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UK health service to use Amazon Alexa to give medical advice
by: KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 10, 2019 / 08:00 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 11, 2019 / 08:41 AM EDT
FILE – In this Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 file photo, an Amazon Alexa display is seen at a store in Hialeah, Fla. Britain's health agency is teaming up with Amazon's digital voice assistant to help answer medical queries with advice from the agency's official website. The British government said Wednesday, July 10, 2019 the service can help senior citizens, blind people and others who find it hard to access the internet. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, file)
LONDON (AP) — Alexa will see you now.
Britain's health care service is teaming up with Amazon's digital voice assistant to help answer medical queries with advice from the service's official website. Critics, however, warn about risks to data privacy.
The British government said Wednesday that the system will help people get quick and accurate health information. It will be especially useful for senior citizens, blind people and others who find it hard to access the internet while also easing pressure on doctors.
Using Amazon's algorithms, Alexa can answer voice questions from users about common maladies such as the flu or chickenpox with information verified by the National Health Service.
It's part of the British government's long-term modernization plan to provide more digital health services.
"We want to empower every patient to take better control of their health care," said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
Privacy campaigners said that while making it easier for people to access reliable medical advice was a step in the right direction, they were concerned about the partnership and its implications.
"Amazon is a company with a worrying track record when it comes to the way they handle their users' data," said Eva Blum-Dumontet, a researcher at Privacy International. "Our medical information is often the most sensitive data there is about us and a lot can be inferred from the questions we ask and the searches we make when we have health concerns."
Privacy concerns surrounding voice assistants have come into focus amid reports that services like Alexa are listening and recording conversations in homes. A lawsuit filed last month in U.S. federal court alleged that Amazon is violating laws in eight states by recording children without consent through Alexa devices.
Amazon on Wednesday sought to reassure users that their information will be kept confidential, and not shared with third parties, used to sell products or to build a health profile.
"Customer trust is of the utmost importance, and Amazon takes privacy seriously," the company said in a statement, adding that users control their voice history and can delete recordings.
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Mini-Review – "The Caine Mutiny" (1954)
By paulselluloid on March 10, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )
The only reason this movie is worth watching anymore is to watch the ship's captain (played by Humphrey Bogart) be destroyed by his own rampant paranoia and blaming it on his subordinates. Other than that, "The Caine Mutiny" is a by-the-numbers Navy drama.
Cadet Keith (Robert Francis) is disappointed when he is assigned to the Caine, a beat-up piece of junk that is only held together by rust and the spunk of its crew, who all love their captain William H. DeVriess (Tom Tully). But when Captain DeVriess is reassigned, the crew is devastated to find that their new captain, Phillip Queeg (Bogart), is a by-the-books and strict dictator over everything on the ship, even getting upset at everyone around him if one sailor's shirt isn't tucked into his pants.
But he only gets worse from there.
At first, Queeg's decisions seem minor, like a tow-line being snapped by the rutters while he was yelling at his fellow officers. Eventually, this leads to Queeg interrupting a movie the crew was enjoying, and turning the ship inside out looking for a key to the refrigerator, after a pound of strawberries went missing.
Queeg does not seem to care whether his men live or die, so long as he runs a tight ship and makes a good example to the Navy. But he also feels that his own men are undermining him, trying to make him look bad as they laugh about him behind his back, even giving him the nickname "Old Yellow Stain."
All this comes to a boil when the Caine gets caught in a storm and Queeg ramps up his paranoia even further. Bogart's eye dart from side to side, as if he's looking for people snickering at him, and seems more invested in his pride than the safety of his crew.
Outside of the scenes with Captain Queeg though, there is not much to "The Caine Mutiny." There is a standard romance involving Cadet Keith and his girlfriend, and the usual bonds between shipmates during war. These scenes aren't necessarily bad, but I couldn't tell you anything about them that you haven't already seen in dozens of other WW2 films.
Overall, watch "The Caine Mutiny" for Bogart's performance and how the crew reacts the captain's paranoia.
Final Grade: B-
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Where are they now? 2007's IT management start-ups to watch
Vendors scramble to rein in virtual environments
What's become of 2008's 10 IT management start-ups to watch, Part 1
10 IT management start-ups to watch
Virtualization, application performance, software-as-a-service among management start-ups' focus areas
By Denise Dubie
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Why it's worth watching: Ruby on Rails is the open source Web application framework du jour for Web 2.0 applications, and industry watchers expect it to take a similar path as Java 2, Enterprise Edition, which took the place of many C++ applications in customer environments. Plus the company founder and CEO Lewis Cirne headed up Wily Technology, which was considered an innovator in Java application management.
"New Relic is doing for Ruby apps what Wily did for Java apps, but with a twist. They are doing it from a cloud perspective," says Gartner's Haight. "Data from plug-ins on Ruby applications flows to them and they present it in a portal, which gives the company a lot of insight into this application type that hasn't seen much play in the enterprise yet."
How company got its start: Following CA's acquisition of Wily in 2006, Cirne says he turned his attention to disproving some misconceptions around Rails applications, such as that they can't scale for the enterprise. "I focused on starting a company that could help Rails go mainstream as a serious business application, and I believe providing performance management will help," he says.
How company got its name: Cirne plugged his full name into a Web site anagram generator and one of the results, New Relic, stuck.
CEO: Cirne founded Wily in 1998 and developed its flagship performance monitoring solution, Introscope. Most recently he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. He holds seven patents, including four related to Wily's core technology.
Funding: $3.5 million in Series A funding closed in February 2008 from Benchmark.
Who's using the product: New Relic claims more than 700 customers in production, of which over 50% are paying for service. Named customers include Ourstage, Shopify, iOffer and 37 Signals.
Company: PacketTrap Networks
Founded: May 2007
Focus: The Perspective platform can be used to monitor network performance, manage faults and report on device availability data. It's targeted at organizations with between 100 and 5,000 employees. (Compare Network Monitoring and Management products.)
Why it's worth watching: PacketTrap offers a "high-end product suite that starts with a free set of tools that is great for hands-on troubleshooting and administration," says Jim Frey, senior analyst at EMA. The company also "leverages a large community of customers to participate in and drive the direction of the product," he says. And the company "has spent time developing some very valuable advanced policy and intelligent baselining features that commonly only come with much-higher-cost solutions."
How company got its start: Company founders took on network performance management for the midmarket because they didn't see any products that could solve managing virtualization, VoIP and other emerging technologies adequately for customers that might not be considered enterprise size. Aiming squaring at SolarWinds as the top competitor.
How company got its name: Derived from capturing packets to manage network and application performance.
CEO: Steve Goodman previously served as vice president of the Storage and Business Continuity Business Unit at SonicWALL.
Funding: $5 million in Series A funding from August Capital in October 2007.
Who's using the product: Frontier Materials, Enviance and the City of Dublin, Calif., are listed among PacketTrap's customers.
Company: Porttracker
Founded: December 2007
Headquarters: Basingstoke, England
Focus: Packages its network management software of the same name on an appliance that enables network managers to quickly track and report on what is connected to the network for troubleshooting, security and capacity-planning purposes. The product builds a view of the switch-port inventory and is designed for companies with more than 1,000 ports.
Why it's worth watching: "Porttracker is an example of a technology of high priority to security management teams, in terms of visibility into actual network activity," says Scott Crawford, research director at EMA. "Porttracker provides information as to what is connected to the network and where, which helps to correlate detected activity with known network nodes. This helps improve the accuracy of security event correlation, helping to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of network visibility."
How company got its start: The founders began developing the technology and appliance in late 2005 to help reduce the challenge of "port wastage," which company officials say can cost companies in a big way.
How company got its name: Based on the technology's ability to track what is connected to a network down to the port..
CEO: Julian Rigg has previously held senior management positions with Wall Data, Cisco, Quadritek and Lucent.
Funding: Privately funded.
Who's using the product: The company's Web site lists the University of Hertfordshire, for one.
Company: SevOne
Founded: February 2005
Headquarters: Newark, Del.
Focus: Performance Appliance Solution (PAS), http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/061008-sevone-performance-problems.html first released in June 2008, comes packaged on five appliances that range in capabilities depending on the size of the environment to be managed. PAS captures performance data for capacity planning or ongoing monitoring and management by using such standard protocols as SNMP and Cisco's NetFlow to collect network traffic data and measure how VoIP application traffic is impacting network performance, for instance. (Compare Network Capacity Planning and Network Design products.)
Why it's worth watching: "SevOne offers a product that is carefully crafted, packaged and priced to hit a growing market segment that is interested in a value-priced (or relatively inexpensive) but functionality rich product," says Rich Ptak, found and principal analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates. "The company identified specific pain points and came up with what appears to be a technically strong solution whose installation, implementation and payback period seem to go easily and start promptly."
How company got its start: Company founders wanted to develop a network and application performance management product that could scale to meet the demands of large enterprise companies and service providers. The company developed a peer-to-peer architecture for its appliance technology enabling it to handle more transaction volumes and monitor performance across large distributed networks.
How company got its name: Named after the slang for the "severity one" performance problems network managers face
CEO: Michael Phelan, previously founder and president of consulting/storage networking integration firm StorNet, which was sold to Vanguard Technologies in 2000.
Funding: Self-funded until July 2006, then it raised $1.5 million of outside capital in a transaction led by Osage Ventures of Philadelphia. Other investors included John Ryan, the founder of SunGard; Jonathan Brassington, CEO of Liquidhub; Adrian Stone, CEO of Sureplan; and Lawrence Phelan, managing partner of Phelan Hallinan & Schmieg.
Who's using the product: SevOne lists Comcast, HBO, Credit Suisse, Hawaii Telecom and JPMorgan Chase among its customers.
Company: Zyrion
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, Calif.
Focus: Traverse is a business service management (BSM) product with a "strong network management foundation" for companies in the midmarket that might not be able to afford several management applications, company officials say. The software installs on a server and discovers the environment, and customers designate the business services they wanted managed.
Why it's worth watching: Industry watchers say Zyrion is a start-up with a mature technology. "They are a polished-up relaunch of the NetVigil product, which was originally offered in the market by [CEO Vikas Aggarwal's] first company -- Fidelia," says EMA's Frey. They have some new features, and some very credible functionality via their business containers that will be of great value in bringing BSM to the midmarket."
How company got its start: Following a series of acquisitions with previous companies, company founders focused their energies on building a company that could address BSM and managing technologies such as virtualization for midmarket companies.
How company got its name: Founders liked the name Orion, but say it is over-used in the IT industry. When Zyrion was suggested, they decided it was close to what they wanted and also had an available domain name.
CEO: Aggarwal previously founded Fidelia, which Network General acquired in 2006 to incorporate the BSM technology into its network suite. NetScout bought Network General in 2007.
Funding: Privately funded
Who's using the product: Alexander Open Systems in one of the 10 or so customers Zyrion is working with.
Denise Dubie is the director of content at PureB2B.


