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Q: Proper Way to Remove Mysql Tables I was going to ask why mysqldump was trying to write dropped tables but I found that answer from this question, How do you remove reported non existing tables from mysql?.
Removing the .frm files from my datadir has resolved the mysqldump issue of trying to dump non-existent tables. Now my question is how do I drop a table and have all references to it removed? I would have thought issuing the drop table would remove all associated files in the directory. I am using MyISAM so perhaps the issue is related to that.

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A. G. Gaston: The Black Business Titan Advancing African-American Entrepreneurship in Alabama
A. G. Gaston (b. 7/4/1892 - d. 1/19/1996)
When considering the incredible obstacles surmounted by A. G. Gaston and his outstanding business successes, one wonders why his legacy is not recounted and revered more in the books, journals and chronicles of Black history. A towering business figure in Alabama, Gaston overcame poverty and racial discrimination to build a multi-million dollar business empire in the heart of the South. You will respect his conglomerate when you learn that his enterprises included an insurance company, two cemeteries, a savings and loan bank, a business college, a couple radio stations, a motel, a construction company and multiple real estate holdings.
Arthur George Gaston was born in Demopolis, Alabama to Tom and Rosa McDonald Gaston. His father was a railroad worker who died soon after Gaston's birth. His mother worked in Greensboro, Alabama as a family cook to the wealthy Jewish businessman A. B. Loveman, the founder of the largest department store in Alabama —Loveman's of Alabama. Gaston spent his early years in Demopolis with Joe and Idella Gaston, his paternal grandparents. It is reported that, while poor, his grandparent's house was the only one with a swing — and opportunity the young, entrepreneurial Gaston used to charge the local children to ride the swing. By 1905, at the age of 13, Gaston would move back with his mother, this time to Birmingham, Alabama where she accompanied the relocated Loveman family.
Early Life in Birmingham
Gaston's mother enrolled him in the Tuggle Institute when they arrived in Birmingham. The Tuggle Institute was a privately run charitable school for African American, the namesake of the social reformer Carrie Tuggle. The school was modeled after the Booker T. Washington industrial educational schools, which emphasized developing trade skills and small businesses. In fact, Booker T. Washington visited the Tuggle Institute on numerous occasions to give inspirational speeches to the students. Gaston was naturally influenced by the philosophy of "pulling ones self up by his or her boot straps", which was the hallmark of Washington's message. After completing the tenth grade, Gaston left the school and started working selling the black-owned newspaper founded by Oscar W. Adams in 1907, the Birmingham Reporter. The young Gaston also started working as a bellman at the Battle House Hotel in Mobile, Alabama.
In 1913, Gaston enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to the all-Black Ninety-second Infantry Division that was deployed in World War I combat in 1917. Of his $20 monthly military pay, it is reported that Gaston sent $15 home towards his first real estate mortgage investment in Birmingham. When he returned to Birmingham after the war, Gaston drove a delivery truck for a dry-cleaning company. He also worked in Fairfield, Alabama as a Tennessee Coal and Iron Company miner. While there, Gaston sold lunch sandwiches to his co-workers and eventually became a lending source to them.
The Booker T. Washington Burial Society & The Booker T. Washington Business College
By 1923 Gaston founded his first business, the Booker T. Washington Burial Society, the same year he married Creole Smith. While working in the coal mines, Gaston undoubtedly saw many early deaths from what we now recognize as harsh and unsafe working conditions in the mines. The need for poor Blacks to have affordable funeral burial services was not lost of Gaston, and as a result the fraternal order burial society was developed, along with the funeral services. Gaston attracted members from local church congregations, as well as his sponsorship of local radio programs aimed at African Americans. By 1932, Gaston has established the Booker T. Washington Insurance Company, which not only offered burial services, but also life insurance, health insurance and accident insurance. He would branch this business off into casket manufacturing and the operation of two cemeteries. In 1923, he entered a partnership with his father-in-law A. L. Smith and started the Smith & Gaston Funeral Home on real estate he bought and renovated near Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham.
Booker T. Washington Business College in Alabama
By 1938, Gaston's first wife Creole Smith Gaston died. In 1939, he married Minnie L. Gardner Gaston. Always one to recognize a market demand, he and his second wife founded the Booker T. Washington business school after noticing a shortage of skilled administrative staff in the community to operate his businesses.
Growing His Alabama Black Businesses & Giving Back
Gaston continued expanding his empire. In the early 1950s, he responded to the difficulties African-Americans faced securing home loans from White-owned banks and opened the Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association. This became the first Black-owned financial institution in Birmingham since the Alabama Penny Savings Bank closed 40 years earlier. Gaston also developed the Vulcan Realty and Investment Company. He started manufacturing, bottling and distributing a soda called Joe Louis Punch. He started the A. G. Gaston Home for Senior Citizens and the A. G. Gaston Motel. The motel, which became a refuge, met the great demand of African Americans traveling through the South during the 1950s where few White-owned hotels and restaurants welcomed Black people. Delving into media, Gaston also owned and operated two radio stations — WAGG-AM and WENN-FM — as well as provided public relation services for other businesses through S & G Public Relations Company. It was very clear that Gaston did not come to play with us.
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Gaston gave back to the community. He donated $50,000 to establish the A. G. Gaston Boys Club in Birmingham. During the Birmingham civil rights movement In the 1960s, Gaston was sometimes criticized as being an accommodationist. It is not lost on history, however, that it was his wealth that was crucial to the achievement of the efforts of the civil rights movement. For example, Gaston provided civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr. with reduced costs accommodations at his motel. When King was arrested in 1963, it was Gaston who bailed him out of jail. His support of the civil rights movement lead to his motel being bombed on May 12, 1963. His home was bombed in September 1963. In 1976, Gaston was kidnapped and tortured with a hammer before he was rescued by the police.
Gaston has been bestowed with many honors. In 1975, he received an honorary law degree from Pepperdine University. Black Enterprise magazine named him "Entrepreneur of the Century in 1992. Gaston published his autobiography, Green Power: The Successful Way of A. G. Gaston in 1968. Read more about A. G. Gaston in the biography Black Titan, A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire. New York: One World, 2004. His goal was to inspire Black entrepreneurship. His powerful life and words should not be lost on the generations.
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Commemorative Issue
N. Koreans in Kuwait engage in illegal brewing of alcohol
Some North Korean workers dispatched to Kuwait have been clandestinely brewing and trading liquor, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Friday.
Quoting a source in the Middle East country, the RFA said that some North Korean laborers were found to be manufacturing a liquor called "sadeeqi" at their apartments in Kuwait.
With a taste similar to the Korean distilled liquor "soju," the illegally brewed spirit contains some 40 percent alcohol.
Made from rice, the liquor is also being traded at a high price on the black market in the Muslim country, where making, selling and drinking alcohol is strictly prohibited by law.
Other media outlets said some 10 North Korean workers in Kuwait per year on average are ordered to leave the country for violating the local law prohibiting the drinking or brewing of alcohol.
Previously, some North Koreans were arrested for bootlegging and distributing illegal liquor after they converted their apartments into a distilleries.
In October 2014 alone, 22 North Korean workers in Kuwait were arrested on bootlegging charges, according to the RFA.
Other media reports said if North Korean workers are discovered selling the liquor to North Korean laborers or other people, they are deported back to North Korea.
According to local sources, the manufacturing cost for a box of sadeeqi (12 bottles) is estimated at US$20, but it is sold to regional smugglers for up to $50, making the business quite profitable and hard to root out.
There used to be almost 4,000 North Koreans, mostly construction laborers, in the country, but the number has dropped to 3,200, according to the RFA.
The North dispatches tens of thousands of workers abroad to raise hard currency for its struggling economy, stymied by sanctions and rampant inflation.
The latest reports said North Korean workers are concentrated in the suburbs of the Kuwaiti capital, where they build houses, hospitals and other facilities. They usually stay in military-style barracks. (Yonhap)


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Q: Whats the best way to implement this use in my database? I have a central database containing millions of IDs. And I have a group of users (50-100 users), all being able to request extraction of IDs from this big database.
Atm what I do is when a user sends a GET request, I SELECT 100 ids then update them with the flag USED and return the 100. The problem is, if I get too many requests at the same time, multiple users will receive the same ids (because I dont lock the db when doing select and then update)
If I lock the database my problem will be solved, but it will also be slower.
What other alternative I have?
Thanks!

A: Look ahead another step...  What if a "user" gets 100 rows, then keels over dead.  Do you have a way to release those 100 for someone else to work on?
You need an extra table to handle "check out" and "check in".  Also, use that table to keep track of the "next" 100 to assign to a user.
When a user checks out the 100, a record of that is stored in the table, together with a timestamp and "who" checked them out.  If they don't "check them back in within, say, an hour, then you assign that 100 to another user.
Back on something more mundane...  How to pick 100.  If there is an auto_increment id with no gaps, then use simple math to chunk up the list.  If there are a lot of gaps, then use SELECT id FROM tbl WHERE id > $leftoff ORDER BY id LIMIT 100, 1 to get the end of the next 100.

