmatia, where he would continue to reign until his assassination in 480. With the emperor far away, Orestes elevated his son Romulus to the rank of Augustus, so that the last Western Roman emperor is known as Romulus Augustulus meaning "little Augustus" as the emperor was only a 15-year-old boy at the time he became emperor in 475.
The new administration was not recognized by the rival Eastern Roman Emperors Zeno and Basiliscus, who still considered Julius Nepos to be their legitimate partner in the administration of the Empire. But as they were engaged in a civil war with each other, neither emperor was about to oppose the latest usurper in battle.
Orestes was free to issue new solidi in the mints of Arles, Milan, Ravenna and Rome, enabling him to pay the barbarian mercenaries who constituted most of the Roman Army at the time.
However, Orestes denied the demands of Heruli, Scirian and Torcilingi mercenaries to be granted Italian lands in which to settle. Before he overthrew Nepos, the Roman general promised his barbarian soldiers a third of Italian territory in exchange for assisting with the deposition of the emperor. After being turned down by Orestes, the dissatisfied mercenaries revolted under the Germanic Odoacer, whom they declared to be their king on August 23, 476. Odoacer led them against their former employer, ravaging every town and village in northern Italy and meeting little resistance. Orestes fled to the city of Pavia, where the city's bishop gave him sanctuary within the city walls. Despite the protection he received from the bishop, Orestes was forced to flee for his life when Odoacer and his men broke through the city defenses and ravaged the church, stealing all the money that the bishop had collected for the poor and razing many of the city buildings to the ground.
After escaping from the city of Pavia, Orestes rallied the few surviving units of Roman troops stationed in northern Italy and was able to move his small army to the city of Piacenza. The forces of Odoacer and Orestes finally met on the battlefield, but the inexperienced Roman commander and his few and sparse Imperial troops, disorganized and unprepared, stood no chance against the savagery of Odoacer's mercenary army. The majority of the Roman soldiers were either killed, captured, or driven off, while Orestes was captured near the city on August 28 and was swiftly executed. Within weeks, Ravenna was captured and Romulus Augustus was deposed. Eighteenth-century historian Edward Gibbon attached great significance to this event due to Odoacer's foreign birth. Gibbon's romantic description of the events of 476 as the fall of the Western Roman Empire was influential for two centuries, but modern scholarship has tended to question this - it was the end of the emperors in the West. On the other hand the Roman Empire existed wherever the emperor could appoint his officials to govern them. Nevertheless, Odoacer's defeat of Orestes and his son are often still used to mark the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages which is itself disputable as many scholars[according to whom?] see a continuity of culture and society.
Orestes was played by Andrew Pleavin in the 2001 miniseries Attila, which depicts his time in service of the Hunnic king.
The character of Orestes was played by Iain Glen in the 2007 historical-fiction film The Last Legion, which shows the character during his period of rule in Rome, although the film deviates significantly from the historical record of these events.
Orestes is portrayed as the primary villain in Michael Curtis Ford's novel The Fall of Rome.
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Table manners in Segou
During my recent stay in Bamako, I had occasion to revive some of my rusty Bambara. Many exchanges happened at lunch time, and now, back in London, I'm rereading a classic article to strengthen my practice. In "De l'alimentation au Mali", Gérard Dumestre lays out the ceremonial sequence of eating and the Bambara formulaic expressions that go with them. The idealised template presented in the following will be familiar to inhabitants and visitors of many places in West Africa – a shared cultural script that makes the sharing of food with guests, and even strangers, a cornerstone of West African conviviality.
A table setting starts with the arrival of the meal, introduced by dúmuni fílɛ 'here is the food' or dúmuni nàna 'the food has arrived'. The guests sit down, on a mat or around a table, and wash their hands in a container with water that circulates. It falls to the head of family or a senior member of the group to pour the gravy (ná, designating both a liquid 'sauce' and its contents in term of meat, fish, and vegetables) over the rice or fonio and to distribute morsels of meat or fish so that every guest finds their portion on their section of the plate.
With the words bìsìmilayi 'in God's name', the meal is opened. Once a person has finished eating, they withdraw from the place of eating, thanking the household with the words ábarika 'thank you', the response to which is ábarika ala yé 'thanks to God'.