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'Fetch Your Tool Of Liberation': Fiona Apple On Setting Herself Free
Jolie Myers, Jonaki Mehta
The title of Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters started as a line from a TV crime drama, but became the album's central message: "Fetch your tool of liberation. Set yourself free," Apple says.
Inspiration can strike at unexpected times. That was the case for Fiona Apple, the celebrated singer and songwriter who released her first album in eight years this month. It's called Fetch the Bolt Cutters and the title comes from a piece of dialogue that struck her while watching a crime drama on Netflix.
In one episode of The Fall, a British show starring Gillian Anderson as a police detective, Anderson and her crew track down and free a girl who had been kidnapped and locked away.
"It's just a throwaway little line," Apple remembers. "She just says, 'Fetch the bolt cutters.' I shot up from the couch and I wrote it on the blackboard immediately, and I said 'That's what my album's called.' "
The line captures much of what Apple articulates on the record. Fetch the Bolt Cutters is an album full of demands to be let loose, to be let out of a cage.
NPR's Ailsa Chang spoke to Fiona Apple about getting a push from King Princess to release her album early, the dinner party gone wrong that inspired "Under The Table" and how the reception of Tidal shaped the woman she is today. Listen to the radio version in the audio link above and read on for an extended transcript of the interview.
Ailsa Chang: I want to talk about the title of your album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters. Tell me what that means?
Fiona Apple: It came from a TV show, The Fall, that me and Zelda, my housemate, were watching three years ago, I guess. And during this scene, Gillian Anderson is unlocking this door. They're supposed to wait for back-up to come and she wants to save this girl from behind this door, and it's like a throwaway little line that she says. She just says "Fetch the bolt cutters." I shot up from the couch, and I wrote it on the blackboard immediately and I said "That's what my album's called."
How much of me staying home all the time is about how much I like it, and how much of it is about me being afraid of what happens if I go out into the world?
So who is fetching the bolt cutters, in your situation?
I am, you are, the listener is. Everybody is. It's sort of "Fetch your tool of liberation. Set yourself free."
What do you see as the thing you need to be liberated from?
The ideas that I had about myself — that on some level I'll always have. Just everything from when you're growing up, everything that everybody says to you about you that you believe, and of course for me that branches out into adulthood, with my career. But I really wasn't thinking about my career and how I've been portrayed in the media or anything about that, I was just thinking about things that have been said to me personally in my life that I took to heart that I shouldn't have; the way that I think that I have internalized a lot of the things that were said to me, believed them and then as a result, hidden myself away or shut myself up. As much as I don't think that I'm known for being someone who keeps quiet about things, I have really kept quiet about a lot of things. There's a lot to say, and I've kept quiet about some of it.
Some of it is about like, how much of me staying home all the time is about how much I like it, and how much of it is about me being afraid of what happens if I go out into the world? I've always had that kind of thing, from when I was a kid. But at a certain point, you start to feel like, well maybe this isn't really who I am. Maybe I'm not really a recluse. Maybe I'm not a hermit. Maybe I just decided that this is the most comfortable place for me to be because I'm too afraid to go out anywhere else, to be something else. Maybe I'm ashamed of who I am, and why am I like that? And when you do lock yourself away at home for years and years and years, you think about things a lot. And so I've really been examining why I've been here so long and why I've been so hesitant to go back out into public life.
For me, personally, it's about that, but it's funny: The first song on the album came from this moment that I was at a meditation retreat. It was after six days of meditation and I had this huge headache inside of my head — and I say it was inside of my head because it ended up not being inside of my head. It sounds crazy, but I had this throbbing in my head, and then at a certain point, it left my head and it became this pulse that everybody shared. And it made me feel connected to everyone — and this is after six days of morning-to-night meditation, so it takes a lot to get into that state.
And the cool thing is this whole album, for me, has turned into the headache that I had inside of my head and now that it's released, it's like this pulse that now we can all share. And I didn't think of that before I did it, but I did think of that when I saw the faces on the YouTube thing [Fiona Apple's housemate watched NPR Music's Fetch the Bolt Cutters live listening party], because I was like "Oh my goodness! It's out of me now, and it's actually making people feel good!"
And we're all feeling the pulse!
It's the best! It's all I ever wanted. It's just amazing.
I think the title, you know Fetch the Bolt Cutters, resonates especially right now in this strange horrible time that we're all in. What does it feel like to release an album right now particularly, during this extraordinary time?
When I decided to release it — I would like to say it's because I thought everyone was really going to love it and that it was going to make people happy, but I got a rollout schedule that had my first song appearing in like June, and then October the album would be released and I felt like, well why wait that long? Because the reasons that we're going to wait all that time would be so we can have a proper rollout, aka have like TV appearances lined up and all this different press lined up, everything ready to go. And I just felt like I'm not going to be aiming for that, anyway. I'm not going to be on the charts, I'm not going to be on the radio, so why should I wait all these months? And also wait all these months and put out this thing that I've been working on all these years, knowing that everyone else is going to be releasing stuff then, and I know I'll just get lost in the mix?
So it really just felt logical to me to be like "Look. My record is ready. I have no qualms about putting it out and not having a rollout and not being on the charts, or whatever. I'm not worried about that, so let's just push the button and let it go." Also my friend Mikaela [Strauss], aka King Princess, she had texted me one day and she just was like "You have to release your album now. People need new music to listen to. We need new music to listen to." And so that made me go "You know what? I actually could do that, because my record's done." I really decided because I thought it would give me the best chance to be heard.
Now, I'm hesitant to say that I'm helping because it sounds like I'm giving myself too much credit, but I really do hope that I'm helping people and I really do hope that the experiences that I had and lived through that you can hear on the album, that somehow it's cathartic. If I can be like a surrogate of the catharsis, if maybe you can get that feeling from listening to it happen, that's just the highest goal of any art that I can think of.
Well I can tell you, that you have helped me. There is a lot on this album that hit me hard. What I hear on a lot of these songs is this insistence to be heard. One example is the song "Under The Table." The lyrics here: "Kick me under the table all you wan't / I won't shut up" and "Don't you, don't you, don't you shush me." Who are you talking to in this song?
This is actually about a real dinner that I went to — and I can't say who was at the dinner, but I will say that there was a prominent figure of a streaming service at that dinner. And I attended the dinner with a few people, but I didn't want to go.
And was someone actually kicking you under the table, or you felt it emotionally?
No it wasn't actually kicking me under the table. They were kicking me under the table with their eyes. And then afterwards it's like "Why did you accost two people at a nice dinner?" I didn't accost anybody. Everybody was saying things, and a couple people said some things that I had some things to say back to.
I feel like the songs on this album, they're not just about seizing the chance to speak, they're also about wanting people to really hear you. For the past couple years, there's been this more honest conversation in this country about believing women when they do speak up, and I'm wondering if that's also what you're getting at in this album?
Well, I mean, it's hopefully what I'm getting at with everything that I do. The fact is — and it's a fact — if a woman, or a man, goes public with some kind of abuse, they're not doing it for attention. There's no reason that people will lie about that. They know what they're getting into. We know, as much as we've given women more of a space to speak and be believed, there's still all the trolls and all the little bros that come back and beat them down as much as they can. As much as we know that when we speak, more people will be afraid to say "Screw you, you're a liar," people aren't so keen to do that right now; there still is a huge backlash and there's a lot of risk in speaking up. And anybody who would think that a woman would get up and put herself in that position for attention is just insane and I would like to punch them in their head 43 times.
43 exactly.
Yes. It's for my next year's birthday, I guess.
Well, you know on this thread of speaking up, your album is a form of speaking up. I know that you have had a kind of uncomfortable relationship with fame, with being the focus of public attention, and I'm curious: As you're doing interviews for this new album, putting yourself out there again, does it feel any easier these days?
Well, after this interview, I'm not going to be doing any more interviews about me and the album for a while, for two reasons that are equally important. First, because I just don't want to do a lot of interviews anymore and I don't think I have to, and so I'm not going to. And then the second reason, which is equally important, is that I don't think that I really should go out and talk too much anymore. I think I've said a bunch in the interviews that I've done. And at this point, I just would like people to be able to live with it and everybody who has the record, it can be their own record, and they can interpret it and apply it to their own lives.
Well can I ask you, how are you feeling about this interview right now? How am I making you feel?
I feel fine right now. I mean, right before an interview, before this thing, I'm sitting there going "I don't wanna do this!" And Zelda's saying "It's okay. You just listen to the questions and you answer the questions." And then I sat here by myself for a minute and I did a little meditation, just like "Let me please try to be honest and answer questions and not be too worried."
It's interesting hearing you talk about this, because the woman that I hear in these songs is an unapologetic woman. These songs are about "Look I have something to say, so listen to me." So it's interesting to hear you almost have to psych yourself up to speak up. What's that about?
Because I'm sure that I'll ruin everything with something that I say. People are texting me saying "Wow this is amazing" and "Oh goodness, everything's great!" So of course, I've been sleepless for the past few nights. I stay awake just combing through everything, going "Where did I make a really bad mistake? Where did I say something awful?" It relates to the thing in "Heavy Balloon," about the bottom being the only safe place. It's like I'm looking for something to be embarrassed about, because that's almost my comfort zone.
This is a learning experience right now for me, to try not to knock it down in some way, because that makes me comfortable. To try to just be like "Nope, something is going good, take it. Accept it, Fiona. Don't be looking for the fault in it."
There's this percussive pulse throughout this album. In the song "Newspaper," you hear layers and layers of percussion on all kind of drums, even a barking dog. What made you want percussion to play such a prominent role in the album?
It goes back to the song "Shameika." At the beginning of that song, I'm referencing something that started when I was a little kid. I have OCD and it became an obsession with me, where I would go on these long walks and I would have to walk on beat. I still do that, like if I go on a hike, I have to not break tempo. But I would go on these walks to school and leaves would be falling from trees and I would be leaping so that I could step on it on the beat. And I'd literally be grinding my teeth to a little beat and it would go on all day long.