A: If each user has their own key, you could pull from the millions of IDs starting from their key*10000. For example, user #9 would first get IDs #90000 to #90099, then #90100 to #90199 next time.
You could set the IDs as "Used" before they get sent back, so one user requesting IDs multiple times will never get duplicates. This needn't lock the database for other users.
If they don't request keys more than 100 times before the database can update, this should avoid collisions. You might need to add logic to allow users who request often not to run out, like by having a pool of IDs that can repopulate their supply, but that depends on particulars that aren't clear from the original question.


Welcome to my world of mad weaving. The "baskets" you see on this site are built using a triaxial weave called madweave. It originated in Malaysia, China, and the Phillipines. All weaving is so ancient that no one really knows who started any type of weave. But I find this weave so challenging and absorbing that I keep on exploring what forms I can create from it.
I have been weaving for 5 years and find it both challenging and absorbing. I come a sewing and handwork background and with three dimensional weaving, I finally incorporate my engineering side. I hope you enjoy the pictures. There are lots more to be posted.


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Plainville Woman in Critical Condition After Crash
Published Oct 20, 2010 at 1:52 PM | Updated at 3:35 PM EDT on Oct 21, 2010
Jill Archibald, 42, of Plainville, is in critical condition.
A 42-year-old Plainville woman is in critical condition after her Jeep flipped during a crash on Wednesday morning.
The crash happened at 8:17 a.m. at Maxine Road and Kari Drive in Plainville.
Jill Archibald was traveling south on Kari Drive, about 100 yards from her home, when her Jeep Wrangler collided with a Dodge Avenger driven by Ronald Picard, 62, of Bristol, police said.
Archibald suffered life-threatening injuries and was transported by ambulance to Hartford Hospital Trauma Center, where she is in critical condition, police said.
Picard was also transported to Hartford Hospital Trauma Center for treatment of a possible chest injury.
Plainville police are investigating.
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James M. Hession (5 November 1912 – 12 January 1999) was an Irish Fine Gael politician and solicitor who served as a Teachta Dála (TD), representing the Galway North constituency in Dáil Éireann. Hession was elected at the 1951 general election, was re-elected at the 1954 general election but lost his seat at the 1957 general election.

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There were no interactions found in our database between Buprenex and prednisone - however, this does not necessarily mean no interactions exist. Always consult with your doctor or pharmacist.
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The Arteta Process: what Arsenal will look like in 3 years
Today I wanted to write a more positive piece. The mood surrounding Arsenal right now is very sour, and we have made our worst Premier League start in years. It is clear that there are hardly any positives to take from the here and now. Here's the thing; everybody...
The key changes that Arteta must make before it's too late
As frustrating as Arsenal have been to watch so far this season, due to the lack of men forward and attacking desire, I was somewhat on board with the plan. I kept thinking that, whilst Arteta had chosen a more defensive approach, he was yet to actually get turned...
How should we line up against Aston Villa?
Arsenal enjoyed another win in the Europa League against Molde last night. The Gunners are top of Group B with three wins out of three, and have given themselves the chance to secure qualification to the knockout stages with two games to spare if they beat Molde in...
Full analysis as Arsenal fail to take advantage of a weak Man City
Author: Ben Kitto Some will say that expectations should still be tempered, but Saturday's loss was an opportunity missed There haven't been too many better times to play Manchester City over the last few years. While, on paper, Pep Guardiola's side is one of...
Arsenal receive Tierney boost ahead of visit to Manchester
In a piece of welcome news for the Gunners, Arsenal are believed to have been successful in negotiating a deal to cut short Kieran Tierney's 14 day quarantine period. This will mean Tierney, who has been in isolation since last Tuesday, can be available to face...
Edu's reported next 3 transfer targets after getting Partey deal over the line
There is a huge degree of optimism around Arsenal right now after the board were finally able to give Arteta his first marquee signing after meeting Thomas Partey's release clause on deadline day. However, for all the defensive issues that the Ghanaian can help...
Should Nketiah lead the line for the rest of the season?
Eddie Nketiah is a hot prospect for Arsenal, and during this season has shown glimpses of real quality in the limited minutes he's played for the Gunners. He's a striker with 3 goals in 7 first team appearances for Arsenal this season, scoring a goal on average every...
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Gooding College was established in 1917 and remained a pillar of education in Southern Idaho until 1938.
The school started with land, from Frank Gooding, and $267,000.00 from the community of Gooding. At the peak of enrollment, in 1928, the college had 209 students.
At the time Gooding College was the only Higher Education in Idaho between Caldwell and Pocatello, and the only degree offered was a Bachelor of Arts. From 1917 through 1935 the President of the College was C.W. Tenney.
The building being restored was named after him, Tenney Hall, and the only building left on the site of the collage campus today. As late as 1931 the Gooding College was called "A valuable asset to Southern Idaho".
Within seven years of that being said it was shut down. After 21 years of operation the buildings on the campus were given to Conference Claimants Board of The Idaho Conference of the Methodist Church, which had loaned money to keep the school operating.
development of a Tuberculosis Hospital, which opened in 1946. The TB Hospital, as most of the community knows us as today, was, at the time, one of the most advanced Hospitals for TB in the United States.
Now, the building and grounds are host the University Inn.
In 1920 the building was erected to serve as the dormitory for the Gooding College founded in 1917. The college served students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree until 1938. Because the Methodist Church had provided substantial funds to keep the school going, the buildings were donated to the church when the school closed.
In 1941 the Methodist Church gave the building to the state of Idaho for the development of a tuberculosis hospital, however, shortages of equipment and personnel during World War II delayed the opening of the hospital until May 1947. The hospital was in operation until 1976. After the building was abandoned, Idaho State legislators have wondered what to do with the building and there have been unsuccessful attempts to have the building demolished. Recently the building was purchased by Gary Hannon, who refurbished a small section of the historic building to house guests at the "Get Inn". He offers eight guestrooms, which had previously served as the nurses' dorms when the Idaho State Tuberculosis Hospital was in operation.


