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The APhA Complete Review for the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination is designed to be a comprehensive review of basic pharmacy education to help prepare the reader for the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination (FPGEE). Passage of the FPGEE, along with the passage of the Test of English as Foreign Language Internet Based Test (TOEFL iBT) is required for graduates of pharmacy schools outside the United States in order to gain licensure.1 The FPGEE covers 4 subject areas, including biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, social/behavioral/administrative sciences, and clinical sciences.1 After successful completion of these 2 examinations, the graduates must also pass the North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination (NAPLEX), and the Multistate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination (MPJE).1 The APhA Complete Review for the Foreign Pharmacy Graduate Equivalency Examination provides a summary review of basic sciences and pharmaceutical sciences in order to prepare for the FPGEE. This study guide summarizes material and is not intended to be an all-encompassing review of the topics presented. Instead, it uses a condensed format, enabling the reader to efficiently review the material.
The textbook is divided into 5 different study areas: basic biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, social, behavioral, and administrative sciences, clinical sciences, and appendices. This text also features an introduction to the FPGEE, as well as study tips. The book contains 34 chapters and 612 pages. Each chapter has a comprehensive review of the designated material, a concise listing of key points, and self-study questions with answers. Each chapter has a different number of sections in which the material is grouped, with each section having 20 multiple-choice self-study questions. The basic biomedical sciences portion covers anatomy and physiology, pathology and pathophysiology, microbiology, and immunology. This portion also features biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, and biostatistics. The pharmaceutical sciences content area contains a review of medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacognosy, toxicology, bioanalysis. This content area also includes pharmaceutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenetics, and a review of extemporaneous compounding, along with parenteral and enteral products. The social, behavioral, and administrative pharmacy sciences review provides study material on health care delivery systems, economics and pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology, ethics, professional communication, and social and behavioral aspects of practice. The clinical sciences section of this text contains a review of pharmacy practice and pharmacist-provided care, medication and distribution systems, and practice guidelines and clinical trials. This portion also includes pharmacotherapy and pharmaceutical care, special populations, drug information, and medication safety.
The appendices feature tablets and lists regarding normal laboratory values, drugs for specific disease states, top 200 drugs and top 200 over-the-counter (nonprescription) products, as well as lists of drugs excreted in breast milk, drugs that cause photosensitivity, and drugs that should not be crushed. The appendices also contain use-in pregnancy ratings, and sugar-free and alcohol-free products, as well as a listing of common drug interactions.
As a whole, this book is easy to read and user-friendly. Notably, this text does not include an index, which may have proved helpful to those wishing to look up a specific topic or term. This book is also a satisfactory representation of a US college or school of pharmacy's curriculum. It can clearly be an aid to anyone preparing for the FPGEE. However, because of its comprehensive nature and the inclusion of convenient, concise appendices, it also may be valuable to those preparing for the NAPLEX, or serve as a reference tool for practicing pharmacists. The text's in-depth social, behavioral, and administrative pharmacy sciences section may prove to be exceptionally helpful to those preparing for the FPGEE as it is thorough and comprehensive coverage of what is typically the most difficult for graduates of foreign pharmacy schools to master1
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Christian University Bans Professor From Campus For Critiquing Its Dive Into 'Equity' And 'Inclusion'
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A professor was locked out of his classes and email account without warning in apparent retaliation for criticizing his Christian university's use of "diversity" and "equity" as criteria for selecting its new president, he and several witnesses told The Federalist.
The Rev. Dr. Greg Schulz was immediately and indefinitely suspended from his classes at Concordia University Wisconsin and banned from campus by interim college President William Cario on Feb. 18, a Friday. That was not formally conveyed to Schulz, however, until his lawyer obtained the suspension letter on Feb. 22, Schulz's Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty attorney Dan Lennington told The Federalist.
"They told him to 'recant' in a memo that they never gave him," Lennington said in a phone call. Lennington also noted his public interest law firm, which won a high-profile 2016 academic freedom case in Wisconsin's Supreme Court, has "never heard of something like this" swift ejection of a professor from campus for publicly expressing his views.
Schulz found out about his suspension and campus ban from colleagues after he couldn't log into his work email on the weekend, said Schulz and his department chair, Dr. Angus Menuge. Menuge said Schulz's suspension meant that colleagues, several already teaching double courseloads amid a hiring freeze, had to suddenly pick up all of Schulz's classes.
"I have since contacted the president and asked him to reconsider and I have received no response whatsoever," Menuge told The Federalist by phone on March 4. Menuge described the suspension as "extraordinarily draconian" and "Kafka-esque" because of not only the reasons Schulz was suspended but also how it was managed.
"Are we being told that you have to mute your Christianity so that it conforms to these ideologies of niceness and all of it? If so, that has a chilling effect on not only academic freedom but also on the Christian conscience," Menuge said. Especially in a time when many Christians are feeling increasing pressure from cultural Marxism, and amid current efforts to encourage Concordia faculty to stay bold in their Christian scholarship, he said, "This is such an own goal, it really sets us back."
Christians Not Happy About Their Institution Endorsing Racism
Concordia Wisconsin is a university of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, one of the United States's largest Christian denominations, with approximately 1.8 million U.S. members. It has approximately 8,000 students, the majority of whom are not Lutherans. The university is located in Mequon, Wis., an upscale suburb of Milwaukee.
The institution with a $107 million annual budget gets significant income from federal student loans. Accepting those loans requires accreditation, which mandates racial policies at odds with Christian teachings about the equal and priceless value of all humans, who are created in God's image.
Concordia Wisconsin has come under fire from many of its own pastors and members after instituting a Black Student Union and hiring a "director of multicultural engagement" in 2019. The Office of Multicultural Engagement that diversity officer oversees "strives to advance Concordia's efforts to embed diversity as a transformational force," according to its web page. That page also states the office trains faculty, staff, and students in "social identities, microaggressions, and implicit bias" and in being "culturally competent."
The university's Black Student Union recommends the fact-challenged and racially biased 1619 Project to students, as well as making purchases based on a vendor's skin color. It also recommended author Ibram X. Kendi's work. Kendi has stated, "The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
Following Schulz's suspension, a local Lutheran congregation held a service praying and calling for repentance for the university's departure from Christian teaching about racial equality.
A public petition to university leaders to reinstate Schulz and repent of publicly endorsing the "diversity, equity, and inclusion" ideology that encourages racial segregation had garnered more than 5,500 signatures as of March 6. Students also delivered their own petition of support for Schulz to Cario, although some are concerned that expressing such support could get them blacklisted and ostracized, Menuge said.
Free Speech Advocates With Lawyers Are Watching
Schulz's suspension also prompted letters of support from the Academic Freedom Alliance on Feb. 28 and, on March 4, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Both organizations, which raise funds and pursue lawsuits on behalf of free speech in higher education, called for the university to reinstate Schulz immediately.
"For Concordia University Wisconsin to punish Professor Schulz for engaging in a public discussion of matters of church principles and university governance would have a profound chilling effect on open discourse by professors on this campus and through the Concordia University system," wrote Princeton University professor Keith Whittington in the AFA letter.
"CUW's apparent suspension of Schulz without any semblance of due process violates university policy and the terms of Schulz's contract. FIRE accordingly calls on CUW to immediately reinstate Schulz and ensure any misconduct investigation adheres to CUW's binding commitments to due process and academic freedom," wrote FIRE's Aaron Terr, requesting a response from Cario by March 11.
Controversy Flares Amid Presidential Search
Schulz is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel who has two PhDs and teaches for a seminary PhD program. Awarded for his teaching prowess, Schulz has also presented his academic work in universities from England to Hong Kong. The 40th anniversary of his ordination as a minister, he said, will occur this coming summer.
"It's a wonderful responsibility teaching immortal souls in this age group," he told The Federalist of his work at Concordia.
Schulz was selected as one of 11 candidates the synod gave Concordia Wisconsin from which to pick a new president. The synod is the ultimate authority over the university. Yet the university's board of regents decided to dump the synod's candidate list and start a new search, adding social justice commitments.
Schulz's article that preceded his suspension focused on the university's use of racially charged language in its criteria for a new president. That article, which came out in Christian News four days before Schulz's suspension and was cited in his suspension letter, criticizes the university's Board of Regents for "publicly announcing their determination to have a president who exhibits a 'demonstrated belief in and commitment to equity and inclusion' and who promotes racialized 'diversity in all its myriad forms.'" These criteria are in the university's "Presidential Prospectus."
"While there is no systemic racism at Concordia because we are committed to Christ incarnate and His universal justification of all human beings without exception, there certainly is systemic Woke-ism," Schulz writes in the article.
In the Feb. 18 letter to Schulz suspending him, obtained by The Federalist, Cario accuses Schulz of "Insubordination; lying to administration about actions taken," "Conduct unbecoming a Christian," and "Not following faculty grievance or dispute process." The letter also refers to "several complaints from students and at least one from a faculty member" apparently through the university's bias and harassment reporting system.
Bias Reports Instead of Repentance
While Cario declined through a university spokeswoman Federalist requests for comment, he wrote of the situation to students and faculty on Feb. 24: "Despite my effort to meet with the individual outside of class time to discuss the situation using biblical principles as outlined in Matthew 18, my request was rejected."
Menuge and Schulz said this, and claims Schulz did not bring his concerns to the administration before his Christian News article, are false. It was amid his attempts to schedule a meeting with Cario to discuss the article that Schulz was suddenly suspended, Schulz and Menuge said. Menuge said he was copied on multiple emails verifying this.
Schulz said he also offered several times — via verifiable emails — to meet with the university's Board of Regents and with Cario to discuss his concerns about the university's dive into "woke" policies and language. He said these attempts were ignored. So, because his university's endorsement of racism has been public, Schulz said, his criticism has also been public, in line with the Bible's command in 1 Timothy 5.
"You don't practice woke procedures against people who are bringing up issues of urgent discussion," Schulz said. "I suppose that maybe to make a point what I should have done was just kept entering complaints on that God-awful bias reporting system on the website. But that's not the way real people should operate."
The Reconciliation That Wasn't
Schulz and Cario attended a Feb. 25 "reconciliation" meeting moderated by the most immediate church authority over the situation, Rev. Dr. John Wille. At the meeting, "There was no engagement with scripture nor was there any engagement with the arguments in my essay. In fact there was no discussion at all except this discussion of privileging and hurt feelings," Schulz said.
Rev. Dr. Peter Scaer, a seminary professor who attended as Schulz's witness, told The Federalist that while the meeting did not resolve the conflict, it "clarified things for me. It became patently obvious that the charges against Schulz are ridiculous. And by the end of the meeting I said, 'Is this all you guys got? I'm not angry about these things, but when the church sees this, nobody's going to take this seriously.'"
Scaer described the charges against Schulz as "petty," based on "feelings," and most importantly ignoring the core issue of Concordia's apparent indulgence of anti-Christian racial separatism.
"Our goal is to make every effort to encourage and gain repentance from the other side," Schulz said. "I don't accept this notion that everybody is at fault. That's a patronizing notion at this point. I don't think that I've done anything wrong. I'm still willing to accept correction if somebody can point something out scripturally, but I don't think that's going to be forthcoming."
A 'Dispute Resolution Process' Nobody Can Find
The university administration and leaders of its Board of Regents declined to comment to The Federalist for this article, referring inquiries to Lisa Liljegren, the university's assistant vice president for communications. Liljegren sent this statement: "Regarding the suspension of Rev. Dr. Greg Schulz, Concordia University is currently abiding by the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod dispute resolution process, under the direction of Rev. Dr. John Wille, president of the South Wisconsin District of the LCMS. In conformity with the dispute resolution process, we can share no more information at this time."
Asked for further details about that "process," Liljegren could not provide any information, instead referring The Federalist to the LCMS. Two LCMS spokesmen contacted last week referred The Federalist back to the university and Wille. A voicemail requesting comment left on Wille's cell phone last week was not returned.
LCMS President Rev. Matthew Harrison "is well aware of the challenges the 'woke' culture poses to the church's very valuable institutions. He is deeply committed to the fact that CUW belongs to the congregations of the Synod, and these congregations have entrusted theological supervision of the Universities to the President of the Synod," an LCMS spokesman wrote in a Friday email to The Federalist. "This controversy erupted when the Board of Regents rejected the very capable, theologically competent candidates given to it by the Prior Approval committee. Under Harrison's leadership, the Church has elected similar, highly competent, theologically astute leaders at many of our beloved Concordias, and he intends to see the same at CUW."
None of these entities responsible for the university's governance provided any information about the next steps for resolving Schulz's suspension. So far, a lawsuit has not been filed.
"I hope they figure it out soon because everybody's thinking if that's all it takes — to disagree with the direction of the university — to suspend somebody, then academic freedom means nothing because you can't use it to robustly disagree when you think there's a problem," Menuge said.
This article has been corrected since publication.
Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. Her just-published ebook is "101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation." Her bestselling ebook is "Classic Books for Young Children." Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. Her many books include "The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids," from Encounter Books. Joy is also a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.
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И́горь Никола́евич Мешко́в (род. 7 января 1936, Москва) — советский и российский учёный в области физики ускорителей, член-корреспондент РАН (1991), академик РАН (2019). Лауреат Государственной премии РФ (2001) за цикл работ «Метод электронного охлаждения пучков тяжёлых заряженных частиц». Мастер спорта СССР.