Wait, you might think. What about the women behind the curtains who have prepared the food? Whether they will eat together with men or the entire family is a matter of regional and personal conventions. But whatever the case, it is possible to thank the always female cook with the words I ni gwá 'You and the kitchen!' To this, the answer will be Kà à súmaya ì kɔ̀nɔ ' May it [the food] cool inside you.'
Food is generously shared in many West African cultures, but often, it is not plentiful. What is shared communally , the sùman, 'staple, everyday food', is therefore often complemented by nègèlafɛnw 'snacks' – literally, 'things of desire'. Those are eaten mainly out of the house, far from the realm of responsible sharing. The akara or syɔ̀furufuru I wrote about some time ago are a classic nègèlafɛn. And now I have to stop, I'm suddenly feeling very hungry…
Read more on the social aspects of eating in Mali here:
Dumestre, Gérard. 1996. De l'alimentation au Mali. Cahiers d'Études africanies, 144, XXXVI-4, 689-702
There might be West African languages in your beauty regime
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Indulge in body butter? Look after your lips with a velvety lip balm? The chances are that your cosmetics contain an ingredient whose name betrays the origin of one of the oils used in them: shea butter or beurre de karité.
They are made from oil of nuts of the same plant, Vitellaria paradoxa. In English, it is called the shea trea, but guess where this designation hails from? I was reminded of its origins when watching Na baro kè's brilliant video chat on the cold season, in which inhabitants of the city of Bobo Dioulasso in Burkina Faso mentioned that they use body lotion, si tulu (literally shea oil, often pronounced with a sh sound, phonetic [ʃ]) in the Bambara language.
So how did shea oil or butter, si tulu, into beurre de karité? Whichever French-speaking person introduced this word to the French language took inspiration from Wolof, a language spoken in Senegal. In Wolof, the shea trea is called kaarite.
So whenever you use shea butter or beurre de karité, you're connecting with a West African language linking the word to the area where the product is grown and harvested.
"My Songhay keeps growing"
My colleague Klaudia Drombowsky-Hahn and I have spent a week with students from the English Department at Bamako's Université des Lettres et Sciences Humaines and staff members from AMALAN, The Academy of Malian Languages. As part of Klaudia's course, all of us drew our language portraits. Developed by the Austrian linguist Britta Busch, language portraits have been developed and are now widely used as a method to evoke linguistic repertoires that, while still eliciting them in terms of codes or languages that can be named, avoids the straitjackets of concepts such as 'mother tongue', 'L1', 'dominant language', and so on. Rather, it is left to individuals to imagine and execute the task, which is to fill in (or draw and write around) a silhouette, through focusing on all languages that play a role in their lives.
Here you can see the language portrait of one of the course participants.
In terms of named languages, her repertoire comprises Songhay, Tamasheq, Arabic, Bambara, English and French. So, does this mean she speaks five languages? And is one of them her mother tongue? The silhouette, together with some explanations offered by her reveals that Songhai – to be precise two different Songhai varieties, Gao Senni – also callled Koyraboro Senni, the language of the town dwellers – and Tumbutu Chiini, aka Koyra Chiini 'city language', are important because the whole family lived in the two northern Malian cities of Timbuktu and Gao, cities whose alternative language names set them apart from surrounding nomadic populations.
Tamasheq qualifies as her 'mother tongue' in the literal sense of being her mother's language, different from her father's. She uses it mainly when visiting the maternal side of the family, who follow a nomadic lifestyle. Arabic is an important language for her, but she feels constrained in it because of the way it was taught to her: the followed courses in Modern Standard Arabic at the university, where students were only taught to read and write it, and where oral language use had no place.
Bambara is a language she already spoke before coming to the south of Mali, to Bamako, to study. But it really only took off when she was exposed to it there, where it is spoken by everybody, so she is still learning it. Bambara is followed by English, the language we also use totalk to each other, because we are in the English Department and teaching takes place in English, in which the students are highly fluent. She learned Englishonly from 7 to 9 grade, and then at university when she enrolled in the English programme.
French somehow is mentioned last in the conversation we have about her language portrait, but this doesn't mean that it is very remote fromher daily life. It is not only the main language of her formal educational experience, but also a language she speaks with friends, and spoke with her father during her childhood. English and Tamasheq are in her heart; French and Songhay in her head, and they keep growing
Language portraits vividly illustrate how important it is to let go of fixed assumptions about the role languages might play in people's lives and to invite them (even if a frame and perspective can't be avoided altogether) to develop their own metaphors on what languages mean to them.