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Mr. William F. Allen
Mr. William F. Allen Member
Retired Chairman , Stone & Webster, Inc.
Retired Chairman | Stone & Webster, Inc.
Primary Section Electric Power/Energy Systems
Secondary Section Mechanical
BY KENNETH F. REINSCHMIDT
WILLIAM F. ALLEN JR., of Braintree, Massachusetts, passed away September 21, 2014. He was born on June 22, 1919, in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Bill graduated with a BS degree in civil engineering from Brown ...
WILLIAM F. ALLEN JR., of Braintree, Massachusetts, passed away September 21, 2014. He was born on June 22, 1919, in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Bill graduated with a BS degree in civil engineering from Brown University where he later worked as a mechanical engineering instructor. He served in the US Navy as a Lieutenant (jg) from 1944 to 1946. In August 1945 he was on board one of the vessels in the US invasion fleet headed toward a landing in the Japanese home islands when the atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war. He often recollected later that atomic weapons had saved his life.
He served in Japan for 10 months, describing in his own words, "I was at sea on LST 751 when the Japanese capitulated. Since we were supposed to storm the beaches we were initially not equipped to occupy Japan; we were ordered to find equipment and material to supply our forces and to feed the Japanese people who were starving when we arrived." He was a staunch supporter of civilian nuclear power and was instrumental in seeing the need to adapt military technology such as nuclear submarines to the civilian energy sector. He firmly believed that civilian nuclear power would be a clean, safe, economical, and unlimited source of energy for years to come.
After the war's conclusion Bill stayed with the US occupation forces to house and feed the Japanese civilian population and to rebuild and replace infrastructure destroyed by US bombing. Although a relatively junior Navy officer, Bill had a high level of responsibilities and learned much in a short time about large project management, project engineering, construction of large engineering projects, supply chain management, and collaboration among different organizations, disciplines, and backgrounds (for example, the US Navy and US Army). This project experience would serve him well on his return to civilian life in engineering and construction.
After demobilization in 1946, Bill returned to the US and enrolled in Harvard University under the GI Bill of Rights. He received an MS degree in mechanical engineering from Harvard in 1947, where he then became a teaching fellow. In 1948 Bill joined the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation in downtown Boston. At that time the company was relatively small by today's standards and served largely industrial and utility clients but had completed projects across the width of the US as well as in selected foreign countries. It was founded in 1889 by Charles Stone and Edwin Webster, members of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's first graduating class in electrical engineering.
They emphasized engineering professionalism, integrity, and service during their stewardship of the company. Bill Allen exemplified the founders' traditions, professionalism, and management ethics. He rose rapidly in the company's organizational ranks, from mechanical engineer to engineering manager, to vice president and director of engineering (1968), to senior vice president (1971), to president (1972) and chief executive officer (1973), and retired in 1995 after serving as CEO for more than 20 years. On his watch, Stone & Webster expanded to more than 17,000 employees and opened new offices in New York City, Houston, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Denver, Chicago, Pleasanton, California, Atlanta, Toronto, London, and other locations in order to have close access to clients as well as local engineering resources.
Bill participated in many engineering and construction projects throughout the world and was noted for his commitment to technical excellence and innovation. He wrote 16 significant technical publications, generally in the areas of steam electric power plants, two-phase flow (water/steam), improvements in overall steam power plant efficiency, the heat cycle, and properties of steam.
One of his major impacts was in the field of nuclear power where he recognized its potential and very quickly moved Stone & Webster into the nuclear era, starting with the first civilian nuclear power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Space is too short to list the projects, nuclear and otherwise, that Bill and Stone & Webster worked on serving the nuclear, electric utility, and process chemical industries worldwide. Unfortunately, events such as the accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station, the accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine, and inconsistent policies of government agencies made it difficult to succeed in the nuclear power sector.
Under Bill's leadership, Stone & Webster was also innovative in other areas. He acquired computers for use on projects as early as the 1970s, when a computer was a huge IBM water-cooled mainframe. Stone & Webster expanded its use of computers for project management and then acquired minicomputers for computer-aided design (CAD) and construction long before its competitors made the investment in this technology.
Making use of Stone & Webster's expertise in engineering, construction, procurement, plant operations, and the use of powerful computer systems, he led Stone & Webster in developing and applying a computer-based integrated project management system for use in the engineering and construction industry. Then, in the 1980s, Stone & Webster led the trend from mainframes and minicomputers to personal computers for engineering, design, and drafting applications.
Bill was a licensed professional engineer in 46 states and Canada. He displayed all his licenses on his office wall, an aweinspiring sight for new employees as well as prospective clients. Reflecting his many contributions to the field of mechanical engineering, especially multiphase flow and properties of steam, Bill was elected a member of the Newcomen Society, the world's oldest society specializing in the history of engineering and technology, in 1990. As a result of his interest and involvement with engineering education, he received the honorary degree of doctor of technology from the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston in 1983 and the honorary degree of doctor of engineering from Northeastern University in 1990.
He was well known for caring about the people who worked with and for him. He was invariably polite, cordial, and gentlemanly. He answered all his incoming telephone calls himself and dialed all outgoing calls rather than deferring to his secretary or an answering machine. If an employee called Bill's number, the CEO himself would answer. Part of his humanity was his phenomenal ability to remember the names and faces of all acquaintances and employees.
If he encountered a newly hired employee whose name he didn't know, he would ask other employees for the name until he learned it; after that he never had to ask again. One former employee recalls the time that Bill sent an interoffice memo (in pre-email days) to all staff with a reprint of an article that he had read, while on an airplane, regarding hotel safety and how to survive a hotel fire.
Bill felt that it would be useful for the many Stone & Webster people who traveled to read the article. Later that year, an employee was on vacation when the hotel he was staying at caught on fire. The employee was able to escape from the inferno by using information from the article that Bill had distributed. While 85 people perished in the fire, the employee was fortunate to escape and still contends that, if it were not for Bill's thinking of others and sharing the article, the outcome of his vacation could have been much different. Bill was down to earth and could communicate with clients and employees at all levels.
His father died when Bill was young, and he was devoted to his mother who lived to be 94. He would personally perform maintenance to his mother's house and yard every other Saturday as he had done since childhood. Bill gave generously of his time to participate on public service boards and charitable organizations, including as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Northeastern University, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Thayer Academy, and member of the Board of the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and of Massachusetts Blue Cross/Blue Shield, among others. He was a director of the National Board of Junior Achievement and the US Council for Energy Awareness. He was a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and the National Society of Professional Engineers.
He was a founder of St. Clare's Parish in Braintree, MA, later joking that he helped found St. Clare's because his former parish was too far to walk to Mass on cold snowy mornings. Bill was known as a stalwart leader and dear friend to many who was devoted to his family, community, and church. He will be remembered for his intellect, generosity, modesty, sincerity, charm, and wit. He could be very humorous, with a very dry wit, some of which passed over his listeners' heads, so Stone & Webster employees had to be alert to his remarks to be sure he was being understood and not just being facetious.
His technical understanding coupled with his direct, lowkey management style inspired great loyalty among his employees, many of whom stayed with Stone & Webster for 20 years and more.
Even those who left for other employment would later, when making a decision, ask themselves, "What would Bill Allen do in this situation?" He was married for 62 years to the late Doris (Pendoley) Allen and is survived by sons William, Thomas, and Paul; daughter Janet; and five grandchildren. Bill Allen's influence was widespread; he will be greatly missed by his family, friends, coworkers, colleagues, and many others whose lives he impacted. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man." This was never truer than in the case of Bill Allen and Stone & Webster.
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Getting to America: me, Indians, everybody else, and immigration law
Posted on October 9, 2011 by Margaret French
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free....
One gray-haired, elderly woman and I were the only people who'd come to the Indian Consulate in New York City to take the six hour, two part examination in beginning Hindi. We were both married to men from India and wanted to learn our husbands' language.
At lunch, between part one and part two of the exam, she shared her story with me. She was a physician who had spent most of her adult life in India. In the 1930s she had married in the United States, and when she did, her American citizenship was taken away from her.
I could not believe it! She had no earthly reason not to tell me the truth–but it was inconceivable to me that the United States, land of immigrants, would take away a native-born American's citizenship just because she had married an Asian. I smiled and nodded, but vowed to myself to go home and do some research.
She was telling the truth. In 1907, with the Expatriation Act, any American woman who married a foreign national lost her citizenship. In 1922 that part of the law was repealed–but not for American women who married Asians.
After she married, she went to India and lived most of her life there, practicing medicine. That was easier, I suppose, than to live as a woman without a country, here, in the United States, where she was born and raised.
It occurred to me that her husband should have applied for American citizenship before their marriage. Then she could have kept hers. I was naive: he could not. In 1923 the Supreme Court had ruled that Indians from the Asian subcontinent could not become U.S. citizens. Although anthropologists deemed them Caucasians, the Court decided they were still not white. Only whites and Africans, by law, could be citizens.
Over the years, Congress has often sought to adjust the ingredients in the American melting pot. The Immigration Law of 1924 established quotas on how many people from each country could come to the United States based upon the numbers already living in the US in 1890–before the huge–and unwelcome influx from Southern and Eastern Europe. Preference would henceforth be given to British, Irish, German, and other Northern Europeans. Asians were not welcome at all.
My own immigration story began in the 1960s. It would have been relatively easy for me to emigrate from Canada to the U.S. There were no quotas on people from the Western Hemisphere.
But I had married an Indian who wanted to come to the States. By this time, a new law was in effect, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952. It retained quotas, but got rid of the racial restrictions. Immigration was possible for him…just extremely difficult.
The quota for India was 100 per year. It was also 100 for Pakistan, the country where he was actually born. (In 1947, when India and Pakistan had gained their independence, his family fled to India.) It was also 100 for many other countries as well–the lowest possible number allowed by law.
Other quotas were more far more generous. Of the 154,000 annual immigration visas allowed, Great Britain received 65,700; Ireland, 17,800; Germany, 25,900.
No wonder there were so few Indians living in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s!
In 1965, the year I married, Lyndon Johnson signed a new immigration law that abolished quotas by nationality. Immigration laws now favored those with family in the States (my former husband had none) or skills needed by the U.S. (he had a PhD in chemistry). In 1966, he and I and our baby boy drove across the border in our little blue VW bug to begin our new life in the United States.
We were not the only ones who came after 1965. Nowadays several million Indians live and work in the States. Several have won Nobel prizes. They've started successful companies, teach in our universities, practice medicine, write novels, go into politics, become engineers and IT specialists. They are part of the mosaic that is the United States. As a group, they've been wildly successful and they contribute a great deal.
Their story is like the story of many others who have been drawn here by the promise of a better life. Still, I worry.
In the 1960s, when I came of age and when immigration laws were changed, the mood in our country, especially among the young, was more liberal than I've seen it before or since. Many of us who were young believed all the lyrics in our folk songs:
"Come on people now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together, try to love one another right now."
But the sixties are long gone. Laws can change for the better, but they can also change for the worse. We've been anti-immigrant before, many times.
We know the story of the Japanese-Americans: well over 100,000 were sent to internment camps during World War II. They were not the Japanese who had bombed Pearl Harbor. It didn't matter. Thousands of Germans and Italians were placed in internment camps too. We treated these people badly because we were afraid. We're afraid now.
In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, we deported or coerced hundreds of thousands of Mexicans who were mostly legal residents or American citizens to leave the United States. We did it because jobs were scarce. Jobs are scarce now.
These days, anti-everybody-else rhetoric has reached a fever pitch. Nonsense is fervently repeated until it sounds true. We need immigration laws, to be sure, but surely they should be based on rational and fair principles.
In Yeat's poem, "The Second Coming," written in the aftermath of World War I, he writes
Maybe, if we believe in liberty and justice for all, it's time to stand up to all that passionate intensity.
Copyright by Margaret French, October 9, 2011
Posted in storytelling, writing	| Tagged America, citizenship, immigration, immigration law, Indian-Americans	| 5 Replies