Биография
Окончил физический факультет МГУ (1959) С 1959 года работал в Сибирском отделении АН СССР, старший лаборант, младший, старший, ведущий научный сотрудник, с 1986 по 1989 год — заведующий лабораторией Института ядерной физики.

Кандидат физико-математических наук (1970). Доктор физико-математических наук (1975)

Преподавал в Новосибирском государственном университете с 1963 года, профессор (1979), с 1984 по 1993 год — заведующий кафедрой общей физики. Преподавал также в Липецком политехническом институте, профессор, заведующий кафедрой физики. С 1998 по 2013 год — заведующий кафедрой электроники физических установок в МИРЭА, почётный работник МИРЭА. В настоящее время преподаёт на факультете прикладной математики — процессов управления Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета.

Директор Физико-технологического центра ИЯФ СО АН СССР в Липецке (1989—1993). В 1991 году избран членом-корреспондентом Российской академии наук

Главный инженер ОИЯИ (1998—2003), Дубна.

Занимается альпинизмом, участник ряда восхождений, имеет звание «Снежный барс» (1981)

Научные интересы
Фундаментальные результаты в области физики и техники ускорителей, физики плазмы, пучково-плазменного разряда, применения ускорителей заряженных частиц в промышленности.
Участник разработки метода электронного охлаждения, технологий с использованием пучков заряженных частиц в металлургическом производстве, по радиационно-химической очистке газов облучением электронными пучками.

Руководитель работ по созданию накопителя электронов и позитронов низкой энергии LEPTA.