Read on language biographies and language portraits in this article:
Busch, Brigitta (2006): Language biographies. Approaches to multilingualism in education and linguistic research. In PRAESA Occasional Papers, pp. 5–18.
What is 'African' African linguistics? Or what could it be(come)?
I'm excited this week, because I'm teaching African linguistics to Malian students at the Université des Lettres et Sciences Humaines in Bamako. There is no degree programme in Malian or African languages and linguistics here, and therefore my colleague Ibrahima Cissé had the ingenious idea to invite colleagues from his network to come and teach as part of the English Master, in English. My colleague Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn, who teaches at Frankfurt and Bayreuth, is also here, and we follow each other's classes.
African linguistics started out as a colonial discipline, when colonial administrators and missionaries started being interests in the languages of the the interior of the continent that they had conquered in the second half of the 19th century. As a discipline that is concerned with sub-Saharan Africa – an entity that only becomes meaningful through European eyes, adopting problematic racial and geographic boundaries – it still is very much inscribed into a paradigm dating back to colonial times, which coincided with particular racial prejudices, and also with the heyday of romantic ethnonationalism in Europe. The legacies of this lens, which led them to discover mini-peoples (aka 'tribes' or ethnic groups), united by a language and a territory, in societies governed by very different principles of cohabitation, loom large. So my course started by discussing visions of language inherent in the work of colonial actors and investigating alternative visions of Malian linguists. Surprisingly to many, lead-language writing transferring French writing norms to Malian languages was started by a Malian linguist, Moussa Travelé, and was frowned upon by French linguists, who according to their purist language logics wanted to keep languages separate and also did not want to 'corrupt' African languages or French by allowing transferences and similarities in writing – so the official alphabets of many African languages are closer to colonial language ideas than the French-based writing practices many Malians use until today. An example of the latter follows.
Moussa Travelé's Bambara dictonary, using French lead-language writing
The writing conventions developed by the colonial administrator and linguist Maurice Delafosse, which aimed at writing Bambara different from French, can be seen here:
Content pages from Delafosse's (1901) Bambara course book
The ensuing debate showed how important it is to lay bare these different visions and their motivations, which co-exist in different sociolinguistic spaces and in people's imaginations. The debate will continue tomorrow!
To read more about the colonial history of linguistics in (French) West Africa, read these books:
Adejunmobi, Moradewun (2004): Vernacular palaver. Imaginations of the local and non-native languages in West Africa. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
van den Avenne, Cécile (2017): De la bouche même des indigènes. Échanges linguistiques en Afrique coloniale. Paris: Éditions Vendémiaire.
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Emotions are not universal. They are expressed in cultural scripts reflected in language, sometimes over wide areas, but drawing on very diverse sources. The metaphors used to describe feelings often can focus on particular body parts as the locus of an emotion. In the Kwa language Ewe of Ghana, some emotional expression – those roughly corresponding to jealousy, envy and covetousness – are built on the image of a red/and or moving eye. Here some examples:
Examples for emotions expressed with 'eye' in Ewe (Ameka 2002: 28)
What is special about these expressions is that they feature a specialised and conventionalised use of the term 'eye'. Ameka distinguishes a psychological and a physical use of eyes. Only the former features in the expression of emotions. It is recognisably different from the physical, body part, eye, which can occur in the plural – after all, we tend to have two eyes. The expressions of negative feelings in the example above can never be used in the plural. There are more differences between 'ordinary' and 'emotional' uses of the word 'eye' in Ewe. Read Felix Ameka's article to which I link below.
But I must go away now and research the origins and exact meaning of the Bambara phrase n sinamuso nyɛ fin ' the black eye of my co-wife'. I only know it from the textile design that is named after is, for instance for a wax like the one below. If I remember correctly, the black eye stands for the co-wife's anger, provoked by her rival wearing such a beautiful wax. When wearing a wrapper bearing the design, the emotion is not evoked through language, but delicately and indirectly through talking fabrics. After all, communicating through speech only would be so limiting!
Wax of the type "N sinamuso nyɛ fin"
Here the link to Felix Ameka's article:
Ameka, Felix K. 2002. Cultural scripting of body parts for emotions: On 'jealousy' and related emotions in Ewe. Pragmatics and Cognition 10(1):
African advantages of age
Distinctions that are socially meaningful tend to be reflected in grammar. The huge importance accorded to age differences is hard-wired into lexical distinctions in many West African languages. In Bamanan (Bambara), siblings are differentiated primarily regarding age, and only secondarily according to gender: older siblings are designated kɔrɔ, younger ones dɔgɔ. The modifiers muso `woman' and kɛ added to these words specify whether female or male siblings are referred to, but are not compulsory.