The Nike Air More Uptempo 'Chicago' is part of a 'City Pack' from the brand that will include two other Air More Uptempo's representing New York and Atlanta.
This Nike Air More Uptempo replaces the large 'AIR' with an oversized 'CHI' across the panels which is outlined with Black. As for the base, it features University Red which also lands on the tongue, midsole and outsole which completes the look.
The Nike Air More Uptempo Chicago will release on December 20th at select Nike Sportswear retailers including Nike.com. Retail price is set at $160. For now continue to scroll below to check out more images which will give you a closer look.
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Q: How to change an already registered dialog in CKEditor I'm trying to write a plugin, that adds an additional tab (page) to the image dialog. I don't want to change the dialog's source itself, but enhance it with the plugin.
I searched the docs and the forum for quite some time now, and I now know that I can call "addPage" on the dialogs object to add another tab. I also understand how the contents object must look like.
But I failed in finding the way how to get the dialog object of an already existing dialog.
I tried a
var ImageDialog = new CKEDITOR.dialog( editor, 'image' );

within the plugin's init method, but that caused an JS error "R is not a function"...
Can somebody help me out here, please?
Thanks in advance,
Marc

A: I found this link in one of the comments in Alfonso's answer, and it did the trick for me.
Since links go bad, especially after all these years, here is the code from the linked page:
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    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Using API to Customize Dialog Windows — CKEditor Sample</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../samples/old/sample.css">
    <meta name="ckeditor-sample-name" content="Using the JavaScript API to customize dialog windows">
    <meta name="ckeditor-sample-group" content="Advanced Samples">
    <meta name="ckeditor-sample-description" content="Using the dialog windows API to customize dialog windows without changing the original editor code.">
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        CKEditor Samples » Using CKEditor Dialog API

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            This sample shows how to use the
            CKEditor Dialog API
            to customize CKEditor dialog windows without changing the original editor code.
            The following customizations are being done in the example below:

            For details on how to create this setup check the source code of this sample page.

A custom dialog is added to the editors using the pluginsLoaded event, from an external dialog definition file:

Creating a custom dialog window – "My Dialog" dialog window opened with the "My Dialog" toolbar button.

Creating a custom button – Add button to open the dialog with "My Dialog" toolbar button.

    <textarea cols="80" id="editor1" name="editor1" rows="10"><p>This is some <strong>sample text</strong>. You are using <a href="https://ckeditor.com/">CKEditor</a>.</p></textarea>

The below editor modify the dialog definition of the above added dialog using the dialogDefinition event:

Adding dialog tab – Add new tab "My Tab" to dialog window.

Removing a dialog window tab – Remove "Second Tab" page from the dialog window.

Adding dialog window fields – Add "My Custom Field" to the dialog window.

Removing dialog window field – Remove "Select Field" selection field from the dialog window.

Setting default values for dialog window fields – Set default value of "Text Field" text field.

Setup initial focus for dialog window – Put initial focus on "My Custom Field" text field.

    <textarea cols="80" id="editor2" name="editor2" rows="10"><p>This is some <strong>sample text</strong>. You are using <a href="https://ckeditor.com/">CKEditor</a>.</p></textarea>

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A: You can find that code in the "API dialog" sample


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Q: Solution check request for showing that the alternating group $A_5$ has no subgroup of order 30. Can someone check my solution to the following question please:
Prove that the alternating group $A_5$ has no subgroup of order 30.
I will be assuming the following result:

Theorem 1:  Let $N$ be a subgroup of a group $G$ of index 2.  Prove that $N$ is a normal subgroup.

Solution:  Suppose $A_5$ has a subgroup group $N$ of order 30.  The order of $A_5$ is 60 and by lagrange theorem, $|A_5|/|N|=2$.  Hence by the Theorem 1,  $N$ is of index 2, and so $N$ is normal.  But $A_5$ is a simple group.  Hence we arrive at a contradiction.
I try to do a simple proof where I don't have to look into the cycle structures of $A_5$ like the first question from here: question 1 and here:  question 1, nor making use of the class equation, which Hungerford's Abstract algebra 3rd edition has not introduced at that edition of the text.
Thank you in advance

A: Following @Qaiochu, if you know  (or better can show)  that $A_5$ is perfect,  then it's also a piece of cake.
That's $A_5'=A_5$.
Then if $H$ is any subgroup such that $A_5/H$ is abelian,  then $H\supset A_5'=A_5$.  So $H=A_5$.

A: As you have the simplicity of $A_5$ at hand, you can prove even more, namely that $A_5$ hasn't got subgroups of order $15$, $20$ and $30$.
In general, let $G$ be a nontrivial finite group and $X_G$ the set of all the proper subgroups of $G$: $$X_G:=\{H\subseteq G\mid H\le G \wedge H\ne G\}.$$ If $G$ is simple, then:
$$[G:H]!\ge|G|, \space\forall H\in X_G \tag 1$$
In fact, for $H\in X_G$, the group $G$ acts by left multiplication on the left quotient set $G/H$, and this action has trivial kernel$^\dagger$. So, $G$ embeds into $S_{[G:H]}$, whence $(1)$.
So, $A_5$ can't have subgroups of order $15$, $20$ and $30$, because $(60/k)!<60$ for $k=15, 20, 30$.

$^\dagger$For $H\in X_G$, the kernel $K:=\bigcap_{g\in G}gHg^{-1}$ is a proper normal subgroup of $G$, and hence $K=\{1\}$ for the simplicity of $G$.