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The Luckiest Man on Earth
The Yankee legend's unforgettable goodbye 75 years ago is even more remarkable than you thought.
By Sean Braswell
The Daily Dose JUL 04 2014
"Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
Most baseball fans know those 13 words by heart. Seventy-five years ago, before a crowd of over 61,000, 36-year-old New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig prematurely said goodbye to the game he loved after learning that he suffered from a degenerative neurological disorder called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or, as it's now more commonly known, Lou Gehrig's disease.
Henry Louis Gehrig, a Hall of Famer who alongside Babe Ruth formed the heart of the Yankees famous "Murderers' Row" line-up, hated the spotlight. And yet his address on that Fourth of July in 1939 was, as The New York Times described it the next day, "as amazing a valedictory as ever came from a ball player."
With Major League Baseball set to honor Gehrig's memory this week, Americans will likely hear those 13 words broadcast more than once as they celebrate the holiday or even take in a ballgame. But in many ways, the context in which Gehrig's iconic speech was given is even more moving than the baseball legend's immortal words.
First, there was Gehrig's rapid physical deterioration. Even though the slugger had been in the Yankees starting line-up until he took himself out on May 2 of that year (ending his record streak of 2,130 consecutive games played) and had only been diagnosed with ALS two weeks prior, Yankees officials were not sure Gehrig would have the strength to make it through the 40-minute appreciation ceremony on that muggy July afternoon.
In just a matter of months, Gehrig had gone from being the broad-shouldered "Iron Man of Baseball" — who in 1936 had been turned down for the role of Tarzan because his legs were too muscular — to batting .143 and struggling to put on his uniform. And as Gehrig tried to hold back the tears that July 4, his jersey already too big for him, almost no one in the hushed Yankee Stadium could have fathomed that their mighty hero would be dead in less than two years — perhaps not even Gehrig himself.
Yankees officials were not sure Gehrig would have the strength to make it through the ceremony.
ALS was (and is) fatal and irreversible, with a life expectancy of two to five years. Yet in a letter to his wife, Eleanor, two weeks before his speech, Gehrig reported that there was a "50-50 chance of keeping me as I am. I may need a cane in 10 or 15 years."
Lou Gehrig as tarzan
Gehrig made a similar "50-50" claim to his teammates, and the official letter provided by doctors to team officials surprisingly made no mention of the condition's lethal course. As a result, reporters and fans alike assumed Gehrig's "bad break" was merely that he was suffering from an "infantile paralysis" that would force him to retire from baseball and lose his muscular coordination over a span of years.
Eleanor would force the doctors to give her a more realistic assessment, and later claimed that she colluded with them over the next two years to keep her husband in the dark about his true condition. In her autobiography, she said that Gehrig, like his fans, was unaware of the real prognosis both before and after his famous speech.
But Gehrig may have just been putting on a brave face for his wife as well. While his doctors at the Mayo Clinic undoubtedly tried to inflate his hopes of beating ALS, they were experts on the disease and, as Jonathan Eig argues in his recent Gehrig biography, Luckiest Man , would almost certainly not have concealed the truth from their patient. More likely, Gehrig was trying to remain his stoic, optimistic self while shielding his wife and others from his grim prospects.
This was, after all, a man who had played through countless injuries for 13 straight years without missing a game: When doctors X-rayed his hands near the end of his career, they found 17 different fractures that had healed while Gehrig played on.
Gehrig's legendary endurance would not save him, but his fortitude is still felt today. As Eig puts it so eloquently, "ALS is a disease of weakness, but Lou Gehrig's disease is associated with strength — the strength of a stricken man who said he felt lucky."
Watch a clip from Gehrig's farewell below, and honor him by making a donation to the ALS Association to help support research to find a cure for ALS.
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National Catholic Register News https://www.ncregister.com/features/after-crispr-twins-gene-editing-holds-promise-and-peril-for-humanity
After CRISPR Twins, Gene Editing Holds Promise and Peril for Humanity
Gene-editing technology promises to help solve the rarest diseases afflicting humanity — but designing human embryos is a bridge too far.
He Jiankui, a now-former researcher at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, received international scrutiny after revealing to the world that he used a new genetic-editing technique. (photo: YouTube screenshot)
Peter Jesserer Smith Features December 27, 2018
HONG KONG — He Jiankui, a now-former researcher at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, rose from obscurity to international scrutiny after revealing to the world that he used a new genetic-editing technique to design two HIV-resistant Chinese baby girls as embryos and implanted them into their mother through in vitro fertilization (IVF).
"Two Chinese girls, called Lulu and Nana, came crying into this world as healthy as any other babies," He said in a Nov. 25 YouTube video.
The international scientific and medical community responded with shock at He's claims, which he presented again Nov. 27 at the second International Human Genome Editing Summit in Hong Kong. His claims so far have not been substantiated. But many in China's scientific community, which has been on the long march to pioneer genetic therapies, swiftly condemned He for using the CRISPR/cas9 editing technique on human embryos.
Many scientists and ethicists, meanwhile, have been quick to point out that CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies have a vast potential to treat even the rarest and most obscure diseases in human beings without moral objections or tampering with humanity's gene pool. Many of these promising therapies are already under development.
Gene editing is aimed at two different kinds of cells in the body: somatic cells (an individual's cells) and germ cells (sperm or egg).
Hopeful Progress
Janet Lambert, CEO of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, which represents more than 300 companies and nonprofits worldwide developing new genetic therapies, told the Register that the vast majority of gene-editing research involves somatic cells. Technology like CRISPR, she indicated, has made it possible to treat a host of diseases that drug companies ordinarily would not touch due to prohibitive expenses and a small market. Lambert explained there are more than 7,000 rare genetic diseases and only a few hundred treatments available. Such diseases include Parkinson's disease, Type 1 diabetes, sickle cell anemia, Gaucher disease and glioblastoma, among many others.
"The promise of the technology is extraordinary," Lambert said. Scientists may eventually develop ways to introduce somatic cell therapies into the womb that could save unborn children from fatal diseases, but Lambert said those breakthroughs are a long ways off.
However, editing the human germline poses far greater risks because it introduces a permanent genetic change that can be passed down. Therapeutic human germline editing is not currently permitted in the United States, Lambert explained. Other than rogue scientists like He, she added, scientific research into editing the human germline for therapeutic purposes is not taking place "as far as we know."
Lambert said both somatic and germline editing could be abused for nontherapeutic purposes. But somatic cell editing "limits the consequences of what you're doing" to a single person, not the entire human family.
"There's a need to have a much clearer understanding of the safety and efficacy profile of gene editing in human beings before it starts affecting multiple generations," she said.
What is CRISPR?
Scientists are still at the early stages of understanding CRISPR as a gene-editing tool, explained Kevin Doxzen, science communications specialist at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
CRISPR acts as a "programmable molecular scissors" on the human genome, which has approximately 3 billion base pairs. A genome is an organism's complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which contains all of the organism's genetic code.
Doxzen explained that sickle-cell anemia is the result of one letter change on human DNA. But with CRISPR, one can cut out that single-letter base pair. The next step then involves using the body's natural repair pathways to replace it with other genetic material.
"That next step can be pretty hard," he said. Some scientists are using CRISPR to modify the mosquitoes most responsible for transmitting malaria, a disease that is devastating populations in Africa.
"The range of CRISPR to treat human diseases is enormous," he told the Register.
But Doxzen said scientists still have a lot to learn about DNA and how to use CRISPR to cut DNA correctly and avoid the risk of "off-target cutting" of the human genome.
He said that when it comes to germline editing, current technology does not permit germline edits in adults, so the only option would be to do it in embryos. But the biology of the embryo is "very, very poorly understood."
Doxzen added that He's experimental data on the CRISPR twin girls is sloppy, but if the gene editing actually occurred, there will be permanent ramifications.
"Essentially He passed down sloppy experiments to future generations," he said.
Moral Considerations
The application of genetic modification technologies on human embryos poses different moral questions than somatic cell gene-editing therapies applied to unborn children in the womb, or adults, explained Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a Catholic priest, neuroscientist and director of education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.
Father Pacholczyk said mitochondrial gene editing on a human baby would not pose "fundamental moral concerns as long as the risks to the patient from the treatment were low."
"Sickle-cell anemia would be an example of a disease that is likely to be able to be treated in many adults via gene-therapy approaches," he added.
But germ-editing human embryos faces multiple moral barriers. The Catholic Church's viewpoint, Father Pacholczyk explained, grounded in the dignity of the human person, rules out, first of all, creating human embryos in laboratories. The IVF process (involved in embryonic germline editing) violates their human dignity by turning them into objects that are created (or then frozen to be later thawed out).
"Humans deserve to be brought into the world not in the cold, impersonal world of laboratory glassware, but exclusively in the loving, bodily embrace of their parents," he said.
Unlike the somatic cell gene therapies that could "involve treating the embryo as a unique patient, within his or her mother's womb," the germ-line editing of human embryos turns those human beings into "raw laboratory material, prepped up for experimental protocols" that end up being treated as products, subjected to genetic experiments, with the view that "a few of them might end up surviving and developing without the disease."
"The use of genetic-modification technologies on embryos imposes significant risk for the embryo, simply in terms of the mechanical procedures themselves, the numerous manipulative steps involved, and the risks of potential 'off-target' genetic changes that might reasonably be expected to occur," Father Pacholczyk said.
The priest said encouraging research into genetically modified embryos would "open up the floodgates" for embryos to be created and destroyed in laboratory experiments.
And Father Pacholczyk said making edits to embryonic children may involve risks that are only understood when they grow older. The priest pointed out that the changes He made to confer immunity to HIV infection may increase the twins' susceptibility to West Nile virus and other diseases.
"Is it ever proper to experiment on our own offspring?" he said. "Even when we think we understand the role of a specific gene, we sometimes discover later that it has several functions, and tinkering with it ends up having other surprising downstream effects."
But these modifications will also be passed into the human gene pool, "establishing permanent and irrevocable changes to our own humanity."
He asked: "How does one adequately evaluate the risks of such changes?"
Peter Jesserer Smith is a Register staff writer.
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Peter Jesserer Smith Peter Jesserer Smith is a staff reporter for the National Catholic Register. He covered Pope Francis's historic visit to the United States in 2015, and to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 2014. He has reported on the Syrian and Iraqi refugee crisis, including from Jordan and Lebanon on an Egan Fellowship from Catholic Relief Services. Before coming on board the Register in 2013, he was a freelance writer, reporting for Catholic media outlets as the Register and Our Sunday Visitor. He is a graduate of the National Journalism Center and earned a B.A. in Philosophy at Christendom College, where he co-founded the student newspaper, The Rambler, and served as its editor. He comes originally from the Finger Lakes region of New York State.
National Catholic Bioethics Center: Church Teaching Calls for Respect of Both Common Good and Conscience
Several bishops in California, and the Archdiocese of New York, have instructed priests not to provide religious exemption letters for those Catholics who object to the vaccine mandate, while the bishops in Colorado and South Dakota have upheld conscience rights.
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National Institutes of Health to Not Renew Contract Over Fetal Tissue Use
The NIH is expected to no longer fund research at the University of California San Francisco.
Catholic News Agency Nation
Pope: 'No Ends Can Justify the Destruction of Human Embryos'
Pope Francis spoke Thursday at a meeting with people affected by a rare and incurable genetic brain disorder called Huntington's disease.
CNA/EWTN NEWS Vatican
Embryo Expert: UK Will Have First 'Three-Parent' Child in 2017
Why is Britain so permissive when it comes to embryo research that's associated with safety and sex-discrimination concerns?
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Oscar Hijuelos (* 24. August 1951 in New York City; † 12. Oktober 2013 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der 1990 für sein Buch The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love als erster Hispanic den Pulitzer-Preis für Romane erhielt.