Wolof makes the same distinction: the term for elder sibling is mag, the one for younger sibling rakh. My personal favourite language Baïnounk Gujaher confirms the pattern: wanc is the word for older sibling, and udóón the one for younger sibling, without referring to the sex of these kin relations.
These terms do testify of a great sensitivity to age motivated by the link between age and superior social status. Being aware of age is important because the veneration of people of greater age, respect for their life experience and deference to them is common throughout the entire continent. It is therefore important to be aware of one's age in relation to anybody one interacts with; and lexicalising this difference helps keeping track of where an ego is positioned with respect to others.
We're all in it together. But wait, are we really?
Some of you might think this is a post about British politics. But even for those to whom this post does not evoke elusive promises by politicians it might be useful to imagine a language that makes it crystal clear who is meant by a message such as "We're all in it together." Does it really intend to include speaker and all addressees, without any wiggle room? For those of you who'd prefer a language that unambiguously signals whether speakers makes an assertion that includes everybody they talk to and about or not, West African languages are here to help.
Many of these languages, for instance Fula, Jalonke, many Baïnounk and Joola languages and Casamance Creole, prove themselves useful by distinguishing in their first person plural pronouns ('we') whether the addressees are included (all of us, including YOU) or not (all of us, excluding YOU). In these languages, it makes a crucial difference whether somebody says, as in this example from Baïnounk Gujaher:
Ankëbëndoŋ kahar.
'We eat meat (including you).'
Ankëbëminiŋ kahar.
'We (but not you) eat meat.'
If you've ever walked away hungry from a dinner table, you'll get the salience of this difference. Speakers of languages that mark it simply can't be vague about who is included in the statement, as the languages don't let them get away with evasiveness in the matter. Other related languages, some of them spoken by populations multilingual in languages with the inclusive/exclusive distinction, do not mark it. Among them are Mandinka, Bambara and Wolof. So clearly, if you're a politician (or just a random cunning person), and you don't want to commit to whom your assertion extends to, speak English, Wolof, or Mandinka – but better not Gujaher.


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The goal of this workshop is to get people working with the IoT services from Microsoft Azure and to see how to integrate them with various operating systems and programming languages.

The sessions presented will consist of a demo, accompanied by a step-by-step tutorial both on Windows + Visual Studio + C# + Windows IoT Core (on a Raspberry Pi 3) and Mac/Ubuntu + Python + Raspbian (on a Raspberry Pi 3).

For the duration of the workshop, we will provide Raspberry Pi 3 boards with Windows 10 IoT Core installed, but you can come with your own board or with Raspbian on a MicroSD card.

[Windows 10 IoT Core](windows10-iot)
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To get started on Windows go to the Windows 10 IoT folder in this repo.

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To get started on Raspbian go to the Raspbian folder in this repo.


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Marine Veteran Sam Bond '03 Applies Leadership Lessons in Business
By Alfred Miller '11
Published online July 19, 2017
Sam Bond '03
Courtesy Lyft
Sam Bond '03 was moving into his junior year dorm in Brown Hall when he heard the first radio reports of an attack on the World Trade Center and later the Pentagon.
"I was part of a two-car group that had gotten a storage unit together and we were on the road back from the storage unit that morning listening to the news reports," he remembers. "Two of us parked and walked over to the other car and said, 'Are you hearing this?'"
Bond's father, four-term U.S. Sen. Kit Bond '60, was not in the Pentagon that day, but many friends and acquaintances "weren't so lucky."
"Certainly it changed my perspective," says the younger Bond, who had been contemplating a career in business.
Bond decided instead to join the Marine Corps. After graduation, he headed to Quantico, Va., to enter the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School. There, he learned first to lead an infantry unit (the Marines take seriously their motto of "every Marine a rifleman"), then to lead a ground intelligence unit.
Aside from the opportunity to serve his country, the opportunity to lead was one of the career path's compelling draws — how many jobs immediately ask fresh college graduates to take charge of teams of up to 40 people? Bond was asked to do that in war-torn Fallujah, Iraq, where he synthesized whatever information could be gathered for senior commanders. In his second tour, Bond was asked to rebuild a 40-man scout sniper platoon that had dwindled to four.