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Home Shipping Cargo container manufacturing hub planned at Bhavnagar
Cargo container manufacturing hub planned at Bhavnagar
India is moving into the business of manufacturing cargo containers, a segment dominated by China, as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative.
The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has formed a committee to examine the feasibility of making containers at Bhavnagar in Gujarat and developing it into a manufacturing hub for the steel boxes that have become the global standard for shipping a variety of goods across ships, rail and road.
As a first step in this direction, freight forwarder Pushpak Logistics has rolled out a pilot project by placing orders for a few containers with manufacturers in Bhavnagar.
According to an official briefed on the development, the demand for shipping containers has been driven by increased manufacturing and exports.
"Indian coastal shipping adds about 10,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of new containers annually, while India's largest container rail operator — Container Corporation of India — may require 2,000- 2,500 TEUs of new containers every year," the official said.
"Almost all the shipping containers used today are imported from China. By the time they reach Indian shores, they cost us around 40 per cent more, which includes ocean freight, Customs duty, other taxes, custom house agent charges and sundry expenses," the official added.
India's container needs
China makes about 90 per cent of the global shipping containers. CIMC is the largest container manufacturer with a market share of 40 per cent. Other players include Singamas, COSCO and CXIC.
Currently, India sources its entire container needs from China at prices ranging from ₹2,39,760-4,54,545 depending on the size of the container.
India's external trade grew to $838.46 billion in FY20 and the increasing trade is translating into higher demand for containerisation due to their efficiencies. The country will require approximately 60,000 new containers between 2021 and 2026, an annual addition of about 10,000 TEUs per year.
The global container fleet is handled by container leasing companies and shipping lines, with the latter holding a 49 per cent share.
Triton is the world's largest container leasing company with a market share of some 14 per cent, owning over six million TEUs.
"India should start manufacturing marine containers within the country," said Sunil Vaswani, Executive Director, Container Shipping Lines Association (India), a lobby group for global container carriers, referring to the ongoing shortage of containers for exports from India.
"This would assist in the security of supply chain for exports," he added.
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Donald W. Bolster, 90, Warren
Veteran, sailor, lover of life and adventurer
Donald Walter Bolster of Warren passed away on July 7, 2020 at Hope Hospice in Providence, just two months after his 90th birthday. He was born April 10, 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio, six months after the …
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Donald Walter Bolster of Warren passed away on July 7, 2020 at Hope Hospice in Providence, just two months after his 90th birthday. He was born April 10, 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio, six months after the Great Depression hit. He had two older brothers, Jack 6, and Bill 3. Four years later, their sister Mary was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky, when they lived there briefly. They watched their very decent parents apply themselves during hard times to provide a living for all of them. Their father George was born in 1891, across Lake Ontario in Cobourg, Canada. His family immigrated from Ireland in the mid-19th century, probably during the 'Potato Famine'. He fought in World War I, then became a rug buyer. I can still remember him saying, "Dirt is the death of rugs" because it breaks the fibers as it gets walked on. My Dad was the same way, always offering a helpful hint, or an idea of how to do something or do it better.
Their mother, Mary Florence Potts, was born in Cleveland in 1899, where she eventually met and married George. Her family had immigrated to Canada and Cleveland from Ireland, Scotland and France. George and Florence moved from Cleveland to Kentucky, then back to Toledo, Ohio for a few years and then to West Hartford, Connecticut, all assumedly for employment opportunities. George sold fine rugs and Florence sold fine women's clothing. They hosted the whole family there for many Easter Sundays.
Dad remembered during World War II, the lot next door was still empty, so they made a 'Victory Garden' there. He remembered his two older brothers going off to fight in the war, so he got to spend a lot of time with his younger sister Mary. He fondly remembered how the two of them would set the dinner table together every night, and they were very close throughout their lives.
Whatever sparked his interest as a kid, Dad would ride his bicycle to a concert theater in Hartford to usher and take in the symphonies and the shows. This arrangement still exists today in concert halls, where ushers get to see the show as payment. Dad learned many of the classics and the big musicals when they came through town. He developed a life-long interest in theater and music from this time.
After high school, he and a friend 'Sage' went on a cross country adventure to at least New Orleans. Although we were never told of the details of that adventure, only that, as Mom said, "He sewed his wild oats."
Dad joined the Army in 1951, during the Korean Conflict. He was smart enough that they sent him to do code work with the Signal Corps in Salzburg, Austria, where he also learned German. One of his favorite stories was that he befriended an Austrian family who invited him to Christmas dinner with the condition that he learn "Silent Night" in Austrian, which he did and remembered for the rest of his life. When he went on furlough, he was able to visit Paris and London with his Army buddies, and picked up some Irish tunes in the pubs. We have great pictures of him in front of the Eifel Tower in his uniform with a cigarette, like a GQ ad, as well as pictures that he took from the top looking over the city.
After his Honorable Discharge in 1953, he was able to get the GI Bill, which helped him pay for college. Again, he applied himself and completed four years of college in three, earning his degree in marketing with honors at Babson College of Business. He also worked through school to pay for half of it, and as a result, he was able to graduate in 1956 with no debt. His first resume shows him working several jobs from hospital orderly to riflery instructor to testing electric switches, until his stellar sales work landed him his first job in the marketing world.
That same year, he proposed to my Mom, Beverly Ann Johnson, who he had been dating for a couple years. Her first love letter to him in 1954 included, "God knew I needed someone, so He sent me you, to love and cherish always, all my lifetime through. He wove your wondrous smile, from a sunbeam in the skies, then picked two bright and shining stars, and placed them in your eyes." When he proposed, always the romantic, he wrote her a poem which included, "Come a little closer dear, I'll tell you a tale that you should hear. It all began when I came down, to see a robe around a frame, in "George Washington Slept Here". I fell in love right then and there, here was the girl for whom I should care." They both loved the theater and when they moved to New York City after getting married, they went to see the original Broadway production of "My Fair Lady" with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.
Her father the pastel painter, Gilbert Davison Johnson, had roots going back to Boston in the 1630's, and the founding of America. His ancestor fought in the Revolution, his grandfather fought in the Civil War and he fought in World War I. We were told years later that my Mom and Dad had dated for a while, that she went off and married someone else, then quickly divorced, and then got back together with my Dad. They were married in January 1957 in Canton Center, the small town in Connecticut where she grew up. One year later, I was born in Hartford, and two years later my brother Gilbert (Gib) was born in Syracuse, New York, where they had moved for a job opportunity for Dad.
In 1960, Dad got his first big job in advertising in Providence, so they moved to Rhode Island and rented a small house in Barrington. They joined the theater group, The Barrington Players, and performed many of the big musicals, like "Guys and Dolls" and "Oklahoma". In a couple of years, they bought their first house, that needed a lot of work and slowly got it redone. It had a small cottage where Mom's parents lived and that is where I watched my grandfather work on his pastel paintings. In 1963, Mom's mother, Gladys Wooley Hyde, passed away and then in 1967, her father committed suicide. It was my Dad who found him. We had a house fire and I was badly burned as well, so Mom wanted to leave that house. In 1968, they sold it and bought a small ranch house off New Meadow Road. The next year, they had their third son, Jay and wanted a bigger house again, so they moved to Evergreen Street off Martin Avenue, right near the old Bill's Market. I remember walking up the street to buy cigarettes for my parents, but they quit soon after.
Mom and Dad took us camping on the coast of Maine every summer. Gib and I were Cub Scouts and Mom was a den mother. Then we joined the Boy Scouts and Dad was always involved and helping out. We went on countless camping trips, hiking the Long Trail in Vermont, hiking the White Mountains in the winter, plus canoe, boat, bike and ski trips all over New England.
Dad bought his first boat, a 12-foot wooden sailing skiff that he named "ITSASTART" that we fixed up and sailed in Hundred Acre Cove. A couple years later, he bought a 22-sailboat as a kit which we all worked on and enjoyed sailing around Narragansett Bay for many years. Five years later, they had an opportunity to buy a small house that was built for a sea plane pilot on Adams Point, that also needed a lot of work. Across the street lived Pret and Peggy Gladding, who owned Gladding & Hearn Shipbuilding in Somerset, and who became best of friends. They had a custom-built 35-foot Dickerson sailboat named "TIDINGS" that they sailed up and down the New England coast, and my parents and brother Jay sailed with them many times.
Dad's mom Florence passed away in 1976 and his father went into a nursing home. Dad would drive every weekend from Rhode Island to Connecticut to visit with his father, who passed away in 1978.
When Pret Gladding passed away, Peggy sold TIDINGS to my parents, knowing they loved the boat as much as she and Pret did. Gib and I had gone off to college, but my parents and Jay enjoyed that boat for many years. Eventually, Mom got Parkinson's Disease and they had to sell the boat. They also sold their house on Adams Point and bought a smaller house in Bristol.
Around 1980, Dad had had enough of "making other people money" as he called it and started his own advertising business, Bolster & Associates, which he had for over 20 years. He eventually retired from advertising, with quite a portfolio of ad campaigns and list of awards. He started gardening again, which he hadn't done since the 'Victory Garden' days. He enjoyed the small pool they had, and when Jay got married and had children, Dad enjoyed having grandchildren. He organized two family reunions for his siblings, their spouses and kids, and those events meant the world to him. Soon after the second one, his oldest brother Jack died and two weeks after that, Jack's wife Jacqueline died. I remember Dad at Jack's funeral telling those gathered with tears in his eyes to host a family reunion before it's too late.
Dad was a wordsmith and a marketing whiz. He would say that anyone can make a nice-looking ad, but where do you run it and how often? How big should it be, black and white or color? Should it have artwork or just type? Should it run in newspapers or magazines, and which publications? What about TV or radio and what time slots? A business could spend a lot of money on ads and completely miss their target audience or they could nail it right on the head. That was what my Dad was brilliant at, figuring out through research, focus groups and analysis, how to get the most bang for the client's buck. He would work out the strategy and catch phrases, which was his forte. Then he would hire the required talent, the photographers, artists, writers, graphic designers, etc. to create the actual ad campaign.
Mom died in 2007 after reaching their 50th wedding anniversary and a 17-year run with Parkinson's Disease. Dad remarried a year later to an old family friend, Dorothy Rockwood, and they soon moved to Laconia, New Hampshire. They lived there for about 10 years and travelled to Europe, Canada and elsewhere. He developed Dementia and I interviewed him about his family's history. In 2018, they moved back to Warren, Rhode Island to live with me, so I could take care of them. Dotty passed away a year later and two years later, after reaching his 90th birthday, and establishing a community of many new friends in Warren, Dad passed away.
Don Bolster was raised by two loving and generous parents, and he lived his life the same way. He did it all. He joined the service, went to college, worked many jobs to get ahead, married his sweetheart, raised a family, started his own company, enjoyed the outdoors, fixed up several houses and boats, made life-long friends, and excelled at all of it. He was a great father, and even without a lot of means, took us kids everywhere and exposed us to all kinds of places and experiences all over New England.
Dad was not a 'foodie', like his three sons turned out to be. He was a 'meat and potatoes' guy and would be just as happy with a good steak and a baked potato as with hot dogs and beans. He grew into vegetables and salads with influence from his wife and kids. He would want to be remembered by how people genuinely remember him, always family-oriented, gracious, grateful, generous, loving, witty, sweet, kind, romantic and true to his better nature. He leaves two sons, Davison of Warren and Jay of Portland, Maine, daughter-in-law Susan (Lukasiewicz) and their daughter Quinn, along with many nieces and nephews around the country plus their children. He is predeceased by his two wives, Beverly Johnson and Dorothy Rockwood, his son Gilbert, who passed away suddenly in 2017, and his granddaughter, Jay & Susan's daughter Hope, who passed away from cancer at age 6 in 2015. Don Bolster leaves big shoes to fill, and if anyone needs a role model, someone to look up to, he would be a perfect candidate.
His wish was to be cremated, and his ashes spread in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, as his wives Beverly and Dorothy were. There will be an outdoor memorial service at Colt State Park in Bristol, RI sometime in August. In lieu of flowers, please make any donations to Hope Health Hospice Center, 1085 North Main Street, Providence, RI 02904.
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Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside
M. Ponzoni, M. Lanciotti, A. Melodia, A. Casalaro, P. Cornaglia-Ferraris
Istituto "Giannina Gaslini"
The effects of cytosine-arabinoside (ARA-C) on the growth and phenotypic expression of a new human neuroblastoma (NB) cell line (GI-ME-N) have been extensively tested. Low doses of ARA-C allowing more than 90% cell viability induce morphological differentiation and growth inhibition. Differentiated cells were larger and flattened with elongated dendritic processes; such cells appeared within 48 h after a dose of ARA-C as low as 0.1 μ/ml (about 1000-fold lower than the conventional clinic dose). The new morphological aspect reached the maximum expression after 5-6 days of culture being independent from the addition of extra drug to the culture. A decrease in [3H]thymidine incorporation was also observed within 24 h and the cell growth was completely inhibited on the sixth day. Moreover, ARA-C strongly inhibited anchorage-independent growth in soft agar assay. Membrane immunofluorescence showed several dramatic changes in NB-specific antigen expression after 5 days of treatment with ARA-C. At the same time ARA-C also modulated cytoskeletal proteins and slightly increased catecholamine expression. These findings suggest that noncytotoxic doses of ARA-C do promote the differentiation of GI-ME-N neuroblastoma cells associated with reduced expression of the malignant phenotype.
Experimental Cell Research
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Ponzoni, M., Lanciotti, M., Melodia, A., Casalaro, A., & Cornaglia-Ferraris, P. (1989). Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside. Experimental Cell Research, 181(1), 226-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4827(89)90196-1
Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside. / Ponzoni, M.; Lanciotti, M.; Melodia, A.; Casalaro, A.; Cornaglia-Ferraris, P.
In: Experimental Cell Research, Vol. 181, No. 1, 1989, p. 226-237.
Ponzoni, M, Lanciotti, M, Melodia, A, Casalaro, A & Cornaglia-Ferraris, P 1989, 'Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside', Experimental Cell Research, vol. 181, no. 1, pp. 226-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4827(89)90196-1
Ponzoni M, Lanciotti M, Melodia A, Casalaro A, Cornaglia-Ferraris P. Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside. Experimental Cell Research. 1989;181(1):226-237. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4827(89)90196-1
Ponzoni, M. ; Lanciotti, M. ; Melodia, A. ; Casalaro, A. ; Cornaglia-Ferraris, P. / Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside. In: Experimental Cell Research. 1989 ; Vol. 181, No. 1. pp. 226-237.
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title = "Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside",
abstract = "The effects of cytosine-arabinoside (ARA-C) on the growth and phenotypic expression of a new human neuroblastoma (NB) cell line (GI-ME-N) have been extensively tested. Low doses of ARA-C allowing more than 90{\%} cell viability induce morphological differentiation and growth inhibition. Differentiated cells were larger and flattened with elongated dendritic processes; such cells appeared within 48 h after a dose of ARA-C as low as 0.1 μ/ml (about 1000-fold lower than the conventional clinic dose). The new morphological aspect reached the maximum expression after 5-6 days of culture being independent from the addition of extra drug to the culture. A decrease in [3H]thymidine incorporation was also observed within 24 h and the cell growth was completely inhibited on the sixth day. Moreover, ARA-C strongly inhibited anchorage-independent growth in soft agar assay. Membrane immunofluorescence showed several dramatic changes in NB-specific antigen expression after 5 days of treatment with ARA-C. At the same time ARA-C also modulated cytoskeletal proteins and slightly increased catecholamine expression. These findings suggest that noncytotoxic doses of ARA-C do promote the differentiation of GI-ME-N neuroblastoma cells associated with reduced expression of the malignant phenotype.",
author = "M. Ponzoni and M. Lanciotti and A. Melodia and A. Casalaro and P. Cornaglia-Ferraris",
journal = "Experimental Cell Research",
T1 - Morphologic and phenotypic changes of human neuroblastoma cells in culture induced by cytosine arabinoside
AU - Ponzoni, M.
AU - Lanciotti, M.
AU - Melodia, A.
AU - Casalaro, A.
AU - Cornaglia-Ferraris, P.
N2 - The effects of cytosine-arabinoside (ARA-C) on the growth and phenotypic expression of a new human neuroblastoma (NB) cell line (GI-ME-N) have been extensively tested. Low doses of ARA-C allowing more than 90% cell viability induce morphological differentiation and growth inhibition. Differentiated cells were larger and flattened with elongated dendritic processes; such cells appeared within 48 h after a dose of ARA-C as low as 0.1 μ/ml (about 1000-fold lower than the conventional clinic dose). The new morphological aspect reached the maximum expression after 5-6 days of culture being independent from the addition of extra drug to the culture. A decrease in [3H]thymidine incorporation was also observed within 24 h and the cell growth was completely inhibited on the sixth day. Moreover, ARA-C strongly inhibited anchorage-independent growth in soft agar assay. Membrane immunofluorescence showed several dramatic changes in NB-specific antigen expression after 5 days of treatment with ARA-C. At the same time ARA-C also modulated cytoskeletal proteins and slightly increased catecholamine expression. These findings suggest that noncytotoxic doses of ARA-C do promote the differentiation of GI-ME-N neuroblastoma cells associated with reduced expression of the malignant phenotype.
AB - The effects of cytosine-arabinoside (ARA-C) on the growth and phenotypic expression of a new human neuroblastoma (NB) cell line (GI-ME-N) have been extensively tested. Low doses of ARA-C allowing more than 90% cell viability induce morphological differentiation and growth inhibition. Differentiated cells were larger and flattened with elongated dendritic processes; such cells appeared within 48 h after a dose of ARA-C as low as 0.1 μ/ml (about 1000-fold lower than the conventional clinic dose). The new morphological aspect reached the maximum expression after 5-6 days of culture being independent from the addition of extra drug to the culture. A decrease in [3H]thymidine incorporation was also observed within 24 h and the cell growth was completely inhibited on the sixth day. Moreover, ARA-C strongly inhibited anchorage-independent growth in soft agar assay. Membrane immunofluorescence showed several dramatic changes in NB-specific antigen expression after 5 days of treatment with ARA-C. At the same time ARA-C also modulated cytoskeletal proteins and slightly increased catecholamine expression. These findings suggest that noncytotoxic doses of ARA-C do promote the differentiation of GI-ME-N neuroblastoma cells associated with reduced expression of the malignant phenotype.
JO - Experimental Cell Research
JF - Experimental Cell Research