Biografie
Nach dem Schulbesuch studierte der Sohn kubanischer Einwanderer an der City University of New York und schloss das Studium  1975 mit einem Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) und 1976 mit einem Master of Arts (M.A.) ab.

1983 gab er sein Romandebüt mit Our House in the Last World. Für seinen 1989 veröffentlichten Roman The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love erhielt er den Pulitzer-Preis. Dieses Buch wurde 1992 auch von Regisseur Arne Glimcher unter dem Titel The Mambo Kings mit Armand Assante und Antonio Banderas in den Hauptrollen verfilmt.

Hijuelos, der auch ein Stipendium des National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) erhielt, veröffentlichte später einige weitere Romane wie The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien (1993), Mr. Ives' Christmas (1995), Empress of the Splendid Season (1999) sowie A Simple Habana Melody (2002).

Während er zuvor Bücher für Erwachsene verfasste, erschien mit Runaway sein erstes Buch für Jugendliche. Zuletzt erschienen 2010 Beautiful Maria of my Soul und 2011 das autobiografische Werk Thoughts Without Cigarettes.

2011 wurde Hijuelos in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt.

Weblinks und Quellen

 Biografie (American Society of Authors and Writers)
 HarperCollins Publishers
 Biografie (jrank.org)
 Biografie (GALE Cengage Learning)
 Bücher von Oscar Hijuelos (Buecher.de)

Einzelnachweise

Autor
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Englisch)
Literatur (Vereinigte Staaten)
Roman, Epik
Autobiografie
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Pulitzer-Preisträger
Person (New York City)
Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1951
Gestorben 2013
Mann


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using Abp.Application.Services.Dto;
using Abp.AutoMapper;
using LearningMpaAbp.MultiTenancy;

namespace LearningMpaAbp.Sessions.Dto
{
    [AutoMapFrom(typeof(Tenant))]
    public class TenantLoginInfoDto : EntityDto
    {
        public string TenancyName { get; set; }

        public string Name { get; set; }
    }
}

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text:
## Audience
This document contains instructions for Google employees only.  If you are
not a Google employee, these instructions will fail because you don't have
permission to access secret keys.

## Background
The kokoro tests depend on
 - [chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) packages like `microsoft-build-tools`.
 - other, downloadable packages like [casperjs](http://casperjs.org/) and
[phantomjs](http://phantomjs.org/).
 - secret keys for accessing resources in Google Cloud.  For example, for the
   CloudSql tests to pass, there must be an environment variable set containing
   a connection string.

The scripts in this directory install those dependencies.

## Prerequisites

1.  [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/).
2.  [Google Cloud SDK](http://cloud.google.com/sdk).  Sign into gloud with
    your corp credentials.
    ```.ps1
    PS > gcloud auth login
    ```

## Loading the kokoro environment.

1.  Run Powershell **as an Administrator.**
2.  In Powershell, run
    ```ps1
    PS C:\...\dotnet-docs-samples> .kokoro-windows\New-BuildEnv.ps1
    ```
3.  Close the Powershell Window.
4.  Run Powershell, this time **not** as an Administrator.
5.  Run these commands:
    ```ps1
    PS C:\...\dotnet-docs-samples> env\Activate.ps1
    # Now the kokoro build environment is loaded.  Run any test.
    PS C:\...\dotnet-docs-samples> .\buildAndRunTests.ps1
    ```


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Catalog Record: The treaty-making power in the United States ; an address | HathiTrust Digital Library
The treaty-making power in the United States ;
an address,
by the Hon. John W. Davis on February 20, 1920.
Davis, John W. 1873-1955.
London, New York [etc.] : H. Milfor, Oxford university press, 1920.
Executive power > Executive power / United States.
United States > United States / Foreign relations > United States / Foreign relations / Treaties.
18 p. 22 cm.
Full view University of California
Party government in the United States,
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955.
The redistribution of power.
Address of Honorable John W. Davis, solicitor general of the United States at "The Ellipse," Washington, D.C., on the last day for subscriptions to the second liberty loan, October 27, 1917.
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October term, 1916; First National Bank of Bay City, plaintiff in error v. Grant Fellows, on the relation of Union Trust Company et al., brief.
The World Court settles the question.
Young America's manual : the child's guide to patriotism /
The Constitution, a thing of life,
A citizen of the United States; an address
Elgutter, Charles S.
The Permanent bases of foreign policy; France, Great Britain, Germany and the United States,
The United States & their institutions : an address /
Jones, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1897.


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Sometimes, you will lose the excitement in your life and you just want to stagnate in one place. It is really hard to move forward when you are not motivated. You need to know what you want, what are your goals. What do you want to achieve by the end of the year?
But the question is, how do you stay committed enough to achieve your goals. Most people start with a new year's resolution that lasts less than a month.
"You Will Find The Answer With Affirmations!"
Have a more positive outlook on life - It's one of the best way to take direct control of your mind and be more positive even in the face of adversity and challenges.
Achieve your goals - No matter what you aim to, it will always keep crumbling down if you don't remind and push yourself. Affirmations will help you keep track of what's important and make sure you don't get distracted from your goals.
Get rid of your bad habits - Thinking of quitting a bad habit? There's nothing better than your own voice and mind to remind yourself on a daily basis, it's like giving yourself a pep talk.
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The lengths of the neck and bridge pickups in the original Fender* J-basses are not equal. Fender made the pickup bobbins so that their magnetic poles aligned correctly with the strings in the bridge and neck positions. Therefore, the neck pickup is ~3-5/8" (~92mm) long which is slightly shorter than the bridge pickup which is ~3-3/4" (~95mm) long.
Some modern designs made by Fender and others use two bridge-length pickups. A few use two neck-length pickups. We call the bridge-length pickups "Long" and use "-L" in our part names. We call the neck-length pickups "Short" and use "-S" in our part names.
Things are a bit more complicated for 5-String J-Basses. Fender and other builders make 5-String instruments with different string spacing and therefore different pickup sizes.
The "Fender Standard V" 5-String J-Bass has 18mm string spacing and uses the same size pickups as the 4-String model. Most 5-String J-basses with 18mm spacing use this size.
The "Fender American Standard V" 5-String J-Bass has 19mm string spacing at the bridge and uses larger size pickups. In both cases, they have a shorter neck pickup and a longer bridge pickup. For the American Standard V (sometimes called "AS") the bridge pickup is ~4-1/8" (~105mm) and the neck pickup is ~4" (~102mm).
The Fender Squier VM Jazz-5 uses the same "American Standard V" size also.