The tours ultimately prepared Bond for the career in business he had once contemplated before the Sept. 11 attacks. As a consultant at Bain & Co., Bond was once again synthesizing the "muddy picture" for senior command. As director of supply chain strategy at Coca-Cola, he was followed the maxim popular among Marines that is often attributed to Gen. George S. Patton: "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
Today, as head of ride-sharing app Lyft's Atlanta office, Bond is building and leading a team. "Sometimes it feels like the platoon command I had, which was my favorite command," Bond says of his work building the Atlanta office from the ground up, starting in December 2015.
Lyft Atlanta's ride volume tripled last year under Bond's leadership, according to a Lyft spokeswoman. Bond says he and his new team in Atlanta believe in their mission of making better use of a historically underutilized asset — personal automobiles — and of improving transportation in fast-growing cities.
"Services like Lyft are really going to be a transformational force for better delivering affordable, reliable transportation on a daily basis," says Bond.
Perhaps more importantly, Bond has leaned on his network of friends and fellow Princeton alumni to find more balance in his life.
"One of the pieces of advice that I thought was really impactful was that you often need to optimize around life, not necessarily around career," says Bond, who is looking forward to bringing his wife, son, and daughter to Princeton Reunions next year.
Source URL: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/marine-veteran-sam-bond-03-applies-leadership-lessons-business


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County agencies break ground for senior housing in East Cleveland
Updated: Jan. 12, 2019, 1:21 p.m. | Published: Nov. 08, 2011, 11:05 a.m.
Thomas Ondrey, The Plain DealerEast Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton was among the officials Monday at the ground-breaking ceremonies for the new senior citizens complex at 14028 Euclid Ave. Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove is in back.
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Officials from several Cuyahoga County housing groups broke ground Monday for a 39-unit complex for senior citizens at 14028 Euclid Ave.
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority officials hope to have the three-story building open by July.
CMHA was joined in the project and the groundbreaking by officials from the Cuyahoga Land Bank, East Cleveland, Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, which are part of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga neighborhood stabilization consortium.
The land bank, which was the lead agency in the project, helped secure $41 million from the U.S. Department and Urban Housing Development program called Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2, according to Bill Whitney, the land bank's chief operating officer.
"That $41 million was one of the largest grants awarded by NSP2," said Katherine Bulava, a spokeswoman for the Cuyahoga Consortium. "The federal government has given better grants to cities that have partnered together like ours."
CMHA is using $5.3 million of that grant to build the senior citizens complex on CMHA-owned vacant land.
Whitney said total cost - figuring in other agency costs with private sources - is about $9.5 million.
Jeffery K. Patterson, acting CEO for the CMHA, said his agency was thrilled to be involved with the project.
"We were asked to assist with the low-income component," said Patterson. "This project is an excellent opportunity for us to give back to an area that is in need of good housing."
East Cleveland Mayor Gary Norton agreed, saying the strong partnership of the Cuyahoga Consortium will help revitalize his community.
Groundbreaking for a second building for seniors -- called the Lee Road Project -- is to occur Monday in the Union-Miles neighborhood, Whitney said. The size of the building will be similar to the one in East Cleveland, and will also cost about $9.5 million.


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Detroit, MI – Today, thousands more Marriott hotel workers represented by UNITE HERE walked out on strike in two locations in Hawai'i, bringing the total number of UNITE HERE Marriott workers on strike to 7,700 nationally. Hawai'i strikers join workers who struck in days prior across Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Detroit, and San Diego.
UNITE HERE affiliates have spent months in negotiations with Marriott in cities across the country as contracts expired, but authorized strikes weeks ago after Marriott failed to make significant movement on key strike issues including providing jobs that pay enough for workers to support their families, securing job protection around automation, and workplace safety around the so-called "Green Choice" program. UNITE HERE returned to the bargaining table after authorizing the strikes over the past two weeks, but Marriott remained unwilling to make meaningful progress on central issues. Additional cities may strike Marriott at any time. Workers will be on strike until they win.


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Content Highlights – Placoderms
Did you know that in some placoderms the structure of their brain is described, although these animals are completely extinct? This can be possible due to the extraordinarily preserved internal parts of their braincase.
Bothrioloepis - dermal plates.CC BY-NC of Institute of Geology at TUT.