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Il caucus è in senso generico un incontro che si svolge tra i sostenitori di un partito politico o di un movimento. La precisa definizione cambia a seconda del Paese a cui ci si riferisce.

Il termine caucus viene usato anche nella "mediazione", facilitazione e in altre forme di risoluzione alternativa delle dispute, per descrivere circostanze in cui, piuttosto che riunirsi attorno a un tavolo comune, i contendenti si ritirano in un ambiente più privato per elaborare le informazioni e/o concordare una soluzione.

Origini del termine
L'origine del termine caucus è oggetto di discussione, anche se generalmente si concorda che il suo uso nella lingua inglese abbia origine negli Stati Uniti. Secondo alcune fonti deriverebbe dalla parola in lingua algonchina che significa "consiglio", cau´-cau-as´u, e venne probabilmente introdotta nel gergo politico statunitense dalla Tammany Hall di New York, una organizzazione collegata al Partito Democratico, che amava usare termini dei Nativi Americani. Altre fonti sostengono che derivi dal latino medioevale caucus, che significa "recipiente per bevande", e lo collegano al Caucus Club della Boston coloniale. Nel terzo capitolo de Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie si trova il termine caucus race, inteso come una gara assurda nella quale tutti i partecipanti risultano vincitori.

Nel Regno Unito indicava l'apparato di partito a carattere permanente. Il primo caucus nel Regno Unito fu organizzato dai liberali Francis Schnadhorst e Joseph Chamberlain nel 1873 a Birmingham come convenzione pre-elettorale.

Il caucus negli Stati Uniti
Nella politica statunitense la parola caucus ha diversi significati, pur essendo questi in stretta relazione tra loro. Un tipo di caucus è l'assemblea di un partito politico o di un sottogruppo per coordinare l'azione dei suoi membri, stabilire un orientamento collettivo o nominare i candidati a una carica. Il più celebre esempio di questa tipologia è quello adottato da alcuni Stati dell'Unione per scegliere i candidati alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti.