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U.S. national security handover to Trump bumpy, officials say
Arshad Mohammed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's national security transition has been more chaotic than others in recent memory, with important positions unfilled and many of his people less able, or willing, to engage on substance, U.S. officials said.
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stephanie O'Sullivan answers questions during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the House-passed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reform bill while on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 5, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing
The uncertainties surrounding Trump's personnel, policies, and rise to power have rattled many of America's allies, including Japan, Germany and Britain, at a time when China is more assertive, Russia more aggressive, terrorism more diffuse, the Middle East still unstable and North Korea nuclear-armed and unpredictable, said U.S. and foreign diplomats.
Disruption and uncertainty can provide strategic advantages, Mark Lagon and Ross Harrison of Georgetown University wrote in Foreign Policy magazine. "But what is seriously in doubt is whether Trump's disruption will be strategic or beneficial to U.S. foreign policy interests. Even before getting elected, he acted like a missile without a guidance system."
Top Trump officials, however, described the transition as having gone smoothly, including on national security.
Republican Trump's camp announced on Thursday it had asked more than 50 of Democrat Obama's appointees to stay on.
However, at least three officials, a senior intelligence officer and two diplomats whose names are on a list of "requested political holdovers," will depart.
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stephanie O'Sullivan, Under Secretary of State Catherine Novelli and Assistant Secretary of State Toria Nuland appear on a Jan. 17 partial list of people the transition wanted to remain after Trump's inauguration on Friday.
The two diplomats have told colleagues they are going, and O'Sullivan is keeping her long-standing plans to retire. A U.S. official said that Nuland was never asked by the transition to stay on and was unaware of her name appearing on such a list.
The State Department declined comment. The Trump transition and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is not clearly whether the uncertainties extend to other parts of the government, but another senior official at a national security agency said Trump's effort was "much slower" than the 2001 Bill Clinton-to-George W. Bush or the 2009 Bush-to-Barack Obama handovers.
"Personnel appointments were far more advanced in both those cases," said the official, who spoke on condition he not be identified. "In both cases, advance teams were working on substance."
During the 2008-2009 transition, the official said, incoming and outgoing officials had worked together on issues "in a very harmonious fashion."
"None of that is the case in this transition," he added. He said that he had expected to have met by now with his likely replacement or others on the transition, but had not. "It's not just me. Everybody's experience is like mine."
'REAMS OF BRIEFINGS'
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Vice President-elect Michael Pence said Trump's transition was being completed ahead of schedule and under budget. "Our job is to be ready on day one. The American people can be confident that we will be."
Trump spokesman Sean Spicer also told reporters that contact between the incoming and outgoing National Security Council staffs had been "tremendous."
"We've had reams of briefings," he said. "That is one area where frankly they have been very, very aggressive and robust with both meeting with their counterparts and ensuring that the team is ready to go day one."Trump's team did not respond to requests for further comment.
Three State Department officials, though, called the transition there "a mess," and said that until recently the Trump team had little contact with department officials and read few if any of their briefing books.
That has left many career officials with misgivings about the incoming administration and the possibility that many foreign policy and national security veterans may be swept out.
A dozen serving officials at four intelligence agencies said they are troubled by Trump's apparent disdain for their work; by his designated national security advisor Michael Flynn's perceived bent for conspiracy theories and hostility toward some of his former colleagues; and by what some say is the incoming president's disinterest in the briefings he has received.
Two officials with knowledge of those briefings said Trump's attention has wandered, he has asked few questions, has read few if any of the briefing books he's been given – including the one on Russian hacking of the 2016 election - and has requested few topical sessions, one of which was on North Korea.
U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, Cathy Novelli, speaks with the media during the "Our Ocean" conference at the Hotel Sheraton Miramar in Vina del Mar city, October 5, 2015. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido
Secretary of State John Kerry and his nominated replacement, Rex Tillerson, were to meet on Thursday, but their schedules did not mesh, State Department spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
One Obama official, who has dealt with the Trump transition team at the State Department and spoke on condition of anonymity, said it appeared 'totally disconnected' from Trump's top echelon of advisers and from Tillerson.
Tillerson's nomination is not expected to get a Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote before Monday at the earliest.
Reporting by John Walcott, Jonathan Landay, Arshad Mohammed, Warren Strobel, Phil Stewart, Lesley Wroughton and Patricia Zengerle; Writing by Arshad Mohammed; Editing by John Walcott and Grant McCool


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package cmd

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/coreos/kube-aws/core/controlplane/config"
	"github.com/coreos/kube-aws/core/root"
	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
)

var (
	cmdRender = &cobra.Command{
		Use:          "render",
		Short:        "Render deployment artifacts",
		Long:         ``,
		RunE:         runCmdRender,
		SilenceUsage: true,
	}

	cmdRenderCredentials = &cobra.Command{
		Use:          "credentials",
		Short:        "Render credentials",
		Long:         ``,
		RunE:         runCmdRenderCredentials,
		SilenceUsage: true,
	}

	renderCredentialsOpts = config.CredentialsOptions{}

	cmdRenderStack = &cobra.Command{
		Use:          "stack",
		Short:        "Render CloudFormation stack template and coreos-cloudinit userdata",
		Long:         ``,
		RunE:         runCmdRenderStack,
		SilenceUsage: true,
	}
)

func init() {
	RootCmd.AddCommand(cmdRender)

	cmdRender.AddCommand(cmdRenderCredentials)
	cmdRenderCredentials.Flags().BoolVar(&renderCredentialsOpts.GenerateCA, "generate-ca", false, "if generating credentials, generate root CA key and cert. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PRODUCTION USE- use '-ca-key-path' and '-ca-cert-path' options to provide your own certificate authority assets")
	cmdRenderCredentials.Flags().StringVar(&renderCredentialsOpts.CaKeyPath, "ca-key-path", "./credentials/ca-key.pem", "path to pem-encoded CA RSA key")
	cmdRenderCredentials.Flags().StringVar(&renderCredentialsOpts.CaCertPath, "ca-cert-path", "./credentials/ca.pem", "path to pem-encoded CA x509 certificate")

	cmdRender.AddCommand(cmdRenderStack)
}
func runCmdRender(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
	fmt.Printf("WARNING: 'kube-aws render' is deprecated. See 'kube-aws render --help' for usage\n")
	if len(args) != 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("render takes no arguments\n")
	}

	if _, err := os.Stat(renderCredentialsOpts.CaKeyPath); os.IsNotExist(err) {
		renderCredentialsOpts.GenerateCA = true
	}
	if err := runCmdRenderCredentials(cmdRenderCredentials, args); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if err := runCmdRenderStack(cmdRenderCredentials, args); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	return nil
}
func runCmdRenderStack(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
	// Read the config from file.
	cluster, err := root.StackAssetsRendererFromFile(configPath)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to read cluster config: %v", err)
	}

	if err := cluster.RenderFiles(); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	successMsg :=
		`Success! Stack rendered to ./stack-templates.