Placoderms are extinct paleozoic (Upper Silurian – Upper Devonian) vertebrates which inhabited oceans and fresh-water. They were characterized by the presence of articulated dermal plates covering their head and the front part of the thorax. While the plates consisted of true bone, the internal skeleton was most probably cartilaginous, sometimes with calcified parts. The placoderms had no true teeth – only ornamented dermal plates instead. The size span of placoderms was variable. The average length of their body was several tens of centimeters, but the largest could measure six meters in length or more.
Coccosteus - dermal plates. CC BY-NC of Institute of Geology at TUT.
There are two main groups of placoderms - Antiarchi and Arthrodira. Antiarchi were usually small (about 1 m long) and quite specialized. They lived mostly in freshwater environments and often possessed long limbs covered with small dermal plates which probably served for holding their body up straight in the substrate. A typical representative of Antiarchi is the Middle to Upper Devonian genus Bothriolepis. Arthrodira were placoderms of variable size from very tiny ones to the largest ever. These placoderms lived in the oceans and some of them could be active swimmers and even dangerous predators. Among the well-known representatives of the group is the genus Coccosteus.
Coccosteus - internal side of the skull roof. CC BY-NC of Institute of Geology at TUT.
In general, placoderms lived at the bottom or swam close above it. Only some of them could have been good swimmers. The bottom dwelling placoderms were most likely scavengers or fed on different kinds of animals such as mollusks or trilobites. One of the largest placoderms ever, Dunkleosteus, was certainly among the top predators in the Devonian seas.
Coccosteus (top left) and Bothriolepis (bottom right) from BHL.
Placoderms were very successful during the Devonian period (ca. 420 – 360 Ma), but later they were replaced by more successful cartilaginous and bony fishes. This was probably the reason why they became extinct. Stay tuned!
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The room was clean and comfortable and the location was very convenient! It would be good to have some sheer curtains on the windows for privacy without having to close the actual curtains. A no smoking rule would be great.
Great views of the coast and close to everything .
Love the location. Right on the water. Walking distance from great beaches and shops. Family friendly, tidy and clean older property. Friendly and helpful staff. Kids loved the heated pool and spa.
Great location and facilities. Lovely room overlooking the tennis court. Plenty of kitchen utensils and the room was very clean. The location is perfect, one block to the beach and one block from the main street. The reception staff were very friendly and helpful. I just wish we could have stayed longer.
Visiting Caloundra and need somewhere to crash? You'll find a sweet hotel room on lastminute.com.au. If our deals were on a dating app, you'd be swiping right on every one of them! You don't have to stay anywhere else but in the thick of the action. There's an impressive 52 hotels within 2 kilometres of the centre just waiting for you to get your hands on.
Alleviate your sense of FOMO and look into the vibe at the Aspect Caloundra and the Rumba Beach Resort. They're both right in central Caloundra. You could also check out the Sails Resort on Golden Beach and the Gemini Resort.
The neighbourhood of Kings Beach is 1 kilometre from the middle of Caloundra, and offers 17 hotel options. The Rolling Surf Resort and ULTIQA Shearwater Resort are all recommended options.
At Shelly Beach, the shores and salty ocean air await. So pack yours thongs, and take off to enjoy the atmosphere. The Monaco and Portobello By The Sea should be well up on your hotel hit list if you don't want to travel far to see it. Recharge your soul when you spend some time at Moffat Beach. Bring the whole family, and enjoy the fresh sea air! Pumicestone Blue and BreakFree Grand Pacific Resort are two nearby hotels if you don't want to stay miles away.
After more options? The Oceans Mooloolaba is positioned 14 kilometres away from the downtown area, and the Spicers Tamarind Retreat is 25 kilometres away. The Narrows Escape Rainforest Retreat, 30 kilometres away, and the Spicers Clovelly Estate, 25 kilometres away, are some further alternatives.
It's well known that Aussies are pretty relaxed, so consider chilling out a little longer and going to the Dickey Beach and Point Cartwright in Parrearra, 10 kilometres to the north of Caloundra. Some of our recommended Parrearra hotel options are the Raffles Mooloolaba and Sailport Mooloolaba Apartments. Alternatively, you could stay in Sippy Downs, 12 kilometres to the northwest of Caloundra, where you can choose from the Grand Palais Beachside Resort and BreakFree Alexandra Beach. If you stay in Sippy Downs, set aside a little time to check out Kawana Beach and Mooloolaba Beach.