Il secondo contesto in cui il termine è usato riguarda un raggruppamento di eletti che si uniscono sulla base di affinità o etnicità comuni, generalmente per influenzare le scelte politiche. Negli USA a livello di Congresso Federale o Congresso dei diversi Stati gli eletti si organizzano in caucus (in alcuni casi chiamati conference). È possibile trovare caucus più piccoli in organi legislativi, inclusi alcuni che risultano di natura "bipartisan". Tra i vari caucus del Congresso, uno dei più famosi è il Congressional Black Caucus, un gruppo di afroamericani membri del Congresso. Un ulteriore esempio importante è il Congressional Hispanic Caucus, i cui membri avanzano e danno voce a proposte che riguardano la condizione degli ispanici negli USA (inclusi i problemi di Porto Rico).

Di diversa natura, il Congressional Internet Caucus è un gruppo bipartisan di membri che intendono favorire la crescita e l'avanzamento di Internet. Altri caucus del Congresso, come ad esempio l'Out of Iraq Caucus sono apertamente organizzati come correnti politiche (all'interno dell'House Democratic Caucus in questo caso), e si sforzano di ottenere obiettivi politici, che possono essere considerati simili a una "piattaforma politica", anche se spesso ristretta a un solo argomento. I caucus che riflettono queste tendenze, o correnti politiche organizzate, sono comuni tra i gruppi di sinistra americani. Esempi potrebbero includere i Caucus "Debs", "Coalition" e "Unity" del Partito Socialista degli Stati Uniti d'America sviluppatisi negli ultimi anni.

I Caucus nelle nazioni del Commonwealth
In alcune nazioni del Commonwealth, un caucus è un incontro regolare di tutti i parlamentari che appartengono a un partito politico. Nel Sistema Westminster, un caucus di partito può essere abbastanza potente, in quanto possiede l'abilità di eleggere o scaricare il proprio leader parlamentare. Il caucus determina inoltre alcune questioni politiche, tattiche parlamentari e misure disciplinari nei confronti dei parlamentari disobbedienti. In alcuni partiti (ad esempio questo è tradizionalmente il caso nel Partito Laburista Australiano e nel Partito Laburista Neozelandese), il caucus ha anche la capacità di nominare i parlamentari del gabinetto, quando il partito è al governo.

Differentemente dalla tradizione, in seguito all'elezione di Kevin Rudd alla carica di Primo Ministro in Australia, avvenuta il 24 novembre 2007, il caucus del Partito Laburista Australiano (ALP) non ha avuto un ruolo diretto nella scelta del gabinetto di governo, scelta che è stata condotta da Kevin Rudd stesso, leader del partito.

In Nuova Zelanda e nel Partito Laburista Australiano, il termine caucus può essere usato per riferirsi al gruppo dei parlamentari, piuttosto che semplicemente agli incontri a cui questi partecipano. Quindi, l'(Australian) Federal Parliamentary Labor Party viene comunemente chiamato the Labor Caucus. Il termine venne introdotto in Australia da King O'Malley, un laburista nato in America, membro del primo parlamento federale nel 1901, e presumibilmente entrò a far parte del lessico politico neozelandese nello stesso periodo. In Nuova Zelanda il termine viene usato da tutti i partiti politici, ma in Australia è ristretto al solo Partito Laburista. Nel Partito Liberale d'Australia e nel Partito Nazionale d'Australia, e per tutti i partiti del Regno Unito e della Repubblica d'Irlanda, il termine usato solitamente è "partito parlamentare".

L'uso del termine caucus in Canada è simile a quello fatto in Nuova Zelanda; caucus si riferisce a tutti i membri di un particolare partito presenti in parlamento (compresi i senatori), o in una legislatura provinciale. In Canada, questi membri eleggono tra essi un rappresentante che preside ai loro incontri ed è una figura importante quando il partito è all'opposizione ed è un importante figura di collegamento tra gabinetto e parlamentari della maggioranza, quando il partito è al governo.

Il termine può essere usato anche per indicare tutti i deputati di un'assemblea che provengono da una certa area geografica o culturale, ad esempio il "caucus del Quebec".

I Caucus nelle soluzioni alternative delle dispute
Il termine caucus viene usato anche nella mediazione, facilitazione e in altre forme di risoluzione alternativa delle dispute, per descrivere circostanze in cui, piuttosto che riunirsi attorno a un tavolo comune, i contendenti si ritirano in un ambiente più privato per elaborare le informazioni, concordare una strategia negoziale, conferire in privato con consulenti e/o altri mediatori, o semplicemente per "riprendere fiato" dopo le interazioni spesso emotivamente complicate, che possono essere vissute nell'area comune in cui tutte le parti sono presenti. Il grado con cui sono usati i caucus può essere un elemento chiave di definizione, e spesso un identificatore, del modello di mediazione che viene impiegato; la "mediazione facilitativa", ad esempio, tende a scoraggiare l'uso dei caucus e cerca di tenere le parti riunite attorno a un singolo tavolo, mentre la "mediazione valutativa" può permettere alle parti di separarsi più spesso e affidarsi al mediatore per riportare le informazioni e le offerte.

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March 7, 2022 | Mike Enright '88 (CLAS), University Communications
UConn Researchers Explore Role of the Black Female Principal in Schools
The challenges of the past two years have increased the demands of the job in ways both public and personal
The twin events of the COVID-19 pandemic and a heightened awareness of racial inequities in the United States have further cemented the commitment of female Black school principals to their schools, according to a recent journal article published by three UConn scholars from the Neag School of Education.
"We are clearly in a period of turmoil right now for a variety of reasons, but predominantly because of issues of COVID and racial injustice, and statistically these subjects impact Black and brown communities in deeper ways than others," says Jennie Weiner, an associate professor in educational leadership. She performed the research along with Laura Burton, a professor and the department head of educational leadership, and Daron Cyr, a doctoral candidate.
The trio interviewed 20 Black female principals in three different states on multiple occasions before writing the report. The interviews started in-person before the COVID-19 pandemic and were followed up with virtual meetings. The research also began before the murder of George Floyd and the national outcry that followed.
"Though these women play a pivotal role in the lives of so many children and families and face tremendous challenges in doing so, there just isn't that much research about their experiences and their day-to-day life," says Weiner. "We just don't know much about their thinking, their doing and their ways of being. As a result, it is hard to support them and provide the best resources for them to thrive."
The team initially did a pilot study funded through the Initiative on Girls and Women in the administration of President Barack Obama and later gained funding through The Spencer Foundation.
"Many of the woman we spoke to said that no one had ever come to them and asked them about their experiences, which is a travesty," says Weiner. "Many of these women have been serving in education for 20 or 30 years, and have seen and done so much we can and should be learning from."
COVID and the increased awareness of racial injustice changed the dynamics of the research, but did not deter the work.
"We were responsive to what people were facing and instead of pretending it wasn't there, we dug in. The way we approached the research provided us this flexibility," says Weiner. "We had spent two to three hours talking to each person at their school, so by the time we were not able to see them in person, we had built some rapport and trust."
The researchers also took the unusual step in convening the women they interviewed and presenting them with the initial findings in draft form.
"What people are reading is actually co-constructed by the researchers and the participants," says Weiner. "It was powerful for me as a researcher that the women shared in how they were to be represented and to help people understand their experiences in a real and authentic way. I am very proud of this piece and our approach because all the woman signed off on it and the findings are representative of their experiences."
Weiner studies leadership in kindergarten through 12th grade, and is interested in how to make leadership more equitable and inclusive.
"I am interested how to create organizations where people have the means to grow, learn, develop and change over time," says Weiner. "Leadership has not always been that way because there is an elevation of a great man hero orientation toward leadership and that is situated in ideas about men being leaders, and white men specifically. I want to create opportunities for counter-narratives to that and spaces where we can talk about the ways women and women of color experience leadership, their ability to thrive in those spaces, and how gender discrimination and gendered racism play a role in that."
The researchers found that the female Black principals fought for their schools and students despite the challenges they faced in their personal lives.
"Quite of few of these women were immuno-compromised themselves and a lot of them are primary caregivers for children or even adults," says Weiner. "They put themselves are great risk to ensure the caretaking of their communities. Sometimes this was despite being situated in districts where they felt like their individual school and its students was not being attended to properly."
Weiner points to examples like principals making sure their school was a food distribution location, even if their school was the only one in the district to require such supports. In addition, principals also spent nights putting together hard-copy paper homework packets together for students that did not have proper access to the internet.
"These women have proved, as they always have, that they care and do whatever is necessary to be beacons to lead others and to support their school families," says Weiner. "I don't think that a system that is dependent on groups that are marginalized to do more than everyone else is fair or equitable. I think that question is, how do we lift up these stores while not reinforcing the idea that it is appropriate for certain groups to have to do more than others?
"We need to provide more opportunities to get these people together and feel supported in meaningful ways. They need to feel a space of safety and connection and we need to attend to institutional racism and discrimination in ways that don't put the burden of the work on those who are most affected by the injustice."