Next steps:
1. (Optional) Validate your changes to %s with "kube-aws validate"
2. (Optional) Further customize the cluster by modifying templates in ./stack-templates or cloud-configs in ./userdata.
3. Start the cluster with "kube-aws up".
`

	fmt.Printf(successMsg, configPath)
	return nil
}

func runCmdRenderCredentials(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
	cluster, err := root.CredentialsRendererFromFile(configPath)
	if err != nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("failed to read cluster config: %v", err)
	}

	return cluster.RenderFiles(renderCredentialsOpts)
}


Focaccia is a fun and simple alternative to pizza. It's a moister dough with olive oil inside and out and it does better with drier toppings since the dough has more moisture and is leavened more than pizza.
If you start with the French Bread recipe from the last post, add 2 tbsp of olive oil, and a 1/4 cup of water and follow the "Cool Control" procedure you'll have the perfect focaccia every time. You can make it thick or thin, round or square and have fun with the toppings. Other seasonal topping include fiddleheads, spinach, spring garlic, fresh herbs or whatever is coming up in your garden or at the markets, and csa shares.
Brush the pan you are baking in with olive oil as well as the top of the dough before adding the toppings. And if you want you can sift the flour for a lighter texture like I did here.
For sifting just use your standard mesh pasta strainer!
I baked these in two cast iron pans but a sheet pan or pie pan work fine too.
Slice your vegetables thin so they cook fast enough or saute them before adding to the pizza and watch out for wet ingredients as they will lead to a soggy bread. Once you roll your dough out into the pans and top it let it rise until puffy…30-60 minutes.
Any cheese will do but of course Italian style cheese is excellent if you can pull that off. Bake at 450 degrees until golden and crispy and enjoy!


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4 Americans lead Senior British Open
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) — A quartet of Americans — Wes Short Jr., Scott Dunlap, Scott Parel and Ken Duke — topped the Senior British Open leaderboard on Thursday, together with England's Paul Broadhurst, when first-round play was suspended due to fading light. The leaders were a stroke ahead...
July 25, 2019 - 11:27 am
Creamer leads Evian Championship, shoots 64 in 1st round
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — Paula Creamer is leading a major tournament again, shooting a bogey-free 7-under 64 Thursday in the first round of the Evian Championship. When Creamer last topped a major leaderboard, she won the 2010 U.S. Women's Open by four strokes. At the Evian Resort Golf Club,...
Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, right, and Philip Eriksson, of Sweden, second from right, laugh as they watch Henrik Stenson, of Sweden, get ready to hit in a left-handed driving contest on the 13th hole during a practice round for the World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational Wednesday, July 24, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Johnson, Thomas defending champs as WGC moves to Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dustin Johnson made it clear. Even though he won the last time the PGA Tour visited TPC Southwind, he's not the defending champion. That would be Justin Thomas, who is looking to become the first repeat winner at this World Golf Championships event since Tiger Woods took three...
FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 file photo, Angela Stanford of the U.S. poses with her trophy after winning the Evian Championship women's golf tournament in Evian, eastern France. The Evian Championship begins back-to-back majors weeks in women's golf for the first time in six decades on Thursday July 24, 2019. The $4.1 million tournament has been restored to July in the calendar from its previous rain-hit slot in September. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Evian in a heat wave starts back-to-back women's golf majors
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France (AP) — Restored to July on the calendar, the Evian Championship begins back-to-back weeks of major championships in women's golf for the first time in six decades on Thursday. It shapes up as a tough test starting in a French heat wave for players who aim to play eight...
Herman rides Trump's putting advice to victory in Kentucky
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — From President Donald Trump to playing partner Kelly Kraft, Jim Herman got the help he needed to win his second PGA Tour title. Taking advantage of Trump's putting advice and Kraft's two late bogeys, Herman edged Kraft by a stroke Sunday in the Barbasol Championship. Trump...
Ireland's Shane Lowry holds and kisses the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open Golf Championships at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 21, 2019.(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Lowry wins British Open in celebrated return to Emerald Isle
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Shane Lowry made the 68 years between British Opens in Northern Ireland worth the wait. The silver claret jug is staying on the Emerald Isle. Lowry, the 32-year-old Irishman with stout nerves and a soft touch around the greens, endured the worst weather of the week...
England's Tommy Fleetwood reacts after he missed a putt on the 2nd green during the final round of the British Open Golf Championships at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 21, 2019.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
'Oh, Tommy': Fleetwood fails to mount challenge to Lowry
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — The rain was verging on torrential, the putts weren't dropping, and Tommy Fleetwood was looking thoroughly miserable on the most remote part of the soggy Dunluce Links. "Oh, Tommy," he said, his shoulders slumping as his third shot from the middle of the fairway at...
Ireland's Shane Lowry holds an umbrella in heaven rain on the 8th green during the final round of the British Open Golf Championships at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 21, 2019.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
Bad weather leads to some high scores at British Open
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Rain is no stranger to the British Open. Wet and windy weather is pretty common in Northern Ireland, too. But the adverse conditions on the final day of this year's tournament, the first time golf's oldest major has been across the Irish Sea since 1951, was evident...
Ireland's Shane Lowry reacts after making a birdie on the 15th green during the final round of the British Open Golf Championships at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 21, 2019.(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
The Latest: Shane Lowry wins British Open by 6 strokes
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — The Latest on the British Open (all times local): 6:10 p.m. Shane Lowry has won the British Open for his first major title. The 32-year-old Irishman held on through a wet and windy day at Royal Portrush to beat Tommy Fletwood by 6 strokes. Lowry entered the day...
Jim Herman tees off on the 10th during the third round of the Barbasol Championship golf tournament at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Ky., Saturday, July 20, 2019. (Alex Slitz/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
Helped by Trump's putting advice, Herman leads Barbasol
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Helped by President Donald Trump's putting advice, Jim Herman had two eagles in a 10-under 62 to maintain a one-stroke lead Saturday in the PGA Tour's Barbasol Championship. "I haven't been playing bad, I just haven't been rolling the ball very well," Herman said. "So, to...


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I am not home so you get a tablet comment.
But what makes the sea so dangerous to swim in?
I don't think we'll find out for a very long while. My guess is that someone will have to swim in it to avoid certain death, and all will be revealed.
Also, WHY WAS BURK FALLING FROM THE SKY???
@Bisected Probably due to pollutants from either the construction, or just the city itself.
Maybe all those dungeons were, in fact, not good for her survival instincts. Seeing how they were usually just hard enough to challenge her (except that last disastrous time, where they bit off more than they could chew and some of the others were kind of suicidally rush and careless), I can see why. I'm not sure she is used to how easy it is to die in the real world.
By the way, judging by the buildings, it seems the water isn't too deep.
Maybe it's cola. It has damaging properties, but most importantly by swimming there you would be damaging intellectual property.
I see what you're getting at, very clever but if that was the case then I think the buildings that broke should have fallen from the sky too.
I would assume that the water is magically purifying everything that comes into contact with it - and purifying means to remove everything organic.
That would explain why the sewer doesn't make the water smell - and I would guess that the old geezer is fishing all sorts of metals that get flowed in as part of organic wastes.
I am curious if three is going to carry Tobi through the waters or if that would also troubling him.
I do hope the workers were highly paid people who knew the risks they were taking.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using System.IO;
using VenoMpie.Common.IO.FileReaders.Emulation.DOS.Doom;