Sick of trying to nod off upright? Dreaming of a cosy pillow? Then pick up a room at the Novotel Brisbane Airport. It's within an easy drive of Brisbane Airport, which is 65 kilometres from Caloundra's centre.


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California inmates tied to 'staggering' jobless aid scam worth over $140 million
by: Jessica Mensch, FOX40 Web Desk, and Associated Press and Nexstar Media Wire
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — Convicted killers, rapists and child molesters are among the names on fraudulent jobless benefit claims worth hundreds of millions of dollars of California taxpayer money made since the pandemic began, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert announced Tuesday.
"The fraud is honestly staggering," Schubert said.
"Quite frankly, the inmates are mocking us."
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert
Schubert said that between March and August there have been 35,000 claims filed by inmates to Employment Development Department and more than $140 million paid out.
She said, at least 158 claims have been filed for 133 inmates on death row, including infamous prisoners such as convicted murderer Scott Peterson.
Other convicted murderers, including Cary Stayner, who killed four people in Yosemite National Park in 1999; and Susan Eubanks, a San Diego woman found guilty in the murders of her four sons in 1997, also had files claimed in their names.
Arkansas woman charged in nearly $2 million COVID-19 relief fraud
Isauro Aguirre, who was found guilty of torturing an 8-year-old boy for months before finally beating him to death in a shocking case that made national headlines, was allegedly approved for an unemployment debit card.
"Quite frankly, the inmates are mocking us," Schubert said. Aggregate combined losses could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars and "may well amount to upwards of a billion dollars having already been paid in their names."
Schubert said she predicts it will be "one of the biggest frauds of taxpayer dollars in California history" once the final amount of money scammed from taxpayers is totaled.
Social media scams surging amid coronavirus pandemic, FTC reports
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said his county learned of the fraud through an inmate phone call in July.
In many cases, they believe prisoners are working with family and friends on the outside who file the claims on their behalf.
The conspirator then collects the bank card, cashes it and sends a money order to the inmate.
"It's open and notorious in the correctional facilities, being discussed about how everybody is getting paid," said El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson.
Some of the claims are filed under false names.
"John Doe or John Adams, or in one case somebody had the audacity to put their name as 'Poopy Britches,'" Schubert said.
These district attorneys are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to step in and institute new measures to fight this fraud.
They say California should have a system to cross-reference incarceration data against EDD claims like more than 30 states across the country already do.
Newsom said after learning of the first fraud case in San Mateo, he told EDD to work with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to start a data match of social security numbers.
Newsom issued a statement later Tuesday:
Unemployment fraud across local jails and state and federal prisons is absolutely unacceptable. Earlier this year, I launched a strike team to expedite unemployment payments and to minimize abuse of the system. When we saw evidence of fraud in correctional facilities, I directed the Employment Development Department to review its practices and to take immediate actions to prevent fraud and to hold people accountable when fraud is not prevented. Based on that direction, EDD and CDCR, in partnership with USDOL worked to match social security numbers of those in state custody to identify the scope of the problem and to hold people accountable. To expedite and strengthen these efforts I have directed the Office of Emergency Services to stand up a task force to coordinate state efforts and support investigations by local District Attorneys. We will continue to fully partner with law enforcement and direct as many resources as needed to investigate and resolve this issue speedily. While we have made improvements, we need to do more. Everything the state does will be done in partnership with the local District Attorneys and I thank them for their commitment to resolving this issue as quickly as possible.
Governor Gavin Newsom
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by Chris Six / Jan 21, 2021
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.- A second suspect has been charged in the death of 19-year-old Kenneth Wright in September 2020.
According to court records, 21-year-old Lencorya T. M. Grady Jr. has been charged with second-degree murder.
by Beth Finello / Jan 21, 2021
GREENE FOREST, Ark. - Arkansas State Police have identified a man who died in a crash on Wednesday involving a school bus.
Christopher Anderson, 24, died after hitting the back of school bus that was picking up students.
POLK COUNTY, Mo. - As part of a nationwide effort by the Charity "Jordan's Way", Kris Rotonda from the Hallmark Channel spent the day raising money for the Polk County Humane Society in Bolivar, Mo.
Rotonda is on stop 13 of his 50-state tour. He plans to spend three days in Missouri, hosting live Facebook events for six local animal shelters.


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