Partners Ryan Seelbach and Eric Lund are pleased to announce the January anticipated opening of TAKODA, a contemporary American restaurant and rooftop beer garden located at 715 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20001. TAKODA, a Native American name meaning "Friend to Everyone," will offer guests comforting, creative takes on American classics with a large emphasis on local and seasonal sourcing. Chef Damian Brown's opening menu will feature sharable small plates and salads like Bacon Popcorn with parmesan and chives; Blackened Catfish Taco with lime cabbage slaw, avocado cilantro sauce, served on a corn tortilla; Soft Pretzel & Beer Cheese, served warm with beer cheese fondue; Wings, in four different styles including PB&J, parmesan garlic, Old Bay dry rub and classic spicy buffalo; Spinach Dip with grilled flatbread; Brisket Sliders, topped with cabbage, served on a mini pretzel bun; Rosemary Parmesan Tots, flash fried, tossed with rosemary and parmesan; Skillet Mac & Cheese, served with a selection of seasonal ingredients; Cranberry Kale with radish, apple, parmesan, pecans and cranberry vinaigrette; Grilled Romaine Caesar with pretzel croutons and lemon parmesan, as well as Mixed Greens with shaved fennel, carrots, red onion, mozzarella, and a lemon pepper vinaigrette. Small plates range in price from $5 to $9, and salads from $5 to $8.
Opening entrée highlights include Chicken & Sweet Potato Waffle, Southern fried chicken with pecans and black pepper maple syrup; Shrimp & Grits with Tasso ham, pepper sauce, sautéed spinach and sunny side up egg; Brisket Flatbread with BBQ aioli, roasted garlic, grilled onions and fresh mozzarella; Pan-Seared Salmon Cakes with tartar sauce, roasted pepper aioli, served with a shaved fresh vegetable salad; Cheeseburger with cheddar, Thousand Island slaw, pickles and whole grain mustard, served on a pretzel bun; Veggie Burger, quinoa, lentil, chickpea, and barley burger with pimento cheese and whole grain mustard, and the TAKODA Burger with two bacon-infused patties with applewood smoked bacon, bacon & cheese fondue and a sunny side up egg, served on a pretzel bun. For a sweet finish, guests can enjoy desserts such as Molten Chocolate S'mores, milk chocolate lava cake with toasted marshmallow and graham cracker; Grandma's Apple Pie, freshly baked accompanied by vanilla gelato; Seasonal Crème Brûlée, Chef Brown's twist on the bistro classic, and Deep Fried Oreos with vanilla icing dipping sauce. Entrées range in price from $12 to $19 and desserts are $4 to $8.
Additionally, for guests seeking late night snacks after a night out on the town, TAKODA will offer a special menu featuring select items from the dinner and dessert menu including Bacon Popcorn; Wings; Spinach Dip; Rosemary Parmesan Tots; Soft Pretzel & Beer Cheese; Seasonal Crème Brûlée, and the Deep Fried Oreos. The late night menu is available Friday and Saturday from 11 PM to 1 AM.
A native of Capitol Heights, Maryland, Damian Brown earned a culinary degree from the Lincoln Culinary Institute in Columbia, Maryland in 2010. Brown began his career serving as a baker at Zola Wine & Kitchen, a private event and test kitchen concept from the owners of the now shuttered Zola restaurant. Then in August 2010, he began working as lead cook of 8407 Kitchen + Bar in Silver Spring, Maryland. Interested in exploring other cuisine styles, he accepted a position as sous chef/tournant at Vidalia in Washington, DC in July 2011. Here, Brown learned how to manage the various kitchen stations while working under James Beard award-winning Chef Jeffrey Buben. Then in July 2013, he accepting a position as junior sous chef of the Occidental Grill & Seafood, before being tapped as lead prep cook at the acclaimed Blue Duck Tavern in August 2013. Brown was next offered a position as chef de cuisine of Stanton & Greene, which is known for its modern American cuisine and retro bar bites. He served at this Capitol Hill restaurant from October 2014 until July 2015, when he was tapped by Seelbach and Lund to open TAKODA.
For the perfect pairing, TAKODA offers 24+ American draft beers including local favorites such as DC Brau, perennial favorites such as Bell's Brewery, Inc., and a variety of seasonal options. Beer prices range from $6 to $10. The restaurant will also have an extensive whiskey collection of 50+ American spirits including Bulleit Bourbon, Knob Creek Bourbon Whiskey, Buffalo Trace Distillery, Copper Fox Distillery, Jefferson's Reserve Bourbon, as well as monthly rare acquisitions. Prices for whiskies range from $7 to $35.
TAKODA's main dining room is located on the second floor. It offers guests an expansive, inviting space for socializing with seating for 40 people, as well as an additional 20 seats at the bar. The 4,600-square-foot restaurant also features a year-round rooftop beer garden, which overlooks Florida Avenue. Here one will find a canopy with an expansive skylight situated over an island bar and operable windows allowing for year-round eating and drinking in a light-filled venue. Both rooms will be available for full or partial buyouts, and can accommodate up to 120-seated guests, or 240 for a standing reception. Off-site catering will also be available; interested parties are encouraged to contact General Manager Sean MacDonald at sean@takodadc.com.
TAKODA Restaurant & Beer Garden is located at 715 Florida Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20001. The restaurant is located two blocks from the Shaw-Howard Metro Station accessible on the Green and Yellow lines. Dinner is served nightly, from 5 PM to 11 PM. The bar is open Monday through Thursday, from 5 PM to 12 AM; Friday, from 5 PM to 3 AM; Saturday, from 12 PM to 3 AM; Sunday, from 12 PM to 11 PM. A late night menu is served Friday and Saturday, from 11 PM to 1 AM. Brunch will begin at a later date, and will be served Saturday and Sunday, from 11 AM to 5 PM. For additional information or employment opportunities, please visit http://www.takodadc.com.


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Mark Normand @ ComedySportz Theatre!
Stand-Up comedy is back in full swing at The Comedy Sportz Theatre. The summer hiatus is over and 100 Proof Comedy is coming out with guns blazing. Check out the press release then get out and support a great show.
Comedy Central's Mark Normand comes to the ComedySportz Theatre for ONE NIGHT ONLY! Normand, who just premiered a Comedy Central Half Hour special, will be appearing for one night only at The ComedySportz Theatre on Monday, September 8th at 8pm. He is teaming up with the producers of 100 Proof Comedy (named Chicago's "Best Venue for Stand-Up" by The Chicago Reader) for an unforgettable evening of laughs.
In addition to his Comedy Central Half Hour, Mark has appeared on Conan twice, VH1's Best Week Ever, Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer, John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show, and was a semi-finalist in the most recent season of Last Comic Standing. He won Caroline's March Madness Competition, was named to Esquire's "Best New Comedians 2012", and was voted Village Voice's "Best Comedian of 2013". He also just released his first album "Still Got It!" in July.
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text: 1879.] MR. F. J. BELL ON ECHINOCIDARIS. 437 ningham's collection, one of which bears evident marks of having undergone examination. It is obvious that the question could not be left in this state. It seemed now necessary to see how far the number of anal plates varied in various species, and whether the character in question had not been definitely attained to by this species only, or whether in other species also there was at times a return to the possession of the large number of plates which are so commonly found in nearly all Echi-nida. With this object in view, I have examined all the specimens of the genus Echinocidaris in the Museum ; and the accompanying Table will, I think, show that the work was worth the doing. In addition to the nine specimens here noted, there is a specimen of E. pustu-losa ("grandinosa") in which only three plates are present: one of these is very small; and it is also evident that two bave dropped away. I have been enabled to examine some fifty-four specimens in which the anal plates are preserved; and the "number of specimens " in the following list gives the number of specimens in the set from a given locality or collection. Name of species. Locality. E. dufresnii Port Otway. ,, Shell Bay. ,, Sandy Point. ,, Otter Islands. E.stellata ? E. nigra Coquimbo. " (or sp. closely allied) ? v J J 9 yy • • In the three specimens of E. dufresnii and the one specimen of E. pustulosa (juv.) received from the * Challenger' Expedition, the number of anal plates is normal. With regard to this Table we have to note (1) the reduction of the plates below the normal number, as obtaining in three specimens not all of the same species ; (2) that the specimen of E. pustulosa (yrandinosa) already referred to, and that of E. nigra from Coquimbo prevent our limiting the possession of five plates to E, dufresnii; while the specimens with six and with ten plates are most remarkable, inasmuch as in both cases there are two plates which retain the proper Echinocidarid character. No normal specimen seems yet to have been observed so young as not to have attained its four anal plates. In conclusion I think it well to abstain for the present from any speculation on the matter, and shall be satisfied if I direct the attention of echinologists to the point in question. No. of specimens. 5 3 1 1 1 1 10 1 8 Varieties. One with five anal One with five One with three One with three One with five One with five One with six One with ten One with three plates JJ D f) j • JJ 1J


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