But then what happened is I turned to piano, which is also percussion: You hit it, it's got hammers. But on this album, I had everything set up for GarageBand and the band had been coming over to play. There were all these percussion instruments around, just left in my house. With "Newspaper" and "Fetch the Bolt Cutters," those were two of the first things I did on GarageBand. And I didn't even know how to edit it and make a take shorter, so each track is just this one long take, and if I made a mistake in it, well, I better just play over it and let that mistake work itself into it.
"Fetch the Bolt Cutters" and "Newspaper" were these two long percussion orchestras that were just really for fun. But then I listened back to them and I was like "I really like how these sound. These sound like me!" It is me banging around and like really finding myself. So I was like "I really have to write words for this."
I read this album was almost entirely recorded in your house, and this is a house, as you've mentioned, that you barely left over the past several years. So I was just wondering: Does quarantine life feel all that different from life before?
No, it doesn't. Well actually, it does feel a little bit different because everything is always different when you're told that you can't leave. I was always able to leave before, and I chose not to. And funny enough, right when I'm like "I'm fetching the bolt cutters! I'm gonna leave this house!" It's like "Nope! No you're not!"
Which goes back to another reason why I did the album in this house — and this is another point where I'm going to sound a little bit nuts. This house is alive to me. The fact is, this house was here when I needed a place to go. When I moved here, I needed a place to go and I needed a place to go so that I could bring my dog, Janet, where she would have some place to run around and I needed a place fast. And this place just opened up like right when I needed it.
It brought you in and embraced you.
Yeah. It was like "Look, I've got a home for you and Janet, and you're going to be good here, and I'm going to take care of you, and you're going to have friends here and all these great things are going to happen here." And it was true. And so there's this way that I feel like I want to repay this house by making it the music. Because it has been my mother, really; it's been the home of all the music. It's been the womb of everything, for all these years. It's been the womb of where I've developed into an adult. And so I really felt like it's an instrument in itself, it's the microphone: The house is the microphone, the house is the ambiance, the house is a member of the band. There was this part of me — I wanted to move out of this house and sell this house, and I felt like I'm not going to be able to do that, because it's not going to let me leave. I tried to move out of this house a couple of times before, and for some reason it keeps pulling me back in.
That's amazing. What a beautiful way to feel about a home. That's the ultimate thing anybody would want to feel inside their house or their home. This feeling of "I'm in my womb." You're lucky.
I've always wanted to live facing the truth, taking the truth and turning it into something beautiful.
I am lucky. I'm really lucky, thank you for saying that. It's true.
Your first album, Tidal, came out in 1996 when you were still a teenager. Everyone knows that, everyone talks about that. What do you wish you could tell your teenage self now, as a woman in her 40s?
Well that teenager that started, I would tell her: "You are on the right track, and there's going to be a lot of people who are going to tell you that what you're doing is stupid. And they're going to be people of authority, and they're going to be the people that you love and they're going to be the people that you trust. Please do not believe them. As genius, or as wonderful, or as loving, or as smart, as worldly, as experienced as they may be, they don't know you. You know you. You're doing great. Don't let them stop you."
I would tell her that. But I'm glad that I don't have the chance to tell her that, because I think the experience that I did have is worth it. It's not a totally happy thing, it's just like I wouldn't have it any other way because I like what I did with my life. That's how I've always wanted to live. I've always wanted to live facing the truth, taking the truth and turning it into something beautiful. That's a wonderful way for anybody to live. And so I like that the truth of all my life isn't all happy and perfect and no obstacles anywhere, because it's what I did with all of that that makes something that now can maybe help other people.
That brings me to something else too, which is that I have all this happiness. This happiness that I haven't had access to in so long, because of that feeling of "Oh my goodness, maybe I'm not just something that represents depression and sadness and dwelling and bad feelings." I feel understood finally and I feel so happy. And immediately I get this guarded feeling about all of the sadness that I've felt. Like I don't want to forget how that felt. This goes to something, too, about how my years of not being sober, of drinking so much — you go through these times where you feel like "I am at the bottom, I want to die." And then you drink a bunch and then somehow you make it through and further along the line you get sad again and you're like "Yeah, I made it through before though, right?" But you don't really remember making it through before, because you were drunk, so you didn't really feel the sadness, you didn't really make it through.
So I want to keep all of the bad feelings that I've ever had close to me, just so that I can recognize them and so that I can not lose touch with empathy, for one thing. Being empathetic I think is the most important thing in being a human. And I think you need to know your own pain and remember it in order to do that. So I don't want to get lost in all of the happiness. That's another reason why I don't want to do too many interviews, because I don't want to talk myself into thinking "I'm a queen now, and everything is great because everyone understands me! So everything is perfect now!" I want to be able to stay true to who I am and I want to take in the joy, but I just think it's really important to not forget how bad it felt before. Because it also, in contrast, makes the joy so much more beautiful.
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This one day symposium at the V&A takes place in the company of leading writers, technologists, publishers and agents.
This one day symposium takes place in the company of leading writers, technologists, publishers and agents and ask whether the existing framework of publishing copyright can be adequately adapted to meet - and balance - the rights, needs and creative ambition of authors and publishers. In collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London, Whose Book is it anyway? IP, collaborative business models, and questions of ethics and creativity in digital publishing (2012-2016) and CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy.
Diversity or die: how the face of book publishing needs to change if it is to have a future.
The talk will focus on what the Writing the Future research found and what is happening in the general population and the wider business community.
Danuta Kean is a respected publishing industry and media analysts, who has written and edited three reports on diversity inthe publishing industry. She was one of the main researchers for Spread the Word's Writing the Future: Black and Asian authors and publishing staff in the UK marketplace report published in April 2015. As well as writing for a variety of publications, includingthe Daily Mail and the Financial Times, she is books editor of Mslexia, the magazine for women writers. She is currently working on a crime novel.
biggest change in centuries. In fact many elements remain consistent. If we look, we can trace a consistent thread to publishing from ancient China to Silicon Valley. But there are fundamental changes in the digital age - and the most dramatic is the change in supply. This means that publishers core role, more than ever, is as curators and amplifiers amidst a flood of material like no other.
What Are Words Worth Now?" is a survey of almost 2500 working writers, commissioned by the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) and carried out by Queen Mary, University of London. The report has found that increasingly few professional authors are able to earn a living from their writing.
Commenting on the findings of the survey, Owen Atkinson, Chief Executive of ALCS said: 'These are concerning times for writers. This rapid decline in both author incomes and in the numbers of those writing full-time could have serious implications for the economic success of the creative industries in the UK. If writers are to continue making their irreplaceable contribution to the UK economy, they need to be paid fairly for their work. This means ensuring clear, fair contracts with equitable terms and a copyright regime that support creators and their ability to earn a living from their creations'.
In contrast to the sharp decline in earnings of professional authors, the wealth generated by the UK creative industries is on the increase.
Jack Underwood, "Solo for Mascha Voice and other Tenuous Rooms"
Having been denied permission to publish free-translations of poems by the German poet Mascha Kaleko, I instead began to produce new poems that were both an appreciation of Kaleko's originals, but that also sought to problematise and negotiate issues around intellectual property in poetry. As well as reading from these "Solo for Mascha Voice" poems, I will discuss how a practical engagement with text in such a way can be viewed, in epistemological terms, as an advancement of of our critical knowledge of source texts, and how this might also advance our understanding of Creative Writing Studies as practical critical discourse.
Dr Jack Underwood studied at Norwich School of Art and Design and Goldsmiths College, where he is now a lecturer in English and Creative Writing. His debut collection Happiness was published by Faber in 2015, and he reviews new work for Poetry London and The Poetry Review. He is currently writing a non-fiction book on the subject of poetry and uncertainty.
The Literary Platform often considers the distinction between telling stories and selling stories in its work, with special emphasis on how the digital environment has impacted on this distinction. When does writing as an art-form finish and writing as part of a commercial publishing infrastructure begin? Much emphasis in our work is on how writers can sustain a career and how writers are remunerated for telling stories. Our Fiction Uncovered programme looks to support British 'mid-list' writers, the all-important pool of writers that publishers and agents alike look to nurture and break out to bestseller status. With so many who believe they have a novel to write (in the US over 81% people), and with the self-publishing industry now well established, who deserves to get paid? Readers hold the key to decision making around purchases online whether those titles and self-published or traditionally published. Traditional publishers, however, are still much more successful at getting works into the bricks and mortar retailers. In 2012, we also explored what an 'ethical reader' might look like and asked if readers might pay more for books if they believed it was supporting a publishing ecosystem. Around the world, traditional publishing is being disrupted by new ways of story dissemination. Our China report launched in May 2015 explores how China's online literature platforms have created wealthy mega-stars, where new writers can deliver serialised stories to young mobile readers. Our closest Western equivalent is Wattpad, a platform where writers tell stories and engage socially with readers, but financial remuneration is not always an end goal. In a world where almost everyone has access to a publishing platform, how is quality determined and how do we place a value on words and who decides?
Sophie Rochester founded the specialist digital publishing consultancy The Literary Platform in 2009. In 2010 she launched Fiction Uncovered – now the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize – celebrating the work of British fiction writers. She is co-founder of The Writing Platform (partnered with Bath Spa University and Queensland University of Technology) and co-author of The Publishing Landscape in China.
She has been a speaker on digital publishing at TOC New York, the Frankfurt Book Fair, Bologna Book Fair, Editech Milan, British Council Crossing the River conferences in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. She is also a visiting lecturer at the London College of Communications MA in Publishing and UEA's MA in Creative Writing.