namespace VenoMpie.Common.UnitTests.IO
{
    [TestClass]
    public class WadFileReaderTests : CommonUnitTestBase
    {
        //Change this to wherever your IWAD files are
        private static string Doom1RegisteredMap = @"D:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Ultimate Doom\base\DOOM.WAD";
        private static string Doom2RegisteredMap = @"D:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Doom 2\base\DOOM2.WAD";
        private static string HereticRegisteredMap = @"D:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Heretic Shadow of the Serpent Riders\base\HERETIC.WAD";
        private static string HexenRegisteredMap = @"D:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Hexen\base\HEXEN.WAD";
        private static string HexenDODCRegisteredMap = @"D:\Games\SteamLibrary\SteamApps\common\Hexen Deathkings of the Dark Citadel\base\HEXEN.WAD";
        [TestMethod]
        public void WadFileReader_TestPWADReader()
        {
            WADFile_Doom file = new WADFile_Doom(new FileStream(Path.Combine(resourceDir, "FileSignature_Emulation_PWADFile.wad"), FileMode.Open));
            Assert.IsNotNull(file.Header);
        }
        [TestMethod]
        public void WadFileReader_TestIWADReader_Doom1()
        {
            WADFile_Doom file = new WADFile_Doom(new FileStream(Doom1RegisteredMap, FileMode.Open));
            Assert.IsNotNull(file.Header);
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E1M9"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E1M5"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E2M9"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E2M1"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E3M9"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E3M7"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E4M2"));
            //Make sure we get the last map in as well
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E4M9"));
            //This is my breakpoint, the CyberDemon map :P
            //I already know what I want out of this map so it's easy to use it
            var map = file.Maps.First(a => a.MapNumber == "E2M8");
        }
        [TestMethod]
        public void WadFileReader_TestIWADReader_Doom2()
        {
            WADFile_Doom file = new WADFile_Doom(new FileStream(Doom2RegisteredMap, FileMode.Open));
            Assert.IsNotNull(file.Header);
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP01"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP05"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP14"));
            //Make sure we get the last map in as well
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP32"));
            //Entryway!
            var map = file.Maps.First(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP01");
        }
        [TestMethod]
        public void WadFileReader_TestIWADReader_Heretic()
        {
            WADFile_Heretic file = new WADFile_Heretic(new FileStream(HereticRegisteredMap, FileMode.Open));
            Assert.IsNotNull(file.Header);
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E1M9"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E1M5"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E2M9"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E2M1"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E3M9"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E3M7"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E4M2"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E4M9"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E5M6"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E5M9"));
            //Make sure we get the last map in as well
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "E6M3"));
            //First map that I know the best
            var map = file.Maps.First(a => a.MapNumber == "E1M1");
        }
        [TestMethod]
        public void WadFileReader_TestIWADReader_Hexen()
        {
            WADFile_Hexen file = new WADFile_Hexen(new FileStream(HexenRegisteredMap, FileMode.Open));
            Assert.IsNotNull(file.Header);
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP01"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP05"));
            //No use testing for MAP07, there is nothing :P
            //Hexen's maps are not consecutively numbered
            //https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Hexen
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP08"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP33"));
            //Make sure we get the last map in as well
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP40"));
            //First map that I know the best
            var map = file.Maps.First(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP01");
        }
        [TestMethod]
        public void WadFileReader_TestIWADReader_Hexen_DeathkingsOfTheDarkCitidel()
        {
            WADFile_Hexen file = new WADFile_Hexen(new FileStream(HexenDODCRegisteredMap, FileMode.Open));
            Assert.IsNotNull(file.Header);
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP01"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP05"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP08"));
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP33"));
            //Make sure we get the last map in as well
            Assert.IsTrue(file.Maps.Any(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP40"));
            //First map that I know the best
            var map = file.Maps.First(a => a.MapNumber == "MAP01");
        }
        [TestMethod]
        public void WadFileReader_TestIWADReader_Reject()
        {
            WADFile_Doom file = new WADFile_Doom(new FileStream(HereticRegisteredMap, FileMode.Open));
            var map = file.Maps.First(a => a.MapNumber == "E1M1");
            //Make sure we atleast get a proper reject map
            Assert.IsTrue(map.Reject.RejectMap[0, 25] == map.Reject.RejectMap[25, 0]);
            Assert.IsTrue(map.Reject.RejectMap[1, 5] == map.Reject.RejectMap[5, 1]);
            Assert.IsTrue(map.Reject.RejectMap[1, 27] == map.Reject.RejectMap[27, 1]);
            Assert.IsTrue(map.Reject.RejectMap[10, 33] == map.Reject.RejectMap[33, 10]);
        }
        //What a waste. Will try using MonoGame or something to play the sounds
        //[TestMethod]
        //public void WadFileReader_TestIWADReader_PlayPCSound()
        //{
        //    var doomplayer = new DoomPCSpeakerPlayer();
        //    WADFile_Doom file = new WADFile_Doom(new FileStream(Doom1RegisteredMap, FileMode.Open));
        //    var sound = file.PCSpeakerSounds[0];
        //    doomplayer.PlaySound(sound.Data);
        //}
    }
}


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Toomey, Sestak spar over foreclosure crisis
Pennsylvania candidates for Senate trade accusations on mortgage meltdown.
The Pennsylvania candidates running for U.S. Senate are sparring over who is at fault for the foreclosure crisis.
Republican Pat Toomey said Wednesday he tried to step up federal regulation of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while still a Congressman in 2003.
Toomey gave a five-page speech to reporters outlining what he sees as the role of his opponent, Democrat Joe Sestak, in failing to prevent the housing bubble.
"Congressman Sestak says that there are two different ideologies in this race and he's right about that. His liberal ideology is one that has put taxpayers on the hook for over a trillion dollars in government bailouts," said Toomey. "He forced taxpayers to bail out Fannie and Freddie after he voted against rules that might have prevented a need for a bailout."
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created by the government to buy up and guarantee mortgages to free up banks to lend more. They back up half the mortgages in the U.S.
Sestak calls Toomeys remarks about his votes "false."
"No, I went there to try to clean up the mess that Congressman Toomey did," said Sestak. "And I will continue to oppose efforts of his to give additional aid to Wall Street."
Sestak has painted Toomey as a friend of Wall Street, who wants to privatize Social Security.


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1349 Releases 'Through Eyes Of Stone' Single
Norwegian black metal masters 1349 have unleashed a brand new single, "Through Eyes Of Stone". The song is taken from the band's self-titled EP, which will be released on August 16. 1349 has furthermore finished the recordings of its new full-length, to be made available this fall via Season Of Mist. The new single can ...
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Q: Passing data to Vue child component without re-mounting it I have a page that includes some audio visualization that's being done within a component. The component is only for displaying stuff, the audio logic is done in the parent.
I'll keep this part short, since my problem is more general, but basically I'm passing the AnalyserNode to the child to poll the realtime frequency analysis from within my Three.js render-loop in the child (WorkletModule).
So in my parent I have something like this:
<template>
    ...
    <WorkletModule
      :analyser="analyser"
      :key="componentKey"
    />
    ...
</template>

...

data() {
    return {
      componentKey: 0,
      analyser: null,
    };

methods: {
     startRecording() {
      this.componentKey++
      ..

      this.analyser = audioContext.createAnalyser();
      ..
     }
}

while my WorkletModule.vue looks like this:
  props: {
    analyser: {
      type: AnalyserNode
    },
  },

  mounted() {
      //initialize graphics, etc..
  }

//in the render loop I need to do something like this:
this.analyser.getByteFrequencyData(soundData);

Now if I use it like above, it does actually work, however, every call to startRecording() causes the WorkletModule to re-mount, creating a hick-up and emptying the canvas of the WorkletModule.
If I remove the ":key="componentKey" it doesn't get updated, which means that the reference to the analyzer in the WorkletModule/prop always stays null, which is obviously not what I want.
Is there a way to pass the analyzer object in another form than a prop?
Basically I need the analyzer value in every frame of the render-loop. I could not pass it as a prop but rather emit an event from the render loop of the WorkletModule that in turn gets the parent to send the current values back to the child via another event. That doesn't seem like a very elegant thing though, so I guess there's a better way.

A: I'm really puzzled by this:

If I remove the ":key="componentKey" it doesn't get updated, which means that the reference to the analyser in the WorkletModule/prop always stays null

This is not supposed to happen since props are updated without re-rendering by default. Of course, if you use a key, the component is fully destroyed and recreated on every key update.
You could listen to your props update by using a watcher.
In the example below, I pass a prop to a children component, from null to a number. The component is only rendered once and the prop is updated as expected. I only added a watcher to track every update of the said prop and give me the possibility to add any logic from that. You could try to do that in order to understand if the prop is really never updated or maybe your implementation lacks something (and you didn't show us the malicious bit of code that drives you into thinking it's not updated).

const test = Vue.component("test", {
  props: ["prop1"],
  methods: {
    getProp() {
      console.log(this.prop1);
    }
  },
  created() {
    console.log("created"); // only called once
    setInterval(this.getProp, 2000);
  },
  watch: {
    prop1(newVal, oldVal) {
      console.log("watcher:", newVal, oldVal);
      // do something
    }
  },
  template: "
test
"
});

new Vue({
  el: "#app",
  components: {
    test
  },
  data: {
    toProp: null
  },
  methods: {
    setProp() {
      this.toProp = new Date().valueOf();
    }
  },
  created() {
    setInterval(this.setProp, 6000);
  }
})