Sonrisa is a bilingual magazine of new work that sets up a dialogue between artists and readerships in Havana and London, and their networks beyond. Issue O of Sonrisa will be published in February 2016, printed in different formats according to location, and distributed freely via e-book in El Paquete Semanal and by Publication Studio London. Louise O'Hare from Three Letter Words will talk about the publishing scene in Havana discussing the intentions of this project which makes use of the potentials of both pre- and post- digital modes of networking and publishing.
Louise O'Hare is interested in the potentials of art publishing strategies. Ongoing projects include Sonrisa, a bilingual magazine of new work by artists based in Havana and London, and Three Letter Words, a commissioning organisation currently developing a new online distribution channel for small-scale art publishers. In 2011 she founded the London Bookshop Map, a platform for disseminating work by artists who have included Dora García, Katrina Palmer and Hannah Rickards among others. O'Hare is currently working on 'Safe' ,an exhibition inspired by Todd Haynes' seminal film of the same name (HOME, Manchester, November 2015), and undertaking a practice-based PhD at Northumbria University (Funded Studentship Award 2014–17). She is an associate editor at Afterall, and lectures on MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins. She received her MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2010.
14: 00 – 15:15 - How Do Writers Eat?
According to the late Charles Clark, the former copyright advisor to the Publishers Association, is often quoted - "The answer to the machine is the machine". He said this during a European Commission Hearing on the Copyright Directive around 2000, in the context of the legal protection for of technical protection measures. Thinking about the role of technology today, especially in how it can help to move rights management from out of the filing cabinet and onto the network, what do you see as the role of technology in enabling creativity, new business models and rights management , including helping authors to get paid. In this context, you may like to comment on the role of Copyright Hubs like the UK's Copyright Hub, Rights Registries and emerging standards for identifiers of works, rights and owners.
Since the arrival of the Amazon Kindle in 2007 and the closure of the Borders bookstore chain in 2011, the American manga publishing industry has been under increased pressure to confront the imperatives of the digital age. To this end, they have experimented with a range of new publishing models, including fan-funded publishing, web aggregation, iPad/iPhone books, and locally produced original titles. Drawing upon participant observation and 70 semi-structured interviews with professional in and around the field, I explore five of these new models, their strengths and their weaknesses, and conclude, perhaps paradoxically, that the most promising of these responses to a digital future is not in itself digital at all. It is, in fact, to go back to basics: Developing their own original content and otherwise exploit their own locally cultivated intellectual property across a range of print media. While not particularly pleasing from a Japanese cultural policy perspective as it arguably makes what counts as "manga" less Japanese and more American, this does open up new avenues of remunerated creative opportunity for comics artists—particularly female ones—which would never have existed without the manga industry.
Casey Brienza is Lecturer in Publishing and Digital Media in the Department of Culture and Creative Industries at City University London. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge. To date, she has written over fifteen articles and chapters about transnational cultural production and consumption and the political economy of the global culture industries, specifically as these relate to publishing and emerging digital technologies. Casey is the author of Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics (Bloomsbury 2016), editor of Global Manga: "Japanese" Comics without Japan? (Ashgate 2015), and co-editor with Paddy Johnston of Cultures of Comics Work (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan).
The internet was supposed to kill print magazines. And yet, walk into any newsagent and you will be confronted by a greater choice of magazines than ever before. While many mainstream consumer magazines have floundered, a new breed of independent, niche titles is flourishing. These titles are pioneering new business models, reinventing the reader/publisher relationship, creating new markets and breathing new life into old media. Why has this happened, why won't print journalism die and how are the new indie magazine publishers making the internet work for them?
Ruth Jamieson is the author of Print is Dead, Long Live Print, an eye-opening look into the field of independent print journalism, showcasing over 50 examples of innovative magazines from around the globe that are shaping the future of print. These include Boneshaker, Lucky Peach, Anorak, Riposte, The Gentlewoman, Fantastic Man, The Gourmand, WRAP, Kinfolk and many more.
Martin Kretschmer, The effects of digitisation on earnings: Can we trust the data?
•	Authors' Earnings from Copyright and Non-Copyright Sources: A Survey of 25,000 British and German Writers (2007, with P. Hardwick, UK data updated in 2014 by ALCS / Queen Mary, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619649; http://www.alcs.co.uk/documents/authors-earning-2015-download_version.aspx).
Together these studies offer a detailed empirical picture of the conditions under which creators have worked in the UK since the digital turn of the mid-1990s, using survey methods, supplemented by focus group research and legal analysis. In particular, the studies focus on sources and distribution of earnings from copyright and non-copyright sources (using the creator's household as a key unit of analysis), on sources and distribution of earnings by genre and media (including digital formats), and on contractual practices relating to copyright (such as taking legal advice, negotiating terms, assigning rights and being credited). The talk will aim to place the question 'How Do Writers Eat?' into wider trends, not only relating to publishing sector.
Martin Kretschmer is Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe, the RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (http://www.create.ac.uk).
Our premise is that iIf we were starting from scratch, we might devise a copyright system which is global and diverse rather than based on territoriality, normativity and national copyrights. Such a system might recognize its relation to questions of access, ethics and structural difference. It would encompass and enable, one that would recognizes the experimental creativities of diverse authors, readers and publishing presses. Rather than investing in utopianism, we ask whether, Can the existing framework can be adequately adapted to meet - and balance - the rights, and needs and creative ambition of authors and publishers?
As an author of print and digital literature I make extensive use of archival materials, 'found' texts and images, and 'borrowed' source code. In this presentation I will frame these acts of appropriation as contributions to a larger cultural project. In 1870 Lautréamont famously wrote: "Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it." In 2011 McKenzie Wark wrote: "For past works to become resources for the present requires… their appropriation as a collective inheritance, not as private property." Incorporation of variation, appropriation, and transformation into the process of composition results in writing that is always on the cusp of becoming something else.
J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian artist, writer, researcher, performer and maker of maps, zines, books, poetry, short fiction, long fiction, non-fiction, and non-linear, intertextual, hypermedia, and computer-generated narratives. Her pioneering works of digital literature have been exhibited, published, performed, and presented in journals, galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. She is a winner of the CBC Quebec Writing Competition (2003 & 2005), the QWF Carte Blanche Quebec Award (2008), and the Expozine Alternative Press Award for Best English Book for her first novel, Words the Dog Knows (2008). She lives in South Devon, England. http://luckysoap.com.
What would happen if we unhinged cultural production from intellectual property law? Let's look at it through a feminist lens: in a short presentation I will sketch out the gendered construction of intellectual property which creeps into our vocabulary (and actions) reducing the complex social and cultural relationships to concepts of ownership and control. Why would we like to "own" ideas which are meant to circulate and proliferate through others?
Eva Weinmayr is an artist, writer and publisher. Recently published books include (pause) 21 scenes concerning the silence of Art in Ruins (Occasional Papers, London) and Downing Street—Help! David Cameron likes my art (New Documents, Los Angeles). She is currently conducting a PhD at Valand Academy in Gothenburg. In 2009 she co-founded AND Publishing, an platform exploring the immediacy of digital print and new forms of dissemination. Since 2010 she runs together with artist Andrea Francke The Piracy Project, an international exhibition and publishing activity exploring the philosophical, legal and social implications of book piracy.
Smita will draw upon her ongoing research project (titled 'Individual Creators' and funded by CREATe) that is investigating the interaction between copyright and the everyday life of creative practitioners. Research for the project includes over 100 semi-structured interviews with a selection of creative practitioners (writers, illustrators, composers, and visual artists), fieldwork observation at festivals and relevant events, and the collection of secondary data from social media sources such as Facebook and Twitter. In this presentation, she will discuss some examples of her interviewees' successes and failures in experimenting with finding a balance between sharing work freely and identifying new revenue streams while navigating the complexities of the copyright framework.
Dr Smita Kheria is a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Edinburgh. She is a co-director (Intellectual Property) of SCRIPT Centre for IP and Technology Law and a member of CREATe. Her research interests relate to using empirical research to address questions pertaining to copyright law and policy and, to exploring connections between Intellectual Property law and new forms of property and culture through the lens of creators and users. She has been involved in several research projects that have examined how copyright intersects with the everyday practices of digital artists, online creative communities, arts and humanities researchers and professional creators and performers.
At a time when authors' incomes are under threat more than ever and when fundamental questions are being asked about IP and copyright, all those involved in the business of getting books into readers' hands are carefully considering their roles in the value chain. By how much, in the digital age, have users' needs actually changed such that a rebalancing of the IP framework is necessary? As an agent I believe that readers are best served by a robust IP regime that allows authors to control their rights, and to gain maximum value from them, in order to make a living -- and thus to keep writing. The themes of this conference reflect the variety of innovations that authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, entrepreneurs and policy makers have made, or are considering, in order to ensure that our literary culture thrives to the benefit of all.
Sam Edenborough is a director of the London-based literary agency ILA Ltd and is currently serving as President of the Association of Authors' Agents, a trade body representing the interests of UK literary agencies. In 1997 he began his career in publishing at A M Heath & Co., one of the UK's longest-established literary agencies. After working as a foreign rights agent at Andrew Nurnberg Associates, he joined ILA in 2001, where he represents clients' translation rights in Brazil, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, and Sweden.
Frictionand Fiction Conference is part of the CREATe project "Whose Book Is It Anyway? IP, collaborative business models, and questions of ethics and creativity in digital publishing". The event is part of London Design Festival Digital Design Weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum.


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LeBrun on free-falling Canadiens: 'This team's confidence is broken right now'
Chiasson helps Oilers rally past struggling Canadiens
Alex Chiasson scored the go-ahead goal in the third period to give the Edmonton Oilers a 4-2 comeback victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night, extending their win streak to three games.
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MONTREAL — It's a goal Alex Chiasson won't soon forget.
Chiasson scored the third-period winner to give the Edmonton Oilers a 4-2 comeback victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night, extending their win streak to three games. The Oilers winger grew up in Laval, Que., a short drive from Montreal, and idolized the Canadiens as a boy.
"I've always dreamed of getting one here," said Chiasson of Bell Centre. "I grew up a Habs fan. My mom and dad used to bring my sister and me to games here. It's always special coming into this building."
The Oilers (24-17-5) overcame a 2-0 deficit and put four unanswered past Carey Price, including three in the third period.
Riley Sheahan went top corner on Price to make it 2-1 at 7:16 of the second. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tied the game at 2:16 of the third, on the power play, on a feed from Connor McDavid.
Edmonton took its first lead seven minutes later when Chiasson redirected Oscar Klefbom's shot off the post and in, just out of Price's reach.
"I've had better opportunities to score than this one, but I'll take it," said Chiasson. "I'll remember this one for a long time."
Price stopped 22-of-25 shots while falling to 3-9-1 lifetime against Edmonton.
Josh Archibald added the empty-netter with 35 seconds on the clock and the Oilers improved to 3-0-1 on their current five-game road trip.
"Play harder and execute harder — when we started doing that, we gave ourselves a chance," said Tippett. "Before that, they were a desperate team, they were a quicker team. They were on loose pucks and executing and we weren't.
"We had to play better if we were going to win. We played better in the third period and gave ourselves a chance."
The Canadiens (18-20-7) have dropped eight straight games for the second time this season. Montreal also lost eight in a row (0-5-3) from Nov. 16 to Dec. 1. The team is now nine points out of a wild-card spot.
"We can't give up," said coach Claude Julien. "We can't hang our heads. We're paid to do a job and we have to keep doing it. We're running out of answers.
"We haven't thrown the towel in as individuals or as a team. We show up every game and compete. A mistake here and there ends up in our net. An opportunity we should have buried doesn't go in. Those are the challenges we have."
It started well for the Canadiens, who have been good at creating offence on the rush this season and it led to the game's first goal.
Tomas Tatar crossed the Edmonton blue line with speed and dropped the puck to Phillip Danault. The first-line centre fired a shot off Mike Smith's pad before netting the rebound glove side at 12:35 of the first.
Another fast break led to Montreal's second goal. Artturi Lehkonen entered the zone and found an unmarked Jesperi Kotkaniemi, who beat Smith with a quick-release wrist shot at 2:24 of the second.
Brendan Gallagher was back in the lineup for the Canadiens after missing the last four games with a concussion. The right-winger was injured on Dec. 31 when he collided with teammate Ben Chiarot.
Montreal nearly took a 3-1 lead late in the second when Gallagher fought off three Oilers before springing Nate Thompson on a breakaway. Thompson went from his forehand to his backhand and beat Smith but fired the puck off the post.
Smith had 35 saves in his fourth consecutive start between the pipes.
"It's a mental battle right now, it's the psychology of it," said Gallagher. "There's probably a little 'poor me' going through us right now, when really we're in control. It shouldn't matter what's happened in the past. You have to put that behind you and find a way to win a hockey game."
Notes: Edmonton's top-ranked power play went 1 for 2. … McDavid leads the league with 70 points. … Chiarot missed the game with a lower-body injury. … Ilya Kovalchuk played his 900th career NHL game.