  <test :prop1="toProp" />

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Confident Davis predicts KO of champ Pedraza in 130-pound title tilt
Jan 13, 2017 By Lem Satterfield
Gervonta Davis has heard all about how he's never faced an opponent the caliber of 130-pound world champion Jose Pedraza. While he doesn't necessarily disagree, he believes his own abilities are being sold short.
Gervonta Davis (left), who has earned 15 of his 16 wins by knockout, will get his toughest test Saturday night when he challenges 130-pound champion Jose Pedraza for his world title in Brooklyn, New York. (Idris Erba/Mayweather Promotions)
"They keep talking about his experience, but he fought a bum to get the belt," Davis says of Pedraza. "I've been in the gym with world champions, sparring Danny Garcia, Lamont Peterson and been around Floyd Mayweather and Adrien Broner.
"There is nothing he brings to the table I haven't seen before. But who has he fought with my skills?"
Gervonta Davis (16-0, 15 KOs) will get an opportunity to display those skills to the world Saturday when he challenges Jose Pedraza (22-0, 12 KOs) for his title at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York (Showtime, 9:30 p.m./6:30 p.m. PT).
While the 27-year-old Pedraza will be making the third defense of the crown he won in June 2015, Davis will be in his first world title fight at the ripe age of 22. That's led some to wonder if Davis will be able to stay afloat when he makes his first dive into the deep end of the pool.
"I think it's a tough spot for Gervonta," says Showtime analyst and boxing historian Steve Farhood. "It's coming very early [in his career], and I think you've got to make Pedraza the favorite in the fight.
"We're going to find out a lot about Davis, because we don't know how good he is against a top guy. He's never been in with a guy as talented as Pedraza."
" Pedraza's the best guy that I've faced, on paper, but to be super honest, he's a small guy and I just see me stopping him. " Gervonta Davis, 130-pound world title challenger
One thing that is known about Davis: The 5-foot-6 southpaw from Baltimore has anvils for fists. Not only has he stopped 15 of his 16 opponents, he's registered 13 knockouts in less than four rounds, including seven first-round finishes. That includes a 41-second KO of Mario Antonio Macias in his most recent bout in June.
The only time Davis has gone beyond six rounds was in December 2015, when light-hitting Luis Sanchez took the fighter nicknamed "Tank" into the ninth round of a 10-round fight before being knocked out.
Davis, who weighed in Friday at 129 pounds, envisions a similar outcome against Pedraza, who tipped the scales at 129½.
"Pedraza's the best guy that I've faced, on paper, but to be super honest, he's a small guy and I just see me stopping him," he says. "I think I'm going to wind up stopping him in the eighth, ninth or 10th round."
A switch-hitting Puerto Rican, Pedraza dominated Andrey Klimov to win his title by wide unanimous decision. In that bout, Pedraza landed more than twice as many punches (272) than his opponent (121), winning every round on two scorecards and all but one round on the third.
However, the "Sniper" had a much tougher time in his first title defense against veteran Edner Cherry in October 2015, winning a split decision despite ending up on the wrong end of the final punch stats (Cherry had a 243-187 edge in total shots landed).
Pedraza followed the Cherry victory with a comfortable unanimous decision over England's Stephen Smith (then 23-1) in April.
"I'm not taking anything away from Pedraza," Davis says. "He's beat Stephen Smith and Edner Cherry. But those guys don't bring the power, speed, elusiveness and angles that I do.
"I'm not downgrading anybody, but they're [Cherry and Smith] mostly average."
For the most part, Pedraza has avoided engaging in a verbal scuffle with Davis, preferring to wait until Saturday to let his fists do the talking.
"On January 14, I will be facing a great boxer with a lot of talent, speed and power," Pedraza says. "I expect this to be a very exciting fight. I'm going to be ready for anything that Davis will bring into the ring. I'm going to take care of business. … He's going to have to go down."
One of the keys to Pedraza's success is his versatility and adaptability. In addition to being able to do damage with both hands, he's a slick, boxer-puncher who often dictates an in-and-out, forward-moving strategy.
However, if you believe Davis' trainer, Calvin Ford, that strategy will play right into the challenger's heavy hands.
"We want to put on a good show for the fans, so I'm hoping Pedraza comes to fight, doesn't fear Tank's power and won't try to stay away. That will bring out the best in Tank," Ford says. "Tank's got the ring IQ of a 40-year-old. … People are asking if Tank can keep up with [Pedraza]. But can he keep up with Tank?"
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Q: Assignment of $m_\ell$ values to $p_x, p_y$ and $p_z$ states For the orbital angular momentum quantum number $\ell=1$, there are three possible $m_\ell$ values, namely, $-1,0$ and $+1$. Which $m_\ell$ value is associated with which of the three p spates, namely, $p_x,p_y$ and $p_z$ and why?

A: $m=0$ is the case where the wave function behaves like $\cos \theta$, which is what is commonly referred as $p_z$.
For $p_x,p_y$, you need a superposition of $m=1,-1$:
$$ Y_1^{1} + Y_1^{-1} \propto \cos \varphi \sin \theta $$ so one can see that $p_x = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} (|1\rangle + |-1 \rangle) $ and in the same matter, $p_y$ will be a superposition with a minus sign.
Hope it helped.
edit: I found a wikipedia page explaining the issue. Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital#Real_orbitals

A: None of them. The traditional$^*$ approach is to use the operators $\hat H$, $\hat L^2$, and $\hat L_z$ which corresponds to the Hamiltonian (energy), the magnitude of angular momentum, and the z-component of angular momentum. We can specify these three at once because it turns out that these operators commute, so there exists a common eigenbasis we can work in such that the basis vectors are eigenvectors of all three operators.
So the $\ell=1$ you state relates to the eigenvalues of the $\hat L^2$ operator, and the three $m_{\ell}$ values you site deal with three different eigenvalues of the $\hat L_z$ operator. They do not pertain to any single linear component of momentum (since $L_z=xp_y-yp_x$).

$^*$ We technically don't have to work with $\hat L_z$. We could choose any single component of $L$ to work with. By tradition we specify $L_z$, and we can always adjust our coordinates so that the z-axis is in a place to do this.


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Navy Corruption Scandal Results In Prison Time For Highest-Ranking Officer Yet
A Navy captain has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his involvement in a bribery scandal.
Capt. Daniel Dusek, the former deputy director of operations for the Navy's 7th Fleet, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit bribery, admitting he traded classified information for luxury gifts and access to prostitutes. He was sentenced to 46 months on Friday.
He's the highest-ranking officer who has faced charges for his involvement in the scandal. Two admirals had their access to classified material suspended several years ago, over alleged connections to the scandal. To this day, both admirals — one of whom is the Navy's intelligence chief — are blocked from viewing classified documents.
The scandal in question centers on foreign defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis, or "Fat Leonard."
Francis plied officers with vacations, prostitutes, cash and gifts including "top-shelf alcohol, ornamental swords and handmade ship models," the Associated Press reports.
Dusek acknowledge that he received free hotel stays, alcohol, meals, gifts, entertainment and prostitutes. In return, he would send Francis and his employees classified Navy ship schedules, giving the contractors information that helped them overcharge the military.
In an email to an employee, the Justice Department says, Francis called Dusek "a golden asset to drive the big decks (aircraft carriers) into our fat revenue GDMA ports."
Before his sentencing at a federal court in San Diego, Dusek told the judge, "I will hold this guilt in my heart for the rest of my life," the AP reports.
After serving as Deputy Operations Officer for the 7th Fleet, Dusek commanded the USS Essex and then the USS Bonhomme Richard.
He was relieved of duty as commander of the Bonhomme in 2013 over the bribery scandal. After pleading guilty to bribery in 2015, Dusek remained on active duty at a desk job, Navy Times reported.
In addition to his prison sentence, Dusek will also have to pay $100,000 in fines and restitution to the Navy.
Ten other people, including Naval commanders, have been charged so far for their involvement in the corruption scandal.
Dusek has "hinted" that higher-ranking officers than him were being bribed, The Washington Post reports. The paper has more on the broader scandal:
"In a fresh revelation, Dusek said Francis went so far as to purchase a decommissioned British naval vessel and turned it into a party boat to entertain top U.S. Navy officials. The ship, originally known as the RFA Sir Lancelot, was rechristened the Glenn Braveheart after Francis bought it in 2003.
"Dusek also said that Francis had a traveling squad of prostitutes and strippers — dubbed his 'Thai SEAL Team' — who accompanied him to greet U.S. ships as they arrived in Asian ports."