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Bronchial Adenoma
Bronchus Adenoma
Despite the fact that the term 'bronchial adenoma' suggests a non-neoplastic disease, it really stands for a multitude of tumor types, originating from the bronchial glands or epithelium, like carcinoid, adenoid cystic carcinoma, mucoepidermoid carcinoma or mucous gland adenoma. These neoplasms have a more or less prominent malignant potential that dictates clinical evolution.
Bronchial adenoma may be asymptomatic, especially if located in a distal area. In these cases, they are discovered incidentally. When the disease does induce clinical manifestations, these may mimic other conditions, like asthma or pneumonia. Symptoms like a cough (dry or productive), dyspnea, stridor or wheezing are caused by the existence of a bronchial obstruction, while hemoptysis is due to the rupture of the tumor vessels. Carcinoid syndrome is less frequently encountered [1] [2] and more difficult to clinically diagnose [3], but it occurs in most patients that have liver metastases. Symptoms consist of asthma-like symptoms, flushing, palpitations and diarrhea. Furthermore, a recurrent infectious episode may complicate disease evolution and recognition.
When the tumor is big enough to compress neighboring structures, it may induce hoarseness, chest pain or chylothorax. Large tumors are more often found in the right lung rather than the left. The patient may complain of paraplegia, vertebral pain or sensory deficit due to acute spinal cord compression. Upper limbs may be painful and occasionally present with muscular atrophy. Horner syndrome (miosis, hemifacial anhidrosis, and partial ptosis) is caused by Pancoast tumors. Sometimes, the physician encounters a superior vena cava syndrome, characterized by dilated upper extremities and jugular veins, facial edema, papilledema and mental changes. Patients may also exhibit low-grade fever and weight loss. Breath sounds may prove asymmetric on auscultation and this method sometimes reveals condensation (pneumonia or abscess) processes distal to the obstruction site. Auscultation is occasionally consistent with emphysema or pleural effusion [4]. The tumor itself may cause increased work of breathing with intercostal retractions, dyspnea, orthopnea, and cyanosis.
Bronchial carcinoid has also been described in the pediatric population. This age group is often symptomatic and have recurrent pulmonary infectious episodes [5]. If a cough or wheezing do not properly respond to standard therapy, bronchial adenoma or carcinoid suspicion should be rapidly raised and investigated [6].
The diagnosis of bronchial adenoma in children is often delayed due to erroneous interpretation of the secondary manifestations of pneumonitis, fever, or wheezing. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Patients may also exhibit low-grade fever and weight loss. Breath sounds may prove asymmetric on auscultation and this method sometimes reveals condensation (pneumonia or abscess) processes distal to the obstruction site. [symptoma.com]
[…] diagnostic CXR/Chest CT: atelectasis, post-obstructive pneumonia Clinical Wheezing Stridor Cough Post-Obstructive Pneumonia Lung Nodule (see Lung Nodule or Mass, [[Lung Nodule or Mass]]) Dyspnea Hemoptysis (see Hemoptysis, [[Hemoptysis]]): may occur Fever [mdnxs.com]
A 32-year-old Kashmiri woman was referred to our hospital with chief complaints of hemoptysis, cough, and fever of 2-year duration. She was diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis and took antitubercular treatment for 6 months. [lungindia.com]
Respiratoric
Abstract Of 16 patients with bronchial adenoma who were operated on at Beilinson Medical Center from 1967 to 1980, only three presented the "triad" of cough, hemoptysis, and recurrent pulmonary infections. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
If a cough or wheezing do not properly respond to standard therapy, bronchial adenoma or carcinoid suspicion should be rapidly raised and investigated. [symptoma.com]
The majority of patients with this tumor complain of cough and hemoptysis. 4 The cough may be "dry" or productive of copious amounts of sputum, depending on the degree of parenchymal obstruction and secondary infection. [mdedge.com]
Hemoptysis
The procedure was safe and none of the patients had massive hemoptysis following bronchoscopic biopsy. Limited follow-up revealed good results following surgery. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Bronchial adenoma commonly present as : (LQ) A Recurrent hemoptysis B Cough C Dysponea D Chest pain Ans. A Recurrent hemoptysis Bronchial adenoma: Rare, slow-growing. 90% are carcinoid tumours; 10% cylindromas. [gradestack.com]
Symptoms like a cough (dry or productive), dyspnea, stridor or wheezing are caused by the existence of a bronchial obstruction, while hemoptysis is due to the rupture of the tumor vessels. [symptoma.com]
The commonest presenting symptoms were hemoptysis, persistent cough, dyspnea and chest pain. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The 1st case was a 46 year-old female with chief complaints of dyspnea and abnormal chest x-ray. The bronchoscopy revealed a tumor in the left main bronchus, and the biopsy showed a cylindroid type of bronchial adenoma. [jstage.jst.go.jp]
[…] occurs as sessile or polypoid mass in main or lobar bronchus EBB: diagnostic CXR/Chest CT: atelectasis, post-obstructive pneumonia Clinical Wheezing Stridor Cough Post-Obstructive Pneumonia Lung Nodule (see Lung Nodule or Mass, [[Lung Nodule or Mass]]) Dyspnea [mdnxs.com]
Persons with central lesions have symptoms of obstruction and bleeding, which include the following: Dyspnea (difficulty breathing) is caused by partial obstruction of the windpipe or large bronchi. [emedicinehealth.com]
Common Symptoms of Tracheal Cancer: Breathlessness Difficulty swallowing Coughing up blood Frequent chest infections Dry cough or hoarse voice Recurring fever Chills Wheezing or noisy breathing Smoking is also a risk factor. [wvcancercenter.com]
Orthopnea
The tumor itself may cause increased work of breathing with intercostal retractions, dyspnea, orthopnea, and cyanosis. Bronchial carcinoid has also been described in the pediatric population. [symptoma.com]
Cutaneous Manifestation
Carcinoid syndrome is a clinical entity that includes cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and cutaneous manifestations. [thehealthscience.com]
Anhidrosis
Horner syndrome (miosis, hemifacial anhidrosis, and partial ptosis) is caused by Pancoast tumors. [symptoma.com]
Face, Head & Neck
Facial Edema
Sometimes, the physician encounters a superior vena cava syndrome, characterized by dilated upper extremities and jugular veins, facial edema, papilledema and mental changes. Patients may also exhibit low-grade fever and weight loss. [symptoma.com]
Papilledema
Blood workup in bronchial adenoma should include a complete blood cell count that will help differentiate pneumonia from other types of pulmonary condensation. The presence of anemia suggests significant blood loss by hemoptysis. A patient with severe respiratory distress should undergo an arterial blood gas determination, that may reveal decreased oxygen and increased carbon dioxide concentrations. A sputum culture is only useful if a distal infectious process exists. More specific markers are synaptophysin, calcitonin, bombesin, serotonin, neuron-specific enolase, corticotropin and antidiuretic hormone, keeping in mind that all of these are also increased in small cell lung cancer. Immunohistochemistry identifies tumor secretory substances.
The presence of a tumor can be suspected on a plain thoracic radiograph, but its type cannot be specified [7]. Supplementary views, like the oblique ones, are sometimes useful. This investigation highlights the presence of different aspects, such as pleural effusion (that masks everything beneath it), a nodule or mass, an atelectasis area due to bronchial obstruction or infiltrative process. Hilar lymphadenopathy may signify infection or tumor [8]. A normal radiological aspect does not necessarily exclude the disease. Therefore, in selected cases, a computed tomography (CT) scan can provide further information regarding calcification, compression, and location, as well as bronchiectasis or peripheral atelectasis. Contrast enhancement is homogeneous in typical carcinoid and less prominent in atypical one. Osseous metaplasia can also be encountered. Two-thirds of patients, those with somatostatin-positive tumors can be identified using octreotide or 99m technetium depreotide single-photon emission CT scanning, which represents alternative diagnosis methods.
Bronchoscopy, despite the fact that it is an invasive procedure, should be performed in uncertain cases [9]. It should also be completed by fine needle aspiration or bronchial biopsy [10] [11].
Atelectasis
Therefore, in selected cases, a computed tomography (CT) scan can provide further information regarding calcification, compression, and location, as well as bronchiectasis or peripheral atelectasis. [symptoma.com]
Chest radiography Films may demonstrate a nodule, mass, infiltrate or atelectasis, mediastinal or hilar lymphadenopathy, or pleural effusion. Findings may be due to bronchial obstruction. Radiological findings are frequently nondiagnostic. [emedicine.medscape.com]
The chest x-ray showed an atelectasis in the right lower lung field, and a tumor was recognized in the right lower bronchus by bronchoscopy and bronchography. [jstage.jst.go.jp]
CT scanning should always be performed if the radiograph continues to show atelectasis over a period of 2-3 months. Definitive diagnosis is made with bronchoscopy. [indiacancersurgerysite.com]
Canalicular adenoma: Sebaceous adenoma: Clinical Endobronchial Nodule/Mass (see Obstructive Lung Disease, [[Obstructive Lung Disease]]) Diagnosis FOB: usually occurs as sessile or polypoid mass in main or lobar bronchus EBB: diagnostic CXR/Chest CT: atelectasis [mdnxs.com]
If your cancer does return, your doctor will try the same treatments, or new treatments to stop its spread. Support Treatment for bronchial adenoma can be stressful. [webmd.com]
Treatment Which treatment you get depends on your: Type and stage of cancer Age Health Preferences Options include: Surgery. This is the main treatment for bronchial adenomas. The surgeon will remove the cancer and some of the tissue around it. [alsehhat.com]
Treatment is by thoracotomy with total excision of the lesion. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
So I think that in some sense I was lucky, the treatment was limited to surgery, which was done quickly and very neatly. [doclandmed.com]
We conclude that the long-term prognosis of patients with bronchial adenoma is excellent, and limited surgical procedure should be the treatment of choice whenever possible. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Mucous Gland Adenoma regarding definition, distribution, risk factors, causes, signs & symptoms, diagnosis, complications, treatment, prevention, prognosis, and additional useful information HERE. [dovemed.com]
 Overall prognosis: 75% 15-year survival  Associated with Cushing's Disease  Rare [learningradiology.com]
Concerning the possible etiology of bronchial adenoma, Stout 7 in 1943 reported finding all of the features of the oncocytes previously described by Hamperl. 6 Stout stressed the great difference between the oncocytes and other cells in the bronchial [mdedge.com]
Etiology Bronchial carcinoids are thought to arise from Kulchitsky cells. These neuroendocrine cells, formerly classified as amine precursor uptake and decarboxylation cells, produce and store biogenic amines and peptides. [thehealthscience.com]
[…] lesions with less cartilaginous and ductal differentiation Epidemiology Very rare ( 40 cases reported), predominantly in young adults, age range 8 - 74 years Possibly shows slight F M Sites Usually in trachea and major bronchi, rarely in distal bronchi Etiology [pathologyoutlines.com]
Epidemiology xxx Physiology Benign mucoepithelial tumor of the lung Mucoepithelial tumors: rare tumors that arise from the mucous glands of the upper airway (trachea/ bronchi)/ oropharynx (tumor arising from salivary gland is named for that origin, but [mdnxs.com]
Epidemiology This is a very rare tumour occurring from childhood to old age. Clinical features Patients usually present with features of obstruction. Radiology The tumour is usually central but may be peripheral, forming a "coin lesion". [e-immunohistochemistry.info]
Epidemiology Frequency United StatesBronchial adenomas represent 1-3% of pulmonary malignancies. Carcinoids account for approximately 85% of bronchial adenomas and 1-2% of all lung malignancies. [thehealthscience.com]
Epidemiology Frequency United States Bronchial adenomas represent 1-3% of pulmonary malignancies. Carcinoids account for approximately 85% of bronchial adenomas and 1-2% of all lung malignancies. [emedicine.medscape.com]
Pathophysiology Symptoms develop from the growth of the tumors within the tracheobronchial tree, with consequent obstruction leading to cough, hemoptysis, atelectasis, or pneumonia. [thehealthscience.com]
Pathophysiology Symptoms develop from the growth of the tumors within the tracheobronchial tree, with consequent obstruction leading to cough, hemoptysis, atelectasis, or pneumonia. [1] Adenoid cystic carcinoma behaves very similar to major and minor [emedicine.medscape.com]
[…] these are benign tumors and no malignant transformation is noted Please find comprehensive information on Pulmonary Mucous Gland Adenoma regarding definition, distribution, risk factors, causes, signs & symptoms, diagnosis, complications, treatment, prevention [dovemed.com]
Deterrence/Prevention No preventive regimen has been established. Smoking cessation is always a good thing but has no specific effect on these tumors. [indiacancersurgerysite.com]
The combined use of two drugs that are prescribed for other conditions, eflonithine and sulindac, may prevent the development of adenomas or the recurrence of colon cancer. [encyclopedia.com]
However, the existence of a fibrous, firm sheath around the tumor can prevent adequate tissue sampling in 50% of the cases [ 15 ]. Chondromas Endobronchial Chondroma (EC) is also extremely rare. [omicsonline.org]
Ramachandran PV, Harigovind D, Shamsudeen H, et al. Imaging spectrum of bronchial carcinoid--a case of central bronchial obstructing lesion. J Indian Med Assoc. 2002;100(7): 461-4.
Jeung MY, Gasser B, Gangi A, et al. Bronchial carcinoid tumors of the thorax: spectrum of radiologic findings. Radiographics. 2002;22(2):351-65.
Bhatia K, Ellis S. Unusual lung tumours: an illustrated review of CT features suggestive of this diagnosis. Cancer Imaging. 2006;6:72–82.
Fischer S, Kruger M, McRae K, et al. Giant bronchial carcinoid tumors: A multidisciplinary approach. Ann Thorac Surg. 2001;71:386–93.
Rizzardi G, Marulli G, Calabrese F, et al. Bronchial carcinoid tumours in children: surgical treatment and outcome in a single institution. Eur J Pediatr Surg. 2009;19(4):228–31.
Kaplan KA, Beierle EA, Faro A, et al. Recurrent pneumonia in children: A case report and approach to diagnosis. Clin Pediatr. 2006;45:15–22.
Nessi R, Basso Ricci P, Basso Ricci S, et al. Bronchial carcinoid tumors: radiologic observations in 49 cases. J Thorac Imaging. 1991;6(2):47-53.
Dixit R, Gupta R, Yadav A, et al. A case of pulmonary carcinoid tumor with concomitant tuberculosis. Lung India. 2009;26:133–5.
Cetinkaya E, Aras G, Sokucu SN, et al. Treatment of endoluminal typical carcinoid tumor with bronchoscopic techniques. Tuberk Toraks. 2009;57(4):427-30.
Rizzardi G, Marulli G, Calabrese F, et al., Bronchial carcinoid tumours in children: surgical treatment and outcome in a single institution. Eur J Pediatr Surg. 2009;19(4):228–31.
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Delve into Oveng in Gabon!
Oveng in the region of Estuaire is a place located in Gabon - some 6 mi (or 10 km) North-East of Libreville, the country's capital.
Local time in Oveng is now 03:12 AM (Thursday). The local timezone is named "Africa / Libreville" with an UTC offset of 1 hours. Depending on your mobility, these larger destinations might be interesting for you: Yaoundé, Douala, Mongomo, Evinayong, Malabo or São Tomé. While being here, you might want to check out Sibang, Oveng, Nzong-Ayong, Nvanayeme, Nseng-Mitang and Les Bambous as well. We discovered some clips posted online. Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation.
Located at 0.43, 9.53 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 6 mi away.
Located at 0.43, 9.53 (Lat. / Lng.), less than 9 mi away.


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Q: issue with sonata admin + a2lix + gedmo translatable I'm trying to use sonata admin + a2lix + gedmo translatable to translate my entities.
Unfortunately it doesn't work, because I expect to see my translatable fields in the form, while in my backend I can see this "field - content" :

I've followed this tutorials:
http://a2lix.fr/bundles/translation-form/
http://www.elao.com/blog/symfony-2/doctrine-2/how-to-manage-translations-for-your-object-using-sonataadminbundle.html
and the documentation of the bundles.
Here you can find all the code I wrote: https://gist.github.com/itxavia/8416920
I'm pretty sure that the translatable annotation used is good, because I've tried to use those entities with PugX (another "admin generator") and all work fine... but I need sonata admin because it has got some features that PugX doesn't have so I'd like to get this code working.
Do you have experience with sonata admin, a2lix and gedmo to get translatable entities?
Can you please give me some hints?
Thanks a lot
Best regards

A: Alright, I finally fixed it. It seems the v2 of the a2lix/translation-form-bundle doesn't support the old gedmo strategy, you would have to use wip 2.4.0 for it to work properly, but there isn't stofDoctrineIntegration bundle yet for that, so.. To get this working, you need to use 1.* branch of the a2lix/translation-form-bundle, add this to your composer.json:
"a2lix/translation-form-bundle": "1.*@dev"

Then in your Sonata admin class where you would like to use translations:
$formMapper
    ->add('translations', 'a2lix_translations_gedmo', array(   // Use the old gedmo strategy
        'translatable_class' => 'Your\Translatable\Entity\Class',
));

Took me a while to figure this out, but it works great!

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Home » FG Inaugurates Presidential Committee On Ecological Intervention
FG Inaugurates Presidential Committee On Ecological Intervention
By Sandra Uzoho January 13, 2023 January 14, 2023 General
The Federal Government has inaugurated the Presidential committee on the implementation of the "Nguru " ecological intervention programme. Nguru is a community in Yobe State, Northeast Nigeria.
The Minister of Environment Mr. Mohammed Abdullahi who inaugurated the committee for the project in Abuja Nigeria's capital said that collaborative partnerships of all stakeholders including Royal Fathers, were critical, as government alone cannot solve and mitigate afforestation.
"You may recall that the Emir of Nguru, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Mustafa Ibn Mai Kyari on behalf of the Forest Farmers (Nguru) Cooperative Society, requested ecological funds for the afforestation of degraded land to mitigate climate change impacts within the Emirate, the said land was cleared in 2017 through the intervention of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to enable implementation of the livelihood project called Rural Agriculture Re-modelled Project Strategies Since this request conforms with the vision and developmental agenda of the present administration especially the attainment of the NDC and global emission reduction." The Minister explained.
Mr. Abdullahi also said that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that an inter-ministerial committee comprising relevant Ministries and Agencies be set up to consider this lofty request and come up with recommendations that must include but not be limited to the modalities for its implementation and cost implications.
"I am confident that the Committee being inaugurated today is composed of seasoned professionals and bureaucrats that would produce results that would assist not only in the delivery on the assignment at hand but also in the achievement of the far-reaching Government policies" He stated.
The Minister, also noted that the government is committed to tackling climate change and environmental challenges, food security, as well as other socio-economic problems across the country while improving the general well-being of the people.
"This is being demonstrated through our various policies, programmes and initiatives some of which as you are aware, are inter-sectoral. It is also being demonstrated by Mr. President's directive to the effect that this committee should be established." Mr. Abdullahi said.
The Chairman of the Committee and Director of Forestry, Ministry of Environment, Mrs. Hajara Sani said that the committee will spring into action as soon as possible to ensure preparatory plans are in place for the implementation of the program.
"On behalf of the Committee, I want to show both Honorable Minister and his Royal Highness, that we will work with diligence and promptness to deliver what we have to deliver. It is a national assignment that was owed to us because of the benefits that will generate especially the positive on multiple climate change." She stated.
The Traditional Ruler of the Nguru community in Yobe State Northeast Nigeria, Mustapha Ibn Mai Kyari, while commending President Muhammadu Buhari said that the government has over the years shown that it is concerned about environmental problems in the country.
"I am very delighted that we started in 2017, has now come to fruition. And today, God has shown us that this government is equal to the task and this also concerned about environmental problems in this country. And to have all of these grand ideas, we extend our thanks again to you, Mr. President, and he has also prayed God in his infinite mercy will improve his administration." Ibn Mai Kyari added.
The Committee membership consists of the Federal Ministry of Environment represented by the Department of Forestry, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, National Agency for the Great Green Wall, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Federal Ministry of Water Resources, Agricultural and Rural and Management Training Institute Forest Farmers of "Nguru" in Yobe State Northeast Nigeria
Credit : Dominica Ijeoma Nwabufo (VON Nigeria)
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Some of you have asked for photos of Katja. Hugh has uploaded some photos of Katja to our website.
As the end of 2013 approaches, we are ever mindful of God's provision for our every need throughout the last 12 months, but also the last 10 years. Ten years ago Becky started this faith journey on mission with Wycliffe Bible Translators. We are excited for what lies ahead in the years to come!
We (Becky and Hugh) love pictures. About 1 year into our marriage we had a conversation in which we realized we want photos of our times together. We have decided to share some of these photos through our website.


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Dog Park Association to host 8th annual Pooch Plunge
Emily DeLetter
Journal & Courier
LAFAYETTE – Dogs of every breed will be welcome to play and swim at Castaway Bay for three nights in August thanks to the 8th annual Pooch Plunge, hosted by the Dog Park Association of Greater Lafayette and Lafayette Parks & Recreation.
Held Aug. 13-15 from 5-8 p.m. each evening, the only restrictions and/or requirements are that dogs be at least four months old with a written proof of rabies vaccination. Female dogs in their heat cycle will not be allowed in, and there will be a limit of two dogs per person.
There will be a lifeguard on duty and a veterinarian present. Due to health and safety reasons, people will only be allowed to wade in up to their knees to retrieve their dogs. Children under 12 will have a separate viewing area with a fenced enclosure.
LeAnne Williams, president of the Dog Park Association of Great Lafayette, said Pooch Plunge is an event people in the community "live for" each year.
"We don't have a place in Lafayette besides the river or a lake for dogs to have a pool party, so people go nuts for this event," Williams said. "This is such a great dog community and our members are asking for more and more every year."
The entry fee for one dog is $10, with a $5 fee for an additional dog. All money raised will go towards local animal rescues and organizations, Williams said. Pooch Plunge welcomed 263 dogs in 2018 due to heavy rain, but Williams hopes good weather this year will attract more dogs and more money raised. Her personal goal for 2019 is $5,500, more than their record of $5,100 raised in 2015.
"This is our biggest event of the year," Williams said. "We hope to get the word spread as much as we can, so we don't have to turn anyone down at the gate this year."
Registration is available at the gate, or a form can be downloaded from www.dogparkinlafayette.org.
Emily DeLetter is a news reporter for Journal & Courier. Contact her at (765) 420-5205 or via email at edeletter@jconline.com. Follow her on Twitter at @EmilyDeLetter.
© 2023 www.jconline.com. All rights reserved.


This urn is made from an beautifully figured piece of Roasted Bird's Eye Maple which includes some curly patterns. Wenge and Blistered Maple provide the accents on the top. No stains or dyes have been used. The rich colours that you see are the natural colours of the finished woods.
Mitred corners reinforced with Wenge keys.
Top is made from solid 1/2" (13mm) thick laminated bands of Roasted Bird's Eye Maple, Blistered Maple and Wenge.


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A medium to make cracked surfaces for acrylic painting applications.
Appropriate surfaces: Primed surfaces for acrylic applications with a slight tooth or matte finish will result in the best adhesion. Suitable for application onto painted areas within an artwork.
Thickness of application: Thin applications will result in finer lines. Thicker applications will develop wider cracks. Rigid surfaces are recommended for thicker applications to avoid sagging. Due to the thin consistency and need to be spread with a palette knife, surfaces should to be flat and level. If applying to concave or convex shape, dipping is recommended.
Drying time: Thin applications will be cracked and touch dry in 3-4 hours. Thicker applications 12-24 hours recommended depending on humidity and climatic conditions.
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Always test your methods and materials prior to applying to a final piece of artwork to ensure desired effects.
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Walgreens has partnered with Village MD phycian group to open full-service primary care clinics next to its stores at five locations in Houston.
Walgreens and VillageMD, a large national network of primary care physicians, will launch a collaboration to open large, state-of-the art clinics next to the drug stores at five Houston locations, the companies announced Wednesday.
The first of the 2,500-square-foot clinics is expected top open by years' end, although the location was not immediately available, a Walgreens company spokesman said.
The partnership with VillageMD in Houston will be a first for Walgreens and will cater to adult patients. A similar venture with another medical group that served only seniors was launched in Kansas City last year, the company said.
The clinics will be named Village Medical at Walgreens and will continue the march toward more integrated care with primary care physicians and other health care providers at the clinic working closely with the pharmacists at Walgreens.
"This collaboration with Village MD demonstrates our ongoing commitment to create neighborhood health destinations that bring affordable health care services to customers," Dr. Pat Carroll, chief medical officer and group vice president for Walgreens, said in a statement.
He added that VillageMD already has a strong presence in the Houston area with more than 120 primary care physicians in its medical group.
A variety of sometimes surprising partnerships are being formed to move away from traditional ways of receiving care as the nation continues to grapple with rising health care costs and fragmented access to treatment, health economists have said.


« Hess Is More – The new collective on Gomma. Watch them live!
We are proud to present a new band on Gomma: Hess Is More.
The project of Mikkel Hess – Danish jazz musician living in New York. Doing Electronic Live Jazz music with a heavy punk edge. Check out the EP. And the live performance of his 7 member band at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.


For anyone familiar with Boston's larger-than-life, four-time mayor James Michael Curley, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that in 2014 he's still managing to unite people to do great things for their city. In this case, Boston Globe correspondent John Dyer set off a grand chain of events back in January when he wrote about Feldman Land Surveyors' pro-bono work in his article, 3D Scans Add a New Dimension to Preservation.
The article sparked the imaginations of Christopher Gleason and Jody Gordon, both humanities professors at Wentworth Institute of Technology. The two were so inspired by Dyer's words that they contacted Feldman Land Surveyors with a unique and interesting question. Would the James Michael Curley house qualify as a subject for Feldman's Scanning Historic Boston program?
Gleason and Gordon, who were about to instruct a new course focusing on digitally archiving and curating Curley's life, realized a non-destructive 3D laser scan of the mayor's house would be a fascinating addition to their collaborative collection and assembly of relevant data. No to mention that any virtual museum of the Curley's life simply had to include the shamrock-shuttered house he called home for more than forty years.
Once their request reached Feldman's offices, the rest—as they say—is history.
Somewhere the spirit of James Michael Curley must be smiling down on this campaign, as well as working on a speech to fan all the renewed interest in his house with the 3D shamrocks!


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William Thomas Lopp (June 21, 1864 – April 10, 1939), known better professionally as W. T. Lopp, and to his family as Tom Lopp, was a member of the Overland Relief Expedition in Alaska, then a U.S. territory.  He was a missionary and advocate of turning native hunters into self-sufficient reindeer herders.  Lopp Lagoon, an 18 mi. long bay near where Lopp lived in Alaska, is named after him.

William Thomas Lopp was born June 21, 1864, to Jacob C. and Lucinda Trotter Lopp at Valley City, Indiana.

He earned a B.A. at Indiana's Hanover College in 1888.

Alaska
In 1890 Lopp moved to Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska to teach at a mission school.  After marrying Ellen Louise Kittredge in 1892, he and his wife continued to teach and learn Eskimo languages and Eskimo lifestyles. Seeing that Eskimo food sources were endangered by the encroachments of the burgeoning American and Canadian fishing industry, Lopp promoted reindeer herding among the native Alaskans as an alternative means of subsistence. In 1892 reindeer were brought over from Siberia and a "reindeer station" was established, with Lopp as superintendent.

Seattle, Washington
Lopp moved his family to Seattle, Washington, USA in 1902, but continued involvement in Alaskan native education and reindeer herding for 34 more years, holding a variety of government and private industry positions.

During his career Lopp established sixty-six schools, five hospitals and sanitation systems, and increased prosperity in the coastal villages of northern Alaska. Lopp died on April 10, 1939, survived by his wife Ellen and their seven surviving children.

Appointments
1904–1909 Superintendent of government schools (Native) and reindeer, northern district, of Alaska.
1910–1923  Chief of the Alaska division of the U.S. Bureau of Education.
1923–1925 Superintendent of education of Natives of Alaska.
1925–? Reindeer expert for Hudson's Bay Company.

Books about Lopp
In a Far Country: The True Story of a Mission, a Marriage, a Murder, and the Remarkable Reindeer Rescue of 1898. by John Taliaferro. PublicAffairs (November 30, 2006)
Ice Window: Letters from a Bering Strait Village 1898-1902. by Kathleen Lopp-Smith. University of Alaska Press (February 1, 2002)

Books by Lopp
White Sox : the story of the reindeer in Alaska. by William Thomas Lopp; H Boylston Dummer. Publisher: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y. : World Book, 1924.
Schools conducted by the United States government. by Douglas MacArthur; William Thomas Lopp; United States. Navy Dept.; United States. Indian School Service. Publisher: [S.l. : s.n.], 1913.

References

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Photographs of Lopp and his family in 1902 and 1918

1864 births
1939 deaths
Hanover College alumni
People from Harrison County, Indiana

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